The MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges and the Conseil des arts et de la culture de Vaudreuil-Soulanges announce their financial support for six local artists and one local organization at the start of 2025. 

The financial assistance awarded to the winners stems from the Entente de partenariat territorial pour les arts et les lettres en Montérégie. Under the terms of this agreement, signed in 2023, the partners have invested a total of $2,294,200, spread over three years (2023-2026), to ensure the implementation of territorial partnership programs for the development of arts and literature in Montérégie-Est and Montérégie-Ouest.

The aim of this initiative is to support creation, production and dissemination projects that foster links between the arts and the community. This was the second call under the agreement. 

This agreement between the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) and the Montérégie MRCs, including Beauharnois-Salaberry and Vaudreuil-Soulanges, has distributed $695,000 to Montérégie artists and cultural organizations. Of this amount, $150,000 has been awarded to local artists for community projects over the coming year.

“I'm proud of this announcement of support for projects by artists in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region, which will help forge links in our community. The collaboration between Montérégie, MAMH and CALQ, who are matching our investment, will enable these artistic initiatives to come to life for the benefit of the entire community.“

Patrick Bousez, Prefect of the MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges and Mayor of Rivière-Beaudette

Selected projects

Projects were selected on merit, based on the excellence of their proposals and their relevance to the program's objectives, by a jury of professional artists assembled by CALQ. The selected projects are as follows

Les Invisibles

Vaudreuil-Dorion artist Chadi Al Helou receives a $12,000 bursary.

Project to write a comic script about a couple of actors who want to enter the film business, but can't because they see the world is upside down.

The legend of Boréal: 

Vaudreuil-Dorion artist Philippe Gauthier receives a $20,000 bursary.

Research project on oral memory in the Montérégie region, and writing of the first version of a play and story that will tell the origins of a mythical Quebec. Vaudreuil-Dorion's RPAs will participate in the creative process.

Classic essence: 

Vaudreuil-Dorion artist Judy Hung receives a $20,000 bursary.

Project to produce an album of 18th-century music entitled “Essence Classique”, performed on period instruments, with videos shot at Rigaud's Sainte-Madeleine Church, for simultaneous broadcast in October 2025.

Podium: 

Jean-François Lebœuf, artist from Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, receives a $11,900 bursary.

Podium captures the spirit of skate culture with portraits of skateboarders. These large-format painted works, installed on the grounds of the Pincourt skate park, transform the site into a living gallery, magnifying its users.

Les Serres: living art: 

Pointe-Fortune artist Isabelle Parson receives a $20,000 bursary.

This project is an agro-cultural laboratory based around the greenhouse as a space for research and creation in photography, and as a meeting point between contemporary art, agriculture and the community.

Following the roots to find the earth: 

Rigaud artist Adele Reeves, in collaboration with Kerwin Barrington, receives a $16,100 bursary.

Project to co-create an immersive performative event through dance and visual arts, celebrating the territory and some of its traditions. 

Galileo

Galileo, a Pincourt-based arts organization, receives two grants, one for $30,000, the other for $20,000.

The two grants will support the production of two concerts of historically informed classical music covering the artistic currents of German Romanticism and Russian Expressionism, as well as the production, with the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal (ALOM), of two concerts of historically informed Baroque music entitled “Rome, d'amour et de sang”.