The month of October is just around the corner at the end of the week. To get you started, here are some ideas for activities and excursions.
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The return of culture days
From Friday, September 29th, numerous free offers will be available to the public as part of the Culture Days. On the menu: several cultural tours in all regions of Quebec. La Maison de Radio-Canada opens its doors on September 30th and October 1st. A great opportunity to soak up culture.
September 29th and 30th and October 1st
Newsroom at Duceppe
PHOTO DANNY TAILLON, PROVIDED BY DUCEPPE
Denis Bernard gives a stunning performance in the play Salle de nouvelles.
Salle de nouvelles is undoubtedly the play that is generating the most conversation this theater season. And for a good reason. This black comedy bitingly describes the world of television and its excesses. At its core, it’s about the character of fallen news presenter Howard Beale, who became a prophet of the airwaves and is brilliantly defended by Denis Bernard. A production that provokes discussion and admiration. Who says it better? Chez Duceppe until October 7th.
Stephanie Morin, La Presse
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” at the Unicorn
The unicorn is receiving some nice visitors these days. Lakota, Cree and Dene actor and playwright Cliff Cardinal presents his show “Shakeaspeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling.” The piece, titled in French, received a more than laudatory (and more than deserved) reception at the last Festival TransAmériques. Expect to be pushed around, annoyed, and have many preconceptions challenged. A piece that arrives where you least expect it. Until September 30th.
Stephanie Morin, La Presse
Art projects into the city
PHOTO YASUKO TADOKORO PROVIDED BY MAPP_MTL
As part of the Digital Neighborhood Festival, MAPP_MTL is projecting works on the walls of the iconic Van Horne warehouse.
MAPP_MTL’s artistic projections will illuminate the city until September 30th. For the eighth year, the Montreal International Projection Mapping Festival is offering a digital block party in the Mile End district at the Van Horne Skatepark. At dusk, works by nearly 75 local and international artists are projected onto the walls of neighboring buildings, including the legendary Van Horne warehouse, to the sounds of electronic music. In the Quartier des spectacles, passers-by can admire the work “Soleil” by the Japanese artist Yoshirotten, which consists of 365 images of the sun drawn day after day during the pandemic. Additionally, Abenaki artist Mélanie O’Bomsawin will present “Where the Light Rises,” a series of micro-projections on stones that capture the permanence of memory in form, at the Age of Union Center on Fridays and Saturdays through March 16 explore light.
Valérie Simard, La Presse
Zoom Art: Art instead of advertising
PHOTO PAUL LITHERLAND, PROVIDED BY ZOOM ART
Organized by the City of Laval, Zoom Art aims to make contemporary art accessible through presentation in transit spaces.
Contemporary art and nature are coming to Laval’s billboard until October 15th. As part of the 4th edition of Zoom Art, 30 images of artworks by 15 artists, including Chih-Chien Wang, Katherine Melançon, Sarah Anne Johnson and Ludovic Boney, will be displayed in bus stops and billboards near De la Concorde metro stations and Montmorency. Grouped around the theme “Secret Nature”, the works evoke both the power and fragility of nature and invite us to reflect on our coexistence with it. At the end of the journey, the audience is invited to vote for their favorite artist.
Valérie Simard, La Presse
In the cinema: Solo and Simple like Sylvain
In Solo by director Sophie Dupuis, Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is a makeup artist by day and the star of the drag scene by night. Because he believes he has found love with Olivier (Félix Maritaud), he distances himself from his loved ones and is drawn into a toxic relationship. “Despite these flaws, SOLO remains an extravagant, touching and liberating film. Sophie Dupuis’s touch is the combination of sensitivity and freedom. This filmmaker lets her heart speak in every shot,” writes journalist Luc Boulanger in his review published on September 15th.
Simple Comme Sylvain tells the story of Sophia (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau), a university professor in a boring relationship, and Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), a handyman hired by Sophia and her partner to do renovations on the recently purchased chalet. While everything separates them, the two protagonists become lovers. “The finely crafted dialogues of Monia Chokri, imbued with her trademark humor, sometimes cynical, always effective, frame this story full of tenderness and self-irony about thwarted physical and platonic loves, as well as about the hypocrisy of certain social constructions,” explains columnist Marc Cassivi in his review published on September 22nd.