AT A GLANCE 2012 Action Plan 2007-2017 - Plan d´action 2007-2017

Get the Inside Scoopfrom a Local…Thanks to microculture.ca, Montréalers can sharethe good news about their neighbourhoods’cultural vitality. Or the show they saw lastnight, or the best exhibition they’ve everseen or other such opinions. Citizensare free to use the site to talk localculture, or should that be hyperlocal?Launched by CultureMontréal on its 10 th anniversary,the site is the new way to find outabout cultural events in one’sown neighbourhood. Interestedwebheads may also forge linkswith other site users and sharethe real story about what’s goingon “in the ‘hood.”Your Museum’sCalling…You’re walking down a Montréal street and your iPhoneor iPod Touch pipes up to inform you there’s a museumnearby AND that exhibition everyone’s been talking about isstill on. It’s like having the whole city’s museums in your pocket!The unique mobile app was developed by the Board of MontréalMuseum Directors (BMMD) as it celebrated its 25 th anniversary.It opens the doors to each of the organization’s 38member museums and reveals a bit of their collections,art works and objects, even tours. A smart anduseful tool for tourists and Montrealers alike.The Citizen asAmateur ArtistMontrealers love to have fun … that’sa well-known fact. And for over 82% ofthem, fun means taking part in art asamateurs. That’s slightly higher thanthe provincial average.It’s easy to understand, when oneconsiders Montrealers’ culturaldynamism, but it is also due tosocio-demographic and technologicalevolution, and new trendssweeping community life, forms ofleisure and culture. These factorshave transformed amateur arts involvement.To ensure programmingkeeps pace with these societal changes,the city’s cultural recreation networkundertook a diagnostic of amateur artsactivity in 2012 through Ville de Montréal’sBureau du loisir culturel.The question was how to adjust to citizens’ changingneeds and further encourage their cultural participation.The diagnostic explored avenues of actionfrom the municipal government level and itsoverall service offering, and also at the levelof each borough.Throughout 2013, the boroughs, their partnersand resident stakeholders will holdmeetings to exchange ideas and build theirvisions of amateur artistic activity. Theresulting study will offer fundamentalaction plans at the local and municipallevels to serve the needs of citizens andtheir cultural lives.49