Program 2025

EXHIBITION Masks take over the streets and outdoor spaces of the village. They’re everywhere! Hidden in the foliage, around the corner of a power pole, or on a balcony… Even ma...

  For several years now, visual arts teacher and Saint-Camille’s resident Annie Morey has been collaborating with Masq’alors! by introducing her students to various ma...

Group Exhibition (Québec) Around fifteen regional artists—and just as many mediums and techniques—take over the Espace Hortense to share their unique interpretations of the ma...

Art’s Colonial Legacy: ‘It Would Have Been Better Not to Have Needed Museums” (Aimé Césaire, Discours sur le colonialisme)   “The idea for this film began when a fri...

For the occasion, wear your finest mask—whether it’s a classic Venetian-style mask, an original creation, or a homemade masterpiece… be creative!! A beloved tradition tha...

To allow us to further immerse ourselves in Khon culture, Benjamin Tardif is exhibiting non-consecrated working masks, in both classical and contemporary styles. They represent thr...

Found forms, often forgotten, gathered together for a moment. As if by magic, they suddenly form faces or characters—friendly, lively companions. Born into a well-known family in...

The welcome area of the Masq’alors! Festival invites you to explore a jumble of images, texts, and unusual objects—all connected to the world of masks. Eclectic and unclassifia...

Affordable and friendly food, artistic impromptus by our guests, and screenings of masked short films 5:30 PM Remarks by our guest speakers 6:00 PM A mix of impromptus and short fi...

Short Film and Guided Tour by the Artist. Persephone is an interdisciplinary work where contemporary puppetry draws from visual arts and animated cinema, resulting in an exhibition...

For Étienne Decroux, the first major reformer of mime, and Jacques Lecoq, who developed a wide-ranging creativity centered on the idea of gesture, mask and improvisation were esse...

Screening of the documentary Le Khon, la danse des roisTHAI EVENING This 52-minute documentary, released in 2017, offers an authentic look at khon dance in its natural setting and ...

Performance + Talk This solo performance takes us behind the scenes of learning the monkey dance. It reveals the preparatory steps required to become the character of Hanuman, the ...

To celebrate the twinning ties between Saint-Camille and Mali since 2001, the Association des Femmes de Saint-Camille | Dégnékoro come and share a Malian-inspired lunch (chicken...

Koteba, the traditional Malian theater, and the Koredugaw, those sacred jesters who laugh at everything, are coming to the Masq’alors! Festival. The author, storyteller, and spea...

Promenade performance Drawn from the performance Âmes soeurs, the inhabited puppets of the Fawn and the Child become two giant characters seemingly emerged from the wild. Each on ...

PERFORMATIVE ART Andrew Chartier is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of art, science, and technology to question our relationship with the environm...

ROUNDTABLE The Mask, the Human, and the Animal: Diverse and Striking Cultural Approaches An animal-faced mask on a human can be as simple and playful as a child at play, or as vita...

A rift opens onto a parallel world—both primitive and post-human. The story of humanity, an eternal present, shaped by selfishness and greed, overwhelms the weakest and most sens...

Based on the book by Christopher Denise. Owl dreams of becoming a knight and imagines himself brave, clever, and surrounded by friends. But his dream seems impossible. This picture...

Hanuman is the white monkey-warrior, a mythological character from the Thai epic Ramakien. Discover his story through a traditional Thai masked dance performance, khon, where gestu...

Creative Workshop Now’s your chance—if you don’t have a mask yet for the masked parade! Boxes full of all kinds of materials will be available, but feel free to bring your ow...

Heritage (TOLTEKATLAJTO in Nahuatl) is a dance-theatre performance that explores the strength and resilience of women through the themes of colonization, identity, and mixed herit...

Masked Parade Masked, costumed, and filled with wild festive spirit, the artists of this 9th edition, the masked team, the festival-goers, the community, and anyone else who wishes...