Knowledge café

activities
08 November
14:15 - 16:15
Hôtel Bonaventure
TAKING CARE OF ONESELF AND OTHERS

Table 1 - Importance of diversity within the teams and benevolence
Table 2 - Eco-responsibility of creative companies

REALITY AND ART PERFORMANCE

Table 3 - Contemporary social issues in front of the art performance
Table 4 - The urge to create: the reality of artist exile or refugees
Table 5 - Thinking outside of the cisnormative box
Table 6 - Accessibility, from creation to the venue
Table 7 - Cultural limits and freedom of expression

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEM

Table 8 - Environment, relationship with the territory and creative process
Table 9 - Sustainability, degrowth, slow turning: the need for a strategic repositioning

THE DIGITAL WITHIN THE PRACTICES

Table 10 - Posthumanism: Living Arts and Technologies, the possibilities of the internet: alternative financing, crowdfunding and non-fungible tokens

CROSS-BORDER CIRCULATION

Table 11 - Benevolent relationship from global north to global south
Participants
Rhodnie Désir Rhodnie Désir Créations
Rhodnie Désir has created some fifteen choreographic works. Her landmark piece BOW’T TRAIL Retrospek and her pioneering memorial journey BOW’T TRAIL won her the Take Wings Prize and the coveted Grand Prix de la danse. Rhodnie Désir's signature documentary and Afro-contemporary choreography is rooted in the African and Afro-descendant rhythmic languages of her native Haiti, as well as the rest of the Caribbean, Central and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her unique approach, words, performances and civic actions have brought her strong international recognition and have made her a guest lecturer at numerous organisations and universities, as well as at UNESCO, among others. In April 2021, she was nominated by APAP for the prestigious award of merit for achievement in the performing arts 2021. In 2022, she received the "Dancer of the Year" award at the Dynasty Gala and became the first associate artist of the famous Place des Arts institution in Montreal for a three-year pilot project.
dance Official Programming

Clara Furey

Canada (Québec) With its celestial bodies launched into orbit, vibrating in a lustful and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life cycle, the dynamic flow of matter. From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times...

11 November 2022 at 14:00

music Official Programming

OktoEcho

Canada (Québec) A true hymn to life, the 24 artists of Transcestral express the common and perpetual quest for harmony between man and nature, inspired by the music and sacred dances of sufi and indigenous traditions in Canada. Joining...

08 November 2022 at 18:00

music Official Programming

Petros Klampanis

Petros Klampanis muses on life in two cities, two continents, and the irrationalities in between, on his fourth album. Bassist Petros Klampanis, based both in his native Athens, Greece and also New York, has earned acclaim as “a formidable...

10 November 2022 at 22:00

dance Official Programming

Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY

Saudade presents diverse portraits of romantic relationships which just happen to be homosexual. The work highlights universal components of love, compassion and attraction which exist beyond the lines of gender and orientation. As our world...

11 November 2022 at 18:00

classical music Official Programming

Soundstreams

It has been said that DEATH, SEX AND ETERNITY preoccupied iconic Québec composer Claude Vivier, murdered in 1983 at the age of 34 years. This is an interdisciplinary program that includes two works performed live with haunting video by Indigenous...

09 November 2022 at 14:00

music Official Programming

Bon Débarras

Canada (Québec) This show highlights the reference points and core values that Bon Débarras has relied on for its creative process since its beginnings. Identity bearings, geographical markers, linguistic and cultural reference points – these...

11 November 2022 at 22:00