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

When he started writing his third album for kids (www.lpkids.ca), Montreal artist Lp Camozzi couldn’t help but wander into adult territory. So “Even Kids Wanna Dance” became “Dance Romance.” This harmonica playing country blues singer/songwriter will be debuting some of his new adult material as the headline act at the Yellow Door on March 29 accompanied by his bandleader and personal guitar god Bruce Allen. Together, they are: The Harp River Blues Company. Doors open at 7:30 for opening performer who will begin around 8:30.

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.

In celebration of Quebec City’s 400th anniversary which coincides with the naming of Liverpool, UK as the European Capital of Culture for 2008, the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal will present Musique! On tourne… which features the works of three composers and three film makers from Quebec, Montreal and Liverpool tell a story surrounded by the maritime atmosphere of the three cities. Traveling with music and film… Three films on the big screen with a score performed by the Ensemble contemporain and guest soloists, pianist Sarah Laimon and singer-narrator Alexandre Sylvestre.

Show starts at 8pm.

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.

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.

Vernissage: Easter Sunday, March 23rd : 2:30 – 5:30 pm

Free entry, wine and cheese

With additional viewings the following 2 sundays: 2:30 - 5:30 pm

Galérie Synésthésie

126 De Bullion street, corner St. Catherine; 2 blocks east of St. Laurent

Artists: Jesse Allarie, Matteo Bruzzone, Cedric Colond, Karina Cinnante, Colin Dorward, Tom Shortliffe, Mike Wolff

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.

Desert Rites – UP-AND-COMING YIDDISH CABARET!

Following their recent success at Klezkanada Festival, singer/poet Sonia Falkovitch and clarinetist Isak Goldschneider are back by popular demand! They will be performing their innovative Yiddish cabaret performance “Desert Rites” again at Volver Café Culturel on Saturday, March 29th and at Bistro Parc des Princes on Thursday, April 3rd.

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.

blood[claat] is a Dora Award winning coming of age story of 15-year-old Mudgu Sankofa, set in modern day Kingston, Jamaica. Described by eye weekly as "a meditation on the many contexts and connotations of blood—menstruation, murder, sacrifice, ancestry, salvation, childbirth," blood[claat] is the story of "womban" and blood as experienced through the eyes of a young girl. As Mudgu comes to terms with gender, class, race and sexuality through her evolving relationship with her own blood, the inevitable nature of cycles comes to symbolize resistance to colonial oppression, ceremonial dance, liberashun chant and dub poetry.