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24 – 27 September London, UK Heather O’Neill

This September, a number of exciting Québec writers come to the UK as part of Festival 26 September America. This is the first London satellite of the much-lauded festival of the same name, Canada House founded in Vincennes, France in 2002, which this year has a special focus on Canada. Montréal author Heather O’Neill has written for This American Life and the New York Times. Dany Lafferière Her latest novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel was published in 2017 and longlisted for the Baileys women’s prize for fiction. 24 September Institut Français At Festival America, O’Neill appears alongside Guy Vanderhaeghe and Michael Redhill. They will discuss and read from their work, and talk about Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dany Laferrière fled how they see the role of the writer in the global

the dictatorship in 1976 to settle in Québec, where Julia C. Vona

© ecology of books. he started to write. He has so far published 30 books which have been translated into more than 15 languages, and was appointed to the Académie française in December 2013. Christian Guay-Poliquin Dany Laferrière’s appearance at Festival America will be a celebration of French Caribbean culture, 26 September 27 September and an exceptional opportunity to hear him talk Canada House Québec Government Office about his writing and more specifically his 2009 novel The Enigma of the Return. The talk will be Christian Guay-Poliquin’s second novel The Weight of Snow has won several awards in Canada,

© Camille Robitaille Agency followed by a book signing and a music session. and is currently being translated in ten different countries. His third, Running on Fumes, electrified the Québécois literary community with its lyrical blend of mythology, contemporary issues and road movie. Andrée Michaud On 26 September, Guay-Poliquin shares the stage with Emma Hooper, Nancy Lee and Lennie Goodings for a discussion of ‘Myths, moods and melodies’. On 27 September he takes part in a

Andrée Michaud is a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among many other literary prizes. Her latest book The Last Summer is an elegiac tribute to teenage beauty.

Andrée Michaud appears alongside Canadian Métis Cherie Dimaline and British-Canadian Nancy Lee for an exploration of the dystopian and dark themes of their work in this event hosted by Leslie Hurtig, director of the Vancouver Writers Fest. © Marianne Deschênes

Festival America in Vincennes. Photo courtesy of Festival America Festival America in Vincennes. LITERATURE LITERATURE 04 SEP – DEC 2018 05 Québec @ Festival America Louise Penny

23 September Guillaume Morissette Bloody Scotland Albert Halls 27 September Stirling, UK Québec Government Office

Number One New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny lives in Guillaume Morissette is the author of The Original Face, the story of a a small village south of Montréal. Her ingenious new novel Kingdom

© Virginie Gosselin © Virginie struggling digital artist facing up to the anxieties of the internet age. of the Blind, the 14th in her Québec-set series of Inspector Gamache Mysteries, is due to be published in November. In London, Guillaume joins Canadian Métis author Cherie Dimaline and fellow Québécois writer Christian Guay-Poliquin for a discussion on language as the basis of culture. Louise will share a stage with British crime writer Ann Cleeves at the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival. With 36 novels between them, a room full of awards and twin armies of devoted fans, they are two Eric Plamondon of crime fiction’s most charming and successful authors. The event is chaired by Alex Gray and sponsored by The Times and Sunday Times

Crime Club. 27 September

Canada House Photo © Jean-Francois Berube, cover courtesy of Little, Brown www.bloodyscotland.com | www.louisepenny.com

Born in Québec, Eric Plamondon currently lives in Bordeaux. His latest Photo courtesy of Festival America novel Taqawan is highly praised by booksellers and the press. Isabelle Arsenault Eric Plamondon joins Jennie Melamed and Omar El Akkad for a discussion on genre-crossing literary fiction. 25 – 28 September www.festivalamerica.co.uk Stockholm & Gothenburg, Sweden

Isabelle Arsenault is an internationally renowned children’s book illustrator. She has won the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Up The Mountain Children’s Literature three times, and two of her picture books were named as New York Marianne Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. The poetry expressed through Isabelle Arsenault’s Dubuc graphic universe, the gentle flow of her lines and the overall charm of her books have made her Marianne Dubuc is an international one of Canada’s best-known and most esteemed award-winning illustrator and writer illustrators. of books for children of all ages. She studied Graphic Design at the For the first time, two of Isabelle’s books will Université du Québec à Montréal be published in Swedish: Louis och demonerna © Marianne Dubuc, cover courtesy of Book Island and has since been published in over (Louis Undercover) and her writing debut, 15 countries. In 2014, Marianne won the prestigious Governor General Award for outstanding Colettes fågel (Colette’s Lost Pet). Events are illustrations in The Lion and the Bird. planned in Stockholm and Gothenburg including two seminars at the Gothenburg Book Fair. Marianne’s new picture book is now available across the UK. Up the Mountain is a heart- warming story about friendship and generosity which will inspire every reader to explore the www.goteborg-bookfair.com outdoors. www.bokmassan.se

Photos© Martin © MartinMessier Messier Photo courtesy of the Barbican DIGITAL ARTS www.brightondigitalfestival.co.uk in some20countriesaroundtheworld,includingatGlasgow’s Sonicafestival. experimental soundpracticeincorporatingvideoimages. Hehaspresentedhiswork Martin MessierstudiedcompositionattheUniversitéde Montréal,afterwhichhebeganan create asoundandlightcompositionwhosepossibilities areendless. two aluminumpanels,continuouslypluggingandunplugging theconnectionsbetweenthemto be generatedfromelectromagneticfieldsintheenvironment. Onstagetheartistinteractswith the stagewithSuzanneCiani.Thisaudiovisualworkstarts fromtheprinciplethatsoundscan Multi-disciplinary creatorMartinMessierperforms www.barbican.org.uk the GreatBritainSasakawaFoundation. The concertisproducedbytheBarbicaninassociationwithBirdonWire,supportfrom sonic detail. creates colourfulanddensearrangementswithauniqueapproachtomelody, harmonyand Opening theevening,Montréal-basedcomposer, musicianandproducerKara-LisCoverdale | www.sunblind.net | www.mmessier.com Brighton, UK Attenborough Centre for theCreative Arts Brighton DigitalFestival 8 October Martin Messier Field traditional Japanesegagakucourtmusic. forthcoming project,fusingelectronicproductionwith ensemble concert.Itwillbeacelebrationofhis Barbican forthefirsttimesince2016withaspecial Musician andsoundartistTim Heckerreturnstothe London, UK Barbican Hall 6 October & Kara-Lis Coverdale Tim Hecker | www.kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com Field atBrightonDigitalFestival,sharing

© Kevin Gironnay © pecorini.net www.pierreluclecours.com www.myriamboucher.com www.lucasparis.ca www.watermans.org.uk interpretation ofthemeswhichareuniversalandfundamental tothehumanexperience. The composer-performers drawonourkineticrelationship totheworlddeployapoetic video musicaldiscourseinspiredbythemovementsand organicbehavioursoftheelements. Lecours. Theprojectaddressesthethemeofnature,presenting air, water, fireandearthina ELEMENTS & Pierre-Luc Lecours Myriam Boucher ELEMENTS Watermans aftera2017performancewiththeirfour-person project,Quadr. brightest indigitalartperformance,including threeemergingartistsfromQuébecwhoreturnto Watermans’ DigitalPerformanceWeekender providesachancetoseesomeofthebestand Brentford, UK Watermans Centre 10 &11 November Digital Performance Weekender DIGITAL ARTS isanaudiovisualperformancebyMontréalartistsMyriam BoucherandPierre-Luc

Lucas’s improvisation. research, itissculptedinrealtimeby sound andlight.Theresultofalgorithmic volatile andenergeticsculpturemadeof between interiorandexteriorthrougha EXT immersive andemotional. with contentthatismulti-sensory, performance andengagingtheaudience focuses oncreatingnewformsofdigital for morethantenyears.Hisresearch and hasbeenbuildingdigitalinstruments Lucas Parisworkswithrealtimesound Lucas Paris Antivolume IN/EXT exploresmovementsanddynamics AntiVolume IN/ SEP –2018 DEC 07 DIGITAL ARTS MUSIC 08 SEP – DEC 2018 09 SPECTRUM Gerald Finley

HUB 8 September 2 October Last Night of the Proms, Royal Albert Hall Middle Temple Hall 7 – 16 December London, UK London, UK Lightwaves 2018 Salford Quays Québec baritone Gerald Finley performs Stanford’s Songs Manchester, UK of the Sea as part of ‘the greatest annual party in classical music’, the Last Night of the Proms, conducted by Sir Following an open call for Andrew Davis. proposals from UK and Québec- Gerald returns to London in October to perform Schubert’s based artists, Montréal © HUB Schwanengesang and Brahms’ Vier Ernste Gesänge collaborative HUB has been alongside his regular performance selected to create the major new artwork SPECTRUM. This bold, large-scale digital artwork will and recording partner, pianist premiere at Quays Culture’s digital light festival Lightwaves before being exhibited in Montréal. Julius Drake. This project was commissioned through an exciting international collaboration between www.royalalberthall.com Salford’s Quays Culture and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, which is responsible for the www.templechurch.com public spaces in Montréal’s main arts and entertainment district.

www.quaysculture.com | www.quartierdesspectacles.com Tess Roby MUSIC 1 – 7 October Various venues in the UK (see listings p.24-25 or Chilly Gonzales visit website) The music of Montréal-based Tess 7 September 8 September 10 September 11 September Roby, accompanied by her brother Cadogan Hall Grand Theatre Southbank Centre RNCM Eliot on guitar, rides the London, UK Leeds, UK London, UK Manchester, UK melancholic line between classic 80s new-wave and lyric-driven pop. The listener simultaneously feels the Montréal-born pianist and entertainer Chilly Gonzales is known as much for intimacy of Roby’s bedroom, cut with the intimate piano touch of his albums Solo Piano I and Solo Piano II as for a romantic urgency akin to his showmanship and composition. He performs and writes songs with Hounds -era Kate Bush. artists including Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, and in 2013 won a Grammy of Love for his work on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. The arrangements are minimal and hauntingly sparse, giving way to 2018 sees Gonzo, as he is known to close collaborators, return to the stage the richness of Roby’s voice and with an intimate hour of pieces from the Solo Piano album cycle, after which the hypnotic pulses of her he is joined by Stella Le Page on cello and Joe Flory on drums to perform analogue synthesizer. Her debut hits and hidden surprises from the rest of his repertoire. LP Beacon is available now. www.cadoganhall.com | www.leedsgrandtheatre.com © Ryan Molnar © Ryan www.tessroby.com www.southbankcentre.co.uk | www.rncm.ac.uk

MUSIC MUSIC 10 SEP – DEC 2018 11 Voivod

2 - 20 October Various venues in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland & Norway (see listings p 24-25 or visit website)

Voivod formed in Jonquière, Québec in 1982, and their 1988 album Dimension Hatröss was included in Rolling Stone’s ‘100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time’. 2018 sees the band come to the UK and the Nordic Countries for a tour celebrating their 35th anniversary as well as the worldwide launch of their new album The Wake Le Vent du Nord

on Century Records. 27 October – 3 November www.voivod.net Various venues in Norway and Sweden (see listings p.24-25 or visit website)

Indefatigable folk performers Le Vent du Nord (the North Wind) come to the Nordic Countries Helena Deland after a packed itinerary of summer concerts, including a performance at the Edinburgh International Festival. Known for their energetic gigs which combine traditional songs and 22 October 23 October 24 October original compositions, Le Vent du Nord have gone from strength to strength since they were joined by a fifth member in 2017. The Poetry Club The Castle Sebright Arms

Glasgow, UK Manchester, UK London, UK © Alistair Cassidy www.leventdunord.com

‘Helena Deland’s moving, poetic, continually absorbing songwriting stole our hearts’ CLASH Magazine

Helena Deland’s sincere pop music combines clever word play Steve Hill with lush rock instrumentation - she describes her songwriting as a collection of ‘unsent letters’. Following UK 9 – 30 November performances in summer 2018, including at the Great Various venues in the UK, Escape festival, Helena returns to the UK as part of a world (see listings p.24-25 or visit website) tour promoting the release of her LP, Altogether Unaccompanied. Steve Hill, winner of a Juno award in 2015 for Blues www.thepoetryclub.net Album of the Year (Solo Recordings, Vol. 2), returns to www.thecastlehotel.info the UK with his unique brand of one-man band blues- www.sebrightarms.com rock.

www.helenadeland.bandcamp.com An ambitious and raucous force to be reckoned with, Steve Hill’s reputation as an exciting performer has provided him the opportunity to showcase his talents at some of Canada’s biggest music festivals including the Montréal Jazz Festival. He is in his element as a solo artist, inviting listeners into a world of musical madness in the form of blues and rock ‘n’ roll.

www.stevehillmusic.com © Alex Huard

THEATRE THEATRE 12 SEP – DEC 2018 13 Québec @ The Finnish Une grenouille qui s’appelle Woânda National Theatre (A Frog Called Woânda) Théâtre À l’Envers Lista 27 September – 3 November Jennifer Tremblay Various venues in the UK

(see listings p.24-25 or visit website) In repertory from 14 September Finnish National Theatre Montréal-based company Théâtre À l’Envers Helsinki, Finland collaborates with Northumberland’s Théâtre Sans Frontières to bring this original work on Jennifer Tremblay has written two novels, several children’s books, and a UK tour. Using live action, puppetry, music stage works including Lista (La Liste), which won the Governor General’s and shadows, A Frog Called Woânda tells a prize in 2008 and has since been performed around the world, including funny and touching story of love, loss and to great critical acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014 and 2015. friendship. It is performed in English or simple French (check with individual venues) for ages This autumn a new production of this award-winning monologue comes to 5 – 10 years. Helsinki, translated into Finnish by Reita Lounatvuori. Directed by Irene Aho and performed by Pirjo Mättä, Lista is a riveting, subtle study of the fine line Laura’s world is turned upside down after she

© Lilli Pynnönen between the mundane and the devastating. loses her lucky ring down the plughole. To Laura’s surprise, up pops Woânda, a frog who has taken up residence in the bathroom pipes. Change your Life – Plays from Québec Together, they search for the ring through a whirlwind of twists and turns.

Sarah Berthiaume, Jean-Denis Beaudoin, © Michel Pinault www.tsf.org.uk | www.theatrealenvers.ca Olivier Choinière & Catherine Léger

15 September Finnish National Theatre Company Helsinki, Finland Alex Gaumond Through a collaboration © Dominique Lafond © Eva-Maude TC © Jérémie Battaglia between Québec’s Centre des © Eugene Holtz From 17 October (previews from 26 September) Sarah Berthiaume Jean-Denis Beaudoin Olivier Choinière Catherine Léger auteurs dramatiques and Gielgud Theatre the Finnish National Theatre, Québec comes to Helsinki with Change your Life, a set of rehearsed London, UK readings of extracts in English from recent works by four contemporary playwrights. These very different plays reflect the vast range of contemporary drama in Québec’s vibrant theatre scene. Alex Gaumond joins the cast of Marianne Elliott’s highly Actress and playwright Sarah Berthiaume’s play Nyotaimori, named after the Japanese tradition anticipated new production of George Furth and Stephen of eating sushi from the prone body of a naked woman, examines the modern day work ethic. Sondheim’s Company, which re-imagines the two main Jean-Denis Beaudoin, who graduated from Québec’s Conservatoire d’art dramatique in 2013, characters as a gay couple for the first time. Jonathan Bailey

explores sibling rivalry in My Children are not Afraid of the Dark, a mysterious tale of simmering © Michael Warley will play Jamie (originally written as the female character, resentment set deep in the woods. Olivier Choinière’s 2007 play Félicité played at London’s Amy) and Alex will play his devoted fiancé, Paul in this multi-award winning musical comedy Royal Court Theatre as Bliss, and his new work Simon Says is a satire on the seductive appeal about life, love and marriage. of populism. Catherine Léger has written for TV, and in 2006 won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas. Her www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk | www.elliottandharper.com comedy Baby-sitter tackles the complexities of sexual politics.

www.kansallisteatteri.fi | www.cead.qc.ca THEATRE DANCE 14 SEP – DEC 2018 15

Needles and Opium Threshold Robert Lepage Le Patin Libre

7 & 8 November 18 – 21 October Theatre Royal Dance Umbrella Plymouth, UK Alexandra Palace Ice Rink

London, UK Versatile in every form of theatre craft, Robert Lepage is equally talented as a ‘Both athletic and artistic, casting its own spell’ director, playwright, actor and film director. WhatsOnStage (on Vertical Influences, 2018) His creative and original approach to theatre has won him international acclaim. Montréal’s Le Patin Libre defy the conventions of figure skating to evolve a new dance form Through highly visual staging, which is – on ice. Having wowed London audiences at as much magic as it is theatre, Lepage Dance Umbrella 2014 with their award-winning revisits his work Needles and Opium 20 Vertical Influences (seen on Darcey Bussell’s New years after its first production. A new Dance, BBC2, earlier this year), they return with scenography, original images, and an a completely new show Threshold. Playing with acrobat onstage complement the words of contrast and change, they zoom towards viewers Jean Cocteau. The result is a production seated on the ice, combining athletic virtuosity with mesmerising effects, a journey with joyous physicality. into the night that puts us under a spell and leads us into the light. www.danceumbrella.co.uk www.alexandrapalace.com

Lifeguard Look out also for smash-hit musical Notre-Dame de Paris, Benoît Lachambre / Par B.L.eux which returns to London for just seven performances at the London 6 – 8 November Coliseum, 23 – 27 January, after touring in 23 countries worldwide Moving in November festival in 9 languages over the last 20 Cable Factory years. Helsinki, Finland

Based on Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame Lifeguard is an intimate piece which de Paris, this stage spectacular unfolds like a stroll. Benoît Lachambre features an international ensemble invites the spectator to share in an of acclaimed performers including impersonal intimacy in a context Québec’s Daniel Lavoie, Richard that blurs boundaries and definitions Charest, and Martin Giroux, as well about dance and movement. The work as unforgettable music composed creates a subtle connection between

by Richard Cocciante and book by © Karolina Miernik the audience and the performer. While celebrated Québécois lyricist Luc questioning the role of the artist and the audience’s passivity, Lifeguard allows for an uninhibited Plamondon. discussion about existence. www.notredamedeparis.co.uk

CIRCUS VISUAL ARTS 16 SEP – DEC 2018 17

Ovo Lightwaves Cirque du Soleil Josée Pedneault

19 September – 21 October & Bertrand Carrier Various venues in the UK & Ireland (see listings p.24-25 or visit website) 22 September – 25 November Street Level Photoworks Since its formation just outside Québec City in the Glasgow, UK early 1980s, Cirque du Soleil has wowed international audiences and revolutionised the circus sector. Based Lightwaves is an exhibition of new work by contemporary in Montréal, it is now the largest theatrical producer in photo-based artists, the result of exchange residencies the world. between Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow and VU Photography Centre in Québec City. Working around themes Following dates at London’s Royal Albert Hall and arenas of heritage and migration, the two artists from Québec and in the north of England, Cirque du Soleil’s OVO returns to their counterparts in Scotland, Mat Hay and Melanie Letore, wow audiences with its colourful depiction of the lives developed new work in response to their stay in each city of insects. We see the creatures work, play, fight and the dialogues which emerged during and after and look for love, and display intense curiosity their residencies. The project has a blog which includes when a mysterious egg appears. commentary on the process: www.photodialogues.net

www.bertrandcarriere.com VISUAL ARTS www.joseepedneault.com © Josée Pedneault and Nasir Salim, 2017 www.streetlevelphotoworks.org

Cicatrix Catherine Catherine Sheedy

Farish 13 October

Studio du Québec 12 September – 3 December 139 Manhattan, Bow Quarter Swindon Museum & Art Gallery London, UK Swindon, UK

Catherine Sheedy is a Québec artist In Cicatrix the work of Catherine Farish, an artist specialising in contemporary printmaking, is working in the contemporary jewellery displayed alongside pieces by artists from the UK and across the Commonwealth. This unique field. She is currently artist in residence collaboration responds to Salisbury Plain, a vast landscape where soldiers have trained since © Catherine Sheedy at the Studio du Québec in London, WW1. Prints from the project will also be presented in an exhibition at Atelier Circulaire in accompanied by her partner and their three-year-old child. As part of her residency Catherine is Montréal this November and December. working on conceptual and formal research about jewellery as an object of relation, especially in 2018, dimensions 81cm x 142cm, technique is intaglio and collagraph In her research, the artist was struck by images and stories of indigenous soldiers who came to a family context. The work at this open studio event will include sculptural and 2D explorations fight in Europe. She also took inspiration from Salisbury Plain itself, and its mud and clay which with different materials, photos and videos.

stuck to her shoes for months after she visited. www.catherinesheedy.com

For Crown and Country For www.cicatrix.co.uk | www.catherinefarish.com

CINEMA & TELEVISION CINEMA & TELEVISION 18 SEP – DEC 2018 19

Those Who Come, Will Hear Simon Plouffe TV5Monde 8 September TV5MONDE is available in the UK via Sky 717 and Virgin 825. Open City Documentary Festival Please visit www.europe.tv5monde.com to check for local providers in the Nordic Countries. & ORIGINS Festival All timings given are for the UK. Picturehouse Central Blue Moon (brand new season 2) London, UK – Tuesdays @ 8pm from 18 September Having inherited her father’s company, Blue Moon, Justine Laurier According to UNESCO, a language ceases to be quickly realises that its activities are unclear and that she has no choice spoken in the world every fifteen days. Documentary but to infiltrate activist Thylan Manseau’s gang. filmThose Who Come, Will Hear brings together the © Véro Boncompagni/2015 speakers of several indigenous languages of Québec Les pays d’en haut (brand new season 2)

Still courtesy of Border Crossings whose dialects face extinction. – Tuesdays @ 8pm from 23 October This acclaimed series takes viewers on a journey to rural Québec in the Québec director Simon Plouffe combines sensitive, observational portraits of daily life in remote late 19th century against a backdrop of collusion between the church communities with field recordings that reveal the rich musicality of the languages and the and politicians and the difficult living conditions of the day. cultural importance of these venerable oral traditions. A vital, urgent archival project, the film © Encore Télévision/Sovimage serves as a profound reflection on the consequences of the erosion of linguistic diversity. This European Premiere will be followed by a Q&A session with the director. L’Épicerie – Tuesdays @ 8.30am L’Épicerie is the place to be for anyone interested in what they put on www.opencitylondon.com | www.bordercrossings.org.uk | www.simonplouffe.com their plate. Enjoy recipes, surveys, taste tests, audience participation and simple but effective cooking tips. Presented by Denis Gagné and Johane © ThinkStock Despins.

Elles Pêchent – Fridays @ 8am (series ends 23 November) World of Film Enthusiastic anglers Suzanne Beaudet and Louise Laparé go fishing in Québec’s generous waters. They are keen to share their passion and International show that this hobby is accessible to all. © ECHO MEDIA TV

Festival Glasgow Électrons Libres – Sundays @ 7.30am Pierre Chastenay, Rabii Rammal and Marianne Desautels-Marissal 4 – 7 October make science more entertaining, understandable and exciting! Includes Glasgow, UK reports, experiments and scientific news.

animation from Britain and beyond, with the first Animation Day in Glasgow on 6 October.

Through its long standing collaboration with the Montréal International Animation Film Festival, WoFF will host a selection of the best short films from Québec, along with a special screening of the iconic 1981 animated sci-fi filmHeavy Metal by British-Québécois director Gerald Potterton.

www.woffglasgow.com 40 Weeks, courtesy of WoFF

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTS BRITISH COUNCIL FOCUS 20 SEP – DEC 2018 21 Annie Roy & Pierre Allard QC–UK Connections

14 September The British Council, the Québec Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Québec Ministère des Relations IETM Satellite Wales internationales et de la Francophonie are pleased to invite you to Llandudno, UK submit an application for financial support to carry out a cultural cooperation project between Québec and the UK in 2019 and 2020. ATSA is a Montréal organisation which creates transdisciplinary Through funding and support, the scheme encourages a cultural works and events for the public realm. It has made its mark in the dialogue leading to better mutual understanding between the UK with public engagement piece While Having Soup. two societies.

At IETM’s upcoming Satellite in Llandudno ATSA’s founders Annie Roy and Pierre Allard will be This partnership will favour projects promoting leading a workshop on confronting preconceived ideas, encouraging attendees to take a critical digitally-based cultural development, through the

, photo © Jean-François Lamoureux look at and question their own practice. The session will challenge assumptions about culture support of the joint creation or dissemination of in rural areas, the hierarchy of the arts depending on the size / centrality of the settlement, digital cultural content initiatives, or innovative

expectations regarding audiences, and participatory work. performance at the initiatives allowing the cultural sector to adapt to new digital realities. Projects whose focus is not

While Having Soup www.ietm.org | www.atsa.qc.ca on digital concerns are also accepted for this call. Carte Postale Carte Please note that the call for proposals covers a two year period, therefore the projects must take place Milieux: Institute for Arts, during 2019 and 2020. The financial support will be granted in two separate payments, following the Culture and Technology reception of the mid-project report. Each organisation Always Waiting VIBE: The Art of Transatlantic Inclusion can apply for £5,100 or CAD$10,000 for each year.

27 October 1 December To find out more, and to apply, please visit

Dance East & Festival Quartiers Danses, Place des Arts in Montréal, September 2017. Photo © Jackie Hopfinger www.britishcouncil.ca. The deadline is 30 September 2018. London Borough of Newham (exact venues to be confirmed) London, UK

This collaboration between East London’s Together! 2012 CIC and Milieux: Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, at Concordia University in Montréal, brings together Disabled artists

and their communities to co-produce new digital art works and experimental sound sources neige which can be experienced through vibrational tactility as well as aurally and visually.

Always Waiting is a street art premiere, while VIBE: The Art of Transatlantic Inclusion is a Première / symposium and exhibition which showcases tactile sound and video works. Both events showcase the work of Disabled artists in Montréal and East London. First Snow Supported by the QC-UK Connections programme (British Council and the Québec Government)

Street art project, photo courtesy of Together! 2012 Street art project, photo courtesy of Together! www.together2012.org.uk | www.milieux.concordia.ca

Théâtre PàP, Hôtel-Motel & The National Theatre of Scotland, Théâtre PàP, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2018. Photo © Sally Jubb FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN QUÉBEC 2018 – 2019 22 23 See below a selection of the 400 festivals and events hosted in Québec each year They all welcome international delegates and industry professionals.

SalonFestival du Livre TransAmériques de Montréal EM15 SalonFestival du TransAmériquesLivre de Montréal POP MontrealMUTEK Salon du livre de Montréal. Photo © Jean-Guy Thibodeau EM15. Caroline Hayeur Festival TransAmériques. Photo © Youngmo Choe

12 – 22 September 2018 3 – 14 October 2018 8 – 18 November 2018 13 – 16 November 2018 14 – 17 November 2018 17 January – 2 February 2019

MA Festival de cinéma de la ville Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Rencontres Internationales du Mundial Montréal M pour Montréal Igloofest E World Music Indie Rock Showcase Electronic Music de Québec www.nouveaucinema.ca Documentaire de Montréal MUSIC www.mundialmontreal.com www.mpourmontreal.com www.igloofest.ca

CIN www.fcvq.ca www.ridm.ca

20 February – 2 March 2019 13 – 17 March 2019 July – August 2019 (dates TBC) June 2019 (dates TBC) June 2019 (dates TBC) 27 June – 6 July 2019

MA Les Rendez-vous du cinéma Regard sur le court métrage au Le Festival international de films Festival de Musique Festival Suoni Per il Popolo Festival International E de Chambre Montréal Experimental Music de Jazz de Montréal

québécois Saguenay Fantasia MUSIC www.festivalmontreal.org www.suoniperilpopolo.org www.montrealjazzfest.com

CIN www.rvcq.com International Short Film Festival www.fantasiafestival.com www.festivalregard.com

4 – 14 July 2019 May – June 2019 (dates TBC) June – July 2019 (dates TBC) 28 – 30 June 2019 August 2019 (dates TBC) 5 – 15 September 2018 Montreal Complètement IX 2019 ELEKTRA Chants de Vielles Festival Osheaga & MEG Festival Quartiers Danses Traditional Music www.osheaga.com www.quartiersdanses.com Cirque International Symposium on www.elektrafestival.ca MUSIC

CIRCUS www.montrealcompletementcirque.com Immersive Experiences www.chantsdevielles.com www.ix.sat.qc.ca DIGITAL ARTS DIGITAL PERFORMING ARTS

August 2019 (dates TBC) 14 – 19 November 2018 10 – 14 April 2019 12 – 17 November 2018 22 May – 5 June 2019 Winter 2019 (dates TBC) CINARS Festival TransAmériques Parcours Danse MUTEK Salon du Livre de Montréal Salon du Livre de Québec Theatre & Dance www.mutek.org www.salondulivredemontreal.com www.silq.ca Peforming Arts Biennial fta.qc.ca www.ladansesurlesroutes.com www.cinars.org May – June 2019 (dates TBC) OFFTA

LITERATURE Live Art Festival DIGITAL ARTS DIGITAL

PERFORMING ARTS www.offta.com

April 2019 (dates TBC) 12 – 14 November 2018 February 2019 (dates TBC) 6 – 10 March 2019 May – June 2019 (dates TBC) August 2019 (dates TBC) Metropolis Bleu HUB – Rendez-vous Mois Multi Le Festival de Casteliers Carrefour international de théâtre Festival du théâtre de rue POP Montreal. Photo © 2014 Dominick Mastrangelo www.bluemetropolis.org international des industries Multidisciplinary Digital Arts Puppetry www.carrefourtheatre.qc.ca de Lachine

créatives www.mmrectoverso.org/fr/mois-multi THEATRE www.festival.casteliers.ca www.theatrederue.ca

www.hubmontreal.com 10e

FESTIVAL de LITERATURE CASTELIERS MARIONNETTES POUR ADULTES ET ENFANTS MULTIDISCIPLINARY

21 February – 3 March 2019 August 2019 (dates TBC) 30 August – 2 September 2018 August 2019 (dates TBC) 14 February – 21 April 2019 April 2019 (dates TBC) Montréal en Lumière Montréal First Peoples Festival Festival de musique Dramaturgies en Dialogue Manif d’art 9 Foire d’art Papier de Montréal www.montrealenlumiere.com www.presenceautochtone.ca (CEAD) www.manifdart.org www.papiermontreal.com

MUSIC émergente en

Abitibi-Témiscamingue THEATRE www.dramaturgiesendialogue. www.fmeat.org com VISUAL ARTS MULTIDISCIPLINARY

6 – 8 September 2018 12 – 16 September 2018 26 – 30 September 2018 September & October 2019 11 – 18 November 2018 13 – 16 November 2018 Envol et Macadam Conférence Trad Montréal Pop Montréal (dates TBC) Les Coups de Théâtre FOCUS Québec Emerging Music & La Grande Rencontre www.popmontreal.com Momenta – biennale de l’image www.coupsdetheatre.com www.maisontheatre.com MUSIC www.envoletmacadam.com www.espacetrad.org www.momentabiennale.com VISUAL ARTS YOUNG AUDIENCE YOUNG AUDIENCE EVENTS SEPTEMBER 2018 – JANUARY 2019

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

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6 Digital Arts Tim Hecker Barbican Hall London, UK 020 7638 8891 SEPTEMBER & Kara-Lis Coverdale www.barbican.org.uk Tuesdays Cinema & L’Épicerie TV5Monde UK & Nordic Sky 717 & Virgin 825 6 Music Voivod Rebellion Manchester, UK 01612 369 732 @ 8.30am Television Countries www.europe.tv5monde.com www.rebellion.club Fridays Cinema & Elles Pêchent TV5Monde UK & Nordic Sky 717 & Virgin 825 europe. 7 Music Voivod Underworld London, UK 02074 821 932 @ 8am Television Countries www. tv5monde.com www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk Sundays Cinema & Électrons Libres TV5Monde UK & Nordic Sky 717 & Virgin 825 europe. 7 Music Tess Roby The Hope and Ruin Brighton, UK 01273 325793 @ 7.30am Television Countries www.tv5monde.com www.hope.pub 7 Music Chilly Gonzales Cadogan Hall London, UK 020 7730 4500 8 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Merlin Theatre Frome, UK 01373 465949 www.cadoganhall.com Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.merlintheatre.co.uk Woânda 8 Music Chilly Gonzales Grand Theatre Leeds, UK 0844 848 2700 www.leedsgrandtheatre.com 8 Digital Arts Martin Messier, Field @ Attenborough Centre for Brighton, UK Brighton Digital Festival the Creative Arts www.brightondigitalfestival.co.uk 8 Music Gerald Finley @ The Last Royal Albert Hall London, UK 020 7589 8212 Night of the Proms www.royalalberthall.com 10 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, The Hawth Crawley, UK 01293 553636 Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk 8 Cinema & Those Who Come, Will Hear Picturehouse Central London, UK Woânda Television @ Open City Documentary www.opencitylondon.com Festival & ORIGINS Festival 10 - 14 Circus Cirque du Soleil, OVO 3Arena Dublin, Ireland +353 1819 8888 www.3arena.ie 10 Music Chilly Gonzales Southbank Centre London, UK 020 3879 9555 13 Visual Arts Catherine Sheedy Bow Quarter London, UK www.southbankcentre.co.uk Open Studio www.catherinesheedy.com 11 Music Chilly Gonzales RNCM Manchester, UK 0161 907 5555 14 Music Voivod Pumpehuset Copenhagen, www.rncm.ac.uk Denmark www.pumpehuset.dk 12 Visual Arts Catherine Farish participation Swindon Museum Swindon, UK 15 Music Voivod Klubb Nalen Stockholm, in Cicatrix & Art Gallery www.cicatrix.co.uk Sweden www.voivod.net 14 Multidisciplinary Annie Roy & Pierre Allard Llandudno, UK 16 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Riverhead Theatre Louth, UK 01507 600350 @ IETM www.ietm.org Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.louthriverheadtheatre.com From 14 Theatre Jennifer Tremblay’s The List The Finnish National Helsinki, Finland Woânda Theatre www.kansallisteatteri.fi 17 Music Voivod Tavastia Helsinki, Finland www.tavastiaklubi.fi 15 Theatre Change Your Life’ - Plays from The Finnish National Helsinki, Finland Québec Theatre www.kansallisteatteri.fi 17 - 21 Circus Cirque du Soleil, OVO SSE Arena Belfast, United 028 9073 9074 Kingdom www.ssearenabelfast.com From 18 Cinema & Blue Moon TV5Monde UK & Nordic Sky 717 & Virgin 825 September Television (brand new season 2) Countries europe.tv5monde.com 18 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Stamford Arts Centre Stamford, UK 01780 763 203 Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.stamfordartscentre.com 19 - 23 Circus Cirque du Soleil, OVO first direct arena Leeds, United 0844 248 1585 Woânda Kingdom www.firstdirectarena.com 18 Music Voivod Klubi Tampere, Finland 22 Sep - Visual Arts Josée Pedneault & Bertrand Street Level Photoworks Glasgow, UK 0141 552 2151 www.tullikamari.net/fi/klubi 25 Nov Carrier, Lightwaves www.streetlevelphotoworks.org 18 - 21 Dance Le Patin Libre, Threshold @ Alexandra Palace London, UK 23 Literature & Louise Penny @ Bloody Albert Halls Stirling, UK Dance Umbrella Ice Rink www.danceumbrella.co.uk Publishing Scotland www.bloodyscotland.com 20 Music Voivod John Dee, Rockefeller Oslo, Norway 24 Literature & Dany Laferrière, The World Institut Français London, UK 020 8670 1920 www.rockefeller.no Publishing Is Moving: A Celebration of www.festivalamerica.co.uk French Caribbean Culture 21 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Hartlepool Town Hall Hartlepool, UK 01429 860 663 @ Festival America Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.hartlepooltownhalltheatre.com Woânda 25 Literature & Andrée Michaud, Canadian Marlborough House London, UK 020 8670 1920 Publishing women from West to East www.festivalamerica.co.uk 22 Music Helena Deland The Poetry Club Glasgow, UK 0141 357 7246 @ Festival America www.thepoetryclub.net

26 Literature & Christian Guay-Poliquin, Canada House London, UK 020 8670 1920 23 Music Helena Deland The Castle Manchester, UK 0161 237 9485 Publishing Myths, moods and melodies www.festivalamerica.co.uk www.thecastlehotel.info @ Festival America From 23 Cinema & Les pays d’en haut TV5Monde UK & Nordic Sky 717 & Virgin 825 26 Literature & Heather O’Neill, Leading Canada House London, UK 020 8670 1920 October Television (brand new season 2) Countries www.europe.tv5monde.com Publishing Canadian prize-winning www.festivalamerica.co.uk authors @ Festival America 24 Music Helena Deland Sebright Arms London, UK 020 7729 0937 www.sebrightarms.com Previews Theatre Alex Gaumond, Company Gielgud Theatre London, UK 0844 482 5151 from 26 www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk 24 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Square Chapel Arts Halifax, UK 01422 349 422 Une grenouille qui s’appelle Centre www.squarechapel.co.uk 26 - 30 Circus Cirque du Soleil, OVO Manchester Arena Manchester, UK 0844 847 8000 Woânda www.manchester-arena.com 27 Multidisciplinary Always Waiting Newham London, UK 27 Literature & Eric Plamondon, Liberated by Canada House London, UK 020 8670 1920 www.together2012.org.uk Publishing invention @ Festival America www.festivalamerica.co.uk 27 Music Le Vent du Nord Smeltedigelen Mo i Rana, 27 Literature & Guillaume Morissette & Québec Government London, UK 020 8670 1920 Norway www.smeltedigelen.no Publishing Christian Guay-Poliquin, Office www.festivalamerica.co.uk Investigating language as the 28 Music Le Vent du Nord Dokkhuset Trondheim, basis of culture @ Festival Norway www.dokkhuset.no America 28 & 29 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Lincoln Drill Hall Lincoln, UK 01522 873894 27 & 28 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Hexham, UK 01434 652477 Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.lincolndrillhall.com Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.queenshall.co.uk Woânda Woânda 31 Music Le Vent du Nord Kungsbacka teater Kungsbacka, +46 300 83 45 95 27 & 28 Literature & Isabelle Arsenault @ Gothenburg, +46 31 708 84 00 Sweden www.kungsbackateater.se Publishing Gothenburg Book Fair Sweden www.goteborg-bookfair.com 30 Sep Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, The Exchange North Shields, UK 0191 258 4111 NOVEMBER & 1 Oct Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.attheexchange.info Woânda 1 Music Le Vent du Nord Riksscenen Oslo, Norway www.riksscenen.no OCTOBER 2 Music Le Vent du Nord Victoria Theater Malmö, Sweden +46 40 10 30 20 www.victoria.se 1 Music Tess Roby Shackwell Arms London, UK 020 7249 0810 www.shacklewellarms.com 2 & 3 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Arts Centre Washington, UK 0191 561 3455 Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.artscentrewashington.com 2 Music Tess Roby The Louisiana Bristol, UK Woânda www.thelouisiana.net 6 - 8 Dance Benoît Lachambre / Par Cable Factory Helsinki, Finland 2 Music Gerald Finley Middle Temple Hall London, UK B.L.eux, Lifeguard @ Moving www.movinginnovember.fi www.templechurch.com in November Festival Theatre Needles and Opium 2 & 3 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Alphabetti Theatre Newcastle 7 & 8 Theatre Royal Plymouth 01752 267222 Une grenouille qui s’appelle upon Tyne, UK www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk www.theatreroyal.com Woânda 9 Music Steve Hill Floral Pavilion Theatre Wirral, UK 01516 660 000 www.floralpavilion.com 3 Music Voivod The Joiners Southampton, UK www.voivod.net 10 Music Steve Hill Bude Blues Festival / Kilkhampton, UK Penstowe Park Holiday www.stevehillmusic.com 3 Music Voivod The Globe Cardiff, UK Village www.globecardiffmusic.com 10 & 11 Digital Arts Lucas Paris, Antivolume IN/ Watermans Centre Brentford, UK 020 8232 1010 3 Music Tess Roby The Soup Kitchen Manchester, UK 0161 236 5100 EXT, Myriam Boucher & www.watermans.org.uk www.soupkitchenmcr.co.uk Pierre-Luc Lecours, Elements @ Digital Performance 3 - 7 Circus Cirque du Soleil, OVO Barclaycard Arena Birmingham, UK Weekender www.arenabham.co.uk 13 Music Steve Hill The Half Moon London, UK 020 8780 9383 4 Music Voivod Temple Of Boom Leeds, UK www.halfmoon.co.uk www.voivod.net 30 Music Steve Hill Chiddingstone Chiddingstone 4 Music Tess Roby Oslo London, UK 020 3553 4831 Causeway Arts and Causeway, UK www.causewayhall.co.uk www.oslohackney.com Social Centre 4 - 7 Cinema & World of Film International Glasgow, UK DECEMBER Television Festival www.woffglasgow.com 1 Multidisciplinary VIBE: The Art of Transatlantic Newham London, UK 5 Music Voivod Cathouse Glasgow, UK 0141 248 6606 Inclusion www.together2012.org.uk www.cathouse.co.uk 7 - 16 Digital Arts HUB, SPECTRUM @ Salford Quays Manchester, UK 0161 876 2106 5 Music Tess Roby Bodega Nottingham, UK 01159 505 078 Lightwaves 2018 www.quaysculture.com www.bodeganottingham.com 6 Theatre Théâtre À l’Envers, Market Theatre Ledbury, UK JANUARY Une grenouille qui s’appelle www.themarkettheatre.com Woânda 23 - 27 Theatre Notre Dame de Paris Coliseum London, UK www.notredamedeparis.co.uk

Notre Dame De Paris. Photo © Alessandro Dobici Martin Messier. Photo © Martin Messier Tess Roby. Photo © Fatine-Violette Sabiri See inside for Quebec programmes September – December