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...
2013
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Ce festival de passionnés, créé il y a 26 ans, a pour objectif de promouvoir la chanson francophone sous toutes ses formes, de donner un coup de projecteur sur des artistes confirmés et encourager l’émergence de nouveaux talents. À l’affiche...
2013
Vernissage, Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 6 p.m. (last admission: 8:30 p.m.) Visit the exhibition in the artist’s presence at 5 p.m. (reservations required: 01 44 43 21 48) A retrospective look at the photographic work produced by Stan Douglas in...
2013
At Olympia, Paris Canadian singer Bryan Adams will be in France to play a single date at L’Olympia. His European Bare Bones Tour is named after his latest album, released in 2010. During this concert, Adams will play his biggest...
2013
As part of the Semaine des Cultures Étrangères The Franco-Manitoban singer and pianist Geneviève Toupin has given the current Montreal folk scene a shot in the arm since the release of her eponymous debut album in 2009. Geneviève Toupin writes...
2013
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris Quebecker Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has conducted orchestras in Philadelphia, Montreal and Rotterdam, will be conducting Le Vaisseau fantôme (The Flying Dutchman), a story of love and death performed by an unbridled orchestra and powerful singers. A...
2013
Lyon Biennial As part of its off-site programming at the Lyon Biennale d’art contemporain entitled Modules – Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, the Palais de Tokyo presents the group exhibition Des présents inachevés, presenting the creations of four...
2013
Toulouse festival that is part of the Mois de l’Image, ManifestO features contemporary work by young photographers. Every year, a jury of professionals selects 10 to 15 projects by artists from around the world. For this eleventh edition of the...
2013
Nice When youth, sports and the arts share the same stage and bear witness to Francophone solidarity, the result is the Jeux de la Francophonie, which bring together 3,000 artists and athletes from around the world. Canadian teams Canada-Quebec and...
2013
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados From August 8–15, 2013, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer will host the eighth edition of La Semaine Acadienne for the leading festival of the Calvados region. This event will pay homage to the Acadian soldiers of the North Shore Regiment of New...
2013
La Rochelle The big names of chanson française and today’s talents will meet up once again during Les Francofolies de la Rochelle, July 1–16. They include leading Canadian artists and groups who will be presenting their latest albums: Rufus Wainwright,...
2013
Directed by Robert Carsen July 11–26, 2013, Théâtre de L’Archevêché – Festival d’Aix-en-Provence This year, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence celebrates the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth. On this occasion, the Canadian opera director Robert Carsen will offer up his version of the famous...