Danse Lahsa danse

Saturday, January 18 – 8:00pm
At Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd)

Presented by the Chan Centre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

This multi-disciplinary evening lovingly honours the life and work of Montreal-based folk musician, Lhasa. Bringing seven dancers, four singers and five instrumentalists together on one stage, artistic visionary Pierre-Paul Savoie’sDanse Lhasa Danseseamlessly melds concert and dance performance into a powerful and profound tribute.

On New Year’s Day in 2010, the husky-voiced singer-songwriter lost her battle with cancer at age 37. Despite being cut short, Lhasa’s career earned tremendous critical acclaim, including multiple JUNO and BBC Awards, and a loyal community of fans through numerous tours and the release of three celebrated albums.

After her passing, Savoie was inspired to gather an esteemed group of Canadian choreographers, visual artists, dancers, and musicians, including the members of Lhasa’s original band, to collaborate on this beautiful, poetic work.

Co-produced by PPS Danse and Coup de coeur francophone. Tour supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

There will be a pre-show talk with Pierre-Paul Savoie prior to the show as part of our Chan Centre Connects series :http://www.chancentre.com/whats-on/pre-show-talk-pierre-paul-savoie


http://www.alliancefrancaise.ca/cultural-events/performing-arts/danse-lahsa/

MY FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: “MOBILE HOME”

Thursday, January 23 – 11:00am
At Alliance Française Auditorium

“Mobile Home” by françois Pirot (2012)
Starring Arthur Dupont, Guillaume Gouix…
95min. No subtitles.

After having broken up with his girlfriend and left his job, Simon has come back to his small hometown in the countryside, where he meets up again with his old friend Julien. The two thirty-year-old, unemployed and idle men decide to reinvest in an old dream from their teenage years: hitting the road for an adventurous journey. They buy a huge motor-home, but the trip is delayed by various troubles, and they decide to start their journey right where they are. Through this first motionless stage of their trip, Simon and Julien are confronted with themselves and what they wanted to run away from.

A beautiful and tender film about intelligence and its mysterious convolutions.” – Les Inrockuptibles.

http://www.alliancefrancaise.ca/products/1447/

Meet a writer: Nicolas Ancion

Saturday, January 18 – 9:30am to 10:30am
At Alliance Française

NICOLAS ANCION
Born in Liège in 1971, Nicolas Ancion studied philology at the University of Liège. At twenty-four, he published his first novel, Bleu ciel trop bleu, and critics were very intrigued by his absurd and cruel poetry. Many other novels followed, for adults as for youth, among them Quatrième étage, crowned by Price High Schoolers in 2001.
While his words travel the world, Nicolas travels too. He lives alternately in Montreal, Brussels, Madrid, Liège and Aude, finally, in a small village near Carcassonne, where he settled in 2007. This is where he now devotes his time to writing and animating creative writing activities.

http://www.alliancefrancaise.ca/cultural-events/lectures/nicolas-ancion/

Art Exhibit

Raphaëlle Albert

 

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 Née en France en 1975, Raphaëlle Albert est  auteure et illustratrice pour enfants et enseignante en maternelle à North Vancouver où elle vit depuis 2 ans. Inspirée par l’enfance et les contes, elle crée un univers coloré et gourmand pour les petits et les grands.

Depuis 2010, elle a déjà publié 4 albums jeunesse aux Editions Volpilière, et 4 autres livres sont en préparation pour 2014. Elle marie avec brio le dessin à la plume et à l’encre de chine, et peint à l’aquarelle. Depuis ses débuts en 2010, Raphaëlle multiplie les expositions et ateliers créatifs à travers la France et Vancouver. Vous avez peut-être déjà eu la chance d’apprécier ses oeuvres à l’Alliance française de Vancouver, au Jericho Art Centre ou encore au Capilano Mall. C’est une toute nouvelle série de dessins qu’elle vient présenter au Centre, et que vous pourrez venir apprécier du 9 décembre au 17 janvier. 

Venez rencontrer l’artiste lors du vernissage de l’exposition, jeudi 12 décembre, de 19h a 21h. Vins et fromages seront servis.

Du 9 décembre 2013 au 17 janvier 2014 | Le Centre | Activité gratuite

 http://www.lecentreculturel.com/exposition-sookyung/

 

Film

14993“Starring Gérard Depardieu as the colourful Dumas and Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde as his downtrodden employee, L’Autre Dumas (The Other Dumas) mixes fiction with fact as it traces Maquet’s attempts to outshine his master in the public eye. Through its retelling of the collaboration, the film has reignited a vigorous debate in Parisian literary circles about the real nature of the duo’s professional teamwork.” The Guardian

Wednesday 29 January – 7.00pm

At the Alliance Française Auditorium

Reserve now!

Dumas” directed by Safy Nebbou

105min – 2010 – Drama / Comedy / History – in French with English subtitles.

Starring Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoord, Dominique Blanc….

http://www.alliancefrancaise.ca/products/1411/

Theatre

dragonfly-show

Étienne Pilon, Dany Boudreault, Patrice Dubois and Mani Soleymanlou © Danny Taillon

The most audacious element is having given five actors, five bodies, and five voices, the story of the wounded hero. Abrasive, efficient, this audacious production fleshes out the different aspects of the main character, his changing states, and the conflicts that move him this way and that.

—   Voir, Montréal

From January 22 to 25, 2014
Goldcorp Centre for the arts – 8 pm
Meet the artists Thursday, January 23 

Gaston Talbot tells us from the beginning: “I travel a lot.” And yet you immediately understand that he has never travelled. He says: “To keep in touch.” And yet you see that he doesn’t speak English, but rather French through English words. Gaston Talbot never stops starting over, constantly correcting and revising what he has to say about himself, his mother, his troubled childhood games with Pierre Gagnon, not to mention the disturbing dream from which he emerged, after years of silence, speaking English. Little by little, Gaston Talbot sucks you into his downward spiral where the constantly whirling truth takes you over the edge.

Originally performed by Jean-Louis Millette, this classic monologue thundered onto the scene when it was created in 1995. Claude Poissant is now revisiting this “psychological striptease”, this time for five separate actors. Breathtaking.

http://seizieme.ca/the-dragonfly-of-chicoutimi-2/?lang=en