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 Marie DuPont Photo: André Cornellier |
Marie DuPont Chair of the Board of Directors Appointed Chair of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in October 2009. A graduate of the University of Ottawa and the London Film School, Marie DuPont has occupied a number of management positions. For over 10 years, she served as the managing director of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal. Since 1996, she has been the Director General of the International Economic Forum of the Americas. In 2004, she was appointed editor- in- chief of the review Forces and Director of Décision Média. She also worked in the film and television sectors for several years. E-mail: marie.dupont @ calq.gouv.qc.ca |
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 Yvan Gauthier Photo: Jac Mat |
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 Agathe Alie |
Agathe Alie Appointed in March 2009 for a first term. Agathe Alie holds a bachelor's degree in industrial relations and public relations from Université Laval and a certificate in communications from the Université du Québec à Hull. She has been Public Affairs Director at the Cirque du Soleil since 2002, a position that she has combined with that of Assistant to the Vice-President, Citizenship, since 2006. She previously served as director of the playhouse at the Théâtre du Casino du Lac Leamy and as a researcher and director at Société Radio-Canada. Over the years, she has been a member of the Réseau national des galas de la chanson, the Board of Directors of the Salon du livre de l'Outaouais and the Commission permanente de la culture in Hull. Since 2004, she has sat on the Board of Directors of En Piste, the Circus Arts National Network. |
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 Francine Bernier photo: Michael Slobodian |
Francine Bernier Vice-president of the Board of Directors Appointed in May 2008 for a first term. Francine Bernier has worked in the realms of dance and theatre for over 20 years. Since 1992, she has been the Director General and Artistic Director of the Agora de la danse, an important Montréal promoter of contemporary dance. Prior to occupying this position, she was administrative director of the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui and a cultural advisor in the realm of theatre with the Conseil des arts de Montréal. |
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 Michel Biron photo: Pascal Brissette |
Michel Biron Appointed on November 30, 2011 for a first term. Michel Biron holds a doctorate in literature from the Université de Liège (Belgium) and a master's degree in French studies from the Université de Montréal. He is a full professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at McGill University, where he specializes in Québec literature, French-language Belgian literature and the late 19th century French novel. Since 2002, he has held the Canada Research Chair in Québécois and Francophone Literature. He has received numerous awards in the course of his career, including the Prix Gabrielle-Roy and the Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais, granted in 2008 for Histoire de la littérature québécoise (Éditions Boréal, with François Dumont and Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge), the Prix Jean Éthier-Blais 2001 for the best work of criticism devoted to Québec literature for L'absence du maître. Saint-Denys Garneau, Ferron, Ducharme (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal), and the Prix du rayonnement des lettres belges à l'étranger, which he received in 2006 on the recommendation of the Commission des Lettres de la Communauté française de Belgique. His current research is focusing on literary history, social criticism and the art of the novel. |
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 Charles-Mathieu Brunelle photo: Pierre Charbonneau |
Charles-Mathieu Brunelle Appointed in March 2009 for a first term. Director General of the Muséums nature de Montréal since 2008, Charles-Mathieu Brunelle founded the TOHU and served as its Executive Vice-President from 1999 to 2008. He studied contemporary dance at the Conservatoire Mudra in Brussels. He served as Director General and Artistic Director of the Spindrift Dance Theatre in Kingston from 1980 to 1985. He was subsequently appointed Director General of the Compagnie de danse Marie Chouinard, Director General of PRIM, Co-Director of the Cinémathèque québécoise, and CEO of Océan Diffusion. |
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 Alan Côté |
Alan Côté Appointed in October 2007 for a first term. Alan Côté studied literature and the promotion of cultural activities at the Université du Québec à Montréal and performance in the theatre option at the Cégep Lionel-Groulx before settling in Petite-Vallée, Gaspésie, where he was born. In 1983, he founded the Café de la Vieille Forge. He became the Artistic Director of the Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée in 1990 and, since 1998, has managed activities overall at the Village en chanson de Petite-Vallée, i.e. the Théâtre de la Vieille Forge, the indoor-outdoor café and exhibition space, the Camp de formation en chanson and the celebrated Festival, which reveals each year new talents in the realm of Québec popular song. Mr. Côté sat for several years on the Conseil de la culture de la Gaspésie and was Vice-President of the Réseau organisateur de spectacles de l'Est du Québec (ROSEQ). |
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 Luc Courchesne Photo: Jean-Guy Thibodeau |
Luc Courchesne Appointed in May 2008 for a first term. A media artist trained in communications design at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and in the visual arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Luc Courchesne is a professor-researcher at the École de design industriel at the Université de Montréal. He has also served as President of Idéaction since 1979. Between 1975 and 1982, he worked for GSM Design Production. |
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 Marie-Thérèse Fortin Photo: Isabelle Clément |
Marie-Thérèse Fortin Appointed in May 2008 for a first term. Marie-Thérèse Fortin has been the Artistic Director of the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui since 2004, prior to which she was Artistic Director of the Théâtre du Trident for six years. Trained in performance at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec, Ms. Fortin has played outstanding characters both on stage and on television and in the cinema. |
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 Luc Gallant |
Luc Gallant Appointed in March 2010 for a first term. Luc Gallant is a chartered accountant and Associate Partner at KPMG. |
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 Mona Hakim |
Mona Hakim Appointed in January 2009 for a first term. Mona Hakim holds a master's degree in arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is an exhibition curator, art critic and instructor in art history at the Cégep André-Laurendeau in Montréal. Her writing appears in exhibition catalogues and brochures, artists' monographs and specialized journals. In her capacity as a curator, she has organized in Québec and abroad several exhibitions devoted to artists' groups or individual artists. She has also participated in symposia as a speaker and moderator, has sat on numerous selection panels and served as a member of the boards of directors of organizations such as the Centre Est-Nord-Est in Saint Jean-Port Joli and Ciel variable, a photography magazine. |
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 Jo-Ann Kane Photo: Christian Perreault |
Jo-Ann Kane Appointed in March 2012 Jo-Ann Kane is an art historian who holds a master's degree in museology from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has been the curator of the collection of the National Bank of Canada since 2002 and is the President of the Association des Collections d'entreprises du Québec, an organization that assembles the curators and owners of corporate collections to maximize their visibility and promote art in the business community. From 1997 to 2000, she served as curator of Hydro-Québec's art collection. In her capacity as a consultant and invited curator, Jo-Ann Kane has carried out several projects, including the exhibition entitled Charles Daudelin maître de l'espace presented at the Musée des Maîtres et artisans du Québec in 2004, and the exhibition entitled Yonder : entre ici et là presented by the Conseil des arts de Montréal in conjunction with the Exposer dans l'île program in 2008. Jo-Ann Kane has also published articles in academic journals. In 2010, the faculty of arts at UQÀM appointed her an ambassador. She is also a member of the Comité de Gestion de la Galerie de l'UQÀM and a member of the boards of directors of Vox and the Fondation de l'art pour la guérison. |
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 Stéphane Laforest Photo: Jean-Guy Thibodeau |
Stéphane Laforest Appointed in May 2008 for a first term. A clarinettist by training, Stéphane Laforest has occupied since 1994 the positions of Artistic Director, Director General and conductor of the Orchestre la Sinfonia de Lanaudière. In 1998, he also became Artistic Director and conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke. In 2005, he also took up the positions of conductor and Artistic Director of the Orchestre symphonique du Nouveau-Brunswick. He is First assistant conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. |
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 Louise Lemieux-Bérubé |
Louise Lemieux-Bérubé Appointed in March 2009 for a first term. Louise Lemieux-Bérubé has been a professional artist for nearly 30 years and holds a bachelor's degree in art history from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is recognized as a pioneer through her innovative use of Jacquard techniques in weaving. Her international career has taken her to the four corners of the globe. She has been the Director General of the Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal since 1989. Between 1983 and 1995, she served as a municipal councillor in Ville LaSalle. She has served as President of the Conseil des métiers d'art du Québec from 1990 to 2000 and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) from its inception up until 2009. |
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 Dominique Payette Photo: Pierre Charbonneau |
Dominique Payette Appointed in March 2009 for a first term. Dominique Payette holds a doctorate in sociology and a master's degree in communications from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She worked as a journalist and host with Société Radio-Canada from 1980 to 1988 and from 1992 to 2006. She was also a host on Télé-Québec from 1988 to 1991. From 1989 to 2006, she was a lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Université de Montréal and the École nationale d'administration publique. Since 2006, she has been a professor in the Département d'information et de communication at Université Laval. |
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