Bulletin Culturel March 2010 focus AIR - PHOENIX THEATRE ÉRIC HAZAN UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO charlie winston CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK In « L’Image-Malice » culinary preparations sinous descriptions are used to make us experiment scale audacious comparisons : “…from its end of the XIX th Contents century attested presence in French the word bretzel comes from derived latin “arm” brachium, brachita to common latin brachitella . By form analogy this PAGE 3 - Festival goes to name a salted and cumin peppered 8- or arms- shaped light pastry . If PAGE 7 - Music you move it the other way around, the bretzel draws something which can be related to the symbol of infinite.” * For the compared symbolic appearance of PAGE 8 - Cinema the strudel may I wish you to open the book ? PAGE 8 - Theatre To which infinite or to which crunchy cookies, do the March Francophonie cel- PAGE 9 - Dance ebrations invite us to enjoy in 2010? Thanks to its Alliance Française and part- ners, Winnipeg highlights Africa with musical performances, tales and films. In PAGE 10 - TV Toronto, there are many good wills around Francophonie including Alliance PAGE 11 - Speaking française and many more. Francophone Film Festival “Cinefranco” get started early March for the kids and overlapps end of March with April for parents and PAGE 13 - Release friends. * « DevantJoël le Savary, Temps /Attaché L’Image-Malice Culturel » Georges Didi-Huberman , Les Editions de Minuit, 2000, Paris, p. 155 . March 2010 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1234567 MSF AT THE MUNK PERSÉPOLIS CINÉFRANCO CINÉFRANCO CENTRE TINARIWEN 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 RACHID RACHID RACHID OURAMDANE OURAMDANE OURAMDANE CANADIAN CANADIAN CANADIAN CANADIAN CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK MUSIC WEEK MUSIC WEEK MUSIC WEEK MUSIC WEEK 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 “ART” BY YAMISNA REZA SEMAINE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA UNTIL APRIL FRANCOPHONIE FRANCOPHONIE FRANCOPHONIE FRANCOPHONIE FRANCOPHONIE 10TH 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 SEMAINE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE FRANCOPHONIE FRANCOPHONIE FRANCOPHONIE CINÉFRANCO CINÉFRANCO CINÉFRANCO AIR SYMPOSIUM “NEW WORLD, NEW SPACES” 29 30 31 News editor : Joël Savary CINÉFRANCO CINÉFRANCO CINÉFRANCO Creative writer : Martin Colomer-Diez Audiovisual : Marie Herault-Delanoë ERIC HAZAN Book : Léa Deshusses Music : Simon Grignon 2 Festival CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK MARCH 10-14 Canadian Music Week is a major Paral-Lel is a french duo of elec- Monsieur Cédric is a French DJ well event for Canadian and North Ameri- tronic music composed by Slush and kown of Saint Tropez and the French can music industry. Every year more Praktisch. They work with the label Riviera. He is the DJ of the well than 400 artists from Canada and BEE Records which is settled in Lyon. known and elitist Nikki Beach in St everywhere in the world are going to Their first album Upgrade to mutant Tropez and mix during the crazy par- perform in many venues of Toronto. sheep has been appreciated in France ties of the Cannes Festival in May. This week is the opportunity for the and abroad. They performed in artists to meet producers and record France, United States and in the labels. Indeed, this is not just a festi- Balkans. TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH val like many others. There, profes- CHEVAL sionals meetings are important, Dead Sexy Inc. is composed of The 606 KING ST. WEST numerous and fruitful. Infamous and Graceful Emmanuel H MONSIEUR CEDRIC (LTNO), The delicious and dirty 10 PM Many french artists are invited each Stephane H who set up the band. In year. Some successful, some who are 2005, Mr Porn Scandal and Alexis G DRAKE UNDERGROUND going to be. The 2010’s French dele- have linked up the band. They have 1150 QUEEN ST. WEST gation is composed of 5 bands very been on stage everywhere in the PARAL-LEL different: Paral Lel, Dead Sexy Inc, world and especially in Japan where 12 AM Papier Tigre, Charlie Winston and they are well-known. Moreover, they Monsieur Cédric. are film directors, photographer and FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH DJs. MOD CLUB THEATRE Charlie Winston is an English singer- 722 COLLEGE ST songwriter who lives in France. His Papier Tigre is a rock band from CHARLIE WINSTON first album Hobo was a success in Nantes who sings in English. Many 8 PM France, Belgium and Switzerland. It critics see them such as the new has been released by the French French indie rock band. In 2007, their SATURDAY, MARCH 13TH record label Atmospheriques and first album Papier Tigre is released in SNEAKY DEE'S more than 375 000 albums have been France thanks to their local label Ef- 431 COLLEGE ST. sold. fervescence. One year later, they DEAD SEXY INC. went on stage with the new album 8 PM The Beginning and End Of Now. After two years on the roads of China, Mex- HIDEOUT ico, Brasil and United States, they are 484 QUEEN ST. WEST in Toronto for an amazing show. PAPIER TIGRE 9 PM SUNDAY, MARCH 14TH RANCHO RELAXO 300 COLLEGE STREET PAPIER TIGRE 11:30 PM 3 CINÉFRANCO MARCH 6 - APRIL 3 Cinefranco is a french speaking fes- WELCOME BY PHILIPPE LIORET BEHIND THE WALLS BY CHRISTIAN tival which takes place in Toronto in Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy FAURE March. It celebrates the excellence from Iraq. He sets off on an adven- A young runaway rejects society's and the diversity of the French cin- ture-filled journey across Europe. He condemnation and dares to fulfill his ema. This year it has been created a wants to get to England to see his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old novelty with the special program love who lives there. Bilal finally orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world Bravery and Heroism of the Youth. reaches Calais, but how do you cover through the bars of "educational 32 kilometers of the English Channel homes" where he is raised in condi- SKIRT DAY BY JEAN-PAUL tions worthy of a penal colony, and LILIENFELD dreams of a dramatic escape across A high school teacher loses it and the ocean to New York. ends up holding half of her class SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 7:45PM hostage, turning the situation into a reflexion on the crises of modern LEGAL AID BY HANNELORE CAYRE youth. Isabelle Adjani, looking stun- 40 year-old Antoine Lahoud ning in her white skirt and blazer, is when you can't swim? (Roschdy Zem) is an enthusiastic legal unpredictable and completely con- SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 5:30PM aid, although disappointed by his pro- vincing as a teacher who detains the THE LITTLE NICOLAS BY LAURENT fession. He drags himself from one school thugs at gunpoint. A powerful TIRARD charity case to another. One day as and, sadly, still very relevant subject. Nicolas has a happy existence, par- he is pleading a case, he is noticed by SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 5PM ents who love him, a great group of Henry Marsac (Jean-Philippe Ecof- SATURDAY, APRIL 3RD, 6:30 PM friends with whom he has great fun, fey), a lawyer with a fiendish reputa- and all he wants is that nothing tion. He is then hired to defend EDEN IN WEST BY COSTA GAVRAS changes... However, one day, he mobsters and work on more prof- A drama centered around the illegal overhears a conversation that leads itable cases. Antoine who was finan- immigrants living in the EU. A strong him to believe that his life might cially struggling, is quick to human story which cannot touch you. change forever, his mother is preg- appreciate living in luxury. However, SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 9:15 P.M nant! He panics and envisions the it doesn’t take him long to under- SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH, 3:00 P.M worst: soon a little brother will be stand that Marsac’s interests are not there, who will take up so much entirely laudable and that this collab- space that his parents will not have oration will put Antoine behind bars. time to take care of him anymore, FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND, 6PM and they might even abandon him in the forest like Tom Thumb… SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH, 5:15PM 4 SEMAINE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE MARCH 17 - 25 THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH Galerie Glendon 8pm 2275, avenue Bayview Songs – Richard Desjardins stops by Photographies – Texts, captions, 416-487-6721 Toronto to present a very intime and illuminations (Textes, légendes et free admission recital : Richard Desjardins et sa gué- enluminures) with 21 authors, 16 vi- tard. Alone with a guitar, he sings sual artists and tells us strong and beautiful sto- This exhibition illustrates the many SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH ries. forms taken by the meeting of litera- Room Brigantine du Centre ture and painting. These works 2pm Harbourfront demonstrate the dual process of illus- Café littéraire –Writing to resist, 235, rue Queen’s Quay Ouest tration: most often, a text is illus- meeting with two new authors from 416-973-4000 trated by a painting, though at times, the publishing house GREF: Célestine www.harbourfrontcentre.com the process is reversed. Mavoungou and Jean-Baptiste Muba- 25$ in advance This exhibition offers numerous lutila Mbizi. Book signing: Daniel 30$ at doors pleasures: to admire a visual work, to Soha. discover a literary text, and to ex- Gallery Glendon plore their relationship. The pleasure 2275, avenue Bayview SUNDAY, MARCH 21ST of discovery, when it comes to art, is www.glendon.yorku.ca/semain a serious matter... edelafrancophonie 2pm free admission Workshop – with the artist Chris- Until march 31st. From monday tiane Faubert, about different art vi- to thursday - 9am-9pm and the sual medium: pastels, inks, friday - 9am - 4pm 5pm watercolours, gouaches, acrylics and Alliance Française de Toronto Soirée marocaine – annual cultural oils.