Revenge and years of pent-up rage go on trial in Molora

For students and eligible alumni, McGill University's Academic Week offers career information on sectors such as the environment, health care, public service, high-tech, agriculture and more - see McGill.ca for details. Johanne Madore and Corpuscule Danse present Le Baiser, an intense, intimate and acrobatic work with France Geoffroy, 8 p.m. at Agora (840 Cherrier), to Jan. 31. Keeping It Reel, QPIRG-Concordia's Subversive Cinema Series, screens Michael Winterbottom's In This World, two Afghan boys' journey from Pakistan to Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the U.K. in search of refuge in London - 7 p.m. at H-110, 1455 De Maisonneuve W. Cinémathèque Québécoise collaborates with the National Audiovisual Institute of France on a sound and music series - composers Michel Chion and John Cage are the subject of tonight's films - 7 p.m. to Feb. 13 at the Cinémathèque (335 De Maisonneuve E.).

FRIDAY 30

New York artist Silvia Kolbowski's video installation Nothing and Everything melds unconscious forces with social, political and historical detail at Leonard and Bina Art Gallery (1400 De Maisonneuve W.). South African playwright Yael Farber's Molora is a gut-wrenching retelling of the ancient myth of Orestes - mothers killing husbands killing children killing, well, there are harsh lessons to be learned from Greek tragedy, especially when told through the lens of post-apartheid South Africa, with a mind-blowing chorus singing and playing traditional instruments - to Feb. 1 at Place des Arts, note: half price ($15) for those 30 years and under! Shake out the intensity with hot local DJ Alix, followed by Greg Pidcock and the U.K.'s James Holden at Igloofest, 6 p.m. till late at Quai Jacques-Cartier.

SATURDAY 31

Forest Kaleidoscope opens at the Tree House at the Montreal Botanical Garden (4500 Rosemont Blvd.), with tours, educational activities and crafts for everyone starting at 10 a.m. Piaf: Love Conquers All continues to tell the tale of French singer Edith Piaf with a performance tonight and matinées today and Sunday at Centaur Theatre (453 St-François-Xavier). Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival returns to scandalize Montreal (because clearly we aren't nearly scandalous enough?) with pornos of all kinds plus cocktails (with and without cocks), 9 p.m. at SAT (1195 St-Laurent Blvd.), $10, erotic costumes encouraged. The lovely Indyish hosts Stone Soup at Centre Chat Bleu (435 Beaubien W., 4th floor, 8 p.m.) - and it's all about food - circus arts, films, an open jam and more music!

SUNDAY 1

A Sunday afternoon show at the theatre perhaps? Go heavy with Sam Shepard's Buried Child, a tale of a dysfunctional family, at the Segal (5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine), directed by Peter Hinton, or go a little lighter with the very funny The Real Inspector Hound at Mainline Theatre (3997 St-Laurent Blvd.) - Sunday afternoon shows are pay-what-you-can! Performance of a different kind will be going on over at Articule (262 Fairmount W.) for Interconnected Performers, an artistic showcase for inquiries into interspecies relations, featuring Tagny Duff, André Éric Letourneau and Nicole Fournier - the installation performance starts at noon and the action starts at 6:30 p.m. - including HIV testing (whoa) on garbage (oh), a drive-in for sled dogs (seriously?), to which your dogs are invited!

MONDAY 2

Did you know that 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy? The Montréal Planetarium wants to tell you about it in style. Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Galileo's First Observation with a visit to one of the planetarium's many events, starting this week, and see the stars up close. Observation sessions, contests, workshops and discussions are also planned around town throughout the year, as the sky inevitably changes. The detailed program is available at www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca/AMA2009.

TUESDAY 3

Stencil art by Kevin McDermott, poet and spoken-word artist, goes up at Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent Blvd.), with performance from national slam poet Spencer Butt, 6 p.m. Mosaik Art Gallery (4897 St-Laurent Blvd.) and Ya-G-Tu unveil the multi-contributor Warriors: Colours on Black Women at 5:30. Discuss Wim Delvoye's Cloaca No.5 with an art historian, a gastro-enterologist and a sociologist at Galerie de l'UQAM (1400 Berri, J-R120) 5:30 p.m. Quebec cartoonist and animator Diane Obomosawin launches her book Kaspar, about the story of a boy deprived of human contact for 16 years - 7 p.m. at Drawn & Quarterly (211 Bernard W.). Montreal musician, filmmaker and cartoonist Rick Trembles goes 3D with ornamental-mechanical-biological-weirdical sculptures Bijoux Numbers One Through Five, 5 p.m. at Monastiraki (5478 St-Laurent Blvd.), to Feb. 28.

WEDNESDAY 4

Love 'em or hate 'em, leftovers happen to the best of us, whether we save them for lunch or leave them to rot in the back of the fridge (oh, the shame) - and now they're immortalized in Justin Stephens' Leftovers, painting, sculpture and drawings of our daily food rituals, at Galerie Lilian Rodriguez (#405-372 Ste-Catherine W.), to March 14 (vernissage Jan. 31, 2 p.m.). Another quotidian topic is tackled in Hair Follies by Leisure Projects - an exploration of the beautiful and the grotesque when it comes to hair. Showing with Accrétion by Angela Silver and Amélie Brisson-Darveau at FOFA Gallery (1515 Ste-Catherine St. W., EV 1-715).
 
 

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~Ø~     Curious that, not a single mention of the Super Bowl. Hmmm. Ok, so maybe I don't give a crap about the show but the commercials are always a hit. ~ By the way, given the awful weather out there and the so-so clearing conditions I've got to wonder how many people would actually brave the trek for any sort of activity when they could just stay home curled up with a loved one.
Pedro Eggers		February 2nd, 2009

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