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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...
2014
7 p.m.–midnight, Esplanade des Invalides – Paris For the third year in a row, Canada will be on the Esplanade des Invalides to celebrate the Fête de la Musique with the Nuit Boréale concert. Nuit Boréale will feature the work...
2014
Galerie RDV – Nantes De la part des vaincus is a multidisciplinary exhibition showcasing the work of ten established and emerging Canadian artists: Stéphanie Chabot, Vincent Chevalier, Raphaëlle De Groot, Cynthia Girard, Michelle Lacombe, Manuela Lalic, Noémi McComber, Dayna McLeod,...
2014
Cinema l’Entrepôt, Paris On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Quebec independent filmmaking and production collective Les Films de l’Autre is presenting a retrospective of its work at Cinéma l’Entrepôt, as part of a tour that will travel throughout...
2014
Short & Sweet, part 4, Cannes Film Festival exclusive screening Discover the best of Talents tout courts selection shown during the last Cannes Film Festival. The programme features La coupe, dir. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, the 2014 winner of the Short...
2014
Palace of Arts and Festival – Dinard The exhibition Le Festin de l’art, curated by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, explores the question of contemporary art’s relationship to food. Contemporary creation has not neglected this subject and has been able to revisit its...
2014
Musée d’Art Contemporain – Lyon This external project of the contemporary art centre La Salle de Bains in Lyon presents an exhibition by the Canadian artist Ben Schumacher. From his brief experience as an architect, Ben Schumacher has retained and...
2014
Jeu de Paume – Paris Part of the Satellite 7 programme, curated by Nata?a Petre?in-Bachelez The Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga has studied anthropology and comparative religion, and works with video, sound and performance. In her films and series of readings-performances...
2014
At 7:30 pm at the Hôtel de Massa – Paris Canadian author Alice Munro is being honoured by “A Season of Nobel” after her recent Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. The event takes place in the presence of Horace...
2014
Church Saint Jean-Baptiste and CIAC (Centre d’Interprétation Art et Culture) – Bourbourg The CIAC/Choeur de Lumière has invited the Canadian artist Carole Simard-Laflamme to display her work in the church of Saint Jean-Baptiste de Bourbourg. On the same wavelength as...
2014
Jowee Omicil was born in Montreal to Haitian parents. A multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and teacher, he is an accomplished musician and a virtuoso of the saxophone, his favourite instrument. Having attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston and...
2014
Open for the European Night of the Museums, Saturday, May 17, 6 a.m.–2 a.m. A major exhibition on the conceptual art that developed in Canada, from the eastern tip to the western tip via the Arctic Circle, between 1960 and...
2014
Théâtre des Champs Élysées – Paris A heroic melodrama after the eponymous tragedy by Voltaire, and three years older than Otello, Tancredi was the first major opera seria by the Italian composer Rossini, just twenty-one years old at the time....
2014
Trois Baudets, Dame de Canton, Divan du Monde and Pan Piper, Paris Canal 93, Bobigny This second edition of Aurores Montréal, the Francophone festival of contemporary Canadian music will be visiting Paris. In order to publicize the vitality and diversity...
2014
Alex Janvier, figure de proue de l’art contemporain canadien, déconstruit l’idée d’un art autochtone cloisonné aux stéréotypes modernes usuels pour élargir le vocabulaire de l’univers de l’artiste avec de nouvelles normes. Invité en 2009 à la Roche d’Hys, Alex Janvier...
2014
From 6 p.m.to 2 a.m. at the Canadian Cultural Centre For this new edition of the European Night of the Museums, the Canadian Cultural Centre invites you discover the second part of the exhibition Get Hold of This Space, which...
2014
Barbara Steinman a toujours investi dans sa démarche des médiums très différents : vidéo, photographie, néon, installation… La mémoire collective et individuelle est pour elle l’objet d’explorations sensibles, de reconfiguration et de distorsion qui tiennent lieu de provocations subtiles et inquiétantes....
2014
At Batofar, Paris The hard rock group Blood Ceremony will be playing a concert at the Batofar to promote their new album, The Eldritch Dark. Recorded and mixed by the producer Ian Blurton, and mastered by Canadian recording legend Nick...
2014
The groundbreaking festival Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis presents unusual works, works that question the way the world works. This year, performing in twelve theatres, twenty-six companies from fifteen countries have been invited to share their impertinent and critical...
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
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
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
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...