English-Language Arts Network

Annie Briard presents Arborescence RED, an interdisciplinary show about our relationship to nature, and the irony of the 'green' phenomenon. NEXUS gallery will be transformed into a unique experience of strange fairytales and bizarre twists.

Arborescence RED includes amongst other works an animation installation about a lonely girl's love affair with her houseplant; paintings; fibre art and video.

Opening hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 4pm - 7pm, Thursday 3pm - 6pm, Saturday 1pm - 4pm @ NEXUS gallery - 218 St-Paul W. (Place d'Armes metro)

Arborescence RED runs til May 15

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Annie Briard presents arborescence RED, an interdisciplinary show about our relationship to nature, and the irony of the 'green' phenomenon. NEXUS gallery will be transformed into a unique experience of strange fairytales and bizarre twists.

Arborescence RED includes amongst other works an animation installation about a lonely girl's love affair with her houseplant; paintings; fibre art and video.

Vernissage: April 24, 7pm to 11pm

On Wednesday May 14 2008, from of 7-9pm, Centre St. Ambroise will host the launch of a new artists guide: Image Transfer Made Easy by Melanie Mathews, please join us. Refreshents will be served.

Every year, the Gallery organizes an exhibition on themes and issues of regional relevance. This year’s Carte Blanche exhibition will present a new site specific installation inspired by Bishop’s University’s natural landscape by prominent Québec artist Sylvie Bouchard.

Sylvie Bouchard is an artist living and working in Montreal. Since the early 1980s, Bouchard has established herself as a dynamic contemporary and has exhibited extensively throughout Quebec and Canada.

Gallery Hours

Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 noon to 5:00 pm and evenings when the Centennial Theater is open.

It is 1983. Joe a middle-aged lesbian meets Iva, a 20-something male transvestite who wants to become a trangender. What beholds this inverted couple is normality, frolic and madness.

As times change, so do our roles as men and women. HESHE is a play that explores the stereotypical role models of both genders while emphasizing the loving, caring nature of human beings which transgresses all differences.

As part of the COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET FESTIVAL, HESHE is to be playwright and director Carlo Alacchi’s first English-language production

Accès Asie was formed in 1995 to present all artistic disciplines in dance, comedy, theatre, video, film, visual arts, music, poetry, performance and new media. We feature artists with origins from over twenty countries.

In order to promote and celebrate Asian Heritage Month, Accès Asie would like to unveil its 13th May program edition, which is from May1st to 24th. The festivals in May will consist of a painting exposition, two interdisciplinary performances, an interactive multimedia installation, film projections, a dance show, two dance workshops and a Bollywood mega party.

Feel free to contact us at info@accesasie.com for any questions.

Lee and Watson's work have several things in common. The primary similarity lies in their approaches. They are both inspired by the nature near to them; forest for Sheila, lake for Susan. Environmental issues concern them deeply and reaching people with these concerns, while creating aesthetically pleasing work, is important to both.

Through their current creations Lee and Watson convey a sense of loss for the flora and fauna of their surroundings, while expressing their concerns for the fate of the environment, and their love and admiration of nature.

Official opening: May 10 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m

The Montreal Chamber Music Festival returns for its 3rd year with a great line up of performances, including artists such as Rachel Barton Pine, Gary Graffman, Ranee Lee, Natalie Choquette, Ilya Kaler, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Oliver Jones, Ivo Janssen, Florence K, and Bell Orchestre.

Tickets can be purchased at 514-489-7444 or 514-489-3444.

Featured Artist: Iaian Greenson

Iaian's large canvases depict our interactions with trivial pop culture miscellany, television heroes, and everyday objects. Iaian avoids the kind of polite and passive intellectualism that bogs down some Canadian art. His work goes for the heart, the ass, and the eye. Like a musician, Iaian uses color as reverb, and his palette is Matisse's. His surface imagery is carefully randomized like Basquiat.

Vernissage: Friday April 18 at 7 pm
In “Undercurrents”, the first exhibition of the season at Galerie McKenzie Marcotte in Wakefield, Shawn McNevin presents lyrical, meditative paintings of the Gros Morne area of Newfoundland.The paintings, whether they are distant images of land forms lost in the vastness of the sky and sea, intimate observations of a particular tree or the sky at twilight, all reveal the undercurrent of an encounter with solitude, of transcendence and of awe.

Stefanie Buxton (last seen in Peter Hinton's unforgettable production of Girls! Girls! Girls!) is Julianne Kennedy, the grieving widow of world-famous writer Lincoln Kennedy. Following the shock of her husband's accidental death, Julianne is left reeling when Lincoln's will bequeaths his writings to the mysterious A.K. (Almatheia King, played by Breton, last seen in Centaur's Masque-nominated Trying). With millions of dollars in royalties at stake, Julianne finds herself grieving alongside the woman who may or may not have been her husband's mistress – the only person who can help her understand the meaning behind her husband's final wishes.

Read more about SHORT STORY LONG at http://www.pumpkintheatre.ca

Paris, end of the 19th century: an idealistic baroness decides to socialize a savage child to replace her last maid. The baroness lives through photographs of her experiences, while the pig has never even seen her reflexion in a mirror. What follows is a humorous and shocking encounter between nature and civilization; a timeless subject for our 21st century appearance-obsessed society.

Directed by: Catherine Bourgeois

Assisted by: Claire Schapiro

Written by: Micheal Mckenzie

Starring: Nathalie Claude and Leni Parker

Previews: May 2-3, 8pm

Showtimes :Tuesday to Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 3pm

Artist:Sylvie Bouchard

Curator:
Vicky Chainey Gagnon

The Foreman Art Gallery organizes every year an exhibition on themes and issues of regional relevance. This year’s Carte Blanche exhibition will present a new site specific installation, Trois coups sous les arbres, inspired by the university’s natural landscape by prominent Québec artist SYLVIE BOUCHARD.

Sylvie Bouchard has exhibited extensively since the early 1980s in both Canada and internationally. She soon became known for her creation of undefined spaces, her use of a fragmented narration and the dreamlike atmosphere that emanates from her work.

Shawn McNevin's paintings in “Undercurrents”, whether they are distant images of land forms lost in the vastness of the sky and sea off the west coast of Newfoundland, intimate observations of a particular tree or the sky at twilight, all reveal this artist’s moods and perceptions. There is indeed the undercurrent of an encounter with solitude, of transcendence and of awe that Shawn has experienced in rural Newfoundland.