bellechasse
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Merci, Bellechasse
[Francais ci-dessous] When I was growing up in Vermont, I knew of three major points of interest in the province of Québec: Montreal, Quebec City, and Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse, and not necessarily in that order. Saint-Lazare was where my grandmother’s parents came from, and at least to me, the seventh of her fourteen grandchildren, her veneration for…
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A Franco-American Weekend in Bellechasse, Québec
This weekend, the village of Saint-Damien-de-Buckland is hosting a whole day of event celebrating the Franco-American heritage of Bellechasse…or the Bellechassois heritage of Franco-Americans? Both! The day will culminate with the workshop presentation of the new performance project I’ve been working on with my cousin, Valérie Bilodeau, a.k.a. La Culottée. For the past year we’ve…
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Les filles d’Honorius & Wilfrid: Laboratoire de création
I have been very fortunate during the last year to be engaged in a demanding and uniquely intimate creative process with my friend and distant cousin, Valérie Bilodeau. Like many French-Canadians of their generation, our great-grandfathers were migrant laborers who traveled between Québec and New England in search of work in factories, farms, and forests.…
