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Welcome to Espace Création, a venue for exhibitions and activities dedicated to promoting the visual arts. This site provides a special showcase to budding and established creative artists from Québec.
Espace Création revitalises and bolsters the commitment Loto‑Québec made more than 30 years ago to actively support contemporary creative arts, while raising the public profile of La Collection Loto‑Québec.
Les Belles-Soeurs s'exp(l)osent
From June 17 to September 5, 2010
Les Belles-Soeurs: Explosive and Exposed at Espace Création
After four decades, it would be logical to expect that they had settled down. Logical, but incorrect. The explosive women of Les Belles Soeurs are exposing themselves - in all senses of the word - under the watchful eye of René Richard Cyr, at Espace Création, from June 17 to September 5.
Within the framework of Michel Tremblay's words, the Belles Soeurs' story erupts as they offer visitors multiple readings. The status of women everywhere, their emotions and words, are felt in each and every aspect of the exhibition.
Images from the holographic version, translations, posters, photographs, maquettes, costumes and props bring us back to the years when the iconic work was written and presented umpteen times on stage. By assembling the key artifacts of the debut production for the very first time, the exhibition captures the birth, life and rebirth of the "Belles Soeurs" phenomenon.
The world of the play is fully exposed, so visitors can experience the mood and social, political and cultural context in which the characters were born and raised. The exhibition Les Belles-Soeurs s'exp(l)osent proves that there are emotions, issues and actions that transcend time. It shows that a play can change history. In its reflection, we can see how far we have come.
Exclusive videos
René Richard Cyr invites you to the explosive exhibition Les Belles-Soeurs s'exp(l)osent
Four actresses express their thoughts on the exhibition
Michel Tremblay is the first to visit Les Belles‑Soeurs s'exp(l)osent
Kaléidoscope, variations sur le verre québécois
From September 29 to December 5, 2010
Montréal's cultural domain is celebrating glass this year with the project Montréal, City of Glass! For the occasion, Espace Création is presenting an original exhibition entitled Kaléidoscope, variations sur le verre québécois this fall.
In collaboration with Espace VERRE and arranged by curator Paul Bourassa of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, this exhibition features the infinite forms of Québec contemporary glass art in a kaleidoscopic array.
Wednesday: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursday and Friday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: Noon to 5 p.m.
500 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal
Phone: 514 499-7111, ext. 2829 or 514 499-5087
McGill Metro
Free Admission
Last update: June 22, 2010