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...
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...