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GUIDE FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE JOURNÉES DE LA CULTURE 2006
En route towards the 10th edition.
“Join us in preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this great event which brings everyone together and aims to solidify the role that the arts and culture play in our communities,” explain Melissa Auf der Maur and André Robitaille, spokespersons for Journées de la culture.
Let’s celebrate this 10th anniversary in style by offering the entire population a series of activities which are creative, original, and inclusive.
Consult the following guide:
Activities must adhere to the following guidelines:
1. Be offered free of charge so that all citizens can have equal and unobstructed access; (Explanation)
2. Take place during Journées de la culture, i.e. on Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday;
3. Be produced by professional artists, artisans, or cultural workers (members of a professional association whose practice is recognized);
4. Promote discoveries, exchanges, and interactions on the processes involved in training, researching, producing, conserving, presenting, or creating via four types of activities:
- Demonstrations
- Hands-on activities
- Guided tours and circuits with commentary
- Forums and discussions
5. Take place in a setting that is inviting, friendly, and festive.
If you want to be more involved and reach people who rarely frequent artistic and cultural sites, invite a community organization to take part in your activity.
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Celebrate Journées de la culture’s 10th anniversary in a festive and original way, on your own or in association with cultural groups in your area or field of activity. Produce an inclusive activity, pool your communications or organizational resources, make a bold statement by creating a new and original artistic or cultural experience – one that goes beyond the beaten path or that takes place right out in the street!
Here are a few examples of activities. Do not hesitate to invent other kinds of projects:
Churches, places of worship, and religious-heritage presentation or interpretation sites turned their front steps into venues for contemporary art by welcoming artists from various sectors. MRC de Beauharnois-Salaberry in collaboration with the Conseil de la culture de la MRC and the Évêché de Valleyfield.
The Ottawa Art School presented “Artbus,” a free shuttle service ferrying art-lovers to 11 visual arts presenters throughout the Ottawa-Gatineau region, thus enabling the public to meet artists from various fields.
A group of 20 painters, members of the Art Boréal centre, got together to create a collective piece whose theme was the 30th anniversary of the Bibliothèque de Saint-Donat. The collective-creation sessions, held outdoors, featured supervised drawing activities for youths and discussions with the public.
“The Cultural Occupation of the Main,” presented by the Société du boulevard Saint-Laurent, united 200 creators and 50 cultural institutions and organizations for a 24-hour celebratory event, featuring 75 activities to mark the centennial of this celebrated Montreal thoroughfare.
2. REACH OUT TO COMMUNITY GROUPS
In keeping with Journées de la culture’s mission of making the arts and culture more accessible to the largest number of citizens, we invite you to present your activity in collaboration with those who do not usually come into contact with professional art forms or who are not often targeted by your activities. Include them in the preparation stages of your activity, present your work in their area, invite them to take part in the event that you are presenting within Journées de la culture. Do not hesitate to consult the following website, www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/reseau, to find out more about community organizations in your area.
Here are a few examples of activities presented during the 2005 edition of Journées de la culture.
The McCord Museum brought the Heiltsuk culture to hospitalized children by organizing a workshop on decorating wooden spoons, an object used for exchanges by the Aboriginal people of that Nation. In collaboration with Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal.
Michel Garneau and Christine Germain, radio hosts from the literary program Les Décrocheurs d’étoiles, on Radio-Canada, hosted a workshop and an evening of storytelling for street people, in cooperation with the community group, L’Itinéraire.
The Jeunes musicians du monde organization enabled children and adolescents from disadvantaged neighborhoods to take part in traditional music lessons. A few of the youths then talked about their experience during an interview broadcast on CKRL, a Quebec City community radio station.
Seniors from the Club de l’âge d’or de St-Antonin got together with students from the Lanouette primary school, accompanied by two artists. Together, they experimented with various media and created everyday and decorative objects.
Karl-Didier Grah, producer of the Montreal event, “Hip Hop Forever,” and a Quebecer originally from Ivory Coast, hosted a discussion-debate with street kids and the public on the origins and meanings of tattoos. Le Bon Dieu dans la rue.
3. EXPERIENCE INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
Open your doors to cultural diversity in the arts. Does your institution wish to get involved in a different way in 2006? We invite you to “Dare to Diversify” and invite a professional artist from the ethnocultural or Aboriginal community to present their work and meet with the public in your area. This is a great way to join Intercultural Encounters, produced by the Journées de la culture Secretariat. Click here to find out more about the spirit of the program and consult the complete documentation regarding the Encounters presented in 2005.
Here are a few examples of some activities:
The Cinémathèque québécoise played host to Martine Chartrand, a Haitian-born painter, illustrator, and filmmaker, whose work in animation is characterized by a technique which consists in painting directly on glass, in front of a camera. The public watches as she creates a mini animated film, live on screen and improvised on-the-spot–with door prizes as a bonus! Cinémathèque québécoise.
The National Film Board’s Parole citoyenne organized a round-table discussion on activist filmmaking with five filmmakers from diverse backgrounds. The event featured excerpts of films made by the directors as well as questions from the audience, all of which is available on the Parole citoyenne website.
The Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (TNM) hosted an encounter between four poets which enabled the audience to discover Iranian, Lebanese, and Quebec poetry, both current and from the past. A reading with commentary presented by the Accès-Asie festival.
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The registration period for the 2006 Journées de la culture is now over.
Thanks to everyone who filled our online form.
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