Quebec Roots is a ground-breaking educational program for Quebec school children, who work with professional photographers and authors to create books about their community. The authors and photographers share their work and explain their creative processes to elementary, high school and adult education students, and then provide instruction on how the students can create their...
Starting Summer 2010, Studio Iris will be holding photography classes in trendy Monkland Village. Course are fast-paced and packed with information. Students attend lectures, demos, shooting assignments, critiques and lots of hands-on-learning. To register, call (514) 208-4747 Courses offered Summer 2010 Camera Basics The secret good photography is learning the basics. Topic in this course include...
More photography workshops with Quebec Roots, this time with author Phil Jenkins. This time, we visited Orchard Elementary, a multi-racial school in Lasalle. Here are some photos of the kids– and Phil– hard at work.
I was involved in Quebec Roots again this year, with Montreal author Monique Polak . We always get to go fabulous places with this project, all around Quebec, but this time we visited perhaps the most spectacular location of all: Harrington Harbour, Quebec. Harrington a tiny, rocky island in the Saint Lawrence River, just a...
Another great year of projects with the kids and Quebec Roots. For those that don’t know about it, Quebec Roots is a project for English kids in Quebec schools. The goal of the project is for the kids to to produce a book of writing and photography about their community. The kids decide what their community...
(2007 Post) I was in Wemidji, Quebec last week with author Monique Polak for Quebec Roots, an educational program sponsored by Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. Quebec Roots is a project for English kids in Quebec schools. Their project is to capture their community in in photos and words. The end result is a book that...
I just returned from another trip to the far north with Quebec Roots. This time, I was with author Carolyn Souaid, and we visited Kiluutaq School in Umiujaq, Quebec… wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up north on Hudson’s Bay. View from the airplane window, en-route to Umiujaq, Quebec Young boy contemplating the vast, empty landscape Jason Etok, an Inuit...
Who– or what– killed all the sled dogs in northern Quebec in the 1950s? Various theories abound– including several juicy ones involving the RCMP– but no one knows for sure. The only thing that’s for sure is when the dogs disappeared from Kangiqsualujjuaq, so did a lot of Inuit pride. Without their dogs, the...
