Montreal, arts interculturels explained

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Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI) is a multidisciplinary cultural organization of Montreal created in 1999.[1] It is located on Jeanne-Mance Street.[2] It opened in 1999,[3] and exhibits contemporary art, dance, music, theatre, painting, sculpture, and video.[4] The mission of MAI is to facilitate and initiate intercultural relations.[5]

Description

The MAI is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote intercultural artistic practices in order to enable a dialogue between cultures in Montreal. MAI subsidizes and presents projects in dance, theatre, visual and media arts, spoken word, etc. It accompanies emerging or established artists and particularly supports artists from culturally diverse backgrounds. The organization has a theatre, a gallery, a café and two rehearsal rooms.

History

In 1990, the Regroupement pour le développement des pratiques artistiques interculturelles was created. In 1989, the group decided to work on the creation of a new cultural space in Montreal, and it was in Milton Park, on Jeanne-Mance Street, that the MAI was established in 1999. The organization then had a café, a gallery and two rehearsal rooms. In 2005, the MAI inaugurated its artist accompaniment program, which will be renamed "Complices" in 2018. Initially, the program was primarily aimed at Indigenous and culturally diverse artists, but the program has gradually expanded to include artists with disabilities, from linguistic minorities or LGBTQAAI communities.

Missions

The MAI's main mission is to encourage dialogue by presenting intercultural artistic approaches to issues of identity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Thus, the organization has two main missions. The first is to accompany artists in their development and/or promotion in order to stimulate hybrid productions and transversal, multidisciplinary and intercultural approaches. The second mission aims to address a varied audience and to propose a programming as well as inclusive workshops for both connoisseurs and neophytes. To do so, the MAI proposes accompanying programmes as well as an annual programme. Faced with the lack of cultural diversity in the contemporary arts in Quebec, the MAI has also put forward the contemporary arts of the Black communities.

Programmation

Each year the MAI proposes a season programmation, featuring some twenty artists. The program includes exhibitions (an average of four per year), dance, music and other performances in the MAI theatre and shows presented outside the walls in partnership with other cultural spaces in Montreal. Several artists who have gained notoriety in Quebec, Canada and sometimes internationally have been part of the programming in previous years, such as Manuel Mathieu, Hannah Claus, Jean-Daniel Rohrer, Dana Michel, Su-Feh Lee, Daina Ashbee, The Dancers of Damelahamid, etc. In recent years, the difficulties for foreign artists to enter Canada have caused some problems for the organization.

The MAI 2018-2019 season is entitled How Deep is Your Love ? and presents nearly thirty events in dance, music, theatre, interdisciplinary arts, spoken word and five exhibitions in visual arts.

Programming by year
Season poster Event name Artist(s) Artistic Category Artist's city
2019-20 SeasonArtistic director : Michael Toppings. Theme : Reflect
Camille: un rendez-vous au delà du visuel[6] [7] [8] Audrey-Anne BouchardTheatreMontreal
Fragments d'Ana[9] Ligia BorgesTheatreMontreal
L'exhuméeJulie RobinsonVisual artsMontreal
Borderlines[10] Taoufiq IzeddiouDanceMarrakech
Fa'addebhou li (dresse-le pour moi)[11] Nancy NaousDanceBeirut, Paris
Jogging[12] Hanane Hajj AliTheatreBeirut
Carrion[13] Justin ShoulderInterdisciplinarySydney
Faith Hole[14] Nate YaffeDanceMontreal
Colonial Body-IslandsPayam MofidiVisual artsMontreal
real's fiction \ dissonant_pleasures[15] Benjamin KaminoDanse, InterdisciplinaryMontreal
MAD | Motions and Dynamics100LUX + Forward MovementsDanceMontreal
One Kind Favor[16] George Stamos + Karla Etienne + Radwan Ghazi MoumnehDanceMontreal
The Novels of Elsgüer (Episode 5); if I saw you, I don't RememberSantiago Tavera + Laura AcostaVisual artsMontreal
White [Ariane]Ariah LesterTheatre, MusicAmsterdam, Caracas
Dreamweaver[17] [18] AnachnidMusicMontreal
Take d milk, nah? (cancelled COVID-19)Jivesh ParasramTheatreToronto, Vancouver
De l'horizontal au vertical(cancelled COVID-19)José Luis TorresVisual artsMontreal
Sur ce chemin, tu es sûre de te perdre (cancelled COVID-19)Diana LeónDanceMontreal
Zom-Fam (cancelled COVID-19)Kama La MackerelPerformance, TheatreMauritius, Montreal
Walking at night by myselfNancy TamInterdisciplinaryVancouver
PomegranateHeather MahDanceMontreal
Strike/thruNadia Myre + Johanna NutterInterdisciplinaryMontreal
2018-19 SeasonArtistic director : Michael Toppings. Theme : How Deep is Your Love ?
Birds Crossing Borders[19] Khadija BakerVisual ArtsMontreal
Sound of the Beast[20] Donna-Michelle St. BernardBlack Theatre WorkshopTheatreToronto
Birthmark[21] Teesri Duniya TheatreTheatreMontreal
To live as an organ within oneselfNaghmeh SharifiVisual artsMontreal
Wamunzo[22] Zab MagoungouCompagnie Danse Nyata NyataDanceMontreal
Lévriers[23] Sophie Gee / Nervous HunterTheatreMontreal
Cain & AbelArash and Aryo Khakpour / The Biting SchoolDance / TheatreVancouver
In-Ward[24] [25] Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé / Compagnie EBNFLŌHDanceMontreal
Wàsakozi[26] Mich CotaMusicMontreal
Le je et le nous / The I and The We, présenté avec VidéographeZoë Chan avec Arnait Video Productions, Shirley Bruno, Tonia Di Risio, Kirsten Leenars, Caroline Monnet, Anala Riley and Karen TamVisual artsMultiples
CreaturesLuca Lazylegz Patuelli + Roya the Destroya / RoyalazynessDanceMontreal, Melbourne
Taking BreathNaishi WangDanceToronto
Numbers increase as we count...[27] Ülfet SevdiTheatreMontreal
YevScapegoat Carnivale TheatreTheatreMontreal
MalagintoMarigold SantosVisual ArtsMontreal, Calgary and Edmonton
Own Your Voice[28] [29] Madame GandhiMusicLos Angeles
The Mixolos Mitchtape Live In Montréal (#MMLinMTL)Mitcholos Touchie and guestsSpoken wordVancouver
SéancersJaamil Olawale KosokoBlack.art.empowerment SeriesNew York
$elfie$MarikiscrycrycryLondon
Afrogalactica, a brief history of the futureKapwani KiwangaParis
terrestrialjumatatu m. poePhiladelphia, New York
Seeds Cast Afar From Our RootsAngie Cheng, Winnie Ho and Chi LongDance and InterdisciplinaryMontreal
Exilium[30] Santiago Tamayo SolerTaking Place Performance SeriesMontreal
Neuter AlityYunuen RhiLos Angeles
Undress/Re-DressNoëmi LakmaierLondon
My Last American DollarKeijaun ThomasNew York
MarvelousBryan CampbellParis
Muy SerioCarlos Maria RomeroBaranquilla
Vomiting FlowersHea R. KimVisual artsMontreal
Radio III[31] Elisa Harkins, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë PoluchDance and interdisciplinaryMontreal, Stockholm and Oklahoma
2016-17 SeasonArtistic director : Michael Toppings. Theme : Follow Our Exemple
L'envers des îles blanches[32] Claudia BernalInterdisciplinary Montreal
Leila's Death[33] Ali ChahrourDance, performance Beirut
The Demonstration[34] Coco GuzmánInstallation Toronto
Made in China[35] Wen Wei DanceDance Vancouver
Islam Chipsy & Eek[36] Music Cairo
Traversée[37] Voyageurs immobiles Theatre Montreal
Sonido Pesao[38] Sonido PesaoMusicMontreal
Moi, petite malgache-chinoise[39] Claudia Chan TakDanceMontreal
Accordéon[40] Kaie KelloughInterdisciplinaryMontreal
Love is a whole other creature[41] Maia IotzovaInstallation multimédiaMontreal
La ruée vers l'autreMafaneConteMontreal
La femme comme champ de bataille[42] (ou du sexe de la femme comme champ de bataille dans la guerre en Bosnie)Hashtpa ProductionsTheatreMontreal
The Sign[43] Chun Hua Catherine DongTaking Place Performance SeriesMontreal
I Stand InJulie ValcanSydney
It's not a thing[44] Keyon GaskinPortland
Make A LineFrancisco-Fernando GranadosToronto
50 BulbsHee Ran LeeNew York, Seoul
Lectures on flesh and death (L.O.FAD)[45] Francis Marion Moseley WilsonOberlin, Glasgow
If I were the ApocalypseMartin O'BrienLondon
Uroborus[46] [47] La Pocha Nostra (Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Saul Garcia-Lopez et Bailtronica Gomez)San Francisco
Make Banana CryAndrey Tay, Stephen ThompsonAgglomérat Interdisciplinary SeriesMontreal, Paris, Calgary
RavemachineDoris Uhlich, Michael TurinskyVienne
AL13B<3Fernando BelfioreRio de Janeiro, Amsterdam
AattilleSimon PortigalMontreal

Public outreach Public+

The Public+ programme was inaugurated in 2009. It aims to propose activities in parallel with the exhibitions and the official MAI programme in order to raise questions and debates or simply to allow interaction.

The MAI's location in Milton Parc, between the Plateau Mont-Royal and downtown, allows it to address a variety of audiences. It is a central district of Montreal where several languages are spoken as well as several communities: academic, residential and professional. The site reflects the MAI's desire to offer inclusive programming and support that brings together various audiences and communities in an ongoing search for exchange.

Artist support program : Complices

Each year, the MAI offers to accompany artists by providing financial support or assistance in their professional development or visibility in Montreal. Through its studios, the organization also offers work spaces and residencies to support promising projects and productions. The MAI offers, among other things, support programs twinned with the Conseil des Arts de Montréal. The MAI is also a meeting place for artists who can find contact both with the public and with other artists, offering the prospect of collaborative projects.

In 2005, MAI launched its mentorship program (now called "Alliance") for racialized and newly immigrated artists in Canada. Since then, MAI has expanded the scope of this program to include artists of First Nations, Inuit and Métis descent, artists who are deaf or disabled, members of the LGBTQQIP2SAA community, and senior artists.

Alliance is a unique mentoring model in Canada. Through grants, Alliance provides support for the professional and creative development of artists (hybrid artistic practices) within a solid and flexible structure. The support grants are designed for and by artists, defined and managed with the artists and/or collectives, who determine the services they need, in a short or long term format (3 to 18 months). Since 2005, more than 317 artists, companies and/or collectives have been supported by the Alliance program: accomplice, associate, collaborator, co-conspirator, and ultimately development centre - providing a safe and secure space for professional and creative development within a solid, yet flexible structure (recipients are selected annually by a committee following a public call for proposals).

It was within this support structure, in 2018, that MAI also began to position itself as a producer (through La Ruche, a platform through which funds are injected into research, creation and/or production of artist residencies, with funds placed directly in the hands of the artists). This role as a production partner, relatively new for MAI, focuses on facilitation, navigating between the artist's vision and his or her capacities, valuing the relationship while rethinking the binarities. Since September 2018, MAI has co-produced the following Canadian shows: Lévriers by Sophie Gee, Numbers increase as you count by Ülfet Sevdi, Seeds Cast Afar From Our Roots by Angie Cheng, Winnie Ho, & Chi Long, Radio III by Elisa Harkins, Zoë Poluch & Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Real's Fiction by Benjamin Kamino, and the international co-production terrestrial with jumatatu m. poe.

External links

Notes and References

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  5. Book: Montréal 2012-2013. 229. Dominique Auzias. Jean-Paul Labourdette. Le Petit Futé. 2012. 978-2746938694. fr.
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  8. Web site: "Camille": plongée dans un théâtre intérieur. Le Devoir. 20 September 2019 . fr. 2020-02-26.
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  10. Web site: Festival Altérité, pas à pas! à Tangente. JEU Revue de théâtre. fr-FR. 2019-06-28. 2020-02-26.
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