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2015
Saint-Germain-en-Laye This festival, founded 28 years ago, aims to promote French-language music in all its forms, shine a spotlight on veteran musicians and encourage the emergence of new talents. This year’s edition features several Canadian artists, including Bon Débarras, Josiane...
2015
The group Avec Pas D’Casque was formed after an encounter between a suitcase drum, a cheap guitar and an unexpected kick up the backside that they are still grateful for years later. Since its inception, the group has explored intimacy...
2015
Entitled La vie moderne, the 13th Biennale de Lyon brings together artists from 28 countries, including Canadian artist Jon Rafman, who explore the paradoxical nature of contemporary culture in different regions of the world. Rafman’s work places the accent on...
2015
Jeff Wall himself selected the photographs for this exhibition, only choosing originally small works from his personal collection. The demanding constructions of the Vancouver photographer are both “cinematic” and “almost documentary”. Often in the form of light boxes, which have...
2015
After staging spectacular productions (The Dragons’ Trilogy, Playing Cards and collaborations with the Cirque du Soleil), Robert Lepage is back with a “one-man show” exploring the mechanisms of memory. Although personal memories are evoked, 887 is not an autobiographical tale....
2015
Lecture in English Chief Louie believes that nothing but socioeconomic development makes a community strong and independent. He defends this value vigorously, and sees it gaining success in First Nation communities. Chief Louie has notably encouraged the Osoyoos band to...
2015
9:30 a.m.–1 p.m.: Youth Mobility 5:30–7:30 p.m.: Live and Work in Canada The information session “Youth Mobility” gives young people aged 18–35 the chance to discover the diversity of the programme International Experience Canada (IEC) – working holidays, international coop...
2015
Canadian Cultural Centre 5, rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris, France Metro, RER, Bus: Invalides From 09:30 am to 02:00 pm. Registration required (starting May 25th). The Embassy is hosting a talk-show-style information seminar on Canada, its business environment and the advantages...
2015
Esplanade des Invalides, right in front of the Canadian Cultural Centre ! For the fourth year in a row, Canada occupies the Esplanade des Invalides with Nuit Boréale, which has become one of the most popular concerts of the Fête...
2015
8th edition of Short & Sweet, Cannes Film Festival special An exclusive selection of Talents Tout Courts of Telefilm Canada presented during the latest Cannes Film Festival. Short & Sweet is a unique opportunity to discover new Canadian cinema through...
2015
Through photographs, sounds and sculptures, this exhibition examines land development and questions the concept of infinite growth in a finite world with limited resources. A meditation on the constructing-destructing machine and suburban and urban planning, Flooring horizons turns technology away...
2015
Galerie Chevalier – Paris 7 Brought together for the first time in a French exhibition, Jon Eric Riis (United States) and Marcel Marois (Canada) are the artists who best explore the new territories of tapestry. Metamorphosis is at the heart...
2015
Espace Saint-Pierre des Minimes – Compiègne Carried out between 2005 and 2009, in France and Belgium, this project by Canadian photographer Bertrand Carrière aims to look for the traces that World War I left on the landscape. Travelling along the...
2015
This leading light of the Canadian jazz scene is one of the most acclaimed musicians at the Montreal Jazz Festival, where he has performed thirty times. Having celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his career in 2014, the piano prodigy has...
2015
A lecture of Catherine Soussloff, Ph.D.at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) University of British Columbia (UBC), as part of the cycle of lectures " Excellence of the Canadian research" Chaïm Soutine’s portraits of the early 20th century pass...
2015
This round table aims to examine the historical, political, identity and cultural issues linked to Francophone immigration to Canada. The speakers will take part in a debate on the Francophone from eastern to western Canada, and to the northern Francophone...
2015
For the European Night of the Museums, the Canadian Cultural Centre closes the exhibition Denys Arcand / Adad Hannah – The Burghers of Vancouver with an exceptional opening from 6 p.m. to midnight. This is the last chance to discover...
2015
A Short & Sweet session dedicated to film schools and to the directors who learned their trades at the numerous university film departments, film schools and broadcast training centres in Canada. Short & Sweet is a unique opportunity to discover...
2015
The Espace culturel inuit, in collaboration with the Canadian Cultural Centre, invites you to France Rivet‘s conference: In the footsteps of Abraham Ulrikab, The tragic story of two Inuit families from Labrador exhibited in 19th century ethnographic shows. In the...
2015
Le Fresnoy – Tourcoing La Fête de l’anim’ invites Co Hoedeman for an exceptional masterclass that will explore the major works and the trade secrets of this big name in international animation. Co Hoedeman was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands....
2015
The Espace culturel inuit, in collaboration with the Canadian Cultural Centre, invites you to the launch of the book Beyond darkness and sleep. The Inuit night in North Baffin Island by Guy Bordin, Peeters publishing – with the author presen This...
2015
Concert cancelled. Winner of the 2012 Genie Award for “Best Original Song” for Somewhere from the Starbuck movie soundtrack, Caracol‘s songs unfold an intimate universe where deliciously cracked sounds mix with refined vocal harmonies, resonator guitars, ukuleles, old amplifiers and...
2015
Théâtre Taps – Strasbourg Over the course of a day, in a big city, six characters wander around seeking a definitive solution to their inability to live. Their crossed trajectories form an urban choreography based on the search for a...
2015
The Espace culturel inuit, in collaboration with the Canadian Cultural Centre, invites you to attend Le rire de l’amulette, a show of polar tales presented by Nathalie Krajcik-Bélanger, a Franco-Quebec storyteller. The polar tale Le rire de l’amulette is the...
2015
Vernissage, Tuesday, February 10, 6 p.m.–8:30 p.m., in the artists’ presence Curator : Catherine Bédard A stone’s throw from the Musée Rodin, the Canadian Cultural Centre will be presenting an exhibition entirely devoted to one of the most famous French...
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,...