Residency in Montreal for emerging artists:
For a period of 12 weeks between the months of June and August 2024, six selected residents will develop a personal project in a shared studio space. The aim here is to develop a personal project in a shared environment. Deadline for application is April 9th.
More calls courtesy of ELAN: Calls for Submissions - ELAN (quebec-elan.org)
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At the McCord:
April 3 at 6 p.m. Join us and meet renowned historian Dr. Tiya Miles, who will give a talk in celebration of her book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. This work traces the life of a single rough cotton bag handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives, which serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today.
Location: Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec (BANQ) In partnership with McGill University and CBC Ideas.
Registration: An Evening with Tiya Miles: Author of All That She Carried - McCord Stewart Museum (musee-mccord-stewart.ca)
On CBC Ideas:
A cotton sack from the time of slavery bears the first names of a mother and her daughter, who was sold at the age of nine. Harvard historian Tiya Miles scours the historical documentary record to discover who these women were and reveals their story of love in her book, All That She Carried — winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 20, 2023.
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APRIL 3 • 5:30 P.M. + 7 P.M. EXCLUSIVE TOUR. Come meet artist Daniel Iregui who will talk you through the digital artwork MENTAL MAPS featured in the exhibition Becoming Montreal. You will discover how his team has used artificial intelligence and a projection that incorporates the viewers’ movements, to create this immersive experience.
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APRIL 10 • 6 P.M. ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION. Take part in a conversation that explores artistic creation, research, and preservation as ways of reappropriating Indigenous cultural assets. With artist MC Snow, archaeologist Roland Tremblay and the Museum’s Indigenous Cultures curator, Jonathan Lainey. In collaboration with the Contemporary Native Art Biennial.
Registration: Round Table: Art as a Means of Reappropriating Indigenous Cultural Assets - McCord Stewart Museum (musee-mccord-stewart.ca)
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At the MMFA:
Don't miss your next Member Friday – the perfect opportunity to see the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art in a festive atmosphere!Join us for this captivating evening reserved exclusively for Members, which will combine Modern art, culinary delights and musical performances.Friday, April 5, 2024, from 5 to 9 p.m. Location: The Glass Court (3rd floor of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion)
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At Place des Arts:
At the Salon Urbain at Place des Arts from April 4 to 6, 2024, start your evening on the right note with students from the Jazz Performance program at the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Music. During these happy hour events, enjoy the sounds of high-calibre combos of 5-6 musicians performing jazz standards with a modern and personal touch. A great opportunity to experience the virtuosity and talent of the emerging generation of musicians from the UdeM!
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Photography:
Courses at Gosselin Photo:
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Melissa Richard:
After her Fort McMurray home and everything in it was lost in the wildfire of 2016, Melissa Richard dove into photography as a way of replacing her family photos lost in the fire.
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Nine minutes that changed the world. How Claude Debussy's ‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun’ ushered in the modern era.
Composer Claude Debussy is most known for his ‘Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune,’ based on a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. Debussy’s work premiered at a concert of the Société Nationale in December 1894. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Food history:
With more than 180,000 copies sold, Second Helpings, Please, is a cookbook success story most people have never heard of. First published in Montreal in 1968, this 700+ recipe book became a bible for a whole generation. Join host Jennifer Warren as she takes you through the pages of the most sauce-spattered, held-together-with-an-elastic-band success story in Canadian Jewish history, and learn why, to this day, the Second Helpings society is still a way of life.
The cookbook – sold just about everywhere!
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