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
At Le Petit Journal de Montparnasse, Paris The Canadian singer Elisabeth Shepherd, three-time Juno award nominee, expresses her soul jazz culture on her latest album, Rewind, and revives certain standards, such as “Feeling Good” and “Les amoureux des bancs publics”....
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
Théâtre Artistic Athévains – Paris 11 The day that Madeleine discovers the liberation, after 17 years in prison, of a Chinese journalist accused of having thrown paint at a portrait of Mao, her life collapsed. The Quebec playwright Carole Fréchette...
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
Musée Réattu – Arles Between nature and culture, art and natural sciences, the exhibition Nuage is a journey through the mythical labyrinth of a museum inhabited by its river. Fifty-seven artists, including Canadian Jocelyne Alloucherie, will present 120 works during...
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
Eglise – Illiers-Combray On the occasion of the centennial of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray will be exhibiting the work Les robes du...
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
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
Galerie Art: Concept — Paris Focussing on contemporary art, Galerie Art : Concept presents the group exhibition Induction Procedure, which brings together for the first time Aaron Aujla, Elaine Cameron Weir, Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher, four artists born in Canada...
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
Wednesday, June 12, 6:30 p.m., as part of the RIO LOCO! festival at the Prairie des Filtres, Toulouse Tuesday, June 18, 8:30 p.m., New Morning, Paris Founded by Trinidadian-Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town refers to the historic of Port-of-Spain,...
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
At 8 p.m. at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées – Paris The very talented Quebecker Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra on June 21. Discovered a few years ago, he now conducts the orchestras of Philadelphia, Montreal and Rotterdam. A...
2013
Galerie Chauvy, Paris 9e With the exhibition Résonances, produced in collaboration with the Palais de Tokyo, the Galerie Chauvy invites us to discover four painters and sculptors who were part of the European artistic trends of the postwar period and...
2013
Etoile du Nord – Paris 18th “Room 324” presents some new and unique graphic pieces by Croatian-Canadian artist Mirana Zuger. Presented for the first time in France, this work, developed at the Centre International d’accueil et d’échanges des Récollets in...
2013
Directed by Robert Carsen July 11–26, 2013, Théâtre de L’Archevêché – Festival d’Aix-en-Provence This year, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence celebrates the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth. On this occasion, the Canadian opera director Robert Carsen will offer up his version of the famous...
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
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
Toulouse festival that is part of the Mois de l’Image, ManifestO features contemporary work by young photographers. Every year, a jury of professionals selects 10 to 15 projects by artists from around the world. For this eleventh edition of the...
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
Lyon Biennial As part of its off-site programming at the Lyon Biennale d’art contemporain entitled Modules – Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, the Palais de Tokyo presents the group exhibition Des présents inachevés, presenting the creations of four...
2013
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris Quebecker Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has conducted orchestras in Philadelphia, Montreal and Rotterdam, will be conducting Le Vaisseau fantôme (The Flying Dutchman), a story of love and death performed by an unbridled orchestra and powerful singers. A...
2013
At Olympia, Paris Canadian singer Bryan Adams will be in France to play a single date at L’Olympia. His European Bare Bones Tour is named after his latest album, released in 2010. During this concert, Adams will play his biggest...
2013
As part of the Semaine des Cultures Étrangères The Franco-Manitoban singer and pianist Geneviève Toupin has given the current Montreal folk scene a shot in the arm since the release of her eponymous debut album in 2009. Geneviève Toupin writes...
2013
Vernissage, Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 6 p.m. (last admission: 8:30 p.m.) Visit the exhibition in the artist’s presence at 5 p.m. (reservations required: 01 44 43 21 48) A retrospective look at the photographic work produced by Stan Douglas in...
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
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
Alternately at Théâtre les Déchargeurs, Paris Both harsh and funny, these self-portraits are universal. As always in the work of Michel Tremblay, the language is strong, the themes various and dense, the descriptions astute and precise. Everyone can relate. 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...