February
2010
"Les Automatistes"
Albright - Knox
Art Gallery
Albright - Knox
Art Gallery
“ ‘Automatistes’ : a North-American Avant-Garde Literary
and Artistic Twentieth-Century Movement”
In connection with the exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, UB will offer two events devoted to the
presentation and public readings of representative
"Automatistes" texts.
This avant-garde group of writers, artists and dancers
under the leadership of Paul-Emile Borduas was
flourishing in Montreal in the late 1940s. While Abstract
Expressionism was revolutionizing visual art in New York
and Letterism was introducing plasticity in art, film and
letters in Paris, "Les Automatistes," true to the spirit of
European vanguard movement published an important
manifesto "Refus Global" that changed Québec art and
politics. The group's experimentation in literature, art,
theater and dance created a specific brand of lyrical
abstraction that impacted all aspect of Québec
intellectual life and paved the way for the so-called
political "révolution tranquille."
Wednesday, March 17, 904 Clemens, UB North campus, 4:
30 – 5:30 Lecture by Thierry Bissonnette (Laurentian
University / University Laurentienne) and Christian Flaugh
(UB) “Actualités et intempestivité de Refus global /
Legacy and Untimely Actuality of the Automatistes'
Manifesto.''
Friday, March 19, Auditorium, 5:00 – 6:00. “Automatistes
in (Con)text.” A presentation by Ray Ellenwood (York
University) with bi-lingual readings of texts by Thérèse
Renaud, Paul-Emile Borduas, and Claude Gauvreau.
Steve McCaffery, Karen MacCormack, Valérie Hastings,
and Jean-Jacques Thomas.
With the sponsorship of the Association Internationale
des Etudes Québécoises, and, at UB, the Melodia E.
Jones Chair, the Canadian-American Studies Committee,
the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
and the Poetics Program.
and Artistic Twentieth-Century Movement”
In connection with the exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, UB will offer two events devoted to the
presentation and public readings of representative
"Automatistes" texts.
This avant-garde group of writers, artists and dancers
under the leadership of Paul-Emile Borduas was
flourishing in Montreal in the late 1940s. While Abstract
Expressionism was revolutionizing visual art in New York
and Letterism was introducing plasticity in art, film and
letters in Paris, "Les Automatistes," true to the spirit of
European vanguard movement published an important
manifesto "Refus Global" that changed Québec art and
politics. The group's experimentation in literature, art,
theater and dance created a specific brand of lyrical
abstraction that impacted all aspect of Québec
intellectual life and paved the way for the so-called
political "révolution tranquille."
Wednesday, March 17, 904 Clemens, UB North campus, 4:
30 – 5:30 Lecture by Thierry Bissonnette (Laurentian
University / University Laurentienne) and Christian Flaugh
(UB) “Actualités et intempestivité de Refus global /
Legacy and Untimely Actuality of the Automatistes'
Manifesto.''
Friday, March 19, Auditorium, 5:00 – 6:00. “Automatistes
in (Con)text.” A presentation by Ray Ellenwood (York
University) with bi-lingual readings of texts by Thérèse
Renaud, Paul-Emile Borduas, and Claude Gauvreau.
Steve McCaffery, Karen MacCormack, Valérie Hastings,
and Jean-Jacques Thomas.
With the sponsorship of the Association Internationale
des Etudes Québécoises, and, at UB, the Melodia E.
Jones Chair, the Canadian-American Studies Committee,
the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
and the Poetics Program.
April 2010
"Lettres de
Femmes"
Le théâtre de la
chandelle verte
April 10, Shea's
Performing Art
Center,
Main Street
Femmes"
Le théâtre de la
chandelle verte
April 10, Shea's
Performing Art
Center,
Main Street
June 2010
Marché de la
poésie (Paris)
Sortie de
Formules 14
(2010) et FPC 7
(2010)
poésie (Paris)
Sortie de
Formules 14
(2010) et FPC 7
(2010)
May 2010
Alliance
Française de
Buffalo
Prix
d'excellence du
Français :
Lycées de
Buffalo et sa
région
Française de
Buffalo
Prix
d'excellence du
Français :
Lycées de
Buffalo et sa
région
Excellence in French Studies Awards
March 2010
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