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| Newsletter - September 10, 2008 |
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 Les Journées de la culture 2008
September 28, 29 and 30
Be a champion of Culture!
Bring out your pennants, flags and banners: the publicity campaign for the Journées de la culture 2008 has been launched! Inspired by this year’s monumental sports events, the theme of this campaign “Root for Culture” could hardly be more pertinent in this moment of the fall season where culture has never been so much in need of its supporters!
For over 12 years thousands of citizens—and the numbers are growing yearly—have heeded the call of cultural solidarity sent out by artists, artisans and cultural workers, and for the 3 days of the Journées de la culture they continue to rally by their side to celebrate the victory of the imagination and creativity. This year the general public is more than ever invited to leave the stands and display their allegiance to culture and take part in the over 2,000 free-of-cost activities being presented throughout the province on next September 26, 27 and 28.
Supported and encouraged by the media and made possible by the financial backing of the Québec Government, TD CanadaTrust and Hydro Québec, this event promises to be an outright success for yet another year, and you are warmly invited to join in and make your contribution felt! See the website at www.journeesdelaculture.qc.ca for the program schedule, and go online to follow our publicity campaign which is already underway on radio and TV.
Happy Journées de la culture, fellow rooters!
 Volunteers needed
We are looking for volunteers to help with the following tasks:
- Attend the activities and give us your impressions.
- Become a guide/facilitator aboard the TD shuttle buses on the island of Montréal, or an information agent at the information booth at Place des Arts Esplanade.
Sound interesting? Or do you know someone who wants to get involved? Spread the word and let us know!
 Three Municipalities and Four Companies have made Space for Creation in their Workplace
In participating in this 2nd edition of Art at Work and inviting their employees to join in the creation of a collective work, the cities of La Tuque, Longueuil and Laval are breaking new ground. La Tuque will welcome the stained-glass artist Guy Simard, Laval receives Patricia Gauvin and her electronic correspondence game and Longueuil is joining forces with the sculptor Michelle Baillargeon.
The CPE Premiers Pas, in La Tuque is twinned with the painter Raphaël Bénédicte, Molson Canada in Montreal with the tinker-artist Lucie Bélanger, Plastiques Gagnon in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli with the painter Sarah Chamard and TD Meloche Monnex in Laval with the mural artist Morno. Most of these collective will be were unveiled during Journées de la culture, September 26‑28, 2008.
To follow the evolution of the artistic projects: www.culturepourtous.ca/artatwork
Four Public Artworks to celebrate Quebec’s Artistic Diversity
As part of the Diversity Rally and Quebec’s Week of Intercultural Encounters, Culture pour tous is responsible for instigating and coordinating the creation of four collective works in four Quebec cities. In Granby, Hélène Plourde in collaboration with Atelier 19 is creating a bas-relief on the theme of dialogue; in Sherbrooke, Nathalie Caron and Margrethe Ulvik are conceiving a Les bateaux- fleet of reduced scale metal boats inspired by the idea of the initiation journey; in Victoriaville, Lynda Baril, Laurent Luneau and Michelle Rappe are drawing a concrete sidewalk with a tree and cast objects; finally, in Québec City, photographer Éric Côté and the author Pedro Nel Marquez will present a series of portraits representing residents of the capital from different origins.
 The artworks will be unveiled in each city September 23-28, 2008. Les œuvres seront dévoilées dans chacune des villes du 23 au 26 septembre. The Diversity Rally is a 400 km cycling tour for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, which will make stops in the cities of Granby, Sherbrooke, Victoriaville and Quebec City. The project is being implemented with the support of the Ministère de l’Immigration et des Communautés culturelles du Québec and the participating cities.
To follow the creation of the artworks:
www.culturepourtous.ca/intercultural
To get more information about the cycling tour, the Diversity Rallye:
www.rallyedeladiversite.org
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International Colloquium
on Cultural Mediation
December 4-5, 2008
Pavillon Sherbrooke,
Université du Québec à Montréal
Do not miss the 5th international forum organized by Culture pour tous on the evolution of cultural democratization practices in Québec and in the world.
Some 30 experts from here and elsewhere (France, Great‑Britain, Spain, USA) are invited to share viewpoints and concerns regarding the emergence conditions of the notion of cultural mediation, its role, pertinence and function in the context of current cultural practices.
La Rencontre follows in the wake of the research undertaken by the Cultural Mediation Research Group Culture pour tous / ARUC-ÉS and SAC (UQAM).
Bilingual conference with simultaneous translation
Registration form and the program schedule are now available online: www.culturepourtous.ca/forum
Revolving Museum
(Lowell, Massachussets)
At the same time center of culture and popular education, living art museum and creative laboratory, the Revolving Museum conducts various public art projects in close complicity with the community and neighborhood schools.
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Le fil de l’Histoire
The choreographer Harold Rhéaume and his company Le fils d’Adrien danse presented this summer a tribute to Quebec with Le fil de l’histoire, a contemporary dance procession moving in the historic districts of the city.
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 From art practice to social encounter
Book 72 pages + DVD video
Texts in French and English
DVD video 45 minutes in French
Éditions d’art Le Sabord, 2007
Price: 20 $ + taxes & shipping fees
Get the book
Colloquium on Cultural Governance
 Culture Montréal with the collaboration of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal will present Cultural Governance in Large Cities: Issues and Opportunities, October 6‑7, 2008, an international colloquium to explore ways to revitalize cultural action in cities that, like Montreal, recognize the arts and creation as an essential economic, social and cultural engine.
www.culturemontreal.ca
Imagine the future
 On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the network Villes et villages d’art (Towns and Villages of Arts and Heritage) is organizing a symposium in Riviere‑du‑Loup, 30 and 31 October 2008 on the evolution of cultural practices in Quebec.
www.vvap.ulaval.ca
Colloquium Cultural tourism in urban areas
 Tourism Montreal and its partners are organizing the symposium Culture and Tourism: the heart of the new urban identity, 13-14 November 2008 in Montreal. The meeting will take account of the evolution of the objectives of the first colloquium held ten years ago and of the current relations between tourism and culture. www.culturalamontreal.com
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Long Live Culture
Upheavals, emergence, revolutions
This past June 13 to 15 at the Théâtre Nanterre‑Amandier (Paris), the French newspaper Libération organized three days of discussion and debate with over a hundred guests from the cultural and political milieus.
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Artists’ Centers: Evolution and Impact on Career, Neighborhoods and Economies
Published by the Institute of Public Affairs of the Minnesota University, this study finds that urban neighborhoods and smaller city downtowns are revitalized with the presence of dedicated space for artists.
www.hhh.umn.edu
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ABC on Copyright
With the tabling of legislation to revise Canada’s Copyright Act, the Canadian Conference for the Arts (CCA) publishes a new guide providing basic information to help understand copyright issues.
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To contact Culture pour tous:
Telephone: 514-873-2641 Toll free: 1 866-734-4441
Fax: 514-873-2724
Email: info@culturepourtous.ca
We are always eager to hear about initiatives from here and about your projects in progress.
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You have comments or suggestions? Do not hesitate to contact us.
Culture pour tous is an independent and non-profit organization whose mission is to contribute to the democratization of culture in Quebec. Culture pour tous is supported by the Quebec government and various public and private partners in the realization of its cultural actions. Culture pour tous is a member of the network Les Arts et la Ville. |
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