Rébecca Chaillon – Performing the Personal
Known for her shocking imagery and powerful theatrical language, director, actor, and performer Rébecca Chaillon will approach this writing and performance workshop through physical materials, the body, visual arts, and food.
Rébecca Chaillon
Parties
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Angelo Barsetti. Portrait
This event will present a vibrant portrait of make-up artist and photographer Angelo Barsetti through archival materials, clips from shows, and personal testimonials, followed by a celebration of APASQ’s 40th anniversary.
Angelo Barsetti + Cédric Delorme-Bouchard
Audience Warm-Up
In the theatre, just before the performance, artists featured in our programme will offer a customized warm-up to sharpen your senses and get you physically ready for the show.
Let’s Talk about Art
Ali Chahrour will talk with Syrian actress and singer Hala Omran to explore a question they ask themselves again and again: why do we create art?
Ali Chahrour + Hala Omran
Decolonial Love Circle
Founded by Amel Zaazaa, the Decolonial Love Circle offers a space for decolonial reflection and practices to descendants of colonized peoples, activists, thinkers, and agitators from all walks of life engaged with contemporary political issues.
Karla Étienne + Amel Zaazaa
Opening Remarks by Abraham Francis
Francis opens this day under the banner of hope, sharing the power of Indigenous futures and resistance embedded within forest relations.
Forest Chants
Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina address the threats to the forests, from the Amazon to the boreal one, and invite us to listen to their inhabitants.
Émilie Monnet + Waira Nina
The Forest as a Space of Resistance
Philippe Néméh-Nombré and Paule Mackrous (aka Pattie O’Green) discuss living archives of resistance and their immense potential.
Paule Mackrous aka Pattie O’Green (Montreal)
Kama La Mackerel (Montreal)
Decolonial Ecology Day — The Forest
This day is devoted to forests—places that are essential to the flourishing of beings, cultures, and the vital forces of imagination and resistance.
Fantastic Afro-feminisms
Rébecca Chaillon and Amandine Gay discuss what kind of tools, actions, and care are needed to find other ways of being, living, and creating.
Amandine Gay (Montreal)
Marilou Craft (Montreal)
Tapping into Imagination
Portuguese author and director Tiago Rodrigues will be joined by four theatre students for a surprising conversation. We’ve asked them to share their dreams: about art, literature, politics, and the theatres of the future.
Tiago Rodrigues + Eleonore Brieuc + Margarita Herrera Dominguez + Evelyne Londei-Shortall + Zoé Ntumba
Digital Puppets and Video Games
The Université populaire des arts de la marionnette invites artists Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim, creators of asses.masses, and digital puppeteer Paola Huitrón to take part in a discussion on artistic innovation.
Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim + Paola Huitrón + Antonia Leney-Granger
Be Prophetic
Activate every cell in your body with Nadia Beugré and her collaborator Acauã El Bandide Shereya!
Nadia Beugré + Acauã El Bandide Shereya
24 Images: Choreographic Explorations in the Movies
In its next edition, 24 images—chronicler of cinema’s evolution and diversity—will celebrate the many representations of dance on the big screen. The Festival will host the launch of this special issue.
Launch of FTA Clinics: The Book
Featuring readings of excerpts from the Curieux manuel, this launch party is an invitation to celebrate the vibrant world of artistic practices and methods.
Decolonization Rider
Surrounded by local allies, Yup’ik artist Emily Johnson shares her “Decolonization Rider”—a visionary tool for artists, cultural workers and institutions alike, and a genuine commitment to a more equitable, justice-oriented world.
Emily Johnson + Mylène Guay + Léuli Eshrāghi
KoutkeKout: Theatre in Haiti
Festival Quatre Chemins director Guy Régis Jr. discusses with documentarian Joseph Hillel, who will punctuate the conversation with images captured during the shooting of his film Koutkekout.
Guy Régis Jr + Joseph Hillel
Ecoconscience in the Performing Arts
FTA and Écoscéno bring together the performing arts community around one question: how can we create an eco-conscious work of art that combines artistic, technical and production expertise?
Technical Directors in the Spotlight
Without a technical director, don’t even try it!” Now, TDs, the stage is yours!