Bercer le temps is a participatory sound installation inviting its visitors on a trip aboard a rocking chair. This project unfolds around encounters with citizens and their lullabies and tales in a suspended space-time contrasting with the urban bustle. Bercer le temps allows collecting and sharing songs and tales to draw a portrait of today’s Montreal through the collective heritage of its residents.
Maria Katharina Grote was born and raised in Germany (Lower Saxony). She began her studies in cultural pedagogy at the University of Hildesheim in 1990 (Major in Theater, Minor in Music). During her studies she spend a year in Canada/Québec and studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Animation and cultural research). She immigrated to Canada in 1999 and completed in the same year an extracurricular class at the Université de Montréal, in order to teach German as a foreign language. She first taught children from 3-5 years old in a German language school. She's been working at the Goethe-Institut Montreal since 2005. She currently teaches at the Goethe-Institut, the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and the Collège Montmorency.
At the age of five Christine Mayr, born in Austria and living in Montreal, found the hidden entrance to fairyland and has been telling stories ever since. Now, as a grandmother, she spins her yarn, weaving it around you, inviting you to enter her tales: Tales of wisdom and wonder: the wisdom of laughter, the sheer joy of being alive. - Storytelling makes her come alive ..
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Parc des Royaux
Corner rue de Rouen and avenue de Lorimier
Montreal
