Culture pour tous

The important thing is to participate!

Activity registration to the 14^th edition of Journées de la culture closed on Wednesday June 30^th.

Thank you for your enthusiasm and for the numerous projects registered.

Are you interested in promoting access to arts and culture?
Please contact us at 1 866 734-4441 or 514 873-2641.

Les Journées de la culture, September 24, 25 and 26, 2010.

The Culture Buffet is back again this year. With a record number of mouth‑watering activities registered to date, Quebecers will have lots to choose from!

Les Journées de la culture municipal declaration

The municipalities of Château‑Richer, Dunham, Kamouraska, Lac-Brome, Lac‑Mégantic, Potton, Saint‑André, Sainte‑Eulalie, Sainte‑Florence, Saint‑Jean‑de‑Brébeuf and Saint‑Luc‑de‑Bellechasse have signed the declaration proclaiming the last Friday of September and the next two days as "Les Journées de la culture." See the full lineup!

Municipalities will show their support for culture

Seventeen Quebec municipalities so far have confirmed their participation in the Je m’affiche pour la culture! project and will offer their citizens a unique opportunity to express the importance of culture in their lives.

During Les Journées de la culture, citizens will be invited to an iconic location in their city where special activities will take place. They can have their picture taken by professional photographers and contribute a written statement about the importance of culture in their lives. The photos will be added to a large online photo gallery at www.jemaffichepourlaculture.com.

Also check out the photos of participants at the annual conference of Les Arts et la Ville, who expressed their support for culture on May 5 and 6. www.jemaffichepourlaculture.com

Time Out…For School Groups

We have also received an excellent response to the call for participation sent to the education sector. Twenty‑odd schools in the English Montreal School Board are organizing a huge cultural circuit for Les Journées de la culture. On Friday, September 24, students will exhibit their artwork and the traditional clothing, cooking and crafts of the different ethnic groups represented in their schools. Participating classes will also be able to visit exhibitions put on by other schools in their neighbourhood. Students will be on hand to provide explanations, and there will also be encounters with teachers, guest artists and, of course, the young artists!

Elementary and high schools wishing to participate in these exclusive cultural activities during Les Journées de la culture can have them included in our Time Out… For School Groups program.

Give us a call at 514-864-7907 or watch our website for the unveiling of the 2010 Journées de la culture programming, at www.journeesdelaculture.qc.ca

Art in the workplace

Culture pour tous is proud to announce the new organizations that will enable their employees to participate in a collective creative project this summer as part of the 4^th edition of Art at Work.

The Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC is welcoming the artist Madeleine Turgeon with "Sortir du cadre", a collective project consisting of two mosaics depicting the nature of the region’s territory.

The union affiliated with the CSSS Nord Lanaudière is mobilizing amateur singers and musicians on its staff to put on a show to be documented by Radhanata Gagnon, a local photographer and filmaker.

The Centre de la petite enfance Les petits mulots in Quebec City will celebrate the 30^th anniversary of its first equipment by having the painter Marie-Chantal Lachance from SautOzieux Création create two collective murals based on children’s drawings.

Association Pipeline is sponsoring an artwork honouring Sophie Brochu of Gaz Métro and Jacques Régis of Projet 80, who were named 2009 Personality of the Year for their commitment to the project "80, ruelle de l’Avenir". This collective work will be created by an artist, students and teachers in the hallway of the École Garneau annex in Montreal’s Centre-Sud neighbourhood.

Check this site for updates: www.culturepourtous.ca/artatwork/

Les Journées de la culture catching on across Canada

Based on the model of Quebec’s Les Journées de la culture, Culture Days will be held in the other Canadian provinces on September 24, 25 and 26.

This video clip was presented at the Culture Days launch on April 19 www.culturedays.ca

Identity Through a Pinhole
Two artists use the camera obscura as a tool for social integration

For about 10 years, artists Miki Gingras and Patrick Dionne have been introducing people to the principles of the camera obscura and undertaking social and cultural photography projects with the organization they founded, Diasol. Their latest project is a photo mural entitled Identity, which grew out of different activities and reflections on the theme of identity at École secondaire Henri-Bourassa in the ethnically diverse neighbourhood of Montréal‑Nord.

Article 27
An Instrument for Cultural Democracy in Belgium’s French Community

Launched as a pilot project in Brussels in 1999, Article 27 is named for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article that states "Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits". The organization now has the mission to facilitate access to all forms of culture in order to empower those living in poverty.

Toronto’s first network dedicated solely to strengthening art‑making in neighbourhoods throughout the city.

The Neighbourhood Arts Network is an organization which actively works to enhance quality of life through the arts at the neighbourhood level by supporting groups and individuals which provide community‑engaged arts programming. The Neighbourhood Arts Network invites artists, arts organizations and community agencies involved in community-engaged art to become members. The website is also an important resource for the general public to find out more about community‑engaged art-making in Toronto, across the country and internationally.
www.neighbourhoodartsnetwork.org

The Collaborative city

In Toronto, in October 2009, Artscape presented its third Creative Places + Spaces Conference The Collaborative City. Campaign of Ideas showcases videos of the conference’s best moments.

The first episode, entitled Why Collaborate?, was released and features graphic recordings and short video clips from Sir Ken Robinson, Richard Florida, David Buckland, Tim Jones and Simon Brault.

To view the first episode:
www.creativeplacesandspaces.ca

The Passeur culturel kit

This kit, available as a booklet and online, offers administrators of francophone schools across Canada resources for stressing the cultural and artistic dimension as an educational approach in support of all disciplines and activities and for taking advantage of the arts and culture to help build identity. www.passeurculturel.ca

Marketing the Arts

Marketing the Arts, by Darag O’Reilly and Finola Kerrigan, argues that arts marketing is not about the simple application of mainstream managerial marketing to the arts. With contributions from international scholars of marketing and consumer studies, this book engages directly with a range of contemporary themes.
www.routledge.com