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.
theatre Official Programming

La Messe Basse/Collectif Aalaapi

Canada (Québec) Crossing the boundaries of age and ethnicity in its collective authorship, AALAAPI enriches our lives with a nuanced understanding of contemporary Inuit experience. Combining the aesthetics of theatre and radio, the project takes...

11 November 2022 at 16:00

theatre OFF CINARS

Compagnie Finzi Pasca

The numbers of an imaginary bingo will open chapters that evoke coincidences, the story of a doctor, the passion for rugby and the heinous execution of a young father. Centre stage is a giant wedding cake, and a versatile, charismatic actor plays...

Many dates

theatre OFF CINARS

Kulunka Teatro

André & Dorine is a poignant depiction of the enduring love between an elderly couple as their lives are disrupted, but not overcome, by dementia. This non-verbal theater piece uses movement, puppetry, and mask to celebrate the shared lives of a...

08 November 2022 at 20:00

theatre OFF CINARS

MAYDAY

With Déclarations, Mélanie Demers is given the opportunity of staging the magnificent text by author Jordan Tannahill. Déclarations is an ode to immortality. It is through a lyrical and iterative text that five performers tell of a...

Many dates

theatre OFF CINARS

DynamO Théâtre + Théâtre de la Petite Marée

The production is freely based on the famous Don Quixote of la Mancha novel and revives a tradition that is essentially based on clowning. Set in a playhouse, clown by trade Rod at the service of director Mr. Jacques and actor Tom quite...

09 November 2022 at 19:30

theatre Official Programming

Cie Adoc

In 2011, Charles Culot, actor and son of a farmer, createda show on the catastrophic situation of the agricultural world based on interviews conducted in Belgium and France : “Feeding the world, it’s a work". But today, nearly 400 performances...

12 November 2022 at 14:00