Jean Fontaine and curator Marie Bouchard present Parallaxe.

 

 
   
 


1) Here we are all assembled in front of the old Town Hall of Saint-Boniface. Only Yvan Dutrisac and Andrée Préfontaine are missing, they will arrive next week. Altogether, we are thirteen francophone artists from all over the country.

2) François Gaudet says : "Bonjour à l'Acadie". ("Hello Acadia")

 

 
   
 


1) Diane Cartier Lafontaine and Éveline Boudreau in conversation during breakfast..

2) Marie Bouchard presents renowned artist Marcien Lemay to the Parallaxe artists.

 

 
   
 


1)The artists visit la Maison des Artistes located in the old Town Hall of Saint-Boniface. Many of the artists' studios will be here during the two weeks of Parallaxe. Gaétanne Sylvester gives a tour of the ongoing exhibition at la Maison des Artistes.

2) Gerry Collins meets Marcien Lemay, an artist that she has admired since her youth. She says : "My father, who was a sculptor, always kept in his art books a photo of the Louis Riel sculpture by Marcien Lemay. I feel as though I were meeting a living Rodin. What a privilege! At the same time, it reminds me of my father."

 

 
   
 


1) Mme LaChapelle of Radio ENVOL interviews Emilio Williams Portal.

2) Emilio Williams Portal settles in!