Here we are: end of May. Pre-summer activities are proposed to you. Here are a few suggestions.
Posted yesterday at 10am.
The Eureka Festival! arrives at Parc Jean-Drapeau
From Friday to Sunday, more than 100 free activities await families at Parc Jean-Drapeau while the Eurêka festival takes place at the foot of the biosphere! Creative workshops, conferences, chemistry quizzes, duels between science popularists and street performances are part of the program of this great science festival. The theme of this 16th edition? energy in all its power.
Destruction of Creation at the TransAmériques Festival
PHOTO YANNICK GRANDMONT SUPPLIED BY FTA
Destruction of Creation, by Dana Gingras
This isn’t the first time choreographer Dana Gingras has worked with members of legendary Montreal group Godspeed You! works together. Black Emperor (Monumental). This time she called out four of them for her new creation, which could turn heads at the start of the FTA with a free outdoor presentation on the Esplanade Tranquille after dark. They composed the music and are accompanied on stage by four string players and as many singers; With them, eleven dancers will offer viewers a “metaphysical” experience, in a piece that mixes virtuosity and rigor and acts as a call to environmentalism. The London collective United Visual Artists signs the video projections. A reminder that humans are just as capable of destroying beauty as they are of creating it. It promises!
Iris Gagnon-Paradis, La Presse
The Return of La Chasse-Balcon
PHOTO GUILLAUME MORIN SUPPLIED BY CHASSE-BALCON
From Thursday to Sunday, a musical aperitif takes place every day between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on a balcony in Montreal.
Back to normal for La Chasse-Balcon. From Thursday to Sunday, a musical aperitif takes place every day between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on a balcony in Montreal. The elected officers this year are in Verdun, Ahunstic-Cartierville, Ville-Marie and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. It will be necessary to keep an eye on the event’s official website, Facebook or Instagram page to find clues and look for answers to finally find the music. This year, the music of Claude Méthé (Le Rêve du diable, Ni Sarpe Ni Branche, Entourloupe, etc.) will be performed by the Chasse-Balcon trio (Samuel Royer-Legault, Louis-Philippe Parent and Catherine Planet), accompanied by Sophie Lavoie (violin), Olivier Arseneault (drums and jig) and Elisabeth Moquin (violin and jig). – Alexandre Vigneault
Alexandre Vigneault The press
Unique exhibition at the Musée de la Civilization
PHOTO EDOUARD PLANTE-FRÉCHETTE, THE PRESS
The exhibition Unique: Benevolence and openness for better understanding
The exhibition Unique in its Genre: Benevolence and Openness to Understanding at the Musée de la Civilization takes a look at gender identity. “Based on the principle that every human being has a gender identity and refers to people of different gender identities, the exhibition offers a range of content to shed light on the dynamics of this topic and promote a better understanding of it,” notes journalist Éric Clément in his article published on May 22nd.
In the cinema: master gardener and the eight mountains
In Master Gardener, gardener Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) is employed by Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver), a wealthy widow who lives on an estate with gardens. When the lady asks him to take her niece under his wing, the gardener is confronted with the demons of his past. “Master Gardener is dramatically surprising Paul Schrader’s latest contribution to a very relevant work that seeks to clear the gray areas of American society,” says journalist Marc-André Lussier in his review published on May 19.
This adaptation of “Le otto montagne” by Paolo Cognetti tells the story of Pietro, who met Bruno, a boy of the same age, in the 1980s. The friendship between the two men has stood the test despite the different life choices. “We may find that this contemplative work drags on at times, but the filmmakers’ approach is to engage the viewer in an existential introspection to which we cannot remain indifferent. The result is a gentle melancholy, a bit as if this film is forcing us to confront life’s essential issues in a spirit of sobriety and truth. And it’s beautiful,” says journalist Marc-André Lussier in his review published on May 19.