Events & Collaborations

A group exhibition featuring 10 emerging artists from Concordia University’s Advanced Level Fibres Class using traditional textile mediums within a contemporary art practice.

With: Sarah Al-Mousawi, Amélie Arès, Madeleine Pippa Bartlett, Katie Earle, Ariane Lavoie, Jessica Lemus-Coto, Marie-Pier Malouin, Barbara Mendoza Denis, Olivia Mew, Adrienne Pratt

Vernissage: 25 March | 7pm – 11pm
Gallery open: 26 – 28 March | 12pm – 5pm

For its next event, Le PhOsphène offers a double bill. The first film to be screened, now a classic, was censored upon its release in 1959, but distributed through an underground network of film clubs of the time. The second, released three years ago, still has no distributor despite its innovative and surprising quality. Come watch Hiroshima mon amour, by Alain Resnais, followed by Un lac, by Philippe Grandrieux, and let’s discover if film clubs really have a place in contemporary film practices despite online downloading and videos on demand.

8pm

English-Language Arts Network invites you to join us for the culmination of the two-year Recognizing Artists: Enfin Visible! project. A one-night celebration to launch:

• 150 profiles of artists at the leading edge of Quebec’s English arts renaissance.
• 24 videos spotlighting artists discussing their life and work in Quebec.
• 7 feature-length histories detailing the rarely-told stories of the English arts community.
• A complete redesign of RAEV.ca.
• An interactive online map of who, what, where and when English arts is happening in Quebec.

6pm

Folio, McGill's visual art magazine releases its fifth issue, featuring the work of Paula Alaszkiewicz, Julia Chang, Sarah Cook, Amy Goh, Abby Howard, Daeun Janet Kim, Whitney Mallett, Michael Marotti, Marie McCulloch, Stuart Mcleod, James Moore, and Clara Syme.

9pm

www.foliomagazine.ca

Bring the Kids Productions is pleased to commence monthly concerts aimed at making live music more accessible to families and the community. This concert series will feature musicians and groups from Montreal's rich musical pool. Shows are scheduled for Sunday afternoons, with the first notes being played at 2pm. Regular tickets cost $10 while kids aged 15 and under get in free. The fun begins on April 3rd with Lake of Stew. The series continues on May 1st with Annabelle Chvostek.

1:30pm

Lumin is a group show highlighting work by emerging undergraduate artists engaged in interdisciplinary and digital media practices. The works explore the experiential, the performative, and the interactive in installation art, drawing on the unifying theme of light, and it's cohort, illumination. From the warm nostalgic glow of the TV screen to the vivid images created by sound and movement alone, the works examine notions of what illumination can mean; experimentation, research and knowledge, fictional imaginings, immersive spaces, the studio as workshop, the workshop as stage, the stage as experimentation.

Vernissage: 16 April | 7pm – 11pm
Gallery open: 16 – 18 April | 12pm – 5pm

Le PhOsphène proposes an evening exploring the theme of distribution in Quebec, seen through the eyes of distributors as well as film producers. Film shown in the presence of the filmmaker. Details to come.

8pm

Choeur Maha presents a multimedia event showcasing 20 years of Maha talent. The evening will feature the varied and eclectic talents of past and current Maha members. The concert will include Maha's usual mix of creative repertoire, and will include works from our large collection of past repertoire.

8pm

Bring the Kids Productions is pleased to continue its monthly concerts aimed at making live music more accessible to families and the community. This concert series will feature musicians and groups from Montreal's rich musical pool. Shows are scheduled for Sunday afternoons, with the first notes being played at 2pm. Regular tickets cost $10 while kids aged 15 and under get in free. The series continues on May 1st with Annabelle Chvostek.

1:30pm

Three A/V installations will occupy the gallery spaces at Eastern Bloc. Coup d'éclats, 2011 is a new performance/installation created by Danny Perreault with Manuel Chantre, Guillaume Bourassa, Sébastien Gravel and [victortronic]. The installation explores principles of anamorphosis, applied to moving images projected in the performance space. The piece is presented as an installation on May 7. Titan and Beyond the Infinite, an audio/visual projection by artist Jean-Pierre Aubé, is an interpretation of automated space probe Huygens' "log book.” Using authentic data collected from Huygens by the European Space Agency, the artist conveys a personal interpretation of this key moment in space exploration. sessile, an installation by Steve Daniels proposes a colony of 50 kinetic pods which respond to changes in ambient light levels by opening and closing their limbs. Titan and Beyond the Infinite and sessile can be experienced during Eastern Bloc's regular gallery hours.

Full of humanity, subtle yet complex, the audiovisual works presented in AGIR are born of a collaboration between 49 incarcerated women – approached by virtue of their unique experiences – and 8 professional artists – invited into the province’s main detention centres. The works created explore the link that exists between incarceration and poverty in its many forms: economic, social, familial, cultural and emotional. AGIR, presented by Société Elizabeth Fry du Québec and Engrenage Noir / LEVIER, exposes the individual plights of women who are in conflict with the law and allows us to interact with them in ways that contradict the usual stereotypes, that is, in an artistic context.

Vernissage: 27 May | 6pm
Gallery open: Tue, Wed | 12pm – 6pm
Thur | 12pm – 9pm (guided visit 5:30pm / panel discussion 7pm)
Fri | 12pm – 8pm
Sat, Sun | 12pm – 6pm