2014
Vincennes For its seventh edition, the festival of North American literature America celebrates the old and fruitful relationship between France and North America, focussing on the richness and vitality of the French language by bringing together Canadian French-speaking authors from...
2014
Saint Aubin sur Mer Through the theme of Le grand débarquement, the festival La semaine acadienne pays homage to all the soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Dedicated to the landings of Canadian troops...
2014
7 p.m.–midnight, Esplanade des Invalides – Paris For the third year in a row, Canada will be on the Esplanade des Invalides to celebrate the Fête de la Musique with the Nuit Boréale concert. Nuit Boréale will feature the work...
2014
Cinema l’Entrepôt, Paris On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Quebec independent filmmaking and production collective Les Films de l’Autre is presenting a retrospective of its work at Cinéma l’Entrepôt, as part of a tour that will travel throughout...
2014
At 7:30 pm at the Hôtel de Massa – Paris Canadian author Alice Munro is being honoured by “A Season of Nobel” after her recent Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. The event takes place in the presence of Horace...
2014
Trois Baudets, Dame de Canton, Divan du Monde and Pan Piper, Paris Canal 93, Bobigny This second edition of Aurores Montréal, the Francophone festival of contemporary Canadian music will be visiting Paris. In order to publicize the vitality and diversity...
2014
From 6 p.m.to 2 a.m. at the Canadian Cultural Centre For this new edition of the European Night of the Museums, the Canadian Cultural Centre invites you discover the second part of the exhibition Get Hold of This Space, which...
2014
The Association Nationale France-Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Cultural Centre and in collaboration with publishers Albin Michel, present an exceptional evening with Canadian writer Joseph Boyden on the occasion of the publication by Albin Michel of Dans le grand cercle...
2014
Tourcoing, Lille, Roubaix Founded in Lille in 2004, the Fête de l’anim’ is dedicated to animation in all its forms with multidisciplinary content that builds bridges between the worlds of cinema, television series, video games and the digital arts. The...
2014
Maison des Arts, Créteil At the Maison des Arts de Créteil, the Festival International de Films de Femmes highlights the diversity of the cinematographic creativity of women. Since 1979, it has welcomed women directors from all over the world who...
2014
The theme of Canada’s Arctic Council chairmanship is “Development for the People of the North”. In this presentation, Mr. Borbey, Chair of the ARCTIC COUNCIL’s Senior Arctic Officials, will be addressing a number of questions. Among them, how can economic...
2014
Lecture with David Scott, Executive Director of the Canadian Polar Commission Today`s images of the Arctic captivate and intrigue us. Researchers for their part face significant challenges as they seek to understand Arctic realities such as the choice of methodologies,...
2013
Mercredi 4 (12h-18h) et jeudi 5 décembre (11h-20h) A loccasion des fêtes de fin dannées, lassociation Inuksuk vous propose son « Comptoir inuit » (expo-vente de sculptures, bijoux, livres, photos, cartes, tisanes inuit ). Au cours de ces deux journées de festivités, les...
2013
For the Inuit, the pack ice was an ice route during migrations from Alaska to Greenland through the Canadian Arctic. Even today, the fast ice is still used for travel, fishing, hunting and remains a space for identity, knowledge transmission,...
2013
From 6pm to 2am at the Canadian Cultural Centre, as part of Nuit Blanche 2013. L’entre-images, a video compilation by seven Quebec artists, offers a glimpse into the immense production of images that characterizes today’s world. This notion of the...
2013
Paris, Nantes, Lac Léman Le Festival Ciné Alter’Natif fête son cinquième anniversaire et invite à découvrir les productions cinématographiques amérindiennes dans toute leur diversité : longs et courts-métrages, professionnels et amateurs, documentaires et fictions du Nord au Sud du continent américain....
2013
La soirée d’ouverture du cinquième Festival Ciné Alter’Natif, organisée par l’association De la Plume à l’Ecran, met à l’honneur sa collaboration avec le « Wapikoni Mobile ». Créé en 2004, le « Wapikoni mobile » est un studio ambulant de création audiovisuelle et musicale...
2013
Dans le cadre du programme Passeport pour les langues présenté lors de la Semaine des cultures étrangères, participez à des ateliers d’initiation à l’Inuktitut (langue des Inuit de l’Arctique canadien) animés par Sylvie Teveny : de 11h à 12h : initiation...
2013
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Ce festival de passionnés, créé il y a 26 ans, a pour objectif de promouvoir la chanson francophone sous toutes ses formes, de donner un coup de projecteur sur des artistes confirmés et encourager l’émergence de nouveaux talents. À l’affiche...
2013
Nice When youth, sports and the arts share the same stage and bear witness to Francophone solidarity, the result is the Jeux de la Francophonie, which bring together 3,000 artists and athletes from around the world. Canadian teams Canada-Quebec and...
2013
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados From August 8–15, 2013, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer will host the eighth edition of La Semaine Acadienne for the leading festival of the Calvados region. This event will pay homage to the Acadian soldiers of the North Shore Regiment of New...
2013
La Rochelle The big names of chanson française and today’s talents will meet up once again during Les Francofolies de la Rochelle, July 1–16. They include leading Canadian artists and groups who will be presenting their latest albums: Rufus Wainwright,...
2013
Fête de la Musique – Esplanade des Invalides Friday, 21 June 2013 – 6.30 pm to midnight In association with partners and sponsors, the Embassy of Canada in France and the Canadian Cultural Centre will bring top Canadian talents to...
2013
In parallel with the exhibition Fantastic Kenojuak Ashevak, art historian and Inuit art specialist Florence Duchemin-Pelletier gives a lecture on contemporary Inuit art and the roots of a flourishing artistic movement. The genesis, which has become almost legendary, of contemporary...
2013
Espace Fraternité – Aubervilliers (93) The new edition of the Festival d’Aubercail 2013 will feature a cross-cultural celebration of music. Well-known, fringe and independent singers will be there to share their passion for words with us. They will include the...
2013
Focus on contemporary Inuit art Saturday, May 18, 6 p.m. to midnight – Continuous screenings, 6 p.m. to midnight Complementing the exhibition Fantastic Kenojuak Ashevak, exceptionally open for the European Night of the Museums 2013, a focus on contemporary Inuit...
2013
At Maison des Auteurs SACD – Paris On the occasion of her visit to Paris for the revival of Je pense à Yu, directed by Jean-Claude Berutti, at Théâtre Artistic Athévains, the Quebec playwright Carole Fréchette will be reading four...
2013
An artistically committed festival of contemporary dance, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis will be presenting, from May 14 to June 13, 2013, a panorama of twenty-three remarkable choreographic works from around the world. These include works by two Quebec...
2013
A workshop for children presented by ethnologist and specialist of the Inuit world Sylvie Teveny, who invites them to discover Inuit tales and myths about the origin of the universe through storytelling and the presentation of a few remarkable objects....
2013
Paris This first edition Aurores Montréal festival, the francophone festival of contemporary Quebec music, will be coming to Paris from April 30 to May 4, 2013. To promote the vitality and diversity of the new francophone music scene of Montreal,...
2013
Grand auditorium, BnF François Mitterrand – Paris To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Union des Compositeurs de Musique de Films (UCMF) presents at the BNF an exceptional debate with two of the big names in Canadian cinema, composer Mychael Danna...
2013
Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, La Cartoucherie (Vincennes) While Danièle Desnoyers regularly turns to improvisation, her creative process is nevertheless extremely rigorous. In a way, it is similar to the process of composing music. Music, sound as a material/partner, as a...