{"id":27260,"date":"2010-10-27T06:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2010-10-27T06:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:17:58","slug":"invitation-to-community-art-about-with-for-community-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/invitation-to-community-art-about-with-for-community-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to: COMMUNITY ART: ABOUT? WITH? FOR? Community? (Montr\u00e9al)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COMMUNITY ART:<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nABOUT? WITH? FOR?<\/span><\/span><\/strong> Community<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on some experiences of the IDEA international Congress 2010, Bel\u00e9m, Brazil (July 2010)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong>
\nLEVIER<\/a> Studio
\n4525 Saint-Jacques
\nMontr\u00e9al
\n(Closest metro station: Place-Saint-Henri)<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong>
\nSaturday November 20, 2010
\nFrom 13h00-18h00<\/p>\n

TOPIC:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00ab\u00a0Community art seems to have become all the rage, with \u201ccultural mediation\u201d, \u201cparticipatory\u201d, and \u201crelational\u201d art projects increasingly being carried out by professional artists with funding from all levels of government and even private corporations. Is this a good thing or something to be worried about? Is enough critical attention being brought to bear on what is at stake for the communities involved? What about the ethics of collaboration in community art projects?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please join us for this meeting, which is inscribed within LEVIER\u2019s<\/a> mandate of sending delegates from Qu\u00e9bec to participate in international exchanges relative to community art and then sharing those experiences with people back home who were not in attendance. As with similar encounters based on other international events that members of the LEVIER network have attended, the review of the IDEA 2010 Congress will provide us with an opportunity to further our understanding of community art and moving the practice forward.<\/p>\n

This opportunity is particularly significant in that there was a good-sized delegation from Qu\u00e9bec in attendance at the (International Drama \/ Theatre and Education) IDEA Congress 2010 and the accompanying IDEA International Theatre Festival.\u00a0Devora Neumark<\/strong> represented LEVIER and traveled along withNorman Matchewan<\/strong> of the Barriere Lake Algonquin community and\u00a0Dominique Malacort<\/strong>, who was tasked with the responsibility for helping to develop contacts for a potential community art partnership between LEVIER and with a South American organization working with the arts to affect change relative to poverty. (Dominique is also involved in the preparation of this meeting.)<\/p>\n

Others from Qu\u00e9bec who also attended and participated in the IDEA Congress 2010 include members from the\u00a0Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des petites lanterns<\/strong> and\u00a0the\u00a0Vichama collectif<\/strong>;\u00a0\u00c9milie Monnet<\/strong>, a member of both the Montreal Aboriginal Urban Strategy NETWORK\u2019s ART \u2022 CULTURE Working Committee and the Aboriginal singing group Odaya; artist\u00a0Moe Clark<\/strong> \u2013 who, along with\u00a0\u00c9milie Monnet<\/strong>presented\u00a0Bird Messengers<\/em>; the filmmaker\u00a0Martha Steigman<\/strong> whose work about the\u00a0Barriere Lake Algonquin community\u00a0has been very influential in getting the word out about the community\u2019s ongoing struggles for self-determination;Veronique Leduc<\/strong> whose master’s thesis focuses on community art and social recognition, and uses , as a case study, the\u00a0Agir par l\u2019imaginaire<\/em> project co-organized by LEVIER and the\u00a0Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Elizabeth Fry du Qu\u00e9bec;\u00a0and\u00a0Isabelle Fortier<\/strong>, coordinator of a research and intercultural creation collective at\u00a0Coll\u00e8ge de Maisonneuve <\/strong>who attended the IDEA Congress 2010 as an observer and participated in many of the conversations between the LEVIER delegates and the potential South American community partners.<\/p>\n

You are invited to come hear these individuals talk about their experiences or to share your own:<\/strong><\/p>\n