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Dumas in the Fifth Room

The tour Cosmology de Dumas will stop again in Montreal for four performances at the Cinquième salle at Place des Arts, including an afternoon for the whole family on Sunday. In this new inventive and dancing show, the singer-songwriter with a unifying repertoire offers an extraordinary performance and confirms his status as a stage beast – no wonder the family performances are so successful and get young and old alike dancing. big. Dumas will then continue his tour throughout Quebec, no reason to miss it!

Josée Lapointe, The Press

Return of the Night of Reading

In the heart of the long winter nights, Reading Night is the most popular event for readers, and it is this Saturday that the annual meeting takes place. From 6 p.m. to midnight, around forty writers will participate in meetings and public readings as part of this sixth edition. Among them, Stanley Péan, Joséphine Bacon, Jean-Philippe Baril-Guérard, Pierre-Yves Villeneuve, Fanie Demeule, Anne Élaine Cliche, Emmanuelle Pierrot, Francis Ouellette and Mélikah Abdelmoumen. The (free) activities are planned in around ten bookstores, libraries and places of culture in Quebec, as well as online.

Laila Maalouf, The Press

Online short film festival

The 8^e edition of the Plein(s) Écran(s) festival is in full swing these days, and offers a rich, diverse program, free as a bonus, live on Facebook. On the program until January 28, 40 short films, 3 films in competition per day, available for only 24 hours each. On your screens, let’s go! Note that on Sunday, January 21, free family screenings are offered across the province, in a few selected theaters.

Silvia Galipeau, The Press

Coral Egan Trio

You have to go back to 2017 to find an album bearing the name Coral Egan: Dreamers, recorded with his mother, Karen Young. The hope of hearing her perform original material is on the horizon: last Sunday, on the occasion of the second of the three Sunday concerts she is presenting at Dièse Onze this month, she performed a new song. Maybe she’ll add another one next time. Its current program is essentially drawn from Great American Songbook, and composed of pieces borrowed from the immense Joni Mitchell. His trio is completed by pianist Dan Thouin and double bassist Morgan Moore.

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press

Sunday, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., at Dièse Onze

Quality underground rap

In the coming days, two shows bringing together very talented American rappers will be presented in Montreal. Let’s start with Monday’s, because the tickets for Saturday’s have already all gone. On January 22, Mick Jenkins will be at the Beanfield Theater – former Corona. Since his beginnings, the Chicago MC has been fond of the Quebec sound. Indeed, High Klassified and Da-P produced a song on his mixtape from 2014, The Water[s]then Kaytranada signed two on his EP, Wave[s], the next year. Kaytranada and High Klassified also contributed to his first two albums, while Yama//Sato and Jai Nitai Lotus crafted the beat for Sitting Duckspublished last year on the excellent The Patience. The first part will be provided by the promising TOBi, who lives in Ottawa. Armand Hammer, duo composed of Billy Woods and Elucid, who launched the brilliant We Buy Diabetic Test Stripsin 2023, will play in a crowded Bar Le Ritz PDB on January 20.

Pascal LeBlanc, The Press

Soledad Barrio and Night Flamenca

A great figure in today’s flamenco, the dancer Soledad Barrio is at the heart of the show Searching for Goya, presented in Canadian premiere this Thursday in Montreal by his company Noche Flamenca. Inspired by an exhibition dedicated to the painter Francisco Goya held at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York, according to the New York Timesthe show plunges into the political tumult of 18th century Spain^e and XIX^e centuries and also draws, we understand, from the art of bullfighting. Soledad Barrio will be accompanied by eight dancers, singers and musicians.

This Thursday, 8 p.m., at the Théâtre Maisonneuve

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press

“We could compare this new version of Mean Girls at school reunions. Certainly, the students have become younger rather than older, but we find this comforting familiarity which makes us both realize that time passes and that we can catch up with it in an instant,” writes our journalist Pascal Leblanc.

“The story of Nothing to lose is inspired by meetings with dozens of families and social workers made by the filmmaker. In this regard, the dialogues, both the mother’s lively repartees, the children’s words, the spats and the legal gibberish, prove to be of rare accuracy,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais.