Festival Voix d’Amériques (2006
Edition)
Spoken word, music… and daring, always daring!
Every winter for the past five years, Montreal has been celebrating oral literature,
text performance and spoken word. This year’s Festival Voix d’Amériques (FVA), presented
by Les Filles électriques, takes place February 10 to 17, 2006 with
special guest Tomson
Highway.
Main-stage shows each night at La Sala Rossa
- Main-stage events in English include the opening show in which Tomson Highway
invites us, at long last, to join him and old friends for an evening of memories.
- We’ll celebrate St. Valentine’s Day with Love and Kisses from Vancouver,
with some of the West Coast’s best spoken-word artists.
- On the French side, Body and Soul 3 presenting seven “natural-born
performers” whose words and bodies eat up the stage.
- The Combat contre la langue de bois will go into its 2nd round,
challenging ten celebrity guests to express their deepest thoughts without tripping
over their tongues.
- The Jolis garçons cabaret will introduce seven brilliant, beautiful, happy
young gays delivering intelligent (or impertinent!) poetry in glam style.
- Semeurs de troubles opens the festival doors to poetry’s next
generation—young voices already speaking out loud and clear!
- For the first time, the FVA will devote an entire evening to the art of
storytelling with Histoires de pêche—big fish stories about the one that got
away.
- The FVA will end in some delirious general rejoicing at a closing-night show with
Loco Locass
and guests.
Tickets for FVA main-stage events ($15 and $20) are available at the Billetterie
Articulée (514-844-2172) and at the door on the night of the show, starting at 6:30 pm.
Doors of La Sala Rossa open at 7:30 pm.
But wait! There’s more!
- The “5 à 7” series (free, every day!) at the Casa del Popolo
- The Salon de la marginalité, Sunday, February 12, at La Sala Rossa
(free admission).
- The cabarets Night Shift, followed by an “open mic” for upcoming
artists, at 11 pm at the Casa del Popolo (tickets $3 at the door)
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