English-Language Arts Network

Hallowe'en inspired work by Anna Jane McIntyre and Jean Boulby. Featuring puppets, woodworks, gumball machines, prints, drawings and lots of sequins!!!

50 Prints and Drawings by Anna Jane McIntyre
September 1 to October 1, 2007 at Cafe Pi, 4127, Boul. St.Laurent, Montreal tel:514.286.4828
www.cafepi.ca
to see some of Anna's work please check her website at www.ayjayem.ca

Rebecca Mason The Stillness of Perception at Galerie McKenzie Marcotte

Vernissage: Friday September 7 at 7pm

As a canoeist and environmental activist, Rebecca has come to know the Canadian landscape intimately. In the watercolour paintings in The Stillness of Perception her attachment to the landscape, particularly to its lakes and rivers, shines through.

September 8 – October 7 2007
Opening: Saturday, September 8 at 4pm
Artist talk: Thursday September 13 at 5:30pm

Evoking a hypnotic and apocalyptic image, the video installation Exiles of the Shattered Star suggests that the world might end in silence, not with a bang but with a whisper.

From the Charles Perrault fairy tale Peau d’âne, Valérie Lamontagne draws on the theme of three fabulous dresses: one made out of a moonbeam, one as warm and bright as the sun above and one cut out of the sky itself. Using innovative technology and working with experienced collaborators, she has created three interactive dresses that react in real time to atmospheric variations transmitted by a weather system installed on OBORO’s roof.

Rue Berri is a performance in public space combined with an interactive video installation in OBORO’s gallery space.

A custom-made camera dolly is outfitted with video and position recording equipment. During the multi day performance Stephan Schulz, pushes this out-of-place “new media object” up and down the street in order to explore, interact and record the people and activities in this particular space and time.

Fall Salon 2007: Figurative Painting and Landscape

Vernissage: Saturday, September 22, 2007, 5-7pm

Featured Artists: Steven Assael, Allana Benham, Robert Cadotte, Richard Delaney, Dan Hughes, Eric Mannella, Jocylene Maucotel, Bruce Steinhoff, and more …

Random Acts of Poetry (RAP) is a celebration of poetry and literacy that takes place across Canada October 1-7. You are invited to an informal launch of the event at the Atwater Library auditorium on Tuesday October 2, from 5:30 to 7 pm where you will be greeted by this year's local RAP poets Angela Leuck, Élizabeth Robert, and Anne Cimon. There will be readings, refreshments, a raffle, and information on poetry and literacy.

A modern, moral and morbid tale of obsession and demise, in which an alphabetical procession of distressed damsels meets their absurd and timely ends as victims of their fixations. Meet Arty Marty, Busy Lizzy, Clean Irene, Dirty Maxine, Efficient Millicent, and many more, on this cheeky, hilarious trek through the alphabet.

A highly physical, stylized black comedy written entirely in rhyme, the show delivers biting social commentary with dazzling speed, theatrical precision and playful charm.

“Best New Play” - Jury Prize, Summerworks Festival, Toronto, 2003
“Best Performance” - Ottawa Fringe 2003
“Best Production” - NOW Magazine, Toronto

Mid-autumn Harvest Moon Festival IV, October 3–5, 2007 OPCH

Seven concerts devoted to multi-channel electroacoustic compositions. Many new works including the Montreal premieres of works by Barry Truax and students from Simon Fraser University. All works will have a brief spoken analytic introduction.

Free admission; Watch the Concordia Department of Music (EuCuE) website for updates and programs. Or visit www.myspace.com/caofa for information on the schedule of the concerts. All concerts will be webcast and Podcasts will become available.

Mid-autumn Harvest Moon Festival IV
October 03 - 05, 2007
OPCH

Seven concerts devoted to multi-channel electroacoustic compositions.
Many new works including the Montreal premieres of works by Barry
Truax and students from Simon Fraser University. All works will have a brief spoken analytic introduction.

Free admission; Watch the Concordia Department of Music (EuCuE)
website for updates and programs. All concerts will be webcast and
Podcasts will become available.

Information: kaustin@alcor.concordia.ca

The Department of Music, Oscar Peterson Concert Hall and The Canadian Association of Oriental Fine Arts presents the second multi-cultural concert, Oriented Towards Sound ][, on Saturday, October 06, 2007, 20h.

The concert includes music from China, Vietnam, Persia and the Georgian Republic, traditional and contemporary, dance, electroacoustics and improvisations in a variety of styles.

Tickets:
General, $10; Student and senior, $5; Concordia Student with ID, free

Photographic exhibition of members of the former Saidye Bronfman Colour Atelier.

ROZ BAKST GROSS

JACKIE CYTRYNBAUM

MICHELLE GREEN ECHENBERG

BRIAN LOMAS

JOYCE RAPPOPORT

VERNISSAGE: Claremont, Sunday October 14, 2007 3 to 6 pm

The exhibition will be shown simultaneously in three locations.

Former Poet Laureate Pauline Michel and translator Nigel Spencer will be reading from L'Oeuil sauvage / Savage Eye at the 15th Noche de Poesia.

Linda Leith’s new novel, The Desert Lake, will be launched at Nicholas Hoare,
5. 30 – 7:30 pm.

If you can’t make it, you can reserve your signed copy
by calling Nicholas Hoare at 933-4201

The Gaspesian Storytelling Festival will be an unforgettable journey back to the kitchen where stories were shared with family, friends and neighbours. Come out and spend an evening with Gaspesian storytellers and musicians who will surely capture your imagination—and then your heart!

Activities:
Thursday Oct. 11 – Storytelling Concert I Fleurant Point
Friday Oct. 12 – Storytelling Concert II, Cascapedia
Saturday Oct. 13 – Tales for Tots, "Big Liar" contest, New Carlisle
Sunday Oct. 14 – Storytelling Tea Party, Chandler; Storytelling Concert III, Douglastown

Vernissage: Friday October 12 at 7 pm. Continues until Nov. 20
Galerie McKenzie Marcotte in Wakefield presents "Direct/Indirect Configurations", an exhibition of paintings by Chelsea's Pamela Cockcroft-Lasserre and Holly Tingley from Montreal.

Both artists are accomplished painters who portray the human figure yet their methods and intent are very different. The title of the exhibition, "Direct/Indirect Configurations", refers to the fact that Pamela paints directly from models while Holly prefers to work from images.

Ensemble II
October 13/14 7:30 pm - 4 am
Opening reception October 13 from 7-9 pm

After presenting this filmic work as an installation for Saint Joseph's Oratory in September, Leigh Davis will present a window projection at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse.

In this operatic short film, architecture acts as an introduction, leading viewers into a contrasted and stylized performance of the American pop score Man in the Mirror. Through gesture and voice, grouped or isolated into view, the choir sends out a message, inviting viewers to see, read, and thus experience how this score relates to contemporary life, and more importantly to themselves.

Studio XX is proud to announce the 8th edition of the HTMlles cyberarts Festival, taking place this October 17th through 21st. The international biennial on electronic art's new theme ‘Crowd Control’ will express issues of controled mobility and migration through a wide range of art works, performances workshops and public discussions. Composed of over twenty artists and groups from Canada and abroad, presented in some of the city’s hottest venues, this event will satisfy even the highest expectations of those interested in new media arts.

For complete artist info and program, please visit: www.htmlles.net

Strictly Acoustic, Montreal's premier acoustic showcase featuring music of all genres, is pleased to present another unique evening of singer/songwriters from both solitudes. This month's show puts the women of the Montreal scene in the spotlight. The line-up includes rising star and Pop Montreal darling Camaromance, a fraction of the franglais cabaret ensemble The Subcollisions, the ambient jazzy duo Give, and Quebecois artist and ingenue Alecka. If you don't already know them, you'll be glad to make their acquaintance!! In the meantime, check them out on www.myspace.com/strictlyacousticmontreal and watch some of our previous performers on www.youtube.com/strictlyacoustic.

Conference and events on Montreal poet, and national historic figure, A.M. Klein.

Presentations 9a.m. 19th & 20th October

18th October, 7p.m.

Panel Discussion, Reception & Book Launch of New Readings of Yiddish Montreal

19th October, 7p.m. Film Screening, A.M. Klein: The Poet as Landscape, with director David Kaufman

20th October, 7p.m.

Literary Evening hosted by Jason Camlot. Readings by Marie Frankland, David McGimpsey, Robyn Sarah, David Solway, Carmine Starnino

Based on Donald Davison’s book ‘RAID FROM HELL,’ fast-paced musical comedy CHICKASAW includes a bungled Civil War bank raid, a bizarre escape, a drunken judge, a compelling love story, havoc wrought by ‘Chickasaw’ Snake Oil and much more. Script: Roger de la Mare. Lyrics: Graham Hardman. Original music: Donald Patriquin. CHICKASAW’s cast of 24 is directed by Vesta Jorgensen, choreographed by Dianne Cahill Yarmush; musical direction by Donald Patriquin. World debut: ARTS KNOWLTON, October 25 through November 11, Th, F, S at 8 pm; Sunday at 2 pm. “The raid is factual; the romance is fictional; the result is farcical!”.

Gatineau-based actor and award-winning playwright Vivienne Laxdal, author of Karla and Grif (Centaur Theatre, Montreal, 1991), will read from her stage play These Girls and show clips from its film version, produced by Les Productions Jeux D’Ombres and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2005. Steve Gravestock, Toronto critic, wrote: "These Girls" updates sex farce for the twenty-first century. Randy young heirs have been replaced by bored, sexually avaricious teenaged girls…” At 7:30 P.M., October 22, come spend an evening with Viv and her brazen girls at PWM Studio, 4324 St Laurent, Montreal!

GAS, a world première by Jason Maghanoy, recent graduate of the National Theatre School Playwrighting Program and a McGill alumnus; directed by Guy Sprung. Set in the current chaos of the liberation/occupation of Iraq. Five young American soldiers are ripped apart by moral confusion as their genuine belief in democracy and freedom is challenged by the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians. A play that intertwines comedy and tragedy to devastating effect, Gas is certain to be one of the major theatrical events of the 2007-08 season.

“The humanizing empathy is the …author's special genius”
– Matt Radz, The Gazette

Louis Rastelli is launching his novel, A Fine Ending (Insomniac Press) on Tuesday, October 23, 6 - 10 p.m. at Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent. Free admission, readings, videos and DJs.
Louis Rastelli's writing has appeared in Vice, Clamor and elsewhere. He's best known as the originator of the Distroboto vending machines, a founder of the Expozine small press fair and publisher of Fish Piss Magazine. His novel is set in the 1990s Plateau cultural scene, where twenty-something creatives deal with the pressures of gentrification, the Ice Storm and an overabundance of both love and death.

CROSSROADS is a musical journey tracing dramatic turning points in a person’s life with an underlying theme that stresses the importance of staying true to yourself.

A little Jazz, a little Opera, some Salsa-Rap, and Broadway. Wildly original songs wrapped around a passionate love story. Humourous.Uplifting. Unforgettable.

Presented by SHEBA Productions (an all ELAN cast & crew).
Written & Performed by Barbara Lewis, accompanied by Pianist Holly Arsenault.
Directed by Anna Fuerstenberg. Set Design by Susan Dubrofsky. Producer/Publicist Estelle Rosen.

Opening night: Wed. Oct. 24 – 8:30pm
Tuesday to Saturday – 8:30pm
Matinées: 2:30pm

Maisonneuve Magazine, the National Film Board and Dawson College invite you to a free screening of Jennifer Baichwal’s stunning documentary on Edward Burtynsky’s large-scale photographs of industrial China. The NFB is also offering $600 worth of prizes for a Montreal photography contest.

Send in images of Montreal’s toxic hotspots or green oases to inspire Montrealers to take stock of environmental issues in our city. Finalists wuill be displayed at Dawson prior to the screening, where prizes will be awarded. Work will also be featured on the CBC, NFB and Maisonneuve websites.

For more details:
http://www.nfb.ca/about/news.php?id=1578
http://www.maisonneuve.org/index.php?page_id=12&article_id=2957

First Anniversary Exposition

Editions Mouton Rose Galerie d'Art du Quebec in Ormstown celebrates its first anniversary with an exhibition featuring south-western Quebec's regional artists. Showcasing works by Alyson Champ, Diane St-Georges, Mary Hood, Suzanne Olivier and Francois Belpaire, the program will provide a closed parenthesis to the gallery's first year theme, "Artists of Every Stripe".

This last regular program in the gallery's 2007 season brings the number of emerging and mid-career artists from across Quebec to 19, who have exhibited in the gallery's monthly shows.

The program of oils, acryllics, ink and watercolours is open to the public Thursdays through Sundays.

A world première of a play written by Jason Maghanoy, a recent graduate of the National Theatre School playwriting program, “Gas” is set during the chaos of the current American liberation/occupation of Iraq. Six young American soldiers are ripped apart by moral confusion as their belief in democracy and freedom is challenged by the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.

A play that intertwines comedy and tragedy to devastating effect, “Gas” is certain to be one of the major theatrical events of the season in Québec.

Directed by Guy Sprung. Evening performances 8pm. Sunday matinées 2pm.

In the spirit of Grand-Guignol the French ' Theatre of Horror ' Quills is set in the Charenton asylum where we meet its most notorius inmate the Marquis De Sade.
Quills fearlessly tackles themes of artistic obsession, violence, sexual tension and the loss of sanity.The play displays unavoidable arguments both for and against free speech and censorship.
Directed by Frances Balenzano Quills features: Christian Bugden, Brad Carmichael, Vance De Waele,Tim Diamond, Charlene O'Sullivan and Katie Stanfield.
Thursday October 25th to Sunday November 4th at 8:00p.m. with Saturday matinees at 2:00p.m.
Box-Office (514) 489-0271

In support of ABANTU-ROWA Ghanian Women’s Rights Organization,

Lip Zine and Throw Poetry Collective present:

SLAM for Solidarity

Open Poetry Slam. 3 rounds.

Apathy is Boring, 10 des Pins: suite 412
Poet Signup 9pm. Slam start 9:30.

Featuring a live organic artist jam with local wordsmiths, beatboxers, music and dance aswell as special guests.

Surtaal - pitch and rhythm - the two elements that form the foundation of all music. Together, Nicholas Williams on bansuri (student of Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia) and Shawn Mativetsky on tabla (disciple of Pt. Sharda Sahai) weave a rich tapestry of sound, improvised according to the ancient musical traditions of Northern India. Each brings to the mix his own world of musical influences, sonorities, and intuition, taking the listener on an emotional journey through sound.

This will be a unique opportunity to hear Indian classical music unamplified, in a beautiful acoustic setting.

Friday, October 26 at 7:30pm

The Anatomy Lesson is part of a cylcus about motherly love, death and ritual, combining several of Marijs’s passions: forensic medicine, video and working with threads through embroidery and crochet. For nine months Marijs, with much love and imagination, great dexterity and medical knowledge, crocheted and embroidered an anatomically correct dead baby around a hand-made skeletal structure. Forensic surgeons to whom she showed her child were astonished by the scientific accuracy of her detail. In 2006, these excavations became a single multimedia performance involving an endoscopy.

McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building presents Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, in a Public Lecture on his latest book: Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, Sunday, Oct 28 5:30pm Sari Nusseibeh, a philosopher, was the PLO’s chief representative in Jerusalem 2001-2002, in which role he advocated a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is president of Al-Quds University, the Arab University of Jerusalem. Nusseibeh was educated at Oxford and Harvard, and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard 2004-2005. He is the author of two previous books.

Muriel Gold, C.M., Ph.D., tells the story of the "Saidye" through innumerable anecdotes, often hilarious, sometimes moving, but always a fascinating and compelling read. She re-creates the excitement of past theatre productions, and gives an insider's perspective on the administrative successes and failures over the past 40 years.

Muriel Gold is a former Artistic Director of the Saidye, and was recently named to the Order of Canada.

Special launch price - $24.95.

If you unable to attend, and wish to order the book, please contact MIRI productions at murielgoldpoole@videotron.ca

http://pages.videotron.ca/murielgp