Festival de théâtre des amériques

May 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31
June 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Departures : (see below)
English and French : 23h approx.
Schedule :
Wednesday : 8:00 p.m.
Thursday :4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Friday : noon - 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday : noon - 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m - midnight
Sunday : 7:00 a.m. - noon - 4:00 p.m.

Theatre of Life
We live in our neighbourhoods and walk down the same streets day after day, greeting the same anonymous faces and entering the same stores and the same buildings without noticing the life pulsating within. Without being aware of it we are playing a role in a play, but don’t know the name of either the playwright or the director. What if the curtain were to suddenly rise to reveal the real truth, the intangibles, all the acts and scenes bursting forth in our daily lives and all the characters who compose the backdrop of our existence ? Farine Orpheline will be your guide in this unmasking of street theatre. With a portable CD player in hand, you will make your way into real life, imperceptibly sliding into a fictitious world that is very real and yet also something else. It is a museum of living works of art where we are both witness and active participant. It is the infinite potential of reality revealed at long last.
Farine Orpheline’s website dedicated to this project : content-provider.org

Since 1996 this tribe of contemporary art nomads has been presenting extremely inventive experiences in locations they call “ holes ” in the urban fabric, creating places for exchange and discussion within the social structure.

Voir Montréal

A creation of the collective Farine orpheline cherche ailleurs meilleur
CONCEIVED AND DEVISED BY		Marie-France Bojanowski Éric Forget Jean-François Desmarais Martin Pelletier

WITH		Jeff Fisher Bob “ Elvis ” Lavoie Yves Codère Daniel Tardif and other planned coincidences

Farine Orpheline
In existence since 1996, the Farine orpheline collective today consists of four full-time members. Marie-France Bojanowski is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked in design and video production (installations, documentaries and experimental video). Martin Pelletier is a musician, a highly skilled guitarist and player of high-tech instruments that he views as a resource of unlimited potential. Co-founders of the collective, they were joined in 1998 by Jean-François Desmarais, whose training in architecture and urban planning led to designing furniture and diverse articles and to performance art, installations and museum presentations. The other member is Éric Forget, a musician who plays several instruments, a performer, sound designer, video director and recycler of objects and sounds who joined the group in 2000. On each of their projects, they invite other artists from different backgrounds to participate, stimulating interdisciplinarity among artistic genres.

POINTS OF DEPARTURE

Morning Walkabout
Restaurant Chez Clo
(complete breakfast for 3,25$
3199 Ontario East Frontenac metro station, bus 125 East or 10 minutes walking)

Afternoon and evening walkabouts
Club Vidéo Le Septième — 2005 Chambly (corner Ontario), Joliette metro station

Night walkabout
American Can Co. — 2030, Pie IX Blvd.

Important : There will be 5 departures at each scheduled departure time, i.e. one every 15 minutes.

Nouvelles Scènes
In 1997, the Festival de théâtre des Amériques created the Nouvelle Scène series, whose mission four editions later remains the same — to promote young artists in order to actively contribute to the emergence of new voices in the theatre by providing them with conditions that favour their discovery and advancement. In bringing together this year a generation of multidisciplinary artists, Nouvelles Scènes 2003 reasserts the dynamism and plurality of contemporary theatre in Quebec. In choosing unusual performance sites and forms that include performance art, theatrical walkabouts and staged installations, these artists challenge the norms of theatrical representation and the role of the spectator, questioning the social and political role of art and its place in the community.