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Bulletin Culturel January 2010 focus NOUVELLE VAGUE WINTERCITY INVITES LES PASSAGERS Holidays. Seasonal greetings. In case you left home, you did not care for the Contents bare bike racks, deserted malls and dull joints: after frost, snow takes time to powder surfaces. May Peace be with you, whatever your journey is. PAGE 3 - Festival Take those two diaries to check yours out: PAGE 4 - Exhibitions “I wrote a pamphlet “F.A. de Chateaubriand, on his way back from the holy PAGE 6 - Music land, is castaway on the Lampedousa Island, December the 28th of 1806. Into PAGE 7 - Cinema an empty bottle, in order to throw it away at the last minute, I slipped this PAGE 8 - Television note in.” (*) PAGE 9 - Speakings “January the 1rst, 1908. We are quite close to Madagascar. We just entered PAGE 10 - DVDs rains season. Comoros emerge like moutains. Sharks follow the boat. » Jean Paulhan’s letter (**) Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel (*) « Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem » by M. le Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Li- brairie de Firmin Didot, Paris, 1863, p 148 (**) « Lettres de Madagascar 1907-1910» by Jean Paulhan, edited by Laurence Ink, Editions Claire Paulhan, Paris, 2007, p 63 January 2010 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 123 News editor: Joël Savary Creative writer: Martin Colomer-Diez Audiovisual: Marie Hérault-Delanoë Book: Léa Deshusses Music: Simon Grignon 45678910 APOSTROPHES ON LE CLÉZIO 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOWARDS A CULTURE OF NON-VIOLENCE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 MARIE JAGER OPENING RECEPTION 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 NOUVELLE VAGUE LES LES LES MEMORY AND PASSAGERS PASSAGERS PASSAGERS MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD 2 Festival WINTERCITY FESTIVAL IN TORONTO INVITES LES PASSAGERS Three spectacular aerial produc- tions by Compagnie Les Passagers combine theatre, dance and acrobat- ics, all performed to original musical scores on a massive vertical stage. TIME IS Inspired by the seasons and passing of time, this poetic show transposes an astounding vision of traditional and contemporary China onto a verti- cal world of dragons, lanterns, kites, the Lion and Fan dance, and Kung Fu choreography featuring 14 synchro- nized performers. Friday, January 29 / 8 pm Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street West COSMOGONIA In a succession of 12 scenes, the book of Genesis is recounted, played, and danced on a background of pro- jected images portraying the Ele- ments, cascading water and fire. Saturday, January 30 / 8 pm Sunday, January 31 / 7 pm Saturday, February 6 / 8 pm Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street West NAMASTEY This extravagant Bollywood-style performance brings to life the melo- drama, humour, colour and of course, the fabulous music and dance of the Indian movie industry. Friday, February 5 / 8 pm Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street West 3 TORONTO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (ROBARTS LIBRARY) Exhibitions 130 SAINT GEORGE STREET TORONTO, ON (416) 971-3131 FROM JANUARY 4 2010 CARL KÖHLER - FRENCH AUTHORPORTRAITS JUSQU’À FIN MARS CARL KÖHLER EXHIBITS AT painting and collage, experimenting THE ROBERTS LIBRARY IN freely with different expressions, TORONTO techniques and subjects, which he found in the worlds of theatre, music, dance and literature. Using oil, acrylic, drawings and graphics, he Alfred Jarry Cocteau, Günter Grass, Henry Miller, Franz Kafka, Joyce Carol Oates, Vir- ginia Woolf and others. Antonin Artaud Carl Kohler worked mainly with Guillaume Appolinaire Carl Köhler painted many special and unique author portraits that appeal to worked in the neo modernist tradi- those interested in both art and liter- tion. ature. (Henry & Frida Kohler) Carl Köhler displayed his work “Each face possesses a certain exag- throughout Sweden. He received sev- geration - want to live on at the be- eral cultural and art scholarships dur- holder. Perhaps, I look for a specific ing his life, the last of which was face, the poetic dimension.” (Carl awarded from the Swedish Painters Köhler) Society when he was 85, with the mo- tivation. View a retrospective on author por- traits in oil and ink by the late Carl Köhler (1919 – 2006). The artwork of this Swedish artist and sculptor, who was inspired by art and literature, features James Joyce, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Jean François Mauriac 4 MARIE JAGER EXHIBITS AT MERCER UNION Marie Jager (b.1975, Copenhagen DK, French citizen) lives and works in Paris and Los Angeles. Jager studied at the University of Southern Califor- nia, completing her MFA in 2004. Marie Jager uses fiction as a way to engage with landscape and space. Producing work out of novels and es- says, Jager’s practice explores the in- terrelations between fiction, time and the landscape. Jager adapts and translates books into paintings, films, prints and sculptural objects, investi- gating the relationship between the written word and the image, a piece of writing and a specific landscape, an imaginary space and an existing site. California Biennial and her work was Eclipse” opening Friday 22 January, Her work has been presented in such recently part of the DVD “compiler 2” 7 pm (free and open to the public) at venues as Artists Space (NY), China curated by Daniel Bauman and Mercer Union. Art Objects (LA), the MAK Center screened at the Swiss Institute in New (LA), Croy Nielsen (Berlin), and Jef- York, her work has been written 1286 BLOOR STREET WEST, frey Charles Gallery (London) Mu- about recently in Flash Art and Artfo- TORONTO, ON M6H 1N9, seum of Contemporary Art (MOCA, rum. CANADA LA) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seat- Some of her works will be part of (416) 536-1519 tle). She was included in the 2006 the group show titled “Days of the MERCERUNION.ORG KARINE BARRAS’ PHOTOS EXHIBITION ÉVASION… MONDE DU CIEL ET Born in France in 1972, Karine Bar- images. DES SONGES rass has worked as a professional pho- [ESCAPE... A WORLD OF SKIES tographer for 15 years, in the fields FROM JANUARY 15 TO FEBRU- AND DREAMS] of sports, news and fashion. She has ARY 13 criss-crossed the world with her ar- AFT SPADINA It is a project which has evolved gentic camera, in her quest for a GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON over the years. Connecting dreams communion and resonance through 24 SPADINA ROAD and reality, her work is an invitation images. MONDAY TO THURSDAY : 9AM- to take flight on the back of volup- Her training in the field of infogra- 9PM tuous giants, and discover another di- phy and her desire to innovate have FRIDAY : 9AM-4PM mension. Karine Barrass soars above led her to experiment with different FREE ENTRANCE the world we live in, allowing us to lab techniques, a quest which ac- see it through her eyes. counts for the distinct quality of her 5 Music NOUVELLE VAGUE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 TH NOUVELLE VAGUE PERFORMS NV3 differs from its predecessors is in WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27TH AT the arrangements of the songs. Aside THE OPERA HOUSE from the reggae and bossa nova inter- pretations, the songs are also inspired by country music and bluegrass. For this is what they do best; they take the songs that you adore and make you fall in love with them all over again. http://www.myspace.com/nouvelle vague WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27TH OPERA HOUSE 735 QUEEN ST. EAST TORONTO DOORS: 8PM +19 $24.50 WWW.TICKETMASTER.CA The French band that conquered the world with bossa nova covers of punk and new wave classics, return in time for summer with their third album “3”. Led by producer/arrangers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux and sung by a revolving cast of chanteuses, the group’s first two albums, Nouvelle Vague (2004) and Bande A Part (2006) have sold well over half-a-million copies. Not wishing to tinker with this winning formula, but evolving all the same, Nouvelle Vague “3” picks up where Bande A Part left off, and this time they’re performing duets with the original singers. The other way 6 Cinema BAY OF ANGELS BY JACQUES DEMY As part of Universciné, screening of tions, but mostly on the man- the movie: dolin. It's a movie that sweeps Tuesday, January 19 you along, just as fast and unpre- AFT Spadina BAY OF ANGELS BY JACQUES dictable as a spin on the roulette 24 Spadina Road DEMY wheel. This is a film in which At 7:30 pm Jacques Demy's second feature is "black-and-white" becomes a daz- Monday, January 25 an amazingly fluid, vibrant com- zling metaphor, so that the sun- AFT Mississauga edy about love and luck, starring drenched exteriors of the south of 4261 Sherwoodtown Blvd Jeanne Moreau at her (dazzling) France are contrasted with the Mississauga ON L4Z 1Y5 best. And she is literally dazzling, various interiors of hotel rooms At 7pm in resplendent costumes (mostly and casinos. Bay of Angels is one Monday, January 25 by Pierre Cardin) and radiantly of the most passionate state- AFT North York blonde. The music by Michel ments on love and faith in the 95 Sheppard Avenue W. Legrand is one of his best scores modern cinema, and it's a work of North York, M2N 1M4 ever, as it sweeps through the true enchantment. At 7:30 pm film, carrying everything along With Jeanne Moreau and Claude with two basic themes, one furi- Mann Free entrance ously accelerated piano theme, English subtitles the other a softer, more lilting theme played in different varia- APOSTROPHE ON JEAN-MARIE LE CLÉZIO Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. established his reputation as a poet, JMG Le Clézio’s first published translator and essayist in his home- novel, Le Procès-verbal (1963), was land of Argentina. With Pierre Mé- an instant hit. Until the 1970’s, his nard, auteur du Quichotte and Le style bore the imprint of the French Jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent Nouveau Roman.