2019
On the eve of World Refugee Day and a few days before the Pride March, the Canadian Cultural Center invites you to a screening of the film Last Chance. In this heartbreaking documentary, Nova Scotia filmmaker Paul-Émile d’Entremont follows five...
2019
As part of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, the Embassy of Canada in France invites you to a poignant exchange between renowned author Kim Thúy and entrepreneur Tareq Hadhad, both former refugees who...
2019
A conversation between Canadian artist Hazel Meyer and Canadian curator Christine Shaw about the TAKE CAREexhibition presented at Ferme du Buisson until 21 July 2019. This talk by Meyer and Shaw will pivot on a line from a poem by...
2019
Meeting with Canadian artist Jeneen Frei Njootli and Julie Pellegrin, Director of the Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, upon the Take Care exhibition presented at Ferme du Buisson until 21 July 2019. In her presentation, Jeneen Frei Njootli...
2019
Now in its 4th year and having become a reference in its field, Performance Day offers an original approach to the notion of care in echo with the Take Care exhibition. Artists from various horizons, among them the Canadian Hazel...
2019
Promiscuous Rooms brings to the fore Bool’s current research on a series of erotic drawings made by Le Corbusier in Algeria during the 1930s. These coincided with the initial stages of the architect’s urban plan designs aimed at transforming Algiers...
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2019
In modernity one finds the first indicators of the appearance in force of contradictory desires, associated to several behaviours still adopted today: the desire to see and to be seen, betraying the desire to affirm oneself and to be known....
2019
For its first Night of Ideas, the Canadian Cultural Centre invites the public on a journey to the extremes under the theme Blowing Hot and Cold: Climate Change and New Alliances. Through a narrative of exceptional experiences that take place...
2019
The Canadian Embassy in France invites you to a lecture entitled “Savoir-faire, Savoirs verts, Changements climatiques et autochtones dans le Nord du Canada (“Know-How, Green Knowledge, Climate Change and Aboriginal People in Canada’s North”)” by Jocelyn Joe-Strack, Daqualama, Consultant Sub-Arctic Research and...
2018
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2018
Before her concert at 20:00, screening of the film If the Weather Permits, directed by Elisapie Isaac in 2003 and produced by the NFB followed by an interview with the artist. This short documentary studies life in the village of...
2018
In the presence of Damien Aubel, film and art editor at Transfuge. French and Canadian artist Michèle Waquant is also a professor at the art schools in Dijon and Cergy Pontoise. Her multidisciplinary practice (video, photography, painting, drawing and writing)...
2018
In the presence of Marcel Jean, director of the Cinémathèque Québécoise and artistic director of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The Canadian Cultural Centre is launching an annual partnership with the Cinémathèque Québécoise focusing on animation. For 16 years,...
2018
As part of Maria Hupfield’s exhibition, The One Who Keeps On Giving, which opens on September 25, and the performance in collaboration with Greenlandic Inuk artist Nive Nielsen (and her group, The Deer Children), Claire Astier has devised a series...
2018
The ninth edition of Festival America gives pride of place to Canada and its literature, inviting thirty or so Anglophone and Francophone Canadian authors, including Patrick deWitt, Iain Reid, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Nicolas Dickner, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Naomi Fontaine, Nancy Huston and...
2018
Organized by the Forum des Instituts Culturels Étrangers à Paris, the sixth edition of the Nuit de la Littérature invites you to discover twenty or so authors. The Canadian Cultural Centre will be participating in this event with the Canadian...
2018
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2017
Journée d’étude sous la direction de Martha Langford et lancement du livre Narratives Unfolding : National Art Histories in an Unfinished World. Quelque part entre le global et le local, la nation est un concept qui perdure. Des histoires de...
2017
Le travail de Donigan Cumming aborde les thèmes du corps, de la vérité et de la fiction, des tabous de la représentation ainsi que celui de l’engagement social. L’œuvre de Cumming dérange. Elle confronte depuis des années le spectateur à...
2017
An introductory Inuktitut workshop. The members of the Association Inuksuk – Espace Culturel Inuit propose an introduction to the language and writing system of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. Beginners welcome. This workshop is part of the Passeport pour...
2017
Within the framework of the Quinzaine des Fiertés LGBT (June 9th to 29th, 2017), the Embassy of Canada in France and the Inter-LGBT will host a roundtable on defending the rights LGBTQ2 people against discrimination and violence based on sexual...
2017
John Ralston Saul, essayiste et romancier canadien, a été président de PEN International de 2009 à 2015. Ses œuvres ont été traduites en 28 langues dans 37 pays. En plus de ces cinq romans, Saul est connu pour deux volets...
2017
The Association Française d’Études Canadiennes (AFEC), in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA) of the Université Paris-Diderot and the Embassy of Canada in Paris, is organizing an international congress to explore the evolution of Canada...
2017
Une conférence de Marc André Bernier, professeur de littérature française à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Madame d’Arconville (1720-1805) est une auteure polygraphe dont les ouvrages se sont succédé au gré d’une activité aussi foisonnante qu’éclectique. Femme de lettres, elle cultive presque...
2017
PART II : Meet Jean-Yves Clément on June 6th at the Canadian Cultural Centre On the occasion of the celebrations of the 85th anniversary of the birth of Glenn Gould, the Canadian Cultural Centre welcomes Jean-Yves Clément, author of Glenn Gould...
2017
Les éditions Paulsen et le Centre culturel canadien de Paris ont le plaisir de vous convier à une discussion avec Alexandre Trudeau, à l’occasion de la parution de son récit En Chine et du passage de l’auteur en France. Alexandre Trudeau, réalisateur...
2017
PART I : Meet Jean-Yves Clément with two dialogues. First part with Manuel Brossé, lecturer in musicology at Université Paris – Sorbonne, and a second part with French cellist Henri Demarquette. A l’occasion des célébrations du 85ème anniversaire de la naissance de...
2017
Exceptional opening for the European Night of Museums of the exhibition The Sleeping Green. Un no man’s land 100 ans après de Dianne Bos. Lecture at 7 pm : World War One and Canadian Literature By Harry Vandervlist ( University...
2017
Conference by Pascal Bastien, Professor of Modern European History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) In September 1736, in the noisy corridors of the Grand Châtelet prisons, a Brigade Commander of the Maréchaussée crossed Criminal Lieutenant Nègre, head...
2017
Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In her new book, Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women’s lives and...
2016
International short film festival Paris Courts Devant is a must for all those with a passion for the work of young filmmakers. In Paris, over then days, more than 220 short films of all formats and genres will be shown....
2016
On the occasion of the publication of Edward Burtynsky’s Essential Elements by Thames & Hudson and Éléments Essentiels by Éditions Xavier Barral. Edward Burtynsky is internationally renowned thanks to his spectacular large photographs illustrating the impact of human activity on...