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Cultural Interlude 2012

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Photo: Jeffery Hale Friends' Foundation

Paul Almond and David Homel discuss writing novels and making movies

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Photo: Marie White

On April 13, authors Paul Almond and David Homel sat in the elegant Morrin Centre to talk and share a laugh or two about the art of writing novels and making movies. The evening was moderated by local CBC radio personality and journalist Peter Black.

Samurai

Part I - Who was he and what was his function?

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Photo: Studio Ferrazzini Bouchet Photography, Genève

Samurais are essential figures of feudal Japan stretching for the 12th to the 17th century. The word Samurai could be translated as "he who serves". He served his master, a daimyo or shogun, sort of military leader close to our western notion of dictator. The samurai's loyalty to his master had no limits, not even death.

The Rembrandt legacy in printmaking

The master’s influence on nineteen century French painters

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Photo: photo: Paul Litherland

Rembrandt was a major figure of the Holland’s “Golden Age” because of his paintings, but he is also considered one of the most important printmakers in Europe, the most important in Holland’s seventeen century.  Indeed, he produced a considerable number of etchings.   Closely involved in

Mozart’s Requiem performed by the OSQ at the Grand Théâtre

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Photo: Schehrazade Boukenken, OSQ choir member

The final concert of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec’s Mozart Festival took place at the Grand Théâtre on Wednesday, March 4, with the performance of Mozart’s majestic Requiem directed by guest conductor, Kenneth Slowik.

Triple author event at AngloStore

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Photo: Andrew Greenfield

For the first time, Anglo-Store will be showcasing three authors on the same evening, Wednesday, April 25. All of the writers come from Quebec province, so the evening will take on a local feeling. The three books are: Even the Owl is Not Heard by Barbara Verity and Gilles Péloquin.

Finding something new with The Lost Fingers

The Canadian gypsy jazz music group have just released their fourth album with the record label Tandem entitled La Marquise. The album became available on itunes on March 20 and has been in stores since March 27 This is their second album in French.

Six point un

Two young Quebec designers get nationwide recognition

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Photo: SIx poin tun

During the 1990’s design was specifically introduced as an art form in Canadian museum collections. We consider design as an activity involving various professions aiming at enhancing the value of life.

Michel Tremblay

A Quebec Icon honoured by the Musee de la Civilisation

A focus on Quebec Sculptors

Exhibitions in the city’s public libraries

Two of the Quebec’s public libraries are now showing works by local artists that are noteworthy in many ways.  They are “carved pieces” – I deliberately set aside temporarily the term sculpture - by Marc Fugère and by Johanne Benedetti, the former carving stones and the latter wood.  

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