Encounter
Stretching Borders: How Far Can Canada Go?
2011
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Concert
Steve Strongman
2011
Blues singer Steve Strongman is embarking on a European tour with several French dates scheduled for June. Steve Strongman plays acoustic and electric blues, a style in the rural American tradition. June 10: MJC Espace Athena, Saint-Saulve June 11: Les...
Concert
Symphony of a Thousand, by Gustav Mahler
2011
With the Chorus of Radio France conducted by Matthias Brauer and the Choir School of Radio France conducted by Sofi Jeannin With the Canadian Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto
Encounter
Taiguusiliurniq, l’activité néologique inuit au Nunavut
De nouveaux mots pour de nouvelles réalités
2011
The Espace Cultural Inuit invites you to a lecture by Carole Cancel, a PhD student in ethnolinguistics and anthropology jointly at Inalco in Paris and Université Laval in Quebec City. She holds a degree in Inuit language and culture from...
Literature
Wade Davis
2011
The publication by Éditions Albin Michel of “Pour ne pas disparaître. Pourquoi la sagesse ancestrale nous est précieuse“, the translation of The “Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World” by Wade Davis. A Harvard graduate with degrees in...
Performance
Festival Humour en Capitales
2011
The festival L’Humour en Capitales once again invites its friend from the Festival Grand Rire de Québec to take part in the Humour du Monde gala at the Théâtre Dejazet in Paris on June 6, 2011. A slew of talented...
Concert
Festival de Musique Acadien et Cajun à Beaune
2011
Organized by Beaune Échanges Internationaux, the first edition of the Acadian and Cajun music festival will take place in Beaune (Burgundy) from May 31 to June 2. The program includes a concert of the band “Heureuz Zazar” and dancing evenings. ...
Literature
29ème Marché de la poésie
2011
Celebrating their fortieth anniversary this year, Éditions du Noroît is organizing a poetry reading, which will take place on the podium of the Marché de la Poésie de Paris, Place Saint-Sulpice, Saturday, May 28, 2011, 3:30 pm. Several Canadian poets,...
Concert
Chantal Lavallée
2011
The actress Chantal Lavallée presents “Autour de Liszt” (1811–1886) in the company of the soprano Susanne Burstein, the pianist Sylvain Combaluzier and the clarinettist and flutist Lionel Milin. The show is an exploration in music and words of the life...
Encounter
La Guerre Météorologique au Groenland
An unknown episode of WWII
2011
The Espace Culturel Inuit invites you to a lecture by Christiane Moinet. An actress and director, she has specialized in historical and cultural events for over twenty years, sharing her knowledge on polar cruise and cargo ships. Founded in Vienna...
Performance
Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde !
2011
Le Théâtre de la Ville presents Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde ! by Dave St-Pierre A crazy show. Raw, unabashed choreographic language. Poetry. An artistic sensibility. Humour
Concert
« Spiritus Chamber »
2011
Spiritus Chamber Choir, founded in Calgary in 1995 and led by artistic director Timothy Shantz, will be playing a series of concerts in France in May. Spiritus Chamber Choir performs music from repertoires from around the world and takes part...
Performance
Denis Marleau
2011
The Quebec director Denis Marleau presents Agamemnon by Seneca at the Comédie Française on July 21–23, 2011. The cast features Michel Favory, Cécile Brune, Françoise Gillard, Michel Vuillermoz, Elsa Lepoivre, Julie Sicard, Hervé Pierre. For many years, Denis Marleau has directed...
Concert
Martin Robidoux
2011
As part of the Jeudis musicaux de la Chapelle royale, harpsichordist Martin Robidoux conducts the Ensemble Les Différents in Messe pour le Port-Royal by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) to the Chapelle royale, Château de Versailles. A graduate with high honours of...
Performance
Décalages Horaires
2011
Décalages Horaires is a new project whose aim is to set up temporarily in a location and explore a set of themes through many forms and media. More than a simple concert or an isolated installation, it the combination of...
Exhibition
La Nuit européenne des Musées 2011
2011
La Nuit européenne des Musées 2011 At the Canadian Cultural Centre, May 14, 2011, from 5 p.m. The Canadian Cultural Centre joins forces with La Nuit des Musées 2011. The exhibition Diana Thorneycroft’s Extraordinary Stories: Caustic Landscapes of the Canadian...
Film
Focus canadien
2011
Ciné 104 à Pantin Five films by four contemporary Canadian directors, and produced by National Film Board of Canada, introduce us to worlds that are sombre, darkly humorous or funny, each in its way undermining modern living. Les Ramoneurs cérébraux,...
Performance
PARADIS/Paradise
2011
Vancouver choreographer-dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino is back in France with PARADIS/Paradise, a cross-continental dance project in collaboration with French musician-composer Emmanuel de St Aubin and Vancouver media artist Donna Szoke. In exploring the relationship and breath of dance through live...
Exhibition
Diana Thorneycroft’s Extraordinary Stories
Caustic Landscapes of the Canadian Imaginary
2011
From May 11, the Canadian Cultural Centre will be presenting the photographic exhibition “Diana Thorneycroft’s Extraordinary Stories. Caustic Landscapes of Canadian Imaginary”, curator Catherine Bédard, based on the photographic series of The Canadiana Martyrdom Series and Group of Seven Awkward...
Encounter
49 Flies de Pierre Hébert
2011
At 7:30 p.m. at Ciné 104, Pantin Live animation performance followed by a discussion with the artist Recorded images are quickly erased and continuously replaced by new drawings, produced as the performance develops. Simultaneously, three superimposed animated films are altered...
Concert
Ndidi O
2011
The Canadian singer Ndidi O, of Nigerian origin, is back with a new album, The Escape. On it, she plays guitar and piano; she also did the arrangements, and wrote the lyrics and music. “When I was writing this, I...
Exhibition
Eric Cameron at Musée Rodin
2011
Works by the sculptor Eric Cameron are on show at the Musée Rodin as part of L’Invention de l’œuvre, Rodin et les ambassadeurs. This exhibition examines how Rodin’s work was received and aims to show its evolution and past and...
Performance
Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis
2011
The 2011 edition of the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis gives Canadian contemporary dance its due. Jolie, solo, choreography by Ula Sickle, performed by Jolie Ngemi, a young dancer from Kinshasa. An ode to the creativity and determination of Congolese...
Performance
Rouge by Julie Andrée T.
2011
In collaboration with Jean Jauvin and Laurent Meslé Théâtre de la Bastille
Performance
Biennale internationale des arts de la marionnette
2011
One of the main contemporary puppetry events in France and Europe, organized by the Théâtre de la Marionnette in Paris since 2001, it showcases some of the biggest names on the international puppetry scene: the brand new creations of these...
Film
Animated films
2011
In partnership with the Biennale internationale des arts de la marionette and in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada and the Espace Culturel Inuit, the Canadian Cultural Centre presents three programmes of animated films allow you to discover or...
Exhibition
Artists from Québec
2011
The association Mai en Cambresis presents the group exhibition Artistes du Québec in Busigny, Cambrai and Caudry, May 1–22, 2011. The exhibition features works by the artists Martin Bruneau, Raymonde Godin, Michel Madore, Jean Noël, Philippe Scrive, Françoise Staar, Bernard...
Performance
Story Boat
2011
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine After its public and critical success in Paris, the play Jean et Béatrice by Carole Fréchette will be performed at the Théâtre Story Boat in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and then tour France.
Performance
La Face cachée de la lune
2011
Written and directed by Robert Lepage. With Yves Jacques Historical and intimate, this play gives star billing to two brothers shaken by the death of their mother and moved by the Russian cosmonaut Leonov’s first steps in space. Yves Jacques...
Performance
Sweeney Todd
le diabolique barbier de Fleet Street de Stephen Sondheim
2011
The two Canadian tenors David Curry and Pascal Charbonneau are part of the cast of the musical thriller Sweeny Todd presented at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris. A story of revenge, Stephen Sondheim’s musical, staged for the first time...
Performance
Mathieu trop court, François trop long
2011
Compagnie la Naïve presents the Jean-Rock Gaudreaults play Mathieu trop court, François trop long, the success of the Festival Off at the last Festival dAvignon. The story of a friendship between two boys that should never have existed if life...
Encounter
Nathalie Krajcik
2011
Subtly and simply, the storyteller and actress Nathalie Krajcik invites us to discover the territories and peoples of Quebec, the Far North and Europe, and to explore our own personal landscapes, in search of our own identities. Wednesday, April 13,...