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Dear partners and friends, Cultural Contacts A word from our new CONTENTS I hope that you are safe and well. As 2020 draws to a close, it is safe to MarieIngried Morin Boussaroque International say that this year has been exceedingly difficult in so many different ways. CulturalDirector forAttaché Culture Co-operation 4 However, it has also reaffirmed the importance and power of community, Cinema,ingried.boussaroque Digital Arts,@mri. Circus, Director for Culture solidarity and resilience. I remain confident that better days are ahead of us. Theatre,gouv.qc.ca Visual Arts Cinema and Television 7 [email protected] Despite the continued difficult circumstances, Québec artists will be active Marie Morin Dear Québec partners and friends, Music 12 AndrewCultural Attaché Bailey and present across the territory covered by the Québec Government Office in CulturalCinema, AttachéDigital Arts, Circus, As the new Director for Culture at the Québec Government Literature 14 London this coming cultural season. Many performances have been able to move online, again paying Dance,Theatre, Literature Visual Arts and Office in London, I am honoured to join a dedicated and dynamic cultural team. Driven by testament to the adaptability and determination of Québec artists and their partners. Publishing,marie.morin [email protected] Circus 16 its core mandate of market development and collaboration with local partners, the cultural [email protected] I am also delighted to mention a number of exciting developments. New rounds of collaboration funding Andrew Bailey team works to develop international co-operation, partnerships, exchange and residency Theatre 19 will shortly be announced, and we are welcoming a new member to the cultural team! Please continue GaiaCultural Martinelli-Bunzl Attaché programmes between Québec and the UK, Ireland and the Nordic Countries. I cannot wait Festivals 20 reading over the next few pages to find out more. ProjectDance, LiteratureManager and and to proactively respond to and develop the continuing demand for Québec’s unique and AssistantPublishing, to Musicthe Director innovative cultural creations and expertise. As we all continue to spend more time at home, I invite you to take a look at the impressive programme [email protected]@mri.gouv.qc.ca of Québec television available to watch on TV5Monde. The channel has recently launched a new app, Gaia Martinelli-Bunzl Originally from Québec, I have been living in Scotland for five years. I have over twenty years’ TV5MondePlus, making francophone content more accessible than ever before. I would personally like Project Manager and experience in the cultural sector and have worked across the industry as an artist and arts +44(0)20 7766 5930 to thank TV5Monde for being such a brilliant long-term partner of ours. Assistant to the Director administrator, extensively promoting artistic collaboration. Québec.ca/londres [email protected] The cultural team remain at your disposition to support you in your projects and goals of collaboration QuebecUK I look forward to working with you all. Do not hesitate to get in touch with me or my team to with Québec artists and organisations. Quebec_UK see how we might collaborate. QuebecUK Take care, +44(0)20 7766 5930 Québec.ca/londres Ingried Boussaroque QuebecUK Director for Culture Pierre Gabriel Côté Agent-General, Québec Government Office in London

Cover: ChloëSingers: Lum Marjorie and Yannick Maltais Desranleau, and Jennifer partTaverner, of Ambiguous Production: Becoming: Domoney Artist’s Artists, MovingDirector: Image François from Racine, Canada, Barcarolle co-curated at

bythe Cooper Beach Gallery(see p.12) DJCAD. © Elias Djemi-Mattassov 2 3 Québec-UK Connections Co-operation between Québec Québec-Wales and the Nordic countries co-operation 2021

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all The fourth edition of the joint call for proposals A new co-operation programme between beneficiaries of the 2019-2020 call for projects between the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) the Welsh Government and the Québec have been given a one-year extension to support and the Québec Government is open. Government was recently initiated and their completion. A next joint call for proposals In culture, artists, directors, authors and cultural a joint call for proposals will soon be between the British Council and the Québec institutions are invited to submit an application announced. The programme will support Government will be launched next year. Since to carry out a co-operation project involving collaborative cultural projects between its inception in 2002, the programme has very at least one Québec partner and two Nordic Québec and Wales. successfully encouraged new cultural exchanges partners from two different countries. and developed partnerships between Québec and UK organisations and artists. Watch this space! Deadline : 7 December Watch this space!

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Québec: bit.ly/qcukconnectionsfr Québec: bit.ly/qcnordiquecoopfr Québec: bit.ly/qcwalescollabfr © Elias Djemi-Mattassov © Elias Djemi-Mattassov 4 5 Sophie Deraspe, Annabelle Poisson, Patrick Lowe television and cinema Dark Soul Content London On Demand Until 4 December 2020 Online

Québec talent will be represented at Content London On Demand. TV series Dark Soul, directed by Sophie Deraspe and created by Annabelle Poisson and Patrick Lowe, will be introduced by the creators as part of the Hot Properties strand. The fiction tries to understand the motives of Jeremy Tremblay, who walked into his high school with a semi-automatic rifle and shot multiple students before killing himself. Sophie Deraspe is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer. The Amina Profile (2015) was selected as a World Cinema documentary at Sundance and won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs. Annabelle Poisson has been writing screenplays since 2006 for teenagers and adults; Dark Soul is her first original work. Patrick Lowe has been writing for television since 2002 on successful shows such as Mémoires Vives. Additionally, sixteen Québec production companies will be taking part in Content London On Demand, thanks to the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC). The Québec companies taking part are: Aetios Productions; Amalga; Avanti Group; ComediHa!; Duo Productions; Encore International; Babel Films; H Gagnon Distribution; Incendo; Just For Laughs Distribution; Keep It Simple; KOTV; Muse Distribution International; Pixcom; Productions Megafun; Sphère Média.

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17-28 March 2021 Online event

Since its creation, the SODEC has taken on a leadership role to help Québec’s cultural enterprises thrive in a changing technological environment, where organisations must adapt to evolving markets, both at home and abroad. In line with this mandate, the SODEC continues to support a strong documentary industry in Québec and has partnered with the Forum RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal) to build a delegation of dynamic producers that will take part in this year’s SODEC_Lab @ CPH:DOX. CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. The Québec delegation of producers selected for the 2021 edition are: • Marie-Michèle Cyr, Parabola Films; • Line Sander Egede, TAK Films Inc.; • Andrée-Anne Frenette, Terre Innue;

cinema and television • Simon Plouffe, Les Films de l’Autre; • Frederic Bohbot, Bunbury Films Inc.

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www.terreinnue.com n www.simonplouffe.com n www.bunburyfilms.com Downtown screenings under the stars – Montréal, 2017 Roy © Sébastien 8 9 québec on tv5Monde TV5MondePlus is the new French-language video on-demand platform, available everywhere, anytime, for free! Enjoy a vast variety of films, series, documentaries, RESPOND. kids TV, magazines and more. Available on all your devices www.tv5mondeplus.com. REBOUND. CINEMA FACTUAL SERIES REINVENT. Helping clients during the phases of Sashinka Chacun son île (Seasons 1-2) Les pays d’en haut (Seasons 1-3) the pandemic crisis. The day before her first concert, Islands are the stuff that dreams are Period drama that chronicles the lives of the people of Sasha sees her mother arrive made of. Journey to the four corners rural Québec and the tough living conditions of the day. Founded in Quebec more than 40 years unexpectedly on her doorstep. of the world to discover the reality of ago, CGI today is a global IT and business She has zero desire to manage her island life today. consulting services company. unpredictable Russian mother! Investing in Scotland’s Future, providing expert solutions to complex demands Rires du monde Unité 9 (Seasons 1-7) through uncertain times. We are committed CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE What makes us laugh? The presenters The series that inspired Orange is the New Black. to partnering with clients to help safely seek to answer this simple question Welcome to Lietteville prison! The series follows the advance their digital transformation and to Di Stasio (Seasons 1-2) from all around the world. day-to-day life of a small group of women from bring quality jobs and opportunities into the communities in which we live and work. With her new programme, beloved the same cell block, Unit 9.

cinema and television Québec food writer Josée di Stasio is back with a series to help us discover innovative recipes, lifestyle Like-moi! suggestions and useful tips. The everyday life of a group of young adults, aged 20 to 35 years, and their frenzied and hilarious quest for love and happiness. © All images courtesy TV5Monde © All images courtesy To find out more visit us at: 10 cgi-group.co.uk/Scotland11 Marjorie Maltais and François Racine Barcarolle at the Beach Toreador Quando m’en vo

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In collaboration with Québécois Director François Racine, Kathy Domoney, Director of Domoney Artists Management, created Opera Breaks to showcase singers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Singing well-known opera “hits”, the singers are seen recording their arias and ensembles in studio, then filmed in a variety of outdoor locations in Toronto. Featured in Offenbach’s famous Barcarolle duet from Les contes d’Hoffmann, Québécois mezzo soprano Marjorie Maltais is seen paddling a canoe at sunset on Lake Ontario in this dreamy film. She also makes an appearance in Toreador from Carmen. Maltais is rapidly earning an excellent reputation on both concert and operatic stages in Canada and beyond. Marjorie won First Prize at the Ottawa Choral Society’s New Discoveries Competition in 2016. François Racine directed these three short films. Racine is firmly established as one of the most visionary leaders on today’s opera scene, engaged by companies throughout North America and beyond. Acclaimed for his powerful staging of Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung with Seattle Opera, Racine received accolades for his innovative interpretation of Dido and Aeneas in Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland in 2010.

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Celebrate the cultural diversity of the Arctic and its importance to us all at this special online event. Literature Featuring extraordinary Indigenous Arctic artists and musicians, including performance poetry by Inuk author and spoken-word artist Taqralik Partridge, originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Québec. Taqralik Partridge is a writer, spoken word poet and curator. Partridge’s writing focuses on both life in the north and in southern urban centres, as well as the experiences of the Inuit. Her performance work has been featured on CBC Radio One and her writing has been reproduced in Swedish and French language translations. She also incorporates throat singing into her live performances. She has toured with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and with Les Productions Troublemakers under the direction of La Cinémathèque Québécoise composer Gabriel Thibaudeau. Her short story Igloolik, published in Maisonneuve magazine, won first prize in the 2010 Québec Writing Competition and has been published in Swedish and French. She performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2019.

www.bordercrossings.org.uk Taqralik Partridge Cherwinski © Andrei 14 15 Cirque du Soleil Corteo 25-28 February 2021 CIRCUS Ericsson Globe Stockholm, Sweden

From the streets of small-town Québec to the world stage, a team of street performers became the international phenomenon that is Cirque du Soleil today. Corteo, which means “cortege” in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth. The clown pictures his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere, watched over by quietly caring angels.

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Québécois producer Adam Blanshay and London’s own hub The Theatre Café have teamed up to produce a unique web series, The Theatre Channel. Bringing together the extraordinary talents of some of the UK’s most sensational performers and West End stars to sing a selection of musical theatre favourites in a manner never seen before. Québec actor and West End leading man Alex Gaumond appears in Episode 3: The Rock Musicals, singing Le monde est stone from the Québec Rock Opera Starmania. With a career now spanning twenty years, Gaumond has played lead roles in countless West End productions, including Galileo in We Will Rock You, Emmett in Legally Blonde (Olivier Nominated), and Miss Trunchball in Matilda.

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Each year, Québec hosts over 400 festivals and cultural events. Those presented below all welcome international delegates and industry professionals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some festivals might be moved entirely online or proceed in a hybrid format including both online and physical activities. Salon du livre des Premières Nations Montréal Chamber Music Festival Montréal en Lumière (Kwahiatonhk!) OFFTA

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July-August 2021 (exact dates TBC) 16-25 September 2021 6-17 October 2021 June 2021 (exact dates TBC) November 2021 (exact dates TBC) 7-11 April 2021 Le Festival international Festival de cinéma de la ville Festival du nouveau cinéma ELEKTRA HUB – Rendez-vous Festival Québec BD de films Fantasia de Québec www.nouveaucinema.ca www.elektrafestival.ca international des industries Comic books and graphic novels Genre film www.fcvq.ca 24-29 August 2021 créatives www.quebecbd.com Cinema www.fantasiafestival.com MUTEK www.hubmontreal.com literature Digital arts Digital www.mutek.org OFFTA. © Rémi Hermoso OFFTA. n

November 2021 (exact dates TBC) 24 February-6 March 2021 17-21 March 2021 7-11 April 2021 29 April-2 May 2021 30 May-6 June 2021 Salon du livre de Québec Rencontres internationales du Les Rendez-vous du cinéma Regard sur le court métrage Metropolis Bleu Festival de la poésie de Montréal Ménard-Aubin © Frédérique en Lumière. Montréal documentaire de Montréal québécois au Saguenay www.silq.ca www.bluemetropolis.org www.festivaldelapoesiedemontreal.com n Documentaries www.rvcq.com Shorts November 2021 (exact dates TBC) Cinema www.ridm.ca www.festivalregard.com Salon du livre de Montréal literature www.salondulivredemontreal.com

16-28 March 2021 8-18 July 2021 2021 (exact dates TBC) 18-21 November 2021 4-11 August 2021 29 October-14 November 2021 Festival international du film Montréal Complètement Cirque IX 2021 Salon du livre des Premières Montréal First Peoples Festival Arab World Festival of Montréal sur l’art www.montrealcompletementcirque.com International symposium Nations (Kwahiatonhk!) www.presenceautochtone.ca www.festivalarabe.com Art film on immersive experiences First Nations literature circus Cinema www.ix.sat.qc.ca www.artfifa.com www.kwahiatonhk.com wahia tonhk! literature Digital arts Digital multidisciplinary Montréal Chamber Music Festival. © Christine Bourgier Bourgier © Christine Chamber Music Festival. Montréal Ottawa © Nicolas Nations (Kwahiatonhk!). des Premières du livre Salon

20 21 22 Festivals &EventsinQuébec2021-2022 MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC multidisciplinary www.mpourmontreal.com Indie rock showcase M pourMontréal November www.mundialmontreal.com Mundial Montréal 16 www.espacetrad.org Trad music La Grande Rencontre September 2021 www.montrealjazzfest.com de Montréal Festival International deJazz 26-29 June2021 www.montrealenlumiere.com Montréal enlumière 18-28 February 2021 - 19 November 2021 2021 (exact dates TBC) (exact dates TBC) (World music)

Performing arts MUSIC www.fta.ca Theatre &dance Festival TransAmériques 26 May-10June2021 www.envoletmacadam.com Emerging music Envol etMacadam September 2021 www.chantsdevielles.com Traditional music Chants deVielles Festival 2-4 July 2021 www.suoniperilpopolo.org Experimental music Festival SuoniPer ilPopolo June2021 4-20 (exact dates TBC)

www.offta.com Live artfestival OFFTA 28 May-6June2021 www.popmontreal.com Independent popmusic Pop Montréal 22-26 September 2021 www.fmeat.org Emerging music en Abitibi-Témiscamingue Festival demusiqueémergente 2-5 September 2021 www.festivalmontreal.org Festival Montréal ChamberMusic 11-20 June2021

visual arts theatre Performing arts Performing arts www.momentabiennale.com Momenta –biennale del’image 8 September-24 October 2021 www.theatrederue.ca de Lachine Festival duthéâtre derue TBC iffestival in2021 www.ladansesurlesroutes.com Parcours Danse 29 November-3 December 2021 www.innucadie.com Storytelling andlegends Festival Innucadie 12-15 August 2021

visual arts www.baca.ca First Nations art autochtone La Biennale d’artcontemporain 2022 www.manifdart.org Manif d’art10 2022 www.cinars.org Performing artsbiennial CINARS 24-29 May2021 www.quartiersdanses.com Festival Quartiers Danses 10-19 September 2021 (exact dates TBC) (exact dates TBC)

young public theatre www.coupsdetheatre.com Festival LesCoupsdeThéâtre November www.papiermontreal.com Papier foire d’artcontemporain 22-25 April2021 www.fiams.com de lamarionnette pourtous àSaguenay Festival international desarts 27 July-2 August 2021 www.festival.casteliers.ca Festival deCasteliers 3-7 March 2021 www.festival-conte.qc.ca Storytelling du conte deMontréal Festival interculturel 22-31 October 2021 2021 (exact dates TBC) (Puppetry)

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