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Open air Saint-Laz’ARTS
The open air shows were so popular in the past that we bring them once again during the summer 2011. It is a rendezvous, every Thursday this summer, to discover various musical backgrounds, attend comedy show or see an outdoor movie!

Mornings and fall evenings
This fall, the Saint-Laz’ARTS fall mornings will go on, on Sunday mornings, offering another series of various shows, that all the family will enjoy. With the fall evening programming, all the greyness of the fall will be forgotten with these colourful shows, Chez Maurice on Wednesday nights.

Les soirées automnales feront oublier la grisaille de l’automne par des spectacles hauts en couleur, présentés Chez Maurice les mercredis soirs.

To view the complete Saint-Laz’ARTS programming,
read the Cultural Policy or the Arts Acquisition Policy,
visit the Town’s website at ville.saint-lazare.qc.ca/en/saintlazarts2011,
follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/villesaintlazare
or contact the recreation department at 450-424-8000 ext. 220.

Three cultural initiatives Cultural Policy, Art Acquisition Policy and Saint-Laz’Arts programming
SAINT-LAZARE (Québec), March 21, 2011

The Town of Saint-Lazare is proud to announce three cultural initiatives: a new Cultural Policy to further develop the town’s cultural programs, an Art Acquisition Policy to promote local artists and the Saint-Laz’ARTS program, a series of twenty free shows offered throughout the year. These initiatives, undertaken in response to our residents’ wishes, will bring arts and culture to our region’s forefront. By placing culture at the heart of its development, the Town of Saint-Lazare recognizes the important role arts and culture play in creating a community where citizens feel they can live, work, be entertained and feel fulfilled.

Cultural policy
Arts and culture, although very much alive in Saint-Lazare, needed consolidation. The Cultural Policy will allow the promotion of this culture in our city. The Cultural Policy relies on 5 guiding principles each representing important community values:

 · acknowledging that arts and culture are essential to
   the community’s development and advancement;
 · increasing citizen participation and involvement to the cultural life;
 · developing the nature-culture offer;
 · reinforcing our region’s cultural qualities;
 · encouraging innovating cultural partnerships and contributors;

The main goal of the Cultural Policy is to put forward a community project where each resident has the opportunity to grow and evolve as a community member while enjoying quality services!

Art Acquisition Policy
The Art Acquisition Policy will provide the Town with the guidelines to acquire an art collection from local artists and promote this collection to benefit residents.

The Town is committed to spending $2,500 on a yearly basis to purchase art produced by local artists. To ensure a collection of quality, at least one work of art will have been valued at $1,000.

The Town of Saint-Lazare have received $20 260 from Hydro-Québec. This amount is the reward for Saint-Lazare participation in the survey “Mieux consommer” held in 2009. With this money, the Town of Saint-Lazare will acquire a permanent art collection from local artist. This collection will be completed with the annual $2 500 established in the art Acquisition Policy.

The Policy’s goals are numerous,
but the following summarizes its intentions:
 · to bring to the forefront the talent of local Saint-Lazare residents or natives;
 · to promote professional as well as emerging artists;
 · to display a diversity of work, medium and disciplines.

To submit a work of art this year: artists must log on to the Town’s website, read the eligibility document, bring their work to the library between April 29 and May 1. The work will go through a selection process and the pre-selected pieces will be exposed at the library starting May 6. The unveiling of the selected works of art will take place on June 6th, during a gala evening. All the details will be sent in a newsletter.