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During the Festival, there will be many activities offered for school-aged youth of the region in order to encourage them to be in contact with these artists in mask. Contact us fo...

From the Regional Library Services of the Eastern Townships collection Contempory visual arts have been greatly influenced by traditional African art forms as the current scenic ar...

From the collection og the Quebec Museum of Civilization and other private collections American Indian masks, carnival masks, wrestlers masks… the universe of the mask in Latin A...

Group show Witness the different visions of the mask as seen by visual artists and artisans in a variety of mediums and textures. Each artist has had the opportunity to participate...

This special collection has been put together for the last two tears and is offered to the public by the Festival’s organizational committee. Official opening: Thursday May 26th ...

The local school’s children will be displaying their creations from workshops given by local artists. Come and admire these youthfully colored and dynamic creations. Official ope...

Mask sculptors from Quebec and Europe present selected works together with documentary photographs of the shows in which these works originate. PARTICIPATING ARTIST: Daniel Dewarse...

Duration : 70hrs of workshop activities consisting of 55hrs of theatrical training and 15hrs of live mask performances and conferences given by invited international guests and art...

CHEVALIERS- A potpourri of masked and veiled plays By: SOLO, SACHA AND VINCE (Montreal, Quebec) Educated young men, stupid, privileged, noble, have reasons to be delighted. Nothing...

After his unexpected discovery of a mask, at an antique-dealer’s place, François Cervantes wrote “Penazar’s Journey”. Penazar, a personage of the great eastern history wi...

The Kathakali is the traditional dance from the south of India. The elaborate make-up of the dancers historically dates back over a thousand years. Precise codes of form and color ...

Presentation of baroque dance with mask. Virginal accompainment with Olivier Fortin, a harpsichord player, founder and director of the “L’Ensemble Masques”. The presentation ...

« Le masque est le message » utilize physical comedy, quick-change artistry, and masked transformations in a series of vignettes that range from comic to tender to bizarre. Half-...

Kathakali is a form of dance theatre originating from South India – a volitile mixture of drama, dance, music and ritual. The characters are elaborated make-up, dressed in the re...

Un jour, chez un antiquaire, François Cervantes déniche un masque balinais et se met à écrire son histoire. Naît alors le spectacle « Le voyage de Penazar », le récit de Pe...

For a lot of people, the shamanic arts are and always will be a mystery. For eons the world’s indigenous people have practiced these ancient sacred rituals. The Jesuit missionari...

The mask was one of the first socio-cultural inventions of man and has survived to this day world wide because of the important role it still plays in our societies. The mask contr...

The spectacle “Tag” is the result of a fusion between the visual theatre, the human beatbox and numeric graffiti about insecurity and intolerance feelings. A homeless s...

Contents : The workshop « Strange Stranger » is offering you the chance to work creatively from within yourself and your unknown internal being. From the inside towards the outsi...

LE THÉÂTRE DE LA CORDE RAIDE – graduate students from Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal (Quebec) With : Stéphanie Belanger, Marie-Eve Charbonneau, Nathalie Dou...

Déngnékoro is a region in Mali that the village of St. Camille has created an international partnership with throughout the years. These cultural exchanges have been mostly on th...

In preparation for the parade and the masked ball, you are invited to create your very own mask in a creative environment with a multitude of materials and technical assistance ava...

After having successfully completed a ten day workshop with the thematic of HOW MAKE UP BECOMES A MASK, the participants are inviting the public to a showing of their uncovered tre...

This is the celebration of the village! After having seen masks and heard all that has been said about them in all their shapes and sizes, everyone is invited to put their mask on ...

For eons the mask has been used on the battlefields to intimidate the adversaries and to identify clan alliances. Since its beginnings in 1915 with the creation of the event Mervei...