Summer vacation is coming to an end. In a few days, the schools will be teeming with children again. To make the most of it, our journalists have unearthed some events not to be missed.
Presented for the third year, Live at Lost River is a total festival, an immersion in music and nature. Organized by Patrick Watson and Rebecca Foon in Wentworth North, in the Laurentians, the event which takes place from August 24 to 27 offers a route featuring both the surrounding forest and the guest artists – Klô Pelgag, the chamber music quartet modern Esmerine, the minimalist electro duo Bibi Club and Patrick Watson himself – in a hyper intimate setting. The reception is limited to 300 people per evening and the tickets cost $160 (including the meal), and there is still room for this Thursday and Sunday.
For three days, the Olympic Park esplanade will host skateboarding and climbing pros as part of the 11th Jackalope Fest. Both extreme sports enthusiasts, families and the curious are invited to attend for free. In addition to the competitions, many other activities are offered, including a show this Friday by the group Ragers – the album Missed Calls From Home is expected on September 29 -, music from various DJs, a climbing initiation wall and a relaxation area with different games of skill. Street food trucks will be on site to fill small and big gaps.
Head to the Society for Technological Arts (SAT) this weekend, where we find immersive works and performances as part of MUTEK. Saturday I want to leave this Earth behind by artist Stefana Fratila “examines what it means for a person with a disability to lead an imaginary exploration of the cosmos”. And Sunday, Entanglement is “a stunning visual and sonic experience driven by science, technology and the sensitivity to illustrate what cannot be visualized.” Two intriguing immersive offerings.
Background music, looped, exploratory, where time stands still… at Les Foufounes Electriques? We want to know more ! Direction the mythical Montreal bar next Wednesday evening, therefore, for an extraordinary evening with, as a prelude, the compositions of Jessica Moss and France Jobin, then, as a main course, the synthesized aerial works signed by the specialist in the genre, the American William Basinski. If one of his compositions was listened to in the comfort of the Habitat sonore space at the Phi Center last summer, this time, the venue is intriguing.
Almost 20 years after their first appearance on TV, Toopy and Binoo return to the big screen. Marc Labrèche once again lends his voice to the friendly mouse. This time, Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, Geneviève Schmidt and Stéphane Rousseau join the adventure. “Funny and surprising, the feature film that invites wonderment will certainly appeal to preschoolers. We bet, however, that young people who grew up listening to the friendly duo, whose episodes have been rebroadcast for many years, will be happy to reconnect with their former heroes for the time of a film, “says journalist Véronique Larocque in her review. released August 11.
A Respectable Woman, announced as Bernard Émond’s last film, transports us to Trois-Rivières in the early 1930s. We follow Rose (Hélène Florent), separated from her husband Paul-Émile (Martin Dubreuil) for 11 years , who welcomes him after the death of his second concubine. “A respectable woman speaks of charity, forgiveness, doubt, sharing… Themes that we see little on our screens in 2023. To the certainties of our time, the filmmaker exposes what gnaws and disturbs the spirits of sorrow”, writes our journalist Luc Boulanger in his review.
