English-Language Arts Network

Digital Chile_08 presents interactive traveling new media installation in process. The Canadian premiere of this traveling exhibition will be seen for the first time in Montreal. This exhibition illustrates the Chilean avant-garde with the goal of exposing the thematic richness and artistic esthetics of Chile.

Triumvirate Theatre Company presents a new comedy by Colleen Curran, directed by Corey Castle, March 4-9,Theatre Ste-Catherine, Tues. through Saturday 8 p.m. Matinees Saturday and Sunday 2 p.m. Featuring Glenn Roy and Janis Kirshner. 264 Ste-Catherine East. Box office (514) 284-3939. for info: (514) 487-1216.

The title was appropriated from James Joyce’s novel “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”. John Drew Munro is a Montreal-based painter working primarily in encaustic and oil whose work can best be described as pattern-based abstraction. He has a BFA from Concordia University (89) and has been painting for 20 years with exhibitions in Canada, the US and Europe – including Galerie McClure, Montreal, Galerie Sandra Goldie, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY; Evanston Art Center, Chicago; Grand Palais, Paris. -Tuesday to Saturday - 12 a.m to 6 p.m

LOVE - physical, emotional, real, imagined and illusionary are subjects treated in Gallery Mouton Rose's first show of the 2008 season.

Featuring ELAN artists Henry Fong, Mary Harman, Cliff Caron, Jane Caron and Rose Maloukis as well as Montreal photographer Dominic Brunet, the show explores the intellectual Love connection in photography, hologram, video, sculpture, diorama and painting.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday noon until 5:00 p.m.

Artists: Loren Williams, Randall Finnerty

Exhibition: La Volière (the aviary)
Vernissage: Saturday, March 1st, 2–5 p.m.

Loren Williams and Randall Finnerty explore bird typologies and the relationship we have with birds from a Victorian era ornithology collection to modern domestic fowl.

Both artists live and work in Montreal, and have exhibited their work nationally.

Contact Loren Williams or Randall Finnerty for more info.

Sanctuaries, an exhibition of recent works by Montreal photographers Éric Dupuis and Sol Lang. Saturday February 9th to March 9, 08. Vernissage: Saturday, February 16 at 2 pm, with artists in attendance.

The word sanctuary means “protected, closed, secret, sacred place”. Éric Dupuis placed his camera at the heart of places that are without question perceived as sanctuaries - churches. Sol Lang brings us to a place that seems hostile at first glance, an abandoned factory in Lachine, Qc, now demolished. Two intimate visions with radically different aesthetics. A 50 pages catalogue will be for sale at the Gallery.

Short and Sweet is an exciting new dance event which challenges the choreographic process. In a relaxed bar setting, Short and Sweet brings together 23 choreographers of different experience levels to present works created on the fly. The works can be no longer than 5 minutes, no shorter than 2. A time keeper is present and if the work goes over the alloted time, the choreography is immediately stopped. With Choreographers: Dana Michel,Andrew Tay, Sasha Kleinplatz,Thea Patterson,Katie Ward,Peter Trosztmer,Fred Gravel,Marie Beland,Katie Ewald, Silvy Panet-Raymond,Ben Read,Anne Theriault,Andrew Turner,Jacob Wren,Leanne Dyer,Audrée Juteau,Gillian Rae Fournier,Jean-sebastien Lourdais,Emma Howes,Karen Fennell,Marie-Julie Asselin, Annabelle Savard,Claudia Fancello

“Transitions” offers the public a view of diverse and interesting artwork made especially for this theme exhibition, by eight of the collective.
The sculptors, Luis Paniagua and Bruno Dufour, work in wood, stone, metal and clay. Both are seasoned sculptors with commissioned pieces in the Tremblant area. The painters, Margo Chick, Holly Friesen, Joanna Nash, Dominique Normand, Michel Normandeau and Ann Thibaudeau, will be exhibiting an exciting variety of subjects, in media ranging from graphite drawings, watercolour to mixed media works including printing, painting and collage techniques.

Clive Holden is a multi-disciplinary artist and author who works with moving images in three forms: fixed films and videos, performance, and installation. Utopia Suite Disco is about dancing to the beat of our hopes and fears to create movement as both figurative and literal progress towards Utopianism. A light tent is filled with projections of utopian heroes such as JFK, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and James Joyce. A dance floor is provided for the viewer to dance to a three-part disco suite by composer Oscar Van Dillen, a Rotterdam-based composer.