• Home
• Who we are
• Publications
• Initiatives
• Resources and links
• Contact us
• Francais

Actions culturelles

• Journées de la culture
• Je m'affiche pour la culture
• Intercultural encounters
• Cultural Logbook
• Cultural Mediation
• Culture in business
• The Cnvertibles
• Forum la Rencontre

MONDAY OCTOBER 3

9 h 00 – Opening remarks

9 h 30 – PRESENTATION 1

Issues and terms of reference
 

With:

• Guy Bellavance, professor, Institut national de recherche scientifique (INRS), Centre Urbanisation Culture Société (UCS), director, laboratory / art and society / bases and theories (l/as/tt) and holder of the Fernand-Dumont Chair on culture (Montréal)
• Annick Germain, professor, Institut national de recherche scientifique (INRS), Centre Urbanisation, Culture et Société and director, Centre Métropolis du Québec (Montréal)
• Guy Saëz, professor, Institut d’Études Politiques, director of research at the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS) and director of the Unité Mixte de Recherche Politiques publiques, action politique, territoires – UMR-PACTE (Grenoble)

9 h 45 – PRESENTATION 2

Trajectories of cultural participation here and abroad

For a number of decades, national governments have been collecting data about attendance at and participation in artistic activities. What do these study results have to say to us in the long term, in Québec, France, the United States? What are the strengths and weaknesses of these undertakings? Do they leave some questions unanswered? Do they have blind spots? What can they tell us about the cultural practices of the younger generation and new immigrants? What do they have to tell us about the cultural impact of the new digital environment? And, lastly, what avenues should these surveys take in the future?

Moderator:

• Guy Bellavance, professor, INRS-Urbanisation, Culture et Société

Presenters:

• Gilles Pronovost, professor emeritus, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, executive director, Conseil de développement de la recherche sur la famille du Québec (Trois-Rivières)
• Sylvie Octobre, research analyst, Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques (DDAI), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Paris)
• Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard, researcher and consultant, Wolfbrown (Chicago)

10 h 45 – BREAK

11 h 15 – PRESENTATION 3

A portrait of cultural participation by young Montrealers

A study now in progress, initiated by Culture Montréal and carried out by the INRS Urbanisation Culture Société with the support of Québec’s Ministry of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, aims to better understand the overall participation of young Montrealers (teenagers and young adults), taking into consideration their ethno-cultural origin, among other factors.

Moderator:

• Guy Bellavance, professor, INRS-Urbanisation, Culture et Société

Presenters:

• Christian Poirier, professor, INRS, Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, study director (Montréal)
• Vincent Guillon, research associate, UMR PACTE and co-director, Sens Publics (Paris)

12 H 30 – LUNCH

14 h 00 – PRESENTATION 4

Cultural participation by immigrant communities

In large cities, immigration has profoundly altered the face of the population to which national and local culture is offered. People who belong to immigrant communities form the greater part of cultural “non-publics” that appear in the statistics on artistic and cultural involvement. Should we conclude from this that they are not culturally active? How do these “non-publics” conceive of the arts and culture? What do we know about their cultural practices? Are there public or private places where they congregate? How can we acquire sufficient knowledge about them so that they can be taken into consideration when developing public policy?

Moderator:

• Annick Germain, professore, INRS-Urbanisation, Culture et Société

Presenters:

• Jean-Christophe Laurence, journalists and co-authors of the Guide du Montréal multiple (Montréal)
• Amir Ali Alibhai, executive director, Alliance for the Arts (Vancouver)
• Maribel Alvarez, anthropologist, University of Arizona (Tucson, U.S.A.)
  

16 h 30 – BREAK

17 h 00 – Cocktail

TUESDAY OCTOBER 4

9 h 00 – Word of welcome

9 h 15 – PRESENTATION 5

Young people and culture

What is this cultural framework that young people seek, with which they identify and that they wish to help create?
In what ways do they consume culture and to what extent does this influence their cultural and civic participation?
What factors encourage or deter the interest and sense of belonging of young people in artistic disciplines and in
creators, both local and from elsewhere? To what extent can their interests be a means of integration into the artistic
diversity of cultural offerings.

Moderator:

• Nicole Gallant, director, Observatoire Jeunes et société, INRS Urbanisation Culture Société (Québec)

Presenters:

• Hervé Glévarec, head of research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S), Laboratoire Communication et Politique (Paris)
• Myriam Verreault, film-maker and director of Ma tribu c’est ma vie (Montréal)
• Vincenzo Cicchelli, head of sociology lectures, Université Paris Descartes – Gemass (Paris 4 - CNRS)
• Marie Goyette, director of the Gabrielle-Roy Library and of cultural animation, L’Institut Canadien de Québec (Qc)

10 h 45 – BREAK

11 h 15 – PRESENTATION 6

Participative culture and digital practices

The growing importance of digital media in cultural consumption and participation is profoundly changing the
relationship between creators and consumers, who are now faced with a vast choice of cultural experiences. The
consumer is now far more autonomous when confronting traditional structures of dissemination, and wants to
become actively involved. Do these new digital tools and devices create a greater level of participation or a greater
distance, is the interaction more diversified or more standardized?

Moderator:

• René Barsalo, designer in digital experience (Montréal)

Presenters:

• Madeleine Pastinelli, professor, sociology department, Laboratoire de communautique appliquée,
  Université Laval (Québec)
• Jean-Robert Bisaillon, vice-president and co-founder, Iconoclaste Musique Web Promo (Danville, Québec)
• Dominique Cardon, sociologist, associate researcher at the Laboratoire des usages d’Oranges Labs, Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux (CEMS / EHESS) (Paris)

12h 30 – LUNCH

14 h 00 – PRESENTATION 7

DEBATE
The issues of adapting cultural products to societal and technological change : which culture are we talking about?

Dematerialization, individualization, democratization, relativism and de-westernization: here are some of the themes
that well describe the phenomena seemingly at work in recent changes in cultural participation and involvement.
These issues make some people fear that there is a true revolution in the relationship between the public and
creators, and in the production chain in the cultural sector. Are these fears well-founded? Are we on the brink of a
radical change in the paradigms of cultural participation and involvement in the arts? Given the aspects that have
been discussed during this colloquium, what are the issues and perspectives for future significant relationships
between creators, producers, disseminators and the public?

Moderator:

• (TBD)

Presenters:

• Guy Saëz, professor, Institut d’Études politiques de Grenoble (France)
• Ricard Zapata-Barrero, professor, political science department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
• Patrick Beauduin, general manager of radio, Radio-Canada (Montréal)