Cultural activities

Lectures (free admission)

Wednesday, April 1 at 11.30 a.m., in English
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: The Music of Love and Peace
By Craig Morrison, Ethnomusicologist, author, professor, musician

Wednesday, April 1, at 1.30 p.m., in French
Présentation de l’exposition Imagine
By Emma Lavigne, curator of contemporary art, Musée national d’art moderne/CCI, Centre Pompidou, and curator of the exhibition Imagine

Wednesday, April 8, at 6 p.m., in English
Either You’re In or You’re Out: Bed-in, Love-in, Sit-in in Montreal
By Jean-Philippe Warren, sociologist and Concordia University Research Chair on the Study of Quebec

Wednesday, April 15, at 6 p.m., in French
De la contestation à la participation
By Anithe de Carvalho, art history teacher at Saint-Laurent CEGEP

Films

Wednesday, April 1
at 3.30 p.m. and 6 p.m., in English
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
USA, David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, 2006, b&w and colour, 105 min

Wednesday, April 1
Prologue
at 6.15 p.m., in English  with French subtitles
Canada, Robin Spry, 1969, 87 min

Sunday, April 5
at 1.30 p.m., in French
Yoko et John
France, Frédéric Le Clair, 2000, 90 min

Sunday, April 12
at 1.30 p.m., in English
John & Yoko: Give Peace a Song
Canada, Paul McGrath, 2005, 81 min

Wednesday, May 20
at 6 p.m., in English
I Met the Walrus
Canada, Josh Raskin, 2007, 5 min., animation

followed by

Yoko and John: The Bed-in
Canada, John Lennon and yoko ono, filmed by Nic Knowland, 1969, 74 min

Tuesday, May 26
at 3 p.m., in English
John & Yoko: Give Peace a Song
Canada, Paul McGrath, 2005, 81 min

Wednesday, May 27
at 7 p.m.
Two films about John & Yoko
Presented by Claude Chamberlan, founder of the Cinéma Parallèle and director of programming for the festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), French

Happy Birthday to John
USA, Jonas Mekas, 1995, 18 min, English

followed by

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s
Imagine Album
USA, Jonas Mekas and Andrew Solt, executive producer: Yoko Ono, 2000,
60 min, English

Thursday, May 28
at 3 p.m., English, with french subtitles
Prologue
Canada, Robin Spry, 1969, 87 min

Saturday, May 30
at 3 p.m., in English
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
USA, David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, 2006, b&w and colour, 105 min

The films are presented free of charge at the Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium, Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, 1379 Sherbrooke Street West. Doors open 30 minutes before the film begins.

Hour for Peace

Concerts from 6 to 7 p.m. for five days, from May 26 to May 30.
Free Admission

Artists for Peace accepted, without the slightest hesitation, the invitation extended by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and wholeheartedly started organizing the Hours for Peace, a 5-day event, from 6 to 7 p.m., from May 26 to May 30, in front of the glass roof hall, at the 3rd level of the "Jean-Noël Desmarais" Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Pavilion.

During these five evenings, artists will perform a succession of solos, duos and trios introduced by star presenters:

• May 26: Manuel Brault and the duo Stéphanie Boulay and Manuel Gasse will be followed by gleaming Catherine Major;
  

• May 27: Coral Egan andAlexandre Désilets, an unforgettable duo;
  

• May 28: The "Three Bright Young Ladies for Peace", Catherine Durand, Sylvie Paquette and Mara Tremblay, followed by moody Yves Desrosiers and his bright musicians;
  

• May 29: Raoûl Duguay and Samian, two generations sharing dreams enlightened by peace;
  

• May 30: Hugo Lévesque, Marie-Marine Lévesque and Édith Butler, who will beautifully end the last of Hours for Peace events.

Toddlers too will have their own Hour for Peace on Saturday May 30, from 2 to 3 p.m., when they will be able to sing and dance with Les Clowns du Carrousel and Les Petites Tounes. An Hour for Peace which promises to be lively and joyful, where young-hearted parents are most welcome!