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  Casteliers presents an evening of three original short works. Three completely different worlds of paper theatre, folk songs, and post-apocalyptic despair create a wonderful opportunity to (re)discover the thematic and technical diversity of puppet theatre in an intimate setting.   Evening program:   Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser Mark Sussman/Great Small […]

  One of three short pieces presented during An Evening of Shorts, with Lucien and Song/Book.   In English A native of Biel, Switzerland, Robert Walser has been described as “a clairvoyant of the small.” A writer of keenly detailed observational prose, he published feuilletons, stories, and short novels in the early years of the 20th century. With […]

  One of three short pieces presented during An Evening of Shorts, with Lucien and Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser.   Sung in Yiddish A solo performance that weaves together live vocals, recorded piano arrangements of Jewish and Anglo-American folk songs, recorded voices layered into a choir, handmade books, paper-puppets and crankie scrolls manipulated on […]

  One of three short works presetned during An Evening of Shorts, with Song/Book and Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser.   Without words Lucien lives alone, in the desert. A place where the sand seeps into everything and the wind reveals the vestiges of an ancient civilization… In a postapocalyptic universe, this […]

  Presented by   Radio Silence is a fictional tale that takes place in Dawson City, Yukon, in the 1920s. A bush pilot father is raising two daughters and passes on his passion for aviation to one of them, Ruth. She becomes the Yukon’s first female bush pilot. But during a flight to deliver the […]

    The Café-causerie: Budding Creations! was live-streamed and is avaiable online on Facebook. In a casual setting, four creative teams present their work-in-progress and answer questions from the public eager to learn more about the various stages involved in the development of a puppet show. The Café-Causerie: Budding Creations! is hosted by La Souris […]

    The roundtable discussion was livestreamed and is available on Facebook. An exciting, multidisciplinary exchange of ideas that explores ritual in contemporary creative practices, and how it connects to puppetry and mask performance.   Drawing from their intercultural experience during workshops and interviews with artists in Indonesia, Calgary, and Montréal over several months in […]

  An empty block is full of endless possibilities. Both a finished shape and an unfinished form, it evolves as the imagination takes over! Block Theatre is a form of visual theatre and a method that centers on the Human-Shaped Reconstruction Kit, carved out of different types of wood. Block Theatre borrows from the visual […]

    Presented by   Photos: Christian Brault From February 12 to March 12, 2024 Walkabout exhibit presented in Outremont borough shop windows   The Marionnettes en vitrines! walkabout exhibit, eagerly awaited by locals every spring since 2012, turns Outremont borough shop windows into charming art galleries as part of the 19th edition of Festival […]

  FREE Wednesday, March 6, noon to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.   La Cabine téléphonique is an interactive site-specific work created as part of the […]