UK – Ireland – Nordic Countries

UK – Ireland – Nordic Countries

May – August 2016 MAY– AUG 2016 01 Bonjour, Focus On Music Welcome to another bumper edition of Québec Culture. We are very excited by the depth and breadth of talent and creativity that we will be welcoming across the cultural “The Edinburgh International Festival is delighted to welcome sectors this summer. One sector that particularly stands such an extraordinary range of Québec musical talent in our 2016 out is music, on account of both the number of acts visiting programme. From post-rock pioneers Godspeed You! Black Emperor our territory and the huge variety of musical genres that to internationally acclaimed maestro, Yannick Nézet-Séguin this year’s they will be presenting. Québec’s musical diversity will International Festival reflects the diversity and depth of talent coming be brought to you by, amongst others, special showcases out of Québec. We are always thrilled to present the work of artists from of pop/rock at Liverpool Sound City and Brighton’s Great Québec and look forward to continuing this valuable partnership for Escape. Other artists performing across the UK, Ireland and many years to come.” (Page 9) the Nordic countries include Inuit throat singers Beatrice Fergus Linehan, Festival Director & Chief Executive, Deer and Evie Mark, classical maestros Marc-André Photo © Stuart Armitt Edinburgh International Festival Hamelin, Louis Lortie and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and world-renowned folk stalwarts La Bottine Souriante and Le Vent du Nord. Speaking of Le Vent du Nord, they launched their eighth CD, Têtu, with us at King’s Place in London in March of last year. The album has now been nominated for a Songlines Music Award with the winner to be announced in the June issue of the music magazine. “Since we started Sound City in 2008, Québec artists have continually been the highlights of our programme. Over the years we have In other news on the music front, following his residence at Acme’s Studio du Québec in showcased Tim Hecker, Deadbeat, Folly and the Hunter, Solids, Braids, London last year, composer Isaiah Ceccarelli had one of his pieces, Bow, performed by Le Couleur, Ira Lee and Beat Market. One thing that always astounds the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists at the Roundhouse in London in April. us is the diversity, ingenuity and brilliance of the Québec artists, they always stand out. We’re really excited this year to be working with POP Montreal for the second year running on a showcase which will feature You will see a selection of Québec music festivals to look out for on pages 18 – 19. As FOXTROTT, L.A. Foster and Wake Island.” (Page 4) always, to discuss any cultural project involving Québec, please do not hesitate to get in

touch with our cultural team. Photo © Craig McGee Rebecca Ayres, Chief Operating Officer, Liverpool Sound City

Bonne lecture!

Christos Sirros - Agent-General, Québec Government Office in London “The Førde festival has presented artists from Québec many times during the festival’s 27-year history, such as La Bottine Souriante, who visit for the second time this year, Le Vent du Nord, Trio Marchand/ Ornstein/Miron, Yves Lambert, Genticorum, and others. It has always been a great pleasure to cooperate with the musicians, and they have all QC-UK Cultural Cooperation Fund 2015-2016 been very well received by our audience. The music traditions of Québec are so rich and interesting, and it is amazing to see these wonderful The Québec Government and the British Council are pleased to announce the 2016 recipients of their QC-UK Cultural Cooperation Fund. Implemented to promote the creation artists doing so well in the international music market.” (Page 8)

and dissemination of cultural works and products, the following international exchange Photo © D. Reiakvam Hilde Bjørkum, Director, Førde Traditional and World Music Festival, Norway programmes involve artists, directors and authors and encourage a cultural dialogue leading to a better mutual understanding between the two societies.

Congratulations to: Groupe Le Vivier/Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Maison de la poésie de Montréal/Scottish Poetry Library, POP Montreal/Liverpool Sound City, Casteliers/ Puppet Animation Scotland and Fondation Metropolis Bleu/Edinburgh International Book “We have worked with artists from Québec for many years now, and we Festival. are pleased to welcome FOXTROTT, Milk & Bone, Jesse Mac Cormack and Essaie Pas to TGE 2016. We’re also excited to continue to work The next call for projects will be announced in mid-May. For more information please visit with M for Montreal as well as on a new partnership with Pop Montreal www.britishcouncil.ca which sees them showcase L.A. Foster and Wake Island at the festival. We always look forward to seeing the talent coming from Québec, and it never fails to disappoint.” (Page 4 & 5)

Cultural Contacts Kevin Moore, General Manager, The Great Escape Le Vent du Nord. Photo © Jens Th Photo © 2013 Dan Dennison/Rex Features Assis Carreiro Marie Morin Muireann Leonard Jesse Peterkin Interim Director for Culture Cultural Attaché Project Manager Assistant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Whilst every effort has been made to verify the accuracy This brochure should not be reproduced in full or of the information in this brochure you are advised to in part without the consent of the Québec +44(0)20 7766 5930 | www.quebec.org.uk | www.facebook.com/QuebecUK | www.twitter.com/Quebec_UK contact the host organisations for confirmation. Government Office. Idil Sukan: London Wonderground, Southbank, London, 15 June – 25 September BARBU , Cirque Alfonse © Idil Sukan: London Wonderground, Cover: Music Music MAY– AUG 2016 02 03 Quatuor Bozzini Le Vent du Nord

1 May 8 May – 26 August Caroli Församlingshem Various venues across Ireland and the UK Borås, Sweden (See listings pages 20 – 21 or visit www.leventdunord.com) Photo © Michael Slobodian

Since 1999, Quatuor Bozzini has been an original voice in new, contemporary, experimental and Nominated for a Songlines Music Award 2016 classical music. Their vastly diverse repertoire has led to over 130 commissioned pieces, as well Following on from their knockout success as close to 200 other premiered works. Winners of numerous prestigious prizes, the group tours at a host of UK festivals last summer, extensively across the world. To ensure continual development in their art, the quartet’s annual award-winning Le Vent du Nord return musical laboratory, the Composer’s Kitchen, works to mentor and support new generations of to these shores, to once again delight composers. audiences with their mix of fiddle, guitar, This May in Borås they present the work of Zoltán Jeney in two concerts. accordion and hurdy-gurdy. Combining a great stage presence with an energetic, www.quatuorbozzini.ca dynamic flair, they have become one of the leading names in Québécois folk music throughout the world, capturing the energy and mirth of a Saturday night Tim Hecker & kitchen party, while infusing old Québec Kara-Lis Coverdale Photo © Stéphane Najman with a breath of fresh, cosmopolitan air.

5 May St John Sessions Series Louis Lortie St John at Hackney 20 May 28 May 22 August London, UK Wigmore Hall Bergen International BBC Chamber Proms London, UK Festival Royal Albert Hall After cementing his position as one Bergen, Norway London, UK of the best live performers that St John at Hackney Church has hosted (back in 2013), Montreal’s Tim Hecker Singled out by The Daily Telegraph’s five-star review, Louis returns with a live performance Lortie ‘made the walls shake’ with his performances of of inspiring new material, further Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ and Liszt’s B minor Sonata at solidifying his unique position as Wigmore Hall in 2015. a contemporary master of volume The acclaimed Québec pianist returns with another richly and texture. The sonic intensity of endowed programme, complete with the minor-keyed turbulence his live show has been paired with of Mozart’s K310, written in Paris in 1778, and Brahms’s an experimental light component monumental F minor Piano Sonata.

Photo © Tracy Van Oosten Van Photo © Tracy programmed by Berlin’s MFO. On 28 May, he performs Grieg and Brahms at the Bergen Kara-Lis Coverdale, also known as K-LC, is a Montreal-based International Festival. He returns to England with a lunchtime composer, musician and producer. She is known equally for her recital at the BBC Chamber Proms on 22 August. piano, organ, and keyboard work as she is for her experimental electronic projects. Often her work integrates the two, blurring www.louislortie.com | www.wigmorehall.org.uk

the lines between traditional composition and research-based Photo © Élias Photographies www.fib.no | www.bbc.co.uk/proms modernism.

www.sunblind.net | www.soundcloud.com/klissay www.stjohnsessions.co.uk Kara-Lis Coverdale. Photo © Rafael Marines Music 04 MAY– AUG 2016 05

Liverpool Sound City & UK Tour More from Québec at The Great Escape POP Montreal, Wake Island, Jesse Mac Cormack, L.A. Foster, Foxtrott Milk & Bone, Essaie Pas, M for Montreal

13 – 31 May 19 - 21 May Various venues across the UK Brighton, UK (See listings pages 20 – 21) (See listings pages 20 – 21)

POP Montreal Jesse One of Québec’s premiere metropolitan cultural events, POP Montreal, is hosting its first ever MacCormack European tour, bringing two of Montreal’s finest rising acts, electronic duo Wake Island and For the last three R&B artist L.A. Foster to these shores. The POP Off Europe tour takes in seven shows, including years, singer-songwriter, showcases at The Great Escape (20 May), Liverpool Sound City (29 May), with whom POP musician and producer Montreal are recipients of the QC-UK Cultural Cooperation Fund, and Focus Wales (13 May) Jesse MacCormack has festivals. Both acts will play three shows in support of fellow Montrealer, FOXTROTT. collaborated with several artists on the Montreal music

Wake Island Photo © Joanni Grenier scene, including Emilie & Ogden, Based in Montreal and New York City, Wake Island was Melanie Boulay and Rosie Valland. His first EP,Music For The formed by Lebanese musicians Philippe Manasseh and Soul, delivers a very personal sound. Jesse’s live performances Nadim Maghzal. The band fearlessly blends electronic are honest, minimalist and at times tinged with electronic textures. dance music with indie-rock songwriting to create a positive, uplifting experience. Their new album, OUT, is Milk & Bone released on 30 April through Oh Hi, an artist collective Formed by Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin

Photo © Zoé Joly-Lopez they co-founded in Montreal. (both accomplished studio and touring musicians), Milk & Bone (background image) released their debut album, Little Mourning, last March. Their tightly-knit bond, palpable L.A. Foster in concert and throughout the album, is a key part of their creative process. Made up of Performer, DJ and radio host L.A. Foster served time electronic textures and layered synths, Milk & Bone’s sonic universe distinguishes itself from as a member of Montreal’s Karneef, and as second the electro-pop genre thanks to their perfectly-paired vocal colours. They also play Birthdays vocalist in Mozart’s Sister. However, late last year was music venue in London on 25 May. the first time that Foster released music under her own name. The EP, Saudade, blends influences from Essaie Pas her travels with elements of cumbia and reggaeton Montreal-based electronic duo Essaie Pas is comprised of Marie

brushing up against early 90s soul and house. Photo © Daniella Mussels Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, both respected musicians in their own right. Their debut LP, Nuit de noce (2013), a mix of drawling Foxtrott guitars, français mumbles, and minimal electronics, caught the ear of FOXTROTT is the sole musical domain of one Marie- DFA Records who booked the pair to open for Factory Floor on their

Helene Delorme, a self-taught singer, songwriter and Photo © www.john-londono.com first North American tour. producer from Montreal. Originally releasing remixes and supplying beats for other local talents, she broke M for Montreal cover as FOXTROTT with her 2012 debut, Shields, an Through both their annual November event in Montreal and their ‘M on the Road’ showcase emotionally arresting three-track EP. Profile shows at series, M for Montreal has become a key player in the career development of Québec’s up- Pop Montreal and M for Montreal followed in 2013, and and-coming indie-rock artists. On 21 May, they return to the Great Escape with another special

in their wake came attention from Noisey and NME, showcase at the Komedia Studio Bar, which will include the above Québec acts and Ontario Milk & Bone. Photo © Le Pigeon flagging FOXTROTT as one to watch. band Chastity.

www.popmontreal.com | www.wakeislandmusic.com www.soundcloud.com/jesse-mac-cormack | www.milkandbone.mu www.soundcloud.com/lafoster www.essaiepas.bandcamp.com | www.mformontreal.com | www.greatescapefestival.com

Photo © Richard Lam www.iamfoxtrott.com | www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk Music Music MAY– AUG 2016 06 07 Rufus Marc-André Hamelin

Wainwright 19 June 2 August Wigmore Hall Oxford Piano Festival 31 May – 20 July London, UK Oxford, UK Various venues across Norway,

the UK and Ireland Marc-André Hamelin’s technical prowess allows him to (See listings pages 20 – 21 mine the deepest layers of musical meaning. The world- or visit www.rufuswainwright.com) renowned pianist opens his latest Wigmore Hall recital with works that run the gamut of Liszt’s creative thinking, from Photo © Fran Kaufman the sheer originality of Apparition No. 1 to the compelling Affectionately referred to by Elton John as showmanship of his Réminiscences de Norma. He also offers a selection of Liapunov’s fiendishly “the greatest songwriter on the planet” and difficultÉtudes d’exécution transcendante. praised by the New York Times for his ‘genuine originality’, Montreal’s Rufus Wainwright has At the Oxford Piano Festival he performs the first two rhapsodic sonatas of Russian composer established himself as one of the great male Samuel Feinberg alongside the brooding ‘Appassionata’ Sonata of Beethoven. vocalists and songwriters of his generation. His live album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie www.marcandrehamelin.com | www.wigmorehall.org.uk Hall was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. www.oxfordphil.com/events/piano-festival Musically, he has collaborated with artists including Elton John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys and

Photo © Matthias Clamer producer Mark Ronson, among others. Architek Percussion, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Half Moon Run Adam Basanta, & Mira Benjamin 17 June Bergenfest 7 August Bergen, Norway Union Chapel

London, UK Architek Percussion: & Peter Duinker Photo © Alex Tran Montreal-based quartet Half Moon Run recently released their incredibly assured The NU:NORD 2016 Summer Exhibition will present works second album, Sun Leads Me On, and by their resident artists in an all-day concert and showcase, following their sold-out tour of our territory in with highlight performances by Architek Percussion, in the spring, they head to Norway this June. collaboration with musicians from the London Contemporary

Orchestra Soloists and violinist Mira Benjamin. Featured Written mostly between Montreal and California, Québec composers Isaiah Ceccarelli and Adam Basanta will Sun Leads Me On was recorded at the historic have new works performed, alongside work by 13 colleagues Bathhouse Studios in Ontario with acclaimed from across Canada, Norway & the UK. British producer Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele). The album follows two years of NU:NORD is a project-based music and performing art international touring which saw both their debut network that engages new-music creators from Canada, album, Dark Eyes (2012), rocket past gold status Norway and the UK. in Canada and the group become a celebrated live act. www.architekpercussion.com | www.isaiahceccarelli.com

www.adambasanta.com | www.mirabenjamin.com Isaiah Ceccarelli: Photo © Oliver Krähenbüh

Photo © Yani Clarke Photo © Yani www.halfmoonrun.com | www.bergenfest.no www.nunord.net Music Music 08 MAY– AUG 2016 09

Førde Traditional and World Music Festival Edinburgh International Festival

6 – 10 July monumental Førde, Norway Godspeed You! Beatrice Deer Black Emperor and Evie Mark 8 - 9 August Edinburgh Playhouse The Inuit artists Beatrice Deer and Evie Mark will take part in a brave, new music production for the Edinburgh, UK festival. On 8 July, they will perform as part of an Arctic Ice concert, presenting Inuit musicians from monumental has been hailed as a landmark in contemporary dance, bringing together two the coldest parts of the globe. The concert will be of Canada’s most uncompromising performing arts groups, Montreal’s Godspeed You! Black performed in collaboration with the world’s only ice Emperor and Vancouver’s The Holy Body Tattoo. musician, Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset, together with two fellow Norwegian sami singers Nine dancers writhe furiously on pedestals, obsessively enacting the gestures of everyday life, and a throat singer from Tuva in Russia. caught in the machinations of love, war, chaos and death. A live eight piece rock band pounds expansive, mesmeric music. Rolling text recasts gruesome descriptions of violence as seductive

www.beatricedeerband.com Image courtesy of the artist Beatrice Deer. advertising slogans. The result is violent, cathartic, horrifyingly beautiful.

Photo © Yannick Grandmont Photo © Yannick www.cstrecords.com/gybe | www.eif.co.uk

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin

25 August Usher Hall Edinburgh, UK

Photo © guytheguy After the great success of their appearance at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2014, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic La Bottine Souriante Orchestra return to the festival with an exciting The Québécois ‘super group’ performed at the very first Førde festival in 1990 and are now programme of works. Accompanied by mezzo-soprano returning with a larger line-up and a new energy. They will take part in the big Gala concert on 9 Sarah Connolly, the widely acclaimed Québec conductor July, and perform the closing concert of the festival in its largest venue, Førde’s Culture House, will lead the orchestra through an enchanting and on 10 July. memorable concert of Alma Mahler’s Songs and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 (Cooke completion). The ten-man strong Bottine has developed a distinctive sound that successfully allies its homage to tradition with a dash of jazz, salsa and pure folk, while at the same time perfectly Nézet-Séguin is a powerful figure on the world’s music representing the vitality and pride of its Québec culture. stage, known for combining blistering energy with a flair for sumptuous sound. www.bottinesouriante.com

Photo © Marco Borggreve www.yanicknezetseguin.com | www.eif.co.uk www.fordefestival.no

Theatre Theatre 10 MAY– AUG 2016 11

Erect but Unstable Needles and Opium – Hard Times Ex Machina/Robert Lepage

John Sweet 7 - 16 July

Barbican Theatre 23 - 29 May London, UK Brighton Fringe Sweet Dukebox Boundary-pushing Québécois theatre-maker Robert Brighton, UK Lepage takes inspiration from the lives of Jean Cocteau and Miles Davis to explore addiction, disorientation Nominated as Best New Work at the 2014 Prague and creativity. During a hypnotic series of vignettes Fringe Festival, John Sweet brings his comedic played out within an ingeniously tilting cube, Lepage cabaret of monologues and spoken word to Brighton, imagines a meeting between the French writer and Photo © Mike Geffner examining queer love and relationships, sexual filmmaker Cocteau and the American musician Davis. awakening and obsession. Accompany John on his journey through Montreal’s gay village, The characters float and slide through time and space, with side trips to science, religion and psychiatry, in search of some answers about sex and from a Parisian hotel room to New York streets. attraction. First conceived by Lepage early in his career, this landmark piece combining filmic projections and a jazz www.brightonfringe.org soundtrack is performed in English and some French, with accompanying English subtitles.

Photo © Nicola-F Vachon www.lacaserne.net | www.barbican.org.uk Phaedra(s)

Wajdi Mouawad Ubu on the Table

9 - 18 June Barbican Theatre La Pire Espèce London, UK 3 - 28 August Edinburgh Festival Fringe Including original material developed in collaboration Venue 26, Summerhall with gifted Lebanese-Québécois playwright Wajdi Mouawad, this Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe Edinburgh, UK production is based on the provocative text of Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, with extracts from J M With hundreds of performances already around the Coetzee’s novel Elizabeth Costello. world, this is the UK debut of Ubu on the Table for acclaimed Québécois company La Pire Espèce. Embodying one of Greek mythology’s most enigmatic characters, French screen and stage actress Isabelle In this award-winning adaptation of King Ubu by Alfred Huppert makes a rare London appearance to play Jarry, anything goes as Poland’s fate is sealed on a table Phaedra, her story relocated to a modern world. top. Starring the Bottle as Père Ubu, the Hammer as Phaedra burns with illicit desire for her stepson. Bordure, the Big Teapot as King Wenceslas, assorted But even in the closest physical proximity, her kitchen equipment finds a new life as two performers loved one remains as inaccessible as ever. hammer out a small-scale fresco of grandiose

buffoonery. Performed in French with English subtitles. www.pire-espece.com | www.summerhall.co.uk

www.wajdimouawad.fr | www.barbican.org.uk Photo © Jean-Louis Fernandez Photo © Djeyo / Le Clou dans la Planche www.edfringe.com Dance DANCE 12 MAY– AUG 2016 13

The Waiting Room Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge George Stamos & HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS

4 - 18 June Marie Chouinard

Broadway Cinema, Gallery Space 20 – 21 June Nottingham, UK Sadler’s Wells London, UK This video installation sees Quentin Crisp’s enduring expressions in conversation with Stamos’ nude offering of casual sexuality, revealing a dialogue between bodies Marie Chouinard, one of the world’s most daring and original choreographers, presents a outside the aesthetics of popular culture or morality. The double bill of dance in this UK premiere. The first piece,Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge, Image courtesy of the artist Waiting Room celebrates how Crisp’s power existed not only explores different tempos, from frantic pace to extreme slowness, through various forms of in his witty tongue and effeminate appearance but also in his patience, grace and curiosity. The perambulation. In HENRI MICHAUX: MOUVEMENTS, Chouinard decrypts images from a book of Waiting Room is a tribute to Quentin Crisp, an evoking of Stamos’ former self as a go-go boy India-ink drawings by Michaux, reinterpreting them in an ingenious meeting of dance and visual and a dispelling of shame. arts.

On 10 June in the same venue, George Stamos will be in conversation with Dr Richard Hornsey, Multi-award winning Chouinard, has created dozens Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Nottingham to discuss ideas around how of works since her debut, Crystalization, in 1978. morality, homosexuality and shame have shifted over time. She founded Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 1990 and since then the company has Suitable for 18+ presented work all around the world as well as producing with some of the www.georgestamos.org | www.dance4.co.uk world’s major festivals and institutions.

www.mariechouinard.com

My dog in a parallel universe Photo © Frederick Duchesne www.sadlerswells.com Audrée Juteau, Robin Pineda Gould, Sonya Stefan

11 June Dramatikkens Hus Oslo, Norway

Photo © Sonya Stefan

A collaboration between performer/choreographer Audrée Juteau and the filmmaker Robin Pineda Gould,My dog in a Photo © Lasse Marhaug parallel universe is a dance film created from video archives of the creation process of the dance work Poisson, a duet between a dog and a human. With no literal narrative, the film footage used was shot by cinematographer Sonya Stefan, as well as taken from Juteau’s own archives.

The film will be presented as part ofParallel Lives, a ten-hour performance by Jonas Corell Peterson at the Dramatikkens Hus in Oslo.

www.audreejuteau.com | www.sonyastefan.com | www.dramatikkenshus.no Circus Cinema & Television MAY– AUG 2016 14 15 BARBU Québec on TV5Monde Cirque Alfonse In the UK via Sky 796 and Virgin 825 with English subtitles

15 June - 25 September London Wonderground, Southbank Raymond Gravel, un sacré curé London, UK (Documentary) Monday 2 May at 11.30am A focus on the socially engaged priest Garnering five-star reviews with its premiere Raymond Gravel known for his outspoken at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, now opinion about the Church, but also for his BARBU comes to London for an incredible 15- acceptance of homosexuality and his foray week run. Packed with astonishing acrobatics and perfectly-groomed beards, this is cabaret but into politics. not as you know it. Performed by one of the world’s greatest circus companies, Québec’s Cirque Raymond Gravel, un sacré curé. Photo © Sebastien Arbour Alfonse (the troupe behind 2013’s madcap lumberjack circus Timber!), this is a spectacularly raucous and sexy circus that takes edge-of-your-seat, off-the-wall entertainment to a whole other Les persévérants level. Set to a heart-thumping score, circus and mayhem collide to wow you in this adventure of (Documentary series) almighty skills and muscly torsos. Wednesdays 4 May – 8 June at 11.30am For 13 weeks, five professionals shadow Photo © Idil Sukan www.cirquealfonse.com | www.londonwonderground.co.uk nine teenagers aged 13 to 15 who are at risk Competition: For a chance to win a pair of tickets to Barbu’s opening night on Wednesday of dropping out of school and society. They 15 June, visit our website www.quebec.org.uk Entries close on Friday 27 May. Good luck! have one goal; to give them the tools they need to succeed in life.

Les persévérants. Photo © Distribution Ranch Media Inc Mon meilleur ami Attrape-Moi (Drama series) Tuesdays 24 May – 6 June at 8pm Flip Fabrique Simon and Alex, best friends and inseparable since childhood have a common 4 – 29 August passion: rock climbing. One day, during a Edinburgh Festival Fringe training session, a clumsy Simon causes Alex to fall, and it’s serious. Assembly Hall Edinburgh, UK Vertige Mon meilleur ami. Photo © Bertrand Calmeau (Drama) Attrape-Moi (Catch me!) involves twirling Tuesdays 13 – 27 June at 8pm hoops, dancing with diabolos, and soaring Daphne Roussel has been in a coma for three through the air – all in a day’s play for Flip months. Among her friends and relatives, FabriQue, the new face of Québec circus. High everyone is worried, but not necessarily for flying, fearless, and fun, these young artist- the same reasons, because in her close circle athletes astound audiences with adrenaline- secrets are many and not always of good pumping feats of cutting-edge nouveau intention. cirque, dazzling in a crowd-pleasing spectacle of extreme acrobatics, dramatic turns on a trampoline wall, and inventive parkour. www.tv5monde.co.uk Vertige. Photo © Pixcom International Inc. This is a virtuoso display of athleticism and showmanship for the whole family.

www.flipfabrique.com

Photo © Flip FabriQue www.assemblyfestival.com Visual Arts Visual Arts 16 MAY– AUG 2016 17

Electronic Superhighway The Cyphers (2016 – 1966) Hajra Waheed Jon Rafman Until 30 May Until 15 May BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Whitechapel Gallery Gateshead, UK Kurt Schwitters Bar , 2013. Schwitters Kurt Photo © Gemma Donovan London, UK The Cyphers is Hajra Waheed’s largest solo exhibition to Jon Rafman is a Montreal artist, filmmaker and essayist date and her first in the UK, expanding upon her recent whose work examines the effects of contemporary project Still Against the Sky with a series of drawings, technology, particularly on interpersonal relationships. collages, videos and photo-based works. The exhibition His recent solo exhibitions include Jon Rafman at The continues Waheed’s ongoing research into the ever Zabludowicz Collection and The Nine Eyes of Google increasing militarisation of the sky, where the circulation Streetview at the Saatchi Gallery, both in London. of military drones and surveillance technology extend over

Photos: Colin Davison © 2016 BALTIC everyday life, often with lethal consequences. Until 15 May, his work will be included in a major Monet Economy Class , 2013. Monet Economy Photo © Gemma Donovan exhibition, Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966), Recipient of the prestigious 2014 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding bringing together over 100 works and exploring the impact of computer and internet achievement as a Canadian mid-career visual artist, Waheed’s works can be found in a number technologies on artists from the mid-1960s to the present day. of permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the British Museum in London. www.jonrafman.com | www.whitechapelgallery.org www.hajrawaheed.com | www.balticmill.com

Lumières de l’Inde Artêria Gallery (Lights of India) 16 – 19 June Caroline Tabah Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead (Lower Fairground Site) London, UK 23 May - 3 June Nehru Centre, High Commission of India Artêria Gallery returns to the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead in June, once again introducing London, UK the highest standard and diversity of Québec contemporary artwork to a British audience.

Since its establishment in 2007, the gallery has exhibited work by Québec artists at over 40

international art fairs in 16 countries. Representing emerging and mid career artists, Artêria Caroline Tabah is an author, screenwriter, filmmaker, specialises in painting, photography, sculpture and glass. designer, director and photographer based in Montreal. This time, the exhibiting artists will include Annabelle Marquis, Claire Poiré, Jean Gaudet, Consisting of fifty photographs, the exhibition Lumières Moriello and Sylvie Adams. de l’Inde (Lights of India) represents Tabah’s quest for light in all its forms, whether it be the light from the sun, Several Artêria Gallery works are currently on display at the Québec Government Office in the light which animates the look of a street child, the London. Please contact our cultural team if you would like to arrange a viewing. light that shines on film sets, that of beauty, spirituality, hope, and even that which is hidden in despair. www.arteriagallery.com | www.affordableartfair.com Passionate about India, especially its arts and cinema, she walked the streets of Varanasi, Mumbai, Goa, Pondicherry, Pune, Agra and Chidambaram taking these photographs, which are accompanied by poetic reflections.

Photo © Caroline Tabah www.carolinetabah.com | www.nehrucentre.org.uk Sylvie Adams

Annabelle Marquis Claire Poiré Jean Gaudet Moriello Sylvie Adams Festivals & Events in Québec 2016 18 19 See below a selection of the 400 festivals and events Québec hosts each year. They all welcome international delegates and industry professionals.

Salon du Livre de Montréal Festival Suoni Per il Popolo Le Festival de Casteliers CINARS Salon du Livre de Montréal. Photo © Jean-Guy Thibodeau Suoni Per Il Popolo. Pierre Langlois Le Festival Castel iers. : Pavillon des Immortels heureux © Marcelle Hudon CINARS. Photo Michel Pinault

14 July – 2 August 2016 5 – 16 October 2016 10 – 20 November 2016 30 June - 9 July 2016 1 – 3 July 2016 28 – 31 July 2016

MA Le Festival international Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Rencontres Internationales du Festival International de Jazz Chants de Vielles Festival Osheaga & MEG Pro Traditional Music www.osheaga.com/pro de films Fantasia www.nouveaucinema.ca Documentaire de Montréal MUSIC de Montréal www.montrealjazzfest.com www.chantsdevielles.com CIN e www.fantasiafestival.com www.ridm.qc.ca

February 2017 (dates TBC) March 2017 (dates TBC) March 2017 (dates TBC) 1 - 4 September 2016 8 – 10 September 2016 21 – 25 September 2016

MA Les Rendez-vous du cinéma FIFA Regard sur le court métrage Festival de musique émergente Envol et Macadam Pop Montréal en Abitibi-Témiscamingue Emerging Music www.popmontreal.com québécois International Festival of Films au Saguenay MUSIC www.fmeat.org www.envoletmacadam.com

CIN e www.rvcq.com on Art International Short Film Festival www.artfifa.com www.regardsurlecourt.com

7 – 17 July 2016 16 – 30 July 2016 31 May – 4 June 2016 15 -18 November 2016 16 – 19 November 2016 26 May – 9 June 2016 Montréal Complètement Just For Laughs IX 2016 Mundial Montreal M pour Montréal Festival TransAmériques World Music Indie Rock Showcase Theatre/Dance Cirque www.hahaha.com International Symposium on MUSIC CIRCUS

www.montrealcomplete COM E DY Immersive Experiences www.mundialmontreal.com www.mpourmontreal.com www.fta.qc.ca mentcirque.com www.ix.sat.qc.ca DIGITAL ARTS DIGITAL P E RFORMING ARTS

1 – 5 June 2016 1 – 5 June 2016 3 June – 3 July 2016 30 May – 8 June 2016 14 – 19 November 2016 16 – 18 November 2016 MUTEK ELEKTRA International Digital Arts Biennial OFFTA CINARS Fringe World Congress www.mutek.org www.elektrafestival.ca www.bianmontreal.ca Live Art Festival Performing Arts Biennial www.fringeworldcongress.com www.offta.com www.cinars.org DIGITAL ARTS DIGITAL P E RFORMING ARTS

16 – 21 November 2016 April 2016 (dates TBC) April 2017 (dates TBC) 12 – 16 February 2017 25 May – 11 June 2016 24 – 31 August 2016 Salon du Livre de Montréal Metropolis Bleu Salon du Livre de Québec Rideau Carrefour international de Dramaturgies en Dialogue www.salondulivrede www.bluemetropolis.org www.silq.ca www.rideau-inc.qc.ca theatre (CEAD)

montreal.com E TH E ATR www.carrefourtheatre.qc.ca www.cead.qc.ca E LIT E RATUR P E RFORMING ARTS

10 – 18 September 2016 February 2017 (dates TBC) 4 – 7 May 2016 25 – 27 August 2016 March 2017 (dates TBC) 19 October 2016 – 15 January Les Escales improbables Mois Multi Conférence Trad Montréal & Festival du théâtre de rue de Le Festival de Casteliers 2017 Multidisciplinary Digital Arts Lachine Puppetry de Montréal MUSIC La Grande Rencontre La Biennale de Montréal

www.escalesimprobables.com www.mmrectoverso.org/fr/ www.espacetrad.org E TH E ATR www.theatrederue.com www.casteliers.ca www.bnlmtl.org mois-multi 10e FESTIVAL de

CASTELIERS VISUAL ARTS MARIONNETTES POUR ADULTES ET ENFANTS MULTIDISCIPLINARY

18 – 21 May 2016 June 2016 (dates TBC) 2 – 20 June 2016 February – May 2017 (dates TBC) 6 - 15 May 2016 13 – 20 November 2016 Opera America Conference Cartel Montréal Festival Suoni Per il Popolo Manif d’art Les Petits Bonheurs Les Coups de Théâtre www.operademontreal.com Contemporary Music Experimental Music www.manifdart.org Arts Festival for 0-6 years MUSIC Biennial Festival www.levivier.ca www.suoniperilpopolo.org www.petitsbonheurs.ca www.coupsdetheatre.com VISUAL ARTS YOUNG AUDI E NC Events MAY – AUGUST 2016 Confirmed dates at time of publication, see websites for more details.

ONGOING June

Ongoing Cinema & Le Journal de Radio- TV5Monde UK Sky 796 and Virgin 825 4 June Music Rufus Wainwright Brighton Dome Brighton, UK 01273 709709 Television Canada www.telefrance.co.uk Concert Hall www.brightondome.org Every day @ 7am 4 - 18 Dance George Stamos Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK 0115 9410773 Ongoing Theatre Just for Laughs Harold Pinter Theatre London, UK 0844 871 7627 The Waiting Room Gallery Space www.dance4.co.uk Theatricals www. Sunny Afternoon sunnyafternoonthemusical.com 5 Music Rufus Wainwright Millenium Centre Cardiff, UK 029 2063 6464 www.wmc.org.uk Ongoing Theatre Just for Laughs Adelphi Theatre London, UK 0844 412 4651 Theatricals www.kinkybootsmusical.co.uk 9 - 18 Theatre Wajdi Mouawad Barbican Theatre London, UK 020 7638 8891 Kinky Boots Phaedra(s) www.barbican.org.uk May 13 - 27 Cinema & Vertige (Drama series) TV5Monde UK Sky 796 and Virgin 825 Television Tuesdays @ 8pm www.tv5monde.co.uk Until 15 Visual Arts Jon Rafman The Whitechapel London, UK 020 7522 7888 Theatre Just for Laughs Electronic Superhighway From 14 Playhouse Theatre London, UK 0844 871 7631 May Gallery www.whitechapelgallery.org Theatricals www.1984theplay.co.uk (2016 – 1966) 1984 The Play Until 15 Visual Arts Rafael Lozano-Hemmer The Whitechapel London, UK 020 7522 7888 15 June – Circus Cirque Alfonse London London, UK 0844 545 8282 May Electronic Superhighway Gallery www.whitechapelgallery.org 25 Sept BARBU Wonderground, www.londonwonderground.co.uk (2016 – 1966) Southbank Until 21 Theatre Just for Laughs UK Tour UK 11 Dance Audrée Juteau, Robin Dramatikkens Hus Oslo, Norway +47 22 05 90 60 May Theatricals www.hairsprayuktour.com Pineda Gould, Sonya www.dramatikkenshus.no Hairspray Stefan Until 30 Visual Arts Hajra Waheed BALTIC Centre for Gateshead, UK 0191 478 1810 My dog in a parallel May The Cyphers Contemporary Art www.balticmill.com universe 16 - 19 Visual Arts Artêria Gallery @ Hampstead London, UK 020 8246 4848 1 May Music Quatuor Bozzini Caroli Borås, Sweden www.quatuorbozzini.ca Affordable Art Fair www.affordableartfair.com Församlingshem 17 Music Half Moon Run Bergenfest Bergen, Norway +47 55 21 50 60 2 Cinema & Raymond Gravel, Un Sacré TV5Monde UK Sky 796 and Virgin 825 www.bergenfest.no Television Curé (Documentary) www.tv5monde.co.uk @ 11.30am 19 Music Marc-André Hamelin Wigmore Hall London, UK 020 7935 2141 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 5 Music Tim Hecker & Kara-Lis St John at Hackney London, UK Coverdale @ St John www.stjohnsessions.co.uk 20 - 21 Dance Marie Chouinard Sadler’s Wells London, UK 020 7863 8000 Sessions Series Soft virtuosity, still humid, www.sadlerswells.com 5 May – 8 Cinema & Les Persévérants TV5Monde UK Sky 796 and Virgin 825 on the edge & HENRI June Television (Documentary series) www.tv5monde.co.uk MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS Wednesdays @ 11.30am July 8 Music Le Vent du Nord Baltimore Fiddle Fair Baltimore, Co. 00353 86 3753380 Cork, Ireland www.fiddlefair.com 7 – 16 Theatre Ex Machina/Robert Barbican Theatre London, UK 020 7638 8891 July Lepage www.barbican.org.uk 9 Music Le Vent du Nord Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar, Co. 00353 94 902 3733 Needles and Opium Mayo, Ireland www.thelinenhall.com 8 Music Beatrice Deer & Evie Mark Førde Traditional and Førde, Norway +47 97 50 33 11 10 Music Le Vent du Nord Letterkenny Regional Letterkenny, 00353 74 912 0777 Arctic Ice Concert World Music Festival www.fordefestival.no Cultural Centre Co. Donegal, www.regionalculturalcentre.com Ireland 9 Music La Bottine Souriante Førde Traditional and Førde, Norway +47 97 50 33 11 Gala Concert World Music Festival www.fordefestival.no 11 Music Le Vent du Nord The Sugar Club Dublin, Ireland 00353 1 678 7188 www.thesugarclub.com 10 Music La Bottine Souriante Førde Traditional and Førde, Norway +47 97 50 33 11 Closing Concert World Music Festival www.fordefestival.no 12 Music Le Vent du Nord The Dock Carrick-on- 00353 71 965 0828 Shannon, Co. www.thedock.ie 15 Music Rufus Wainwright Symphony Hall Birmingham, UK 0121 780 3333 Leitrim, Ireland www.thsh.co.uk

13 Music Le Vent du Nord Glór Theatre Ennis, Co. Clare, 00353 65 684 3103 18 Music Rufus Wainwright Colston Hall Bristol, UK 0844 887 1500 Ireland www.glor.ie www.colstonhall.org 13 Music L.A. Foster & Wake Island Undegun Wrexham, UK 20 Music Rufus Wainwright National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland + 353 (0)1 417 0000 @ Focus Wales Festival www.focuswales.com www.nch.ie 14 Music Le Vent du Nord Courthouse Arts Tinahely, Co. 00353 402 38529 24 Music Le Vent du Nord Warwick Folk Festival Warwick, UK 01926 776438 Centre Wicklow, www.courthousearts.ie www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk Ireland 25 Music Le Vent du Nord East Riding Theatre Beverley, UK 01482 874050 15 Music Le Vent du Nord The Model Sligo, Ireland 00353 71 914 1405 www.eastridingtheatre.co.uk www.themodel.ie 26 Music Le Vent du Nord Waterside Arts Manchester, UK 0161 9125616 17 Cinema & Retour à Hochelaga TV5Monde UK Sky 796 and Virgin 825 Centre www.watersideartscentre.co.uk Television (Documentary) www.tv5monde.co.uk @ 5.35pm 27 Music Le Vent du Nord Cottiers Theatre Glasgow, UK 0141 357 5825 www.cottiers.com 17 Music L.A. Foster & Wake Island The Water Rats London, UK 020 7833 3312 @ CIMA The Great Escape www.thewaterrats.co.uk 28 Music Le Vent du Nord Assembly Rooms Ludlow, UK 01584 878 141 Pre-Show www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk 19 Music FOXTROTT @ The Great The Arch Brighton, UK www.greatescapefestival.com 29 - 30 Music Le Vent du Nord Cambridge Folk Cherry Hinton, 01223 357851 Escape Festival UK www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk 20 Music L.A. Foster & Wake Island The Green Door Store Brighton, UK www.greatescapefestival.com @ The Great Escape August 20 Music Louis Lortie Wigmore Hall London, UK 020 7935 2141 2 Aug Music Le Vent du Nord Sidmouth Folk Week Sidmouth, UK www.wigmorehall.org.uk www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk 21 Music Jesse Mac Cormack @ Patterns Upstairs Brighton, UK www.greatescapefestival.com 2 Music Marc-André Hamelin Oxford Piano Festival Oxford Piano 01865 987 222 The Great Escape Festival www.oxfordphil.com 21 Music M for Montreal showcase Komedia Studio Bar Brighton, UK www.greatescapefestival.com 3 - 28 Theatre La Pire Espèce Venue 26, Edinburgh, UK 0131 560 1580 @ The Great Escape Ubu on the Table @ Summerhall www.summerhall.co.uk (Jesse Mac Cormack, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Milk & Bone, Essaie Pas, Chastity) 4 - 29 Circus Flip FabriQue Assembly Hall Edinburgh, UK 0131 623 3030 Attrape-Moi @ Edinburgh www.assemblyfestival.com 23 - 29 Theatre John Sweet Sweet Dukebox Brighton, UK 01273 91 72 72 Festival Fringe Erect but Unstable – Hard www.brightonfringe.org Times @ Brighton Fringe 5 Music Le Vent du Nord Wickham Festival Wickham, UK www.wickhamfestival.co.uk 23 May – Visual Arts Caroline Tabah Nehru Centre, High London, UK 020 7491 3567 7 Music Architek Percussion, Union Chapel London, UK 3 June Lumières de l’Inde (Lights Commission of India www.nehrucentre.org.uk Isaiah Ceccarelli, Adam www.nunord.net of India) Photography Basanta, Mira Benjamin Exhibition NU:NORD 2016 Summer Exhibition 24 May – Cinema & Mon Meilleur Ami TV5Monde UK Sky 796 and Virgin 825 6 June Television (Drama series) www.tv5monde.co.uk 8 - 9 Music Godspeed You! Black Edinburgh Playhouse Edinburgh, UK 0131 473 2000 Tuesdays @ 8pm Emperor (with the Holy www.eif.co.uk Body Tattoo) 25 Music Milk & Bone Birthdays London, UK 020 7923 1680 Monumental @ Edinburgh www.birthdaysdalston.com International Festival 25 Music L.A. Foster, Wake Island & Queen of Hoxton London, UK 020 7422 0958 21 Music Le Vent du Nord Beautiful Days Devon, UK FOXTROTT www.queenofhoxton.com Festival www.beautifuldays.org 28 Music Louis Lortie Bergen International Bergen, Norway +47 55 21 06 30 22 Music Louis Lortie BBC Chamber Proms, London, UK 020 7589 8212 Festival www.fib.no Royal Albert Hall www.royalalberthall.com 29 Cinema & The Living – Longyearbyen TV5Monde UK Sky 796 and Virgin 825 23 Music Le Vent du Nord Cecil Sharp House London, UK 020 7485 2206 Television (Documentary) www.tv5monde.co.uk www.cecilsharphouse.org @ 6.15pm 24 Music Le Vent du Nord Snape Proms Festival Aldeburgh, UK 01728 687110 29 Music POP Montreal showcase The Cargo Stage Liverpool, UK 0151 558 0422 www.aldeburgh.co.uk @ Liverpool Sound City www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk (L.A. Foster, Wake Island 25 Music Yannick Nézet-Séguin Usher Hall Edinburgh, UK 0131 473 2000 & FOXTROTT) conducts the Rotterdam www.eif.co.uk Philharmonic Orchestra 31 Music L.A. Foster, Wake Island & The Soup Manchester, UK 0161 236 5100 @ Edinburgh International FOXTROTT Kitchen www.soup-kitchen.co.uk Festival 31 Music Rufus Wainwright Natjazz Festival Bergen, Norway +47 55 30 72 50 26 Music Le Vent du Nord Ropetackle Centre Shoreham-by- 01273 464440 www.nattjazz.no Sea, UK www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk