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Alliance Française de Toronto /
Théâtre Spadina
24, Spadina Road
Toronto, ON M5R 2S7
C ONCERTS
P LAYS
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Tel: 416 922 2014 x37
culturel@alliance-francaise.ca
OUR SHOWS
The venues of our shows are specified on every page.
Our COVID-19 safety protocols will be sent via email.
The pedagogical files for every show are available on
demand.
RATES
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on our rates.
Machine à Bulles ............................................................... 4
Old man and the River ..................................................... 5
Scilabus: scientific and Youtuber .................................... 6
En plein dans l’oeil : Méliès .............................................. 7
Un autre monde ............................................................... 8
L’écho de l’écume .......................................................... 9
Beethoven: 250 - Ode to Joy .........................................10
Ensemble Amarillis ........................................................... 11
Molière was contemporary! .......................................... 12
Mad Men with Molière ................................................... 13
Caisse 606 ........................................................................ 14
Slimane Zeghidour - being a journalist ......................... 15
CINEMA AT ALLIANCE .......................................... 16-17
CULTURETHÈQUE .......................................................... 18
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Flexible date
in autumn,
depending on
your needs
Monday
December 1
2020 &
Flexible Date
WORKSHOP
Machine à bulles
WHAT IF ART WAS
INTERACTIVE?
With the French Institute & French Embassy
© Madd
Old man and
the River
A BEAUTIFUL STORY ABOUT FRIENDSHIP
Thomas Morgan Jones et Lynda Hill
© Slimane Zeghidour
PLAY
PUPPETS
From 5 to
16 years old
80min
For this Year of the Comic, the “Machines
à Bulles” exhibition showcases innovative
forms of comics through 24 works illustrating
the new reading experiences offered by
digital technology.
The Digital allows to blur the lines between
all disciplines and to rethink the relationship between
authors and readers. These new types of narratives
and ways of reading open new literary
creation opportunities and change the relationship
to the book, the paper format and the digital
“machines”.
A grumpy little old man lives in his little house in
the woods by the river. Every day is the same
and he likes it this way until one day, a magical
creature leaps into his world and everything
changes! This beautifully designed puppetry
work performed without words to an enchanting
musical score, reveals a storybook world where
rivers sing, trees laugh, and curious dragonflies
come to visit. With its themes of friendship,
communication, play, adjusting to change, Old Man
and the River is perfect for the youngest theatregoer.
3 to 7
years old
45min
Online
4 5
Online or at the
Spadina Theatre
Wednesday
February
10 2021 &
Flexible Date
Friday
February 19
2021
CAREER
TALK
Scilabus: scientific
and youtuber
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO
BE A YOUTUBER?
© Scilabus
En plein dans
l’oeil : Méliès
A MAGICAL WORLD
Alcoléa & Cie
Based on Georges Méliès’ cinematographic work
© Alcoléa & Cie
PLAY
From 12
years old
45 min.
Scilabus, scientist and youtuber
T his talk for young people shows the different stages of
creating a scientific video that anyone could understand.
The emphasis is on researching the information, on the
quality of sources, and on the difference between an
opinion and a fact.
En plein dans l’oeil offers a poetic, playful and very
current reading of Goerges Méliès’ universe, interpreted
by three musicians in time with the imagery. With
various instruments and an original orchestra, they
bring a breath of fresh air to the fantasy and genius
of the father of the seventh art and special effects.
‘’These films work wonderfully if judged only by the
children’s spontaneous outbursts of laughter.’’
- La Nouvelle République
From 6
years old
30 &
55 min
Online or in your school
6 7
Online or at the
Spadina Theatre
From February
23 to 28 2021
Flexible date,
depending on
your needs
PLAY
PUPPETS
Un autre monde
A BEAUTIFUL STORY ABOUT
OUR DIFFERENCES
Théâtre de l’Oeil
Réjane Charpentier, text
André Laliberté, stage director
© L Gniwesch
L’écho de l’écume
LET’S CREATE TOGETHER
© Isaac Gayosso & Karine Gaulin
Compagnie Les Chemins Errants
Édith Beauséjour, Emmanuelle Calvé & Karine Gaulin
Édith Beauséjour & Karine Gaulin, actors
WORKSHOP
From 4
years old
45 min
W ho is this Grande Dame that invites us to the game of
creation? Magician or deity, the big ELLE (SHE) creates
as she breathes. From darkness and void, she sets about
making a new world.
Then appear a number of creatures that have to learn
to live together, each one looking to find their place
in regards to their dreams… But is there a place for
everyone in Another World (Un Autre Monde)? A fable
of life that invites us to reflect on the
world of differences that surrounds us.
T he main objective of this workshop is to provoke a
mindful encounter between the children and the
creative process of an artist. Through tales of
sea voyage and islands, the children
will be able to discover some
geography, the territories, as well as the social and
environmental situations on the Îles-de-la-Madeleine
and St-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The workshop
is also an invitation to dive into the world of
creation with an engaged practicing artist, in an
atmosphere of mobilising and inspiring exchange.
From
5 to10
years old
60min
At the Spadina
Theatre
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Online
Friday
March 26
2021
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2020
0
Friday
April 16
2021
CONCERT
olivier
de spiegeleir
Beethoven: 250
Ode to Joy
récital de piano commenté bagatelles, sonates pathétique, waldstein variations nel cor piu, do mineur
LET’S CELEBRATE HIS 250 YEARS OLD!
© Olivier de Spiegeleir
Ensemble
Amarillis
READY TO (RE)DISCOVER
CLASSICAL MUSIC?
© Melodies in Mind - Palazzo
del Quirinale of Rome
CONCERT
Olivier de Spiegeleir, pianist
Héloïse Gaillard, artistic director
From 10
years old
60min
2 020 marked the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van
Beethoven’s, genius composer of countless immortal
masterpieces, birthday in 1770. Amongst his works,
the famous Ode to Joy, from Schiller, celebrating the
fraternity and union between all humans. The ‘’commented
recitals’’ from Belgian pianist Olivier de Spiegeleir,
have taken him all around the globe (Europe,
South America, The Middle East, Canada…)
For this “Beethoven anniversary“, he offers us a
concert around famous works by Beethoven (by the
way, did you know his grandpa was from... Belgium!).
L earn much more about the Baroque
universe through concert, accompanied by discovery
workshops offered by Héloïse Gaillard.
From presenting the instruments to the creation of the
program Melodies in Mind, moving through the
stories of the composers and the Baroque period,
according to their age and skill level,
Héloïse Gaillard will accompany the
students in the listening of this fascinating music.
For all
45min
Online or at the
Spadina Theatre
10 11
Online, at the
Spadina Theatre or in
your school
Flexible date,
depending on
your needs
Friday,
April 23
2021
CAREER
TALK
From 12
years old
45min
© Hélèna Vallès
Molière was contemporary!
DO YOU REALLY KNOW MOLIÈRE?
André Nerman, actor and stage director
‘’T hrough decades, we’ve seen many interpretations
of Molière’s theater so that now it is somewhat of a
relief to see a return to tradition with period costumes
on stage. But in reality, the modernization
of Molière’s theater is inevitable. This is of
course because as much as Molière’s pieces
were embedded in his given era, his artistic
genius could be observed in the universal
message in his critical observations of his
contemporaries.
I will talk to you about his life, his art, and the
remarkable ways in which his plays have been
interpreted by theater directors today. We will see
that regardless of which reading or which point of
vue is adopted, Molière’s words continue to speak
to us, bringing together a number of generations. ‘’
Mad Men with Molière
A MIX BETWEEN CLASSIC AND MODERNITY
Compagnie Caravague & André Nerman
M olière was an observer of his epoch. However much
rooted in their times, his characters carry a universal
dimension. These men caught up in their bad habits
yet also in their social positions, their ambitions, their
cowardices, their hypocrisies, their amorous
emotions… are they any different from
those that we rub shoulders with today?
Molière wanted to make honest people
laugh. Today we still laugh at ourselves and
those like us. Were these men of the great
century really much different than us? Through
staging, whilst respecting Molière’s language, we
will attempt to explore these dialogues in the context of
our time.
© Caravague
PLAY
For all,
from 12
years old
75min
Online
12 13
Online or at the
Spadina Theatre
Friday
June 4
2021
Flexible date,
depending on
your needs
PLAY
Caisse 606
A PLAY FULL OF
IMAGINATION
© Hélèna Vallès
Compangnie La Fille du Laitier
Caroline Bélanger et Marie-Hélène Bélanger Dumas,
creators and actresses
Being a journalist
- Slimane Zeghidour
HOW IS IT TO BE A WAR
REPORTER?
Slimane Zeghidour, editor in in chief of TV5 Monde
© Slimane Zeghidour
CAREER
TALK
From 4
years old
30 min
S t uck in their daily routine, the two cashiers of a
local grocery shop dream of a better life. A life where
everything is possible; where carrots dance, soy sauce
falls in love and the sun has a taste of pineapple.
A life of freedom and synchronized swimming!
Prisoners of a routine they know all too well, these
women present their dreams, their need for acknowledgement,
their aspirations and their desire for
freedom through an epic where even daily objects
escape their daily weariness.
B orn in Kabylia in 1953, Slimane Zeghidour is a French
writer and journalist. After starting out as an illustrator
for Liberation and Pilote in 1974, he decided to
start a career as a writer and big time reporter. The
list of media for which he has worked was quite long:
Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur, Télérama, El
Pais... until he became editor-in-chief at TV5 Monde.
Also a well-known author (La Vie quotidienne à
La Mecque, Le Voile et la bannière...), Slimane
Zeghidour will answer your students’ questions about
being a journalist.
For all
From 10
years old
45min
In your school or
at the Spadina Theatre
14 15
Online
Cinema at Alliance
Come with your class to discover the
great films of francophone cinema in
a private screening!
Screenings of ‘’ciné-découverte’’
(discovery cinema) where films are adapted
to a young audience (from 4 to 18 years old).
An introduction to the screened film, as well
as a discussion afterwards will be offered by one of
our cultural services team members.
Our COVID-19 safety protocols will be sent via email.
Screenings at 10am
and 1pm
Here is a non-exhaustive list of our movies :
Ernest et Célestine
Le Petit Prince
Tout en haut du monde
Un Monstre à Paris
Astérix: Le domaine des Dieux
La Famille Bélier
Demain tout commence
Intouchables
...
More information: alliance-francaise.ca
Contact : fieldtrip@alliance-francaise.ca
416 922 2014 #37
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Culturethèque
Accessible from your computer, tablet or
smartphone, Culturethèque is a digital multimedia
library which gives you access to thousands
of documentary resources whenever you want.
Your students will be able to plunge into hundreds
of e-books, magazines, newspapers... And concerts
and talks... In short, everything you need to practice
your French!
ALLIANCE
FRANÇAISE
TORONTO
© Culturethèque
Thanks to our partners
Special rate:
Administrative fees of $50 and complete
access to your school for a year
Contact us at culturel@alliance-francaise.ca
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