Café Concret #Montreal

Café Concret is a soirée of experimental puppetry, object theatre, and other media accompanied by a serving of food and live music in Montreal. In a city with a vibrant puppetry community, Café Concret is the only informal (and bilingual) event for short-form performance presented by a mix of emerging and established artists, often presenting works-in-progress in an interdisciplinary context

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Café Concret #Montreal - Egotrip Productions, 2011, Photo: Bekky O'Neil

STATUS: Active, 3-4 Slams Per Year, Since December 2006

CURATOR: Mark Sussman

PERFORMERS: Anna Jane Mcintyre, Antonio Bavary & Kyle Purves, Clare Dolan & Ralph Denzer, Egotrip Productions, Hermine Ortega, The Humorists, Jesse Orr, Julia Thomas, Sarah Tracy, & Jeff Morto, Jane Gabriels & Alyson Wishnouvsky, Jasa Baka, Karine St-Arnaud, Lisa Pietersma & Frances Adair Mackenzie, Lovers Are People (music), Mark Sussman, Max Kelly & We Came Walking (music), Meredith Holch, The Montreal Sacred Harp Singers, Nervous Hunter, Peter Nevins, Pierre Renaud, Quality Slippers Productions, Salim Hammad, Sarah Tracy & Jeremy Riehl, Syngja

VENUES:
Casa del Popolo (80-100 Seats)

4873 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
Montreal, QC H2T 1R5

Theatre Ste. Catherine (85-100 Seats)

264 Sainte-Catherine St E
Montreal, QC H2X 1L4

La Tour Prisme (40 Seats)

550 Avenue Beaumont
Montreal, QC H3N 1T7

DETAILS: Café Concret strives to have both English and French language performers at each Café Concret, creating a bilingual community event in a city where the puppetry scene is largely francophone and where the theatre community generally tends to be split between English and French worlds. At the very least, at each event the MCs speak in both languages, and our publicity is bilingual.