News Releases - 2012
Vivacité Montréal - $168,000 in support for 24 projects by immigrant or visible minority professional artists living in Montréal
Montreal, 21 June 2012 – Partners in the Vivacité Montréal program announced today that $168,000 in grants has been awarded for 2011-2012 to 24 creators who are immigrants or members of visible minority groups residing in Montréal. These grants will support personal projects of exploration, production, dissemination, training or travel.
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Artistic discipline |
Artist |
Grant amount |
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Media arts |
Nika Khanjani |
$8 000 |
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Kiarash Anvari |
8 000 |
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Multidisciplinary arts |
Maria Isabel Rondon |
8 000 |
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Visual arts |
Émilie Régnier |
6 000 |
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Esther Guzman Martin |
7 000 |
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Elisha Lim |
8 000 |
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Melissa Morris |
9 000 |
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Manuel Mathieu |
6 000 |
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Dance |
Zohar Melinek |
6 400 |
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Rhodnie Désir |
8 000 |
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Valérie Lessard |
6 400 |
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Frédéric Tavernini |
9 000 |
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Literature |
Timothy Mook Sang |
1 700 |
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Music |
Olivier Laroche |
8 000 |
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Abdel Karim Benzaïd |
8 000 |
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Jocelyn Bruno |
9 000 |
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Geeta Pearson |
9 000 |
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Radwan Moumneh |
8 000 |
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Sountou Goumba Diarra |
5 000 |
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Martin Rodriguez |
8 000 |
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Kevin Asha John |
7 000 |
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Javier Sebastián Asencio |
4 000 |
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Kimihiro Yasaka |
3 500 |
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Theatre |
Marcelo Arroyo |
7 000 |
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Total |
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168 000 |
A multidisciplinary selection committee analysed 113 applications. The high number and high quality of the applications is a testament to the relevance of this program, which provides financial support to professional artists and writers in their efforts to integrate and participate in the professional arts community in Canada, and encouragement in the development of their careers.
The Vivacité Montréal program supports artistic projects that contribute to the professionalization of artists. It encourages artistic and literary initiatives that are carried out in cooperation with the professional arts communities of Montreal, and projects that promote the access of the public of Montreal to the work of immigrant and visible minority creators.
The program was the result of a partnership agreement signed for the first time in 2007 and renewed in 2011 for a three-year period by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal, the ministère de l’Immigration et des Communautés culturelles, the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Fondation of Greater Montreal.
Information:
Marc Drouin
Directeur des communications, du mécénat et des territoires
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
514 864-2930 or 1 800-608-3350