The International Presence Autochthonous Festival unveiled on Tuesday all the concerts, exhibitions, screenings and other activities that will be on the program during the event, presented from August 9 to 18.
Posted at 12:23 p.m.
On the Place des Festivals, several evening concerts are planned, including those of Leonard Summer, Anishinabe singer and songwriter, the duo Digging Roots, Mack MacKenzie or Innu singer Matiu.
On August 15, music will give way to theater with the presentation of the play Uteï, story of a survivorwritten and performed in Innu and French by Omer St-Onge, originally from Maliotenam.
On August 14, a big concert entitled Somewhere and other places will bring together in the auditorium of the Grande Bibliothèque, the New Ensemble of Montreal and Forestare. Guest of honour, Deantha Edmunds, Inuk soprano, will perform, with Lorraine Vaillancourt at the pulpit, poems in Innu-aimun by Joséphine Bacon, whose texts have been set to music by Tim Brady. This will be the world premiere of Uieshpiece for one voice and fourteen instruments.
Aboriginal cinema from here and elsewhere will also be screened at the Cinéma du Musée, in the offices of the NFB and at Legion Hall in Kahnawake. Exhibitions will be presented on rue Sainte-Catherine and at the Maison du développement durable.
Several activities (traditional dance demonstration, circus, midday concerts and drum shows, in particular) will also be offered during the day on the Place des Festivals and in the Jardins Gamelin.