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.
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
MÉLANIE BERNIER Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, PSP Investments
JOFFREY BIENVENUE Chief Technology Officer, Peerless Clothing Inc.
YOUSSEF J. FICHTALI Executive Manager (Legal BD), ACWA Power
EMILY ORMOND Author | Teacher
CLÉMENTINE SALLÉE Senior Director, Major Projects, CDPQ Infra
Dr IRENE SERRANO VAZQUEZ Communications & advocacy strategist, IFEX
Dr LISA SHAPIRO Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Philosophy, McGill University
ANNE WHITELAW Professor, Art History
BLUE METROPOLIS IN-HOUSE STAFF
WILLIAM ST-HILAIRE
President – Executive Director and Artistic Director
MARIE-ANDRÉE LAMONTAGNE
Director General, Programming and Communications
CÉLINE AZIERE FERNANDES
Director, Communications and Digital Strategy – Deputee Director General
FRÉDÉRICK GAUDIN-LAURIN
Director, Educational Programming and Research, and Coordinator, Public Financing and Festivalgoer Services
FLORENCE FONTAINE
Programming Coordinator – Webmaster
ISABEL COUT
Coordinator of Audience Development, Special Projects and Internal Translator
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS AND SERVICES
LINDA AMYOT Youth Programming
INGRID BEJERMAN Azul and Almemar Programming
DARBY M. BRADFORD Translation
HÉLÈNE BUGHIN Social media
FELIPE DEL POZO Media relations (French)
JANIS KIRSHNER Media relations (English)
KATHY NADAL Graphic Design and Artistic Direction
MARIO ALLAIRE Production Director
LAMBERT LAM-NGOC Website
NICOLAS FERRAZZA Infomation Technology (IT)
GESTION DUMONT ST-PIERRE INC. Accounting
