UK – Ireland – Nordic Countries

UK – Ireland – Nordic Countries

September – December 2017 SEP – DEC 2017 01

Arts and Québec - Bonjour and welcome to our latest edition of Québec Homelessness British Council: Culture. in Montréal 15 years

As always, we are delighted to share the wonderful array With One Voice is an of cultural of Québec culture coming to these shores over the next international movement that cooperation few months. This important presence is testament to seeks to strengthen and connect The Québec Government and the strength of our national relationships; something of the arts and homelessness sector through exchanges British Council are proud to particularly high value in the current international context in practice and policy. celebrate the 15th anniversary Photo © Asa Westerlund of upheaval and uncertainty. The arts, as we know, have Homelessness is not just about of their bilateral agreement an important role to play on the international scene housing. The use of the arts to support homeless people covering the areas of culture encouraging intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding with visibility, dignity, well-being and social inclusion and education. Although signed and value sharing. is widespread from choirs in Rio to dance companies in 2002, it has its roots in a in Tokyo. Such projects can also give homeless people relationship which dates back to People in Québec recognise the importance of the cultural sector as a basis for a voice, showing they exist and the importance of their 1980 when an exchange scheme affirming and propagating Québec identity, as well as for its economic and social experiences in shaping the future of homeless services for school language assistants, contribution. and related policies. which has seen over 1000 people take part to date, was put in With One Voice has been working in Canada and the USA The economic argument for public funding in culture is an important one. In Québec, place. since autumn 2016, mapping the sector and establishing the sector is responsible for 4.3% of GDP and 175,900 jobs. The Québec Government needs and challenges. We produced a North American Over 60 international cultural invests 1% of its annual budget to support the growth and development of this sector. Review of Arts and Homelessness (available online) exchange projects have received This is done with the backing of the population as shown in a recent survey which which found brilliant projects, organisations and people joint financial support over the revealed that 87% of Québécois value the work of artists as useful to society. in every place we visited. last 15 years. In Montréal we found more cultural and heritage projects Implemented to promote the One particularly eloquent example of this is the innovative and unsung work working with socially marginalised groups than in any creation and dissemination of happening in Montréal’s arts and homelessness sector: following the publication of other city in North America. These projects include cultural works, this programme their North American Review of Arts and Homelessness, With One Voice are doing EXEKO, Le Sac à Dos, St James Centre, Opéra de encourages cultural dialogue amazing work connecting this sector internationally and will be doing just that in Montréal and ATSA, whose project While Having Soup leading to better mutual Montréal this autumn. you can read about overleaf. understanding between the two societies. It enables cultural Our review found that, despite this excellent work, the We are also thrilled to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the cultural cooperation presence on the other’s territory, arts and homelessness sector is poorly resourced and the development of long-lasting between Québec and the British Council, a relationship which has fostered truly largely hidden from the public. To allow practitioners collaborative reciprocal projects. partnerships, the consolidation to create a greater voice for their work and to share of networks and the sharing of knowledge, we are holding an exchange for USA, cultural expertise. In this spirit of international cooperation, I hope that you will find much interest in Canadian and UK delegates including representatives these examples of the ways in which Québec is fostering cultural connections with the of NGOs, activists, practitioners, policy makers and The QC-UK Connections scheme wider world. As always, Maude and the cultural team would be delighted to hear from homeless people. The six-day event will take place in continues to grow, with the next you if there are any Québec-related projects you would like to discuss. November in Montréal, which we consider the current call for projects due in spring hub of best practice within the arts and homelessness 2018. Bonne lecture! sectors.

Christos Sirros – Agent-General, Québec Government Office in London Matt Peacock Director with-one-voice.com

Cultural Contacts Photo © Jean-François Lamoureux

Maude Laflamme Marie Morin Helen Morgan Director for Culture Cultural Attaché Project Manager [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Whilst every effort has been made to verify the accuracy This brochure should not be reproduced in full of the information in this brochure you are advised to or 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. , photo © Leif Norman Revolvers Cover: Myriam Bleau, Soft Public Engagement Multidisciplinary 02 SEP – DEC 2017 03 While Having Soup Staging Canada at Expo67

ATSA 1 – 4 November Various venues 2 – 3 September London, UK Freedom Festival Princes Dock Street This event, hosted by the Centre for Hull, UK Quebec and French-Canadian Studies in London, celebrates the 50th anniversary Hull Freedom Festival presents the of the most successful world’s fair of the UK premiere of While Having Soup, 20th century with a four-day event across ATSA’s public engagement piece where passers-by are invited to participate in a dialogue with London. a stranger using a locally-crafted ‘menu’ of conversation. The conversation lasts as long as it takes to eat a bowl of soup, and is recorded in the form of ‘poetic portraits’ which can be viewed Highlights include the UK premiere of documentary-thriller Expo67: Mission Impossible through outdoor projections during the festival and online thereafter. with director Guylaine Maroist, screenings of classic Québec films from the late 1960s, a 2-day academic symposium on Expo67 and world exhibitions, and a newly commissioned Founded by artists Annie Roy and Pierre Allard in 1997, ATSA produces transdisciplinary works performance of the forgotten multi-media masterpiece Miracles of Modern Medicine originally and events for the public realm born of a desire to raise public awareness of various social, produced for Expo’s Meditheatre. The event will conclude with a special programme of

Photo © Jean-François Lamoureux environmental and heritage issues. innovative Expo films at the BFI Southbank.

atsa.qc.ca | freedomfestival.co.uk modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-quebec-and-french-canadian-studies

Trophy STO Union Theatre

9 – 11 September Dublin Fringe Festival Nomad Soul Barnardo Square Dublin, Ireland Théâtre Magali Chouinard

Québec-based multi-disciplinary company STO Union joins forces with Sarah Conn, Allison 10 & 11 November O’Connor and Ireland-based collective Change of Address this September at Dublin Fringe The Creative School Festival. Silkeborg, Denmark

Walk through a pop-up city of stories. Comprised of a cluster of tents, Trophy lights up Magali Chouinard is a multidisciplinary artist whose Barnardo Square in the city centre. Inside each tent, encounter a person who tells the true story theatre of images is both unique and striking. of a moment in their life when everything changed. Trophy is a living monument to all the experiences that make up our lives, and a compelling conversation about how we all experience Nomad Soul, appearing in its Scandinavian premiere as Photo © Dahlia Katz change. part of the Festival of Wonder, is a theatre performance fringefest.com | stounion.com using images, masks and puppets. Inspired by the spirituality of native peoples, it is a breathless journey

Photo © Jean.Guy Lambert into our most intimate thoughts and impressions.

festivalofwonder.dk | magalichouinard.com Dance Dance 04 SEP – DEC 2017 05

Mercurial George BESIDE Dana Michel Marie Béland

22 – 23 September 21 October 5 November 15 November Bastard Festival Nuuk Nordisk Culture Festival iC4C Open Studio, Cardiff Dance Festival Trondheim, Norway Nuuk, Greenland Nottingham, UK Cardiff, UK

Dana Michel is a choreographer and performer whose work The final part of a trilogy,BESIDE uses a soundtrack of real-time mixes choreography, intuitive improvisation and performance radio and asks what happens if we look ‘beside’, if we bring the Sammy Rawal art. In 2014, she was highlighted amongst notable female outside inside the theatre. The piece is a collaboration with Montréal

Photo © choreographers of the year by the New York Times. Danse.

In Mercurial George the body wades through heaps of debris, vacillating as it struggles for Since its creation in 2005, the company maribé – sors de ce balance and a toehold. Bizarre, but also comical, Michel’s universe is bathed in childhood corps has produced a series of unique works. Choreographer naiveté and sacred mystery. Dana Michel breaks the mould. Marie Béland’s movement vocabulary draws together physical energy, absurd humour, pop culture, and audience involvement, danielleveilledanse.org in a juxtaposition of the senses that is as surprising as it is

Photo © MontrealDanse joyful. Daina Ashbee maribe.ca | dance4.co.uk | dance.wales Solo for Pieter

20 October Vertical Nuuk Nordisk Culture Festival, Nuuk, Greenland Le Patin Libre This new work is a collaboration between Daina Ashbee and Belgian choreographer Pieter Ampe. The two artists share a September sensitive body practice that explores our relationship with the land, with society, and with the world in which we live. BBC2 (date TBC) 8 November onwards Pour danceumbrella.co.uk

9 – 11 November Le Patin Libre’s debut piece Vertical Moving in November Festival, Stoa, Helsinki, Finland Influences premiered at London’s Dance Umbrella in 2014 and has gone on to In Pour, Ashbee explores the vulnerability and strength of women; she used her own thrill both dance and skating audiences menstrual cycle as the hub of her interest while creating the piece. As in her worldwide. Vertical, a film captured previous works, Ashbee has created a dark and disturbing piece which by Dance Umbrella for digital and live broadcast, will show the speed, daring and

Photo © Daina Ashbee confronts its audience. virtuosity of this Québec quintet and allow avantgarden.no/en/bastard-3 viewers to engage directly via the digital nuuknordisk.gl medium of their choice. movinginnovember.fi dainaashbee.com Commissioned by The Space with the

Photo © Rolline Laporte support of BBC and Arts Council England.

danceumbrella.co.uk | lepatinlibre.com CIRCUS Visual Arts 06 SEP – DEC 2017 07

Varekai Self Abstractions

Cirque du Soleil 14 September – 18 November Canada House Gallery 1 – 3 September 6 – 10 September 5 – 8 October 11 – 15 October London, UK Spektrum Malmö Arena Hartwall Arena Ericsson Globe Oslo, Norway Malmö, Sweden Helsinki, Finland Stockholm, Sweden An estimated 93 million ‘selfies’ are taken every day around the world. Faced with such an astonishing proliferation of self-portraits, some artists today are ‘One of the most persuasive presentations in the favouring a conceptual approach to representing Cirque du Soleil canon’ – the Independent themselves, using objects or gestures rather than Deep within a forest atop a volcano, exists an imagery. Québec artists Jannick Deslauriers, Marie- extraordinary world where anything is possible: Eve Levasseur, Nadia Myre and Jinny Yu are brought Varekai. From the sky falls a solitary young man, together in this exhibition for the creative ways in

and the story begins. On this day at the edge of Image © Marie-Eve Levasseur which they represent themselves. time, in this place of all possibilities, begins an inspired incantation to life rediscovered.

Photo: Perla Global Media, Costumes: Eiko Ishioka © 2015 Cirque du Soleil cirquedusoleil.com

Saloon The Tip of the Iceberg

Cirque Éloize 1 November – 25 November Art Bermondsey Project Space 4 – 21 October London, UK The Peacock Theatre London, UK The Tip of the Iceberg presents a sampling of 12 Canadian artists working through a variety of media. Since its formation in 1993, Cirque Éloize This includes nine from Québec : Patrick Bérubé, has become a world leader in contemporary Simon Bilodeau, Jannick Deslauriers, Karine Giboulo, circus, specialising in shows which fuse Guillaume Lachapelle, Laurent Lamarche, Marie-Eve circus arts with music, theatre and dance. Levasseur, Nadia Myre and Karine Payette

In 2017 the company blasts back into the These artists compel their viewers to take a West End with the UK premiere of its new prolonged look or a second perspective in order to show. Inspired by the rich legacy of the fully comprehend what they are presented with. By Wild West, thrums with infectious Saloon attempting to trick the viewer, the exhibition testifies energy and phenomenal physical feats. to the complexity of a world in constant flux and aims With a soundtrack of non-stop live folk to disavow initial preconceptions while promoting and country music including original prudent attention and critical concern. compositions by celebrated Québécois composer Éloi Painchaud, the production project-space.london is a foot-stomping, lasso-throwing night of artmur.com

Photo © Jim Mneymneh, courtesy of Cirque Éloize entertainment.

sadlerswells.com Image © Sonny Assu cirque-eloize.com Digital Arts Digital Arts 08 SEP – DEC 2017 09 Sonica 2017 Soft Revolvers Sonica is a year-round programme of events dedicated to world-class visual sonic arts, punctuated by a biennial autumn Myriam Bleau festival in Glasgow. 24 September Café Oto OMNIS London, UK

Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. She creates Maotik audiovisual systems that go beyond the screen, such as sound installations and performance- specific musical interfaces. 28 October is a much-acclaimed audiovisual performance for four spinning tops made from Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium Soft Revolvers clear acrylic. Each top is associated with an ‘instrument’ in an electronic music composition and Glasgow, UK the motion data collected by sensors – placed inside the tops – informs musical algorithms.

OMNIS is a live audiovisual performance, immersing the audience in a sensory experience Photo © Devin McAdam myriambleau.com | cafeoto.co.uk where a series of optical illusions and reverberations challenge the viewer’s sense of space and time. Digital artist Mathieu Le Sourd (Maotik) creates immersive multimedia environments and Lumiere Durham generative visuals. His large-scale projects include the multimedia experience in the new

Maotik terminal at Los Angeles airport and the visuals for Nine Inch Nails’ world tour. © Daniel Iregui & Rami Bebawi

Photo As well as performing, he will be giving two public masterclasses at Sonica. 16 – 19 November Durham, UK

Field Light installations by Québec artists Rami Bebawi, partner and cofounder at architecture firm KANVA, and Daniel Iregui, founder of interactive content creation practice Irregular, will be Martin Messier among the works illuminating the streets of Durham this winter at Lumiere. The UK’s largest outdoor light festival, Lumiere invites international artists to create works that 4 November light buildings and public spaces, changing the way that we think and feel. Tramway

CONTROL NO at Glow Festival, photo © Daniel Iregui lumiere-festival.com Glasgow, UK

Exploring the relationship between sound and material (objects or bodies), Martin Messier takes an interest in staging sound works, giving voice to everyday objects, invented machines and bodies in movement.

With Field, Messier assumes that it is possible to create sounds using the electromagnetic fields of our environment. These residual and imperceptible electric signals are picked up with electromagnetic transducer microphones, and become generators of the performance.

Photo © RMartin Messier sonic-a.co.uk | maotik.com | mmessier.com

Digital Arts Cinema & Television 10 SEP – DEC 2017 11

A Colossal Wave Le fils de Jean / A Kid

Département, 1 – 7 November Presstube & Headspace Various cities across the UK as part of the French Film Festival

Hull, UK City of Culture 2017 A Kid is an engrossing and deeply poignant ode to familial bonds, set against a stunning Québec landscape and 1st – 10th December made by French director Philippe Loiret with a primarily Québécois cast including Pierre Deladonchamps, César In A Colossal Wave you are invited to collectively experience © Presstube award-winner from Stranger by the Lake. aural and visual immersion in a public space. A physical ball

thrown from a great height allows goggle wearers to witness an eruption of colourful drawings. © Sébastien Raymond-Fin aout productions frenchfilmfestival.org.uk This outdoor experience is also linked to one indoors, where participants are invited to explore a different perspective of the connected virtual world.

A Colossal Wave is a project developed by the British collective Marshmallow Laser Feast in collaboration with leading Québec artists in digital and visual arts: the Montréal-based studios TV5Monde Département, Presstube and Headspace, working with Pearl Engineering, of Hull, England. It TV5Monde is available in the UK via Sky 796, Virgin 825 and Téléfrance.co.uk, programme th was a gift to Montréal on the occasion of its 375 anniversary by British Council Canada. listings are available via europe.tv5monde.com/en

hull2017.co.uk | britishcouncil.ca Rires du monde Thursday 7 September @ 5.40pm An exciting adventure to discover exactly what is Cinema & Television funny (or not) in different cultures worldwide. © Quiet Motion Unité 9 Season 5 starts 12 September @ 8pm Geek Girls Drama depicting the day-to-day life of a small group of women from the same cell block.

20 October © Véronique Boncompagni Macrobert Arts Centre Les indiens, l’aigle et le dindon Stirling, Scotland Wednesday 20 September @ 11.35am In this film, and in their lives, five young filmmakers and musicians, descendants of the First Nations, Geek Girls is the first feature- redefine what it means to be an ‘Indian’ today. length documentary exploring © Productions Totam the hidden half of fan culture: nerdy women. Filmmaker Gina 24h danger Hara addresses this oversight Thursday 28 September @ 11.35am by delving into a world of The daily lives of people with dangerous jobs in professional gamers, cute extreme environments. dresses, fake names, and death threats. Screened as part of the new © 2016 Gedeon Programmes et PVP DOC III inc. Central Scotland Documentary Festival. Karl et Max From 25 October (see website for times) macrobertartscentre.org/centscotdocufest Three friends discover an accident-damaged car. Inside is a man covered in blood, apparently dead, and a bag containing millions. © Véro Boncompagni/2015

Music Music 12 SEP – DEC 2017 13 Marc-André Hamelin Gerald Finley

1 September 9 September Helsingborg Piano Festival Wigmore Hall Helsingborg, Sweden London, UK

Marc-André Hamelin is known for his unrivalled Over the past three decades Gerald Finley has performed at the musicianship and virtuosity in the great works of world’s leading opera houses and concert halls. The Montréal- the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid born bass-baritone, a Grammy and three-time Gramophone exploration of the neglected music of the 19th and Award winner, has received universal acclaim for his feeling for Photo © Sim Canetty Clarke Photo © Sim Canetty Clarke 20th centuries. words and expressive communication. A regular at Wigmore This year he will be appearing at Helsingborg Piano Festival, performing part of Haydn’s Piano Hall since the early 1990s, he opens the season with a programme devised to bring out the rich Sonata along with pieces by Liszt, Feinberg, Boy and Moszkowski. colours and deep humanity of his voice. | marcandrehamelin.com | dunkerskulturhus.se wigmore-hall.org.uk geraldfinley.com Yves Charuest Le Vent du Nord 10 October 15 October 1 – 9 September The Lamp Tavern The Vortex Various venues and festivals across the UK Birmingham, UK London, UK (see listings p20-21 or visit leventdunord.com) 16 October 17 October Le Vent du Nord are one of the leading names in Québécois folk music, blazing a path that Wharf Chambers Iklectik Art Lab shares their Québec roots with the wider world. Leeds, UK London, UK

Catch the last dates of a tour which has seen Le Vent du Nord thrill audiences around the UK Saxophonist Yves Charuest, active on the Montréal improv scene since the 1980s, is current with their catchy songs and tunes, some taken from the Québec traditional folk repertoire while artist in residence at the prestigious Québec Studio in London.

Photo © Jens TH Photographer others are original compositions. To mark the release of stir, a CD with Spanish pianist Agustí Fernández, Charuest will be leventdunord.com performing in the UK and Europe, playing solo as well as with Montréal bassist Nicolas Caloia

Photo © Chen-Wei Liu Photo © Chen-Wei and in collaborations with local musicians.

yvescharuest.net De Temps Antan

13 – 22 October Various venues and festivals across the UK (see listings p20-21 or visit detempsantan.qc.ca) Photo © Charlotte Samyn

Since 2003, Éric Beaudry, André Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis have been exploring and performing time-honoured Québec melodies. Using traditional instruments, our three virtuosos blend boundless energy with the unmistakable joie de vivre found in traditional Quebéc music.

detempsantan.qc.ca Music Music 14 SEP – DEC 2017 15 Every Song I’ve Ever Written Bozzini Quartet

Jacob Wren October and November Various venues and festivals in the UK, 21 October (Solo) / 23 October (Band Night) Norway and Sweden BIT Teatergarasjen (see listings p20-21 or visit quatuorbozzini.ca) Bergen, Norway

‘It is an impressive festival that has a group this From 1985 to 2004, PME-ART co-artistic director Jacob Wren good up its sleeve’ – the Guardian, wrote lots of songs. At the time hardly anyone heard them. Arranged in chronological order, these songs form a portrait Champions of new music performance at the of Jacob’s youth. For the Band Night, five Bergen bands highest level and winners of many prestigious perform one of Jacob’s songs each. After each version, awards, the Bozzini Quartet are widely Jacob will interview the band about what it was like to cover recognised as one of the best string quartets for the song, and the band will ask Jacob what it was like to contemporary repertoire in the world. They are Photo © Michael Slobodian

Photos © Simberg write it. praised for their commitment to musical creation, their virtuosity and their exceptional courage in pushing the boundaries of new music. Every Song I’ve Ever Written hopes to raise questions about what songs mean on the internet, about what songwriting is actually like today, and also take a sidelong glance back at the recent past. The Bozzini Quartet will be performing a number of dates in Europe this autumn, including performances at Aberdeen’s soundfestival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. everysongIveeverwritten.com | bit-teatergarasjen.no quatuorbozzini.ca Busty and the Bass

23 October 24 October 25 October 27 October Louis Lortie Day and Night Cafe Jazz Café Oporto Purple Turtle Manchester, UK London, UK Leeds, UK Reading, UK 1 November

Wigmore Hall With their seamless blend of soulful hip hop vocals, rap, signature brass and synths, Busty and London, UK the Bass are ushering in a new era of genre-defying sound. After meeting in their first week of the McGill University jazz program, the Montréal-based nine-piece quickly shot up from packed ‘He focused a penetrating intelligence on every house party jams to scorching live performances in front of thousands across the US, Canada, chord and phrase, as well as perfect control’ Europe and the UK. – the Telegraph,

bustyandthebass.com Pianist Louis Lortie joins forces with Augustin Dumay for a programme of masterworks for violin and piano. The evening opens with one of Brahms’s most lyrical compositions before charting the romantic course of Strauss’s youthful Violin Sonata in E flat. The programme is crowned by Franck’s radiant Sonata in A, written in 1886 as a wedding present for the virtuoso violinist

Photo © Elias Eugène Ysaÿe.

wigmore-hall.org.uk | louislortie.com Photo © Greg McCahon Literature & Publishing Literature & Publishing 16 SEP – DEC 2017 17

Huset på Granta 141 – Canada Saint Pauls väg Catherine Leroux Lise Tremblay and Madeleine Thien

27 – 29 October Stockholm Literature Stockholm, Sweden

Lise Tremblay has won a number of Photo © Martine Doyon Photo © Thomas Andersson literary prizes including the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Award for fiction. Her work has been translated into many languages including Swedish and Icelandic and includes l’Hiver de pluie, Héronnière and La Sœur de Judith.

The Swedish translation of Tremblay’s sixth novel Chemin Saint-Paul has recently been published by Rámus förlag. The writer will be attending Stockholm Literature with the support Photo © Julie Artacho Photo © Humanitas of the Association internationale des études québécoises. Catherine Leroux Madeleine Thien

stockholmliterature.se | ramusforlag.se Four times a year, Granta publishes the most exciting new writing from around the world. In November 2017, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Canadian confederation, it is publishing a special issue on Canada, edited by Québec writers Catherine Leroux (writer of Madame Victoria and Le mur mitoyen) and Madeleine Thien (writer of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction).

Showcasing the best talent from the Francophone and Anglophone communities, this special issue will feature new fiction, reportage, memoir, photography and poetry from Québec writers A Small Revolution including Fanny Britt, Alain Farah and Louis Hamelin. This issue celebrates the rich literary landscape of this vast and diverse country, and encourages readers to embark on a charged Boum conversation about how it sees – and defines – itself.

Boum is a comic artist, granta.com illustrator and animator living in Montréal. Her animated shorts have been screened all over the world.

A Small Revolution will be published in English by

Photo © Samantha Leriche-Gionet Soaring Penguin Press in November 2017. It is a story of dictatorship and revolution as seen through the eyes of a little girl and was nominated for a 2016 Ignatz award, the festival prize of the Small Press Expo, North America’s Premiere Independent Cartooning and Comic Arts Festival.

comics.boumerie.com | soaringpenguinpress.com Photo © Samantha Leriche-Gionet Festivals & Events in Québec 2017 – 2018 18 19 See below a selection of the 400 festivals and events Québec hosts each year. They all welcome international delegates and industry professionals. Festival TransAmériques ELEKTRA POP Montréal Salon du Livre de Montréal Festival TransAmériques. E lektra . Photo © Camil Scorteanu, Conception Lévy Pop Montréal. LP Maurice Salon du Livre. Jean-Guy Thibode au

13-23 September 2017 4 – 15 October 2017 9 – 19 November 2017 12 – 22 October 2017 (dates TBC) 14 – 17 November 2017 15 – 18 November 2017

MA Festival de cinéma de la ville Festival du Nouveau Cinema Rencontres Internationales du Festival international de jazz de Mundial Montreal M pour Montréal World Music Indie Rock Showcase de Québec nouveaucinema.ca Documentaire de Montréal MUSIC Québec festivaldejazzdequebec.com mundialmontreal.com mpourmontreal.com CIN e fcvq.ca ridm.qc.ca

21 February – 3 March 2018 14 – 18 March 2018 March 2018 (dates TBC) 12 January – 19 February 2018 June 2018 (dates TBC) 28 June – 7 July 2018

MA Les Rendez-vous du cinéma Regard sur le court métrage FIFA Igloofest Festival Suoni Per il Popolo Festival International de Jazz de Electronic Music Experimental Music Montréal québécois au Saguenay International Festival of Films MUSIC igloofest.ca suoniperilpopolo.org montrealjazzfest.com

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

July and August 2018 (dates TBC) July 2018 (dates TBC) July 2018 (dates TBC) June - July 2018 (dates TBC) July 2018 (dates TBC) 7 – 17 September 2017

MA Le Festival international de Montréal Complètement Just For Laughs Chants de Vielles Festival Osheaga & MEG Festivals Quartiers Danses Traditional Music facebook.com/osheagamegpro quartiersdanses.com films Fantasia Cirque hahaha.com MUSIC CIRCUS COM E DY

CIN e fantasiafestival.com montrealcompletementcirque.com chantsdevielles.com July 2018 (dates TBC) Zoofest & OFF JFL zoofest.com P E RFORMING ARTS

May – June 2018 (dates TBC) June – July 2018 (dates TBC) August 2018 (dates TBC) 28 November – 1 December 2017 11 – 15 February 2018 23 May – 6 June 2018 IX 2017 ELEKTRA MUTEK Parcours Danse Rideau Festival TransAmériques International Symposium on elektrafestival.ca mutek.org ladansesurlesroutes.com Performing Arts Theatre & Dance Immersive Experiences rideau-inc.qc.ca fta.qc.ca ix.sat.qc.ca DIGITAL ARTS DIGITAL P E RFORMING ARTS

15 – 20 November 2017 11 – 15 April 2018 20 – 30 April 2018 May – June 2018 (dates TBC) 12 – 17 November 2018 7 – 11 March 2018 Salon du Livre de Montréal Salon du Livre de Québec Metropolis Bleu OFFTA CINARS Le Festival de Casteliers salondulivredemontreal.com silq.ca bluemetropolis.org Live Art Festival Peforming Arts Biennial Puppetry

offta.com cinars.org E TH E ATR casteliers.ca

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September 2017 February 2018 (dates TBC) 31 August – 3 September 2017 May – June 2018 (dates TBC) August 2018 (dates TBC) August 2018 (dates TBC) Les Escales improbables Mois Multi Festival de musique Carrefour international de Dramaturgies en Dialogue Festival du théâtre de rue

de Montréal Multidisciplinary Digital Arts MUSIC émergente en Abitibi- théâtre (CEAD) de Lachine

escalesimprobables.com mmrectoverso.org/fr/ Témiscamingue E TH E ATR carrefourtheatre.qc.ca cead.qc.ca theatrederue.ca mois-multi fmeat.org MULTIDISCIPLINARY

7 – 9 September 2017 13 – 17 September 2017 14 – 17 September 2017 7 September – 14 October 2017 May 2018 (dates TBC) Envol et Macadam Pop Montréal Conférence Trad Montréal Le Mois de la Photo Les Petits Bonheurs Biennial Arts Festival for 0-6 years For more information on any MUSIC Emerging Music popmontreal.com & La Grande Rencontre envoletmacadam.com espacetrad.org moisdelaphoto.com petitsbonheurs.ca of the above festivals, please do not hesitate to get in touch VISUAL ARTS YOUNG AUDI E NC YOUNG AUDI E NC Events September – December 2017

Confirmed dates at time of publication, see websites for more details.

Cirque Éloize, Saloon Martin Messier, Sonica Dana Michel, Mercurial George

23 Music Busty and the Bass Day and Night Cafe Manchester, UK 01612 361822 September nightnday.org

1 Music Le Vent du Nord Waterside Arts Centre Sale, UK 0161 912 5616 24 Music Busty and the Bass Jazz Café London, UK 020 7485 6834 watersideartscentre.co.uk thejazzcafelondon.com 1 Music Marc-André Hamelin Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg, +46 42 10 74 00 24 Music Steve Hill Ropetackle Arts Centre Shoreham-by- 01273 464440 @ Helsingborg Piano Festival Sweden dunkerskulturhus.se (opening for Wishbone Ash) Sea, UK ropetacklecentre.co.uk 1 - 3 Circus Cirque du Soleil Spektrum Oslo, Norway +47 815 11 211 25 Cinema & Karl et Max begins TV5Monde UK Sky 796, Virgin 825 & Téléfrance Varekai oslospektrum.no Television europe.tv5monde.com/en 2 Music Le Vent du Nord Main Stage Wallingford, UK 25 Music Busty and the Bass Oporto Leeds, UK oportobar.co.uk @ Bunkfest bunkfest.co.uk 25 Music Steve Hill The Brook Southampton, UK 023 8055 5366 2 - 3 Public ATSA Princes Dock Street Hull, UK (opening for Wishbone Ash) the-brook.com Engagement While Having Soup @ Freedom Festival freedomfestival.co.uk 26 Music Steve Hill Tivoli Theatre Wimborne, UK 01202 885566 (opening for Wishbone Ash) tivoliwimborne.co.uk 3 Music Le Vent du Nord Marquee Stage Derby, UK @ Off the Tracks Festival offthetracks.co.uk 26 Music Bozzini Quartet, Composers’ Kings’ College Chapel Aberdeen, UK 01330 826526 Kitchen Project sound-scotland.co.uk 4 Music Le Vent du Nord Guildford Live Guildford, UK 01483 369350 @ soundfestival GLive.co.uk 27 Music Steve Hill The Hub Plymouth, UK 6 Music Le Vent du Nord Borough Theatre Abergavenny, UK 01873 850805 (opening for Wishbone Ash) stevehillmusic.com boroughtheatreabergavenny.co.uk 27 Music Busty and the Bass Purple Turtle Reading, UK 6 - 10 Circus Cirque du Soleil Malmö Arena Malmö, Sweden +46 77 578 00 00 purpleturtlebar.com/reading Varekai malmoarena.com 27 - 29 Literature & Lise Tremblay Stockholm, 7 Music Le Vent du Nord @ Ripon Masham Town Hall Masham, UK 01765 605508 Publishing @ Stockholm Literature Festival Sweden stockholmliterature.se International Festival riponinternationalfestival.com 28 Digital Arts Maotik Glasgow Science Centre Glasgow, UK 7 Cinema & Rires du Monde, 5:40pm TV5Monde UK Sky 796, Virgin 825 & Téléfrance Omnis Planetarium sonic-a.co.uk Television europe.tv5monde.com/en @ Sonica Festival, Glasgow 8 Music Le Vent du Nord Sandpit Field Swanage, UK swanagefolkfestival.com 28 Music Steve Hill The Railway Ipswich, UK @ Swanage Folk Festival (opening for Wishbone Ash) stevehillmusic.com 9 Music Le Vent du Nord Bromyard, UK 01432 340555 29 Music Bozzini Quartet Oslo, Norway +47 452 55 962 @ Bromyard Folk Festival bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk @ Oslo Poesi Festival oslopoesi.no 9 Music Gerald Finley with Julius Drake Wigmore Hall London, UK 020 7935 2141 29 Music Steve Hill King Edward VII Memo- Newmarket, UK wigmore-hall.org.uk (opening for Wishbone Ash) rial Hall stevehillmusic.com 9 - 11 Public STO Union Barnado Square Dublin, Ireland +353 1 6706106 31 Music Steve Hill Princess Theatre Hunstanton, UK 01485 53 22 52 Engagement Trophy @ Dublin Fringe Festival fringefest.com (opening for Wishbone Ash) princesshunstanton.co.uk 12 Cinema & Unité 9 season 5 begins, 8pm TV5Monde UK Sky 796, Virgin 825 & Téléfrance Television europe.tv5monde.com/en November 14 Sept – Visual Arts Self Abstractions Canada House Gallery London, UK canadainternational.gc.ca Literature & Publication of A Small soaringpenguinpress.com 18 Nov Publishing Revolution by Boum comics.boumerie.com 20 Cinema & Les indiens, l’aigle et le dindon, TV5Monde UK Sky 796, Virgin 825 & Téléfrance Literature & Publication of Granta 141 - Television 11:35am europe.tv5monde.com/en Publishing Canada granta.com 22-23 Dance Dana Michel Teaterkjelleren, Trondheim, +47 73 87 94 24 1 Music Louis Lortie with Augustin Wigmore Hall London UK 020 7935 2141 Mercurial George Trøndelag Teater Norway avantgarden.no/en/bastard-3 Dumay wigmore-hall.org.uk @ Bastard Festival 1 - 4 Multidisciplinary Staging Canada at Expo67 : Various venues London, UK modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre- 24 Digital Arts Myriam Bleau Café Oto London, UK cafeoto.co.uk Nationalism in the Crucible of quebec-and-french-canadian- Soft Revolvers myriambleau.com Globalisation studies

28 Cinema & 24h Danger, 11:35am TV5Monde UK Sky 796, Virgin 825 & Téléfrance 1 Nov – Cinema & Le fils de Jean / A Kid @ French Venues TBC Various cities, UK 01312 256191 Television europe.tv5monde.com/en 7 Dec Television Film Festival frenchfilmfestival.org.uk 1 - 25 Visual Arts The Tip of the Iceberg Art Bermondsey Project London, UK 0203 441 51 52 October Space project-space.london

4 - 21 Circus Cirque Éloize The Peacock Theatre London, UK 020 7863 8000 2 Music Steve Hill Floral Pavilion Theatre Wirral, UK 01516 660000 Saloon sadlerswells.com (opening for Wishbone Ash) floralpavilion.com 5 - 8 Circus Cirque du Soleil Hartwall Arena Helsinki, Finland +358 204 19 97 3 Music Steve Hill The Tivoli Buckley, UK 01244 546 201 Varekai hartwallarena.fi (opening for Wishbone Ash) tivolivenue.com 10 Music Yves Charuest The Lamp Tavern Birmingham, UK 4 Digital Arts Martin Messier Tramway Glasgow, UK 0845 330 3501 yvescharuest.net Field sonic-a.co.uk @ Sonica 11 - 15 Circus Cirque du Soleil Ericsson Globe Stockholm, +46 771 31 00 00 Varekai Sweden stockholmlive.com 4 Music Steve Hill Whitby Pavilion Theatre Whitby, UK 01947 458 899 (opening for Wishbone Ash) whitbypavilion.co.uk 13 Music De Temps Antan Stamford Arts Centre Stamford, UK 01780 763 203 stamfordartscentre.com 5 Dance Marie Béland, maribé – sors iC4C Nottingham, UK 0115 924 2016 de ce corps dance4.co.uk 15 Music De Temps Antan Glassel, Banchory Aberdeenshire, UK detempsantan.qc.ca BESIDE 5 Music Steve Hill The Lowry Salford, UK 0843 208 6000 15 Music Yves Charuest The Vortex London, UK yvescharuest.net (opening for Wishbone Ash) thelowry.com 7 Music Steve Hill The Flowerpot Derby, UK 16 Music Yves Charuest Wharf Chambers Leeds, UK yvescharuest.net (opening for Wishbone Ash) stevehillmusic.com

17 Music Yves Charuest Iklectik Art Lab London, UK yvescharuest.net 8 Dance Patin Libre film Vertical available to watch online danceumbrella.co.uk 18 Music Steve Hill Dorking Halls Dorking, UK 01306 881717 8 Music Steve Hill The Irish Centre Leeds, UK (opening for Wishbone Ash) dorkinghalls.co.uk (opening for Wishbone Ash) theleedsirishcentre.co.uk 18 Music De Temps Antan Spiegeltent Paisley, UK 0300 300 1210 9 Music Steve Hill Bootleggers Kendal, UK 01539 723824 @ The Spree Festival thespree.co.uk (opening for Wishbone Ash) bootleggersbar.com 19 Music Steve Hill O2 Academy Islington London, UK 9 - 11 Dance Daina Ashbee Stoa Helsinki, Finland +358 41 545 6255 (opening for Wishbone Ash) academymusicgroup.com Pour movinginnovember.fi @ Moving in November Festival 19 Music De Temps Antan Queens Hall Arts Centre Hexam, UK 01434 652477 queenshall.co.uk 10 Music Steve Hill The Jam House Edinburgh, UK (opening for Wishbone Ash) thejamhouse.com 19 Music Stephanie Bozzini & Alissa Ny Music Borås Borås, Sweden +46 33 28 01 72 Cheung ny-musik.se 10 & 11 Theatre Théâtre Magali Chouinard The Creative School Silkeborg, +45 8722 1903 Nomad Soul @ Festival of Denmark festivalofwonder.dk 20 Music Steve Hill Coliseum Theatre Aberdare, UK 0300 004 0444 Wonder (opening for Wishbone Ash) stevehillmusic.com 11 Music Steve Hill The Lemon Tree Aberdeen, UK (opening for Wishbone Ash) stevehillmusic.com 20 Music De Temps Antan St Donats Arts Centre Llantwit Major, UK 01446 799 100 stdonats.com 12 Music Steve Hill The Ferry Glasgow, UK (opening for Wishbone Ash) the-ferry.co.uk 20 Cinema & Geek Girls Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling, Scotland 01786 466666 Television @ Central Scotland macrobertartscentre.org/centscot- 14 Music Steve Hill Riverside Lodge Morpeth, UK 01670 512 771 Documentary Festival docufest (opening for Wishbone Ash) riverside-lodge.co.uk 20 Dance Solo for Pieter Nuuk, Greenland 15 Music Steve Hill ARC Stockton Stockton-on- 01642 525199 @ Nuuk Nordisk Culture nuuknordisk.gl (opening for Wishbone Ash) Tees, UK arconline.co.uk Festival 15 Dance Marie Béland, maribé – sors Open Studio Cardiff, UK 21 Music Steve Hill Cheese & Grain Frome, UK 01373 455420 de ce corps dance.wales (opening for Wishbone Ash) cheeseandgrain.com BESIDE @ Cardiff Dance Festival 21 Music Jacob Wren BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen, Norway Every Song I’ve Ever Written bit-teatergarasjen.no 16 Music Steve Hill The Layton Blackpool, UK (solo) (opening for Wishbone Ash) stevehillmusic.com

21 Dance Dana Michel Nuuk, Greenland 16 - 19 Digital Arts Daniel Iregui and Rami Bebawi Durham, UK Mercurial George nuuknordisk.gl @ Lumiere Durham lumiere-festival.com @ Nuuk Nordisk Culture Festival 17 Music Steve Hill The Picturedrome Holmfirth, UK (opening for Wishbone Ash) picturedrome.net 21 Music Bozzini Quartet Ny Music Borås Borås, Sweden +46 33 28 01 72 ny-musik.se 19 Music Steve Hill ASHCON, The Grand Clitheroe, UK (opening for Wishbone Ash) Clitheroe stevehillmusic.com 21 Music De Temps Antan Mid-Border Arts Presteigne, UK midborderarts.com 19 Music Bozzini Quartet with St Paul’s Hall Huddersfield, UK 01484 430528 Philip Thomas hcmf.co.uk 22 Music Steve Hill The Arts Centre Swindon, UK 01793 524481 @ hcmf (opening for Wishbone Ash) swindontheatres.co.uk 21 Music Bozzini Quartet with St Paul’s Hall Huddersfield, UK 01484 430528 Philip Thomas hcmf.co.uk 22 Music De Temps Antan Victoria Hall Saltaire, UK 01274 588614 @ hcmf saltairelive.co.uk 23 Music Jacob Wren BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen, Norway December Every Song I’ve Ever Written bit-teatergarasjen.no (band night) 1 - 10 Digital Arts A Colossal Wave Hull, UK hull2017.co.uk

Cirque Éloize, Saloon. Photo © Jim Mneymneh Martin Messier, Sonica. Photo © Martin Messier Dana Michel, Mercurial George. Photo © Camille McOuat See inside for Québec programmes in September – December