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FUNDRAISER 2026
"The 2026 season fills me with hope because it focuses on life, encounters, and slow time. It's my response, my revolution in the face of a loss of power over our lives, caught up in virtual clouds. Offering critical discussion opportunities through the "The Farm or how to feed an intelligent future" tour, enabling creations in the Laurentian forest that generate Art-Nature connections for the entire community, is a response I hope to share with you. Thank you for your generosity, which brings these core values to life."
- Annie Roy, co-founder of ATSA
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Encourage culture in the service of nature in 2026
so that each of our actions demonstrates our connection with the living, while celebrating the present moment.
Annie Roy commenting on a visit to the Art-Nature trail during "L'Art est dans ses feuilles" 2025 ©Steffie Boucher
HONORING THE LIVING
Offering an art space in the heart of the Laurentian forest allows us to doubly honor the living. La Montagnarde is a privileged space for creation that encourages connections to the heart of our Quebec DNA: the forest, and offers experiences of communion between Art and Nature for the entire community.
Yes, thanks to you, ATSA was able to:
- offer creative residencies to 21 artists and collectives,
- create partnerships with 17 local organizations
- offer 39 free activities in the community!
During Culture days, the event "L'Art est dans ses feuilles" allowed the public to discover 16 works spread across our Art-Nature Trail in the company of the artists!
For the occasion, ATSA is bringing to life the installations from previous years with live art performances that allow us rare moments of communion between Art and Nature.
To ensure the sustainability of this wonderful project, a protected area application is currently under review to safeguard a 15.5 km² area including the Art-Nature Forest. Yes, we are thinking of future generations and counting on your support to continue with enthusiasm and hope for life and all living things!
FOSTERING ENCOUNTERS
Last May, Geneviève Rochette and Annie Roy performed the play "The Farm, ot how to feed an intelligent future" on the Esplanade Tranquille in the Quartier des Spectacles. We generated lively discussions on the many impacts of AI on our personal lives and on our cultural sovereignty.
We wish to bring this crucial show on tour throughout Quebec and Canada, and we need your support because sharing our collective awareness begins with gatherings in performance venues, schools, parks, and cultural centers.
VALUE THE PRESENT TIME
Whether it's reflecting as a community on our increasingly digital future or walking through the idyllic Laurentian autumn landscape to meet our artists, ATSA emphasizes the present moment and encourages the public to cherish the slow pace of time. Your donations allow us to offer a permanent residency in the forest, but also to reach out to the public in order to continue our commitment to remaining critical in the face of the societal changes that are overwhelming us.
Your donation supports:
- Significant creations open to all and offered free of charge in public spaces
- Initiatives from hundreds of artists critical of the society in which we live
- The promotion of a society that respects the planet
- Events that promote diversity
FOR ALL THESE REASONS
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THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
RESULTS OF THE 2024-2025 FUNDRAISER
Thanks to your donations in 2024-2025, ATSA was able to achieve the following :
Le Temps d'une Soupe in Gaspé ©Jean François Lamoureux
LE TEMPS D’UNE SOUPE
The 2024 Bas-St-Laurent-Gaspésie tour added three new destinations to the Le Temps d’une Soupe project, which now has 46 destinations since 2015.
From August 3rd to August 10th, 2024, the ATSA team was able to set up its cauldrons in the towns of Rimouski, Ste-Anne-des-Monts, and Gaspé.
An Art-Nature Trail visitor in front of Annie Roy's installation Brins de mémoire©Marie Delamare-Sanson
LA MONTAGNARDE
New Artists in the residency program
During the 2024-2025 season, ATSA-La Montagnarde had the immense pleasure of welcoming 12 artists in residency.
Gaspard Combes, Élaine Frigon, LFH (2 artists), Marie-Laurence Marleau (2 artists), Marie-Claude De Souza, Diane Brodeur, Dusso danse (3 artists), and Wartin Pantois.
We were able to record 8 new Sortie du bois podcast episodes.
Thanks to the enthusiasm of our artists in recsidency and the Laurentian community, some 30 workshops and discussions were held, reaching 189 participants of all ages.
L'Art est dans ses feuilles - pilot edition
In September 2024, with the aim of allowing you to discover our artists in residence and their works, ATSA-La Montagnarde launched its brand new annual event, L'Art est dans ses feuilles.
As part of Culture Days, 120 participants were able to discover around ten works on the new Art-Nature trail, designed by ATSA-La Montagnarde. Annie Roy led 6 guided tours, and seven of our artist-in-residences met with the public.
Geneviève Rochette and Annie Roy interpreting the theatrical piece La Ferme ou comment nourrir un futur intelligent
on the Esplanade Tranquille of Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal
©Izabel Zimmer
LA FERME OU COMMENT NOURRIR UN FUTUR INTELLIGENT
ATSA offered a free event open to all from May 23 to 25, 2025, on the Esplanade Tranquille in the Quartier des Spectacles and in Le Réfectoire, featuring a theatrical work, a video installation, workshop-conferences, a screening of the feature film In the belly of AI, and two library spaces. Geneviève Rochette and Annie Roy performed five times in total. 340 spectators attended the play.
The play was followed by a mediation led by two ATSA mediators in collaboration with the organization Multitudes.
From May 21st to May 26th, the video installation Un temps was presented on the Esplanade Tranquille. Shown on a 12' x 12' LED screen, the work invited you to slow down, daydream, and reflect in a contemplative atmosphere amidst the hustle and bustle of the city.
Three discussion workshops were organized with digital experts Daria Marchenko, Valentine Goddard, and Anne Nguyen, with the aim of raising public awareness of current issues related to artificial intelligence and digital technologies. To make the activity accessible, each workshop was broadcast live on our social networks.
Anne-Marie St-Louis in Yellowknife for the activities of Cuisine Ton Quartier ©ATSA
CUISINE TON QUARTIER
ATSA was able to continue its cross-Canada tour to meet with people from French-speaking immigrant backgrounds. 10 podcasts were recorded and broadcast online on Balado Québec. The team collected testimonials in the cities of Yellowknife and Whitehorse from November 27th to December 4th, 2024.
The signs were hung and launched in the cities of St. John's and Halifax in September 2024, and in Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Whitehorse in June 2025. The launches provided an opportunity for ATSA to build relationships with various partners across the Canadian Francophonie, where the Cuisine ton Quartier project was promoted, including the Francofest Festival, Dans ma ville, and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Nova Scotia, the ACFSJ in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Conseil Culturel et Artistique de la Colombie-Britannique, the Association franco-yukonnaise, Médias Ténois, and Folk on the Rocks in the Northwest Territories. During the launches, our cultural mediator, Anne-Marie St-Louis, offered activities from our educational resource.
In Montreal, the ATSA team worked to promote podcast tours across Montreal throughout the year 2024-2025, by carrying out cultural mediation activities during the Peace Days, the Culture Days, at the L’impact secondary school, and at the World Social Forum of Intersections (FSMI).
RESULTS OF THE 2023-2024 FUNDRAISER
Thanks to your donations in 2023-2024, ATSA was able to achieve the following:
CABO (The CLub of Organic Bin Lovers) An artistic intervention by citizens on their compost bin. 4 days of workshops were given in the Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce parks in Montreal this summer.
Cuisine Ton Quartier Our podcast traveling through Canadian French-speaking communities visited three new provinces this year: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. Launches were also carried out in Regina, Calgary and Moncton with the help of our local partners.
La Montagnarde Our artist residency in the heart of the Laurentians vibrated through 4 residency stays this year. Barbara Kanneratoni Diabo, Laura Doyle Péan, Dada and Carré des Lombes came to create and recharge their batteries in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard. Each residency gave rise to workshops, conferences and presentations to the Laurentians community thanks to strengthened local partnerships.
La Ferme First residency release for this new project signed ATSA last May. A day of presentation-conference with workshops and unveiling of the project model took place at the Pavillon de l'Esplanade Tranquille. The project will be unveiled on the Esplanade on May 22, 2025.
Thank you for encouraging us to continue bringing life to public spaces with meaning, art, and peace!