Film
Motion
2017
From 10 am to 10 pm – Free Entrance This special screening shows on a loop the works of eleven Quebec artists on the theme of "motion," understood in two senses: as movement and as a proposal. The concept of...
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Exhibition
The exhibition Traces canadiennes de la Grande Guerre
Centre d’Histoire Guerre et Paix Lens’14 18 - Souchez
2017
The exhibition Traces canadiennes de la Grande Guerre evokes a little-known aspect of the first global conflict, the underground war waged by the soldiers, refugees in the entrails of the earth to protect themselves from the deadly power of the...
Exhibition
Dianne Bos
The Sleeping Green
2017
Vernissage le samedi 1er avril de 16h à 20h – Entrée libre Rencontre avec l’artiste et la commissaire en anglais, à 17h sur réservation : reservation@canada-culture.org Dianne Bos a emprunté le titre de cette exposition au célèbre poème Break of...
Exhibition
Truchement
Le Consortium - Dijon
2017
The Centre Pompidou is forty years old, so it Le Consortium. The history of the people, projects and artists whose paths crossed. The shared anniversary in 2017 will have the appearance of a collection of short stories traversed by two...
Exhibition
Alan Belcher
Le Consortium - Dijon
2017
For his solo exhibition at Le Consortium, the Canadian artist Alan Belcher presents a series of “photo-objects” in ceramic entitled _____. jpg. This edition comprises 125 copies made in China, signed, numbered and dated. Belcher has captured the ephemeral nature...
Film
Zachary Richard, toujours batailleur
2017
Zachary Richard, chanteur acadien reconnu, enreprend une quête pour questionner la pertinence de l’identité acadienne et la résilience de sa culture française. Il retrace le parcours fascinant de ses ancêtres, en parcourant les régions acadiennes aux provinces maritimes du Canada...
Concert
Guillaume Arsenault
2017
Guillaume Arsenault has been following the pathways and highways of song for more than fifteen years at the wheel of his singer-songwriter pick-up truck. Honest, patient and resourceful, he hunts sounds and words with a shaman’s aplomb. Rooted in folk,...
Film
Festival international du film d’Aubagne
Aubagne
2017
La vocation de la 18eme édition du festival est de soutenir la jeune création cinématographique internationale et la création musicale et sonore pour l’image en développant également des projets pour l’aide à la jeune création musicale. Le festival présente cette année...
Exhibition
Témoin. Art canadien de la Première Guerre Mondiale
Musée des Beaux-Arts - Arras
2017
The exhibition Témoin. Art canadien de la Première Guerre mondiale, presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Arras, was put together by the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. It features works of art inspired by direct experience of the war, including...
Exhibition
Au-delà des étoiles. Le paysage mystique de Monet à Kandinsky
Musée d’Orsay - Paris
2017
Prepared in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the exhibition explores the mystical part of the symbolist landscape. Featured works include landscapes by Gauguin, Denis, Monet, Hodler, Klimt, Munch and Van Gogh, as well as one by...
Film
Les Rencontres Internationales
La Gaîté Lyrique - Paris
2017
A place between new cinema and contemporary art, the Rencontres Internationales offer a rare look at contemporary audiovisual and multimedia works. In the presence of 100 artists and directors from around the world, this exceptional edition will feature new international...
Concert
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal – La Jeune Fille et la Mort
Théâtre National de Chaillot - Paris
2017
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal invite renowned choreographers to work with them and participate in many initiatives in favour of the development of dance. They will be debuting in Paris Death and the Maiden by the chorographer Stephan Thoss....
Film
Guibord s’en va-t’en guerre
Goethe-Institut, 17 avenue d’Iéna, Paris 16ème
2017
Attention – This projection will be taking place at the Goethe-Institut, 17 avenue d’Iéna, Paris 16. Steve Guibord is the independent federal MP for Prescott-Makadew, in Rapides-aux-Outardes. A national debate erupts that finds him holding the tie-breaking vote about whether...
Concert
Steve Cowan
2017
The award-winning guitarist Steve Cowan will be playing a solo concert of his first album, Pour Guitare. The album features an eclectic blend of tracks by Canadian composers and several original pieces and first recordings. The performance will highlight sometimes...
Film
Festival International du Film sur l’Art
Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains - Tourcoing
2017
Chaque année le Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA) présente au Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains de la ville de Tourcoing, une sélection de ses meilleurs films en compétition. Ces films de renommée internationale issus de la...
Concert
Jean-Philippe Sylvestre
2017
The Canadian pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, who won first prize at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition and prizes at several national and international competitions, will be playing a programme of virtuoso Russian music, intermingled with quiet contrasting works, allowing the artist...
Encounter
“Et Paris devint Paris“: Théâtraliser le récit autobiographique entre les deux guerres: H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard.“
2017
Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In her new book, Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women’s lives and...
Film
Spécial Noël
2016
Just before Christmas, the magic of the holidays takes over the Canadian Cultural Centre. The fable Noël Noël (22 min) recounts the adventures of businessman Noël Noël et and his acolytes: Zoé, Snooze and the fairy Béatrice. Behind his wealth,...
Exhibition
Noël Arctique
2016
L'Espace culturel inuit organise son Noël Arctique 2016. 2 jours de festivités (contes, ateliers de jeux inuit, ateliers d’écriture inuit…) et comptoir arctique (ventes d’ouvrages, sculptures, produits locaux…) proposés par l’équipe de l’Association Inuksuk à l’occasion des fêtes de fin...
Concert
Saratoga
2016
As part of the Festival Aurores Montréal, the duo Saratoga, comprising musician and songwriter Marc-Olivier Gasse and singer-songwriter Chantal Archambault, will play a concert of folk music that is soft, intimate and genuine. Over the rhythms of a raw and...
Concert
Festival Aurores Montréal
Paris
2016
The only festival Parisian dedicating to emerging Canadian music scenes, the Festival Aurores Montréal is back for a fourth edition in Paris in order to introduced the Canadian musical talents of tomorrow to the French. This year’s edition will be...
Film
Paris Courts Devant
Paris
2016
International short film festival Paris Courts Devant is a must for all those with a passion for the work of young filmmakers. In Paris, over then days, more than 220 short films of all formats and genres will be shown....
Film
Short & Sweet 13
2016
The National Film Board of Canada and the Canadian Cultural Centre present a 13th edition of Short & Sweet focussing on humour. This screening will feature the best humorous short films of the last few years. Discover young Canadian filmmakers...
Exhibition
Rodney Graham – You schould be an artist
Centre d’art Le Consortium, Dijon
2016
The protean oeuvre of Rodney Graham, born in Vancouver in 1949, plays on perceptions and the tenuous link between reality and fiction. In photographs, films, videos, models and partitions musicales, he is interested in fixed narrative structures and, not without...
Concert
Alain Bédard – Auguste Quartet
2016
An artist with a cosmopolitan career, Alain Bédard plays contemporary jazz inspired by his many musical experiments combining world beat and classical music. His fifth album, Circum Continuum, is punctuated with pieces whose vibrant and complex melodies, rhythms and harmonics...
Encounter
An Evening with Edward Burtynsky
2016
On the occasion of the publication of Edward Burtynsky’s Essential Elements by Thames & Hudson and Éléments Essentiels by Éditions Xavier Barral. Edward Burtynsky is internationally renowned thanks to his spectacular large photographs illustrating the impact of human activity on...
Film
Piégés dans un zoo humain
2016
The documentary Trapped in a Human Zoo tells the story of eight Inuit from Labrador who set off on a voyage to Europe in 1880. Initially lured by promises of adventure and riches, they come to realize, too late, that...
Exhibition
Angela Grauerholz
Écrins écrans
2016
Opening: November 8, 6 p.m. – Free admission Book signing by the artist. Guided visit by the artist and the curator at 5 p.m. (by reservation): reservation@canada-culture.org Curator: Catherine Bédard In 2015 Angela Grauerholz received the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award, the...
Performance
Souffle inuit
2016
katajjaq, traditional Inuit throat singing. Inspired by this age-old technique, the duo explores its textures, ranges and contemporary variations. With these sonic explorations with the sound artist Méryll Ampe, the French-Canadian singer Marie-Pascale Dubé shares the highlight of her visit...
Concert
Moran
2016
Jeff Moran began playing with words and music in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, developing his own style halfway between American folk and chanson française. A rebellious poet, singer and composer, Moran got himself notice in France and the rest...
Film
Ciné Alter’natif
2016
In the presence of Sonia Boileau, Mohawk filmmaker The Festival Ciné Alter’Natif presents a selection of about thirty films representing the wealth of First Nations production in Canada. The opening night of the seventh edition of the festival will take...
Exhibition
Nuit Blanche 2016
2016
The programme of this new edition of Nuit Blanche features an exceptional opening of the Prix AICA France de la Critique d’Art exhibition and an introduction to Inuktitut (workshop): Prix AICA France de la Critique d’Art The Canadian Cultural Centre...