June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada, a time to recognize the rich history, heritage, resilience, and diversity of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.
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THE 2023 INDSPIRE AWARDS - June 18 at 8 p.m., 8:30 NT on CBC TV and CBC Gem. Celebrate this year's recipients and 30 years of honouring First Nations, Inuit, and Métis individuals who demonstrate outstanding achievement in their communities and beyond.
Click here to learn more about this year’s recipients and how to watch.
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Once We Were Many, by Dennis Saddleman. Residential school survivor, Dennis Saddleman, discovered a talent for poetry in later life that helped with his healing. Here he reads one of his poems, Once We Were Many.
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Don't miss this exhibition featuring 26 portraits by artist Trina Slapcoff, on now at the Atwater Library, top floor mezzanine, from May to September 2023.
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The exhibition Celestial Bodies will showcase indigenous identities that identify as Two-Spirit, indigiqueer or reside within the LGBTQIA2S communities—giving a platform and space for the rarely recognized voices. The exhibition's goal will be to question the colonial presence of societal normalities regarding identity and deconstruct and abolish gender roles through the themes of desire, euphoria, despair, and dysphoria.
Curatorial Residency - daphne x articule - June 13th to June 30th, 2023, curatorial residency at articule; Window Exhibition launch June 30, 2023, at articule; July 5 to August 8, 2023, exhibition at daphne. Articule - 6282 Rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal.
(Jesse King)
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Une célébration de la culture japonaise et de sa bouffe de rue. Bassin Peel, Angle des rues Peel et Wellington, Montréal, 8 au 11 juin 2023 : dim, jeu, ven, sam.
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For ELAN members:
June 9, 2PM, NFB Building 1501 Rue de Bleury, Montréal
ELAN members must RSVP by email. If you wish to reserve a free ticket, please email guyrexrodgers@gmail.com
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June 12, 4 - 6PM, Fringe Park (Parc des Amériques at the corner of Rachel & Saint-Laurent). It’s back! ELAN is happy to invite you to our FRINGE Schmoozer, in partnership with The St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival. Come by to connect, learn more about the Festival and soak up some summer sunshine. This is a FREE event and open to all, so bring friends and fellow theatre lovers!
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Calls:
YES (Employment & Entrepreneurship) is looking for emerging artists based in Quebec to submit an application for YES’s What the Pop 2023 series. This series is designed to showcase artists’ work while offering support in learning how to gain visibility, monetizing art, building an artistic CV, and making connections to audiences and community. This opportunity is free of charge. →Deadline June 15. Click here for details.
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Presale tickets:
From February 1 to 4, 2024 at Théâtre St-Denis.
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At the Arsenal Gallery:
Watch the film via TVO: https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/anthropocene-the-human-epoch
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Music and film:
Astrud Gilberto, singer behind The Girl from Ipanema, dead at 83. Brazilian bossa nova and samba star had complicated relationship with iconic song.
Astrud Gilberto appears onstage on June 19, 1965, in the U.K. The Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer famously recorded the English vocal track on The Girl from Ipanema. (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Why cellists in Denmark are performing weekly live concerts — for cows!
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Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s List, Shutter Island) tells Tom about starring in the Salvador Dali biopic, “Dalíland,” which paints a portrait of the artist in the final years of his life.
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