{"id":6241,"date":"2026-05-13T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/2026\/05\/13\/fimav-42-16-may-schedule\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:25:29","slug":"fimav-42-16-may-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/fimav-42-16-may-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"FIMAV 42 | 16 May Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FIMAV 42 | 16 May Schedule<\/strong><\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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SATURDAY | 11 a.m. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

CINEMA PROGRAM 1 : Graver l’homme : arr\u00eat sur Pierre H\u00e9bert<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salle les-fr\u00e8res-Lemaire | Carr\u00e9 150 | $10<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024, 1 h 17 min, Documentary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Structured like a master class in film engraving, Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre H\u00e9bert<\/em> is a tribute to the pioneering animator, whose scratch-on-film technique has long served as a vessel for his restless artistic exploration. Director Lo\u00efc Darses traces H\u00e9bert\u2019s journey from his early abstract works at the NFB to his later documentary-animation hybrids, revealing an artist who has never ceased to question, experiment, and reflect on the world around him. The film captures both the man and his body of work, peeling back the layers of his process to uncover his thoughts on history, identity, and mortality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY | 1 p.m. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PABLO JIM\u00c9NEZ & ADRIANNE MUNDEN-DIXON<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c9glise St-Christophe d’Arthabaska$25<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These recent arrivals in Montreal \u2013\u2013 Jim\u00e9nez from Bogot\u00e1, Colombia; Munden-Dixon from Savannah, Georgia, by way of New York \u2013\u2013 have transformed the field of contemporary and improvised music, seemingly \u2018playing everywhere and with everyone.\u2019 These young virtuosi are utterly simpatico, as each sutures oblique, quicksilver melodic threads around the other\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY | 3 p.m. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

RAFAEL TORAL Guitar Concert<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cabaret Guy-Aubert | Carr\u00e9 150 | $25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rafael Toral\u2019s Spectral Evolution<\/em> was widely hailed as one of 2024\u2019s best records, a dreamlike wash of sumptuous chord progressions paired with ethereal synthesised sounds, often evoking birdsong. Guitar Concert draws on the latest chapter of Toral\u2019s work, presenting material from the brand-new Traveling Light<\/em> (Drag City), comparably rich treatments of timeless jazz ballads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY | 5 p.m.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

YVES CHARUEST, JOHN EDWARDS & MARK SANDERS<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Centre des Congr\u00e8s | H\u00f4tel le Victorin | $25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Edwards and Mark Sanders are arguably the most in-demand bass-drums pairing in contemporary music, sought in trios formed by FIMAV legends Evan Parker and John Butcher. Here, they re-join Yves Charuest, one of Canada\u2019s consummate improvisers, who connected with them during a six-month residency in London, laying the groundwork for this first Canadian performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY | 6 p.m.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

INFORMAL CONCERT IN THE Q.G.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quartier g\u00e9n\u00e9ral FIMAV | Carr\u00e9 150 | free<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limited capacity; first come first served.Festival passeports do not guarantee access.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit the brand-new FIMAV Quartier g\u00e9n\u00e9ral \u2013\u2013 the Festival Hub \u2013\u2013 in the Studio Monique-Bourgeois, Carr\u00e9 150! There, between afternoon and evening concerts, festival artists will have the time and space to play informal concerts of freely improvised music. Grab a drink, grab a sandwich, and hear FIMAV artists up close in first-time musical encounters, all for free! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SAMEDI | 7:30 p.m.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PAT THOMAS Solo Piano<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salle les-fr\u00e8res-Lemaire | Carr\u00e9 150 | $30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With growing international attention from his work with \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f [Ahmed] plus a recent sequence of exceptional solo releases, pianist Pat Thomas is \u2018having a moment.\u2019 It\u2019s a moment, however, that\u2019s unfolded over decades of dedicated work as a composer, improviser, thinker, and collaborator with most of the major figures in contemporary creative music. This will be his first solo concert in Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY | 9:30 p.m.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

DARIUS JONES fLuXkit Vancouver (its <\/s>suite but sacred)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cabaret Guy-Aubert | Carr\u00e9 150 | $30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring members of the Darius Jones Trio and Josh Zubot Strings, fLuXkit Vancouver<\/em> is rich testimony to Jones\u2019s brilliance as a composer. Originally commissioned by the Western Front artist-run-centre, Jones developed the work during residencies in Vancouver 2019-22, activating the immeasurable talents of this astonishing group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY | 11 p.m. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JOHN OSWALD PLUNDERPHONICOVERALLS<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quartier g\u00e9n\u00e9ral FIMAV | Carr\u00e9 150 | free<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limited capacity; first come first served.Festival passeports do not guarantee access.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toronto polymath artist John Oswald pioneered the compositional approach, Plunderphonics<\/em>, primarily as a recorded project making familiar music unfamiliar through radical re-creation \u2013\u2013 Michael Jackson is an infamous example. Coveralls <\/em>is a live version of the concept that he sums up as \u201ckaraoke in reverse\u201d; he will play the isolated vocal tracks of known singers \u2013 while three groups of festival musicians, each on a different night and hand-picked by Oswald, will improvise strange and wonderful accompaniments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artistic Vision 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt FIMAV 42 you can hear world-class artists from Quebec, Canada, and abroad in formal settings with which long-time festival audiences will be familiar. Darius Jones, Pat Thomas, Rafael Toral, Amirtha Kidambi, and Eric Chenaux, for example, have never played FIMAV before. With our additional series of free informal concerts and satellite event, audiences will have different kinds of access to many of them as well. This edition will be \u2018up close and personal\u2019 and we think it will be more festive because of it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Scott Thomson, Artistic Director<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pierre H\u00e9bert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Munden-Dixon\/Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> (photo : Mlynello)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rafael Toral<\/strong> (photo : V\u00e9ra Marmelo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charuest \/ Edwards \/ Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pat Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Darius Jones<\/strong> (photo : Ebru Yildiz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collage: John Oswald<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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FIMAV 42 | 16 May Schedule SATURDAY | 11 a.m. CINEMA PROGRAM 1 : Graver l’homme : arr\u00eat sur Pierre H\u00e9bert Salle les-fr\u00e8res-Lemaire | Carr\u00e9 150 | $10 2024, 1 h 17 min, Documentary Structured like a master class in film engraving, Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre H\u00e9bert is a tribute to the … FIMAV 42 | 16 May Schedule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nouvelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fimav.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}