BIO NOTES

OPENING OF THE SYMPOSIUM
Simon Brault, Francine Senécal and Patrice Béghain

CULTURAL INNOVATION AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Raymond Bachand, Patrice Béghain, Jean-Paul L’Allier, Ferran Mascarell, Marie-Christine Staniec

CULTURE AS A MODEL OF INTEGRATION AND URBAN REVITALIZATION
Charles-Mathieu Brunelle

WELCOMING WORDS
Ariane Émond, Alain Bideau, Rachel Laperrière

THE CREATIVE CITY : RETHORIC AND REALITY
Charles Landry

RENEWAL, MOBILIZATION AND PARTNERSHIPS
Benoît Guillemont, Pascale Bonniel-Chalier, Anne Grumet, Rita Davies, Tim Jones

NETWORKS, MOVEMENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS
Avec Ariane Émond, Jean Hurstel, Daniel Rottner, Lise Bissonnette

FACTORS OF SUCCESS
Jean-Marc Fontan, Simon Brault, Jacques Bonniel, Michel Rautenberg

OPENING OF THE SYMPOSIUM

With Simon Brault, Francine Senécal and Patrice Béghain

Simon Brault
Chair of Culture Montréal
Simon Brault has been director general of the National Theatre School of Canada since 1997. Believing that the cultural sector must strengthen its partnerships with all facets of society, he participated in the foundation of Groupe Montréal Culture in 1993 and worked closely with the Forum d'actions des milieux culturels de la Métropole from 1994 to 1999. He was a member of the steering committee for the Chantier de l'économie sociale in 1996 and 1997. Mr. Brault was instrumental in initiating the Journées de la culture, a vast cultural access movement that held its first edition in September 1997 and today covers all regions of Quebec. He is a founding member of Culture Montreal and was elected its first chair on February 28, 2002; he continues to hold that position today. In spring 2004, he was named vice-chair of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Francine Senécal
Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the City of Montreal, in charge of Culture and Heritage
www.ville.montreal.qc.ca
Elected municipal councillor of the Côte-des-Neiges district in November 2001, Francine Senécal was named vice-chair of the City of Montreal’s Executive Committee. Since January 2004, she has also held responsibility for the culture and heritage portfolio. In this role, she sits on the board of directors of the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History (Pointe-à-Callière), the Château Ramezay Museum and the organization Les Arts et la Ville. She is also a board member of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal. Before entering politics, Francine Senécal was executive director of the Collège Lionel-Groulx; prior to that, she held various positions with the Quebec government at the Ministère de l’Éducation and the Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Science. Ms. Senécal has a master’s degree in political science from the Université du Québec à Montreal, where she is also undertaking doctoral coursework.

Patrice Béghain
City Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Lyon, in charge of Culture and Heritage
www.mairie-lyon.fr
Deputy major of the city of Lyon, responsible for culture and heritage, and councillor at the Lyon urban community since March 2001, Patrice Béghain was previously a technical consultant on interdepartmental and territorial policies on the staff of Catherine Tasca, French Minister of Culture and Communication. He was also regional director of cultural affairs in Franche-Comté from 1983 to 1985, Midi-Pyrénées from 1986 to 1990, and Rhône-Alpes from 1991 to 1996. He is the author of Le patrimoine : culture et lien social (Presses de Sciences-Po, 1998), which examines the various social, political and psychological dimensions of heritage.

SESSION 1

CULTURAL INNOVATION AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

With Patrice Béghain, Jean-Paul L’Allier, Ferran Mascarell and Marie-Christine Staniec Wavrant. A session moderated by Raymond Bachand

Jean-Paul L’Allier
Mayor of Quebec City
www.ville.quebec.qc.ca
From 1966 to 1968, he was the first director of cooperation at Quebec's Department of Cultural Affairs. He then held the position of secretary general with the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse in 1968. From 1970 to 1976, he served in the Quebec cabinet successively as Minister for Youth, Recreation, and Sports (1970), Minister of the Public Service (1970 to 1972), Minister of Communications (1970 to 1975), and Minister of Cultural Affairs (1975 to 1976). In the late 1970s, he chaired the Grand Théâtre de Québec Board of Directors and was president of the Fondation du Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal. From 1981 to 1984, he was Québec's delegate general in Belgium, and from 1985 to 1988, he acted as Honorary Consul of Belgium in Québec City. He has been mayor of Quebec City since 1989 and is chair of the Quebec Urban Community.

Ferran Mascarell
Barcelona City Councillor and Chair of the Commission on Culture, Education and Social Well-Being
www.bcn.es/cultura
Elected city councillor in 1999, Ferran Mascarell is chair of the Commission on Culture, Education and Social Well-Being of the Barcelona City Council. He is also chair of the Barcelona Institute of Culture and vice-chair of the Universal Forum of Cultures, and sits on the board of several cultural foundations in Barcelona. He previously worked as director of the city’s cultural department and its publishing section. In 1995, he orchestrated the creation of the Barcelona Institute of Culture, which establishes the city’s cultural policies, and in 1998, he chaired the commission charged with drafting the strategic plan for cultural development in Barcelona. Ferran Mascarell holds a degree in history obtained at the University of Barcelona in 1975. He has published several studies on cultural policy issues and has contributed to a number of radio programs. At the University of Barcelona, he is director of the post-graduate degree in Direction and Management of Cultural Institutions, Companies and Platforms.

Marie-Christine Staniec Wavrant
City Councillor in Lille and Cultural Advisor at the Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine
www.mairie-lille.fr
www.lillemetropole.fr
Deputy mayor of the city of Lille, Marie-Christine Staniec Wavrant is responsible for action on retired persons and senior citizens and social action linked to housing. She also sits on the city’s Cultural Board. A community councillor at Lille Métropole, she is working to set up a cultural development framework for the region. Since June 2004, she has also been a general councillor to the Nord department, where she is focusing on social insertion. A Lille municipal councillor since 1989, she was previously involved in the revitalization of Wazemmes, one of the city’s most densely populated districts and listed as a distressed area; culture was one of the central themes of its development.

Moderator
Raymond Bachand
CEO of Secor
Raymond Bachand has been a partner and CEO of Secor since March 2002. From 1997 to 2001, he was head of investments and CEO of the Solidarity Fund QFL. He is also active in the cultural and community sectors, serving as co-chair of the Tolerance Foundation, chair of the board of directors of Usine C / Carbone 14 and president of the Governor’s Club of the Fondation du maire de Montréal pour la jeunesse. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) in corporate strategy and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

SESSION 2

Culture as a Model of Integration and Urban Revitalization

With Charles-Mathieu Brunelle
Senior Vice-President and General Manager of TOHU
www.tohu.caCharles-Mathieu Brunelle has contributed to several of the projects that have had an impact on Montreal’s cultural life since the late 1980s. He was the director of a number of organizations, including PRIM, the Compagnie de danse Marie Chouinard, and the Cinémathèque québécoise. In 1999, he joined the Cirque du Soleil as a consultant, before becoming general manager of the Cité des arts du cirque. This major urban development project whose mission is cultural, environmental, and social was inaugurated in June 2004 under the name TOHU. Mr. Brunelle has been a board member of Culture Montréal since its foundation in 2002. He has chaired several boards, committees and associations in the arts and business sectors.

WELCOMING REMARKS

With Ariane Émond, Alain Bideau and Rachel Laperrière

Ariane Émond
Executive Director, Culture Montréal
A journalist and scriptwriter for documentary film, Ariane Émond has been involved in all aspects of audiovisual communication. She has hosted a number of radio and television shows for Radio-Canada and Télé-Québec and written for newspapers such as Le Devoir. She worked on some twenty films as a scriptwriter, assistant director, narrator and journalist. She was the founder of the feminist current-events magazine La vie en rose and contributed to La Gazette des femmes for many years. She continues to write a column for the newspaper Alternatives. Her work in film and media has earned her numerous awards and honours. Since the summer of 2003, she has been executive director of Culture Montréal. This year, she was named one of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal’s exceptional women.

Alain Bideau
Research Director at the CNRS, Director at the Centre Jacques Cartier, Lyon
http://cjc.univ-lyon2.fr
Founder of the Entretiens in 1987 and its guiding spirit, Alain Bideau is also the director of the Centre Jacques Cartier. Set up in 1984, it is a centre for study, discussion and research that aims to coordinate scientific and cultural cooperative actions between the Rhône-Alpes region of France and Quebec. The Entretiens are structured around four main themes: specialized scientific symposia; major issues facing society today and tomorrow; social economics, and lastly, the cultural component. One of the key goals of the Entretiens is to preserve French-language scientific activities through increased partnerships and by encouraging high-quality scientific projects. Alan Bideau has a background as a demographer. He is chair of the Société de démographie historique, research director at the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a professor at the Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Rachel Laperrière
Assistant General Director, Service du développement culturel et de la qualité du milieu de vie, City of Montreal
www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/culture
Since 2003, Rachel Laperrière has been director of the Service du développement culturel et de la qualité du milieu de vie, whose mission is to coordinate and integrate the city’s social, cultural and tourist vocations on the municipal level. Prior to that, she was director of the Service du développement culturel. Ms. Laperrière also held the position of director of cultural department at the City of Lasalle, before joining the Cirque du Soleil in 1998 as director of public affairs.

CONFERENCE

THE CREATIVE CITY : RHETORIC AND REALITY

Charles Landry
Director, COMEDIA, United Kingdom
www.comedia.org.uk

Charles Landry founded Comedia, Europe's leading cultural planning consultancy, in 1978. Comedia has worked in 35 countries and undertaken several hundred projects concerned with revitalizing public, social and economic life through cultural activity; it has also carried out quality-of-life studies, cultural industry development projects and city and regional strategies. Charles Landry is regarded as an international authority on city futures, the use of culture in city revitalization, cultural planning, heritage issues, strategic policy development, and the cultural industries. His book The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators was published in May 2000 to widespread acclaim. He has lectured extensively in Europe, the US, Australia and Africa and has presented over 150 keynote addresses on a range of topics associated with cultural revitalization and public life.

Charles Landry's texts:
– Rethinking Adelaide
- Imagination and regeneration : Cultural policies and the future of the cities (Conseil de l’Europe):
- Experiencing the city (Open Democracy)

SESSION 3

RENEWAL, MOBILIZATION AND PARTNERSHIPS
With Pascale Bonniel Chalier and Anne Grumet, Lyon
Rita Davies and Tim Jones, Toronto.
Session moderated by Benoît Guillemont and Jean Fugère

Pascale Bonniel Chalier
City Councillor, Deputy Mayor of Lyon, in charge if cultural events and activities
www.marie-lyon.fr
Since March 2001, Pascale Bonniel Chalier has been an elected representative of the City of Lyon. She was named deputy mayor of Lyon for cultural events and activities, and is an officer of the Commission Nationale Culture des Verts and the Direction Collégiale des Verts du Rhône.
Pascale Bonniel Chalier has pursued a career in international affairs within the academic and government sectors. For several years, she worked for the Agence Rhône-Alpes de Services aux Entreprises Culturelles (ARSEC). She designed and coordinated the Développement culturel et gestion d’entreprise culturelles (DESS) program at the Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology of the Université Lumière Lyon II, and has organized various training sessions on issues relating to funding European and international projects. She is a founding member of the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC), created in December 1992 and sponsored by the Council of Europe.

Anne Grumet
Executive Director of Lyon’s cultural hub
www.marie-lyon.fr
Since 2001, Anne Grumet has been a technical advisor to Patrice Béghain, assistant delegate for culture and heritage at the City of Lyon, and director of the city’s cultural hub. In this role, she oversees the implementation of the city’s cultural policy. She also works with the Communauté urbaine de Lyon, where she is conducting a study on the conditions of a transfer of jurisdiction in relation to cultural issues in five sectors of artistic practice. Since the 1980s, Ms. Grumet has worked on artistic and cultural projects and facilities and their political, cooperative and artistic components. She has a background in sociology, policy studies and public law.

Rita Davies
Executive Director of the Culture Division, City of Toronto
www.city.toronto.on.ca/culture
www.city.toronto.on.ca/culture/cultureplan.htm
Rita Davies is the executive director of the City of Toronto’s Culture Division. From 1984 to 1999, she served as executive director of the Toronto Arts Council (TAC). A major figure on the Toronto cultural landscape for almost 20 years, Ms. Davies has an M.A. from the University of Toronto Massey College Centre for the Study of Drama. The City’s Culture Division has a mandate to provide arts and heritage programs and services, to care for cultural facilities and collections, to support cultural organizations and to develop cultural policies. Among the initiatives of the Culture Division are the launch of a waterfront Culture Plan in 2001, an overall Culture Plan in 2003, a planned feasibility study for a new cultural centre on Toronto’s Waterfront to showcase Toronto’s history and heritage, and the very successful annual event Doors Open Toronto.

Tim Jones
Executive Director, Toronto Artscape
www.torontoartscape.on.ca
Tim Jones has worked as a management consultant, promoter, producer, activist, CEO and board president. He was program officer in the theatre division of the Canada Council for the Arts and general manager of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. Since 1998, he has been executive director of Artscape, a Toronto organization that explores the relation between creativity and place and has championed the revitalization of buildings and neighbourhoods through the arts and culture. Tim Jones and Artscape spearheaded the cultural conversion of the Distillery Historic District and the creation of the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts.

Moderators

Benoît Guillemont
Cultural Development Advisor, DRAC Rhône-Alpes
www.culture.gouv.fr:80/rhone-alpes
Benoît Guillemont holds a master’s degree in Communication Sciences and Technology and is an advisor on cultural action at the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs in the Rhône-Alpes region. The directorate initiates and coordinates the implementation of the transversal dimension of the Ministry’s national policy: territorial development, the prevention of social exclusion, art education, training, employment, etc. Between 1992 and 1996, he was an expert advisor to the Council of Europe on the project Culture and Neighbourhoods, aimed at assessing and comparing local cultural policies in various neighbourhoods of 12 large European cities. A specialist in urban cultural action, he has coordinated the publication of works on the links between artistic action and urban development in Rhône-Alpes, designed and coordinated the production of the Web site Culture and Neighbourhoods, Rhône-Alpes, 1980-2000, and has been scientific delegate and organizer of several international symposia including the Entretiens of the Centre Jacques Cartier.

Jean Fugère
Journalist
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, with a master’s degree in German literature and linguistics from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Germany, Jean Fugère has been an actor, stage director, author, composer, performer and host of radio and television programs. A well-known literary columnist, he has attended book fairs and other events in cities across Quebec since 1992, acting as a moderator for talks and round tables.

SESSION 4

NETWORKS, MOVEMENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS

With Lise Bissonnette, Jean Hurstel and Daniel Rottner
Session moderated by Ariane Émond

Lise Bissonnette
President and Executive Director, Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montréal
www.bnquebec.ca
Lise Bissonnette is president and executive director of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec. Prior to being named to that position by the Quebec government in August 1998, Ms. Bissonnette had spent eight years as publisher and director of the Montreal daily Le Devoir. She is also a writer who has published seven works, three volumes of essays and four novels. She has received numerous honours, including six honorary doctorates from universities in Quebec, Canada and the United States, and a career medal awarded by the Académie des lettres du Québec. She was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame, holds the Ordre de la Pléiade (francophonie), is an officer of the Ordre national du Quebec and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France.

Jean Hurstel
President, Banlieues d’Europe, Strasbourg
www.banlieues-europe.com
With a background in theatre and philosophy, Jean Hurstel has spent the past 30 years carrying out development and cultural action projects in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of several French cities. Co-director of the Centre d’action culturelle in Montbéliard in the 1970s, he was director of Action culturelle in the Bassin Houiller Lorrain from 1977 to 1991, where among other accomplishments he founded the Maison des Cultures Frontières. From 1991 to 2003, he was director of La Laiterie, an industrial wastelot of Strasbourg turned into a European centre of youth creation. The founding president of the Banlieues d’Europe network, which uses art to fight against social exclusion, Mr. Hurstel has conducted research, organized international meetings and prepared publications on the emerging social, cultural and social practices within European urban dynamics.

Daniel Rottner
Director, Falkenheim Gallus, Frankfort
www.jkwf.de
After studying education, Daniel Rottner joined the team of Falkenheim Gallus in 1979 to set up a youth cultural and leisure centre. At the centre, he developed various education, training and insertion projects, often based on artistic approaches. Since 1990, he has held the position of executive director of Jugend-Kultur-Werkstatt Falkenheim Gallus and is the education director. The youth cultural centre develops art projects in the Gallus district and in schools, as well as sculpture workshops for young offenders and intercultural exchanges across Europe.

SESSION 5

FACTORS OF SUCCESS

With Jacques Bonniel, Simon Brault and Michel Rautenberg
Session moderated by Jean-Marc Fontan

Jacques Bonniel
Dean, Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology, Université Lumière Lyon 2
http://socio.univ-lyon2.fr
A sociologist by training and by profession, Jacques Bonniel spent the first fifteen years of his career as a researcher at the CNRS, working on themes related to social and cultural change, local development, and heritage issues. Subsequently, he worked as a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology of the Université Lumière Lyon 2, where he has been dean since 1995. In 1988, Jacques Bonniel and Pascale Chalier developed a DESS in Cultural Development, which has been offered at the master’s level starting this year. Mr. Bonniel sits on the board of directors of several cultural organizations and institutions working in such areas as artist residencies, circus arts, theatrical performance and cultural administration.

Michel Rautenberg
Director, Institut de Sociologie de l'Université de Lille
www.univ-lill1.fr
A professor of anthropology at the Université de Lille 1, Michel Rautenberg has been director of the university’s Institut de sociologie since 2003. He is also a researcher at the Centre lillois d’études et de recherches sociologiques et économiques du CNRS, where he is responsible for the Technologies, Mobilizations and Cultures team. Until 1999, he was advisor on ethnology at the regional directorate for cultural affairs in Rhône-Alpes. His research focuses mainly on heritage and collective memory in France and Bulgaria. On that theme, he has published two works, Campagnes de tous nos désirs (as co-author) in 2000 and La Rupture patrimoniale in 2003. He has also published articles on cultural and heritage action, on urban issues, and on the role of art in the collectivity. For the past three years, he has been researching the reconstitution of localities under the impact of globalization. He is a contributor to the journal Culture et musées.

Moderator

Jean-Marc Fontan
Professor, Department of Sociology, UQAM
www.socio.uqam.ca
A sociologist, Jean-Marc Fontan teaches at the department of sociology of the Université du Québec à Montréal and is the director of ARUC-ÉS (Alliances de recherche universités-communautés en économie sociale).