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Five Works and Artists with Powerful Voices
There’s the one, as Catherine Major sings, “that travels the paths / like Bohemians live / that stumbles in the morning / in a poem / the sun makes it shimmer / like porcelain / it bursts out laughing / the human voice.” There’s the one that counts, in the...
Five Works and Artists with Powerful Voices
There’s the one, as Catherine Major sings, “that travels the paths / like Bohemians live / that stumbles in the morning / in a poem / the sun makes it shimmer / like porcelain / it bursts out laughing / the human voice.” There’s the one that counts, in the...
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Immortality in Art(s)
Who among us hasn’t dreamed, even for just a moment, of slowing down or even freezing the passage of time? From the mummies of Ancient Egypt to the portraits ordered by the ultra-wealthy of this world, as well as the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo and L’Immortalité déconcertée by sculptor Georges...
Immortality in Art(s)
Who among us hasn’t dreamed, even for just a moment, of slowing down or even freezing the passage of time? From the mummies of Ancient Egypt to the portraits ordered by the ultra-wealthy of this world, as well as the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo and L’Immortalité déconcertée by sculptor Georges...
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Eternally Young
“I don’t think you have to live to old age at all costs.” Photo on the left: © Julie Allard On a cold February afternoon, we travelled to Victoriaville to meet Jeanne-Mance Houle. At the age of 86, this radiant, generous and visionary woman welcomed us into her home with...
Eternally Young
“I don’t think you have to live to old age at all costs.” Photo on the left: © Julie Allard On a cold February afternoon, we travelled to Victoriaville to meet Jeanne-Mance Houle. At the age of 86, this radiant, generous and visionary woman welcomed us into her home with...
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Five Works to Celebrate Letting Go
Because there isn’t just one way to accept the present, as the saying goes, and leave what’s passed in the past, here, brought together in these pages, are five literary or musical works that explore how—little by little or all at once—it’s possible to confront, overcome, or embrace what too...
Five Works to Celebrate Letting Go
Because there isn’t just one way to accept the present, as the saying goes, and leave what’s passed in the past, here, brought together in these pages, are five literary or musical works that explore how—little by little or all at once—it’s possible to confront, overcome, or embrace what too...
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Reinventing the Family Trip
I wanted to replace Martine en avion. I had brought back from Paris a large, colourful book entitled Animaux du Japon. My way of waking her up to my world. In my little Jeanne’s library, by dropping off this new travel inspiration (at least, I hoped so), I had fallen...
Reinventing the Family Trip
I wanted to replace Martine en avion. I had brought back from Paris a large, colourful book entitled Animaux du Japon. My way of waking her up to my world. In my little Jeanne’s library, by dropping off this new travel inspiration (at least, I hoped so), I had fallen...
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Song Prescriptions
In these pages, from the first issue, I have had the pleasure of spreading the joys and infinite universes of literature. Now, here I am settling down on the banks of song, a literary art if ever there was one, which I practice in my spare time as a songwriter....
Song Prescriptions
In these pages, from the first issue, I have had the pleasure of spreading the joys and infinite universes of literature. Now, here I am settling down on the banks of song, a literary art if ever there was one, which I practice in my spare time as a songwriter....
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Silence
From the calm of a village after a snowstorm to the suffocating quiet of a secret, silence can be stressful or soothing. At the seaside, we readily appreciate it, but in a house on the edge of a dark forest, we dread it. In these five suggested books, silence exerts...
Silence
From the calm of a village after a snowstorm to the suffocating quiet of a secret, silence can be stressful or soothing. At the seaside, we readily appreciate it, but in a house on the edge of a dark forest, we dread it. In these five suggested books, silence exerts...
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Five Books to Renew Empathy
What if creativity were the natural path to empathy? In the subjects to which they pay attention, through a sideways glance or by taking a step back, through original glasses or a new filter, artists become a transmission belt toward unknown or singular realities. This fully made-in-Quebec selection dwells on...
Five Books to Renew Empathy
What if creativity were the natural path to empathy? In the subjects to which they pay attention, through a sideways glance or by taking a step back, through original glasses or a new filter, artists become a transmission belt toward unknown or singular realities. This fully made-in-Quebec selection dwells on...
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What if love was a decision?
A few weeks ago, while listening to an episode of Rich Roll’s famous podcast, I was struck by a sweet and enlightening idea. Although I’m usually not completely attentive when I listen to podcasts, this idea has been floating around in my head for several days, and continues to make...
What if love was a decision?
A few weeks ago, while listening to an episode of Rich Roll’s famous podcast, I was struck by a sweet and enlightening idea. Although I’m usually not completely attentive when I listen to podcasts, this idea has been floating around in my head for several days, and continues to make...
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Listen and Unfold: Five Podcasts for Total Well-Being
Although reading is one of the strongest sources of relaxation and learning for me, podcasts are important tools that help make my daily life rich and inspiring. They accom- pany my travels, my moments of rest, and sometimes even my training in nature. Diving into the private life of inspiring...
Listen and Unfold: Five Podcasts for Total Well-Being
Although reading is one of the strongest sources of relaxation and learning for me, podcasts are important tools that help make my daily life rich and inspiring. They accom- pany my travels, my moments of rest, and sometimes even my training in nature. Diving into the private life of inspiring...
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Five Books from the First Peoples
NECESSARY – Naomi Fontaine, Marie-Andrée Gill, and Michel Jean are now well-established in fiction or poetry. Since the month of June is devoted to Indigenous literature, the opportunity was too good not to drink it up, regardless of the label. Because this isn’t a genre, strictly speaking, and even less...
Five Books from the First Peoples
NECESSARY – Naomi Fontaine, Marie-Andrée Gill, and Michel Jean are now well-established in fiction or poetry. Since the month of June is devoted to Indigenous literature, the opportunity was too good not to drink it up, regardless of the label. Because this isn’t a genre, strictly speaking, and even less...
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Five books to dive into
SET SAIL — A resource too long believed to be inexhaustible or renewable, at once the source of life and blue gold that we snatch up even as it slips through our fingers, water has always fascinated artists. An indomitable muse, a (super)natural power, and an instrument of the sea...
Five books to dive into
SET SAIL — A resource too long believed to be inexhaustible or renewable, at once the source of life and blue gold that we snatch up even as it slips through our fingers, water has always fascinated artists. An indomitable muse, a (super)natural power, and an instrument of the sea...
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Roaming Québec with these five books
De Kamouraska à Arvida, la littérature d’ici a toujours su arpenter le territoire pour raconter le Québec autrement. Regard sur cinq propositions récentes qui, loin de s’en remettre qu’aux seuls paysages, s’attardent d’abord à l’humain qui habite l’horizon.
Roaming Québec with these five books
De Kamouraska à Arvida, la littérature d’ici a toujours su arpenter le territoire pour raconter le Québec autrement. Regard sur cinq propositions récentes qui, loin de s’en remettre qu’aux seuls paysages, s’attardent d’abord à l’humain qui habite l’horizon.
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Five books to see life in colour
What remains of the grey of our slump, our rose-coloured glasses and our dark clouds, after more than a year of hanging on and then falling off the rainbow? Has the concept of horizon become prehistoric, in the prism of our small-time areas? In addition to the blue of an...
Five books to see life in colour
What remains of the grey of our slump, our rose-coloured glasses and our dark clouds, after more than a year of hanging on and then falling off the rainbow? Has the concept of horizon become prehistoric, in the prism of our small-time areas? In addition to the blue of an...
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Three lessons from nature / To better meet culture
The fields of fir trees and the lakes camouflaged by the reliefs of the ground; the unstable network and the timid flickering of the Wi-Fi bar; unoccupied chalets and abandoned businesses… they have all been a real eye-opener for my relationship to the arts. Inspired by Thoreau and the countless...
Three lessons from nature / To better meet culture
The fields of fir trees and the lakes camouflaged by the reliefs of the ground; the unstable network and the timid flickering of the Wi-Fi bar; unoccupied chalets and abandoned businesses… they have all been a real eye-opener for my relationship to the arts. Inspired by Thoreau and the countless...
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Five Books to Return to the Basics
FROM ONE PAGE TO THE NEXT — There are essential services, and essential workers too—those who were baptized at the height of the crisis as guardian angels. But to whom does this essence belong if not to the whole community? How do we reconnect with it if not by slowing...
Five Books to Return to the Basics
FROM ONE PAGE TO THE NEXT — There are essential services, and essential workers too—those who were baptized at the height of the crisis as guardian angels. But to whom does this essence belong if not to the whole community? How do we reconnect with it if not by slowing...
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Five Books to Unmask Beauty
FROM ONE PAGE TO THE NEXT Whether it lends itself to the most abstract faces or the finest features, beauty is everywhere between the lines. And not always in its unday best. You just have to take it down from its pedestal to better unmask it and flush it out...
Five Books to Unmask Beauty
FROM ONE PAGE TO THE NEXT Whether it lends itself to the most abstract faces or the finest features, beauty is everywhere between the lines. And not always in its unday best. You just have to take it down from its pedestal to better unmask it and flush it out...