Behind every dream there is at least one individual. Standing in the way of every dream there is at least one obstacle. At the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), for every student dream, there is now an organization founded by students called Capteur de rêves that is committed to offering the university’s student population platforms for showcasing their creativity. The first and only student centre for the promotion of arts and culture established at a Québec university, Capteur de rêves has already developed three permanent projects: L’Informateur, a weekly bulletin advertising the activities taking place on campus, the Fébriloscope, a film club enabling student filmmakers to present their works to the public in a theatre and the Galerie d’en face, a virtual art gallery where all UQAM students can exhibit their works free of charge. Other projects will soon see the light such as Caméléon, UQAM’s first student film festival, and the Banque de compétences étudiantes. Born of a will to help promote artistic projects, thanks to the services it offers, Capteurs de rêves has already contributed to bringing to life some thirty student projects.
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For over three years now, McGill University students from various disciplines who share the same passion for music have been meeting together in order to carry out the Fantasia McGill project. A veritable forum of talent where creative ideas, artistic genius and musical performance can interact, Fantasia finds concrete expression through a series of highly colourful presentations in which all participants are dedicated to giving their utmost. Bringing together singers, musicians and dancers of every style, Fantasia stages its performances on a monthly basis in various hospitals and retirement homes in the metropolitan area, enabling the residents of these establishments to attend an event that is at once festive and joyous. As well as being an opportunity to publicly showcase their talents, the members of Fantasia can evolve and thus give a social dimension to their artistic expression. As such, last January they decided to give a benefit concert to raise funds for tsunami victims which enabled them to donate almost $1,500 to the Red Cross.
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Launched intuitively in May 2002 by a group of students at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) who wanted to offer artists from different backgrounds a place for co-creation and inter-artistic dialogue, the AgorA FestiF is now a major annual event. As proof, on May 22, 2004, in the space of only one night, AgorA FestiF brought together over 4,200 participants, including 600 artists from 35 disciplines. Acrobats, dancers, poets, photographers, sculptors, writers and musicians, of all styles and to name just a few, shared one ambition: to join forces and work together towards creating a collective work which would well illustrate the multi-faceted and effervescent identity of an up-and-coming artistic community. This one-night art celebration paved the way for the development of a multitude of related projects including Holmium, Dia-gnostique, the Diapason project and a number of other collective endeavours. The project’s instigators, who perceive the event as a springboard for a renewal of social dynamics, would like to see the creation of similar AgorA FestiF events which would favour free expression and provide participants with a place to exchange ideas.
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