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Funding for the performing arts | Cry from the heart of the artists of Vernon Subutex
Since Tuesday, performances of the play Vernon Subutex at Usine C end differently than what the theater has accustomed us to: the show team delivers a plea for more funding…
National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec | A unique exhibition presents engravings by Rembrandt
(Montreal) An exhibition presenting a collection of engravings by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn opens Thursday at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). Published at 12:31 p.m. Titled…
Vitality of the living arts, culture was in black
You may have seen the image of a Quat’Sous at half-mast, tagged and boarded up, on the verge of being converted into soulless condos. The fake news imagined by artists…
Has the Canada Arts Council reached its saturation point?
The Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) was conspicuous by its absence in the pages of the last federal budget. No new money to support creation while the Council received…
Major event for the arts | “Why so many honors and so little value? »
The Quebec artistic community mobilized Thursday afternoon, despite the rain, demonstrating loudly in front of the offices of the Ministry of Culture and Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, rue de Bleury, chanting…
We are, we artists of the living arts, the momentum of identity that you need, Mr. Lacombe
Mr. Minister of Culture, Mr. Lacombe, since I began my career, all the politicians and ministers of Culture were from another generation, the age of my parents. I always had…
We demand total risk for the performing arts
Considering that our living culture is a source of inestimable wealth of sensitivity, poetry, creativity and people of heart who carry it at arm’s length. Considering that the people of…
Montreal Arts Council | Ellen Gabriel wins the CAM Grand Prix
Mohawk activist and documentary maker Ellen Gabriel won the Grand Prix from the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) on Thursday for her short film Kanatenhs – When The Pine…
In Paris, Mathieu Lacombe evokes “new amounts” for the performing arts
At the opening of the Paris Book Festival, where Quebec is in the spotlight, Mathieu Lacombe praised Thursday evening the “great benefits” that the event promises to the Quebec literary…
Mohawk artist Ellen Gabriel wins the Grand Prix from the Conseil des arts de Montréal
An Indigenous artist wins the Grand Prix from the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) for the first time. Mohawk filmmaker Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel won an award for her short…
The weight of humor in the cultural offering in the performing arts
The hosts of the Les Olivier gala trumpeted that the comedians had sold a million and a half tickets during the year. They were right to rejoice: demand is strong…
Bomb call: the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts evacuated
Visitors to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts were preemptively evacuated due to a bomb call on Sunday morning. Museum employees took the decision to urgently remove all visitors following…
Evacuation at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Threats made by telephone forced the evacuation of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday morning. Posted at 1:03 p.m. Updated at 2:27 p.m. The call received around 11:30…
National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec | Espace Riopelle: the budget increases to 84 million
First estimated at 45 million, the budget for Espace Riopelle, which will be built within the confines of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (MNBAQ), now amounts to…
“Tarratuutiq | Taima”: cultural shock at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec
Where the artist Chih-Chien Wang saw a round head of green cabbage, the young Inuit Iliana Beaulne saw a volleyball stained with diesel. Placed side by side, these two works…
The performing arts go green
This text is part of the special World Theater Day notebook The Quebec arts community, including theater, is moving towards more sustainable modes of creation, scenography, production and distribution. With…
Exhibition by Dany Laferrière | A nomadic heart at the Pont des Arts in Paris
The open-air exhibition A nomadic heartwhich uses extracts from Dany Laferrière’s graphic novels, will adorn the Pont des Arts in Paris and the square in front of the Institut de…
International art film festival: telling the story of visual arts from here (and elsewhere)
Manon Labrecque and experimental FIFA Among the important sections of this 42e International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), let us note that of the experimental films presented again, for…
Obvious, hackers of art at FIFA | When AI invites itself to the visual arts table
“Our brush is AI! », proclaim the members of the French collective Obvious, which has been producing works generated by artificial intelligence for five years. An approach that intrigues as…
Quebec Budget 2024 | The performing arts sector worried, the audiovisual sector happy
Quebec grants culture, heritage and the French language a sum of 187 million over five years. A budget which worries the performing arts community, which will have to share a…