English-Language Arts Network

ALTERA VITAE PRODUCTIONS presents ‘Night, Mother by Marsha Norman (1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Jessie prepares to die and hurls her mother’s life into turmoil. A heart-wrenching look at the “could-have-beens & if-onlys” when one should have been listening.

Soundtrack CD for sale during the play’s run: 10$ /CD, 5$/CD sold, donated to www.suicideaftermath.com, listen to samples www.alteravitae.com

March 19 – 30/08: Tuesday to Sunday: 8:00 pm

Saturday & Sunday Matinee: 2:00 pm (2 for 1: March 22-23)

Tuesday, March 25/08: “Charity Nite”: 10$ of every ticket donated to suicideaftermath.com

Ticket Reservations: 514-823-8823 or tickets@alteravitae.com

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.

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.

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.

Editions Mouton Rose Galarie d'Art du Quebec in Ormstown presents the works of Montreal artists Francine Robert, SCA and Monique Robert, SCA, in their second show at the gallery.

On exhibition until April 13, these exciting and luminous watercolours represent the best of conventional watercolour painting in Quebec today.

The gallery, located in Ormstown, 45 minutes southwest of Montreal, is open Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon until 5 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.

Infinitheatre hosts a special event, in connection with their mid-March production of ZARATHUSTRA SAID SOME THINGS, NO? Playwright, Trevor Ferguson will be speaking and signing books between 5 & 7 PM at Théâtre La Chapelle. Come and meet the Quebec best selling novelist who is now making a name for himself as a film and TV screenwriter. Relax, have a drink and then why not stay to see the play? Please RSVP for the cinq à sept by contacting Infinitheatre at (514) 987 - 1774 or info@infinitheatre.com.

For tickets to the play, call Theatre La Chapelle at (514) 843-7738.

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.

Adrienne and Ricky have made a suicide pact that they have, so far, failed to complete. They make one last attempt. As the story unfolds, their relationship becomes more unsettling and the games they play become increasingly disturbing.

Playwright Trevor Ferguson paints a painful vision of a lost generation in this intense examination of addiction and abuse. The production received extraordinary reviews in New York City in 2006 and is now ready for its Canadian première, traveling next to Toronto’s Factory Theatre.

Directed by Guy Sprung. Starring Lina Roessler, Brett Watson. Evening performances 8pm. Sunday matinées 2pm.