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Cultural Newsletter July/August 2008 Rachid Taha in concert - PAGE 07 Cinematheque presents French films - PAGE 09 Une Vieille Maîtresse in Toronto’s theatres - PAGE 13 Transe Express’ “Mobile-homme” p. 04 Editorial Contents Sun or rain, indoors/outdoors, do you head to the Thousand Lakes, Festival - PAGE 04 the Great North or the Riviera ? How to take decisions on life’s Exhibitions - PAGE 05 pecular daily issues ? Here come good surprises:the Rachid Taha’s stop over gathers more than just France and Algeria. The 2008 BBC Music - PAGE 06 World Music Award highlights for his Clash’s « Rock El Casbah » cover, his unique art of mixing which started with Algerian raï from the 80ies Books - PAGE 08 (when traditionnal instruments combined with synthetizer, amplified Cinema - PAGE 09 drums and bass brought back to life old Arabic lyrics). Mick Jagger recommends « The Music Masters of Jajouka » for sure. Television - PAGE 14 Right after Transe Express company sends men and women out to the sky for their « Moving-Men » performance, French Caribbean band « Zouk » helps you to end July in the appreciation of music. Cinematheque presents big names from Film Pantheon with Eustache, Resnais and Robbe-Grillet, while you may enjoy the release of intricated love affairs “Une vieille maîtresse”, by Catherine Breillat Why would you leave Toronto ? Joël Savary, Cultural Attaché Cultural Calendar - July/August 2008 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6 “Customer Service” (books - p.8) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 9:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm Rachid Taha “The mother and “Bad company”, (music - p.7) the whore” “Santa Claus has (cinema - p.10) blue eyes” “Les misérables” (cinema - p.10) “Vie française” (books - p.8) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm “My little loves” “The pig”, “The lost “A dirty story”, (cinema - p.10) sorrows of Jean “Photos of Alix” Eustache”, “The (cinema - p.10) garden of delights of hieronymus Bosch” (cinema - p.10) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 7:00 pm 5:00 pm “Mobile-homme” “Mobile-homme” (street arts - p.4) (Arts de rue - p.4) 7:00 pm “Last 8:00 pm year...” 8:45 pm “Hiroshima my “The immortal...” love” (cinema - “Une vieille maît...” p.11) (cinema - p.11, 13) 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm “Statues also die”, “Jules and Jim” “Jules and Jim” Kassav’ (music “Trans-Europ “Muriel” (cinema - p.13) (cinema - p.13) p.6) Express” (cinema - (cinema - p.11) 7:00 pm “Eden and p.11) after” 9:00 pm , “Last year...” “Jules and Jim” (cinema - p.11, 13) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7:00 pm “The man who lies” (cinema - p.11) 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 7:00 pm “Stavisky”, “Night and fog” (cinema - p.12) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 7:00 pm “Guernica”, “My American oncle” (cinema - p.12) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3 FFeessttiivvaall Just For Laughs festival: Transe Express' "Mobile-homme" above Toronto Supplier of imagination, Transe Express plays in open spaces in order to meet with the public. With no limits, the troup uses all kind of arts and mode of expressions. Music, dance, practical arts, circus, fire, literature, insulation... and theatre, which is the melting pot of everyone of these art forms. Either on stage or in unconventional spaces, Transe Express creates ex - traordinary creations, intrigues and adventures to creep up on the public. In “Mobile-homme”, seven musicians and one trapeze artist will perform in the air. Just imagine a mobile made of real drum majors, hung under an arch, a canopy or a crane… Imagine a thin trapeze and Gilles Rhode (author, artist performing in the middle of The second edition of the Just for scenograph and director). this picture and bring a crazy touch Laughs Festival will take place from Specialized in sky art, Transe to it. Imagine drum beats and drum July 24 to 26 in Toronto and will Express has become internationally rolls made by this band of flying present a selection of some of the famous with its show "Mobile- drum players. biggest names of comedy, as well homme", performed during the as free outdoor events. Albertville's Olympic Games opening in 1992, with "Roue-Ages" The Festival is having a street party on the Champs Elysees for new and the entire city is invited! The year's eve 1999, or with "Les 2000 world’s most prestigious comedy Coups de Minuit", celebrating the festival will be transforming new millemium in Beaubourg, Paris. Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square and an additional two city blocks "Le kiosque à coulisses", based in a into a wonderland of colour, sound park in Crest, Drome, is the and light on July 25 and 26. headquarter where the troup develops its creative work. The These must-see events will feature production's team represents about some of the most astounding 60 artists, actors, acrobats, bell- performance troupes from across ringers, dancers, drump players, the globe. Among them will be singers, violinists, spot welders, Transe Express, with its show stage-managers and scrap “Mobile-homme” performed in the merchants, who work regularly on sky, accompanied in music by the projects for the troup: temporary local Burlington Teen tour band. creations or aerial and ambulatory The Transe Express' troup was shows. founded in 1982 by Brigitte Burdin (dancer, choregraph and musician) 4 been performed more than 200 times, in every major street arts festival, and around the world. Friday July 25 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm and Saturday July 26 from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm Dundas Square Free admission Information: Just for Laughs Beside its great oginality, the Festival or Compagnie Transe success of this show comes from its Express ability to create a spectacular picture, which suits perfectly to big crowds. Being the first flying mobile ever made, “Mobile-homme” has EExxhhiibbiittiioonnss Gens de Provence 1951-1961, by Anthony Harting “In the hearts of millions of people, ranging collection of candid, the lively spirit of those times. young and old from all over the revealing portraits that are an With these pictures I celebrate the world, the name Provence holds a original, joyous, thought- enchanting heart of the land of special place, full of affection and provoking, but above all honest glorious light and present a loving fascination. historical documentary record of look at the people of captivating Provence, the playground of From 1951 to 1966, I spent many Southern France.” (Toni Harting ) summers in Provence as a strolling musician. During these years, I An exhibition presented by the made thousands of black-and-white Alliance Française of Toronto. Texts photographs of numerous colourful by Daniel Soha, a writer and characters from many walks of life. translator originally from Provence, I observed these people while they will accompany the photos. lived their lives on the streets and the beaches, in the bars and at the bullfights and the pétanque fields, when embracing each other or Until Thursday July 31, 2008 sleeping in the heat of the day, just AFT (24, Spadina Road) being themselves. Free admissio n Working in the photographic www.alliance-francaise.ca / perspective called humanistic reportage, I put together a wide- 5 “The street belongs to all of us !” How to share the street? The street Organized by the Paris-based IVM, narratives, illustrations and explo - is somewhere we walk, live, work, Institut pour la ville en mouvement rations, architectural and urban parade, sometimes jostle, [City on the Move] and produced design projects, and more than a sometimes even collide; a for North America by the Design hundred photographs from the multitude of activities that intersect Centre at the University of Quebec archives of the big international and intercept, making it a place of at Montreal, the exhibition asks the press agencies. encounter and of conflict: for better fundamental question: How do we and for worse! share the street (which belongs to The exhibition is supported by the And in all the cities of the world, the all of us!)? It explores the cities of City of Montreal, and the Toronto same questions: Who is the street the five continents through an presentation is facilitated by the for? Who does it belong to? Who audiovisual installation, personal Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, decides, controls, oversees? How and Design at the University of can we reconcile all the speeds, all Toronto and the Consulate General the methods of transport, the of France in Toronto. needs of residents and passersby, of shopkeepers...? How do we Until Thursday October 2, 2008 make it readable, fluid? In how far Eric Arthur Gallery, UofT (230 should advertising, business, College Street) freedom of expression, art, be able Free admission to have their say in the street, take www.ald.utoronto.c a or possession of the street? www.larueestatous.com MMuussiicc Zouk music band Kassav in concert LIP Entertainement presents Now, after 30 years, about 20 Kassav’s concert in Toronto. albums and many musical awards Originally from French West Indies, later, the band is still on the musical this band invented zouk music. All scene and its music continues to musical influences are mixed with make people from all over the funk and rock to create an world dance. explosive and dancing music style. Thursday July 31 at 8:00 pm Kassav (from the name of a typical At the Docks club dish from the West Indies) was 11 Polson Street founded in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Tickets: $45 Décimus and Freddy Marshall.