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Video of While Having soup during Cuisine ta ville
by Jérémie Battaglia
SUMMER TOUR 2024
In the summer of 2024, While Having a Soup returns to service and travels to Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie for 3 exceptional dates
- in Rimouski on August 3rd from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., East Saint Germain st. The soup will be offered by the Chapeau Mustache café (in case of rain the event will be postponed the next day)
- in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts on August 7th from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., in front of the premises of the Haute-Gaspésie History Society located at 5B, 1ère Avenue west. The soup will be offered by Récup. alimentaire Haute-Gaspésie
- in Gaspé on August 10th from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., de la Reine st, during the Bout du Monde Music Festival. The soup will be offered by the Oh les pains bakery.
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This ATSA tour is possible thanks to the support of our local partners
2018-2019 Tour
In 2018-2019, While Having Soup was able to generate thousands of meetings in Canada and internationally thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. This year marked a highlight for the organization that went to many countries that could not have financed our coming and which allowed us to multiply the encounters between unknow people in the public space and for exchange on various topics of living together with realities very different from ours. We have trained local mediators and we come back with a lot of human baggage in our suitcases and poetic portraits from all over Canada and around the world including : Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritius, Madagascar, Haiti, Moncton, Iqaluit, Val d'Or, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. To close this 2018-2019 edition, a book on the tour is being prepared !
Find all the previous representations of While Having a Soup !
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
2016-2017 Tour
In 2016-2017, While Having Soup brought about 4290 encounters and spreaded out in 3 europeen festivals (Les Tombées de la Nuit in Rennes, La Strada de Graz and the Freedom Festival), in Vancouver during the Drum is Calling Festival, in 8 districts around Montreal thank to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal en tournée, as well as during two events from ATSA adressing important issues of refugees and tax haven. Learn more about our previous shows...
THE PROJECT
A relational art intervention in the public space, featuring spontaneous conversations from the general public on the topic of " vivre ensemble ". The experience of “three-course” dialogue wich elevates conversation as an art form—a spurt of humanity, and something to be embraced as a inspiring societal project!
Starter : Meet your dinner companion
Main dish : Savour your conversation over a bowl of soup
Dessert : Create and discover your poetic portrait
A word from the artists: “The world is changing: tensions are flaring up, be they for economic, cultural or other reasons. All too often, we evolve in isolation from one another, through virtual conversations that ultimately leave us disconnected, and incomprehension forms a great divide between us. In recent years, the unprecedented flow of refugees, together with various other crises, has polarized public discourse, shaking our sense of social harmony to its core. We need to speak to one another, on a human scale, one to one, in order to reappropriate the public space for ourselves.”
The stage is outdoor, similar to a restaurant's outdoor deck. Thanks to a straightforward mechanism for fostering interaction, and attentive MCs (Masters of Conversation), this relational art intervention succeeds in generating spontaneous conversations between pairs of individuals, in all confidentiality, on the topic of harmonious coexistence. The experience takes on a collective significance with the accumulation of these duos captured and archived in the form of poetic portraits that are subsequently shown on the event site and online.
By transforming the act of sharing soup with a stranger into a special, estheticized moment for interaction, Le temps d’une soupe sets the stage for human and social encounter on an egalitarian basis. Le temps d’une soupe enables people to broach important topics outside their usual circle of acquaintances, which helps them develop a critical eye. Furthermore, it encourages them to make a personal commitment to playing a more active role within their community, and helps make our public spaces more dynamic, intelligent and democratic.
Organic and locally made!
Our conversation menu is crafted locally for each intervention according to a number of methodologies proposed by the artists (workshop, walks, specific encounters). The questions can foster serious reflection on our universal human interactions, but also evoke local concerns raised thanks to preliminary meetings and discussions with persons who live, work and are interested in the community or region. The soup that is served may be prepared on site, brought in from a neighbourhood restaurant or local collective kitchen that shares the values of the artists. Our aim is to showcase the strength that comes from pooling resources and uniting, and to provide you with a direct and meaningful artistic experience of dialogue.
SELECTION OF PREVIOUS SHOWS
photos : © JF Lamoureux & ATSA
SOME POETIC PORTRAITS
HAVE A LOOK AT THE LATEST POETIC PORTRAITS :
- CLERMONT-FERRAND
- GREAT MONTREAL
- GLASGOW
- YELLOWKNIFE
- WHITEHORSE
- MONCTON
- VAL-D'OR
- IQALUIT
- MARRAKECH
- BEYROUTH
- LA MAISON DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
- BURKINA FASO
To watch all the poetic portraits since 2015, tap here! To make the menu appear, tap on the box with three lines, on the left-top.
All those people doesn't know each other 30 minutes ago!
DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENTS FOR PROGRAMMERS
The staging and format can be adapted to your presentation and financial context :
4 pages presentation, Technical presentation will be send on demand
Press review
Previous representations with slide shows
Website combining all poetic portraits
CONTACT
e-mail : info@atsa.qc.ca
tour contact : Annie Roy
00 1 514 844 9830
skype : acomannie
www.atsa.qc.