Are you a fan of Afro-Brazilian theater or music? Our journalists have found excursion suggestions for every taste.
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Our Cassandras
The extraordinary journey of Dr. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, is the focus of the piece Nos Cassandre. Actress Jade Barshee lends her voice and face to this Quebecois who traveled the world to treat the sick in countries affected by war and epidemics. A moving piece that unfolds without artifice, but in which we feel that revolt and helplessness coexist in the heart of this convinced woman. Until February 3rd at Espace Libre.
Stephanie Morin, La Presse
The return of Ute Lemper
PHOTO LUCAS ALLEN, PROVIDED BY FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE
The German actress and singer Ute Lemper will visit the Place des Arts in Montreal.
A rare visit to Montreal this weekend! The German actress and singer Ute Lemper will be at the Maison symphonique de la Place des Arts on January 28th. With “Ute Lemper: From Berlin to Broadway,” the cabaret artist looks back on his 40-year career and presents the great standards of the musical repertoire of the last century. The program includes works by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Broadway classics (Cabaret and Chicago) and French songs (from Piaf to Brel). She will also perform in Toronto at Massey Hall on January 26th.
Luc Boulanger, La Presse
Flavia Nascimento
PHOTO MARCELA BOECHAT, PROVIDED BY THE ARTIST
Flavia Nascimento
Shortly after attending a Forro evening at La Cale Pub on Rue Saint-Hubert, Flavia Nascimento returns to Montreal on Friday for a concert under her name at Balattou. This time she will offer a mix of Brazilian hits and her own songs, inspired by both Afro-Brazilian and popular Brazilian music. She promises a concert characterized by “joy and tenderness” in which she will also “swing the Bacaisse in the bottom of the wooden box”!
Friday, 9 p.m., at Balattou
Alexandre Vigneault, La Presse
1990s hip-hop in photos
PHOTO T. ERIC MONROE, PROVIDED BY BANARTMANN
The photo Tupac Blunt Smile by T. Eric Monroe
Tupac, RZA, Erykah Badu, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Ol' Dirty Bastard… T. Eric Monroe immortalized them all. One of hip-hop culture's most respected photographers is presenting some of his work for the first time in Quebec as “Rare and Unseen Moments of 90's Hip Hop” is on display at pop-up boutique VerdunLuv until FEBRUARY 4. Banartmann, a visual art consultancy with a focus on urban art, is behind the exhibition, which “tells a visual story captured through the artist's lens before the digital age.” To mark the occasion, a limited edition photo of Tupac Shakur is on offer. There is a chance to meet the American photographer on Saturday, January 27th between 1 and 5 p.m. This is followed by an evening with DJ at P2 (4847 Wellington Street).
Until February 2nd at 3804 Rue Wellington
Pascal LeBlanc, La Presse
In the cinema: The Zone of Interest and The Braid
“In this free adaptation of Martin Amis's choral novel, Jonathan Glazer masterfully exploits the power of the off-camera and is interested in the peaceful everyday life of a German family living next to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais.
“In this magnificent script signed with Sarah Kaminsky, Laetitia Colombani manages to ensure that we are simultaneously entertained, touched, educated and captivated by her film. His camera is very close to his female characters, whose psyches we discover both through their actions and their appearance,” writes our journalist Marrisa Groguhé.