OUR TEAM

Our small full-time staff oversees production of the Festival and runs the Blue Metropolis Foundation’s social and educational programs. They’re assisted by external collaborators, freelance programmers for both the Festival and the educational programs, advisory committees made up of volunteer professionals, the all-important volunteers who work during the Festival, and of course the Board of Directors. 
The Festival stages 200 activities in several languages every edition and offers year-round educational programs dedicated to fostering academic perseverance, the love of reading, and social harmony.

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS AND SERVICES

MARIO ALLAIRE Production
LOUISE BÉLISLE Graphic Design and Artistic Direction
FELIPE DEL POZO Media relations (French)
JANIS KIRSHNER Media relations (English)
DUMONT ST-PIERRE INC. Accounting
LINDA AMYOT Youth Programming
INGRID BEJERMAN Spanish and Portuguese-Language Programming

VOLUNTEERS RESSOURCES:

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

LOUISE-ANN MAZIAK Chair of the Board of Directors
KATHERINE NIKIDIS Vice-President of the Board of Directors,
Head of School, Trafalgar School for Girls
PIERRE-ANDRÉ THEMENS Secretary
Executive Vice Chair, Canadian Centre for Architecture
CHRISTOPHE ROUBINET Treasurer,
Assistant Director of Investments – Business Development, Filaction
MÉLANIE BERNIER Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, PSP Investments
JOFFREY BIENVENUE CTO, Peerless Clothing Inc.
MAYA COUSINEAU-MOLLEN Community Development Advisor First Nations and Inuit, EVOQ Architecture
PETER DANIEL  Director, Ilian Consulting and Management INC
YOUSSEF J. FICHTALI Lawyer, Fasken
CLÉMENTINE SALLÉE Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
ANNE WHITELAW Provost and Vice-President, Academic and Professor, Art History, Concordia University

FRENCH-LANGUAGE 
ADVISORY PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE – 2021 FESTIVAL

RODNEY SAINT-ÉLOI Écrivain et éditeur, président de Mémoire d’encrier
MARINE GURNADE Directrice de la Librairie Gallimard
STÉPHANIE LEMÉTAIS Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois
GAËTAN PELLAN Attaché culturel, Consulat général de France à Québec
GABRIELLE CAUCHY Éditions du Boréal
SIMONE SAUREN Flammarion Canada
TANIA MASSAULT Éditions Alto
ROBERT SCHWARTZWALD Professeur au Département d’études anglaises, Université de Montréal, et Conseiller à la programmation LGBTQ