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As part of les journées de la culture 2009, le Gesù–Centre de créativité in collaboration with Festival Accès Asie, invites students to participate in:

"Music is your Body"
Workshop with 3 artists of Indian origin
Friday, 25th of September 2009
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Gesù-Centre de créativité
1200, rue Bleury

For AGE GROUPS: 9-12 years, grades 3, 4, 5 and 6
Length of workshop: 60 minutes

Be transported with the rhythm of India!

"Music is your body" offers a unique experience into the heart of India! Three renowned artists provide the chance for your students to discover their bodies as musical instruments while immersing themselves in a musical percussive universe from India and elsewhere. Students will learn to reproduce rhythmic phrases inspired by songs with their bodies.

Workshop is given in French. The workshop is wheelchair accessible.

MEENA MURUGESAN multidisciplinary artist

"As an emerging artist [Meena Murugesan] is someone to watch for."
- dance critic Philip Szporer, Dance Current, 2008.

Meena's multi-disciplinary artistic practice is fuelled by her passion for dance, visual imagery, personal transformation and social change. She strives to build bridges between culture, gender, community, class and art forms in order to explore the complexities of human existence, while acknowledging the intrinsic connections that link us together. Parallel to her dance career, Meena is a video artist and community arts educator with eight years of local and international experience collaborating with performing artists and marginalized groups such as youth, people of color and incarcerated women. She facilitates video and dance workshops in sociopolitical- cultural community organizations. Her work with the Festival Accès Asie is in line with her commitment to community activism through art.

DEEPALI LINDBLOM artist

Deepali's knowledge of Indian folk dancing, folk theatre, and puppetry has deepened with her choice to explore the mediums abroad in Sweden and now, Montreal. Her biggest initiative was to start 'Komma till Tals' (Make your voice heard) a cultural centre for the children and youth. To give them the opportunity to use Arts is a mean to express and channel their energy and thus create their own identity. The project was the first of its kind in Sweden and today has many children and youth participating. She has already performed in two major productions, one with Cirque Eloize during the Festival Musique Montréal Baroque and Satrangithe Colours Seven at the Gesù-Centre de créativité during their Art Sacré. Deepali works on her new creation: The Legend of the Necklace.

JAYA SRIVASTAVA dancer

Jaya Srivastava founded the dance school Lasya in collaboration with Seema Srivastava and Alexandra Van Veeren. Lasya is a school of Indian classical dance known as «Bharata Natya». Jaya, an accomplished teacher, has trained in this style of dance for over twenty years and represents a new generation of artists who are sharing their passion for dance with others.

Reservations are required by the latest, September 24th, 2009
Contact Person: Valérie Dumas: 514-523-1047, info@accesasie.com
www.accesasie.com

Activity Schedule:

Students arrive at 1:40 PM:
Festival Accès Asie welcomes the students

1:50 PM:
Entry into the church and the sound installation.

2:00 PM:
"Music is your body" workshop begins.

3:00 PM:
Workshop is completed.

*** Students must wear comfortable clothes.

For the complete les Journées de la culture program at Gesù-Centre de créativité, visit: www.gesu.net