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Roundtable discussion facilitated by Pierre Tremblay (in French) Puppetry Arts In Brazil To celebrate the first research and creation residency for professional puppeteers, supported by the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Casteliers and the Espaço Residência Artística VALE ARVOREDO (Brazil), this roundtable discussion will bring together residency recipients Dominique Leroux (Montréal) and Carolina Garcia Marquês (Brazil), […]

An animated short presented before the Ciné-Outremont showing on Monday, March 6. Also presented before the Ciné-Casteliers showing of Le Théâtre de marionnettes en Espagne: une belle réalité on Friday, March 10 at 4 p.m. at the Paul-Gérin-Lajoie d’Outremont High School.   Animated short film, 2014, 13 minutes Without words   This animated short film, […]

First part : Retirantes, Maíra Coelho (Brazil)   Documentary, 2016, 98 minutes Spanish with French subtitles   The documentary Le Théâtre de marionnettes en Espagne : une belle réalité (Puppet Theatre in Spain: A Wonderful Reality) is a Federation of UNIMA (Union internationale de la marionette) Spain Associations production. It traces the history and presents the […]

L’Homme qui marche (The Man Who Walks) is a small urban phantasmagoria, an in-situ experience that will draw the spectator into the world of architect Luc Laporte, with poems and music from his personal library. This theatre project is the realization of one of the architect’s cherished dreams, a playful nod to Laporte’s fascination with […]

Leo has escaped from a sheet of paper to explore how to move like a human being. What a thrill! Join us as we help other characters jump off the page in search of freedom, with a little help from puppeteer Karine St-Arnaud. Participants: 15 accompanied children Duration: 60 minutes Reservations recommended: 514-495-7405 / bibli.outremont@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event Four creative teams present their works-in-progress. Bijoux is a music box that opens up, revealing a little girl and an old lady dancing in the ballerina’s place. It’s an encounter between contemporary Montréal and the city’s cabaret nightlife in the 1950s. A story about fragmented recollections and […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event Four creative teams present their works-in-progress. The story takes place in a wartime detention camp where a guard watches over a prisoner as she is forced to sort, mend and wash clothes. Little by little, the laundromat transforms itself and reveals the story of countless prisoners in […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event Four creative teams present their works-in-progress. The people of the territory of the bears invite you to accompany Ashini, young Innu, on his fantastic journey of discovery through the sweat lodge ritual. In this world of visions and dreams where the Oni creature from Japanese folklore meets […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event Four creative teams present their works-in-progress. Four performers build, occupy and annihilate ephemeral spaces that are set in motion like clockwork mechanisms. Time accelerates, expands, stops. As visual paintings come to life, anecdotes intersect. This Canadian-Mexican co-production is a reflection on our cultural relationship to time.   […]

The Mouse is upset: “Her” Carl Béchard is away, on tour. She asks a great actress for a master class that will help her, or so she believes, become part of the Montréal theatre scene. A short piece for two puppeteers, a Cat, a Mouse and an Anne-Marie Cadieux.