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A glove, some wood, a few buttons and a pencil are all that you need to create your very own Pinocchio! Kids are invited to make their own puppet, with a little help from Karine St-Arnaud, actress and puppeteer. They then will learn how to bring their puppet to life and give it personality! Number […]

The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton, by Grant Hayter-Menzies, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013 Published in 2013, this book tells the never-before-told story of Pauline Benton, Red Gate Shadow Theatre Director and first female master shadow puppeteer in the world. Author Grant Hayter-Menzies will tell us more about the life of this exceptional but reserved American […]

February 19 to March 9, 2014 Now in its third year, Marionnettes en vitrines! presents puppets created by professional companies and artists from Québec. Take a walk along this unique exhibit, discover the many participating merchants, and explore the multifaceted world of puppetry arts. The puppets are on display in merchants’ windows on Van Horne, Bernard, […]

A foray into the world of Méliès, the show takes a playful and inquisitive look at the artist’s work and his amazing creative enthusiasm. Puppets, shadows, illusion and video are on the agenda! Théâtre Motus creates performances primarily intended for young audiences. Their shows combine puppeteering, acting techniques, coloured shadow puppetry and music. The company […]

A sweeping historical epic performed with shadow puppetry, this new production is both a playful documentary and futuristic fiction around the notions of time and acceleration. A show intended for teens, stakeholders in a hyper-accelerated world. Ombres Folles has been exploring the playful side of shadow puppetry and object theatre. Accelerando is their fifth production.

Pense-bête is a political animal fable in which the animal kingdom settles old scores with the human beast! In a poetic, visual theatre, fur coats and hats come to life while snouts and plumes are grafted to women’s shadows… Pense-bête, created by Anne Lapierre, is Lasso Productions’ first production since its foundation in 2013.

A man returns with his father to the land of his childhood. Like a road movie with western tones that takes place in the mental space of a character who revisits his life’s journey, , this show explores the vertigo caused by the clash between real places and the memories we keep of them. After […]

In an informal setting, four creative teams present their works-in-progress. Seul avec mon ombre (working title) – Théâtre Incliné (Laval) Pense-Bête – Anne Lapierre / Lasso Productions (Montréal) Accelerando ou les Dinosaures ont fait leur temps – Ombres Folles (Montréal) Méphisto Méliès – Théâtre Motus (Montréal) / Pupulus Mordicus (Québec)

A throwback to the good old days, a puppet elevator operator takes us from one floor to the next at the Grande Bibliothèque and describes the treasures to be found at each stop… Salim Hammad was born in Algeria and has lived in Québec since 1992. He has toured solo around the world and with […]

One Sunday afternoon, Ragou, a rather grumpy rat, decides to help the librarian in the Espace Jeunes section! Ragou is a character from the show Dear Fizzy, which premiered in 2002. Nicolas, an actor and puppeteer, is a graduate of the National Theatre School in 2006. He has performed Ragou since 2012.