English-Language Arts Network

We present our third installment of Throw Collective's monthly Poetry Slam Competition!

This month will feature, all the way from Ottawa, the very awake beauty Danielle K.L. Gregiore (accompanied by members of The Capital Poetry Collective)

Open Slam to anyone who would like to "Throw" some words to the night air!

2 Round Slam + 3 Slot Open Mic.
Poet signup at 7:30pm SHARP!
Slam starts at 8pm... cmon we can do it folks! ;)

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.

J.P. Mortier is performing at Pub Jacques Cartier on Saturday, March 15 at 9 p.m. Tickets are 10 $ For info & tickets: contact J.P. @ 450-622-9898 or by e-mail at jpmortier@hotmail.com or info@jpmortier.com

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

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.

Lazlo Pearlman’s newest creation, Madame Pierre’s Other Tongue, is a subversive, surreal and silly look at language and gender, and gender in language. Madame Pierre is a Cabaret Chanteur/Chanteuse host who will take you on a multi-lingual journey of discovery of sex and gender and the joys of other tongues. “Why is the French cock feminine? The German moon masculine?" This solo show includes live singing, lipsync, physical theatre and genderfuck from a queer variety artist, cabaret and burlesque transman’s point of view…

7pm and 9pm

Gallery Mouton Rose is proud to present a one-man show featuring the wood carvings of Valleyfield artist Rene Dandurand.

Specializing in complex scenes of Quebec rural culture, Dandurand depicts a world of country chores, antique implements and lost innocence in his painted monoblock carvings.

Gallery hours: Thursday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday noon - 5:00 p.m.

“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.

The "We Can Act" social theatre and cabaret project by Laura teasdale and Doug Hooper, developed to entertain while promoting Public Health programs and services, is produced in the Townships. Townshippers' Association is collaborating with local CSSS's, the CHSSN, Health Canada, Sunshine Theatre Productions, the Courville Foundation and Santé Courville to create awareness of these local services for rural communities in an entertaining and informal manner. Performed in schools and community centres in Granby, Knowlton, Bedford, and Cowansville at 7 pm. Waterloo and Sutton at 2 p.m.