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Saturday, February 14, 2004
5:00 pm
Micro ouvert
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The public is encouraged to participate actively in these open-mic events,
where up-and-coming performers can appear on stage and make a name for
themselves in a friendly, informal setting. All performers - known, unknown,
soon-to-be-known, published or not, first time before an audience or not - are
invited to come and perform their writings, poems, songs or stories.
Sign up with the host at the venue starting at 4:30 pm. Each participant has
a maximum of five minutes for his or her performance.
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5:00 pm
Open Mic
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The public is encouraged to participate actively in these open-mic events,
where up-and-coming performers can appear on stage and make a name for
themselves in a friendly, informal setting. All performers - known, unknown,
soon-to-be-known, published or not, first time before an audience or not - are
invited to come and perform their writings, poems, songs or stories.
Sign up with the host at the venue starting at 4:30 pm. Each participant has
a maximum of five minutes for his or her performance.
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8:30 pm
Sweet Nothings — Quelqu’un à l’horizon?
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We know, we know, it’s Valentine’s Day. We can’t change
the date so let’s make it a date for EVERYONE: in-lovers, out-of-lovers,
waiting-for-lovers, desperate-for-lovers, no-hope-for-lovers. No matter what
your status, la Sala Rossa is the place to be on February 14. Languages come
together and so will the spectators!
With poet Marie SAVARD (in French), one of the first to perform poetry in
spoken-word style before the term had even gained ground on the French side;
Kateri AKIWENZIE-DAMM* (in English), an Anishnaabe writer of mixed ancestry
from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation in Ontario; storyteller Simon
GAUTHIER (in French), well known for his eloquence and spunk; Indigenous
storyteller Bob BOURDON, son of a Mic-Mac mother and a Métis father from
Mississippi, who will perform in English and French, accompanying himself on
the drum; playwright, director and actor Yves Sioui DURAND, a member of the
Huron-Wendat nation, whose artistic quest is centred on the development of a
Native mythological theatre; and Paul CARGNELLO, a young anglophone francophile
Montreal multi-instrumentalist (say that ten times fast!). They will be joined
by the strange and fabulous duo TAIMA PROJECT, featuring Alain AUGER, a
francophone musician who was raised in Abitibi, and filmmaker and singer
Elisapie ISAAC, an Inuk from Nunavik, who will perform in French, English and
Inuktituk.
The house band for this special evening will be composed of Bernard FALAISE
(guitar), Fred BOUDREAULT (bass) and Alexis MARTIN (percussion). As Falaise
would say, we’re in business!
* Kateri AKIWENZIE-DAMM will also give a creative writing workshop for
Native students on Saturday, February 14, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm (in collaboration
with Land InSights and the McGill First Peoples’ House).
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11:00 pm
Fanfare Pourpour
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