Proje(c)t Y, a travelling festival organized by cinema students from the Université de Montréal, the Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, takes a selection of the best short films the students have produced to cities province-wide. This itinerant festival has been giving new life and exposure to the students' movies since 1997. This year, Proje(c)t Y will be adding two new destinations to the ten cities in Quebec that it already stops by: there will be a presentation in Toronto and one overseas, at the Festival de cinéma d'Aigues-Mortes, in France. Current projects include transferring the films to video format for distribution in schools and video rental outlets, and playing in movie theatres with sub-titles. These initiatives will surely bring recognition to Proje(c)t Y's young film-makers.
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The goal of Québec's First Regional Convention of History, which was presented last March in Trois-Rivières by the UQTR History Students' Association, was to promote public interest in history and foster awareness of the various history-related organizations in the area. The event brought about thirty exhibitors together representing museums, historical societies, archives, interpretation centres, and others. Besides giving visitors the chance to attend talks, musical shows, plays, dances, and historical re-enactments, this event also contributed to bringing the university milieu and the local historical community closer. The success of this first convention opens up the possibility of holding such an event annually and eventually on a national scale.
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Presented on February 28th in Montreal's Old Port, composer Jean-François Laporte's harbour symphony is considered a musical innovation in every respect. Composed for boat horns and train whistles, this musical symphony forced Laporte to develop manufacturing techniques that would allow new and transformed sounds to be added to the instruments' range. Ordinary fog-horns and train whistles were turned into full-fledged musical instruments. What’s more, performing this symphony called for 43 musicians, who had to resort to some unorthodox techniques and use a special musical notation system created by the composer.
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