Ciné-Échange | Rougemania
Free activity
In presence of guests
Québec cinema
Sessions
| Monday, 20 April | 18:30 | Salle Alfred-DesRochers |
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PASSES
– 5 OR 10 ADMISSIONS –
Join us for the screening of Rougemania by Catherine Bainbridge and Neil Diamond, and take part in a discussion about the film with:
– Jean-François Létourneau
– Julie-Ann Vollant (Bishop’s University)
– Paul Gerry (Université de Sherbrooke)
With humor and insight, the feature documentary Rougemania explores the considerable—yet often unacknowledged—influence of Indigenous peoples on Western culture and identity.
Why have Indigenous populations been the subject of admiration, romanticization, and cultural appropriation for so long—phenomena that persist to this day? Rougemania uncovers the incredible truth behind this collective imagination, a reality so deeply buried beneath the ruins of history that even many of those concerned are unaware of it.
Free activity
In collaboration with the Wanaska Committee of the Cégep de Sherbrooke
Presented film:
Guests
Jean-François Létourneau Enseignant | Cégep de Sherbrooke
Jean-François Létourneau is the co-author of an essay with Sébastien Langlois that explores Quebec memory through traditional song (En montant la rivière, 2023). His previous publications form a cycle devoted to territory: the novel Le territoire sauvage de l’âme (2021), the audiobook of the show Sur les traces du territoire (2019), and the essay Le territoire dans les veines (2017), on belonging to the territory through the reading of First Nations poets. Finally, he edited, with Naomi Fontaine and Olivier Dezutter, the anthology on the writings of the First Peoples, Tracer un chemin / Meshkanatsheu (2017).
Will attend:
- Monday, 20 April | 18:30 - Salle Alfred-DesRochers
Paul Gerry Coordinator Stratégie Justice
Traditionalist, keeper of knowledge and ceremony. I have had the opportunity to train in various areas of traditional law as well as colonial state law. Having served as a police officer on two reserves, I gained firsthand insight into the realities and needs of our Indigenous communities. I also had the opportunity to argue a case concerning the ancestral rights and identity of our peoples, I won that case before the Attorney General of Quebec. Today, I work at the Trois-Rivières Indigenous Friendship Centre as a justice strategy coordinator and am pursuing my bachelor’s degree in law.
Will attend:
- Monday, 20 April | 18:30 - Salle Alfred-DesRochers