Arts
Organizations and Community Arts Programs
Centre des
arts actuels Skol
H3B
1A2
Telephone:
514-398-9322
Email:
skol@skol.ca
Website:
www.skol.ca
Contact:
Anne Bertrand,
Artistic Coordinator or Adriana de Oliveira, Art Educator
Description
This
art
gallery reaches out to community groups and offers a free
visit/discussion/
introduction
to contemporary art adapted to visiting groups.
In
addition
they have formed a close collaboration with CEDA (see Literacy Groups
listing).
In 2006 they began a project to demystify contemporary art for an
uninitiated
public. Invited to meet with artists in the centre’s
programming,
Danielle
Arcand, a CEDA facilitator, and a group of participants following the
adult
literacy program visited Skol on several occasions.
Initially,
group creative workshops were organized around the conception and
production of
a collective work titled L’œuvre et la
main-d’œuvre (or “the work and the
labour/manpower”), which commemorated CEDA’s active
role in
promoting popular
education.
In
2007,
participants threw themselves into the creation of a visual environment
for a
theatrical production by a troupe from CEDA. They found that the
diversity of
experiences and competencies among participants were not just a
challenge but
also a strength.
More
recently, participants have been engaged in a reflective process
revolving
around the notion of encounter and the artistic means for enabling it.
Together, the co-creators and artist
Christine Brault created
“urban actions”
among residents of South-West
Montreal.
English-Language
Arts Network (ELAN)
460
St-Catherine West,
H3B
1A7
Telephone:
514-935-3312
Email:
admin@quebec-elan.org
Website:
www.quebec-elan.org
Contact:
Guy Rodgers, Executive
Director
Description
The
English-Language Arts Network is devoted to helping
H3Z
1X4
Telephone:
514-933-0878
Email:
admin@qwf.org
Website:
www.qwf.org
Contact:
Description
The
Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) aims to promote and
encourage
English-language
writing and writers in
The
QWF has a directory of numerous