In response to the ongoing triple catastrophe that has hit Japan - the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear emergency - on April 1, 2011, at Montreal’s Society for Arts and Technology, a seven-hour artistic vigil will be held in solidarity with the people of Japan, and with their families and friends worldwide.

The event is open to the adult public; admission is free.

April 1, 2011, 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], 1201 Saint-Laurent Boulevard

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The AGIR exhibition presents an array of interdisciplinary works created inside four different carceral institutions. For over two years, this community art initiative has involved approximately fifty criminalized women and eight professional multidisciplinary artists.

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On March 18, 2011, during the Second Annual Art Education Graduate Student Symposium, Devora Neumark and Geneviève Fortin presented the Agir par l’imaginaire project.

A summary of this presentation and the discussion that followed will be published soon.

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A conference-demonstration of the Dojo Methode, or the Seven Laws of Presence, created by Pol Pelletier at the Dojo for  Actors, a training centre for stage artists in Montreal (1988-2001).

This internationally known method has been taught in numerous countries including France, Brasil, Denmark, and Mexico.

During this presentation, Pol will provide an exercise that enables one to understand the passage from a normal state to a state of awareness and the laws which govern this passage.

Pol will also demonstrate the ties between theatre and poverty: how to create a ”Poor Theatre” - following the concept as defined by Jerzy Grotowski - and how to offer theatre with a focus on poverty.

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Matralab, Hexagram Concordia and the Sociéte des Arts Téchnologiques (SAT) will organize an artistic Vigil for Japan in response to the unfolding catastrophe triggered by the earthquake and tsuanami.

April 1, from 8pm to 3 am (a 7-hour vigil)

SAT, 1201, boul Saint-Laurent, Montreal

The vigil has three main intentions:

1) to show solidarity with the victims, the refugees, the many helpers and the anxious population of Japan

2) to provide a space for local artists and non-artists touched by these events to come to terms with the impact of what is happening

3) to mark the cusp of a new world situation: we believe that this catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences for contemporary thought and art, similar to the impact of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami that changed thought and art forever

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Friday, March 25, 2011

5pm to 8pm

4525 St-Jacques,

Place St-Henri Metro

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When -

Monday, June 27, 2011

6:00-10:00 pm

Where -

La Sala Rossa

4848, St-Laurent blv

Lots of collaborators will celebrate with us. La chorale de la Maison La Virevolte accompanied by its band, as well as nearly a dozen other artists  (Anita Mukundwa, Viviene Labrie, Johanne Chagnon, Eve Lamoureux, Dominique Malacort, Sara Bessin, Christine Braul,  Annie Gauvin, Lisa et Rosalie Ndejuru) including poets (Maria Rozas and Isabelle St Pierre), singers (André Fortin, Gabriela Nehmert and Hélène Engel), dancers (Reena Almoneda Chang), actors, musicians (Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble) and multi-media (cj fleury) will perform or speak about their experience with community or humanist activist art.

Free!!!

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The ART • CULTURE Committee of the Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy NETWORK welcomes the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec’s new Fonds Montréal pour les artistes et écrivains professionnels autochtones initiative being launched today under the partnership agreement to support the creation, innovation and diversity of professional artistic practices in the Montreal area.

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