Cinq à Six
with Jeanette Kelly
Saturday February 4, 2012
Should we have more World Heritage sites in Quebec?
Old Quebec and Miguasha National Park are the two World Heritage sites in Quebec.
World Heritage sites are designated by UNESCO. They are places that are given special protection to preserve their natural or cultural attributes.
This year is the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention -- the organization that makes that list.
So how well is it working? Are there other areas in this province that should be added to the list?
Christina Cameron is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Montreal. She is the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage, and the vice president of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She's also working on a book about the origins of the heritage convention.
Listen to Jeanette's conversation with Christina Cameron:
Saturday February 4, 2012
Can Quebec learn from Soviet-era architecture?
Originally from Kirkland, Jason Tsironis is a graduate of the School of Architecture at McGill. He's presently working in London at the firm Caruso St John.
Tsironis has just been awarded the Canada Council Prix de Rome for emerging architects.
He will be studying the evolution of Soviet architecture, and he says his work will also apply to Quebec and Canada, when it comes to finding new uses for empty churches.
(Note: If you cannot view the photo gallery on your browser, you can also view photos for this story on our Facebook page. Photos by Richard Paré and Frederic Chaubin.)
Listen to his conversation with Jeanette.
Categories: architecture
Saturday February 4, 2012
Uprooted/Déraciné
UPROOTED from Isabelle Hayeur on Vimeo.
The Institut de la statistique du Québec came out with some new statistics this week.
For the sixth year in a row, the city of Montreal is losing population -- more than 22-thousand people in 2010/2011.
Overwhelmingly, people are moving to the suburbs -- the South shore, the North shore, and the Laurentians.
Filmmaker Isabelle Hayeur would like all those people who are fleeing the city to think a little more carefully about who and what they may be displacing when they move out of the city.
She recently released a video called Uprooted (Déraciné) that documents the transformation of the landscape as suburban developers push ever further into rural areas.
Listen to her conversation with Jeanette:
Categories: Film, Film and TV
Saturday February 4, 2012
Wangechi Mutu at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
Nairobi-born sculptor and collage artist Wangechi Mutu is one of three women artists featured in a new show at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
The museum has just purchased a major piece by the artist, called Moth Girls.
In this Cinq à Six Web Exclusive, Jeanette speaks with curator Josée Belisle about Wangechi Mutu and her work.
(Photo: Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art)
Categories: Visual Art
Saturday January 28, 2012
I am Leah, I am LilyBear
Meet Leah Delisle.
Most of the time, she's Leah-- a young woman with curly red hair, someone who dresses modestly, and teaches kindergarten at a French school.
But for around 25 hours a week, she's LilyBear-- a buxom redhead who scales the buildings of ancient cities and works as an assasin.
Leah has competed in international-level videogame competitions, she playtests games for Ubisoft, and and she works for a team of female gamers.
All this... and Leah is completely deaf.
(Photos: Top left, Jeanette interviewing Leah at her house, bottom left, Leah recreating a scene from Assasin's Creed during a recent visit to Jerusalem.)
Categories: Digital Art
Saturday January 28, 2012
"Art-house" arcade
If you are old enough, you might remember going to an arcade to play video games.
But then consoles like Sega and Nintendo turned gaming into something most people do at home, often alone.
The Mount Royal Games Society and Concordia's TAG research center are aiming to get gamers out of their dark basements and back in public space.
They're planning a public arcade.
And at this arcade, gamers and non-gamers alike will have a chance to discover something other than what the multi-million dollar gaming companies are offering.
Saleem Dabbous describes it as a sort of "art-house" game culture, where independent game makers push the boundaries of the sensations and emotions that can be experienced while playing a video game.
Listen to Jeanette's conversation with Saleem.
Categories: Digital Art
Saturday January 28, 2012
Super Mario at a Rave!
Chiptune music is a fairly new and underground genre of music that uses sounds from old-school video game consoles.
Francis Rodrig is the founder of a Chiptune collective here in Montreal called Toy Company.
He's planning a two-day Chiptune festival in Montreal on February 10 & 11, 2012.
Listen to some of his music (not copyrighted) and hear his conversation with Jeanette:
Categories: Digital Art, music
Saturday January 28, 2012
The next step for the Olympic Park
A commission has been looking into the future of the Olympic Park area in Montreal.
Before Christmas, they were hearing from members of the public.
Now, the commission has issued its first report. (Available on the Website, in French.)
Listen to Jeanette's interview with Lise Bissonnette, the President of the Advisory Committee on the future of the Olympic Park.
Categories: Urban Design
Saturday January 21, 2012
Bridging the literary divide
Antoine Tanguay is the director of Éditions Alto.
He says there is a literary divide between French and English Canada.
He's made it his personal mission to try to bridge that gap by publishing French-language translations of books originally written in English.
Listen to his conversation with Jeanette:
Antoine Tanguay is among those who will be attending a Translation Rights Fair next Friday in Montreal. It's presented by the Canada Council for the Arts. Click here for more information on that event.
Categories: Writers
Saturday January 21, 2012
A new soundtrack for skating
The soundtrack at skating rinks usually consists of Top 40 rock and pop music.
A project called Klondike is changing that at one rink in Quebec City. Klondike is an audio art project at the winter sports centre at Pointe-aux-Lièvres. Natural sounds are part of the audio mix.
Contributor Alexis Bellavance explains that part of the goal is to help the skaters hear the natural sounds that are already there, but that are obscured by man-made sounds like traffic and music.
Categories: Audio Art
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