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  The OUF! Festival Off Casteliers – New formula in 2021 The OUF! Festival Off Casteliers is Québec’s only community puppetry arts festival. Founded in 2013, the festival is almost exclusively focused on local artists and provides an important showcase for emerging artists. Over the past seven years, more than 300 creative works have been […]

  Casteliers invites you to join us at Théâtre Outremont to celebrate the official opening of the 19th Festival international de Casteliers, in the company of participating artists, partners, elected representatives and puppet theatre aficionados!   Opening cocktail: 5:30 p.m.   Opening show (ticket required): 7:30 p.m. LOCO, by compagnie Belova-Iacobelli (Belgium) / Information and […]

Casteliers invites you to come celebrate its 15th anniversary in the company of participating artists, partners, elected representatives and puppet theatre aficionados! There’ll be appetizers, speeches and great atmosphere!   Opening cocktail for all (no ticket required): 5:30 p.m. Opening show (ticket required): 7:30 p.m. Special screening of Mulan, Shanghai Puppet Theatre (China) Information and […]

FESTIVAL DE CASTELIERS OPENING NIGHT Festival de Casteliers will open with the screening of Mulan. Unfortunately, Shanghai Puppet Theatre had to cancel its visit to Montréal because of the current situation in China. Despite this, Casteliers present a high definition video of this spectacular, almost cinematic show that combines shadow puppetry with projections on a […]

  A money box in the shape of a giraffe changes hands and comes to life in the minds of its different owners. At first, it is a lonely little boy’s only companion. Later on, it becomes friends with a man who yearns to reach the sky. Through this giraffe money box, the story explores […]

  A veritable ode to compassion, this is the tale of a pianist for whom music has suddenly gone silent. The story, true to Agnès Zacharie’s tenderness and quiet strength, unfolds before us like a film musical or a visual symphony filled with puppets, shadows and emotions. In French RUNNING TIME: 55 minutes TECHNIQUE: Table […]

  Three women from three generations live in a castle in the middle of nowhere. One sings, a bird accompanies her and steals her heart… Loosely based on Endgame by Samuel Beckett and Las vocales malditas (“The cursed vowels”) by Oscar de la Borbolla, Occa de l’anima, a Dystopian Tale, plays with distortion, as a […]

  Invisible Lands questions the way today’s media reports on the desperate situation faced by many migrants. In a small, intimate space, the two performers play with scale between the micro and the macro. Using their bodies as a landscape for miniature figures, they tell the story of a perilous journey into exile: throngs of […]

Presented in collaboration with Le Vivier  CABAN is a cozy play area filled with imaginary places, such as a nest, a sleeve tunnel and a bamboo forest. Different shapes and materials spark toddlers’ imagination, encouraging them to explore. Musicians play and sing, going in and out, on top of and underneath the play structures! The […]

Presented in collaboration with OBORO   It all starts with an empty 50-gallon fish tank. As water slowly fills the tank, objects appear: some objects float, others sink, some dissolve and disappear. In this tiny world, a chain reaction occurs, filled with strong, dramatic events and dangerous situations, rescue and abandonment. It is an epic […]