2012-10-30

EDEN ...an imaginative journey exposed in the raw


A 3-part evening on Saturday 3 November 2012 at the Theatre Sainte Catherine (link below) : African drumming and storytelling.at 8:00 ; followed by the theatrical show ; followed by the After Party.

EDEN ...an imaginative journey exposed in the raw
The story is about a girl who struggles to write her story because she is clouded by her attachment to a spoon. Her spoon gets stolen and it's up to her to recover her spoon. Because of this, she goes on a journey that exposes her to her imagination, her shadow and her equal, before realizing that in order to grow, she needs to 'let go' of her attachment.

Music composed By DJ Sheauwen

The doors open at 8pm, with a performance by Denis Keshi, who will be doing African drumming and storytelling. Then the theatrical show starts at 9pm

After Party
After the performance there is an After Party in the Theatre with two DJ's and a African Drummer.

For the whole night's event the cost will be $20.

8thGeneration is a Theatrical Company that uses all forms of artistic expression to convey deep and powerful messages to an audience in a colourful and imaginative way.

http://8thgeneration.co/
http://theatresaintecatherine.com/en/?m=20121103&cat=3

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2012-10-22

NFB DVD : In Pieces

The National Film Board of Montreal has recently released a very moving, new, bilingual DVD of feminist artist Paule Baillargeon.

Intimate and rebellious, the movie director tells it like it was for women in Quebec. With the help of her own drawings, sketches, movie extracts and new images she pulls out moments of her life, from a very young age in her natal Abitibi till now at 64.

A Very Personal Film
With music and images, her voice recalls the Montreal Massacre,  Pierre Elliott-Trudeau, blindfolds, the Quebec Quiet Revolution which certainly never was anything but bloody when it comes to women, her dog, her mother, her father, women who have nothing and that go crazy and men who have everything and go idiot, her home region of Abitibi which is so far north and where she had no books or coloring pencils of her own, the women's rebellion, her movies, the invisible women of today who look like walking gaskets, slaving women who used to work like dogs but were said to be unworking mothers, abandonment, postfeminism with perhaps no knowledge of valium-taking grand-mothers, her mother who wore slacks and who was dying from lack of love...

EXTRACTS
I'm nothing now.
A surprise desire for happiness.
... because it's the nightmare of my life.
Apparently I have everything a girl could want, and more.
But acting on my wishes is not for me.
... someone who murders me while I'm not paying attention.  
Anasthasie is me! 
War words become love words in the man's mouth.
 
Know Your Women's History
It's certainly more than worth watching and listening to for if women don't know their history, they are bound to repeat the same mistakes and re-enslave themselves with post-feministic theories and old forgotten blindfolds.
Certainly the City of Montreal won't be of any help - in a recent year it instituted the Women's History Month which lasted 15 days since it was announced 15 days late, and it never came back.

In Pieces can be both purchased in DVD format or downloaded.


Filmographie de Paule Baillargeon (complete list of her movies)

DVD Trente tableaux, film documentaire de l'ONF, artiste, féminisme rarissime au Québec, prise de conscience anti-masculiniste
Paule Baillargeon : « Anasthasie, c'est moi. »


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2012-10-18

Montreal Greek Film Festival

4th Edition, from October 25 to November 3, 2012

Dos

This year, the MontrealGreekFilmFestival teams up with Italy.

MGFF will be featuring fabulous movies including film classics like Medea with Maria Callas (her only filmed performance ever), Electra with Irene Pappas, Stella with Melina Mercouri, and Mediterraneo; as well as recent films about musicians, organ trafic, and other social and human matters including migrations from the Ottoman Empire.

 Most films and documentaries presented have received awards like Oscars, Golden Globes, public awards or critics awards.

There will be a young directors event on Halloween night, an exhibition, a conference by a Corcordia University Engineering professor about a computer that took 50 years to figure out...

Check out all the details on their web site: MontrealGreekFilmFestival.com

Twice a Stranger /DUO FORES XENOS



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2012-10-11

International Day of the Girl




http://www.cfc-swc.gc.ca/dates/idg-jif/index-fra.html
http://www.ydesfemmesmtl.org/documents/Journee_internationale_des_filles_2012.pdf
http://www.quebecmunicipal.qc.ca/index.asp?module=articles&action=details&id=29241
http://dayofthegirlsummit.com/

Searching, Searching, Searching but can't find anything either at City of Montreal (are they too busy with Commission Charbonneau) or at Québec government which just changed and I guess this is a brand new thing compared to errors made by the so-called liberals.

I guess nobody else wanted this date: 1 month after 9/11, 11 years thereafter. But a good date indeed precisely for that matter. When any kind of war happens, half the victims are possibly women but when peace reigns then women find themselves too often under or behind glass of some kind.

So I just hope that this will perhaps last longer than the incredible ANNUAL MONTREAL WOMEN'S MONTH which happened only once and started 2 weeks late.

But they're not phallocrats!...
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2012-10-05

Architecture Exhibition

First, the Forests at the CCA



Composite picture comparing the mighty Douglas-fir with a ten-storey office building. From Durable Douglas Fir, America’s Permanent Lumber Supply, by Bror L. Grondal. (Seattle: West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, 1926), page 16-17.
CCA Collection. TC ID:89-B2041

http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/1781-first-the-forests
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