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Espace Culturel Cookshire-Eaton
L’Espace culturel Cookshire-Eaton is a renowned institution, well established in the cultural landscape of Haut-Saint-François.
The Genest-Denis family has been organizing classical music concert series in the municipality of Cookshire-Eaton since 2003. In 2015, the family acquired the rectory of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in order to create the Cookshire-Eaton Art Gallery.
A few years later, the family acquired Victoria Hall, a building of great heritage value, and, after an extensive restoration, moved the Art Gallery there. This space is now used as a creative, presentation and recording space, in addition to housing an artist’s studio on the upper floor.
In the spring of 2022, the organization became an NPO and took the name Espace culturel Cookshire-Eaton, to better reflect the variety of art forms it presents.
Exhibitions held at the Cookshire-Eaton Art Gallery feature local and national professional artists from various disciplines (painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography). Over the years, its exhibition halls have hosted a multitude of renowned artists, including Louis-Pierre Bougie, Kittie Bruneau, Morton Rosengarten and André Philibert.
Classical music concerts are regularly hosted in various town venues, both indoors (Trinity United Church in Cookshire, Saint-Camille Church, Victoria Hall) and outdoors (sundown concerts in Parc des Braves).
The Genest-Denis family is aware of the important role that music can play in a community and therefore regularly partners with causes and organizations to organize benefit concerts. These include the Centre des femmes la Passerelle, the Centre de Santé de Cookshire, the Maison de la culture John-Henry-Pope and the Fondation des CLSC-CHSLD du Haut-St-François.
The program, which began with a single annual concert in the early 2000s, has grown to include 6 to 8 concerts each year, and a host of high-profile musicians, including sopranos Marianne Lambert and Myriam Leblanc, harpist Valérie Milot, and the DeVito Quintet.
Committed to its role in its community’s future, Espace culturel Cookshire-Eaton actively participates in raising awareness about and preserving the town’s built heritage. The organization also strives to ensure accessibility to its cultural activities through affordable or even free ticketing, mediation activities, and outreach to members of the more vulnerable population. In 2021, four full-length concerts were filmed in the Gallery’s main hall and sent to the East Angus and Weedon long-term care facilities (CHSLD) to create a bank of virtual concerts to residents.
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PROGRAMMING
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L’Univers musical de Louis-Pierre Bougie
Saint-Camille Church
Quatuor Molinari and flutist Myriam Genest-Denis with the participation of René Lussier
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Concert de Noël
St-Camille Church Cookshire-Eaton
Catherine St-Arnaud, soprano
Pierre Heault, tenor
Marilène Provencher-Leduc, transverse flute
Julien LeBlanc, piano
Voluntary contribution
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Autour de Lili Boulanger
Trinity United Church (190, Principale Street West)
Uliana Drugova, violin & Michel-Alexandre Broekaert, piano
With a program featuring piano and violin, this concert explores the musical world of French composer Lili Boulanger (1893–1918). The performance of the musical pieces alternates with commentary illustrating the close ties between Lili Boulanger and composers such as Debussy, Fauré, Bacewick and Piazzola, who revolved around her. By bringing all these artists together in a single musical moment, we picture a 20th century French Salon, where women held a place as equal to men. Where would destiny have taken her if illness had not claimed Lili Boulanger at the age of twenty-four?
Voluntary contribution
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Concert apéro, Le maître et l’élève
Parc des Braves (85, avenue du Parc, Cookshire-Eaton)
Marilène Provencher-Leduc, flute & Alexis Dubois, flute
Come listen to and observe this wonderful dynamic of a teacher and her student, through a diverse and virtuoso repertoire for two flutes. Ranging from baroque to contemporary music, flutists Marilène Provencher-Leduc and Alexis Dubois will make you discover new facets of their instrument, while offering accessible, playful and sometimes meditative and touching works.
Free
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Sérénité sous les étoiles 2
Étang Cloutier
The long-awaited concept of hammock-style concert experiences is set up in Cookshire-Eaton in the Eastern Townships under the International Dark Sky Reserve. On Friday summer evenings as well as during the Perseid week, when the nights are warmer and the stars more visible, live the memorable experience of a harp concert in the middle of nature and its soundscape.
Taste an event combining music and well-being thanks to the precious collaboration with Sérénité Sonore and its founder, Annabelle Renzo.
This series of 8 concerts is a very intimate experience accessible to only 15 people per performance. An unusual and privileged communion between the artist and the spectators
General admission 73,22$
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Concert apéro, Le Quintette DeVito
Parc des Braves (85, avenue du Parc, Cookshire-Eaton)
Robin Doyon and Frédéric Gagnon, trumpet • Gabriel Gauthier-Beaudoin, french horn • Martin Ringuette, trombone • Jean-Philippe Dutil, tuba
The DeVito Brass Quintet invites you to a spirited and eclectic concert that will take you on a journey through time and genres. From baroque to jazz by way of film music, these five gifted musicians will offer you an unforgettable and highly entertaining performance.
Free
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Sérénité sous les étoiles 3
Étang Cloutier
The long-awaited concept of hammock-style concert experiences is set up in Cookshire-Eaton in the Eastern Townships under the International Dark Sky Reserve. On Friday summer evenings as well as during the Perseid week, when the nights are warmer and the stars more visible, live the memorable experience of a harp concert in the middle of nature and its soundscape.
Taste an event combining music and well-being thanks to the precious collaboration with Sérénité Sonore and its founder, Annabelle Renzo.
This series of 8 concerts is a very intimate experience accessible to only 15 people per performance. An unusual and privileged communion between the artist and the spectators.
General admission 73,22$
Buy your tickets04
Espace Culturel Cookshire-Eaton
Sérénité sous les étoiles 4
Étang Cloutier
The long-awaited concept of hammock-style concert experiences is set up in Cookshire-Eaton in the Eastern Townships under the International Dark Sky Reserve. On Friday summer evenings as well as during the Perseid week, when the nights are warmer and the stars more visible, live the memorable experience of a harp concert in the middle of nature and its soundscape.
Taste an event combining music and well-being thanks to the precious collaboration with Sérénité Sonore and its founder, Annabelle Renzo.
This series of 8 concerts is a very intimate experience accessible to only 15 people per performance. An unusual and privileged communion between the artist and the spectators.
General admission 73,22$
Buy your tickets11
Espace Culturel Cookshire-Eaton
Sérénité sous les étoiles 5
Étang Cloutier
The long-awaited concept of hammock-style concert experiences is set up in Cookshire-Eaton in the Eastern Townships under the International Dark Sky Reserve. On Friday summer evenings as well as during the Perseid week, when the nights are warmer and the stars more visible, live the memorable experience of a harp concert in the middle of nature and its soundscape.
Taste an event combining music and well-being thanks to the precious collaboration with Sérénité Sonore and its founder, Annabelle Renzo.
This series of 8 concerts is a very intimate experience accessible to only 15 people per performance. An unusual and privileged communion between the artist and the spectators.
General admission 73,22$
Buy your tickets12
Espace Culturel Cookshire-Eaton
Sérénité sous les étoiles 6
Étang Cloutier
The long-awaited concept of hammock-style concert experiences is set up in Cookshire-Eaton in the Eastern Townships under the International Dark Sky Reserve. On Friday summer evenings as well as during the Perseid week, when the nights are warmer and the stars more visible, live the memorable experience of a harp concert in the middle of nature and its soundscape.
Taste an event combining music and well-being thanks to the precious collaboration with Sérénité Sonore and its founder, Annabelle Renzo.
This series of 8 concerts is a very intimate experience accessible to only 15 people per performance. An unusual and privileged communion between the artist and the spectators.
General admission 73,22$
Buy your tickets18
Espace Culturel Cookshire-Eaton
Sérénité sous les étoiles 7
Étang Cloutier
The long-awaited concept of hammock-style concert experiences is set up in Cookshire-Eaton in the Eastern Townships under the International Dark Sky Reserve. On Friday summer evenings as well as during the Perseid week, when the nights are warmer and the stars more visible, live the memorable experience of a harp concert in the middle of nature and its soundscape.
Taste an event combining music and well-being thanks to the precious collaboration with Sérénité Sonore and its founder, Annabelle Renzo.
This series of 8 concerts is a very intimate experience accessible to only 15 people per performance. An unusual and privileged communion between the artist and the spectators.
General admission 73,22$
Buy your tickets27
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Concert apéro, Le Quatuor SaxoLogie
Parc des Braves (85, avenue du Parc, Cookshire-Eaton)
Louis-Philippe Bonin, soprano saxophone • Stéphane Jackson, alto saxophone • Clio Theodoridis, tenor saxophone • Jean-Philippe Godard, baryton saxophone
The SaxoLogie Ensemble invites you to discover the diversity of the saxophone family through a repertoire that ranges from baroque to modern music. Featured on the set list are works by Glass, Piazzola and Browning. These four saxophone-chamber-music enthusiasts have come together with the mission of popularizing and bringing the wide repertoire written for the saxophone to the general public, as well as passing on the heritage of the great composers from here and abroad, as well as inspiring a new generation of Canadian and Québec composers.
Free
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Sérénité sous les étoiles 8
Étang Cloutier
The long-awaited concept of hammock-style concert experiences is set up in Cookshire-Eaton in the Eastern Townships under the International Dark Sky Reserve. On Friday summer evenings as well as during the Perseid week, when the nights are warmer and the stars more visible, live the memorable experience of a harp concert in the middle of nature and its soundscape.
Taste an event combining music and well-being thanks to the precious collaboration with Sérénité Sonore and its founder, Annabelle Renzo.
This series of 8 concerts is a very intimate experience accessible to only 15 people per performance. An unusual and privileged communion between the artist and the spectators.
General admission 73,22$
Buy your tickets17
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Singing, harp and violin
Trinity United Church, 190 Cookshire Street, Cookshire-Eaton
Singing, harp and violin, these classic instruments will resonate in our hearts, creating a perfect atmosphere to start the holiday season.
General admission 20$
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Apéro-concert Duo Vivo
Parc des Braves, 85, avenue du Parc, Cookshire-Eaton (Trinity United Church in the event of rain)
A rare duo of violins that will make you discover the essentials of the repertoire for two violins. Formed by Roxanne Sicard and Richard Zheng, Duo Vivo invites you to travel with them through the 18th and 19th centuries, through Leclair, Kreisler, and Wieniawski. They also share their original arrangements and their favorites of contemporary composers such as Helmut Lipsky and Aleksey Igudesman.
Free
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Concert with the Orford Academy musicians
Trinity United Church, 190 rue Cookshire, Cookshire-Eaton
Enjoy this concert with the Orford Academy musicians! A great way to be amazed by the talent of these young musicians.
Free
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Apéro-concert Quintette De Vito
Parc des Braves, 85, avenue du Parc, Cookshire-Eaton (Trinity United Church in the event of rain)
Formed in 2018 as part of the Apéros Concert Series, the members of this quintet take advantage of the annual visit of Robin Doyon (now Solo Trumpet at the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra) to come together and offer a unique and festive concert. Named in memory of Albert De Vito, a great brass teacher who taught at the Université de Montréal and died in 2011, the De Vito quintet is our most popular Apéro-concert year after year.
Free
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Concert Jeune Public : Biscuits, tempêtes et mélodies
Galerie d’art Cookshire-Eaton, 125, rue Principale ouest, Cookshire-Eaton
Aurélie Fortin, actress, Étienne Béland, actor, Juliette Duguay-Patenaude, harp, Julie Daoust, texts and direction, Gilles Gougeon, music and Valérie Milot, artistic director.
In collaboration with Valérie Milot and Production Anémone 47, the concert Jeune public, Biscuits, tempêtes et mélodies is an ode to the imagination that allows the public, children and adults, to let themselves be carried away by music.
Simone is bored; her mother has confiscated her tablet. She is really not happy! But suddenly, the sounds that come from her window seem to come to life. Thanks to his overflowing imagination, musical worlds inspired by delicious biscuits, breathtaking storms and heavenly melodies will unfold before his eyes and in his ears!
Discover the world of Simone for an afternoon.
Free
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Apéro-concert Quintette 5ilience
Parc des Braves, 85, avenue du Parc, Cookshire-Eaton (Trinity United Church in the event of rain)
Composed of an oboe, a clarinet, a saxophone, a bass clarinet and a bassoon, 5ilience established itself as the first reed quintet in Quebec. It is by combining the timbral specificities of the instruments of this formation that the ensemble develops a palette of sounds as unique as versatile. Following in the footsteps of the very first reed quintet, the Calefax ensemble, born in 1985, 5ilience is dedicated to expanding the existing repertoire of the reed quintet through the development of new works by emerging and established composers, and undertakes to highlight the vast possibilities of his training by touching on several styles of music.
Free
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Le Bal de l’Halloween
Galerie d’art Cookshire-Eaton, 125, rue Principale ouest, Cookshire-Eaton
Dance or a spell
The Halloween Ball is a participatory experience where three artists, two musicians and a dancer, invite everyone to dance to the rhythm of pumpkins! Storytelling, music and dance are part of this ball where the northern lights are made, the moon is howled at, and fear and transformation are spoken about. A stunning ball where fantastic animals, witch healers and bewitched creatures invite children to dance to the great traditional Halloween musical classics.
Free
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Concert de Noël
Église Trinity United Church, 190 rue Principale ouest, Cookshire-Eaton
Each year, the Cookshire-Eaton Cultural Space’s Christmas concert is more than a tradition; it is a unique opportunity to bring all generations together in the joy and spirit of the holidays. This magical moment marks the beginning of the festivities, wrapped in the warmth and beauty of music. In addition, the concert is part of a cultural mediation approach, offering a rich program of traditional songs from various cultures, allowing everyone to discover and appreciate the richness of our common heritage.
General admission 20$ in presale | 25$ at the door
PROGRAMMING ALSO AVAILABLE IN ITINERARIES
Christmas Concerts
What could be more festive than Christmas music? To get you in the festive mood, rediscover holiday classics, past and present!
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