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2015
Centre Pompidou (Cinema 2) – Paris Maïder Fortuné, in collaboration with Canadian artist Annie MacDonell, presents Stories are Meaning-making Machines, a performance that echoes his first feature film inspired by a case that occurred at the beginning of the last...
2015
Organized around one of the most recent video works by Mark Lewis produced in Sao Paolo, Above and Below the Minhocão (2014), the exhibition will feature a number of works shown for the first time in Paris. The selection will...
2015
Rad Hourani is the first Canadian designer to be a “guest member” of the Fédération Française de la Haute Couture and the first designer to present a unisex couture collection in the history of fashion. This exhibition will feature designs...
2014
This new session of Short & Sweet takes a retrospective look at the foremost Canadian short films of 2014. Don’t miss this new generation of directors who have won awards at festivals around the world. The crème de la crème...
2014
Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon Through photographic, sound and sculptural works, this exhibition takes an artistic look at town and country planning. These works question the very idea the idea of infinite growth in a finite world with limited resources. The...
2014
Forum des images – Paris The Festival Carrefour du Cinéma d’Animation is the annual animation highlight: an opportunity to discover the best films from French schools and an eclectic selection of international shorts, as well as screenings of new features....
2014
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 guests from around the world, this exceptional new edition features an innovative programme: screenings, an exhibition,...
2014
L’alhambra – Paris Put to sleep to the sound of family stories, this son of an accountant who “inadvertently became a pleasant storyteller” brings the legends of the town of Saint-Elie-de-Caxton in Quebec to life in this new performance. Hailed...
2014
Wednesday, November 26 (12–8 p.m.) / Thursday, November 27 (11 a.m.–6 p.m.) Free admission For the holidays, the Inuksuk association invites you to its Inuit trading post (sale of sculptures, jewellery, books, cards, Inuit herbal teas, etc.). During these two...
2014
Contemporary jazz with varied influences that focuses on the ensemble instead of on individual virtuosity; this is played by the Trio Jérôme Beaulieu, made up of Jérôme Beaulieu on piano, Philippe Leduc on double bass and William Côté on drums....
2014
Paris / Ile-de-France For its 10th anniversary edition, the Festival Courts devant has established itself as the unmissable international short film festival in Paris and Ile-de-France. With more than 120 films programmed; the festival has become the unmissable event for...
2014
Louvre (auditorium) – Paris Mark Lewis and film theorist Laura Mulvey converse about the legacy of cinematic modernism. The transformation of the gaze engendered by urban culture, the creation of fictive spaces by the film image and the optical fetishism...
2014
The Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to the screening of the film Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island by Marcia Connolly and Katherine Knight. The artists’ studios designed by Canadian architect Todd Saunders, perched like sculptures on the rocky...
2014
Vernissage: Thursday, November 13, 6–8:30 p.m. As a solitary journey into the heart of urban solitude and its periphery, particularly that of Montreal, Serge Clément’s work irresistibly draws the viewer into an intimate relationship to the image. The present seems...
2014
Focus on the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) with the presentation of a selection of Canadian short film from the programme of the prestigious festival, considered one of the most important in North America and one of the major cinematic...
2014
Fred Woods is a Quebec musician whose 2013 debut album Documenta is deeply rooted in the songwriting tradition, influenced by the atmospheric rock of Patrick Watson and Timber Timbre. Creating his own universe and attempting to go beyond the limits...
2014
The Espace culturel inuit, in collaboration with the Canadian Cultural Centre, invites you to attend a conference-show on Gontran de Poncins. In June 1938, accredited by the Société de Géographie and the Musée de l’Homme, Vicomte Gontran de Poncins set...
2014
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, discover the best of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB): this programme features a selection of award-winning short films as well as films from the series Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts,...
2014
Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris The exhibition Flux is the first retrospective in France of the work of Montreal sculptor David Altmejd. The artist’s approach to sculpture is characterized by the diversity of the materials used, revealing...
2014
Musée du Louvre (salle de la Maquette) – Paris Since its beginnings in the 1990s, the work of Mark Lewis seems to travel through the history of images backwards. Painting, photography and cinema hold a silent conversation in his films....
2014
(Français) De 19h à 01h Un Nuit Blanche sous le signe des commémorations de la Grande Guerre avec la projection spéciale en intégralité des 5 épisodes de 52 minutes de la série documentaire événement Apocalypse, la 1ère Guerre mondiale. Cette...
2014
Discovered by the public because of his impressive guitar playing as part of the Susie Arioli Band, this swing virtuoso made a name for himself over the last decade as one of the most talented blues players in Canada. A...
2014
Saint-Germain-en-Laye This festival, founded twenty-seven years ago, aims to promote Francophone music in all its forms, put the spotlight on veteran artists and encourage the emergence of new talents. On the bill for this new edition are several artists from...
2014
La Criée – Centre d’art contemporain – Rennes Reflecting his works in the group exhibitions of the Biennale d’Art Contemporain – Ateliers de Rennes, Canadian artist Gareth Moore presents a solo exhibition at La Criée that brings together sculptures characteristic...
2014
As part of the “Passeport pour les Langues” programme of the Semaine des Cultures Étrangères, take part in workshops constituting an introduction to Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic, led by Sylvie Teveny. Wednesday, September 24,...
2014
Vernissage: Tuesday, September 23, 6–8:30 p.m. Exceptional opening: – Semaine des cultures étrangères, Saturday, September 27, 10 a.m-6p.m. – Nuit Blanche, Saturday, October 4, 7 p.m.–1 a.m. An interactive fiction of a new kind, associating comics, animation and documentary archives, Apocalypse 10 Lives immerses the...
2014
The year 2014 marks the centennial of the birth of Norman McLaren, the inspired explorer of the uncharted territories of cinema and an adventurer in the most stunning visual and sonic landscapes. Surprising, stimulating, inventive and rich in processes, techniques...
2014
Vincennes For its seventh edition, the festival of North American literature America celebrates the old and fruitful relationship between France and North America, focussing on the richness and vitality of the French language by bringing together Canadian French-speaking authors from...
2014
Galerie Nivet-Carzon – Paris On the occasion of the publication of the book Re: vers une histoire mineure des performances et des exhibitions, BAXTER& RE brings together pieces rarely seen in France and a selection of works-documents. A presentation of the book in...
2014
After a two decade-long career in Quebec, Atlantic City and Las Vegas, Alain Choquette the popular Quebec magician decided to adapt his show Drôlement magique into an intimate, humorous, poetic and interactive adventure with the artistic collaboration of Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal, adapter of...
2014
Saint Aubin sur Mer Through the theme of Le grand débarquement, the festival La semaine acadienne pays homage to all the soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Dedicated to the landings of Canadian troops...
2014
Les Rencontres d’Arles presents some of the work of Montreal photographer Benoit Aquin in a retrospective of the Prix Pictet. Winner of this famous prize in 2008 for his series The Chinese Dust Bowl, the artist has been travelling for...