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

Inspiring Healthcare with ArtIt’s a phenomenon that’s more timely and relevant thanever. Through a number of fresh initiatives, cultural mediationin healthcare has led to unexpected results that havesurprised and affected all participants—artists, mediators,patients and health workers. They all assume roles in projectsaimed at patients on temporary stays in the hospital or permanenttenants of residential care centres.Some 2012 Achievements:• Écoute pour voir was created at Centre hospitalier Saint-Luc bychoreographer Emmanuel Jouthe and dancers from Danse CarpeDiem / Emmanuel Jouthe, in collaboration with the Regroupementquébécois de la danse (RQD). The CHUM hospital’s waiting rooms, careunits and common spaces became stages for a number of uncommonperformances.• The Société pour les arts en milieux de santé (SAMS) resumed itsconcerts in residential and long-term care centres (CHSLD) as well asat the CHUM. Happily, a new name was added to the prestigious list ofSAMS partners: the Orchestre Métropolitain.• The Monochromes project with visual artist Maude S. Pilon visitedseveral CHUM waiting rooms.• L’Imploreur, a monumental sculpture in stainless steel almost threemetres in height by young artist Mathieu Isabelle, has taken its placeat the entrance to Hôtel-Dieu hospital.Singing the Praises of AccessibilityOpera for all! Since 1988, the CoOpéra project has worked todemocratize lyric arts in the Sud-Ouest borough. The result:nearly 55,000 people able to enjoy the creations of studentsfrom four schools.It’s simple: youths receive training from interns and professionalsat the Atelier lyrique as they prepare an adaptation of a workstaged by the Opéra de Montréal in the same season. Theircourses cover text and music as well as all the elements ofstaging, costumes and accessories.CoOpéra is a remarkable initiative which, in 2012, won firstprize for educational innovation from the Fédération québécoisedes commissions scolaires.57