SPDAC
/ Société de Promotion et de Diffusion
des Arts et de la Culture : The SPDAC is a
non-profit organisation responsible for the best promotion
possible of québécois and Canadian artists
through events such as the Festival Montréal
en Arts.
The
main goal of the Festival is to promote art works
of québécois and canadian artists and
give them privileged access to :
- The business people community (sponsoring
of artists to help them achieve top sales potential).
- Private investors and both levels
of government (federal and provincial).
- Local and foreign gallery
owners (Canada, USA, Europe).
By organizing the FIMA every
year, SPDAC wishes to bring closer together local
and international artists with local residents, visitors
from Quebec, Canada and abroad. Artists are often
isolated in their studio; their works are generally
presented in art galleries and not seen by the great
majority of people. Thanks to this great outdoor festivity,
visual arts not only become more accessible to the
general public, but people can actually come in direct
contact with the artists, and participate to a true
exchange. The Centre-Sud neighbourhood is well-known
for its terraces, its nightlife and boutiques, but
during the FIMA, the Village also becomes a meeting
place for art lovers and amateurs, artists and creators,
tourists and summer strollers. To carry out this democratisation
and demystifying of visual arts, the SPDAC works closely
with the SDC-Village and collaborates with commercial
and political instances, as well as community organizations
of Montreal and the Centre-Sud.
The
13th Montréal en Arts Festival (FIMA)
will take place June 27 - July, 2012
on Ste-Catherine street East, entirely closed to automobile
traffic between Saint-Hubert and Papineau.
More than 140
artists specializing in the visual arts will
again this year be part of the Festival.
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