Concert
Cœur de pirate
2012
On tour in France Coeur de Pirate made a splash in the world of chanson française in 2008 with her self-titled debut album, which won her a Félix award for best debut artist, a Juno nomination and a place on...
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Concert
Ensemble Constantinople
2012
On tour in France For over a decade, Constantinople has been exploring the oral traditions of Mediterranean cultures and the manuscript music of the Middle Ages. Some of the musical ensemble’s projects touch on the repertoires and practices of several...
Film
Guy Maddin, « Spiritismes »
2012
As part of the Nouveau Festival at the Centre Pompidou For seventeen days, the director Guy Maddin will be inviting Centre Pompidou visitors to witness the making of a new movie inspired by a lost film directed by the great...
Literature
Présentation du livre “Contes inuit”
2012
À l’occasion de la sortie en librairie du livre Contes inuit d’Emmanuelle Stimamiglio et Sylvie Teveny, illustré par Laura Guéry et publié aux Éditions Circonflexe, l’Espace culturel inuit, les éditions Circonflexe et le Centre Culturel Canadien sont heureux de vous inviter au Centre Culturel...
Concert
Concert du Trio PIANOANDCO
2012
Within the framework of Les Rencontres de l’Écriture Musicale au Féminin, the Canadian Cultural Centre presents a concert by the trio PIANOANDCO featuring the work of Canadian music composer Isabelle Panneton. The concert will include a performance of Récifs coralliens,...
Concert
Mes Aïeux
2012
After fifteen years of friendship, five albums and over six hundred concerts, Mes Aïeux are back with their new album, A l’aube du printemps, which is due to be released on March 30. The first track, “Viens-t’en” – available online...
Literature
Conférence « Observer les baleines : Pourquoi ? Comment ? »
2012
The Espace Culturel Inuit presents Observer les baleines : Pourquoi ? Comment ?, a lecture by Olivier Adam, a bioacoustician specializing in whales. In 2009 the International Whaling Commission suggested that certain species of whale could be used as indicators...
Performance
Lecture de « Sous un ciel de chamaille » by Daniel Danis
2012
A girl, Lirane, lives comfortably with her parents; a boy, Ferhat, lives in a tent in a refugee camp, near Lirane’s home but on the other side of the border, with his mother and younger brothers. She is Israeli, he...
Film
Festival international du film d’environnement
2012
The Festival International du Film d’Environnement offers the audience the chance to discover international programming, previously unreleased for the most part – full-length, medium-length and short films; documentaries and dramas – aiming to make the general public aware of environmental,...
Exhibition
Robin Collyer – Constructions
2012
Robin Collyer, who was educated in a context of North American minimalist and conceptual art, has been producing photographs and sculptures since the 1970s. He often uses industrial materials, as well as objects and images from advertising and the media....
Exhibition
Musée Réattu, Acte V
2012
Musée Réattu, Arles With the group exhibition Acte V, the Musée Réattu explores the theatricality of the building in which it is housed. Must-sees include the installation L’envers by Canadian artist Jocelyne Alloucherie. Using complex configurations, Alloucherie explores image, object...
Exhibition
Nicole Haché
2012
This exhibition features several collections by Nicole Haché, whose works explore her environment and perception of her region: New Brunswick and more precisely the Acadian peninsula. The exhibition presents three collections: Explorer l’océan (fish), Parcourir les rivages (driftwood) and Résonance...
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...
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, –...