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Ongoing rituals
Raymond Dupuis , Usine
C
1345, Lalonde Street
June 9 to 28, Tuesday to Saturday
from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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Raymond Dupuis got his training at the Institute of
Applied Arts in Montreal, from 1964 to 1967. Since then,
he has presented over thirty individual shows in Montreal
and New York City and taken part in many group exhibitions
in Quebec, throughout Canada and overseas. His works
are displayed in important public collections in many
locations in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and Philadelphia.
He has also taken part in many international exhibits
in Canada, the United States and Europe.
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1.
I'd like to say
Things far
From the sadness stuck in the silt
Before the unspeakable wandering
At the edge of a forgotten nation
Wakinyan tanka
Thunder Bird
Open my heart's eye
Let me walk
Igniting the day
On the sacred path
Let me be seized by the infinity
Of a demand from without
2.
To retrace
Up to the horizon
The absence
Of these fragile destinies
Against the wind
Between shadow and fire
Of the vast lands, devastated
For too long a time
I close up my soul
In the silence
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3.
I transcribe the symbols
Of my other breath
Intercepting the antique space
When the inscrutable snake
Uncoils itself
And the approving now
Can play
In the implacable cry
Of the caribou in trance
Howling for help
Before it moves off
Like the spirit of the four winds of America
I set up my tent
Near the frescoes of the absolute
Beating on the bone
Of the whale of the already-leaving
Attuned to the rhythm
Of Ursa Major
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A game of creation at
Bibliothèque nationale
Saint-Sulpice building,
1700, Saint-Denis Street
From June 05 to 27,
free entrance
Monday
to Saturday from 12 : 00 p.m. to 05 : 00 p.m.
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A game of creation,
The very strong symbolic powers and
ritualised aspects of the game of chess have not escaped
the attention of the artists and craftspeople who
answered our appeal to create original chess sets.
Most of them are familiar with the game of chess.
Though some of these artists may only play the game
occasionally, they watched hotly disputed chess games
between their elders when they were children. In the
chess sets and the rules of the game, they all discovered
an imaginary territory to be carved out of their own
experiences and their relation to First Nations traditions.
From stone to ivory, from bark to fur,
arts of fire or fabric, the ancient gestures of weaving
to the most contemporary sculptural forms, everything
partake to the creation of original artworks. Above
all, the choice of materials sets these warriors,
spirits, Shamans and other totemic figures apart from
conventional chess sets. The chessboard remains the
territory for stark oppositions. The artists and craftspeople
of the First Nations have not hesitated to explore
its every dimension
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Exhibit of Alanis Obomsawin's
work
June 10-22. Free admission
Cinémathèque québécoise,
in the Luce-Guilbeault lobby
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Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin is another wayfarer familiar
with the boundless mysteries of dreams. Her graphic works
reveal the visions and memories haunting her: free horses
and happy children, the Abenakis of yesteryear whose portraits
are veiled in memory as they go about their daily lives. And
strange beings, emerging from the night, who impose their
presence
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Addresses
Montreal's First Peoples' Festival 2003
Émilie-Gamelin
park, corner of Sainte-Catherine
Street and Berri Street
NFB Cinema,
1564, Saint-Denis Street
Cinémathèque
québécoise, 335, de Maisonneuve blvd East
Kateri Hall,
Kahnawake
Usine C, 1345,
Lalonde Street
Bibliothèque
nationale, Saint-Sulpice building, 1700, Saint-Denis Street
Belvédère
Kondiaronk, mount Royal
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