To escape the cold of winter, we take advantage of the cultural program in the cinema or online. Here are our suggestions for this weekend.
Published yesterday at 11:45am.
Dumas in the fifth room
Dumas' Cosmology tour makes another stop in Montreal for four performances at the Cinquième salle at Place des Arts, including an afternoon for the whole family on Sunday. In this new imaginative and dance-filled show, the singer-songwriter delivers an exceptional performance with a unifying repertoire and confirms his status as a stage beast – no wonder that the family performances are so successful and get young and old alike dancing. large. Dumas will then continue his tour of Quebec, no reason to miss it!
Josée Lapointe, La Presse
Return of the night of reading
PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, THE PRESS
Emmanuelle Pierrot will take part in the sixth edition of the Night of Reading.
In the middle of the long winter nights, Reading Night is the most popular event for readers, and the annual meeting takes place this Saturday. From 6 p.m. to midnight, around forty authors will take part in meetings and public readings as part of this sixth edition. Among them are Stanley Péan, Joséphine Bacon, Jean-Philippe Baril-Guérard, Pierre-Yves Villeneuve, Fanie Demeule, Anne Élaine Cliche, Emmanuelle Pierrot, Francis Ouellette and Mélikah Abdelmoumen. The (free) activities are planned in around ten bookstores, libraries and cultural sites in Quebec, as well as online.
Laila Maalouf, La Presse
Online short film festival
PHOTO FROM FACEBOOK
The 8th edition of the Plein(s) Écran(s) festival is in full swing these days and offers a rich, varied program, free as a bonus, live on Facebook. There are 40 short films on the program until January 28th, 3 films in competition every day, each only available for 24 hours. On your screens, let's go! Please note that free family screenings will be offered at select cinemas across the province on Sunday, January 21st.
Silvia Galipeau, La Presse
Coral Egan Trio
PHOTO FROM FACEBOOK THIS ONZE
You have to go back to 2017 to find an album she recorded with her mother Karen Young called Coral Egan: Dreamers. The hope of hearing her original material performed is on the horizon: last Sunday she performed a new song on the occasion of the second of the three Sunday concerts she is hosting this month at Dièse Onze. Maybe she'll add one more next time. His current program is essentially taken from the Great American Songbook and consists of pieces borrowed from the great Joni Mitchell. His trio is completed by pianist Dan Thouin and double bassist Morgan Moore.
Alexandre Vigneault, La Presse
Sunday, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., at Diese Onze
High quality underground rap
PHOTO ANTHONYWX TAKEN FROM @MICKJENKINS INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
Mick Jenkins
In the coming days, two shows will be presented in Montreal that will bring together very talented American rappers. Let's start with Monday, because the tickets for Saturday are already all sold out. On January 22nd, Mick Jenkins will be a guest at the Beanfield Theater – formerly Corona. Since his beginnings, the Chicago MC has loved the Quebec sound. In fact, High Klassified and Da-P produced a track on his 2014 mixtape The Water[s]then Kaytranada signed two on his EP “Wave.”[s], Next year. Kaytranada and High Klassified also contributed to his first two albums, while Yama//Sato and Jai Nitai Lotus designed the beat for Sitting Ducks, released last year on the excellent The Patience. The first part is taken on by the promising TOBi, who lives in Ottawa. Armand Hammer, a duo consisting of Billy Woods and Elucid who launched the brilliant We Buy Diabetic Test Strips in 2023, will perform at a crowded Le Ritz PDB bar on January 20th.
Pascal LeBlanc, La Presse
Soledad Barrio and Night Flamenca
PHOTO JESSE RODKIN, PROVIDED BY NOCHE FLAMENCA
Soledad Barrio and a dancer in a scene from “Looking for Goya.”
The dancer Soledad Barrio, a great figure of today's flamenco, is at the center of the show Searching for Goya, which will premiere in Canada this Thursday in Montreal by her company Noche Flamenca. Inspired by an exhibition dedicated to the painter Francisco Goya at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, according to the New York Times, the exhibition looks at the political unrest in 18th and 19th century Spain and, understandably, also draws on the art of bullfighting . Soledad Barrio is accompanied by eight dancers, singers and musicians.
This Thursday, 8 p.m., at the Théâtre Maisonneuve
Alexandre Vigneault, La Presse
In the cinema: Mean Girls and Nothing to Lose
“You could compare this new version of Mean Girls to a school reunion. Certainly the students have become younger rather than older, but we feel this reassuring familiarity that makes it clear to both of us that time is passing and that we can make up for it in an instant,” writes our journalist Pascal Leblanc.
“The story of Nothing to Lose is inspired by the filmmaker's meetings with dozens of families and social workers. In this respect, the dialogues, both the mother's lively repartee and the children's words, the arguments and legal gibberish, prove to be of rare precision,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais.