EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Installations and exhibits
Launches of all installations and exhibits in the region will take place simultaneously on July 6. These will be presented until September 10, 2012, in the 14 host municipalities on the Gaspé Peninsula: Cap-Chat, Marsoui, Rivière-à-Claude, Grande-Vallée, Gaspé, Percé, Chandler, Paspébiac, Bonaventure, New Richmond, Maria, Carleton-sur-Mer, Nouvelle, and Matapedia.
Professional week
The professional week, meanwhile, which brings together all the photographers, will run from August 18 to 25, 2012. That week will be a unique opportunity to meet – at projections, workshops and lectures – the more than 30 professional and emerging photographers from the Gaspésie, other parts of Québec, elsewhere in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
Get-togethers around creation
For this 3rd edition, ten photo projections will be staged on various buildings or attractions, with the guest photographers in attendance. This original formula for the general public allows for extraordinary get-togethers among visitors, the photographers and the local population, who are seeing the facilities in their municipalities used as they have never been before, in the service of art.
Very special settings for communion between artist and audience, the public events make it possible for the artists to convey the nature of their work, however short-lived the activity. The photographic lecture-discussions, for their part, enable the public to learn about the photographers’ artistic approaches, and in that way arrive at a better understanding of photography generally.
Open-air projections, public events and photographic lecture-discussions
| Activities | Schedule | Host municipalities |
|---|---|---|
| Opening evening of the 3rd edition of Rencontres
Projection of the work of Normand Rajotte (Montreal, Québec) and Ewa Monika Zebrowski (Montreal, Québec) Exchanges with the audience on the interpretation of day-to-day life in photography. |
Aug 18
7 p.m. |
Marsoui
Centre récréatif 1, rue de l’Église |
| Vernissage of the first stage of the project Platform, by Serge Clément (Montreal, Québec), as part of the Parcours du Point de vue
Presentation of the project and discussion over breakfast. |
Aug 19
10 a.m. |
Rivière-à-Claude
Rest area |
| Guided tour of the exhibit La Presse: Current events from 1990 to 2012(100 photos on exhibit at Grande-Vallée) | Aug 19
2 p.m. |
Grande-Vallée
Under the Galipeault covered bridge Rue du Vieux-Pont |
| The artist – agent of change!
Projection andlecture presenting the artistic approaches of Doreen Lyndsay (Montréal, Québec), Gabor Szilasi (Montreal, Québec), and Edward Burtynsky (Toronto, Ontario) |
Aug 19
7 p.m. |
Gaspé
Outdoor stage of the Musée de la Gaspésie 80, boulevard de Gaspé In case of rain: Entrance hall of the Musée |
| Vernissage of the second stage in the project Platform by Serge Clément (Montreal, Québec), as part of the Parcours du Point de vue
Presentation and discussion of the artist’s project, carried out over more than 20 years in the Gaspé and the Magdalen Islands. |
Aug 20
2 pm. |
Percé
Courthouse Park (124, Route 132) |
| Part 1: Event for the Memory of the Docks
Appearance by Maryse Goudreau (Pointe-à-la-Croix, the Gaspé, Québec) on the Chandler dock Part 2: Encounter on the site of the photographic installations of Guillaume D. Cyr and Yana Ouellet (Quebec City, Québec) |
Aug 20
6 p.m. |
Part 1: Chandler
On the CTMA dock (rue Ernest-Whittom) Part 2: Chandler Parc du Souvenir (Corner rue Commerciale East and avenue Rehel) |
| Projection of the work of Jocelyne Alloucherie (Montreal, Québec) and get-together with the artist, and projection of the work of Flora (Paris, France) – get-together with the artist to be confirmed
Presentation of the projects and respective approaches of these two artists. |
Aug 21
7 p.m. |
Paspébiac
Banc-de-Pêche-de-Paspébiac historical site 3e Rue |
| Part 1: Projection and get-together with Vanessa Winship (London, U.K.)
Part 2: Projection and get-together with Eli Laliberté (Cascapédia–Saint-Jules, Gaspésie, Québec) Part 3: Presentation of short films by Serge Clément (Montreal, Québec): Aurore (Dawn) and Parfum de lumière (Perfume of Light) |
Aug 22
7 p.m. |
Bonaventure
Marina 159, rue de Beaubassin |
| Projection of the work of Guy Lavigeur (Montreal, Québec) and Roger Proulx (Montreal, Québec)
Discussion about their various creation projects. |
Aug 23
7 p.m. |
Matapedia
Église Saint-Laurent-de-Matapédia 1, rue du Carillons |
| Photojournalism: its future and its practice
Get-together and discussion with Anja Niedringhaus (Geneva, Switzerland), Martin Beaulieu (Montreal, Québec) and Martin Tremblay (La Presse, Montreal, Québec) |
Aug 24
5:30 p.m. |
Carleton-sur-Mer
(Carleton sector) Centre d’artiste Vaste et Vague 774, boulevard Perron |
| Part 1: Tour of the exhibit of Martin Beaulieu (Montreal, Québec)
Part 2: Breakfast get-together with Aislinn Leggett (Montreal, Québec) |
Aug 25
10 a.m. |
Part 1: Carleton-sur-Mer
(Saint-Omer sector) Rest area on Route 132 (1.7 km west of the church) Part 2: Nouvelle Place du Marché (yard of the Petite École) 150, Route 132 Est In case of rain: inside the Petite École |
| Closing evening under the tent
Lecture and commentaries on certain elements of the exhibit Le Devoir: Current events from 1990 to2012 (122 photos displayed at Maria), by Jean-François Nadeau, cultural-page director at the newspaper Le Devoir (Montreal, Québec) Projection of a selection of photographs by all the artists who took part in the 3rd edition of Rencontres Evening presented in association with the Municipality of Maria. |
Aug 25
6 p.m. |
Maria
Under the tent, Parc du Vieux-Quai, Auberge Mowatt 550, boulevard Perron |