DORVAL – Students from 10 schools gathered near Dorval’s border with Lachine to clean up the Bouchard Creek, as an early Earth Day event. But instead of finding a mildly polluted stream, which a previous year’s cleanup had scrubbed, they ended up hauling piles of debris out of a creek that is uncomfortably close to […]
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College Saint-Louis wins the Essor award
The West End Times, October 12, 2012 Community, John Symon, Life, Montreal, New College Saint-Louis was recently awarded a $2,000 prize by the Quebec government for its Art and Water project. The project involved 200 students who became interested in fauna of the St-Lawrence River and in the restoration and cleaning up of one of […]
Taking action through art
IBWorld, The magazine of the International Baccalaureate, September 2012, issue 66
Clean-up of Bouchard creek
Photos by Noëlle Garnier Students from Saint-Louis College and Mont-Royal High-School unite their efforts in the clean-up of the Bouchard creek. They picked up garbage along its banks and within its polluted waters. They bring to our attention, by this gesture, the importance of this stream, part of our drinking water. This gesture will, we […]
Art project is ‘about the water we drink’
Albert Kramberger The West Island Gazette, December 21, 2011 Students painting wildlife inspired to try to restore Bouchard Creek As part of an art project focusing on local fauna, some high school seniors became aware of Bouchard Creek and are now seeking assurances that it be re-naturalized and its ecological function as an aquatic habitat […]
Art and Water Exhibition featuring the students of collège St-Louis
8th of December 2011 at 7.30 pm The Mayor of Lachine, Me Claude Dauphin, the artist Maja Vodanovic, the students of Collège Saint-Louis , the environmentalist Daniel Green, and the Water Committee of the Collège Saint-Louis invite you to the «Art and Water» event at L’Entrepôt, 2901 Saint-Joseph boulevard, Lachine.
Lieux Fragmentés – Exhibition at the Valentin Gallery in Montreal
You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition Lieux fragmentés by Maja Vodanovic. Saturday November 12, 2011 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, with the artist in attendance. The Works will be on display from November 12 to 26.