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Outdoor performance presented in front of the MIAM After two years of renovation work, the former Outremont fire hall stables have been transformed into a magnificent home where puppetry arts can thrive. Just a stone’s throw from the library, which is also inaugurating a consultation room dedicated to the discipline, the Maison internationale des arts […]

FESTIVAL OPENING SHOW Without words Blick Théâtre creates theatre that juggles with reality and make-believe. Their creations without words combine puppets and humans. Two men and a woman sit on three stools in the middle of nowhere. The two men are trying to take care of the woman, but she doesn’t understand them. When she […]

Inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee, actress and visual artist Sylvie Gosselin tells a story about the power of the imagination. She invites children 4 to 104 on a playful and poetic walk through her installations and her puppet-object creations, inspiring her guests to spread their wings in a world full of mystery and wonder. […]

A writer cuts himself off from the world to better concentrate on his writing. His solitude is quickly broken by his double, Maski, who hijacks his creative process. The characters they create together take over and demand to be heard and to see their story unfold from beginning to end. How far can a writer […]

Without words KĀHKĀKIW is a contemporary dance piece with characters drawn from Cree stories. The Raven (kāhkākiw) character from the title avoids the mantle of colonial epistemological frameworks with his deft, evasive dance. Materials for the bunraku-inspired puppets include soil and sawdust from the streets of Montréal, sand from local parks, wood from dead trees, […]

Without words The puppet speaks to what it means to be human. It explores its ability to say “I’m here”, and be surprised by this fact. Milieu is a stopover during which a puppet confronts the climatic variations of its environment. Like Samuel Beckett’s short story, The Lost Ones, Milieu portrays a situation that is […]

Inspired by European fables and legends, Les saisons du poulain (“The seasons of the foal”) tells the story of a small horse on the eve of his first spring as he leaves his homestead and heads out to discover the world. As his life is shaped by each passing season, the little foal comes to […]

Without words In Contes zen du potager, the heroes are monks or samurai warriors. Each one’s body is a vegetable or a fruit that reveals its personality. The puppeteers’ moves are as steady and minimalist as a calligrapher’s stroke or a Japanese cook’s slice, as ritualistic as the art of serving tea, and as amusing […]

A piece about belonging, memory and inter-generational dialogue In French In 2015, the circus career of Shoshana Bass ends abruptly after an unimaginable fall from a trapeze. While she struggled with questions of identity in the face of physical inability, her father, Eric Bass, decided to teach her Autumn Portraits, his signature puppet vignette performance. […]

This simple and warm story illustrates the relationship between Humans and Nature through the friendship between a young boy and tree. We first see the man as a boy, then as an adult, and finally as an old man, who keeps coming back to the tree to ask for more. Even stripped of everything – […]