Already “completely circus”
The Montréal complète cirque festival will open next Wednesday, but until then, circus arts enthusiasts will be able to find what they are looking for outside the city. Among other things, thanks to the 2e edition of the Bastringue circus festival, which is bringing downtown Joliette to life until Sunday and which offers shows (paid and free) by Quebec troupes, including the Cirque Alfonse, originally from the region. On the Quebec side, Le Diamant is hosting the British company Gandini Juggling until Saturday, specializing, as its name suggests, in high-flying juggling, with its show Smashed2which will also be presented at the Montreal festival from July 3 to 7.
See Monique again
L’Espace libre opens its doors in the middle of Montreal’s theater holiday season to make way for a special program: All Monique, a collection of television theaters in which the great Monique Miller shone during her career. In a relaxed context that invites discussion, the curious and the nostalgic will be able to view until Sunday (free) extracts from works from all horizons, fromCall me Stephaneby Claude Meunier and Louis Saia, at The collection, from Harold Pinter, through Balance sheetby Marcel Dubé, and In spare partsby Michel Tremblay. A notable exception to the program: the episode When I’m 80… – Love that laststaken from the TV series by Janette Bertrand With a capital A.
The other jazz festival
While the city’s downtown vibrates to the rhythm of the International Jazz Festival, the Festival Québec Jazz en June ends its run this weekend with an indoor program (Tord Gustavsen Trio, Blanche Baillargeon and a tribute to Michel Donato, among others), but also free outdoor programming at the Maizerets estate. This section will feature several musicians from the region, including pianist Laura Samson, the Pulsart Trio with its new project Pulsart’Kestra, the Manouche Caribou group, without forgetting a Little Jazz School, with Karine Champagne, for future jazzophiles.
Ecological disaster in plain sight
The PHI Center recently announced the extension of the exhibition of the immersive work Broken Spectreby Richard Mosse, until mid-September. Time to mentally prepare yourself for this audiovisual project that is both disturbing and magnificent, somewhere between an experimental film and a documentary. This medium-length film, presented in a loop on a full-width screen, skillfully mixes “magnified” images of the devastated Amazonian forest and sequences worthy of direct cinema that illustrate without embellishment how and why this “lung of the planet” is being ransacked, for the sake of profit or by simple survival instinct, and the terrible consequences of this devastation for the populations who inhabit it.
Amélie Gaudreau