Québec Cinema

Four films over four weekends in October, plus a virtual roundtable discussion with the director of Les Affamés on Friday, October 29 at 5:00 PM.

The 2021 Virtual Québec Film Festival is organized by Georgetown University and the Alliance française de Washington, DC, in partnership with the Bureau du Québec à Washington.

Date
October 1 - 31

Registration is required for each weekend.

The Big Apple comes to Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen

The Big Apple is coming...to the Big Apple! Save the date for its grand debut.

Brought to you by Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance, designed by World of Marzell, manufactured by Dix au carré.

Date - Time - Location
Wednesday, October 13     *     11:30 AM     *     Bella Abzug Park, NY

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A New Multimedia Experience at the Top of the One World Trade Center… Made in Québec!

The award-winning multidisciplinary studio Float4 designed, produced and integrated a new multimedia visitor experience at One World Observatory. The multimedia experience presents a narrative voyage through the past, present, and future of New York City.

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The Metropolitan Museum Presents Surrealism Beyond Borders

A new way of looking at Surrealism and discover some of Françoise Sullivan’s groundbreaking work in a key exhibition section devoted to Automatism. Sullivan was one of the founding members of the avant-garde Automatism movement, and one of the signatories of that group’s 1948 manifesto, the Refus global (Total Refusal). With a career that spans more than seventy years, she’s one of the most versatile and enduring artists of her generation.

Date - Venue
October 11, 2021 through January 30, 2022     *     The MET Museum

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Bernard Labadie and Orchestra of St. Luke’s Return to Carnegie Hall

Orchestra of St. Luke’s will open their season with a vivacious program of Baroque delights featuring Handel’s Water Music, a masterpiece famously composed for King George I.

Date - Time - Venue
October 14     *     8:00 PM     *     Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage

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Met Opera Open its Season with Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

Date
Until October 23

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2022 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program – Prose from Québec

This year, the American Literary Translators Association is offering a mentorship in prose from Québec, mentored by the illustrious Linda Gaboriau, translator of Michel-Marc Bouchard, Michel Tremblay, and Wajdi Mouawad. Application deadline November 30, 2021.

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The 7 Fingers Presents En Panne (Out of Order)

The 7 Fingers contemporary-circus troupe imagines a world without the arts in Out of Order. The virtual show features pandemic-era acrobatics and the beauty of the flawed.

Get an instant access to the movie (works on all platforms for two streaming sessions) through December 31, 2021.

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