Programming

For his public writing project, fernando belote will express himself in P(B)ajubá, the queer dialect used by dissidents living in the stolen territory known as Brazil.

What are the most effective means of communicating the need for both environmental and social justice through short texts to a transient public who might come across them by chance?

Living in a housing cooperative means gaining an immense privilege: a reprieve from capitalism and housing insecurity. It's also a daily challenge with a plethora of sub-aspects, sometimes obvious but often unsuspected.

I want to teleport to Sainte-Cunégonde Park with an idea of the future from Cuba. I want my language to appear there: in Spanish, French, English, or simply, in “poetry”.

The police surrounded us for hours, denying us water, access to toilets, and the warm clothes we were brought. The City has acknowledged its wrongdoing, but the apology is half-hearted and disappointing, firmly planted in an era where words like intersectional and systemic scare the powerful.

My creative projects question, through a reflection on inhabiting, the [so-called] boundaries between public and private space, identity and otherness, intimate territory, and social fabric, as well as the forces at work in the act of inhabiting.

Almost everyone has been struck by the arbitrariness of the categories on which official forms are built, but the experiences of immigration undoubtedly make us particularly sensitive to it.

The words collide. They form black diamonds, the poetic jewels of Club Ami.

Bélinda Bélice explores the corporeal dimension of the voice by playing with the language registers and the form of the text. Her poetic project is about parading the family stories that we inherit despite ourselves, and all the other ones that we get to pick up during our lives.

Presentation of participating projects in the Public Writing component of the 2022-2023 programming

DARE-DARE forges ahead with its urban poetry/writing project. Borrowing the brief form of the tagline, haiku or tweet, these short sentences, aphorisms, poems or questions are displayed in a light box for a week.

In the immigrant trajectory, from one generation to the next, the fracture between the mother tongues of the parent and the child makes each word an issue, each expression a labyrinth where countries mix.

Karianne Trudeau Beaunoyer presents a series of 12 sentences composed from the answers of fifteen creators to a questionnaire on their perceptions relative to death.

Roseline Lambert presents twelve plants rooted in the Sainte-Cunégonde park. These words of plants and trees are translated into several languages to testify to the human sounds that these plants have heard during their vegetal reign.

At the billboard, Amélie Dumoulin proposes to "dry" words recovered after washing and explore the interferences of translations that are frequently found on clothing labels and instruction manuals for household appliances.

DARE-DARE forges ahead with its urban poetry/writing project. Borrowing the brief form of the tagline, haiku or tweet, these short sentences, aphorisms, poems or questions are displayed in a light box for a week