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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...
2013
Galerie Métanoia – Paris The collective exhibition Un seul grain de riz proposes to make us rediscover the whole universe through a selection of small-format artworks. Each grain of rice, the Japanese say, is home to 88 deities. This popular...
2013
Opéra Bastille – Paris The Canadian Robert Carsen will be directing the new production of Elektra at the Opéra National de Paris for the 2013–14 season. Richard Strauss’ one-act tragedy revisiting the tragic story of the Atreides by Sophocles is...
2013
Edmonton native Ann Vriend is a talented singer-songwriter who skillfully handles the piano, her favourite instrument. Unclassifiable and original, her musical style combines folk, pop, soul with a good dose of country, a catchy and catchy mix. The comparison of...
2013
Carré d’Art – Museum of Contemporary Art – Nîmes Since the end of the 1980s, Stan Douglas has been making films, photographs and installations that re-interrogate certain places and events of the past. He appropriates the codes and techniques existing...
2013
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris The DECORUM exhibition presents some 100 carpets and tapestries by modern and contemporary artists, including the Direct work by Canadian artist Marinette Rousseau-Vermette, mixed with older pieces. These works of art as...
2013
Friche Belle de Mai – Marseille For the first time in Europe, Triangle France presents a selection of works by Canadian artist Liz Magor dating from the 1970s to today. She will be surrounded by some of today’s most renowned...
2013
Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains – Tourcoing The exhibition À Montréal, quand l’image rôde, proposed by the Galerie de l’UQAM in Le Fresnoy, presents the work of a generation of Montreal artists fascinated by the enigmas of...
2013
From 6pm to 2am at the Canadian Cultural Centre, as part of Nuit Blanche 2013. L’entre-images, a video compilation by seven Quebec artists, offers a glimpse into the immense production of images that characterizes today’s world. This notion of the...
2013
Paris, Nantes, Lac Léman Le Festival Ciné Alter’Natif fête son cinquième anniversaire et invite à découvrir les productions cinématographiques amérindiennes dans toute leur diversité : longs et courts-métrages, professionnels et amateurs, documentaires et fictions du Nord au Sud du continent américain....
2013
La soirée d’ouverture du cinquième Festival Ciné Alter’Natif, organisée par l’association De la Plume à l’Ecran, met à l’honneur sa collaboration avec le « Wapikoni Mobile ». Créé en 2004, le « Wapikoni mobile » est un studio ambulant de création audiovisuelle et musicale...
2013
Alternately at Théâtre les Déchargeurs, Paris Both harsh and funny, these self-portraits are universal. As always in the work of Michel Tremblay, the language is strong, the themes various and dense, the descriptions astute and precise. Everyone can relate. The...
2013
Dans le cadre du programme Passeport pour les langues présenté lors de la Semaine des cultures étrangères, participez à des ateliers d’initiation à l’Inuktitut (langue des Inuit de l’Arctique canadien) animés par Sylvie Teveny : de 11h à 12h : initiation...