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Le duo d'artistes Geneviève Matthieu invite le public à voyager vers un monde imaginaire à travers leur projet Danseprophétiqueàl’îlebizarre, développé lors d’une résidence à la Fonderie Darling. Entre art visuel, performance et installation, le duo propose une véritable scène exploratoire qui désacralise les codes de l’art et qui place le corps au cœur de l'expérimentation. Toucher, manipuler, déplacer des objets pour créer une histoire évolutive. Pour terminer cette soirée, le duo musical AM Trépanier et Alexandre Piral proposent d’embarquer vers un univers électro franco-queb pour un dj set décalé.

Un délicieux en-cas caribéen sera servi par Jeba Bowers Murphy.



DÉROULÉ
[https://bit.ly/3LAzUkv]
18H / Danseprophétiqueàl’îlebizarre, une performance de Geneviève Matthieu
20H30 à 22h / DJ set de AM Trépanier et Alexandre Piral

Bar-terrasse ouvert jusqu’à 22h



GENEVIÈVE MATTHIEU / Danseprophétiqueàl’îlebizarre

À la croisée du corps, de la matière, de la danse et de la musique est née Danseprophétiqueàl’îlebizarre. Les artistes y recontextualisent des « sculptures-mouvements » de grand format sous la forme de livres géants, invitant le public à en tourner les pages.

Cette performance nous plonge de l’autre côté du miroir, au cœur d’un récit initiatique qui mettra en relation de la poésie, une impression de sac de chips, le cercle des bébés Steeves, des couvertures santés, une power bar et un portail, des livres corps, un projecteur de poursuite, des sculptures-mouvements, une guitare majeure 12 cordes, de l’arsenic, des pads de percussion clavier électronique, un praticable de scène, les chants de l’oubli, une vie vide de nous et surtout un peu d’entraînement imaginé par un entraîneur privé et un papillon. À la façon d’une danse prophétique, le duo désire convertir une routine sportive en une performance répétitive à la façon d’un mantra. Présentée dans l’installation et inspirée par la danse contemporaine, cette performance amène Geneviève et Matthieu à travailler la spatialité des corps et à développer leurs aptitudes physiques.

WETTRANSFER/MONTJOIES

Artistes et travailleur⸱euses culturel⸱les passionné⸱es de musiques nouvelles et anciennes, le duo wettransfer/montjoies aime les sons qui font rire et pleurer. Partenaires et complices aux platines comme dans la vie, iels ont l’habitude des exercices à quatre mains. Pour cette soirée, iels vous préparent des sonorités électro-franco inusitées en hommage au travail de Geneviève et Matthieu : rigueur intellectuelle, humour absurde, frissons dans la nuque.
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Artist duo Geneviève Matthieu invites the public to journey into an imaginary world with their Danseprophétiqueàl'îlebizarre project, developed during a residency at Fonderie Darling. Blending visual art, performance, and installation, the duo suggests an exploratory experience that challenges traditional art conventions and centres around the human body. The public is encouraged to touch, manipulate, and move objects to shape an evolving narrative.

To round off the evening, musical duo wettransfer/montjoies take us into a Franco-electro universe for a quirky DJ set.

A delicious Caribbean snack will be catered by Jeba Bowers Murphy.




EVENING SCHEDULE
[https://bit.ly/4dbByon]

6:00 PM / Danseprophétiqueàl’îlebizarre by Geneviève Matthieu
8:30 PM to 10 PM / DJ set by Louis Philippe Moore

Terrace bar open until 10pm



GENEVIÈVE MATTHIEU / Danseprophétiqueàl’îlebizarre

At the intersection of body, material, dance, and music, Danseprophétiqueàl’Îlebizarre. Here, artists recontextualize large "movement-sculptures" resembling giant books, encouraging the audience to flip the pages.
This performance takes us on a journey through an initiatory tale that combines poetry, potato chip bag printing, the Steeves baby circle, health blankets, a power bar and portal, body books, a tracking projector, movement-sculptures, a 12-string major guitar, arsenic, electronic keyboard percussion pads, a stage floor, the songs of oblivion, a life devoid of us, all underscored by some training imagined by a private trainer and a butterfly. Like a prophetic dance, the duo aims to transform a sports routine into a repetitive performance akin to a mantra-like dance. Presented in the installation and inspired by contemporary dance, this performance pushes Geneviève and Matthieu to explore the spatiality of their bodies and to enhance their physical abilities.

AM TRÉPANIER ET ALEXANDRE PIRAL

The wettransfer/montjoies duo consists of artists and cultural workers, passionate about both new and old music. They love sounds that evoke both laughter and tears. Partners in both their musical and personal lives, are accustomed to collaborative performances. For this evening, they have prepared a selection of unique electro-Franco-Quebecois music as a tribute to the work of Geneviève and Matthieu: intellectual rigor, absurd humor, and spine-tingling.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1859199204583280/

BBAM! Gallery is proud to present the exclusive Canadian Film Premiere of The Dream Syndicate, How Did We Find Ourselves Here? - an in-depth documentary about one of the most influential bands of the 80s Paisley Underground movement.

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The Dream Syndicate, How Did We Find Ourselves Here?
A film by Emiel Spoelder

Thursday, Aug 1
Doors: 7pm
Film: 7:30pm
$15

(cold refreshments available)
Giant 12ft x 9ft screen

Limited to 40 seats.
Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Your name will be assigned to a seat.

You can use the ticket link (under the About tab) or interac transfer (ralph@bongobeat.com) or by phone with credit card (514-952-6190).

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During the era of hyper—formulated pop music in the early
1980s, The Dream Syndicate emerged from Los Angeles as a
sensation with their gritty, guitar—driven sound that relied
heavily on feedback.

How Did We Find Ourselves Here? chronicles the band’s
journey from their early beginnings, through conflicts with former
friends, battles with major record labels, and disbandment, to
their eventual reunion in 2012.

Despite never achieving widespread commercial success, the band maintains a devoted fanbase and commands great respect from musicians around the globe for their significant influence.


MEET THE DIRECTOR

The Dutch filmmaker Emiel Spoelder (1984) grew up in Hoorn, a city about thirty minutes north of Amsterdam. He has been working in the European film and television industry as a cameraman and editor for the past fifteen years.

The Dream Syndicate: How Did We Find Ourselves Here? is his first feature length documentary in the role of director.

Growing up in a music loving home, Emiel learned about music at a very young age. Tagging along with his father, he saw many musicians play live on stage. As a teenager, the need to see, listen and discover all kinds of music developed into a real passion.

When he started studying film at the University of Amsterdam, music and film came together naturally in the form of music
documentaries. Soon it became a real obsession and he had to see every music documentary out there. Slowly the idea started growing of making a music documentary himself one day. The only question was: what is going to be about?

In the meantime, Emiel had started to work at a local TV station, where he produced and directed a music show, called Music in The Backyard. It was through this job that Emiel met a lot of musicians, including Steve Wynn. Steve Wynn’s music first came to his attention when he saw him opening for Ryan Adams in 2003 at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.

The idea to make a documentary about The Dream Syndicate’s frontman Steve Wynn started in 2009 at The Troubadour in Los Angeles. At the merch table, Steve recognized Emiel and introduced him to his friends and family, who also attended the show. Emiel talked to Steve’s mom about his work in the film business and in a spontaneous burst of enthusiasm she responded: ”Why don’t you make a documentary about my son?”

Loving this idea so much, Emiel started working on this film in 2012, fully funding it himself. Steve’s whole career turned out to be so immensely diverse that focusing on just one of his bands, The Dream Syndicate, seemed to be the best fit for a documentary.

The production took almost ten years, but the story became even more interesting as time went on.

So, without further ado; here is The Dream Syndicate: How Did We Find Ourselves Here?

https://www.facebook.com/events/1210441843424319/

"All Wild Things Are Shy" with Michael Feuerstack and Hsien at Error 403:

DOORS at 7:30, MUSIC at 8:00
TICKETS $15 in advance, $20 at the door
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/richard-laviolettes-all-wild-things-are-shy-at-error-403-tickets-940481323957
NOTAFLOF – no one turned away for lack of funds

SEND A MESSAGE IF YOU NEED THE ADDRESS

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The late Richard Laviolette's band will perform the songs from his last album "All Wild Things Are Shy" together with guest vocalists Michael Feuerstack, Lisa Conway (LCON), Andrew Collins, Sarah Mangle, Emma Moss Brender, and Cedric Noel, with an opening set by Michael Feuerstack. The band is: Jessy Bell Smith, Rich Burnett, Ally Corbett, Jordan Howard, Matt Reeves, and Dave Snider.

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Richard Laviolette wrote, rehearsed, and recorded "All Wild Things Are Shy" during the last five years of his life, in the time between his mother’s death from Huntington’s Disease and his own. As with much of his earlier work, the songs on this album confront death and mortality directly, while also affirming love, life, and a fundamental belief in the ability of music to bring people together.

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https://richardlaviolette.bandcamp.com/

https://michaelfeuerstack.bandcamp.com/

https://hsien.info/

https://www.facebook.com/events/2189851448043417/

Musique classique et contemporaine

collectif9 plonge dans un univers de couleurs et de textures avec la musique de Claude Debussy, Luna Pearl Woolf et Tom Morrison, et un décor d’ombres féériques de Mere Phantoms.

Le programme comprend des arrangements originaux de pièces de Debussy dont son œuvre symphonique emblématique, La Mer. Évocation sonore du monde sous-marin des bélugas dans l’estuaire du fleuve Saint-Laurent, Contact de Woolf adresse une situation urgente qui affecte l’écosystème marin au Québec, alors que Sea Change de Morrison exprime l’anxiété face à la crise climatique.

collectif9
Chloé Chabanole, violon
John Corban, violon
Robert Margaryan, violon
TJ Skinner, violon
Xavier Lepage-Brault, alto
Marilou Lepage, alto
Jérémie Cloutier, violoncelle
Andrea Stewart, violoncelle
Thibault Bertin-Maghit, contrebasse

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ENTRÉE LIBRE

Les portes ouvrent trente minutes avant le début du spectacle.

Admission générale. La règle du premier arrivé premier servi s’applique pour assister aux représentations. Lorsque la capacité maximale du site est atteinte, le Théâtre ferme ses portes.

En cas d’intempéries majeures, les spectacles sont annulés. La décision est prise à la dernière minute et elle est annoncée sur le compte Facebook du Théâtre de Verdure.

Les bouteilles de verre, vélos et animaux sont interdits dans le Théâtre, à l’exception des chiens accompagnateurs pour les personnes avec des limitations fonctionnelles.

Les personnes ayant des limitations fonctionnelles peuvent consulter un document d’information pour mieux planifier leur déplacement et prendre connaissance de l'entrée leur étant dédiée au lien suivant : https://montreal.ca/lieux/theatre-de-verdure

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