Program — Little Fun Palace

offers itself as the claim of a symbiosis, With ten books as support, eight guests 5–6pm between the river and the artist, in a ges- invited from friendship, and the sound Parler, écouter, participer : hospitalités May 28 ture that seeks to reimagine the world. testament of a family exile carried by se- indisciplinaires de la recherche-création June 05 your body, my body, veral voices, Nicholas Dawson invests the Catherine Lalonde Massecar and 5–6pm one body towards healing. Petit Fun Palace as a space of residence Nicholas Dawson with : 1:30–3pm [Opening of the festival] we didn’t ask for these bodies that celebrates the affective part of our • Indiscipline!, Myriam Suchet [MICRO-PERFORMANCES] On Zoom but we did not permit them to be social relations. Through conversations Juste pour fuir : avant de partir Filippo Andreatta + polluted. that decline the notion of hospitality, the arkadi lavoie lachapelle i commit myself to your care. author and his collborators give shape 6-6:30pm Vincent de Repentigny­ Sound art – Vueltas (détours) With Renée-Ann Blais to a sound performance of nearly eight To launch the festival, a conversation 2:30–3:30pm hours that works, in real time, on fiercely After a successful stint at the École natio- between Italian director and initiator of L’Amoure Looks Something Like You - convivial zones of sharing. nale de l’humour (recreational section),” the Little Fun Palace, Filippo Andreatta, ­Transrituel pour une baleine à bosse funeral Humourist” arkadi is preparing for and Vincent de Repentigny, artistic and Éric Noël (with the collaboration of many 11am–12pm June 03 his tour on the 20 to run his one-human-­ general director of the OFFTA, evoking guests) Accueillir, être accueilli·e : s’écrire chaud, a tribute to his grandmother who the origins of the Little Fun Palace, aux frontières 12–1pm couldn’t drive. Juste pour fuir : avant tracing its past itineraries and launching The Kick Inside plays on a loop. The Karine Rosso and Nicholas Dawson with : [OFF.RADIO] de partir prepares this run-in in light of an its upcoming tour. The spontaneous tale, heady rhythm spins the story of a mys- • La condition de l’exilé, Alexis Nouss One-by-one with Ted Rutland, moderated exchange between the artist and Renée-­ in two voices, of a collaboration without tical and telepathic encounter between • Raconte-moi la fin, Valeria Luisselli by Julie-Michèle Morin Ann Blais, end-of-life caregiver. a compass, guided by solidarity, mobility, a humpback whale lost in fresh water • Nous sommes un continent, Karine curiosity and a taste for the unexpected ! and a non-binary person confined to Rosso et Nicholas Dawson Is the urban environment a hospitable 3:00–3:45pm We will talk together about utopias, Tiohtiake / Mooniyang / . In a one? For whom? How can we dream and La forêt flottante school, nomadism, landscapes and fun world with no way out, where revolutions 12–1pm work towards more hospitable cities for Noémie Roy as an imperative. struggle to happen, two sacred beings La théorie en tant qu’espace hospitalier all? Associate Professor in the Depart- Avec Dena Davida et Madeleine Lord rise up and dream together of new and Benoit Jodoin and Félix Chartré-Lefebvre ment of Geography, Urban Planning and mysterious forms of love. One year to the with : Environment at and Between words, movement and reading, day after the arrival of a whale in the old • Nos cabanes, Marielle Macé a member of the Anti-Carceral Group, La forêt flottante is a work in progress port, L’Amoure Looks Something Like You • Touching feeling, Eve Kosofsky Ted Rutland has been working for several for two dancers. Through the recollection May 30 proposes a commemorative ritual that Sedgwick years on urban planning in and of particularly significant dance memo- transgresses the boundaries between the racial politics that underlie it. ries, the performers repeat, explore and 12–1pm languages, genders and species. We will talk together about zoning, share the thread of multiple transfor- [OFF.RADIO] 1–2pm Sound art– Vueltas (tours) prisons, decolonization of space, radical mations. Born of an intergenerational One-to-one with Geneviève Dupéré, 4–5pm desires, Halifax, Montreal, and better collaboration, this project celebrates the moderated by Julie-Michèle Morin Leaky Immediations cities for better lives. bodily memory of women who, each in Lara Oundjian 2–3pm their own way, have contributed to for- What kind of hospitality does the St. Milieux hospitaliers, écritures hospita- ging the history of contemporary dance Lawrence River provide? What spaces of lières : douleur, soin et affect 5–6pm A solo choreography that dilates the [OFF.RADIO] in . cohabitation, sometimes unsuspected, surfaces: that of the water of the river, that Martine Delvaux and Jennifer Bélanger does it shelter? Geneviève Dupéré, with : One-by-one with Lori Beavis, moderated of a photographic cliché, that of the skin. by Julie-Michèle Morin 4:00–4:30pm designer and researcher, takes up these Through a dialogue between a body and • The Undying, Anne Boyer questions, against the backdrop of • Cancer journals, Audre Lorde L’heure a la substance d’un train an automatic sprinkler, Lara Oundjian In the great tradition of gathering de banlieue écH2osystème : du fleuve à la scène, an dances a field of possible relationships unusual project involving more than two around a kitchen table to bead and talk, Fanny Brossard Charbonneau that she explores in a sensual, sound and 3–4pm Indigenous artist-run centre daphne hundred collaborators. visual way - a window open onto vast Amour de soi, amour des autres : une We will talk together about sail-oars, has devised weekly beading evenings, In April 2020, every day for a month, Fan- interiorities. hospitalité queer et décoloniale daphne breads : perler/parler, hosted by ny takes the train. From the Station Parc ice-breakers, wanderings, whales, apnea Kama La Mackerel and Olivia Tapiero and deep breathing. & . Held online to St-Jérôme railway station, 1h01 exactly: with : due to the pandemic, these multilingual the time to explore the substance of the • I hope we choose love, gatherings, which begin with the Haude- hour; the time to take hold of a biorhythm Kai Cheng Thom nosaunee protocol of the Ohenton Kari- in the process of liquefaction. A perfor- 1:15–2pm June 01 • Cette blessure et un territoire, hwatehkwen foster a particularly caring mative conference as a frame, a zine in [MICRO-PERFORMANCES] Billy-Ray Belcourt and hospitable exchange around art. becoming in hand, the artist updates this Nous deux sommes l’eau 11am–6:30pm Together we will talk about needles, transforming experience. Christale Terris [OFF.RADIO] 4–5pm crafts, hands, gratitude, and renewed care. Vueltas : s’entendre Sound art – Vueltas (retours) Through a series of incantatory protocols, Nicholas Dawson + Karine Rosso + Christale Terris lends herself to a meticu- Benoit Jodoin + Félix Chartré-Lefebvre lous contamination between two bodies: + Martine Delvaux +Jennifer Bélanger hers and that of Kaniatorowanenneh, who + Kama La Mackerel + Olivia Tapiero + gives her permission. We are both water Catherine Lalonde Massecar.