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2017
Then came Médée. When Marc-Antoine Charpentier could finally compose a tragic opera, and have it performed in Paris, in 1693, it was both a high point and a testament. After spending so many years spent prevented from playing anything else...
2017
Tales from the Far North by Nathalie Krajcik and Christel Collet. Two tellers of tales. Stories that recount the birth of day and night, the stars, the Man in the Moon and his encampment, animals and their profound friendship with...
2017
The Great Novel has been riding on the arid plains for many moons. Bourbon on their breath, they follow a sonic trail that splits the spaghetti western and the white noise of the city they call home. With groaning strings...
2017
Conference by Pascal Bastien, Professor of Modern European History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) In September 1736, in the noisy corridors of the Grand Châtelet prisons, a Brigade Commander of the Maréchaussée crossed Criminal Lieutenant Nègre, head...
2017
A fantastic journey through the different stages of the creation of the world according to Inuit myths and cosmogony. A narrative, musical and visual performance blending theatre, storytelling, graphic design and projected animated images, shadow play, luminous objects and masks,...
2017
The Quebec musicians Misc (formerly known as the Trio Jérôme Beaulieu and winners of the Révélation Jazz Radio Canada prize in 2013–14) are part of the jazz tradition in terms of their vocabulary and the place occupied by improvisation in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...