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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2011
In collaboration with Jean Jauvin and Laurent Meslé Théâtre de la Bastille
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
2011
The group plays electronic music with instrumentation that is sometimes rock and sometimes jazz, but always makes you want to dance. Thanks to the originality of its music, impassioned concerts and breathtaking visuals, Misteur Valaire means to continue on its...
2011
The group Who Are You presents its new album, «Breizh». The indie folk-rock trio will be touring France until May 2, 2011. April 12, 2011, 8:30 p.m., LÉpicerie Moderne, Feyzin April 13, 2011, 8:30 p.m., LArt Ti Cho, Grenoble April...
2011
The exhibition Regards d’artiste Martin Bruneau, organized by Les Chemins du Patrimoine en Finistère, is taking place at the Château de Kerjean in Saint-Vougay from April 9 to November 6, 2011. For many years, the paintings of Martin Bruneau have...
2011
Boxes by Jill Culiner The capital of naive art, the city of Laval pursues its policy of welcoming remarkable artists. Jill Culiner, a self-taught Canadian visual artist, writer and photographer, regularly exhibits in France and abroad. She presents sarcastic and...
2011
Galerie 15 in Alès presents the exhibition Kyrielle Japonaise by Canadian artist Richard St-Germain and French artist Jean-Vincent Escalant. It comprises a series of original lithographs whose bronze-coloured engraving frames a mosaic of precious oriental papers that like paints reveals...
2011
Centre Pompidou, Paris Presentation of the film 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould by François Girard as part of the programme Écoute voir ! Hors scène of the Cinéma du Réel international documentary film festival.
2011
The Théâtre de la Bastille à Paris presents JJ’s Voices by the choreographer and performer Benoît Lachambre in company with Ballet Culberg. The performers take twenty or so key words from the Janis Joplin songs “Try”, “Bye Bye Baby”, “Moody...
2011
Canadian visual artist Sylvie de Ligny Pallez presents two large collections of works created from two dressing gowns. The works will be exhibited at the Maison des Associations du 7 ème. The exhibition week will be punctuated with meetings-talks between...
2011
Three Canadian films feature in the short-film section of the festival. Don’t miss: Place de l’élégance by Annie Deniel; I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Ann Marie Fleming; Nowhere Elsewhere by Annick Blanc.
2011
A unique show at Montrécourt (Nord Pas-de-Calais) on the release of his new album, Une lumière allumée (Socadisc)
2011
The Quebec circus company Les 7 doigts de la main will be taking the shows La vie and Psy all over France. An acrobatic marriage of body, mind and soul, Psy takes us into a universe that goes beyond the...
2011
Meet Marie-Claire Blais on the occasion of the publication of her novel Mai au bal des prédateurs (Éditions du Seuil). Librairie Violette and Co., 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris
2011
Petit Palais, Paris On the occasion of the release of his latest novel, Le droit chemin (Éditions Actes Sud), Maison des écrivains et de la littérature, Actes Sud and the Canadian Cultural Centre are pleased to invite you to a meeting between...
2011
The Alliance Française de Paris will be organizing a lecture open to the public at 7 p.m. on the occasion of the publication of the book “Le français quelle histoire !” by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow by Éditions Télémaque.
2011
On the occasion of the publication of Masques and Le Conte à Bascule, there will be an exhibition of the drawings of Natali Fortier from March 10 to May 15 at the Galerie L’art à la page, 12 rue Servandoni,...
2011
On March 20, Denise Desautels will be making an appearance at La Coupole, Paris, for Le Café des Femmes at the invitation of the Association Femmes-Monde, and on March 25, also in Paris, at Poètes en résonances organized by Compagnie...