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,
Director of Investments and Finances, 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 Associate, Watson Farley & Williams – Energy, Projects and Infrastructure
DR MAI-KIM GERVAIS Surgical Oncologist, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont and Assistant Director, Department of Surgery, Université de Montréal
CLÉMENTINE SALLÉE Deputy Global Director, Legal, CPCS Transcom Limited
ANNE WHITELAW Provost and Vice-President, Academic and Professor, Art History, Concordia University

FRENCH-LANGUAGE 
ADVISORY PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE – 2022 FESTIVAL

GUY BERTHIAUME Bibliothécaire et archiviste du Canada émérite
OLIVIER BOISVERT Librairie Gallimard
SANDRO CAPELLI directeur, Institut culturel italien, Montréal
DOMINIQUE GARAND professeur, Département des littératures, UQAM, et écrivain
RABÉA KABBAJ attachée de presse Gallimard ltée
PASCALE LAPLANTE-DUBÉ doctorante, professeur de littérature, programmatrice invitée, série L’Imaginaire
MATHIEU LAUZON-DICSO libraire et programmateur invité, série L’Imaginaire
STÉPHANIE LEMÉTAIS Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois
TANIA MASSAULT Éditions Alto
ANNABELLE MIMOUNI agente de programmes éducatifs, Jardin Botanique de Montréal
SOPHIE MONTREUIL directrice générale, ACFAS
ROSTYSLAV NYEMTSEV traducteur
DENISE PÉRUSSE directrice, défis de société, Fonds de recherche du Québec
MONIQUE RÉGIMBALD-ZEIBER conseillère stratégique, Fonds de recherche du Québec
GILDA ROUTY Gallimard ltée
RODNEY SAINT-ÉLOI Écrivain et éditeur, président de Mémoire d’encrier
SIMONE SAUREN Flammarion Canada
DANIELLE SAUVAGE programmatrice invitée, série Âge