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60TH EDITIONCOVERING AND DISTRIBUTED IN

THE UK, IRELAND & NORDIC COUNTRIES

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Cultural Contacts Marie Morin Cultural Attaché Cinema, Digital Arts, Circus, Theatre, Visual Arts marie.morin@mri.gouv.qc.ca

Andrew BaileyCultural Attaché Dance, Literature and Publishing, Musicandrew.bailey@mri.gouv.qc.ca

Gaia Martinelli-BunzlProject Manager and Assistant to the Directorgaia.martinelli@mri.gouv.qc.ca

+44(0)20 7766 5930Québec.ca/londres

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Cover: Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau, part of Ambiguous Becoming: Artist’s Moving Image from Canada, co-curated by Cooper Gallery DJCAD.

Dear partners and friends,

I hope that you are safe and well. As 2020 draws to a close, it is safe to say that this year has been exceedingly difficult in so many different ways. However, it has also reaffirmed the importance and power of community, solidarity and resilience. I remain confident that better days are ahead of us.

Despite the continued difficult circumstances, Québec artists will be active and present across the territory covered by the Québec Government Office in

London this coming cultural season. Many performances have been able to move online, again paying testament to the adaptability and determination of Québec artists and their partners.

I am also delighted to mention a number of exciting developments. New rounds of collaboration funding will shortly be announced, and we are welcoming a new member to the cultural team! Please continue reading over the next few pages to find out more.

As we all continue to spend more time at home, I invite you to take a look at the impressive programme of Québec television available to watch on TV5Monde. The channel has recently launched a new app, TV5MondePlus, making francophone content more accessible than ever before. I would personally like to thank TV5Monde for being such a brilliant long-term partner of ours.

The cultural team remain at your disposition to support you in your projects and goals of collaboration with Québec artists and organisations.

Take care,

Pierre Gabriel CôtéAgent-General, Québec Government Office in London

Cultural Contacts Ingried Boussaroque Director for Culture ingried.boussaroque@mri.gouv.qc.ca

Marie Morin Cultural Attaché Cinema, Digital Arts, Circus, Theatre, Visual Arts marie.morin@mri.gouv.qc.ca

Andrew BaileyCultural Attaché Dance, Literature and Publishing, Musicandrew.bailey@mri.gouv.qc.ca

Gaia Martinelli-BunzlProject Manager and Assistant to the Directorgaia.martinelli@mri.gouv.qc.ca

+44(0)20 7766 5930Québec.ca/londres

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Cover: Singers: Marjorie Maltais and Jennifer Taverner, Production: Domoney Artists, Director: François Racine, Barcarolle at the Beach (see p.12)

CONTENTS

International Co-operation 4

Cinema and Television 7

Music 12

Literature 14

Circus 16

Theatre 19

Festivals 20

A word from our new Director for Culture

Dear Québec partners and friends,

As the new Director for Culture at the Québec Government Office in London, I am honoured to join a dedicated and dynamic cultural team. Driven by its core mandate of market development and collaboration with local partners, the cultural team works to develop international co-operation, partnerships, exchange and residency programmes between Québec and the UK, Ireland and the Nordic Countries. I cannot wait to proactively respond to and develop the continuing demand for Québec’s unique and innovative cultural creations and expertise.

Originally from Québec, I have been living in Scotland for five years. I have over twenty years’ experience in the cultural sector and have worked across the industry as an artist and arts administrator, extensively promoting artistic collaboration.

I look forward to working with you all. Do not hesitate to get in touch with me or my team to see how we might collaborate.

Ingried BoussaroqueDirector for Culture

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Links to past callsUK: bit.ly/qcukconnections n Québec: bit.ly/qcukconnectionsfr

Nordic Countries: bit.ly/coopqcnordic n Québec: bit.ly/qcnordiquecoopfr

Québec-UK Connections

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all beneficiaries of the 2019-2020 call for projects have been given a one-year extension to support their completion. A next joint call for proposals between the British Council and the Québec Government will be launched next year. Since its inception in 2002, the programme has very successfully encouraged new cultural exchanges and developed partnerships between Québec and UK organisations and artists.

Watch this space!

Co-operation between Québec and the Nordic countries

The fourth edition of the joint call for proposals between the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) and the Québec Government is open. In culture, artists, directors, authors and cultural institutions are invited to submit an application to carry out a co-operation project involving at least one Québec partner and two Nordic partners from two different countries.

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Québec-Wales co-operation 2021

A new co-operation programme between the Welsh Government and the Québec Government was recently initiated and a joint call for proposals will soon be announced. The programme will support collaborative cultural projects between Québec and Wales.

Watch this space!

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Sophie Deraspe, Annabelle Poisson, Patrick LoweDark Soul

Content London On DemandUntil 4 December 2020Online

Québec talent will be represented at Content London On Demand.

TV series Dark Soul, directed by Sophie Deraspe and created by Annabelle Poisson and Patrick Lowe, will be introduced by the creators as part of the Hot Properties strand. The fiction tries to understand the motives of Jeremy Tremblay, who walked into his high school with a semi-automatic rifle and shot multiple students before killing himself. Sophie Deraspe is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer. The Amina Profile (2015) was selected as a World Cinema documentary at Sundance and won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs. Annabelle Poisson has been writing screenplays since 2006 for teenagers and adults; Dark Soul is her first original work. Patrick Lowe has been writing for television since 2002 on successful shows such as Mémoires Vives.

Additionally, sixteen Québec production companies will be taking part in Content London On Demand, thanks to the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC). The Québec companies taking part are: Aetios Productions; Amalga; Avanti Group; ComediHa!; Duo Productions; Encore International; Babel Films; H Gagnon Distribution; Incendo; Just For Laughs Distribution; Keep It Simple; KOTV; Muse Distribution International; Pixcom; Productions Megafun; Sphère Média.

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SODEC_Lab @ CPH:DOX 202117-28 March 2021Online event

Since its creation, the SODEC has taken on a leadership role to help Québec’s cultural enterprises thrive in a changing technological environment, where organisations must adapt to evolving markets, both at home and abroad. In line with this mandate, the SODEC continues to support a strong documentary industry in Québec and has partnered with the Forum RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal) to build a delegation of dynamic producers that will take part in this year’s SODEC_Lab @ CPH:DOX. CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world.

The Québec delegation of producers selected for the 2021 edition are:

• Marie-Michèle Cyr, Parabola Films;

• Line Sander Egede, TAK Films Inc.;

• Andrée-Anne Frenette, Terre Innue;

• Simon Plouffe, Les Films de l’Autre;

• Frederic Bohbot, Bunbury Films Inc.

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québec on tv5MondeTV5MondePlus is the new French-language video on-demand platform, available everywhere, anytime, for free! Enjoy a vast variety of films, series, documentaries, kids TV, magazines and more. Available on all your devices www.tv5mondeplus.com.

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RESPOND.REBOUND.REINVENT.Helping clients during the phases of the pandemic crisis.

Founded in Quebec more than 40 years ago, CGI today is a global IT and business consulting services company.

Investing in Scotland’s Future, providing expert solutions to complex demands through uncertain times. We are committed to partnering with clients to help safely advance their digital transformation and to bring quality jobs and opportunities into the communities in which we live and work.

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Les pays d’en haut (Seasons 1-3)Period drama that chronicles the lives of the people of rural Québec and the tough living conditions of the day.

Unité 9 (Seasons 1-7) The series that inspired Orange is the New Black. Welcome to Lietteville prison! The series follows the day-to-day life of a small group of women from the same cell block, Unit 9.

Like-moi! The everyday life of a group of young adults, aged 20 to 35 years, and their frenzied and hilarious quest for love and happiness.

SERIESCINEMA Sashinka The day before her first concert, Sasha sees her mother arrive unexpectedly on her doorstep. She has zero desire to manage her unpredictable Russian mother!

CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE Di Stasio (Seasons 1-2)With her new programme, beloved Québec food writer Josée di Stasio is back with a series to help us discover innovative recipes, lifestyle suggestions and useful tips.

FACTUAL Chacun son île (Seasons 1-2)Islands are the stuff that dreams are made of. Journey to the four corners of the world to discover the reality of island life today.

Rires du monde What makes us laugh? The presenters seek to answer this simple question from all around the world.

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Barcarolle at the Beachwww.domoneyartists.com n www.maltaismezzo.com

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Barcarolle at the Beach Watch: youtu.be/h78ZxAU-bi4

Toreador Watch: youtu.be/S6pb6ywlh0A

Quando m’en vo Watch: youtu.be/_Pg0dqjat20

In collaboration with Québécois Director François Racine, Kathy Domoney, Director of Domoney Artists Management, created Opera Breaks to showcase singers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Singing well-known opera “hits”, the singers are seen recording their arias and ensembles in studio, then filmed in a variety of outdoor locations in Toronto.

Featured in Offenbach’s famous Barcarolle duet from Les contes d’Hoffmann, Québécois mezzo soprano Marjorie Maltais is seen paddling a canoe at sunset on Lake Ontario in this dreamy film. She also makes an appearance in Toreador from Carmen. Maltais is rapidly earning an excellent reputation on both concert and operatic stages in Canada and beyond. Marjorie won First Prize at the Ottawa Choral Society’s New Discoveries Competition in 2016.

François Racine directed these three short films. Racine is firmly established as one of the most visionary leaders on today’s opera scene, engaged by companies throughout North America and beyond. Acclaimed for his powerful staging of Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung with Seattle Opera, Racine received accolades for his innovative interpretation of Dido and Aeneas in Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland in 2010.

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3 December 2020Border CrossingsRegister for online event: bit.ly/bcmagneticnorth

Celebrate the cultural diversity of the Arctic and its importance to us all at this special online event. Featuring extraordinary Indigenous Arctic artists and musicians, including performance poetry by Inuk author and spoken-word artist Taqralik Partridge, originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Québec.

Taqralik Partridge is a writer, spoken word poet and curator. Partridge’s writing focuses on both life in the north and in southern urban centres, as well as the experiences of the Inuit. Her performance work has been featured on CBC Radio One and her writing has been reproduced in Swedish and French language translations. She also incorporates throat singing into her live performances. She has toured with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and with Les Productions Troublemakers under the direction of La Cinémathèque Québécoise composer Gabriel Thibaudeau. Her short story Igloolik, published in Maisonneuve magazine, won first prize in the 2010 Québec Writing Competition and has been published in Swedish and French. She performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2019.

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Cirque du SoleilCorteo

25-28 February 2021Ericsson GlobeStockholm, Sweden

From the streets of small-town Québec to the world stage, a team of street performers became the international phenomenon that is Cirque du Soleil today.

Corteo, which means “cortege” in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth. The clown pictures his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere, watched over by quietly caring angels.

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Alex GaumondThe Rock Musicals

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Québécois producer Adam Blanshay and London’s own hub The Theatre Café have teamed up to produce a unique web series, The Theatre Channel. Bringing together the extraordinary talents of some of the UK’s most sensational performers and West End stars to sing a selection of musical theatre favourites in a manner never seen before.

Québec actor and West End leading man Alex Gaumond appears in Episode 3: The Rock Musicals, singing Le monde est stone from the Québec Rock Opera Starmania. With a career now spanning twenty years, Gaumond has played lead roles in countless West End productions, including Galileo in We Will Rock You, Emmett in Legally Blonde (Olivier Nominated), and Miss Trunchball in Matilda.

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Festivals & Events in Québec 2021-2022Each year, Québec hosts over 400 festivals and cultural events. Those presented below all welcome international delegates and industry professionals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some festivals might be moved entirely online or proceed in a hybrid format including both online and physical activities. For more information on any of the below festivals and opportunities to attend, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.

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Le Festival international de films FantasiaGenre filmwww.fantasiafestival.com

16-25 September 2021Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québecwww.fcvq.ca

6-17 October 2021 Festival du nouveau cinémawww.nouveaucinema.ca

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Rencontres internationales du documentaire de MontréalDocumentarieswww.ridm.ca

24 February-6 March 2021Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécoiswww.rvcq.com

17-21 March 2021 Regard sur le court métrage au SaguenayShortswww.festivalregard.com

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8-18 July 2021Montréal Complètement Cirquewww.montrealcompletementcirque.com

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2021 (exact dates TBC) IX 2021International symposium on immersive experienceswww.ix.sat.qc.ca

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ELEKTRAwww.elektrafestival.ca24-29 August 2021 MUTEKwww.mutek.org

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7-11 April 2021 Festival Québec BDComic books and graphic novelswww.quebecbd.com

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29 April-2 May 2021 Metropolis Bleuwww.bluemetropolis.org

30 May-6 June 2021 Festival de la poésie de Montréalwww.festivaldelapoesiedemontreal.com

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29 October-14 November 2021 Arab World Festival of Montréalwww.festivalarabe.com

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Salon du livre des Premières Nations(Kwahiatonhk!)Montréal Chamber Music Festival

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4-20 June 2021 Festival Suoni Per il PopoloExperimental musicwww.suoniperilpopolo.org

11-20 June 2021Montréal Chamber Music Festivalwww.festivalmontreal.org

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26-29 June 2021Festival International de Jazz de Montréal www.montrealjazzfest.com

2-4 July 2021Chants de Vielles FestivalTraditional musicwww.chantsdevielles.com

2-5 September 2021Festival de musique émergente en Abitibi-TémiscamingueEmerging musicwww.fmeat.org

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La Grande Rencontre Trad musicwww.espacetrad.org

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Envol et MacadamEmerging musicwww.envoletmacadam.com

22-26 September 2021 Pop MontréalIndependent pop musicwww.popmontreal.com

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16-19 November 2021Mundial Montréal (World music)www.mundialmontreal.comNovember 2021 (exact dates TBC)M pour MontréalIndie rock showcasewww.mpourmontreal.com Pe

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28 May-6 June 2021 OFFTALive art festivalwww.offta.com

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Festival InnucadieStorytelling and legendswww.innucadie.com

10-19 September 2021Festival Quartiers Danseswww.quartiersdanses.com

22-31 October 2021Festival interculturel du conte de MontréalStorytellingwww.festival-conte.qc.ca

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Parcours Dansewww.ladansesurlesroutes.com

24-29 May 2021CINARSPerforming arts biennialwww.cinars.org

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3-7 March 2021Festival de Casteliers (Puppetry)

www.festival.casteliers.ca27 July-2 August 2021Festival international des arts de la marionnette pour tous à Saguenaywww.fiams.com

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Manif d’art 10www.manifdart.org

22-25 April 2021 Papier foire d’art contemporainwww.papiermontreal.com

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Momenta – biennale de l’imagewww.momentabiennale.com

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La Biennale d’art contemporain autochtoneFirst Nations artwww.baca.ca

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Festival Les Coups de Théâtrewww.coupsdetheatre.com

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