Concert
Lindi Ortega
2012
On tour in France After the release of a first EP in 2009 that was met with critical acclaim, Lindi Ortega completed a new full length record called « Little Red Boots » in June 2011. She’s no stranger to...
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Exhibition
Robin Collyer : “Trees”
2012
Born in London, Robin Collyer lives and works in Toronto. He will be presenting his exhibition Trees, photographies 1980-2012 at the Galerie Gilles Peyroulet until March 17, 2012.
Performance
Orchestre Philharmonique de Rotterdam
2012
Sunday, January 22, 8 p.m. at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. After their debut last season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra are back with a programme dedicated to Ravel featuring the charismatic Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci. Still in his...
Film
« À la recherche d’Étienne Brûlé »
2012
At the Canadian Cultural Centre, 7 p.m. Screening of the documentary followed by a debate. The story begins in Canada in 1610 with the arrival in Ontario of the Frenchman Étienne Brûlé. Considered the ancestor of Franco-Ontarians, Etienne Brûlé is...
Performance
Tuktu, le petit caribou
2012
Show for children aged three to six. At 10:00 a.m. Tuktu, the little caribou, finds himself alone in the plains of the tundra after a snowstorm. He then meets a young Inuit, who becomes his friend and shows him his...
Exhibition
Patrick Cady et France Jodoin
2012
Vernissage, January 17, 6 p.m. The exhibition organized at the Galerie Théo de Seine provides the opportunity to open a dialogue on the theme of the sea between the works of Patrick Cady and the infinite spaces represented by France...
Concert
Vivienne Spiteri
2012
Meudon-Bellevue Vivienne Spiteri will be performing the works of John Cage, J. S. Bach-Pierre Schaeffer, Jean-Claude Risset, Louis Andriessen and Kaija Saariaho on the harpsichord. She will be accompanied for the occasion by the visual artist Geneviève Bonieux. Temple de...
Performance
Un obus dans le cœur
2012
Urgently called to his mother’s bedside, teenager Wahab feels irrepressible anger well up inside him on the way to the hospital: a cry of despair at fate, a cry of guilt, the grief of losing his mother and even greater...
Exhibition
Lyse Casanova
2012
“The place where you’re born and especially the place where you spend the first twenty years of your life mark the imagination and determine the permanent themes to come.” Lyse Casanova This exhibition features the Canadian artists’ engravings and collages....
Concert
Selected songs recital
2011
Théâtre du Rond-Point Nothing is straightforward in the world of Lewis Furey. Neither in his career nor on his tours. Recital or show, concert or retrospective, the Selected Songs Recital marks the return of a great singer. His songs have...
Performance
Le Cirque Eloize – ID
2011
For his return to directing, Jeannot Painchaud proposes a show filled with daring and modernity. iD combines the circus arts and those of urban dances such as b-boying/b-girling, breakdancing and hip hop. The action of iD takes place in the...
Performance
Rencontre et lecture autour de Suzanne Lebeau
2011
The Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to a reading with Quebec author Suzanne Lebeau and actress Agnès Belkadi featuring the texts “Le grillon”, “Le pipi” and “Méli-mélo”. For children young and old, age 6 and up, in partnership with the...
Performance
Nuit d’orage
2011
From December 14 to December 23, Tarmac in Paris February 16 and 17 Théâtre Jean Vilar in Paris Nuit dorage is a creation of the Carousel, adapted and staged by Gervais Gaudreault according to the work of the Quebecois illustrator...
Exhibition
The Canadian Delegation
2011
The Canadian delegation presents the artists (painters and sculptors) selected for the 2011 edition for a week. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, December 11, at 6 p.m. Salle Le Nôtre, Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli...
Concert
Monogrenade
2011
Formé de Marianne Houle, François Lessard et Mathieu Collette, Monogrenade voit le jour en 2008. En novembre 2010, le groupe participe à l’événement M pour Montréal et assure avec un spectacle étonnant. Les délégués français présents n’en reviennent tout simplement...
Concert
Les Breastfeeders
2011
Heureux mélange de questionnements philosophiques et de rock’n’roll toujours aussi percutant, le groupe présente ses treize pièces comme des tableaux dessinant chacune de leurs réflexions. Ils viennent présenter Dans la gueule des jours, leur dernier opus pendant le mois de...
Exhibition
Hélène Déry, « La nature dans tous ses états »
2011
Vernissage: Wednesday, December 7, from 6 p.m. “The origin of my research has always been nature and stone – at the source of memory – witnesses of humanity. I use archetypal images, symbols and lines from the environment. As in...
Performance
Fred Pellerin
2011
Fred Pellerin is a fabulous storyteller whom we’d like to call “Pellerin the Enchanter” as he is so bewitching. Unknown in France until recently, the Quebecker is back with his new show, “L’arracheur de temps”. This subtle storyteller, singer, narrator...
Performance
Lignes de faille
2011
Adapted from the novel by Nancy Huston, Lignes de faille takes us back in time, from 2004 to 1944, from post-9/11 New York to Second World War Germany, through the voice of four generations of a family. We meet them...
Encounter
Noël Arctique
2011
L’espace culturel inuit a le plaisir de vous inviter à son Noël arctique 2011 ! Mercredi 30 novembre : de 11h à 18h Jeudi 1er décembre : de 11h à 20h. Comptoir de vente inuit : – Tisanes inuit, –...
Exhibition
Jayce Salloum
Récits alternatifs (from Lebanon to Afghanistan, via the Okanagan Valley…)
2011
Vernissage, Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 6–8:30 p.m. (last admission at 8 p.m.) “Récits alternatifs” brings together a collection of videographic works stemming as much from image as from narrative. The work of Jayce Salloum is features an approach critical of...
Literature
Lecture-rencontre avec Rita Mestokosho
2011
The Canadian Cultural Centre presents, in collaboration with the Délégation Générale du Québec, a reading with the Innu poet Rita Mestokosho. A trilingual reading – in Innu by Rita Mestokosho, in French by the actress Anny Romand and in English...
Literature
Stéphane Poulin
2011
Discover Quebec author and illustrator Stéphane Poulin and his latest book, Au pays de la Mémoire blanche. La cité, le Centre des Congres 5 rue de Valmy 44000 Nantes
Exhibition
Lucie Duval
2011
Vernissage, November 5, from 4 p.m. at Galerie Isabelle Gounod “I drew a parallel between ‘l’engagement’ [commitment] and ‘langage ment’ [language lies] or, I should say, I oppose ‘l’engagement’ and ‘langage ment’. Using fairly large black and white digital prints...
Exhibition
Exposition « MY WINNIPEG » au MIAM à Sète
2011
In partnership with the Canadian cultural centre, the “Musée international des Arts Modestes” de Sète is showing the collective exhibition “My Winnipeg” which took place in “la Maison Rouge” in Paris last summer. Winnipeg is a prime example of how...
Performance
Le Cirque du Soleil
2011
Corteo (which means “cortège” in Italian) is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. Combining acrobatic feats, comedy and acting, Corteo takes the audiences into a theatrical world of fun and spontaneity, located in a strange space...
Performance
A toi pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou
2011
Author: Michel Tremblay – Director: Christian Bordeleau – Cast: Cécile Magnet, Yves Collignon, Sophie Parel, Marie Mainchin. We are in the family kitchen. Manon and Carmen, two sisters aged 24 and 25, meet again and take stock 10 years after the events...
Literature
Ling Zhang « La Montagne d’or »
2011
The novel Le rêve de la montagne d’or by Ling Zhang will be in the bookshops on November 3, 2011. On this occasion, Ling Zhang will be at the Foire du Livre de Brive, November 4–6, 2011. “In 2004, Emmy...
Encounter
“Low taxes : time bomb? by a Canadian fiscal expert”
2011
Brigitte Alepin, Harvard expert on fiscal matters, will discuss with Sophie Fay of the Nouvel Observateur on the looming fiscal crisis. Brigitte Alepin is an Harvard graduate and a specialist in fiscal policies, environmental taxation and public finances. She is...
Concert
La Transat Chanson
2011
Between intimist rock / folk songs and pop delicate, Sylvain Verte spreads on stage, heat and emotion, he evokes his vision of the life, under the shape of small paintings where get free feelings of tenderness, enjoyment… and revolt. Discover...
Performance
Ginette Laurin
2011
The Opéra National de Nancy presents Le Sacre du printemps choreographed by Ginette Laurin Originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Le Sacre du printemps (1910–13) has since been revisited by the great choreographers, including Maurice Béjart...
Performance
SPONTANéOUS
2011
For the last 7 years Lyon welcomes the festival SPONTANéOUS. It has for vocation to celebrate and to encourage the spontaneous creation during a week: every evening allows to discover a new size of improvised entertainment. And how to speak...