Informations
Benjamin Goron
General and Artistic Manager
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Le Vaisseau d’Art is an organization dedicated to producing and presenting cultural events in Farnham, in the Eastern Townships. Committed to providing our community with inspiring opportunities to come together, we program classical music, film-concerts, theater, dance and literature year-round in the heritage-listed Saint-Romuald Church. Our events are family-friendly and stand out for their accessible pricing and the high quality of their artistic programming.
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PROGRAMMING
Ciné-Concert et orgue: Nosferatu
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire, Farnham
In this famous silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok invites Thomas Hutter and his wife Ellen to his secluded castle in Transylvania, in the heart of the mountains. Shortly thereafter, Orlok reveals his vampire nature, putting the lives of Thomas and his wife Ellen in danger. Halloween is the perfect time to bring this masterpiece of German expressionist cinema out of the ground!
Ciné-concert with live improvised accompaniment to the organ by Guillaume Martineau
General admission 15$ | Free for 12 years and under
Ensemble Scholastica – Le jardin des miracles
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire, Farnham
The vocal and instrumental ensemble Scholastica immerses us in the planant and meditative music of the composer Hildegarde von Bingen, who continues to inspire souls almost a millennium after her birth. A meeting not to be missed with this music of great depth.
Ensemble Scholastica will perform songs from medieval Iberia, a territory first marked by Muslim influence, especially in the field of arts and architecture, then during the thirteenth century, by the enlightened reign of Alfonso X, known as «Le Sage», King of Castile and León. The Cantigas de Santa Maria, compiled under the auspices of Alfonso X, is one of the largest collections of medieval vernacular songs. The collection has more than 400 cantigas, all dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which tell of miracles concerning her faithful, sometimes amazing, often fantastic miracles, ranging from tragic to entertaining.
General admission $20 | Students 12 to 17 years 10$ | Free Children 11 years and under
Dialogues – piano & cello
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire, Farnham
A few days before their performance at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall, cellist Noémie Raymond and pianist Zhenni Li-Cohen honor us with a visit to Farnham, in a spellbinding post-romantic and modern repertoire.
This concert explores the duality of two titanic masterpieces for cello and piano, from the pen of a woman and a man born thirteen years apart, Rachmaninov and Clarke, both virtuosic instrumentalists but with surprisingly distinct musical voices. Centred on works dear to the musicians, it is a bridge between two worlds, a conversation between two instruments and two composers, a dialogue between artists and the public.
At this concert, we will also hear a brand new creation by the Quebec composer Christian Thomas.
General admission $20 | Students 12 to 17 years 10$ | Children 11 years and under free
Ciné-Concert & organ: The Battleship of Potemkine
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire, Farnham
The battleship Potemkin is 100 years old! This masterpiece of silent cinema by Sergei Eisenstein depicts the mutiny of sailors on the famous battleship in 1905, followed by the bloody repression of the tsar’s armies. A poignant, historic film that still holds its breath a century later.
Synopsis: When fed rancid meat, the sailors of the Potemkin revolt against their difficult living conditions. Led by Vakulinchuk, the sailors kill the officers of the ship to obtain their freedom. Vakulinchuk is also killed, and the people of Odessa honor him as a symbol of the revolution. But the arrival of tsarist soldiers will change the course of the uprising.
Ciné-concert with live improvised accompaniment to the organ by Guillaume Martineau
General admission $15 (12 years and +) | Free Children under 12 years
Ciné-Concert & organ: Chaplin and The Gold Rush
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
In this great silent film classic, which celebrates its centenary in 2025, Charlie Chaplin plays a vagabond taking part in an expedition to the north in hopes of making a fortune. The blizzard will overcome its illusions, unless a glimmer of hope awaits somewhere…
Ciné-concert with live improvisation accompaniment to the organ by Guillaume Martineau.
General admission 15$ | Free for 12 years and under
Matinée musicale – croissants and organs
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
The musical matinees are suitable for everyone, from preschool to the golden age through the prime of the year, at a meeting time around a croissant coffee to the sound of the organ. An invitation to relax, meditate or discuss and marvel.
Entry possible at any time between 10:00 and 11:30.
Complimentary hot and cold drinks on site.
Performance on organ and piano by Karine Bétournay
Free 0-4 ans | 5-11 years 5$ | 12 years and over 10$
Ciné-concert et orgue : Le fantôme de l’opéra
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
After the success of Nosferatu on Halloween 2024, the Vaisseau d’art revisits a 1925 masterpiece that celebrates its 100th anniversary, The Phantom of the Opera, for Halloween. Between love and terror, Guillaume Martineau will improvise a phantasmagorical soundtrack on the Casavant Organ of the Saint-Romuald Church.
Christine Daaé, a budding young opera singer (Mary Philbin), discovers that she has a mysterious admirer who wants to help her become a great artist. This masked man is Erik, also known as the Ghost (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured recluse who lives under the Paris Opera. When the Phantom makes prisoner Christine and demands his love and devotion, his suitor, Viscount Raoul de Chagny, leaves to rescue her.
Cine-concert with live improvised accompaniment on the organ by Guillaume Martineau
Cookies, coffee, dread and good mood on site!
General admission 17.25$ | Free for children under 12
Made in Trio – Empreintes
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
Montreal clarinetist David Dias da Silva, recipient of the International Stepping Stone at the Canadian Music Competition and the Prix d’Europe in 2016, presents the ensemble Made in trio, bringing it together with flutist Rute Fernandes and pianist Sinforosa Petralia.
Winner of first prizes at the Marianne und Curt Dienemann-Stiftung competition in Switzerland, the International Chamber Music Competition in Chieri, Italy, and the Opus 130 chamber music competition in Canada, Made in trio invites us to discover a happy mix of chez- of popular and folkloric influenced works with Empreintes.
On the program, Carl-Philippe-Emmanuel Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Franck Martin and Guillaume Connesson.
General admission 28.74$ | 13 to 17 years 17.25S | Free for children under 12
Ciné-concert et orgue : Chaplin and The Kid
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
A vagabond taken by attachment to an orphan, a complicity beyond measure and a story as touching as it is funny. Don’t miss the first feature film by Chaplin, which will be brilliantly accompanied by improviser Guillaume Martineau at the Casavant organ of the Église Saint-Romuald. Chaplin’s first feature film is a chef-of silent works that tells the story of a vagabond who discovers a little orphan and the student, but who finds himself desperate when the orphanage comes to claim him. Chaplin directed, produced and acted in this 1921 film.
General admission 17,25$ | Free for children under 12
Trio Yuki Isami – Musique traditionnelle japonaise
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
After more than 20 years working with Quebec symphony orchestras, member of the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville and the Orchestre symphonique de Saguenay and winner of the 2022 Félix for Album of the Year – Other languages with the group Teke::Teke, Yuki Isami presents an album exploring the evolution of Japanese music in contact with the West. Going from traditional music to contemporary music, passing through the classical period and its Western composers having been influenced by Japanese culture, the album proves to be as much a journey from East to West as it is a temporal musical journey.
Accompanied by the pianist Natsuki Hiratsuka and the percussionist Patrick Graham, Yuki Isami transports us on the sounds of his transverse flute, but also with his traditional Japanese instruments such as shinobue, koto and shamisen. The pieces are revisited so that the album Rives becomes a discussion between the contributions of the past and the renewal of the present.
General admission 28.74$ | 13 to 17 years 17.25$ | Free for children under 12
Ciné-concert et orgue : La chair et le diable
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
Between love, friendship and betrayal, the magnificent Greta Garbo turns hearts in this masterpiece by the silent artist who celebrates her 100 candles. It is an opportunity to rediscover this breathtaking film with the accompaniment of Guillaume Martineau live at the Grand-Orgue Casavant of the Église Saint-Romuald. In this silent drama, Leo (John Gilbert) and Ulrich (Lars Hanson), childhood friends, are soldiers in the German army. Leo falls in love with the Countess Felicitas (Greta Garbo) and courts her, which puts her husband (Marc McDermott) in a black rage. When Leo duels with the count and kills him, he is sent to Africa for five years as punishment. Upon his return, Leo discovers that Ulrich has fallen in love with Felicitas, but she starts courting Leo again, thus putting their friendship to the test.
Cine-concert with live improvised accompaniment on the organ by Guillaume Martineau
General admission 17.25$ | Free for children under 12
Duo Racines – Les Frères Bachand
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
Raised in an Irish-Canadian musical family, Zacharie (guitar) and Sébastien (double bass) dive into their heritage to present Racines // Roots. Through their individual musical baggage, folk and classical, the Bachand brothers combine two musical styles rooted in tradition in order to reinvent them together via a common sound. A mix of original compositions and traditional songs, the project combines classical musical practice with the musical colors of Irish folk music.
General admission 28.74$ | 13 to 17 years 17.25$ | Free for children under 12
La Otra Orilla – Rite
Centre Saint-Romuald, 500, rue Saint-Hilaire
With this explosive and visceral show, La Otra Orilla makes a clean sweep and returns to the foundations of flamenco art. Rite is the symbiosis of body, voice, guitar, percussion, four artists at their peak: Myriam Allard, Hedi Graja, Caroline Planté and Miguel Medina. An intimate conversation within which each person expresses themselves at the same time as they speak the other’s words. Rite is the bitterness, strength and captivating beauty of a ritual where public and artists come into communion: Chord of hearts, breaths, souls, flamenco when it touches the sacred.
General admission 28.74$ | 13 to 17 years 17.25$ | Free for children under 12
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