As part of this year’s “Protect your identity online” campaign, ISIQ is getting the public involved with a video creation contest!
If you are 18 years of age or older and have talent for video creation, this contest is for you!
* Themes will be presented in the week of November 9.
* You will have 2 weeks to create and submit a video of 90 seconds maximum.
* A jury will evaluate the videos and select 5 favourites for which the public will be invited to vote.
* Participants who created the most popular video will win a $1,500 prize!
Directors, producers, scriptwriters, actors, gather a team and get ready!
For more information, or to submit a video, click here
“The Mission District is one of our favorite new Canadian bands.” straight from the keyboard of Perez.
Not only do these guys have a great sound, but they’re oh so handsome!
If you don’t want to trust mine or Perez’s opinion, check them out for yourself Here.
FOREVER YOUNG
Qui sera la reine du bal ?
Soirée bénéfice au profit de la Fondation de lutte au décrochage scolaire de Montréal
Montréal, le 26 février 2009 – Les Productions A+ dérouleront le tapis rouge, le 19 mars prochain à La Tulipe, pour la première édition de FOREVER YOUNG, une soirée sous la thématique du bal de graduation, au profit de la Fondation de lutte au décrochage scolaire de Montréal. Activités ludiques, musique rétro et actuelle, univers burlesque et robes à paillettes recréeront l’ambiance d’une soirée de graduation de rêve. Venez défiler sur le tapis rouge, danser au son de l’électrisante musique de DJ Plastik Patrik et participer à nos différents concours ainsi qu’au couronnement de la reine et du roi du bal. Animée par la charmante Valérie Roberts et son acolyte Jeff Lizotte de Bombe.TV, FOREVER YOUNG vous offre une occasion en or de donner une deuxième vie à votre tenue de bal!
Danser pour reprendre le « beat »…
Notons que chaque année, depuis 2004, 40% des jeunes montréalais qui quittent l’école n’ont pas de diplôme d’études secondaires. Le bal de graduation représente le couronnement ultime de la réussite scolaire. C’est pourquoi Les Productions A+ misent sur ce thème afin d’amasser des fonds pour la Fondation afin que chaque jeune puisse à son tour aspirer au titre de reine/roi de son bal de graduation.
À propos de la Fondation
La Fondation de lutte au décrochage scolaire de Montréal a été créée, en 1990, par un groupe de partenaires issus du milieu de l’éducation et du monde des affaires. La Fondation a pour objectif général de contribuer à la réussite éducative des jeunes montréalais. À cette fin, elle finance les opérations du Carrefour de lutte au décrochage scolaire, un organisme régional oeuvrant activement auprès des cinq commissions scolaires de l’île de Montréal. Le Carrefour met en place des initiatives de prévention de l’abandon scolaire destinées aux jeunes et aux familles et encourage le partage des pratiques novatrices entre les divers partenaires scolaires, municipaux communautaires et d’affaires de Montréal.
Pour d’autres renseignements: www.fondationlds.qc.ca
FOREVER YOUNG
Jeudi 19 mars 2009, 20 h 30
La Tulipe
4530 Avenue Papineau
Pré vente: 15$ - Porte: 20$
www.soireeforeveryoung.com
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Renseignements/confirmations de présence/entrevues :
Iris Bélanger Noël : 514-603-0693
Iris.belanger@gmail.com
On November 28th, 2008 four jury members gathered at Telio’s head office, the purpose of this meeting was to select the 25 student-finalists that will participate in the upcoming edition of its competition presented during the 16th edition of Montreal Fashion Week on March 5th at the Bonsecours Market. In keeping with its commitment to support young Canadian designers, Télio is pleased to invite these up-and-coming talents to create their high end women’s designs from a pre-selection of fabrics provided by the company. They offer them an opportunity to receive one of five scholarships totalling $10,000 to help launch their budding fashion career. Télio is one of North America’s leading import/export and distribution companies whose textiles are at the cutting edge of fashion.
The 2009 Jury
This year, Télio asked four of the country’s top fashion industry professionals to be a part of the jury for the 2009 National Télio Design Competition. Nathalie Atkinson from Toronto (National Post’s style columnist and contributing fashion editor and freelance writer for Elle Canada, Chatelaine, Flare and Fashion), Glen Baxter from Toronto (Host of IN FASHION, Reporter for FashionTelevisionChannel and photographer), Ruth Ho from Vancouver (buyer for the Canadian by Design department at the Bay downtown Vancouver) and Stéphane Le Duc from Montreal (editor-in-chief of Dress to Kill Magazine) were thrilled to participate. Subsequently, after receiving 116 sketches from 20 participating fashion design schools across Canada, they had to choose the 25 finalists for the 2009 edition of the National Télio Design Competition.
The 2009 Finalists
The jury members judged the students’ sketches based on several criteria, including creativity, technical quality and adherence to the theme chosen for 2009—an exploration of our Canadian values, inspired by the four universal elements, earth, air, fire and water.
Student’s name School
Laurie Jean Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy
Maryline St-Laurent Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy
Stéphanie Beauzile Domond Cégep Marie-Victorin
Christine Charlebois Cégep Marie-Victorin
Alexandre Faulkner Cégep Marie-Victorin
Devon Halfnight Leflufy Collège LaSalle Montréal
Yu-Ting Lin Collège LaSalle Montréal
Ève Simpson-Ranallo Collège LaSalle Montréal
Caroline Amanda Somos Collège LaSalle Montréal
Xinqi Yang Collège LaSalle Montréal
Ruyi Zhou Collège LaSalle Montréal
Isabelle Campeau École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Nadine Lavoie École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Lucie Siv École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Adelaide Kim Ryerson University School of Fashion
Ying-Ju Bianca Liu Ryerson University School of Fashion
Antonia Schindle University of Manitoba
Sarah Sugandy Olds College
Corinne Monique Ludwig University of Alberta
Savannah Qiu The Art Institute of Vancouver
Yvonne Xie The Art Institute of Vancouver
Kidde Itto University of the Fraser Valley
Emily McIntyre University of the Fraser Valley
Katherine Koniecki Vancouver Community College
Marcia Robertson Vancouver Community College
For complementary information on the first National edition of the Télio
Design Competition 2009, please visit www.telio.com.
WatchMojo.com audiences are very familiar with sexy, versatile and talented Mihaela Coman - who has hosted numerous pieces and interviewed many celebs. She’s also done numerous belly dancing pieces - well, TV audiences will get to know her well, too.
Local boys Kidnapper Films have completed their first feature film and based on some festival reviews its getting great buzz. Luckily for everyone in Montreal the AMC Theatre has picked up the release and Who is KK Downey? will begin showing Friday September 6th. The trailer is hilarious and based on everything I’ve seen from these dudes over the years this movie is destined to be a Montreal cult classic. Get your ass over to AMC and support some local talent. Here’s the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBvts6Mrws
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Julien Brault penned a biography on Quebecor founder Pierre Peladeau. Our own Leila Lemghalef sat down with him to talk about his book, Peladeau’s legacy and place amongst media titans, see the video here:
Pierre Peladeau Biography
Montreal filmmaker Hunt Hoe is proud to present his film at the AMC Forum starting February 15th, the perfect “funny Valentine” in case your present was a flop…
Escape the deep winter blues, come join a Montreal chef’s spiritual journey in Thailand…
Brief synopsis:
>From a tropical island in Thailand to the island of Montreal then Montserrat in the Caribbean, a philandering
chef’s search of the Zen of cooking leads to the secret of love & divine mysteries…
Boasting an international cast, with elements of fantasy, comedy & horrors, this is a bold and
introspective mix of Asian fable with Western sensibilities.
Featuring some of Montreal finest Asian musical talents - Ganesh Anandan, Shuni Tsou, Lousnak and the
fabulous Montreal String quartet Quatuor Bozzini…
COME FOR A SPECIAL OPENING NIGHT SCREENING - FRIDAY FEB15 7pm - (precise time TBA)
director in attendance ( together with reps from Festival Acces-Asie) PLUS exciting prizes and soundtrack giveaways.
www.1stBiteMovie.com.
Check local listing at www.cinmemamontreal.com
Nurun - an ad agency founded by Alexandre Taillefer and now part of the Quebecor empire - is being targeted by global ad agency superpower WPP. Read more.
Quebecor Media’s sister company Quebecor World failed to secure a $400M financing, so it is seeking bankruptcy protection.
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Posted By: froosh | Jan 21st
I missed this earlier this month, but one more example of small-mindedness from Canada:
Let’s get the government to force more Canadian content down our throat on the Web, just like they do on radio and TV and print. How freaking lame.
Read more on The Gazette.
