2013
Opéra Bastille – Paris The Canadian Robert Carsen will be directing the new production of Elektra at the Opéra National de Paris for the 2013–14 season. Richard Strauss’ one-act tragedy revisiting the tragic story of the Atreides by Sophocles is...
2013
Edmonton native Ann Vriend is a talented singer-songwriter who skillfully handles the piano, her favourite instrument. Unclassifiable and original, her musical style combines folk, pop, soul with a good dose of country, a catchy and catchy mix. The comparison of...
2013
Carré d’Art – Museum of Contemporary Art – Nîmes Since the end of the 1980s, Stan Douglas has been making films, photographs and installations that re-interrogate certain places and events of the past. He appropriates the codes and techniques existing...
2013
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris The DECORUM exhibition presents some 100 carpets and tapestries by modern and contemporary artists, including the Direct work by Canadian artist Marinette Rousseau-Vermette, mixed with older pieces. These works of art as...
2013
Friche Belle de Mai – Marseille For the first time in Europe, Triangle France presents a selection of works by Canadian artist Liz Magor dating from the 1970s to today. She will be surrounded by some of today’s most renowned...
2013
Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains – Tourcoing The exhibition À Montréal, quand l’image rôde, proposed by the Galerie de l’UQAM in Le Fresnoy, presents the work of a generation of Montreal artists fascinated by the enigmas of...
2013
From 6pm to 2am at the Canadian Cultural Centre, as part of Nuit Blanche 2013. L’entre-images, a video compilation by seven Quebec artists, offers a glimpse into the immense production of images that characterizes today’s world. This notion of the...
2013
Paris, Nantes, Lac Léman Le Festival Ciné Alter’Natif fête son cinquième anniversaire et invite à découvrir les productions cinématographiques amérindiennes dans toute leur diversité : longs et courts-métrages, professionnels et amateurs, documentaires et fictions du Nord au Sud du continent américain....
2013
La soirée d’ouverture du cinquième Festival Ciné Alter’Natif, organisée par l’association De la Plume à l’Ecran, met à l’honneur sa collaboration avec le « Wapikoni Mobile ». Créé en 2004, le « Wapikoni mobile » est un studio ambulant de création audiovisuelle et musicale...
2013
Alternately at Théâtre les Déchargeurs, Paris Both harsh and funny, these self-portraits are universal. As always in the work of Michel Tremblay, the language is strong, the themes various and dense, the descriptions astute and precise. Everyone can relate. The...
2013
Dans le cadre du programme Passeport pour les langues présenté lors de la Semaine des cultures étrangères, participez à des ateliers d’initiation à l’Inuktitut (langue des Inuit de l’Arctique canadien) animés par Sylvie Teveny : de 11h à 12h : initiation...
2013
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Ce festival de passionnés, créé il y a 26 ans, a pour objectif de promouvoir la chanson francophone sous toutes ses formes, de donner un coup de projecteur sur des artistes confirmés et encourager l’émergence de nouveaux talents. À l’affiche...
2013
Vernissage, Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 6 p.m. (last admission: 8:30 p.m.) Visit the exhibition in the artist’s presence at 5 p.m. (reservations required: 01 44 43 21 48) A retrospective look at the photographic work produced by Stan Douglas in...
2013
At Olympia, Paris Canadian singer Bryan Adams will be in France to play a single date at L’Olympia. His European Bare Bones Tour is named after his latest album, released in 2010. During this concert, Adams will play his biggest...
2013
As part of the Semaine des Cultures Étrangères The Franco-Manitoban singer and pianist Geneviève Toupin has given the current Montreal folk scene a shot in the arm since the release of her eponymous debut album in 2009. Geneviève Toupin writes...
2013
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris Quebecker Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has conducted orchestras in Philadelphia, Montreal and Rotterdam, will be conducting Le Vaisseau fantôme (The Flying Dutchman), a story of love and death performed by an unbridled orchestra and powerful singers. A...
2013
Lyon Biennial As part of its off-site programming at the Lyon Biennale d’art contemporain entitled Modules – Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, the Palais de Tokyo presents the group exhibition Des présents inachevés, presenting the creations of four...
2013
Toulouse festival that is part of the Mois de l’Image, ManifestO features contemporary work by young photographers. Every year, a jury of professionals selects 10 to 15 projects by artists from around the world. For this eleventh edition of the...
2013
Nice When youth, sports and the arts share the same stage and bear witness to Francophone solidarity, the result is the Jeux de la Francophonie, which bring together 3,000 artists and athletes from around the world. Canadian teams Canada-Quebec and...
2013
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados From August 8–15, 2013, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer will host the eighth edition of La Semaine Acadienne for the leading festival of the Calvados region. This event will pay homage to the Acadian soldiers of the North Shore Regiment of New...
2013
La Rochelle The big names of chanson française and today’s talents will meet up once again during Les Francofolies de la Rochelle, July 1–16. They include leading Canadian artists and groups who will be presenting their latest albums: Rufus Wainwright,...
2013
Directed by Robert Carsen July 11–26, 2013, Théâtre de L’Archevêché – Festival d’Aix-en-Provence This year, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence celebrates the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth. On this occasion, the Canadian opera director Robert Carsen will offer up his version of the famous...
2013
Etoile du Nord – Paris 18th “Room 324” presents some new and unique graphic pieces by Croatian-Canadian artist Mirana Zuger. Presented for the first time in France, this work, developed at the Centre International d’accueil et d’échanges des Récollets in...
2013
Galerie Chauvy, Paris 9e With the exhibition Résonances, produced in collaboration with the Palais de Tokyo, the Galerie Chauvy invites us to discover four painters and sculptors who were part of the European artistic trends of the postwar period and...
2013
At 8 p.m. at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées – Paris The very talented Quebecker Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra on June 21. Discovered a few years ago, he now conducts the orchestras of Philadelphia, Montreal and Rotterdam. A...
2013
Fête de la Musique – Esplanade des Invalides Friday, 21 June 2013 – 6.30 pm to midnight In association with partners and sponsors, the Embassy of Canada in France and the Canadian Cultural Centre will bring top Canadian talents to...
2013
Wednesday, June 12, 6:30 p.m., as part of the RIO LOCO! festival at the Prairie des Filtres, Toulouse Tuesday, June 18, 8:30 p.m., New Morning, Paris Founded by Trinidadian-Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town refers to the historic of Port-of-Spain,...
2013
In parallel with the exhibition Fantastic Kenojuak Ashevak, art historian and Inuit art specialist Florence Duchemin-Pelletier gives a lecture on contemporary Inuit art and the roots of a flourishing artistic movement. The genesis, which has become almost legendary, of contemporary...
2013
Galerie Art: Concept — Paris Focussing on contemporary art, Galerie Art : Concept presents the group exhibition Induction Procedure, which brings together for the first time Aaron Aujla, Elaine Cameron Weir, Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher, four artists born in Canada...
2013
Espace Fraternité – Aubervilliers (93) The new edition of the Festival d’Aubercail 2013 will feature a cross-cultural celebration of music. Well-known, fringe and independent singers will be there to share their passion for words with us. They will include the...
2013
Focus on contemporary Inuit art Saturday, May 18, 6 p.m. to midnight – Continuous screenings, 6 p.m. to midnight Complementing the exhibition Fantastic Kenojuak Ashevak, exceptionally open for the European Night of the Museums 2013, a focus on contemporary Inuit...
2013
Eglise – Illiers-Combray On the occasion of the centennial of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray will be exhibiting the work Les robes du...