Bulletin Culturel

June 2010 F o c u s

WORLDWIDE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

LUMINATO

From one language towards the other, for the writer who decides this creative literary shift, is there a more challenging journey? As it was the case for one of the most influential Portuguese writers Fernando Pessoa, a personal move quite often leads to this change: he went with his family to South Africa and his very first poems were written Contents and published in English (*). PAGE 3 - Festivals At the literary event “Found in Translation”, writers from the five PAGES 6-7 - Exhibitions continents who decided on by themselves to use French as their language, are presented in English thanks to “Authors at PAGES 8-9 - Music Harbourfont”. However, you may attend presentations in French, as PAGE 10 - Theatre well as in Spanish or Japanese. PAGE 10-12 - Cinema For “Luminato”, Rufus Wainwright’s opera is sung in French. With PAGE 12-13 - Speakings Rachid Taha, Lo’Jo and others, “Rock the Casbah” blends rock music PAGE 13 - Television with North-African and African sounds. Join the party with “Franco- fête” and newly settings for “Fête de la Musique” !

Joël Savary, attaché culturel

(*) “Antinoüs” by Fernando Pessoa, translated from English by Armand Guibert, French/English, Fata Morgana , Montpellier, 1979. JUNE 2010

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ROCK THE CASBAH

Reflecting this year's East/West theme, this opening weekend day of music is sure to stir your body and soul. Rock the Casbah includes performances by banjo maestro Karim Saada, as well as the Maryem Tollar Ensemble, and culminates in a sizzling set by Algerian-born rocker Rachid Taha, whose ferociously energetic musical style infuses his North African roots with the rebellious spirit of punk.

JUNE 12 QUEEN'S PARK NORTH 1:00 PM - LO'JO (FRANCE) 2:00 PM - MARYEM TOLLAR ENSEMBLE 3:00 PM - KARIM SAADA (MONTEAL, CANADA) 4:00 PM - RACHID TAHA (ALGERIA)

PRIMA DONNA COMPOSED production co-commissioned by BY RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Luminato and staged by renowned opera director Tim Albery, who brought Luminato Acclaimed singer-songwriter audiences last year's sensational Rufus Wainwright has long been The Children's Crusade. For a fan of opera. Now he has lovers of opera and written his own: a modern spin contemporary music alike, this is on the grand Romantic tradition. one of the must-see events of the year. Set in Paris in 1970, Prima Donna depicts a day in the life of Performed in French with English Régine Saint Laurent, a once- surtitles. adored soprano who suddenly and mysteriously quit the stage JUNE 14, 16, 18, 19 after achieving the greatest ELGIN THEATRE triumph of her career. Now, six 189 YONGE STREET years later, she contemplates a comeback, spurred on by the unexpected resurgence of romance in her life. But love, as After thrilling UK audiences last any opera buff knows, can be a summer, Prima Donna makes its dangerous emotion. North American debut in a new

3 NABAZ'MOB OPERA FOR 100 questions the issues of working SMART RABBITS together, organization, decision and control, which are increasingly central and difficult in our By Antoine Schmitt and Jean- contemporary world. Jacques Birgé. This musical and choreographic score in three movements, transmitted via wi-fi, 11-20 JUNE plays on the tension between the DISTILLERY DISTRICT orchestral ensemble and the WWW.LUMINATO.COM individual voices to create a strong and involved showpiece. This opera

FOUND IN TRANSLATION JUNE 17-19

Original and enlightening, Found in Translation highlights authors whose works have originated in a language other than their native tongue. Led by the Consulate General of France and Authors at Harbourfront Centre, this year’s inaugural festival focuses on French literature by contemporary authors from around the world.

Authors invited: Laura Alcoba (Argentina / France) Kebir Mustapha Ammi ( France / Morrocco) Ying Chen (Canada / China) ; Andreï Makine (France / Russia) Catherine Mavrikakis (Canada / USA ) Tierno Monénembo ( France / Guinea) Gilda Piersanti (France / Italy) Ryoko Sekiguchi ( France / Japan) Louis-Philippe Dalamber (France/ Haiti)

CONTEMPORARY FRENCH Moderator: Bert Archer, Journalist, LITERATURE ACROSS Globe and Mail & Toronto Life NATIONS THURSDAY JUNE 17 7:30 PM HARBOURFRONT CENTRE (235 Readers: Ying Chen, Andreï Makine, QUEENS QUAY WEST) Tierno Monénembo, Ryoko Sekiguchi $8/FREE MEMBERS & STUDENTS ENGLISH LANGUAGE Panelists: Kebir Mustapha Ammi, Louis-Philippe Dalembert

PRESENTATION BY LAURA ALCOBA

FRIDAY, JUNE 18 7PM Born in Argentina, Laura Alcoba is a SPANISH CENTRE translator and the author of (46 HAYDEN STREET) Manèges and Jardin blanc. Due to FREE political reasons, her family (SPANISH-LANGUAGE) emigrated from Argentina to France when she was 10 years old. Alcoba currently teaches Spanish literature at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

4 READING/INTERVIEW: ANDREÏ MAKINE, GILDA PIERSANTI

French-language readings and an interview featuring Andreï Makine and Gilda Piersanti.

Andreï Makine immigrated to France in the late 1980s. His first novel, A Hero’s Daughter, was published after he pretended it had been Born in Italy, Gilda Piersanti has translated from the Russian, after lived in Paris for the last 20 years. no publisher believed he could have Dedicating her life to literature du polar européen-winning Bleu written it in French. Since then he since 1995, she completed a thesis catacombes. has published several novels, and on Philosophy and has worked as a was the first author to win both of literary critic, translator and FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 7:30PM France’s top literary prizes, the Prix curator. Writing with a focus on ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE TORONTO Goncourt and Prix Médicis, for his crime fiction, Piersanti’s works 24 SPADINA ROAD work Le testament français. include L'inconnu du Paris-Rome, (FRENCH LANGUAGE) Vert palatino, Vengeances FREE romaines, and the 2007 Prix SNCF

PRESENTATION BY RYOKO work Cahiers de la poésie FRIDAY JUNE 18, 8PM SEKIGUCHI contemporaine. Residing in Paris THE JAPAN FOUNDATION since 1997, she currently teaches at 131 BLOOR STREET WEST, SUITE 213 (JAPANESE-LANGUAGE W/ Born in Japan, Ryoko Sekiguchi various institutes, including the ENGLISH TRANSLATION) began to write poetry in both Institut National des Langues et Japanese and French at an early Civilisations Orientales, and has age. At the age of 18, she received worked as a translator. the Tokyo Literature Prize for her

Moroccan mother. He has lived in PRESENTATION BY KEBIR France for over 30 years and works SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 11:00AM as an English teacher. Ammi’s works MUSTAPHA AMMI CAFÉ CASABLANCA include La Fille du vent, Évocation 1393 DANFORTH AVE. de Hallaj, Martyr mystique de (FRENCH-LANGUAGE) Kebir Mustapha Ammi l’islam and, most recently, Les (France/Morocco) was born in Vertus immorales. Morocco to an Algerian father and

LIFE IN TRANSLATION SATURDAY JUNE 19 2 PM Readers: Laura Acolba, Catherine HARBOUR FRONT CENTER Mavrikakis, Gilda Piersanti 235 QUEENS QUAY WEST 8$ / FREE MEMBER AND STUDENTS Panelist: Ying Chen, Catherine (ENGLISH LANGUAGE) Mavrikakis

Moderator: Charles Foran, Author & Vice President, PEN Canada

5 FRANCO-FÊTE JUNE 10-12 Franco-Fête is proud to announce an exciting lineup for the 28th annual French music and culture festival. A three-day event Franco- Fête celebrates Canada’s rich and diverse francophone heritage from June 10 to 12 and features the best Canadian francophonie has to offer.

JUNE 10-12 WWW.FRANCO-FETE.CA

Exhibitions

DRAMA AND DESIRE ARTISTS AND THE THEATER JUNE 19- SEPT 26

Lust. Passion. Murder. Many of Ingres, William Blake, Aubrey the greatest artists of the 19th Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse- century shared a profound Lautrec, and Édouard Vuillard. fascination with the theatre and its themes of triumph and The works were selected from destruction, love and despair. the collections of some of the world's greatest museums, This summer, the Art Gallery of including the Louvre, the gives centre stage to key Metropolitan Museum of Art, artworks by these artists in a the Musée d'Orsay, the British major international exhibition Museum, and the Victoria & titled Drama and Desire: Artists Albert Museum. and the Theatre, opening June 19 and continuing through September 26.

Conceived by Guy Cogeval, JUNE 19 - SEPT 26 president of the Musée d'Orsay ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO in Paris, the exhibition includes 317 DUNDAS STREET WEST over 100 paintings, drawings and theatrical maquettes, by masters such as Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique 6 GALLERY TPW: ERIC BAUDELAIRE MAY 6 - JUNE 5

GALLERY TPW Featured Exhibition: TPW Gallery MAY 6TH - JUNE 5TH invites Eric Baudelaire, French OPENING MAY 6TH, 7PM -10PM 56 OSSINGTON AVE photographer. His art is part of the TUE – SAT 12 – 5PM Centre Pompidou and the Fonds 416 645 1066 National d’Art Contemporain’s [email protected] collections. WWW.GALLERYTPW.CA

CHILD'S PLAY JUNE 10 -19

This work by Guillaume Désanges is The resulting videos and drawings the outcome of a workshop with embody the immediate energy, seven Romanian children in 2008. humor, and embrace of the experiential experiment that is The impetus for the workshop was essential for an understanding of an assertion that the history of performance and body art. performance art be read as a history of silence rather than discourse – a pre-linguistic history of JUNE 10 – 19, 2010 primary gestures. Perhaps the GALLERY TPW experience of childhood is closest to 56 OSSINGTON AVENUE this impulse in performance/body replayed and interpreted more than 416.645.1681 art. fifty iconic performances, including [email protected] gestures from Futurism and Dada to WWW.GALLERYTPW.CA During the workshop, the kids Paul McCarthy and Francis Alys.

FRANCE ALONG THE ROAD, ANNA BARNETT PHOTOGRAPHIES

« The France I have discovered over walls and rooftops of the towns. the last few years is a The manor emerging from the mist photographer’s paradise. Each step, at the bend in the river waits for each new turn in the road, seems to the camera to freeze it in time. And present another visual wonder. It’s then there’s Paris, a world unto difficult to say if the beauty of the itself; a world of artifice, both landscape enhances what people people and architecture. Each have created or if the man-made season, each corner – a new structures have been precisely photograph. » Anna Barnett placed with a painterly eye to fit in exactly with the land. The centuries FROM JUNE 11 have created an organic whole AFT SPADINA which is a treat to the camera’s 24 SPADINA ROAD eye. The colours of the earth are GALERIE PIERRE LÉON reflected in the stones of the FREE ENTRANCE village; the forests creep over the FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAY

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NORTH BY NORTHEAST MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL JUNE 14- 20

HENRY WE ARE ENFANT TERRIBLE

Cirque du Soleil première We Are enfant terrible are two french boys and a girl trio from Paris. Their chanteuse Elise Velle and 6 Degrees songs have an electro dance beat with indie rock and synthpop sounds and a Records recording artist Michael touch of 8bit music. All performed with live guitars, drums and re- Emenau strive to reinvigorate and programmed Nintendo gameboy on stage. electrify the compositions of England first great composer Henry Purcell(1659-1695). Timeless songs of love, death, angst, sex, and wine are reactivated and electrified.

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FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE JUNE 21

FÉMININ PLURIEL guitarist Eric St-Laurent, for visual EIGHT WOMEN, ONE STAGE, ONE and musical feast staged by director NIGHT Patricia Marceau.

Sharing the stage for the first time, JUNE 21ST 7:30 PM eight artists, among them, Danielle GLENN GLOUD STUDIO Duval (rock), Justine Gogoua 250 FRONT STREET WEST (african music), Amélie Lefebvre FREE ADMISSION (chanson), Patricia O’Callaghan (cabaret), et Maryem Tollar (arabic song) invite you to join them on a fascinating journey in song. They will be accompanied by pianist Marc Auguste, bassist Bernard Dione, and 8 TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL JUNE 25 – JULY 4

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT SINGS PIAF

Martha Wainwright Sings Piaf... Martha Wainwright stamps her je ne sais quoi on a beautiful selection of rare and acclaimed Edith Piaf songs, passionately sung and romantically interpreted by Martha on her stunning album'Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris. Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record' out November 9th.

FRI JUN 25 9:00PM GREAT HALL 1087 QUEEN STREET WEST

BEVERLY TAFT ET LES CHANSONETTES

Beverly Taft et les Chansonettes is a swinging group that flirts, laments, and romances through classic french jazz and cabaret music by the likes of Trenet, Aznavour, Brassens, and Gainsbourg. Described as "époustouflante" (breathtaking) by Le Métropolitain, this version of the show features Tony Quarrington (guitar), Marcel Aucoin (accordion), Jordan O'Connor (bass) and Jake Wilkinson (trumpet), with Beverly on vocals.

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STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL JUNE 11 SEPT 12

NATHALIE NADON SINGS recorded by countless artists French Canadian actress and JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND throughout the world. cabaret singer Nathalie Nadon will WELL Encompassing themes of joy and be making her Stratford Festival sorrow, love and loss, life and Debut in the production of Jacques AND LIVING IN PARIS death, this compilation of Brel’s Brel is Alive and Well and Living in finest work celebrates the diverse Paris. complexity of the human heart. TOM PATTERSON THEATRE 111 LAKESIDE DRIVE STRATFORD, ON WWW.STRATFORDFESTIVAL.CA/

Often haunting, sometimes humorous, always vividly dramatic, the songs of Jacques Brel have been

LA SAGOUINE BY ANTONINE MAILLET MAY 1- JUNE 5

Antonine Maillet is a writer and The French theatre compagny playwright born in Canada from Pléiades performs La Sagouine in Acadian roots. She is well-known both French and English with Viola because of the hit of her play La Léger playing La Sagouine and Sagouine. directed by John Van Burek. She taught Folklore and literature at Laval University ant then in Montreal from 1971 to 1976. She also worked for Radio-Canada in MAY 1 - JUNE 5, FRENCH Moncton. THE BERKELEY STREET THEATRE In 1979 her work Pélagie-la- DOWNSTAIRS Charrette won the Prix Goncourt, 26 BERKELEY STREET HTTP://WWW.PLEIADESTHEATRE.ORG/ giving her the distinction of being BOXOFFICE.PHP the only non-European to be awarded the prize until that date. She writes many very popular novels and plays. Her novel Pélagie- la-Charrette describes the Great Upheveal of 1755 (the deportation of Acadians by British). The history and the folklore of Acadia inspire her. 10 Cinema

JEAN FRANÇOIS Sunday, his father has a series of NUDE (NUE) BRUNO MANGYOKU, TOM HAUGOMAT surprises for his "model" son. CATHERINE BERNSTEIN

A massive champion swimmer A nude woman offers up her body for competes against an undertow of JUNE 1 7:PM the camera's inspection as she childhood memories. No medal can BLOOR CINEMA frankly discusses the faults that once rival the riptide of nostalgia that 506 BLOOR STREET WEST plagued her. Renewed with a new takes him back to the sea, his father, sense of self, she engages in an and the boy just out of reach. arresting conversation of body politics with an even more surprising listener. 7.57 AM-PM SIMON LELOUCH WEDNESDAY JUNE 2 3:15 PM SATURDAY JUNE 5 7 PM CUMBERLAND CINEMA 4

WEDNESDAY JUNE 2 2 PM SATURDAY JUNE 5 12:30 PM COWBOYS ARE NOT AFRAID CUMBERLAND CINEMA 3 TO DIE (LES COWBOYS N’ONT PAS PEUR DE MOURIR) ANNE LAURE DAFFIS, LÉO MARCHAND IT'S SUNDAY! (C'EST DIMANCHE!) A botched stagecoach robbery leaves SAMIR GUESMI a cowboy down and his pal desperate to find help. Black and white footage

Scenes of Paris' subway rush hour are cut with behind-the-scenes footage of a sold-out symphony performance at the Theatre des Champs-Élysées. The mystery connection between from old Westerns are hand-painted these two worlds exposes the to create this visually-stunning shoot disorienting pace of modern life. 'em up animation.

Following his expulsion from high WEDNESDAY JUNE 2 6:15 PM FRIDAY JUNE 4 3:15 PM school, Ibrahim hoodwinks his CUMBERLAND CINEMA 4 CUMBERLAND CINEMA 4 illiterate father into believing he has just been awarded a diploma. Come 11 THE MAN WHO SLEPT holding her back. Richly textured THE CALAS AFFAIR (L'HOMME QUI DORT) animation delivers her to new life. A CAMERA’S EXPLORATION OF TIME INÈS SEDAN THURSDAY JUNE 3 3:15 PM Based on texts by Voltaire, the film CUMBERLAND CINEMA 4 recounts the struggle of the writer for the rehabilitation of a man accused of murdering one of his And also: The Texture of Dreams son found hanged, to prevent him (Matières à rêver) by Florence from convertingt to Catholicism. Miailhe, The Silence Beneath The Bark (Le Silence Sous L'ecorce) by Joanna Lurie, Fard by David Alapont, Luis Briceno and Winter's A woman tends to her ever-sleeping Beginning (Le début de l'hiver) by husband at home. When a stranger Eric Guirado. arrives, she finds the routine that's been keeping her steady may be WWW.WORLDWIDESHORTFILMFEST. COM

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S p e a k i n g s

A HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN 20 MINUTES JUNE 10

A History of Performance in 20 exclusively a history of gesture. Minutes is a performative lecture Barely sketched, already expired by Guillaume Désanges presenting a concise history of the Guillaume Désanges is a free-lance representation of the body in art. curator and art critic, co-founder of Work Method, a Paris based agency THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 7:30 PM Let’s attempt a history of the body for artistic projects. GALLERY TPW in art as a history of silence as 56 OSSINGTON AVENUE TORONTOT opposed to discourse about art. 416.645.1681 Let’s simply show how the history – [email protected] of art – has, at a certain moment – and for some people – engendered gestures and not objects. And certainly not discourse… Looked at this way, in a purely formal fashion, the history of performance, or of body art, is not then a history of the representation of the body but 12 CHRISTIAN PRIGENT JUNE 1 AFT invites you to an evening in modern literature in the honor of Christian Prigent, the Department of French Studies of the celebrated French poet, author and , and co- literary critic. Provocative, critical founder of the online magazine, and ironic, his writing jumbles Applied Semiotics / Sémiotique forms and wages a battle against « appliquée. false speech », using language as his weapon. JUNE 1 Your host for the evening will be ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE TORONTO Pascal Michelucci, professor of 24 SPADINA ROAD

THE BULLETIN CULTUREL OF THE CONSULATE PRESENTS ITS SELECTION OF TFO FRENCH CINEMA Television PROGRAM

THE 400 BLOWS Japanese young woman, who himself to finding her. As Antoine FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT belongs to the entourage of an leaves the train in a hurry, he drops important customer. In spite of the a piece of paper. It is the torn Antoine Doinel is a 12 year old boy fact that his wife has just given photograph of a young woman, who lives with his parents in a small birth, Antoine starts to have an lovingly put together with tape... apartment in Paris. He creates affair with Kyoko. When she learns trouble both at school and at home the truth, Christine is furious. It TUESDAY JUNE 29 9 PM 29 JUIN and feels unloved and unwanted by looks as if her marriage with WEDNESDAY JUNE 30 12:30 AM his parents. He believes that he can Antoine might well be over... solve his problems by playing truant EAST WEST TUESDAY JUNE 22 9 PM and running away with his friend, RÉGIS WARGNIER WEDNESDAY JUNE 23 12:30 PM René. Finally, he commits one FRIDAY JUNE 25 1 PM misdemeanour too many and is sent 1946. Following an amnesty from away to an observation centre for Communist leader Stalin, a juvenile delinquents. LOVE ON THE RUN physician Alexeï returns to his FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT native Russia after a period of exile TUESDAY JUNE 1 9 PM in France. He brings with him his WEDNESDAY JUNE 2 12:30 AM wife Marie and young son Seryozha. Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel FRIDAY JUNE 4 1 PM No sooner has their shipped docked has divorced his wife Christine and in the port of Odessa than they is having a love affair with a young realise they have fallen into a trap. shop girl, Sabine. This new BED AND BOARD Their fellow returnees are relationship becomes strained when FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT imprisoned or executed for alleged Antoine skips a dinner date to take espionage, and they are spared only his son Alphonse to the railway Antoine Doinel is 26 and happily because Alexeï is of value to the station. There, by chance, he married to Christine. Whilst his Soviet State. The young family are meets his first love, Colette, who is wife gives violin lessons, Antoine sent to Kiev, to live in a dingy flat now a successful lawyer. She has works for a florist, dyeing flowers. and work in a state-run factory. just bought a copy of Antoine’s However, he soon loses interest in Marie, afraid that their lives are in biography, which relates all of his this job and decides to go for an danger, tries to convince Alexeï that past loves, and she is not impressed interview with an American they must return to France. by his poetic licence. As they talk construction company. To his However, escape looks increasingly on the train, Antoine outlines the surprise, he is offered a job, unlikely... operating radio-controlled boats in plot for his next book, in which a a scale-model of a harbour. Here, man falls in love with the woman in a torn up photograph and devotes SATURDAY JUNE 26 9 PM he meets Kyoko, an attractive SUNDAY JUNE 27 12:30 PM 13 STUDY IN FRANCE MONDAY JUNE 7

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