Etiket: Acadian
Death of Acadian filmmaker and poet Léonard Forest
With the death of Leonard Forest on Tuesday at the venerable age of 96, Acadia loses one of its emblematic figures. Filmmaker and poet, Léonard Forest worked for a long…
Review of Between Sky and Sea | Acadian charm has its effect
The new acrobatic piece from Cirque Éloize was finally presented in Montreal (for four performances), almost a year and a half after its creation in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine. A show carried…
Montreal Poetry Festival: The Gang of Acadian Poets
In the 1990s, there were unofficial “Acadian delegations” that went to the Trois-Rivières Poetry Festival or to Montreal in large gangs, ”says with a big smile the director of Perce-Neige…
Peanut Butter Sunday, the rebels of the Acadian language
The beautiful season of music festivals officially begins this weekend with the holding of Santa Teresa, in Sainte-Thérèse. For the first time in its young career, the group Peanut Butter…
Official languages | Francophone and Acadian communities call for unity
(Ottawa) The Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities (FCFA) is calling on recalcitrant Liberal MPs to rally behind Bill C-13 to modernize the Official Languages Act. A dozen Quebec elected…