Winners 2021-2022

Les jeunes s’exposent at the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment
École Jésus-Adolescent
Centre de services scolaire des Chênes
Estrie Region

Director General of the school service centre: Lucien Maltais School principal: Annie Joyal Project coordinators: Patricia Filion, Katy Lévesque and Jessie Renaud Main resources or partners: Jessie Mélissa Bossé, Cégep de Drummondville, Véronique Chagnon, Anne Deslauriers, École des Deux-Moulins, École du Rucher, École Le Sommet, Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment, Claudel Lauzière-Vanasse, Anahita Norouzi, Marie-Pier Trottier, Valérie Trudel, Université Laval and Vivianne Vincent

event, Les jeunes s’exposent, students from schools in Drummondville and Québec presented their work produced during a collaborative creation project with artist Anahita Norouzi. This month-long exhibit brought together works by students from Cégep de Drummondville, the École Le Sommet, the École Jésus Adolescent, the École du Rucher and the École des Deux-Moulins. Two participating classes, which distinguished themselves by the quality of their commitment, had a chance to visit the current exhibits at the Grantham Foundation and participated in creation and appreciation activities inspired by the works presented.

Subjects targeted by the project: Visual Arts, Ethics and Religious Culture

Dans ma bulle
École Sainte-Colette
Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île
Montréal Region

Director General of the school service centre: Marjolaine Dupuis
School principal: Guylaine Crousset
Project coordinators: David Corbeil and Aurélie Spooren

Main resources or partners: Mario Desroches, Maxime Dupuis, Maison culturelle et communautaire de Montréal-Nord, Françoise Saint-Pierre, Sœurs Schmutt and Chad Verilli

The Dans ma bulle project focuses on the cultural background of students who have recently immigrated. This dance theatre production, inspired by works from youth literature, tells the story of two children fleeing from war and the ravages of climate change. The students wrote the text with the support of their teachers and benefited from dance workshops with choreographer Séverine Lombardo. The show was presented at the École Primaire Sainte-Colette and at the Maison culturelle et communautaire de Montréal-Nord as part of the Festival des arts. This production forged links between the students’ cultures and the school environment, families and cultural partners.

Subjects targeted by the project: Drama, Dance

Unir la différence au-delà des mots et des sons
École Madeleine-Bergeron and École oraliste de Québec pour enfants malentendants ou sourds (private school)
Centre de services scolaire des Découvreurs
Capitale-Nationale Region

Director General of the school service centre: Christian Pleau
School principal: Julie Boulanger
Project coordinators: Marie-Dominique Boivin and Jonathan Bolduc
Main resources or partners: Atwood photographie, Olivier Carrillo, Collège Saint Charles-Garnier, Lucie Demers, Martin Deschamps, Fédération des associations de musiciens éducateurs du Québec, Guylaine Guay, Vincent Hamel, Journal de Québec, Le Droit, Le Nouvelliste, Métro Média, René Simard, TVA/LCN and Université Laval

This multidisciplinary art project by the École Madeleine-Bergeron and the École oraliste de Québec pour enfants malentendants ou sourds was carried out with students from seven different classes who are all growing up in a context of diversity. From French to performing arts, different competencies were developed in the composition and performance of songs. The students of the École oraliste wrote the lyrics, which improved their language skills. Those from the École Madeleine-Bergeron were able to overcome their severe physical limitations by creating musical accompaniments and designing avatars in the visual arts. All students were able to experience filming. They produced a digital brochure and demonstrated their artistic potential during a concert performance.

Subjects targeted by the project: Music, Visual Arts, French

Courtepointe végétale pour les moutondeuses
École des Cheminots – l’Envol
Centre de services scolaire des Phares
Bas-Saint-Laurent Region

Director General of the school service centre: Madeleine Dugas
School principal: Sébastien Rioux
Project coordinators: Philippe Cavanagh, David Leclerc, Valérie Piché and Sébastien Rioux
Main resources or partners: Fourchette bleue, Reford Gardens, Télé-Québec and Université du Québec à Rimouski

Gardens, that students from the École des Cheminots – de l’Envol met for 12 days to work on an innovative interdisciplinary project. With the help of their teachers, the students created a giant grass quilt for the “lambmowers,” the lambs that tend the lawns of the Reford Gardens. This complex project involving ephemeral art, French, mathematics, ethics and religious culture, history and science gave birth to an unprecedented performance in an exceptionally rich cultural venue.

Subjects targeted by the project: Visual Arts, French, Mathematics, Geography

À conte-courant, mémoires du Saint-Laurent
École Saint-Anselme
Centre de services scolaire de Montréal
Montréal Region

Director General of the school service centre: Isabelle Gélinas
School principal: Sylvie Beaudoin
Project coordinator: Isabelle Therrien
Main resources or partners: Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre, AML Cruises, École Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur, École Saint-Joseph, Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto and Éric Michaud

A sculpture of a beluga whale, created in visual arts classes by the students of École Saint-Anselme, was exhibited in the hall of the Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto in Montréal. The work features QR codes that allow you to see films inspired by tales and legends from Québec. These productions were created in Drama class by students in Elementary Cycle Three at the École Saint-Anselme in Montréal, the École Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur in Sacré-Coeur and the École Saint-Joseph in Tadoussac. At the end of the exhibit, the beluga whale was put on permanent display at the Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre in Tadoussac.

Subjects targeted by the project: Drama, Visual Arts, French

L’arbre à sons
École secondaire de la Cité-des-Jeunes with the participation of École secondaire du Chêne-Bleu and École secondaire Soulanges
Centre de services scolaire des Trois-Lacs
Montérégie Region

Director General of the school service centre: Chantal Beausoleil
School principal in 2021-2022: Sébastien Bédard
School principal: Nathalie Asselin
Project coordinators: Nancy Lépine and Roxanne Turcotte
Main resources or partners: Bibliothèque Marie-Uguay, Tricentris sorting centre, Conseil des arts et de la culture de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, DB Promédia, François Doyon, Les Manifestes, Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Saint-Lazare’s Les Forestiers Nature Park, Salle Maurice-Ravary and the municipality of Saint-Lazare

The students of three secondary schools of the Centre de services scolaires des Trois-Lacs carried out an original awareness-raising project on the importance of properly sorting blue-bin materials. Using the electronic TRICYCLE Tool of the Regional Municipality of the County of Vaudreuil-Soulanges, the students made musical instruments from recycled materials. This cultural mediation ended with the creation of three works of art made of recycled materials representing trees. L’arbre à sons, created by the students of the École secondaire Soulanges, was exhibited at the Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges.

Subjects targeted by the project: Visual Arts, Music

À la rencontre de l’autre
École polyvalente Jonquière
Centre de services scolaire de La Jonquière
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region

Director General of the school service centre: Sébastien Malenfant
School principal: Mario Bernier
Project coordinator: Véronique Villeneuve
Main resources or partners: Marco Collin, Amélie Courtois, Culture pour tous, Joëlle Gobeil and Kamishkak’Arts

In preparation for a visit to the Théâtre La Rubrique, Secondary IV and V students at the École polyvalente Jonquière had an opportunity to enjoy activities inspired by Indigenous cultures. After meeting Marco Collin, actor and author of the play Mashnikan, the students wrote a critique in their French class. A project in visual arts was also carried out with an artist from Mashteuiatsh, Amélie Courtois. The works created were exhibited at the Mont-Jacob Cultural Centre as part of the À la rencontre de l’autre exhibition.

Subjects targeted by the project: Visual Arts, French, Drama

Mémoire vivante et Mémoire vivante 2 : Les minuties
École du Coteau
Centre de services scolaire des Affluents
Lanaudière Region

Director General of the school service centre: Jean-François Collard
School principal: Stéphanie Brochu
Project coordinators: Nancy Gilbert, Catherine Jamieson, Émilie Savard-Isabelle and Christophe Surget
Main resources or partners: Centre d’art Diane-Dufresne, Créalab Repentigny, Lawrence Dupuis, Jonathan Harnois, Hélène Laviolette, Aydin Matlabi, Guillain Punzu, Christel Rocheteau and SOS Enfants Paris

Mémoire vivante et Mémoire vivante 2: Les minuties is an intergenerational and identity-based journey where visual arts, dance, video and music mixed with human tragedy take us to the Congo, thanks to a humanitarian artist who shares photos of child soldiers. In order to create a link between the photos, the students interpreted them and used them as the basis for a collective work. This demonstration of the students’ sensitivity to the child soldiers’ quest for identity brought their own reality into focus by giving a whole new meaning to the construction of identity.

Subjects targeted by the project: Visual Arts, Dance

Jardin Éco-Art CAL
École Curé-Antoine-Labelle
Centre de services scolaire de Laval
Laval Region

Director General of the school service centre: Yves-Michel Volcy
School principal: Stéphane Côté
Project coordinator: Isabelle Guillard
Main resources or partners: Canopée, Centre de formation horticole de Laval, Aline Chaine, Caroline Durocher, Vincent Jutras, Ali Kichou, Nathalie Levasseur, Patrick Parizeault, Susana Vigo Pérez and Valérie Vincent

The Jardin Éco-Art CAL, a collaborative project, enabled an ecological and artistic garden to be created on the grounds of the École Curé-Antoine-Labelle in Laval. The garden includes a large willow sculpture, a mosaic fountain, a permaculture-inspired food forest, a flower field and pedestrian paths bordered by wooden fences made of branches and edible flowerbeds. The entire artwork emphasizes the close and constant relationship between humans and nature from a perspective of sustainability, harmony and respect.

Subjects targeted by the project: Visual Arts, Environmental Science and Technology

Sois bel(le) et tais-toi
École Armand-Corbeil
Centre de services scolaire des Affluents
Lanaudière Region

Director General of the school service centre: Jean-François Collard
School principal: Éric Barette
Project coordinator: Sophie Pronovost
Main resources or partners: Simon Ampleman, Centre de services scolaire des Affluents cultural committee and Daniel Paquette

In the company of director Daniel Paquette, the students of the École Armand-Corbeil browsed through texts from the theatrical repertoire. By examining the history of costumes, the students contributed to their reflection on the images we project of ourselves. These readings raised questions about our choices in terms of clothes associated with certain stereotypes. The students questioned the way in which fashion trends have influenced people over time.

Subjects targeted by the project: Drama, Linguistic, Social and Educational Integration, History and Citizenship Education, Dance

Laboratoire empathique auprès des élèves présentant un trouble du spectre de l’autisme
École Le Roseau
Centre de services scolaire des Rives-du-Saguenay
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region

Director General of the school service centre: Chantale Cyr
School principal: Julie Langevin
Project coordinator: Anne-Sophie Desforges
Main resources or partners: Clowns Thérapeutiques Saguenay, Jonathan Boies and Racines Gumboot

The Laboratoire empathique project introduced the arts to young people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Jonathan Boies, a multidisciplinary artist, created the emotional and relational conditions for artistic expression. By mobilizing the young people through a caring approach, he became their creative partner in producing spontaneous works in dance, music, improvisation and clown performance. Artistic activities were also carried out with other classes in the school, which promoted communication between all students and gave the young people with ASD a positive integration into their school.

Subjects targeted by the project: Drama, Music, Dance

Scannes de Noël
École de l’Escabelle
Centre de services scolaire de la Capitale
Capitale-Nationale Region

Director General of the school service centre: Pierre Lapointe
School principal: Kathleen Michaud
Project coordinators: Alexandra Grégoire, Katie Lamontagne, Nathalie Leblanc, Marie-Christine Lord and Julie Trottier
Main resources or partners: Paméla Bisson and Culture pour tous

The Scannes de Noël collective project facilitated living together at the peak of the pandemic. All groups in the École de l’Escabelle created Christmas cards for the community. Adding QR codes to the cards made it possible to watch a Christmas song performed by the students, who were involved in all stages of the project: producing the cards, learning the song, creating the props and sets, filming and distributing the cards.

Subjects targeted by the project: Music, Visual Arts

John Zorn et l’Albadesro Songbook
École Des Roseraies
Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île
Montréal Region

Director General of the school service centre: Marjolaine Dupuis
School principal: Nathalie Germain
Project coordinator: Jean-François Charron
Main resources or partners: Simon Bellefleur, Marise Demers, Mohamed Masmoudi, Alejandra Odgers and Stéphane Poirier

The works of American composer John Zorn served as inspiration for this original music project. The school’s students, who come from different backgrounds, first tried to define their own musical cultural heritage. They learned about John Zorn’s repertoire and his approach to composing in order to create music with the help of the composer Alejandra Odgers. Visits by two musicians, oud player and Arab-music specialist Mohamed Masmoudi and percussionist Marise Demers, deepened the students’ musical experience. After several exchanges with John Zorn, who expressed a desire to hear the music they had created, the students prepared a greeting card and a recording to celebrate the composer’s 70th birthday.

Subjects targeted by the project: Music, Visual Arts, English as a second language

Les Jeunes Artistes
École Chavigny
Centre de services scolaire du Chemin-du-Roy
Mauricie Region

Director General of the school service centre: Luc Galvani
School principal in 2020-2021: Chantale Couturier
School principal: Jean-François Bédard
Project coordinator: Laurence Beaulieu-Roy
Main resources or partners: Adrénaline Urbaine, Association des enseignantes et enseignants spécialistes en arts plastiques, Culture pour tous, Culture Trois-Rivières, Marie-Jeanne Decoste, Romane Duchamp-Kempt, Fondation des amis de Chavigny, Lorie Hamel, Impression Graffiks, Innovation et Développement économique Trois-Rivières, Joelle Collection, Camilia Leclerc-Richard, Les Boîtes TchinTchin and Sébastien Vigneault

The Les Jeunes Artistes virtual art gallery, which became known on social media, allowed students from the elementary and secondary schools of the Centre de services scolaires du Chemin-du-Roy in Trois-Rivières to showcase their artistic talent throughout the province. This artistic display highlights works of theirs inspired by great artists, typographic art, drawings, mouldings, pixel-art made using small beads, group murals and other works responding to suggested themes.

Subject targeted by the project: Visual Arts

EXIL
Collège de Champigny (école privée)
Directeur général : Jean Garneau
Capitale-Nationale Region

Project coordinators: Émilie Girard, Catherine Tessier Main resources or partners: Angélique Amyot, Elisabeta Cotau, Claudia Chan Tak, Karine Chiasson, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Tina Desrochers, Marie-Ève Dion, École de danse de Québec, Jose Flores, Zaineb Hmidi, Annie Kavugho, Diana Lujan, Maison pour la danse de Québec, Laurie Marchand, Daniel Moguea, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Diana Rodriguez, Satir Productions, Service d’aide à l’adaptation des immigrants et immigrantes and Studio P.S.O.

The 102 students in the Concentration Danse program of the Collège de Champigny in Québec City devoted an entire year to awareness of the realities of refugees. Guided by their teachers, they reflected on the journeys and difficulties experienced by those who leave their country in the hope of finding a better life. The students took choreography specifically designed for them by guest artists and made it their own. They then created collective dance pieces addressing themes related to exile. A partnership with the Service d'aide à l’adaptation des immigrants et immigrantes made it possible to conduct interviews with four immigrants, who shared their life stories. The EXIL show, which generated funds for this organization, featured 17 dance pieces intertwined with eye-witness accounts drawn from the interviews.

Subjects targeted by the project: Dance, Drama, Ethics and Religious Culture, History