2013
At 8 p.m. at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées – Paris The very talented Quebecker Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra on June 21. Discovered a few years ago, he now conducts the orchestras of Philadelphia, Montreal and Rotterdam. A...
2013
Wednesday, June 12, 6:30 p.m., as part of the RIO LOCO! festival at the Prairie des Filtres, Toulouse Tuesday, June 18, 8:30 p.m., New Morning, Paris Founded by Trinidadian-Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town refers to the historic of Port-of-Spain,...
2013
In parallel with the exhibition Fantastic Kenojuak Ashevak, art historian and Inuit art specialist Florence Duchemin-Pelletier gives a lecture on contemporary Inuit art and the roots of a flourishing artistic movement. The genesis, which has become almost legendary, of contemporary...
2013
Galerie Art: Concept — Paris Focussing on contemporary art, Galerie Art : Concept presents the group exhibition Induction Procedure, which brings together for the first time Aaron Aujla, Elaine Cameron Weir, Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher, four artists born in Canada...
2013
Espace Fraternité – Aubervilliers (93) The new edition of the Festival d’Aubercail 2013 will feature a cross-cultural celebration of music. Well-known, fringe and independent singers will be there to share their passion for words with us. They will include the...
2013
Eglise – Illiers-Combray On the occasion of the centennial of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray will be exhibiting the work Les robes du...
2013
Focus on contemporary Inuit art Saturday, May 18, 6 p.m. to midnight – Continuous screenings, 6 p.m. to midnight Complementing the exhibition Fantastic Kenojuak Ashevak, exceptionally open for the European Night of the Museums 2013, a focus on contemporary Inuit...
2013
At Maison des Auteurs SACD – Paris On the occasion of her visit to Paris for the revival of Je pense à Yu, directed by Jean-Claude Berutti, at Théâtre Artistic Athévains, the Quebec playwright Carole Fréchette will be reading four...
2013
Musée Réattu – Arles Between nature and culture, art and natural sciences, the exhibition Nuage is a journey through the mythical labyrinth of a museum inhabited by its river. Fifty-seven artists, including Canadian Jocelyne Alloucherie, will present 120 works during...
2013
Théâtre Artistic Athévains – Paris 11 The day that Madeleine discovers the liberation, after 17 years in prison, of a Chinese journalist accused of having thrown paint at a portrait of Mao, her life collapsed. The Quebec playwright Carole Fréchette...
2013
An artistically committed festival of contemporary dance, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis will be presenting, from May 14 to June 13, 2013, a panorama of twenty-three remarkable choreographic works from around the world. These include works by two Quebec...
2013
A workshop for children presented by ethnologist and specialist of the Inuit world Sylvie Teveny, who invites them to discover Inuit tales and myths about the origin of the universe through storytelling and the presentation of a few remarkable objects....
2013
At Le Petit Journal de Montparnasse, Paris The Canadian singer Elisabeth Shepherd, three-time Juno award nominee, expresses her soul jazz culture on her latest album, Rewind, and revives certain standards, such as “Feeling Good” and “Les amoureux des bancs publics”....
2013
Paris This first edition Aurores Montréal festival, the francophone festival of contemporary Quebec music, will be coming to Paris from April 30 to May 4, 2013. To promote the vitality and diversity of the new francophone music scene of Montreal,...
2013
Collégiale St-André, Chartres Every day from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. except Mondays Vernissage: May 4, 11:30 p.m. Collective, eclectic and cosmopolitan, Délires de Livres is an exhibition in which 150 artists from around the world come share their passion...
2013
Galerie Christian Berst, Paris Nova Cantabrigiensis is a utopian city born of the imagination of Canadian visionary artist John Devlin. On a constant quest for perfection, he drew the plans of this city, strongly inspired by Cambridge, which he considers...
2013
Espace Fondation EDF — Paris In an immersive setting, the exhibition En vie, aux frontières du design presents the work of the designers, architects and researchers who explore new relationships with nature in architecture; industrial, interactive or culinary design; furniture; jewellery;...
2013
Grand auditorium, BnF François Mitterrand – Paris To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Union des Compositeurs de Musique de Films (UCMF) presents at the BNF an exceptional debate with two of the big names in Canadian cinema, composer Mychael Danna...
2013
Théâtre National de Chaillot Paris Leaving one’s country and sexiling is felt as a tear but with time, it becomes more complicated when one gradually discovers the gap between what one has become and those who continue to live in...
2013
Auditorium du Grand Palais – Paris Immerse yourself in the artistic mirage of the short films of Norman McLaren, one of the greatest animators in the history of the cinema, who ceaselessly explores animation techniques. Through these free screenings, discover...
2013
Nuit européenne des musées – May, 18 2013 Opening from 6 pm to midnight The Canadian Cultural Centre presents, for the first time in France, a solo exhibition by one of the greatest Inuit artists, Kenojuak Ashevak, who was a...
2013
Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris Vitality, generosity, and the depth and finesse of her writing characterize Ginette Laurin, one of the most prolific artists on the Quebec contemporary choreography scene. With Khaos, her latest choreographic work, Ginette Laurin examines our...
2013
The year 2014 will be the hundredth anniversary of Félix Leclerc’s birth. To celebrate, Quebecker Claud Michaud will be performing a moving show aiming to encapsulate the life and work of the “Géant de l’Île d’Orléans”. Through evocations of the...
2013
Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, La Cartoucherie (Vincennes) While Danièle Desnoyers regularly turns to improvisation, her creative process is nevertheless extremely rigorous. In a way, it is similar to the process of composing music. Music, sound as a material/partner, as a...
2013
Théâtre de la Colline Célie Pauthe adapts the play by the young Quebec author Sarah Berthiaume. Four characters lost in the immense spaces of the Yukon, in the very north of Canada, at the border with Alaska, get on with...
2013
At 8:30 p.m. at Théâtre de la Cité Internationale – Paris A lovely musical encounter between the young Canadian Kyrie Kristmanson, fascinated by the melodies of the women troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and of the group Quatuor...
2013
In Ravel, Jean Echenoz explores and improvises on the last ten years of the French composer’s life and retraces his career, both glorious and tragic. Director Anne-Marie Lazarini paints a portrait of a Ravel as captured by literature and stages...
2013
Maison des Arts André-Malraux, Créteil Organized for over thirty years in Créteil, the Festival International de Films de Femmes is an indispensible festival that, every spring, reveals a rich and previously unseen selection of films by directors from around the...
2013
Phantoms of the French Shore is a documentary that tells the epic and moving story of the creation of a work of art. Inspired by the famous eleventh-century Bayeux Tapestry, Phantoms of the French Shore invites us on a journey...
2013
(Français) À 20h au Théâtre de lOdéon (Ateliers Berthier Paris 17e) Les jeux de cartes ? Un ensemble de règles, de mythes, de personnages. Mais aussi, pour Robert Lepage, le jeu, le poker, le monde politique, laddiction et toute lhistoire...
2013
Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris After the success of the Blood of Promises trilogy, Wajdi Mouawad chose to direct himself in a polyphonic show featuring video projections. A performance in which it is no longer the words, but the body...
2013
Lille and Tourcoing Founded in Lille in 2004, the Fête de l’anim’ is dedicated to animation in all its forms – film, video games, digital arts – and features programming open to international productions: projections, meetings, exhibitions, salon, performances and...