May 2008

•••   Thursday, 1   •••

Festival Accès Asie
1200, rue de Bleury Montréal, QC H3B 3J3

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.

Thursday, May 1 to Saturday, May 24

contact:
Khosro BERAHMANDI
514 523 1047
info AT accesasie DOT com
www.accesasie.com
IMPRESSIONS - Grand Re-Opening
305 F, Main Street Shawville, Québec

Grand Re-Opening ofIMPRESSIONS Studios & Gallery

Raymond Sander-Regier re-opens Impressions with more space for artist’s studios and workshops. An expanded gallery will also feature more art.

Date: Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Time: 17:00 – 21:00

Print Studios, Watercolour Studios, Framing, Workshops, Art & More Art

Thursday, May 1

admission:
Free
contact:
Raymond Sander-Regier
819 503 8004
raymond AT sanderregier DOT com
http://www.raymond.sanderregie…
Montreal Chamber Music Festival
St. James United Church 463 Saint Catherine West Montreal, QC H3B 1B1

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.

Thursday, May 1 to Saturday, May 24

admission:
$24-36 regular, $18-28 seniors, $10-15 students
contact:
Julia Loucks
514-489-7444
festivalmontreal AT videotron DOT ca
www.festivalmontreal.org
Park Players -Theatre
1050 Park Lane, Greenfield Park. (Off Belleuve-Newer sector)

Park Players of Greenfield Park is proud to present Departures & Arrivals, a play from one of Canada's most beloved authors, Carol Shields. The show will be presented on May 1,2,3 2008at 1050 Park Lane, Greenfield Park. The show starts at 8:00pm. Tickets $10.00 for Adults and $8.00 for Seniors/Youth. For more information call 450-678-5315 or go to our web site at www.parkplayers.scriptmania.com.

Thursday, May 1 to Saturday, May 3

admission:
$10 - for adluts $8 for Youth-Seniors
contact:
Kevin Erskine-Henry
450-678-5315
communitypartners AT sympatico DOT ca
www.parkplayers.scriptmania.co…
The New Quarterly: Montréal issue launch at Blue Metropolis
Delta Centre-ville, 777 University

Come celebrate with us the launch of the first bilingual issue of The New Quarterly, the venerable 100-issue-strong Canadian literary journal! Words, wine, snacks and surprises...

The New Quarterly's Montréal issue brings together writers from both side of the linguistic divide, introducing readers to writers they may not have known, and reintroducing neighbours to each other--maybe with a bise rather than a handshake!

readers / lecteurs:

Mark Abley * Oana Avasilichioaei * Geneviève Blais * Daniel Canty * Jean-Marc Desgent * Louis Patrick Leroux * Donald McGrath * Saleema Nawaz * Robyn Sarah * SE Venart

Thursday, May 1

admission:
free
contact:
www.tnq.ca www.bluemetropolis.org
Yiddish Cabaret "DESERT RITES" with Sonia Falkovitch
Cafe Sarajevo - 6548 St-Laurent

Desert Rites is a unique and original form of cabaret which combines Yiddish and Hebrew chansons with klezmer music and original Russian poetry. An intimate, elegant song cycle exploring love, loss, despair and hope, Desert Rites presents the gusto and verve of traditional Yiddish cabaret, or kleynkunst (literally, “the intimate art”) in a performance experience which leaves no audience untouched.

Show starts at 8pm.

Thursday, May 1

contact:
Sonia Falkovitch
514-585-1504
artimperia AT gmail DOT com
www.myspace.com/soniafalkovitc…
Art is Oxygen and A Brave New World : painting and photography exhibit by Nicole Béland at Luz Gallery
Luz gallery, Belgo building, 372W, Sainte-Catherine street, Montreal, space 418 open from Wednesday to Saturday from 12h00 to 17h00.

Art is Oxygen : What a catchy title! But as all catchy titles go : it's a lie. Art is not Oxygen but it is important to me. Some artists have this big persona they hide behind. I'm trying to be the genuine article here. Hope you can witness it with me as I showcase some of my best work that will soon be published in my first art book about personal mythology, symbolism and ego construction. All that Freudian stuff is what great works of art are made of.Of course, if you can make people laugh, that works too.

Wednesday, Apr 9 to Saturday, May 3

admission:
Free admission
contact:
Nicole Béland (artist) or Luz Zappata (gallery)
450 647-5880 (artist) or 514 908-2880 (gallery)
nicole AT artisoxygen DOT com
www.artisoxygen.com
Parkdale Gallery Exhibition: Referencing the Future
229 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, Ontario.K1Y 2W5

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.

Wednesday, Apr 16 to Monday, May 19

admission:
Free
contact:
James Robinson
613-614-4308
theparkdalegallery AT rogers DOT com
http://parkdalegallery.com/
"Undercurrents", Shawn McNevin painting exhibition at Galerie McKenzie Marcotte, Wakefield Qc
Galerie McKenzie Marcotte, 26 chemin Sully Wakefield Qc J0X 3G0

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.

Friday, Apr 18 to Monday, May 19

admission:
free
contact:
Maureen Marcotte
819 459-3164
info AT mckenziemarcotte DOT ca
www.mckenziemarcotte.ca
Undercurrents: Paintings by Shawn McNevin at Galerie McKenzie Marcotte
Galerie McKenzie Marcotte 26 chemin Sully Wakefield Qc J0X 3G0

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.

Friday, Apr 18 to Monday, May 19

admission:
free
contact:
Maureen Marcotte
819 459-3164
info AT mckenziemarcotte DOT ca
www.mckenziemarcotte.ca
arborescence RED
NEXUS gallery - 218 St-Paul W.

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

Tuesday, Apr 22 to Thursday, May 15

admission:
free
contact:
Annie Briard
annie DOT briard AT gmail DOT com
www.anniebriard.com
WOMENS ART STUDIO OF MONTREAL
2450 Workman, Corner Vinet

SPRING EXHIBITION AND SALE

Vernissage: Saturday, April 26 from 2-4

CENTRE CULTUREL GEORGES VANIER

Opening hours: Mon-Thursday 1 - 9.30 pm

Saturday 10 am - 5 pm

Sunday 1 - 5 pm

Saturday, Apr 26 to Thursday, May 1

admission:
Free
contact:
Lily A. Goldman, BFA
(514) 486-8018
lilygoldman AT gmail DOT com
www.sketchandtravel.com
Women's Art Studio of Montreal Annual Exhibition and Sale
2450 Workman street, corner Vinet (Metro Lucien Lallier)

Women's Art Studio of Montreal Annual Exhibition and Sale at ACSO - 2450 Workman street, corner Vinet (Metro Lucien Lallier)

Saturday, April 26th to Thursday, may 1st. 2008

VERNISSAGE; Saturday, April 26th from 2 to 4 pm

Call or email for for opening hours.

Saturday, Apr 26 to Saturday, May 3

admission:
FREE
contact:
ACSo
514-934-4978
lilygoldman AT gmail DOT com
www.acsomontreal.ca
Arborescence RED
218 St-Paul W., 3rd floor, Montreal (Place d'Armes metro)

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

www.anniebriard.com

Sunday, Apr 27 to Thursday, May 15

admission:
free
contact:
Annie Briard
annie DOT briard AT gmail DOT com
www.anniebriard.com

•••   Friday, 2   •••

South Shore _Monteregie Book Sale
195 Empire Greenfield Park.. (Off Churchill)

The SPCA Monteregie will host a Book Sale. Many English Books. Great Buys!

Areaa Cynthia Coull
195 Empire
Greenfield Park

Friday May 2 from 3 pm to 8 pm and Saturday May 3 10 am to 8 pm

Friday, May 2 to Saturday, May 3

contact:
kevin Erskine Henry
450-466-1325
communitypartners AT sympatico DOT ca

•••   Saturday, 3   •••

13th Hour, followed by 3rd annual Cinco do Mayo/Fringe Volunteer Party
MainLine Theatre (3997 St-Laurent)

Fresh from their first ever out-of-season performance, the Fringe's infamous late night talk show is back at MainLine, this time hosting our favourite naughty darlings, Miss Sugarpuss, Seska Lee and L. D'Ablo.
Presented by Uncalled For Improvand Team Burlesque.

Followed by the first Fringe volunteer party of 2008 AND Patrick Goddard's birthday. There will also be pinata smashing by way of drunkenly wielded metal pipe. Just like back home in Tijuana.

The 13th Hour starts
9pm, Tickets $10
The 3rd Annual Cinco do Mayo/Volunteer Party/Patrick's Birthday is FREE, starting 10pm.

Contact benevol@montrealfringe.ca for info on volunteering at the Fringe.

Saturday, May 3

admission:
$10 performance, or party for free
contact:
Geoff Agombar
514.849.3378
geoff AT montrealfringe DOT ca
www.uncalledforimprov.com
Forest and Lake: Losing Eden, exhibition of paintings by Susan Lee and sculptures and paintings by Sheila Watson
441, rue de la Cour, Waterloo, Qc J0E 2N0

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

Saturday, May 3 to Friday, May 30

admission:
free
contact:
susan lee
450-539-4764 or 1-877,539-4764
honeylee AT videotron DOT ca
http://www.maisondelaculturede…
Michael Reinhart in Concert
3625 rue Aylmer, Montreal, Quebec (just west of Ave. du Parc, north of Prince-Arthur / #80 bus, Place des Arts Métro)

Michael Reinhart in Concert, with guest artist Jeff Meleras. Acoustic, urban folk songs & fingerstyle guitar. Saturday, May 3rd, 8:30pm, at the Yellow Door Coffeehouse, Canada’s longest-running folk club. Intimate, listener-friendly music venue. Additional musical guests include: Jérémi Roy, contre-basse, Louise Dessertine & Robin Gorn, vocals.

Saturday, May 3

admission:
$8
contact:
Michael Reinhart
handsum AT sympatico DOT ca
www.myspace.com/michaelreinhar…

•••   Sunday, 4   •••

COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET FESTIVAL
ART EXHIBITS: May 5th-13th at Coop St. Laurent, 4665 St. Laurent, all day, and, across the street, at Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent, from 1:00-4:00 pm. The vernissages are May 4th beginning at 4:00pm at the Coop and beginning at 6:00pm at the Sala Rossa. Admission to all exhibits is free. CABARET: on May 4th at 8:30pm at Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent. Tickets are $5. SCREENING: May 13th at 6:00pm at Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent. Admission is free. PLAYBACK THEATRE: May 13th 2008 at 9:00pm at Sala Rossa, 4848 St.Laurent. Tickets are $5. HESHE: at La Balustrade/Monument National, 1185 St. Laurent, Wednesday May 14th to Saturday May 17th and Wednesday May 21st to Saturday May 24th 2008 at 8:30pm. Tickets are $20.85.

COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET is a festival dedicated to secret talents that are ready to be unveiled. The festival is founded by established actor Carlo Alacchi, who, upon opening a closet at his mother’s house, discovered 20 years worth of paintings, scripts, music, film, and his dance shoes; he decided to create a festival for others like himself.

The festival encompasses five different events.

Opening closets for reasons other than sexuality, this festival aims to bring Montrealers closer to their neighbours and community by giving individuals an opportunity to share their hidden talents and interests with others.

Sunday, May 4

contact:
Charlotte Elliot
514 678 5968
gadca DOT inc AT gmail DOT com
http://www.facebook.com/group.…

•••   Tuesday, 6   •••

Spastic
BLIZZARTS, 3956 St-Laurent

Every year, the Student Print Association (S.P.A.) has a print trade, where all involved make a bunch of prints, we put them in boxes and everyone gets one. To celebrate this year’s box, as well as the end of the school year, we will be having a show entitled SPASTIC, at Blizzarts, from May 6th-13th. We will be hosting a vernissage from 7-10 on Thursday May 8th. All thirty-four S.P.A. prints will be exhibited, as well as non-print work from the print students, which is completely unheard of. Come see the gems of the Concordia Print Media department!

Tuesday, May 6 to Tuesday, May 13

admission:
none
contact:
Matthew Thomson
(514) 815-0377
matthew_thomson2 AT hotmail DOT com
The Baroness and The Pig
Theatre Lachapelle, 2700 St-Dominique Street Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2X7 http://www.lachapelle.org 514-843-7738 Near to Metro Sherbrooke and St-Laurent, bus 144 or 55

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

Tuesday, May 6 to Sunday, May 18

admission:
$16 students, seniors - $20 regular
contact:
Catherine Bourgeois
514-274-3222
catherine AT imagotheatre DOT ca
http://www.imagotheatre.ca

•••   Wednesday, 7   •••

Carte Blanche : Sylvie Bouchard
2600 College Street, Sherbrooke Qc J1M 1Z7

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.

Wednesday, May 7 to Saturday, Jun 28

admission:
Free of charge
contact:
Geneviève Cjevalier
819.822.9600 poste 2260
gallery AT ubishops DOT ca
www.ubishops.ca/artgallery.htm

•••   Thursday, 8   •••

Book Launch
1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, QC H3Z 1X4

On May 8, 2008, at 6:30pm the Atwater Poetry Project presents the launch of novels The Prison Tangram by Claire Huot and The Humbugs Diet by Robert Majzels & collections of poetry Quase Flanders, Quase Extramadura by Chilean poet Andrés Ajens and Charenton by Galician poet Chus Pato (both tr. by Erín Moure).

There will be wine, readings and books available for sale.

Thursday, May 8

admission:
free
contact:
Oana Avasilichioaei
514-935-7344
oana DOT ava AT gmail DOT com
www.atwaterlibrary.ca/poetry
HMS Pinafore
Royal Vale Theatre, 5851 Somerled Avenue, Montreal, QC

Montreal West Operatic Society presents its 69th annual production. Gilbert & Sullivan’s first major hit is a witty and rollicking musical extravaganza featuring political satire, mistaken identity, unrequited love, and a sea captain who is never (well, hardly ever) sick at sea.

Royal Vale Theatre, 5851 Somerled Ave, Montreal, QC

Evenings at 8pm, Matinee at 2pm

Thursday, May 8 to Saturday, May 10

admission:
$25 (students/seniors $18)
contact:
Gil Hymer
(514) 486-5918
tickets AT mwos DOT org
mwos.org
SHORT STORY LONG by Joel Fishbane at MainLine Theatre
MainLine Theatre (3997 St-Laurent)

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

Thursday, May 8 to Saturday, May 17

admission:
$15 / $12
contact:
Geoff Agombar
514.884.4425
geoff DOT agombar AT gmail DOT com
www.pumpkintheatre.ca

•••   Saturday, 10   •••

South Shore Saints "A Stroll down Memory Lane"
College DuRocher (Near Champlain CEGEP) Pavillon Saint Lambert 375 Riverside Dr St-Lambert - Short Walk from Metro Longueuil

Featuring : Polarais and Chorus Quartet
Tickets $15 (Call ASAP they go fast)

Saturday, May 10

admission:
$15
contact:
Tickets Allan Briand -514-497-2441
Trois coups sous les arbres by Sylvie Bouchard
Galerie d’art Foreman de l'Université Bishop's 2600, rue College Sherbrooke T : 819.822.9600 poste 2260

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.

Saturday, May 10 to Saturday, Jun 28

admission:
Free
contact:
Sandra Honlisso
819.822.9600 ext. 2260
gallery AT ubishops DOT ca
www.ubishops.ca/artgallery.htm
Vernissage-danse #139: Dirt
372 Ste-Catherine West

This evening explores the theme of ‘dirt’, in all its possible meanings: gossip, rich soil under a hot sun, gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe, dark corners filled with dust and spilt beer – and its opposites, wherever the imagination may roam.

With Myriam Tremblay, George Stamos, Marie Béland, Teoma Naccarato and Rae Bowhay.

Saturday, May 10

admission:
$12 reg. / $10 VIP & Students
contact:
Studio 303
514-393-3771
info AT studio303 DOT ca
http://www.studio303.ca/events…

•••   Wednesday, 14   •••

Booklaunch: "Image Transfer Made Easey"
5080 St. Ambroise

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.

Wednesday, May 14

admission:
free
contact:
Melanie Matthews
514 695 1225
mm DOT artguide AT gmail DOT com
http://melaniematthews.ca
COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET FESTIVAL present HESHE - a new play by Carlo Alacchi
La Balustrade/Monument National, 1185 St. Laurent, at 8:30PM

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

Wednesday, May 14 to Saturday, May 24

admission:
$20.85
contact:
Charlotte Elliot
514 678 5968
gadca DOT inc AT gmail DOT com

•••   Thursday, 15   •••

Atwater Poetry Project
1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, QC H3Z 1X4

John Barton, Wayde Compton & Nathalie Stephens will be reading Thursday, May 15, 7pm.

Victoria editor and poet, John Barton, has published eight books. His work is often gay-themed, dealing with issues of intimacy, social history and memory.

Performer and sound poet, Wayde Compton, co-founded Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project in 2002 to collect and document the oral histories of elder black Vancouverites.

Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French, and her recent work has striven toward an ethics of correspondence through a dismantling of the body's relationship to the notion of place, the body's own damningly elusive "where".

Thursday, May 15

admission:
free
contact:
Oana Avasilichioaei
514-935-7344
oana DOT ava AT gmail DOT com
www.atwaterlibrary.ca/poetry
Festival Accès Asie
Thursday May 15th:VERNISSAGE: REFRAMING & INTERACTIVE TRANSLOCATION From 5:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) - 3680, rue Jeanne Mance Saturday May 17th : 10 MOMENTS . 2:00 p.m Galerie OBORO - 4001, rue Berri, # 301, Montreal Sunday May 18th:PASSIONS LATINES (1:00 p.m) NFB (National Film Board) - 1564, rue St Denis YELLOW FELLAS (3:00pm) Cost: $5 Sunday May 18th:WORKSHOP. 1:00 p.m MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) - 3680, rue Jeanne Mance

Thursday May 15th:VERNISSAGE: REFRAMING & INTERACTIVE TRANSLOCATION.

Visual Art exhibition on taboo and the untouchable.

Free Admission

Saturday May 17th : 10 MOMENTS .

A musical dance cyberspace jam between bamboo flutist Shuni Tsou in Toronto, percussionist Ziha Tabassian and dancer Natasha Bakht in

Montreal

Free Admission

Sunday May 18th:PASSIONS LATINES

A documentary on the family stories behind the Chinese restaurants in

Peru, Argentina and Brazil by Cheuk Kwan (French version)

YELLOW FELLAS

A documentary comedy by Tetsuro Shigematsu (English version)

A panel discussion will follow.

Cost: $5

Sunday May 18th:WORKSHOP.

Dance with Roger Sinha and Natasha Bakht.

Cost: $30

Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18

admission:
Free
contact:
Khosro BERAHMANDI
514 523 1047
info AT accesasie DOT com
www.accesasie.com
VISUAL ARTS CENTRE POETRY AND PROSE READING
350 Victoria Avenue, Montreal

VISUAL ARTS CENTRE POETRY AND PROSE READING

350 Victoria Avenue, Montreal

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Doors open 7:00 pm Reading 7:30 pm At the door $5

Poets, Prose Writers and Musicians featured:

Catherine Kidd

Fortner Anderson

Jennifer Boire

Kaie Kellough

Virginia McClure

Brian Campbell

Louise Dessertine

Thursday, May 15

admission:
$5
contact:
ILONA MARTONFI
514 939 4173
ilona DOT martonfi AT sympatico DOT ca

•••   Friday, 16   •••

Quebec Music Educators Association 2008 Music Festival
McGill University Music Faculty 555 Sherbrooke St. West (McGill Metro) FACE School 3889 University Street (McGill Metro)

Classes will be held in the following categories:

Solo; Piano, Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, and Voice

NEW!!! Instrumental and Vocal Ensembles (Duos, Trios, Quartets, Quintets, Septets, Octets, Nonets)

For music students aged 28 years and under

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: March 31, 2008

GALA CONCERT: June 1, 2008 at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

Gifts, Bursaries, Trophies, Gold/Silver/Bronze Certificates to be won.

Friday, May 16 to Sunday, May 18

admission:
Varies according to category; please see website
contact:
Judy Rogowski
514-350-8899 x2412 / 450-534-0939
aemq DOT qmea AT gmail DOT com
http://www.qmea-aemq.org

•••   Saturday, 17   •••

HMS Pinafore
Haskell Opera House, 1 Church Street, Stanstead, QC

Montreal West Operatic Society presents its 69th annual production. Gilbert & Sullivan’s first major hit is a witty and rollicking musical extravaganza featuring political satire, mistaken identity, unrequited love, and a sea captain who is never (well, hardly ever) sick at sea.

Haskell Opera House, 1 Church Street, Stanstead, QC

May 17 at 8pm

Saturday, May 17

admission:
$20
contact:
Gil Hymer
(514) 486-5918
tickets AT mwos DOT org
www.mwos.org
Piggery Theatres Opening Fundraiser featuring "Notre Dame de Grass"
215 chemin Simard, Ste. Catherine de Hatley, Quebec ( just outside of North Hatley

The Piggery Theatre kicks off their 2008 season with a Pork BBQ and Bluegrass Fundraiser featuring "Notre Dame de Grass." This 5 piece bluegrass band specializes in original songs and instrumental material. " NDG is an all-star band of musicians. You don't need to be a blurgrass junkie to love this band." Gene Swimmer

The ever popular pork BBQ will be served at 5:30 and at 7:00 pm with showtimes at 7:30 and 8:30 pm

Saturday, May 17

admission:
$30 per person
contact:
Heather Leslie
819-842-2431
piggerymedia AT gmail DOT com
www.hellodarlinproductions.com…
Throw SLAM! featuring Vincent Tinguely
LE CAGIBI 5490 St. Laurent (corner St.Viateur)

2 Round Poetry Slam. Semi-Finals Competition.

The top poets who have participated in Throw Poetry Collective's first season of poetry slams will contend for the top eight places in order to qualify to compete in our Finals on June 21st. THEN, the top four poets and one alternate will fly to Calgary in November 2008 and compete with teams from cities all over Canada.

Featuring VINCENT TINGUELY, poet, author, former founding member of Fluffy Pagan Echoes (a performative poetry troupe) and the Montreal Mirror's weekly resident word writer.

Poet Signup 7:30 PM SHARP!
Open Mic Starts at 8PM
Performers enter free

Saturday, May 17

admission:
$7
contact:
Michelle
514 270-3990
throwradio AT yahoo DOT ca
throwcollective.ca

•••   Sunday, 18   •••

Art Talk with Elena Willis
The Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library 5851 Cavendish Blvd. Côte Saint-Luc, QC

Artist Elena Willis will discuss her current photographic works.

Sunday May 18 at 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 18

admission:
Free
contact:
514-485-6900
www.elcslpl.org

•••   Tuesday, 20   •••

2008-2009 SEASON AT CENTENNIAL THEATRE-SUBSCRIPTION PERIOD
Centennial Theatre - Bishop's University 2600, College Street Sherbrooke (Quebec) J1M 1Z7

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR BROCHURE FOR THE 2008-2009 CENTENNIAL THEATRE PROGRAMME IS NOW AVAILABLE. SUBCRIBE TO ONE OR MORE OF OUR SERIES BETWEEN MAY 20 AND JUNE 30 AND GET A BONUS SHOW. GET YOUR COPY AT THE TOWNSHIPPER'S ASSOCIATION OFFICES, CENTENNIAL THEATRE BOX OFFICE, AND VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS. YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD OUR BROCHURE ONLINE AT WWW.CENTENNIALTHEATRE.CA. BOX OFFICE 819-822-9692

Tuesday, May 20 to Monday, Jun 30

admission:
VARIOUS
contact:
Sonia Patenaude
819-822-9600 ext 2617
spatenau AT ubishops DOT ca
www.centennialtheatre.ca

•••   Wednesday, 21   •••

Parkdale Gallery Exhibition: The Barbie Show
229 Armstrong Street, Ottawa,

Featured Artist: Laura Lynn Eggleston

Vernissage, May 24th, 7 to 9 p.m.

The Barbie Show explores iconic Barbie. On a light and humorous note there is a series of famous paintings with Barbie doll heads. Less comforting abstract works based on the Barbie body types ask what our social messages are to young girls in terms of body image. The third part of the show uses Barbie as a metaphor for a plastic and shallow society.

Wednesday, May 21 to Sunday, Jun 22

admission:
0.00
contact:
Parkdale Gallery
613-614-4308
theparkdalegallery AT rogers DOT com
http://parkdalegallery.com/ind…

•••   Thursday, 22   •••

THE YELLOW DOOR POETRY AND PROSE READING
3625 Aylmer

THE YELLOW DOOR POETRY AND PROSE READING

DOORS OPEN 7:00 pm READING 7:30 pm At the door $5

Catherine Kidd

Clayton Bailey

Maxianne Berger

Glen Dresser

Michael A. Lithgow

Janet Pasternak

Peter Richardson

Jennifer Boire, Gwyn Beaver, Jean Kelly and Marian Morkill

Thursday, May 22

admission:
$5
contact:
ILONA MARTONFI
514 939 4173
ilona DOT martonfi AT sympatico DOT ca

•••   Friday, 23   •••

Ferment at Long Hall
The Long Hall / Le Corrid'art: 450 Beaumont ave. Park Extension (bus #80 north or metro Parc)

The Long Hall / Le Corrid'art presents its 7th Annual Thematic group show. This year's theme is "Ferment". 28 visual artists working out of the Long Hall studios respond to this active, textured, and visceral word through painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, performance, video, plant art, and installation. Beer, wine, vodka, saurkraut, and all things fermented will be served!

Vernissage, Friday May 23rd, 2008 from 7:00pm to midnight. special guest dj's for your listening ears and dancing shoes.

Show runs until June 1st by appointment only. Call 514 948 0227

Friday, May 23 to Sunday, Jun 1

admission:
free
contact:
Vanessa Yanow or John Tinholt
514 948 0227
vanessayanow AT gmail DOT com

•••   Saturday, 24   •••

CD Launch for singer/songwriter Karen Potje's new recording' ''Can't Help But Love You, Baby''
Atwater Library 1200 Atwater Avenue (at Tupper) Westmount, Quebec

CD Launch:

Bring your kids, bring your friends, bring your mom and dad to the launch of singer/songwriter Karen Potje’s new jazz/country cd, Can’t Help But Love You, Baby.

You'll sing and swing along to Bunnies on my PJs (one baby’s scathing indictment of footsies), Lullaby for You (the poignant plea of a loving parent to the baby who refuses to sleep), Garbage Day (the song the band still can’t stop singing – at least one day a week), and more.

When: May 24, 2008, 2:30 to 4:30 pm

Saturday, May 24

admission:
free
contact:
Karen Potje
514 369-2488
karen AT karenpotje DOT com
karenpotje.com
Open Studio
141 Ann St. Montreal H3C 2J9

Come join us for an open studio in Griffintown!
Spring sale
Sculpture - Ceramics - Photography
also tools and artist supplies

Sat. May 24 & Sun. May 25
10 am to 4pm

Saturday, May 24 to Sunday, May 25

admission:
Nil
contact:
Ber Lazarus
514-992-1567
ber AT berlazarus DOT ca
http://www.berlazarus.ca/BL_op…
The Long Hall Weekend of Open Studios
The Long Hall / Le Corrid'art : 454 / 450 Beaumont ave. Parc Extension. (metro Parc / bus #80)

The Long Hall / Le Corrid'art will open its many doors to the public for a weekend of visual delight and open arms to you, the public! 30 artists working under the same roof welcome you to their private spaces. Works in all media will be on display, much of it for sale!

Come see their FERMENT exhibit in the main gallery, meet the artists down the new, improved and even L O N G E R H A L L.

Saturday May 24th and Sunday May 25th from 11am - 6pm

Saturday, May 24 to Sunday, May 25

admission:
free
contact:
Vanessa Yanow or John Tinholt
514 948 0227
vanessayanow AT gmail DOT com

•••   Thursday, 29   •••

Single Dwelling Monologues
661, rue Rose de Lima (metro Lionel Groulx)

Single Dwelling Monologues is a performance / installation incorporating live and pre-recorded video. It was conceived as observational theatre and was ‘written’ as non-fiction fiction. It imagines what it is we do, who it is we are when alone and when in a state of aloneness. Alone because we sometimes are, will be, have been, could be, am, is…

Performers include Marc Gagnon, Jackie Gallant, Pierre Gauvin, Mayi-Eder Inchauspé, Marie-Christine Lavallée, Stephen Lawson, Heather Mah, Nathalie Mamias, Vincent Morelle, Jean-Denis Olharan, Isaac Savoie, Michael Toppings, Gary Varro, Sarah Williams.

Performances on May 29, 30, 31 at 8pm

May 31 and June 1 at 2pm

Reservations not required.

Thursday, May 29 to Sunday, Jun 1

admission:
suggested donation $5
contact:
Michael Toppings
(514) 568-6712

•••   Saturday, 31   •••

CD LAUNCH - ALEXANDRA AND THE HERRINGS
The Playhouse, 5656 Ave. du Parc. 8:30 p.m

Alexandra and the Herrings are launching their first CD "Lucky No.7" Saturday May 31 at the Playhouse, 5656 Ave. du Parc. 8:30 p.m. This electro-pop group are the pioneers of www music : weird, whimsical, wacky. They are the brainchild of Alexandra Delgado an award winning singer/songwriter : honor awards at the Billboard World Song Contest and at the Great American Song Contest. Alexandra aka Queen Herring will sing at the piano accompanied by her Herrrings-in-waiting Myrrhine Faller and Iris Godbout. For those who like surreal pop à la B-52's. www.myspace.com/alexandraandtheherrings

Saturday, May 31

admission:
7$
contact:
alexandra delgado
514 303-3575
queenherring AT gmail DOT com
www.myspace.com/alexandraandth…
JIM ROBINSON CD Launch at The Piggery Theatre
Piggery Theatre 215 Chemin Simard,Ste. Catherine de Hatley, Quebec ( Just outside of North Hatley Quebec)

Montreal based singer songwriter Jim Robinson is back on the music scene and is launching his newest CD

" The Country Blues Collection" at The Piggery Theatre on Saturday May 31st. at 8 pm. He will be there with his 3 piece band Jim and Friends.

For information / reservations: 819-842-2431 or piggerymedia@gmail.com

Saturday, May 31

admission:
$15 per person
contact:
Heather Leslie
piggerymedia AT gmail DOT com
www.jimrobinson.com / www.piggery.com