La culture québécoise au Royaume-Uni, en Irlande et dans les pays nordiques
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La Délégation générale du Québec à Londres a publié une brochure promotionnelle qui en jette plein la vue et détaille la présence culturelle québécoise au Royaume-Uni, en Irlande et dans les pays nordiques, de janvier à avril 2015. Dans son message d'introduction, le délégué général du Québec à Londres, Christos Sirros, rappelle l'importance des liens culturels entre le Québec et ces pays où 1 680 spectacles, expositions et projets associant des artistes québécois ont été réalisés l'année dernière, soulignant qu'une croissance est à prévoir.
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- 1. UK – Ireland – Nordic Countries January – April 2015 MommybyXavierDolan(Canada’sentryforthe2015Oscars)
- 2. 01 Bonjour, As Québec’s new Agent-General in London, allow me first to wish you all a very happy and successful new year. I am delighted to be taking up this position at the head of the London team and very much look forward to meeting many of you during my time in office. Québec’s relationship with the UK, Ireland and the Nordic countries is a crucially important one in political, economic and, of course, cultural terms. Last year alone, an impressive 1680 performances and collaborations involving Québec artists took place in these countries and we are pleased to see that this number is increasing year on year. Québec is extremely proud of its artists and cultural enterprises, whose incredible work on the world stage showcases the best of Québec to an international audience while at the same time opening doors to investment, intercultural development and political exchange. Culture is a central part of the Québec identity and a vital force in our economy. We are proud and delighted to be able to share it with you again this year. Bonne lecture! Christos Sirros Agent-General, Québec Government Office in London ‘Minus the spangles and judges, ice dance lends itself spectacularly well to contemporary movement in Vertical Influences, an engaging body rush of a show’ – The Guardian, (Le Patin Libre) ‘Can theatrical lightning strike twice in the same place? On the evidence of Stellar Quines’s production of The Carousel, by the Québécoise writer Jennifer Tremblay, the answer is a heartfelt yes’ – The Times, (Jennifer Tremblay) ‘The best live band in the world’ – The Telegraph (Arcade Fire) ‘Dallas Buyers Club is a truly contradictory affair: a rousing crowd-pleaser dealing with the most downbeat subject imaginable (…) The director Jean-Marc Vallée (…) brings a grittiness and morbid humour to the storytelling’ – The Independent, (Jean-Marc Vallée) ‘A beguiling story about love, loneliness and the modern world, all but the most hardened of readers will fall for the thrill, and the sadness, of this poetic, epistolary romance’ – The Independent (The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault) ‘From the very opening moments, Nézet-Séguin had us completely in thrall’ – The Scotsman, (Yannick Nézet-Séguin) Maude Laflamme Director for Culture maude.laflamme@mri.gouv.qc.ca Marie Morin Cultural Attaché marie.morin@mri.gouv.qc.ca Muireann Leonard Project Manager muireann.leonard@mri.gouv.qc.ca Whilst every effort has been made to verify the accuracy of the information in this brochure you are advised to contact the host organisations for confirmation. No part of this brochure should be reproduced in full or in part without the consent of the Québec Government Office. ‘Cinema doesn’t come much more exuberant, musical and raw than French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s Mommy’ – Time Out, (Xavier Dolan) Cultural Contacts Jesse Peterkin Assistant jesse.peterkin@mri.gouv.qc.ca +44(0)20 7766 5930 J A N – A P R 2 0 1 5 Venez célébrer la semaine de la francophonie! 20 March: Match International d’Improvisation @ Institut Français in London Following last year’s resounding success, performers will fly in from around the Francophonie to face off in a comedic tussle with a particularly Québécois twist. 2015 is especially important for us: Québec’s Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada, has recently been appointed General Secretary of the Francophonie. She is the first woman to hold the position. Coverphoto ©XavierDolan:MOMMY.Production:Metafilms2014.Finnishdistribution:AtlanticFilmFinlandOy.MommywillbeongeneralreleaseintheUKfrom20March. CirqueÉloize,Cirkopolis.Photo ©ValérieRemise
- 3. M U S I C 03 Marc-André Hamelin 27 January Royal Festival Hall London ‘Hamelin’s legend will grow. Right now there is no one like him’ – The NewYorker Celebrated Québec pianist Marc-André Hamelin continues to cement his reputation as one of the greatest classical musicians of today. In January, he will perform Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. www.marcandrehamelin.com | www.southbankcentre.co.uk Louis Lortie 29 January Queen Elizabeth Hall London Louis Lortie’s playing possesses the ‘combination of total spontaneity and meditated ripeness that only great pianists have’ - TheTimes A leading interpreter of the music of Beethoven, Lortie is also noted for his interpretations of Ravel and Chopin. In this concert, as part of the Southbank Centre’s prestigious International Piano Series, he will couple Alexander Scriabin’s vividly imagined preludes with pieces in the same form by Gabriel Fauré. www.louislortie.com | www.southbankcentre.co.uk Éric Plamondon 12 – 14 March Littfest Umeå, Sweden Québec novelist Éric Plamondon will participate in Littfest, the largest literature festival in northern Scandinavia, in Umeå this March. He has written three novels, which together make up the 1984 trilogy, based on three American icons; Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic athlete and actor, Richard Brautigan, the cult beatnik writer and Apple founder Steve Jobs. www.ericplamondon.fr | www.littfest.se M U S I C 02 Le Vent du Nord 17 January – 21 March Various venues across the UK (See listings pages 12– 13 or visit www.leventdunord.com) Combining a great stage presence with an energetic, dynamic flair, Le Vent du Nord are one of the leading names in Québécois folk music throughout the world, delighting crowds with their mix of fiddle, guitar, accordion and hurdy-gurdy since 2002. On 17 January they return to Celtic Connections, Glasgow’s annual folk, roots and world music festival, for a concert which will be recorded by the BBC (for broadcast in February 2015). Then, on 16 March at Kings Place in London, the quartet will launch their eighth CD. Cold Specks 21 January Vega Copenhagen, Denmark Following the success of her UK shows last year, critically-acclaimed, Montreal-based, singer-songwriter Cold Specks comes to Denmark, continuing her Neuroplasticity album tour. Shortlisted for the Juno award and Polaris Prize (Canada), she has worked with Moby and was also invited to play with Joni Mitchell at the singer’s 70th birthday in 2013. www.coldspecks.com | www.vega.dk The Barr Brothers 22 – 29 January Various venues across the UK (See listings pages 12– 13 or visit www.thebarrbrothers.com) The Barr Brothers recorded their ‘thrillingly unusual’ (Washington Post) and ‘sacred-sounding’ (Rolling Stone) debut album in a homemade studio in a Montreal boiler room back in 2011. They then took the self-titled LP to Letterman and NPR, shared stages with Emmylou Harris and The National, headlined the Montreal Jazz Festival in front of 58,000 people, and embarked on major tours around the world. Their second album, Sleeping Operator, was released in October 2014. L I T E R AT U R E & P U B L I S H I N G Photo ©Photoman.caImagecourtesyofartistPhoto ©JohnLondono Photo ©ÉliasPhoto ©FrédérickDuchesne Photo ©SimCanettyClarke
- 4. C I R C U S 04 Timber! Cirque Alfonse 2- 4 January Brighton Dome Concert Hall UK ‘Uniquely flavoursome’ - TheTimes Fresh from their Christmas run at the Southbank Centre in London, acclaimed Québec company Cirque Alfonse are bringing their thrilling circus performance Timber! to Brighton. With this wood-chucking spectacular, inspired by the exploits of the first North American lumberjacks, loggers and farmers, you can almost smell the freshly-cut pine. Blending circus with theatre, dance, live traditional music and Québec folklore, this brave and creative family of performers has just been awarded the Best International Tour award by Québec’s Arts Council, having brought Timber! to 52,000 spectators in 30 cities around the world since its tour debut in 2013. www.cirquealfonse.com | www.brightondome.org Cirque du Soleil Kooza Quidam 6 January – 8 February 18 – 22 February 5 – 7 March 11 – 15 March Royal Albert Hall The Forum Spektrum Hartwall Arena London Copenhagen, Denmark Oslo, Norway Helsinki, Finland Cirque du Soleil return once more to delight international audiences with their unparalleled brand of circus extravaganza. Kooza is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil that combines two circus traditions, acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendour and fragility, presented in a colourful mélange that emphasises bold slapstick humour. Since its world premiere in 1996, Quidam has toured on five continents and been experienced by millions of people. The international cast features 52 world-class acrobats, musicians, singers and characters. Unlike any other Cirque du Soleil show, Quidam does not occupy an imaginary realm but is rather an examination of our own world, inhabited by real people with real-life concerns. www.cirquedusoleil.com | www.oslospektrum.no www.forumcopenhagen.dk | www.hartwallarena.fi C I R C U S 05 Cirkopolis Cirque Éloize 17 February – 25 April Various venues across the UK and Denmark (See listings pages 12-13 or visit www.cirque-eloize.com) ‘There are much bigger shows than Cirkopolis, 90 minutes of circus-theater by the Cirque Éloize troupe of Montreal. But I’d bet there aren’t more beautiful ones’ – The NewYorkTimes Combining circus arts with music, dance and theatre, artistic director Jeannot Painchaud has joined together with celebrated Québec choreographer Dave St-Pierre to create a tour de force in contemporary circus. Cirkopolis transports performers and spectators between dream and reality in an uninterrupted stream of acrobatics, music, images and drawings to delight the eye. Performing within an inventive stage design and accompanied by an original musical score and video projections, 12 acrobats and multidisciplinary artists rebel against monotony, reinvent themselves and challenge the limits of the factory-city. D A N C E YellowTowel Dana Michel 4 March 20 – 21 March Inkonst Black Box Malmö, Sweden Oslo, Norway Dana Michel is a critically-acclaimed choreographer and performer from Montreal whose work can perhaps best be described by its influences: lucid cinematography, living sculpture, physical comedy, psychological excavation, deconstructed social commentary, the bulimic logic of hip hop and child-like naivety. Her most recent solo, YellowTowel, was featured in the ‘Top Five’ and ‘Top Ten’ 2013 dance moments in Voir newspaper (Montreal) and Dance Current Magazine (Canada) respectively, and was recently singled out as one of the most remarkable productions at the 2014 American Realness Festival (New York City) by The NewYorkTimes. www.danielleveilledanse.org | www.inkonst.com | www.blackbox.no J A N – A P R 2 0 1 5 Photo ©NicolasDescôteaux Quidam.Photo ©MattBeard Photo ©2012ProductionsNeuvart/ValérieRemisePhoto ©IanDouglas
- 5. D I G I TA L A R T S 07 Digital Québec @ BFI ELEKTRA & MUTEK March 12 – 13 (See www.bfi.org.uk for participating artists) BFI Southbank London Montreal digital arts festivals ELEKTRA and MUTEK are teaming up to organise Digital Québec @ BFI, a major event presented under the banner of the BFI’s Sonic Cinema project. Through artistic performances, presentations and professional activities, the London public, as well as selected UK and European programmers and art professionals, will get an exciting insight into the excellence of Québec artists working in the field of digital art. Québec artists will present audiovisual performances over two nights in the BFI’s flagship cinema (NFT1), while the International Marketplace for Digital Arts (IMDA) will showcase the artistic practice and related activities of Québec artists and organisations to an audience of selected industry professionals. Free presentations and discussions on the topic of digital creativity in Québec will also be open to the public. ELEKTRA is a Montreal-based cultural initiative, presenting artists and digital artworks concerned with contemporary aesthetics in research and experimentation. Since 2012, the organisation has also produced the International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN), held all over Montreal. MUTEK is an international festival organisation dedicated to the promotion of electronic music and the digital arts. Its central platform is an annual five-day event in Montreal. The BFI is the UK’s lead body for film. It exists to promote greater understanding and appreciation of, and access to, film and moving image culture. Sonic Cinema is a regular event that explores and celebrates the convergence of music and cinema. www.elektramontreal.ca | www.mutek.org | www.bfi.org.uk J A N – A P R 2 0 1 5 D A N C E 06 Nottdance 2015 Katie Ward & George Stamos 5 – 15 March Nottingham, UK Nottdance, one of Europe’s leading festivals of dance and performance, is known for its innovative and entertaining programme and for always posing the question ‘what can dance be?’ At this year’s festival, dancer and choreographer Katie Ward will present her latest work, Infinity Doughnut. In this speculative and naive survey of our surroundings, bodies are squeezed and compressed; they also laugh, vibrate and drift. Performed outside of the theatre, George Stamos will present Reel, a twirling meditation, oscillating between ritual, performance and play. In a suspended state of spinning for periods of up to 60 minutes at a time, the artist references his experiences of euphoria as a dancer in nightclubs. www.katieward.org | www.georgestamos.org | www.dance4.co.uk D I G I TA L A R T S Elastic City Spacey Control No Control Leila Sujir Daniel Iregui 3 – 10 January 5 – 16 January Illuminate Bath International Winter Lights Bath, UK London As part of Illuminate Bath, a cutting-edge, contemporary art festival, Leila Sujir will project a stereographic 3D video projection onto the Georgian buildings housing the Roman Baths in Bath. Elastic City Spacey will play with the transformation of the real into the imaginary using 3D drawing, and collage strategies. Also in January, Daniel Iregui will present his LED, interactive installation Control No Control at Montgomery Square in London’s Canary Wharf. Using their hands, arms or entire body, the public can decide which LEDs will light up, and by doing so, control the graphic display, motion and music of the installation. www.studio-arts.concordia.ca | www.illuminatebath.org http://iregular.io Photo ©SoniaStefan Photo ©SusanMoss AChorusofLungs.Photo ©LeilaSujir Photo ©DanielIregui EM15|HermanKolgen(QC/CA)–SEISMIK@CarolineHayeur.HermanKolgenwillpresentatDigitalQuébec@BFI.
- 6. C I N E M A & T E L E V I S I O N 08 Québec Cinema in Finland Xavier Dolan CinéTapis Rouge 14 January – 14 April 19 – 26 March National Audiovisual Institute National Audiovisual Institute Helsinki, Finland Helsinki, Finland Over the coming months, the National Audiovisual Institute in Helsinki (KAVI) will celebrate the work of award-winning and trail-blazing Québec director, Xavier Dolan. Tom à la Ferme has been chosen as their Film of the Month for March, while in April, J’ai tué ma mère, Mommy (Canada’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Oscars), Les Amours Imaginaires, and Laurence Anyways will be presented as a retrospective. In collaboration with Ciné Tapis Rouge, a Québec festival organisation dedicated to promoting film exchange, (KAVI) will also screen several Québec films including: 19 & 24 March Sur le Ciment Robin Aubert (13 min) Le Semeur Julie Perron (1hr 17 min) Also in partnership with Ciné Tapis Rouge, Finland’s annual dance film festival, Loikka, will screen two Québec films between 19 and 22 March: Brigitte Poupart’s Over My Dead Body and Pedro Pirès’s Danse Macabre (from a concept by Robert Lepage). Ciné Tapis Rouge connects and builds relationships with a new country every year, introducing the best of Québec independent filmmaking to international audiences while also welcoming foreign programming to Montreal. www.kavi.fi | www.cinetapisrouge.com | www.loikka.fi 20 & 25 March Bec de Lièvre Louis Bélanger (24 min) Trois Histoires d’Indiens Robert Morin (1 hr 10 min) 09 Québec onTV5Monde OnTV5Monde in the UK via Sky 796 andVirgin 825 with English subtitles Le Point – Mondays @ 4pm Global news programme presented by Azeb Wolde-Giorghis. Mémoires Vives – Series 2 –Tuesdays @ 8pm Drama series about a couple, Jacques and Francine, torn apart by the disappearance of their daughter 30 years ago. Fortier –Thursdays @ 2pm Drama involving a criminal psychologist from Montreal, who works with the investigators of SAS (Anti-Sociopathic Service), a fictional police division specialising in crimes involving abnormal psychology. 200 millions de critiques – Saturdays @ 4pm Cultural news programme with the participation of Québécois journalists. Le Code Chastenay – Sundays @ 7.40am Science programme aimed at children 12 + featuring reports filmed all over Québec. Les Rescapés – Coming in January/February Drama series about a family from 1960s-era Montreal who find themselves mysteriously transported into 2010. www.tv5monde.co.uk T H E AT R E Just for LaughsTheatricals Québec’s Just for Laughs Theatricals, a subsidiary of Just for Laughs, the largest comedy producers in the world, have produced a host of musicals currently showing in London’s West End. Among the titles in their repertoire are Made in Dagenham, starring Gemma Arterton and for which Just for Laughs Theatricals are lead producers; Sunny Afternoon, the hit new musical about The Kinks; the sleek and stylish Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Québec’s own Alex Gaumond as the fraudster Freddy Benson; and the terrifying Ghost Stories. Their play Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, which won the Olivier Best Comedy award in 2014 is currently touring the UK. www.hahaha.com J A N – A P R 2 0 1 5 19 & 26 March À L’Horizon Émilie Baillargeon (16 min) Sarah préfère la course Chloé Robichaud (1 hr 35 min) TroisHistoiresd’Indiens.Photo ©Shandy-ÊveGrant Fortier.Photo ©2000YannickMacDonald/AetiosProductionsInc. Mémoires Vives. Photo © Serge Gauvin Les Rescapés. Photo © Les Autres Rescapés Inc./ Bertrand Calmeau MadeinDagenham.Photo ©AlexJames
- 7. V I S U A L A R T S10 Adad Hannah 20 – 25 January London Art Fair Business Design Centre, London Nominated three times for the Sobey Art Award, Québec-based artist Adad Hannah has produced commissioned projects for museums around the world, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Prado Museum in Madrid. His work has been selected for the next edition of Photo50, entitled ‘Against Nature’, at the London Art Fair. The exhibition is curated by Sheyi Bankale of Next Level Projects. Photo50 provides a critical forum for examining some of the most distinctive elements of current photographic practice and as part of its latest edition Hannah will explore the nexus of photography, video and performance and how the human body occupies this space. www.adadhannah.com | www.londonartfair.co.uk/photo50 Affordable Art Fair Artêria Gallery 12 - 15 March Battersea Park, London For the sixth time, Artêria Gallery returns to London’s Affordable Art Fair, introducing the highest standard and diversity of Québec contemporary artwork to a British audience. Since its establishment in 2007, the gallery has exhibited work by Québec artists at over 40 international art fairs in 16 countries. Representing emerging artists as well as those in mid-career, Artêria specialises in painting, photography, sculpture and glass. This year the exhibiting artists will include Adèle Blais, MM, Moriello, Yvon Blain, Amélie Desjardins, Christian Dorey, Denitza, Dominique Desmeules and Marie-Anne Baron. www.arteriagallery.com | www.affordableartfair.com CoupleHoldingHands.Photo ©AdadHannah Bridge to somewhere © Amélie Desjardins Confession © Denitza Glamorous Dolly © Moriello La pluie © Marie-Anne Baron MUSICJune(datesTBC)ChantsdeViellesFestival (TraditionalMusic) www.chantsdevielles.com MUSICJune(datesTBC)FestivalSuoniPerilPopolo (ExperimentalMusic) www.suoniperil popolo.org MUSIC 31July–2AugustOsheaga&MEGPro (Indie/Electronic) www.osheaga.com/pro MUSIC 3–6SeptemberFestivaldemusiqueémergenteen Abitibi-Témiscamingue www.fmeat.org MUSIC 16–20SeptemberPopMontréalwww.popmontreal.com MUSIC September(datesTBC)EnvoletMacadam (EmergingMusic) www.envoletmacadam.com MUSIC October(datesTBC)QuébecCityJazzFestivalhttp://jazzaquebec.ca MUSIC November(datesTBC)MundialMontreal (WorldMusic) www.mundialmontreal.com MUSIC November(datesTBC)MpourMontréal (Indie/Rock) www.mpourmontreal.com PERFORMING ARTS 15–19FebruaryRideauwww.rideau-inc.qc.ca PERFORMING ARTS 21May–6JuneFestivalTransAmériques (Theatre/Dance) www.fta.qc.ca PERFORMING ARTS 22–30MayOFFTAwww.offta.com PERFORMING ARTS December(datesTBC)ParcoursDansewww.ladansesurlesroutes.com THEATRE 4–8MarchLesTroisJoursdeCasteliers (Puppetry) www.casteliers.ca THEATRE May(datesTBC)Carrefourinternationalde théâtre www.carrefourtheatre.qc.ca THEATRE August(datesTBC)Festivalduthéâtrederuede Lachine www.theatrederue.com THEATRE August(datesTBC)DramaturgiesenDialogue (Playwriting) www.cead.qc.ca VISUALARTS September(datesTBC)LeMoisdelaPhotowww.moisdelaphoto.com YOUNG AUDIENCE 1–10MayLesPetitsBonheurs (0-6years) www.petitsbonheurs.ca CINEMA 18–28FebruaryLesRendez-vousducinéma québécois www.rvcq.com CINEMA 11–15MarchRegardsurlecourtmétrage auSaguenay www.regardsurlecourt.com CINEMA 19–29MarchFestivalInternationalduFilm surl’Art(FIFA) www.artfifa.com CINEMA 16July–4AugustLeFestivalinternational defilmsFantasia www.fantasiafestival.com CINEMA October(datesTBC)FestivalduNouveauCinemawww.nouveaucinema.ca CINEMA November(datesTBC)RencontresInternationalesdu DocumentairedeMontréal www.ridm.qc.ca CIRCUS 2–12JulyMontréalComplètement Cirque www.montrealcompletementcirque.com COMEDY 11–25JulyJustForLaughswww.hahaha.com DIGITALARTS 13–17MayELEKTRAwww.elektrafestival.ca DIGITALARTS 27–31MayMUTEKwww.mutek.org LITERATURE 8–12AprilSalonduLivredeQuébecwww.silq.ca LITERATURE 20–26AprilMetropolisBleuwww.bluemetropolis.org LITERATURE November(datesTBC)SalonduLivredeMontréalwww.salondulivrede montreal.com MULTI 4February–1MarchMoisMultiwww.mmrectoverso.org/fr/ mois-multi MULTI September(datesTBC)LesEscalesimprobables deMontréal www.escalesimprobables.com MUSIC 16January–8FebruaryIgloofest (ElectronicMusic) www.igloofest.ca MUSIC 26February–7MarchFestivalInternational Montréal/NouvellesMusiques www.festivalmnm.ca MUSIC May(datesTBC)ConférenceTradMontréal& LaGrandeRencontre www.espacetrad.org MUSIC 26June-5JulyFestivalInternationaldeJazz deMontréal www.montrealjazzfest.com FESTIVALde CASTELIERS MARIONNETTES POURADULTESETENFANTS 10e FESTIVALS&EVENTSINQUÉBEC2015 Seebelowaselectionofthe400festivalsandeventsQuébechostseachyear. Theywelcomeinternationaldelegatesandindustryprofessionals. MUTEK2014 OFFTA2014 StephenBeaupré@MUTEK2014.Photo©jeansebrouxMontréalComplètementCirque.Photo©HugoDiegoOFFTA2014.Photo©ViPhotographie Montréal Complètement Cirque