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Nuit de la poésie augmentée
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The SAT, Salon du livre de Montréal and Festival de la poésie de Montréal are joining forces to present a Nuit de la poésie augmentée (augmented Night of Poetry) on November 20 at 8 PM.
This event aims to create a space for expression and connection between contemporary artistic practices and perspectives. Conceived as a collective gathering, this nighttime celebration invites audiences on a journey where artist-driven poetry, performance, illustration, music, digital arts and immersive technologies come together.
Presented as part of Salon dans la ville, inside the SAT’s immersive dome, this next-generation Night of Poetry will bring together authors, poets, artists and performers from near and far for an evening where words take on form, space and light.
This event is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).
Evening Schedule
8 PM — Doors open
8:30 PM — Welcome remarks from SAT, SLM and FPM
8:35 PM — Block 1: Shedding Light
- 8:38 PM — Jean-Paul Daoust
- 8:48 PM — Nana Quinn
- 8:58 PM — Atolll
- 9:28 PM — Musical interlude
9:43 PM — Block 2: From the Intimate to the Universal
- 9:46 PM — Annie Lafleur
- 9:56 PM — Nicholas Dawson
- 10:06 PM — Martine Audet
- 10:16 PM — Motocross
10:49 PM — Video Poetry
- Screening of Cérémonies pour le moment où nos mains arriveront enfin à se toucher by Louis-Robert Bouchard
- 11:15 PM — Musical interlude
11:30 PM — Block 3
- 11:33 PM — Carole David
- 11:43 PM — Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine
- 11:53 PM — Florentine Rey
- 12:19 AM — Musical interlude
12:34 AM — Block 4: Punk Reinvention
- 12:37 AM — Alexandre Dostie
- 12:47 AM — Emmanuelle Riendeau
- 12:57 AM — Nour Symon and Gabriel Ledoux
- 1:27 AM — Musical interlude
1:45 AM — Video Poetry: This Rented Shell
- Screening of the film This Rented Shell by David Gardener
2:30 AM — Gradual closing
3 AM — End of the event
+ Music by [indistinct voices over PA]
+ 360° visuals by Kaminska
+ The bookstore N’était-ce pas l’été will also have a booth on site
ARTISTS
Alexandre Dostie
Born in rural Québec, Alexandre Dostie is a self-taught artist, filmmaker, poet, and playwright. His short films Mutants (2016), I’ll End Up in Jail (2019), and BOA (2025) have won numerous awards and screened at prestigious festivals, including Sundance, Locarno, and Clermont-Ferrand. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Shenley (2014) and Que ceux qui m’aiment me sauvent (2022), and contributes to several Québec literary magazines. Based in Trois-Rivières, he received the Mauricie Creator of the Year Award in 2021. His debut play, Kiki et la colère, played to sold-out audiences at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in 2026. He is currently developing his first feature film.
Annie Lafleur
Born in Montreal, Annie Lafleur is the author of several poetry collections, including Puberté (2023; winner of the Grand Prix Québecor du Festival international de la poésie and the Prix francophone international du Festival de la poésie de Montréal; finalist for the prix Alain-Grandbois), Ciguë (2019; finalist for the prix Alain-Grandbois and the Prix des libraires du Québec), Bec-de-lièvre (2016; finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the Prix des libraires du Québec), and Rosebud (2013), all published by Le Quartanier. She served on the editorial board of the poetry journal Estuaire and has contributed art criticism to various periodicals. She lives in Vancouver.
Atolll
A duo of friends who play off each other through words and sound, Atolll is a project that explores the pleasure of spoken (or even unleashed) words, without aspiring to overly polished pop, but without shying away from the joy of a catchy hook either. The delicate voice of virginie fauve (author of the poetry collection la poussière nous cerne parce qu’elle nous ressemble, published by Le Lézard amoureux) contrasts with the angular soundscapes of David Turgeon (novelist, essayist, and electronic musician since 2000), creating a mesmerizing sonic labyrinth that challenges expectations of what a song or a poem can be. Atolll embraces risk-taking, experiments with new ways of approaching poetry, and revels in the pleasure of exploration.
Carole David
Born in Montréal’s Rosemont neighbourhood, Carole David is a writer with a PhD in French Studies. After a career teaching literature at the college level, she now devotes herself to writing. Her award-winning work blends narrative and poetry, North American identity and femininity. Her books have been translated into English and Italian.
David Gardener
David Gardener is a British artist and musician working with a wide range of disciplines and mediums, with an aim to create stimulating and emotionally engaging works, often integrating engineered materials, kinetic elements, interactivity, choreographed light & multi directional sound. Joining the dots between the classical fields of philosophy and traditional art and fusing them with modern technologies. His work aims to give humans meaningful and tangible experiences delivered through the narrative of each piece.
Emmanuelle Riendeau
Emmanuelle Riendeau was born in 1993 in Drummondville, Quebec. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Literary Studies from UQAM. Her writing is rooted in live performance. Grad school dropout, stoned loner, literary junkie, basic millennial babe, delirious reader, she wreaks havoc in Montreal to her heart’s content.
Florentine Rey
Florentine Rey is an artist. Her work explores the felt connections between language, the body, and thought. She approaches words as living matter, a space for transformation and connection. She has chosen to live as close as possible to a stubborn, nomadic freedom, seeking to expand the inner space that makes thought and creation possible. She recently trained in ventriloquism (without a dummy) to engage in dialogue with the poet Joachim Du Bellay. She also offers writing workshops and a masterclass on creativity, opening up spaces for shared exploration.
Gabriel Ledoux
Gabriel Ledoux is a Montreal-based composer working in mixed music. His work incorporates elements of sound documentary, popular music, free jazz, and electronic music. He is an active member of Acte, a collective he co-founded with Simon Chioini, and regularly composes music for contemporary dance and short films.
[indistinct voices over PA]
Through his project [indistinct voices over PA], Montreal artist Mourad Bncr cultivates a sonic aesthetic that draws equally on his exploration of audiovisual archives, controller design, and experimental turntablism practice. Marked by the release of several EPs—including the acclaimed UNREST (2021), an ambient project tinged with hauntology, and Constant points of data (2025), a conceptual study inspired by our overexposure to the mechanisms of information—his work explores both our perception of space and our collective imaginaries.
Jean-Paul Daoust
Born in Valleyfield, Jean-Paul Daoust is a poet and novelist. He is the poet-in-residence at Radio-Canada and previously served as editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Estuaire. His body of work, comprising more than thirty books, has earned him numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Les cendres bleues (1990) and the International Poetry Festival Prize in 2009 for Le vitrail brisé. In 2012, he received the Jaime Sabines/Gatien Lapointe Prize for Poemas de Babilonia / Poèmes de Babylone, co-published by Écrits des Forges and Mexican publisher Mantis Editores. His poems have been translated into Slovenian, Spanish and English.
VJ
Kaminska
Kaminska is a Montreal-based VJ and visual artist whose work is characterized by a profusion of symbols and textures in saturated, shimmering colours. Her visuals have accompanied numerous artists from the electronic music scene and have been featured at MUTEK, Igloofest, and the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), among others. Her practice also extends to fulldome and immersive imagery, earning her several international distinctions, including the SAT Fest Grand Prize, the Janus Award at the Jena Fulldome Festival, and an honourable mention at the Fukuoka Science Museum Dome Theater Festival.
See her Instagram 
Louis-Robert Bouchard
Multidisciplinary artist and designer Louis-Robert Bouchard has worked at the intersection of sound, moving images, technology, and the performing arts for over 15 years. Through collaborations with artists including Robert Lepage, Édith Patenaude, and Alan Lake, he has developed expertise in video projection, spatial audio, and interactivity. His own work combines music, video, installation, and performance and has been presented at the Casablanca International Video Art Festival, FIMAV, and Agence TOPO. In 2015, he founded Interférences, a production company dedicated to making technology-based art accessible to a wider audience.
Martine Audet
Born in Montréal, Martine Audet is the author of a dozen poetry collections, several artist’s books, and two children’s books. A finalist for numerous literary awards, she has received the Prix Estuaire, the Alain-Grandbois Prize, the Grand Prix Québecor (shared) at the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival, and the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. She regularly participates in literary and artistic events in Québec and beyond, and some of her poems have been translated into German, English, Catalan, Spanish, and Italian. She sometimes incorporates painting and photography into her writing practice and illustrated L’oiseau, le vieux-port et le charpentier by the late poet Michel Van Schendel. Her most recent poetry collection, Des formes utiles, was published in 2023 by Éditions du Noroît.
Motocross
Motocross is a musical duo built for off-road adventures and rugged terrain. Blending the poetic vision of writer Mélissa Labonté with the sounds of musician Bobby Lehoux, their debut musical project reimagines the spatial poetry of the collection Scaphandre. Speed, distortion, sharp turns—Motocross reinvents itself with every race.
Nana Quinn
Nana Quinn is an antidisciplinary artist lost somewhere along Highway 20. Driven by a hybrid artistic practice, they create intimate, poetic worlds in which words are always in dialogue with gestures, sounds, images, or objects. Their works are acts of vulnerability that explore the experience of human existence and the fluid boundaries between seemingly contradictory concepts, such as life and death, memory and forgetting, the visible and the invisible, pain and rapture. Impermanence is a particular obsession of theirs. Whether in artistic spaces (established or unconventional) or in their personal life, Nana strives to create spaces for meaningful connection where dialogue and compassion can emerge.
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine is an Innu poet and writer from Quebec. Originally from Pessamit, on the Nitassinan (North Shore), she is a multidisciplinary artist who has been tirelessly advocating for Indigenous rights and the preservation of Innu culture and language since the beginning of her career. In every field she explores, she is guided by strong convictions and a remarkable sense of humanity. Defining herself as a young Innu woman in the world is one of Natasha Kanapé’s many missions.
Nicholas Dawson
Born in Chile, Nicholas Dawson is a writer, researcher, editor, and curator. He is the author of several books across various genres, including the narrative work Désormais, ma demeure (Triptyque, 2020; Bibliothèque québécoise, 2025; winner of the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and the Blue Metropolis Diversity Prize), the poetry collection Peur pietà (Noroît, 2024; finalist for the Prix des libraires du Québec), and the essay Vueltas. Affects diasporiques (Nota bene, 2025). He holds a master’s degree in literary studies and a PhD in Arts Studies and Practices from UQAM. He is completing a postdoctoral fellowship in literature at Université Laval, where he is currently a visiting professor. As a curator of exhibitions and literary arts events, he has also edited several collective works in creative writing and academia. He has been the director of Éditions Triptyque since 2021.
Nour Symon
Egyptian-Quebecer Nour Symon offers lyrical, noise-based and intimate works, driven by a desire to bring back into focus the complexity of the interactions between their identities — queer, migratory, in love with the complexity of the world. A desiring encounter between visual art, concert music and poetry lies at the heart of their practice. This transdisciplinarity is reflected most clearly in their sound paintings — graphic scores performed here and elsewhere by musicians and artists whose paths are as winding as possible.
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