Events 

2022

• Gatineau / Aylmer: exhibition in the streets of Aylmer of poem within the project Ceci n’est pas une pub.

• Gatineau: invited for panel discussion and reading at L’Heure du Thé, La Filature.
• Gatineau: invited as member of a panel discussion and reading at “‘Lichtungen: la poésie de l’Outaouais voyage”, Salon du livre de l’Outaouais (SLO).

2021

• Montreal: participated in the podcasts Poésie Go ! Allemagne at the Festival de la Poésie de Montréal (FPM) and a reading and discussion on creation and translation at the opening of the 22nd edition of the FPM.
• Quebec City: invited to participate in the project Ceci n’est pas une pub within the festival “Québec en toutes lettres”.

2020

•  Gatineau: invited to create and perform a “call-and-response poem” during Radio-Canada’s program Les Malins at the SLO.
• North Hero, Vermont: “Water, Sacred Water”, art work by artist Janet Fredericks and poet Guy Jean, Green TARA Space.
• Gatineau: invited to participate in “La poésie prend la rue au coeur de la ville”.

• Gatineau: installation of an excerpt from Et l’eau répondit… within the project Ligne du temps at the Pavillon du Parc des cèdres.

2019

• Gatineau: participated in the exhibition De mots et d’images: artist book created in collaboration with Marie-France Thibault. Bouquinart.
• Gatineau: invited by PEN Québec to Livres comme l’air as writer paired with Wu Gan, detained in prison in China. SLO.
• Gatineau: invited by the SLO to participate in Guy Jean, passeur, Territoires poétiques and Les publications sur l’art ont-elles un avenir au Québec?.
• Podcast Tessellles-épisode 1, Transmettre, l’âme des poètes, Guy Jean and Mélanie Rivet.
• Gatineau: reading at the Soirée de poésie de Gatineau Ville Lecture, Bouquinart.
• Ottawa: participated in collective publication and reading: Poèmes de la Cité 2019 – nos lieux nos pas.
• Gatineau: Concert Jazz-Poésie with Guy Jean, poet and the jazz trio, Garry Elliott on guitar, Normand Glaude on bass and harmonica and André Massicotte on trumpet, at Zibi.

2018

• Gatineau: particpated in reading Bodel littéraire, SLO.
• Gatineau: reading at the Soirée de poésie de Gatineau Ville Lecture, Bouquinart.
• Montreal and Gatineau: release of the collection Une autre fois déjà.
• Gatineau: Concert Jazz-Poésie with Guy Jean, poet and the jazz trio, Garry Elliott on guitar, Normand Glaude on bass and harmonica and André Massicotte on trumpet, at the Théâtre de l’Ile.

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• Ottawa: installed into VERSeOttawa’s Hall of Fame.
• Culturiades Outaouais: awarded the Prix Hommage de la Ville de Gatinau.
• Rutland, Vermont: Let the river have its way: paintings and installations by Janet Fredericks and poet Guy Jean, the 77 Gallery.
• Briey, France: Satellite 19 with Emilie Skrijelj & Denis Jaro Sinski, texts of Guy Jean, Henri Michaux and Bertold Brecht, Association La Première Rue, Cité Radieuse Le Corbusier.

2017 :

• Ottawa : reading at Ville Lauréate City with Canadian laureate poets.

• Gatineau : Soirée Jazz-Poésie with Guy Jean within the Jazz Jazz Jazz festival.

• Gatineau (Le Troquet) and Montréal (Maison des écrivains) : meeting with Edmond Baudoin (Paris) and Guy Jean on their creative collaboration for « L’obscurité a neigé ».

• Wakefield La Pêche : host for panel at the Festival des écrivains.

• Gatineau : participant in Didascalie, a multidisciplinary project of architectural projections on Laval street.

• Gatineau Park : reading at Sons d’automne (2nd edition) at the Mackenzie King Estate.

• Gatineau : host and reader at « Coureurs des mots », within the celebrations of Canada’s 150th with Acadian, Franco-Ontarian and Outaouais poets.

• Special guest at the reading Gatineau Ville Lecture.

• Ottawa : invited at VerseFest,.

2016 :

• Gatineau Park : reading at Sons d’automne at the Mackenzie King Estate.

• Gatineau : invited by the City Council to represent Gatineau poets on the occasion of Poetry Month.

2015 :

• Named Le Droit / Radio Canada’s « personnalité de la semaine », June 15.

• Gatineau: exhibition La toponymie au coeur de l’identité gatinoise, Coups de coeur toponymiques de personnalités gatinoises / Guy Jean: La Basoche et Ruisseau de la Brasserie.

• Gatineau: verses from Et l’eau répondit.. installed in permanent exhibition L’Auberge Symmes: fenêtres sur l’Outaouais.
• Granted the Prix Hommage aux bâtisseurs at the Gala de reconnaissance des auteurs de l’Outaouais.

2014

• Release of Mourning Ploughs the Winter, translation Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky, Marick Press. Wakefield Municipal Library, La Pêche, Explore the World of Guy Jean.
• University of Ottawa: participated in Les Rendez-vous poétiques: a reading, Là d’où je viens DARLING! and a panel, Poésie et matières.
• Gatineau: reading Poésies électroacoustiques (3) with Éric Charlebois and André Préfontaine.
• Gatineau: poetry and cello, Guy Jean and André Préfontaine, Rencontres du patrimoine.

2013

• Habay, Belgium: author’s residency at the Château du Pont d’Oye, August 5^th to 23^rd
• Gatineau: guest poet for reading at the mayor’s and counsellors’ swearing in ceremony.

2012

• Paris : reading at the « Club des poètes » and release of Ma demeure brûle at the « Marché de la poésie»;
• Montreal : invited for a reading at the literary and visual event Yoigoshi within the « Festival Montréal en lumière ».
• Quebec City: reading at « Les vendredis de la poésie du TAP ».

2011

• New York City : reading and celebration of the release of If I Were Born in Prague at the Camel Art Space in Brooklyn. 
• Caraquet: invited at the « Festival acadien de poésie »
• Grosse Point Farms, Michigan: interview by Robert Taylor on Out of the Ordinary at WMTV
• Grosse Point, Michigan: invited reader at The Poets Follies, Ewald Library.

2010

• Belgium: invited guest for literary activities within the Province of Luxemburg and participant at the Brussels International Book Fair.
• Paris: release of En partance and On danse à Odessa at the « Marché de la poésie »
• Trois-Rivières : invited at the International Poetry Festival.

2008

• Gatineau: performance at the annual conference of the Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec.
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• Shiraz, Iran, reading at the Hafez mausoleum on invitation by Fars Province.
• Kashan, Iran: reading and meeting with Iranian poets at cultural centre.
• Tehran, Iran: special guest at the Iranian Literature Foundation’s 6th Poetry Narration.

 

2006

•  Exhibition Et l’eau répondit… And water answered… by Janet Fredericks and Guy Jean, galerie Montcalm, Gatineau (May 4th to June 11th); T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center, Montpellier, Vermont (August 15th to September 24th); Exhibition Speaking with Water, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge Mass. (February 1st to 18th, 2007)