About the project

The VOISINS / NEIGHBOURS programme is intended for young people aged between 14 and 19 outside the school context. Young people will improve their communication skills in French through interviewing their neighbours and creating an electronic magazine which will be an ongoing community resource.

Blue Metropolis Foundation: Educational Programmes

In the development, creation and production of the Neighbours / Voisins e-zine, young Canadians will open up their minds, their interest, their imaginations and their reporting skills to people who share their community and geographical location, but who do so in the other official language. Young anglophones will develop a e-zine in French focused on activities and events of their francophone neighbours, and young francophones will develop a e-zine in English focused on their anglophone neighbours' community activities and events. In the process, young Canadians will get to know how life is lived in the other language, they will become familiar with the issues and activities that matter most to their neighbours who speak the other language at home, and they will enhance their own linguistic and cultural experience and understanding.

 

Partners

VOISINS / NEIGHBOURS was created with the funding of Patrimoine canadien, LEARN and Canadian Parents for French — Quebec (CPF).

CPF is the national network of volunteers which values French as an integral part of Canada and which is dedicated to the promotion and creation of French second language learning opportunities for young Canadians.

For more information about VOISINS / NEIGHBOURS, please contact Florence Alligrini, Coordinator of Educational Programmes at Blue Metropolis.

 

OutaAdo

OutaAdo is a group of students (Katherine Markhauser, Jenna Knight and Megan Knight) who met weekly at the Recreation and Cultural Services Library in Chelsea Quebec to work on the VOISINS / NEIGHBOURS project. Working in their second language, they met regularly with project leader Gisèle Lamontagne as well as two experts in their fields: Lysiane Lavoie, a researchist for Radio-Canada, and Julie Lapalme, a Web Specialist. The Cuckoo Grafik blog was used to learn basic blog techniques and explore digital narrative techniques.

 

Neighbours, 1952

"In this Oscar®-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower." — National Film Board of Canada (NFB)