For its fifth edition, the big show Kwe!, Presented during the National day of Aboriginal peoples, will invest the land in front of the building of the National Assembly on June 21. From 6 p.m., around thirty indigenous and noddency artists, including Matten, Zachary Richard, the Duo Hauterive, Scott-Pien Picard, Florent Vollant, Sandrine Masse and Vincent Vallières, will offer a musical evening celebrating the cultural diversity of the first peoples of Quebec.
The composer and film producer of film Geneviève Gros-Louis, from the Wendat nation, will open the evening. Renowned for her soundtrack music and her work in fusing tradition and modernity, she will immediately take an artistic look at the crossroads.
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The violinist Geneviève Gros-Louis Salamone is renowned for her soundtrack music and her work in fuse tradition and modernity.
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Acclaimed two years ago in place of Youville, the collective performance drawn from the room A musician among so many others will be presented again on the stage in front of the National Assembly, in the company of Serge Fiori.
It is an invitation to the general public, we want to celebrate our languages, our existence must be underlined during the solstice day
underlines Mélanie Vincent, director general of the KWE festival! To meet the indigenous peoples.
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The programming of the National Day of Aboriginal Peoples.
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A tribute to Florent Vollant
The public will find Florent Vollant, co -founder of the legendary duo Kashtin and Ambassador of Aboriginal music. He will be surrounded by his prestigious guests-Zachary Richard, Dumas, Matten, Hauterive, Scott-Pien Picard and Vincent Vallières, artists who will revisit his greatest successes in unpublished arrangements, and above all … in the Innu language!
Francophones singing in Aboriginal language, it is something that is very courageous!
supports Florent Vollant.
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Florent Vollant and his friends during the concert at Club Soda last March.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Marie-Laure Josselin
In an an hour and a half show, this intergenerational collaboration promises to combine the passion of French -speaking rock, the depth of Acadian folk and innue poetry in a process of mutual sharing and recognition.
In preview: a parameter show
Kwe!, In collaboration with the Grand Théâtre de Québec, offers Tressagesa show-up show presented a few days before the start of the event. Eleven First Nations artists and Inuit will reinterpret four archive pieces of Couturier Jean-Claude Poitras, creating a daring dialogue between haute couture and traditional know-how.
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The designer will be present during the show-Performance, at the Grand Théâtre de Québec, on June 12.
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We stage the 11 characters who carry the creations. It is unique of its kind!
The only paying component of programming, this event outside the festival will cost $ 20 per place.
The KWE festival! Always in place Jean-Béliveau
From June 13 to 15, Kwe! will offer a series of activities combining contemporary creation and indigenous traditions. Among the flagship activities: an outdoor cinema, a karaoke and 5 to 7 musicals.
The innovation center of the first peoples presents this year a novelty: a manufacturing workshop, offering a range of tools including 3D printers, which will be used to make small objects on site.
Visitors will be able to keep their objects in memory
, Adds Mélanie Vincent, Managing Director of the KWE Festival! To meet the indigenous peoples.
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The KWE festival! is free.
Photo: Credit / André-Olivier Lyra
The 11 nations trail
makes a facelift and turns into Knowledge of knowledge of the 11 nations
. Through this new circuit, each nation will offer a demonstration of its traditional expertise, offering visitors an authentic immersion in its cultural heritage.
The complete details of the programming will be unveiled on Thursday.
