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RAEV, Recognizing Artists: Enfin Visibles!
A sampling of artists chosen by their peers to create a “group portrait” of English-speaking artists in Quebec, coordinated by ELAN (English-Language Arts Network.) Click on the link for a fascinating introduction to Quebec’s English-speaking writers, musicians, dancers, visual artists, actors, and filmmakers. The sampling of artists featured represents a spectrum of disciplines, regions, and career stages: from internationally renowned icons to emerging artists creating a buzz in their local scene. RAEV is a true revelation of the diversity and depth of creativity in Quebec.CKUT
CKUT is a non-profit, campus-community radio station based at McGill University. CKUT provides alternative music, news and spoken word programming to the city of Montreal and surrounding areas, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Hear us at 90.3 MHz on the FM dial, 91.7 by cable, or listen on-line.
CKUT is made up of over 200 volunteers working with a staff of coordinators, not just to make creative and insightful radio programming, but also to manage the station. The station operates on a collective management system that includes volunteers in decision-making.
Distroboto
DISTROBOTO machines are former cigarette machines which no longer sell cigarettes, but instead, sell art in the form of miniature books, crafts, comics, music, film, animation and more!
Distroboto provides an opportunity to emerging artists of all disciplines—visual arts, film, animation, music, literature and poetry, crafts etc.—to gain wider exposure by making examples of their work easily accessible to the public.
The low price (two dollars) as well as the original way in which it is sold encourages the public to discover a whole world of local art that they might not have otherwise encountered. What's more, nearly all sales revenues to go directly to the artists.
Since the first Distroboto machine was launched in January, 2001, more than 500 local artists have sold more than 30 000 items through these machines.
expozine
EXPOZINE, Montreal's small press, comic and zine fair, is also Canada's largest zine fair and one of North America's largest small press fairs! Over the course of one weekend each fall, some 300 different vendors and creators of all kinds of printed matter (in both English and French) present and sell their works to nearly 15 000 visitors.
Expozine was born in 2002 with the goal of helping the public discover the multitude of local publications that fall outside the mainstream. It's also become a place where the small press community and local writers and artists make new connections and plan future collaborations.
The event attracts thousands of visitors eager to purchase material they might not find elsewhere, and each year more exhibitors come from across Canada, the United States and Europe to be part of one of the premier showcases of alternative publishing on the continent.
Quebec Writers' Federation
The Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) is playing an increasingly prominent role in the life of the Quebec English-language literary community as an arts presenter and professional and community educator, as well as the representative of Quebec's English-language writers.
Along with professional and emerging writers, the QWF includes those who have a personal interest in writing and many who have joined because they are interested in high quality literary events, activities and programs. All of these constituents are linked by the QWF vision that works toward ensuring a lasting place for English literature and its practitioners on the Quebec cultural scene.
English Language Arts Network
The English Language Arts Network (ELAN) is devoted to helping Quebec's English-language artists connect with one another, with their francophone colleagues and with their audiences in Quebec, Canada and internationally. ELAN is above all a dynamic, multi-disciplinary community. Created in 2005 by a group of professional artists who wanted to exchange ideas, resources and connections, ELAN offers monthly "schmoozers", workshops, mentorship, a monthly newsletter, and a website that allows members to promote their work and connect on-line.
