Bulletin Culturel July - August 2010 Charlie Winston F o c u s Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre at the AGO Cinematheque summer cycles: Breillat/Rohmer “Among all nations, prime concern is to keep growing welfare. All efforts merge towards industry building, this is why such an importance is taken by all [the new networks]. A few years ago, they just started to criss-cross European land, and now their development is such as they play the key-role in our trade, economy and intellectual life.” Contents During this summer break, feel free to take the wise opportunity to follow up PAGES 4-5 - Exhibitions on those remarks: through virtual or actual networks, get your brains or body moving. The above quotation is drawn from “Petite Encyclopédie Populaire PAGES 5-7 - Music Illustrée des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts », where steam railways were PAGE 8 - Theatre at stake (*). PAGE 9-10 - Cinema With Charlie Winston, Angelique Kidjo, organ player Henri Ormières in PAGE 10 - Speakings Toronto, Dobet Gnahore, Bambara Trans in London, Magellan Trio in Elora and Niagara-on-the-Lake bringing in musical treasures, with paintings at the AGO, PAGE 11 - Television perfomances at Stratford-on-Avon, screenings at the Cinémathèque, get PAGE 12 - Professionals yourself wealthier than ever. Joël Savary, attaché culturel JULY 2010 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL SUNFEST SUNFEST SUNFEST CHARLIE SUNFEST WINSTON ORGAN-MUSIC ORGAN-MUSIC ORGAN-MUSIC & HISTORICAL & HISTORICAL & HISTORICAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL ORGAN-MUSIC & HISTORICAL FESTIVAL BARBE BLEUE FAT GIRL GILBERT UNE VRAIE SEX IS GARCIN JEUNE FILLE COMEDY UNTIL SEPT 25 TRIO MA NUIT MAGELLAN CHEZ MAUD LA LA BOULANGÈRE COLLECTIONNEUSE DE MONCEAU/LA SALE COMME CARRIÈRE DE UN ANGE SUZANNE AUGUST 2010 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday CLAIRE'S MA NUIT KNEE CHEZ MAUD L'AMOUR L'APRÈS MIDI PARFAIT TRIO AMOUR! MAGELLAN BRÈVE CLAIRE'S TRAVERSÉE UNE VIEILLE L'AMOUR TAPAGE KNEE MAÎTRESSE ROMANCE NOCTURNE L'APRÈS MIDI ANATOMY OF HELL Exhibitions DRAMA AND DESIRE: ARTISTS AND THE THEATER JUNE 19- SEPT 26 Lust. Passion. Murder. Many of the greatest artists of the 19th century shared a profound fascination with the theatre and its themes of triumph and destruction, love and despair. This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario gives centre stage to key artworks by these artists in a major international exhibition titled Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre, opening June 19 and continuing through September 26. Conceived by Guy Cogeval, president of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the exhibition includes over 100 paintings, drawings and theatrical maquettes, by masters such as Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Édouard Vuillard. The works were selected from the collections of some of the world's greatest museums, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d'Orsay, the British Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. JUNE 19 - SEPT 26 ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO 317 DUNDAS STREET WEST GILBERT GARCIN : MISTER G. JULY 22 - SEPT 25 The Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present Gilbert Garcin’s first commercial exhibition in Canada. Born in La Ciotat, France, in 1929, Gilbert Garcin lives and works in Marseille. In his photographs, Gilbert poses as an ordinary ‘Mr. Everybody’, dressed with an old overcoat. By placing himself, via the character he embodies, in absurd and inextricable situations, he invites us to ponder such philosophical quandaries as time, solitude and the weight of existence. His work raises a number of universal questions about the meaning of human existence. The crudeness of his technique, combined with the intelligence of his themes, reflects an earnestness that embodies both the character and the creator. JULY 22 – SEPTEMBER 25 STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY 1026 QUEEN STREET WEST 4 LORÈNE BOURGEOIS : PRÈS DU CORPS JUNE 19 - JULY 11 The Loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibition by Lorène Bourgeois entitled Près du corps. Près du corps, “close to the body,” is a reflection upon the ambiguous qualities of clothing and head dress, and upon the strange ability of such objects to oscillate between function, absurdity, theatricality and menace. Born in France, Lorène Bourgeois has been living in Canada since 1984. She trained as an artist in Paris, Philadelphia and Halifax (MFA, NSCAD, 1986). Her work in drawing, painting and printmaking has been widely exhibited across Canada, as well as in France, Korea, Russia and the United States. Lorène Bourgeois will speak about her work in a Question Answer Session on Saturday, July 10, at 3pm. LOOP GALLERY 1273 DUNDAS STREET WEST WWW.LOOPGALLERY.CA ZINEB SEDIRA: MIDDLE SEA UNTIL JULY 24 French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira makes art about shifting identities. MiddleSea, her video work with accompanying photographs, takes place on a boat crossing the Mediterranean, en route from Algiers to Marseilles. The setting is a no man’s land, with the boat acting as both an aesthetic object and a value-laden symbol for the flow of people across borders. ONGOING UNTIL JULY 24 PREFIX INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART M u s i c ANGELIQUE KIDJO AT THE TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL JULY 1 Time Magazine has called Angelique Kidjo “Africa’s premier diva”. As one of the continent’s most internationally celebrated female musical exponent, she is a powerful singer and tireless performer. Her music draws from African traditions and elements of American soul, funk, rap, jazz, Brazilian samba, reggae and Cuban and Puerto Rican salsa creating a perfect blend of world music that exemplifies unity, peace and diversity. This is the spirit of Africa. FRENCH CONNECTION SERIES THU JUL 1, 8:00PM TORONTO STAR STAGE NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE 100 QUEEN STREET WEST N.W. CORNER OF QUEEN & BAY STREET 5 SUNFEST 2010 IN LONDON, ON JULY 8-11 DOBET GNAHORE IVORY COAST, WEST AFRICA / MARSEILLE, FRANCE Dobet Gnahore is a musical tour de force. At 24, she’s already an award- winning singer, dancer and percussionist. The daughter of performers, Gnahore grew up in Village Ki-Yi M'Bock, an artist colony in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. At age 12, she declared to her father that her academic schooling was over and that she wanted to dedicate her life to the music and dance traditions she could learn from the masters in her village. During the period of political unrest in Ivory Coast, Dobet moved to Paris, where she now leads a multi-cultural band and creates vibrant pan-African music. In 2006 (at age 23), she won a BBC World Music award for “best newcomer”. JULY 10 WWW.SUNFEST.ON.CA/FESTIVAL/EVENTS.PHP BAMBARA TRANS MOROCCO, FRANCE, QUEBEC, NOVA SCOTIA Founded in 2006 by husky-voiced singer Khalil Abouabdelmajib – who’s a master of the guembri (a North African guitar made of camel skin) – Bambara Trans brings together nine stellar musicians of various backgrounds (Moroccan, French, Quebecois and Nova Scotian) on a range of instruments, including saxophone, flute, keyboards, bass, guitar, brass, and percussion. The ensemble was a fan favourite at the 2007 Festival des Musiques du Maghreb and at the 2008 Festival Musique Multi-Montréal. SATURDAY JULY 10, 2010 SUNDAY JULY 11, 2010 CHARLIE WINSTON JULY 9 Charlie Winston is a British singer/songwriter associated with Peter Gabriel's label, Real World Records. He broke through to mainstream success in France in 2009 with the chart-topping smash hit "Like a Hobo." Born in 1978 in Cornwall, he grew up in Bungay, Suffolk, where his parents ran a hotel. He is the brother of Tom Baxter, a singer/songwriter popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Winston made his full-length debut with the self-produced album Make Way (2007) in association with Gabriel's Real World label. He toured with Gabriel as well. His second album, Hobo (2009), was also released on Real World. Whereas Make Way failed to find a mass audience, Hobo became a major commercial success in France, where it was released on the label Atmosphériques. The album's lead single, "Like a Hobo," topped the French singles chart. It also reached the Top Five in Belgium and the Top 30 in Switzerland. In support of the breakthrough success of "Like a Hobo," Winston toured France. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010. THE MOD CLUB THEATRE DOORS @ 7:00PM SHOW @ 8:00PM 19 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TICKETS AVAILABLE AT TICKETMASTER.CA CHARGE BY PHONE AT 416.870.8000 6 ORGAN-MUSIC & HISTORICAL FESTIVAL 2010 JULY 9-12 CONCERT FOR FRENCH HORN AND ORGAN FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010 6-7.30PM ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL, 65 CHURCH STREET THE ORGAN AT ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2010 3-4PM ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL, 65 CHURCH STREET, TORONTO THE THREE ORGANISTS The festival welcomes musicians from Canada, Germany SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2010 and France (Henri Ormiere), showcasing the Premiere 6-7.30PM “Sonata for French horn and Organ” by Canada’s ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL, 65 CHURCH STREET, TORONTO renowned composer Andrew Ager, Music Director at St. James, presenting rarely heard compositions of the SUNDAY SERVICE AT ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL Baroque and Romantic by German and French composers SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2010 in exclusive arrangements for French horn and Organ. 11AM-1PM Special highlighted are “Concert-pieces for Organ ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL, 65 CHURCH STREET TORONTO. played by four hands” MUSIC MONDAYS - CONCERT FOR FRENCH Henri Ormieres, born in Carcassone is Organist of Saint- Vincent’s Church in Carcassonne and director of the HORN AND ORGAN MONDAY, JULY 12, 2010 Choeur Saint-Louis, a choir which he founded and 12.15 -1PM frequently performs with. He has been regularly invited CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, TRINITY SQUARE (BESIDE THE EATON to perform at festivals in France (Festival International CENTRE).