The Université du Québec à Montréal(UQAM; English:University of Quebec in Montreal;French pronunciation:[ynivɛʁsitedykebɛkamɔ̃ʁeal]), is a French-language public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec system.
Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. In 1899, Bourassa was outspoken against the British government's request for Canada to send a militia to fight for Britain in the Second Boer War. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier's compromise was to send a volunteer force, but the seeds were sown for future conscription protests during the World Wars of the next half-century. Bourassa unsuccessfully challenged the proposal to build warships to help protect the empire. He led the opposition to conscription during World War I and argued that Canada's interests were not at stake. He opposed Catholic bishops who defended military support of Britain and its allies. Bourassa was an ideological father of French-Canadian nationalism. Bourassa was also a defining force in forging French Canada's attitude to the Canadian Confederation of 1867.
Paul Georges Buissonneau, was a leading francophone theatre director in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 125 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking audiences.
Wajdi Mouawad, OC, is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as the acclaimed play Incendies (2003). His works often revolve around family trauma, war, the betrayal of youth. Since April 2016, Mouawad has been the director of the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris.
Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI) is a multidisciplinary cultural organization of Montreal created in 1999. It is located on Jeanne-Mance Street. It opened in 1999, and exhibits contemporary art, dance, music, theatre, painting, sculpture, and video. The mission of MAI is to facilitate and initiate intercultural relations.
Jovette Marchessault was a Canadian writer and artist from Quebec, who worked in a variety of literary and artistic domains including novels, poetry, drama, painting and sculpture. An important pioneer of lesbian and feminist literature and art in Canada, many of her most noted works were inspired by other real-life women in literature and art, including Violette Leduc, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Emily Carr, Anaïs Nin and Helena Blavatsky.
Olivier Kemeid is a Canadian playwright and theatre director from Quebec. He is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama, for L'Éneide at the 2009 Governor General's Awards, for Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle at the 2014 Governor General's Awards and for Five Kings : l'histoire de notre chute at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.
Suzanne Aubry is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and playwright from Montreal.
Jean Lambert-wild is a white clown and theatre-maker born in 1972 in Réunion. Since January 2021, he is the artistic director of the Coopérative 326.
Marquise Lepage, is a Canadian (Québécoise) producer, screenwriter, and film and television director. She is best known for her 1987 feature Marie in the City , for which she received a nomination for Best Director at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988. She was also a nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for Your Country, My Country . She was hired by the National Film Board (NFB) as a filmmaker in 1991. One of her first major projects for the NFB was The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché, a documentary about female cinema pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché.
Amulette Garneau was a Canadian actress living in Quebec.
Hélène Loiselle was a Canadian actress living and working in Quebec.
Catherine Bégin was a Canadian actress.
Brigitte Poupart is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is most noted for her performance in the film Ravenous and for directing the 2012 film Over My Dead Body.
The Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best documentary film made within the cinema of Quebec.
Marie-Christine Lévesque was a Canadian art director, author and editor. As an art director she won the 2005 Applied Arts Award for the cover design of 9 Vues. Her partner was Serge Bouchard and she co-authored books with him including Elles ont fait l’Amérique : De remarquables oubliés, tome 1 and Le peuple rieur. Hommage à mes amis innus, the latter of which won the 2018 Le Prix Victor-Barbeau award. Her writings explored the lives of North American people from the 16th century to the 19th century and the Innu people.
Phoebe Greenberg is an actress, writer and producer based in Montreal, Canada. She is the daughter of Irving Greenberg, one of the founders of Minto Group in 1955 and Shirley Greenberg. She is also the mother of artist Miles Greenberg.
Alexandre Goyette is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec, most noted as the writer of the stage play King Dave and the screenwriter and star of its 2016 film adaptation.
