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2014
At Divan du Monde, Paris Big Sugar has fashioned a unique sound, a blend of rock, reggae, soul and dub, with a double-neck guitar and flying dreadlocks. Gordie Johnson and his acolytes are known for their sensational live performances which...
2014
At 8 p.m. at the Canadian Cultural Centre If the music of Keith Kouna had to be summed up in a word, “irreverent” would be a good choice. Whether he writes about the disappointments and joys of everyday life or...
2014
8 pm at La Gaité Lyrique, Paris The folk-pop maestro is back after a foray into cinema to perform his greatest hits live at the Gaité Lyrique. If you’ve never seen him live, you won’t understand why Elton John described...
2014
The three Spacejunk Art Centres located in Grenoble, Bayonne and Lyon will present the project Rencontres France–Canada and, in Bayonne, will host the Canadian artist Laurence Vallières who will be producing works in situ. These will be accompanied by the...
2014
À la Halle aux Grains – Toulouse Les Grands Interprètes invite major international orchestras and renowned soloists to Toulouse throughout the year. Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic since 2008, Quebec conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has forged a special relationship with...
2014
Designed by Frédéric Ferrer, actor and lecturer – Compagnie Vertical Détour. Theatrical conference on a scientific experiment to measure the speed of global warming in the Arctic. In September 2008, NASA releases 90 small plastic yellow ducks into a Greenland...
2014
A third Short & Sweet session, a “Comedy Special” prepared by Prends ça court! for April 1st featuring Quelqu’un d’extraordinaire, the first short film written and directed by Monia Chokri, Xavier Dolan’s favourite actress. Short & Sweet offers a unique...
2014
Chloe Charles was born in Toronto but had the good luck to grow up surrounded by nature in Uxbridge, Ontario, which influenced her musical choices and the sounds that attract her today. In addition to her penchant for soul, pop...
2014
The Association Nationale France-Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Cultural Centre and in collaboration with publishers Albin Michel, present an exceptional evening with Canadian writer Joseph Boyden on the occasion of the publication by Albin Michel of Dans le grand cercle...
2014
An artist of Canadian origin, Catherine Marcogliese presents an exhibition of photographs titled Au bout du regard. Using digital photography, the artist works directly on the images to drive photography farther than a purely narrative representation. She manipulates the image...
2014
Paris Since it was founded thirty-six years ago, Cinéma du Réel has established itself as the documentary film festival in France. Welcoming a diversity of styles, forms, and ideas, it attracts a large, loyal, attentive and curious audience. For this...
2014
Tourcoing, Lille, Roubaix Founded in Lille in 2004, the Fête de l’anim’ is dedicated to animation in all its forms with multidisciplinary content that builds bridges between the worlds of cinema, television series, video games and the digital arts. The...
2014
Directed by Robert Carsen Théâtre de l’Opéra Comique – Paris On the occasion of the 255th anniversary of the death of Rameau, the Canadian opera director Robert Carsen will be presenting the famous opera Platée at the Opéra-Comique next season....
2014
Maison des Arts, Créteil At the Maison des Arts de Créteil, the Festival International de Films de Femmes highlights the diversity of the cinematographic creativity of women. Since 1979, it has welcomed women directors from all over the world who...
2014
The theme of Canada’s Arctic Council chairmanship is “Development for the People of the North”. In this presentation, Mr. Borbey, Chair of the ARCTIC COUNCIL’s Senior Arctic Officials, will be addressing a number of questions. Among them, how can economic...
2014
Founded on the initiative of the Forum des Instituts Culturels Étrangers à Paris (FICEP), this first edition of the Semaine du Cinéma Étranger is intended to be a look at the diversity of cinematographic production in 16 foreign cultural centres...
2014
Le Centquatre – Paris The former muse of Édouard Lock/La La La Human Steps, the Quebec dancer and choreographer Louise Lecavalier joins forces with French dancer and choreographer Frédéric Tavernini, accompanied by the Sufi techno of Mercan Dede and an...
2014
La Gaîté Lyrique and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris A unique platform in Europe, the Rencontres Internationales are a space to discover and reflect upon new cinema and contemporary art, which features a rare look at contemporary audiovisual and multimedia...
2014
Lecture with David Scott, Executive Director of the Canadian Polar Commission Today`s images of the Arctic captivate and intrigue us. Researchers for their part face significant challenges as they seek to understand Arctic realities such as the choice of methodologies,...
2014
Opening February 6, 2014 5 pm : Presentation of the exhibition by curator Barbara Fischer. 6 p.m to 8:30 pm (last access 8 pm). / Free admission The Canadian Cultural Centre presents, in two successive parts, a major exhibition on...
2014
Théatre de la Ville, Paris Quebec choreographer and dancer Dave St-Pierre presents three alternating contemporary dance shows at the Théâtre de la Ville: Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde ! , La pornographie des âmes and Foudres. “You can’t please...
2014
The music of Les Chercheurs d’Or features influences from all over the Americas. The energetic country-folk of its beginnings took on new accents with the thousands of kilometres travelled: bluegrass, rock, jazz, psychedelic, pop. The lyrics are delivered in the...
2014
“In the very beginning, nothing was like it was after or before! Crow was all white. How did he change clothes? Harfang played jacks, what was he doing now? And Tuktu the caribou was simultaneously a breath, a being and...
2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 8pm Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. Museum of the History of Immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée – Paris Terre de l’aube is a concept CD album and an original show created by...
2014
The programme for this second session if Short & Sweet, carefully concocted by Prends ça court!, features Cochemare, the nouveau film by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, who were nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for Madame Tutli-Putli. Short &...
2013
This soft, luminous voice floating in the air in a soul-jazz vein with pop melodic accents has established singer and pianist Elizabeth Shepherd as one of the most beautiful voices in Canadian jazz. Shepherd has been nominated for numerous awards...
2013
Directed by Robert Carsen Théâtre du Châtelet – Paris The Théâtre du Châtelet has decided to renew its ties with the past next season and will be presenting My Fair Lady, directed by Canadian Robert Carsen. A first-rate cast, superb...
2013
Mercredi 4 (12h-18h) et jeudi 5 décembre (11h-20h) A loccasion des fêtes de fin dannées, lassociation Inuksuk vous propose son « Comptoir inuit » (expo-vente de sculptures, bijoux, livres, photos, cartes, tisanes inuit ). Au cours de ces deux journées de festivités, les...
2013
For the Inuit, the pack ice was an ice route during migrations from Alaska to Greenland through the Canadian Arctic. Even today, the fast ice is still used for travel, fishing, hunting and remains a space for identity, knowledge transmission,...
2013
Born in Toronto and raised in Ottawa, Canadian jazz singer Kellylee Evans is considered one of the finest voices of her generation. After a critically acclaimed 2010 tribute album to Nina Simone (winner of Canada’s 2011 Juno Award), she presents,...
2013
Galerie Saint-Germain and Musée d’Histoire de la Médicine, Paris As part of the third Festival Photo de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Université Paris Descartes will be hosting the exhibition Corps et âmes. Virginie Bocaert combines the visual arts with photography, and does...
2013
The Canadian Cultural Centre launches Short & Sweet, a programming cycle of Canadian short films, most of which have never been shown in France . On the menu for each session, discoveries and new releases, in short, a regular mix...