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FIMa 2011: a MUlTIseNsOrY eXTraVaGaNZa!

Montreal, June 14 2011 – The 12th edition o the FIMA (Festival International Montréal en Arts) hasin store or you a diversifed and international program that is flled with images and movement, great encounters and discoveries rom June 29 to July 3. Over 100 exhibiting artists rom Quebec, Ontario,British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Argentina will wait or you on the BoulevArt, onSte. Catherine Street East, between St. Hubert and Papineau. Dozens o perormers, movie makers andmultimedia artists coming rom Quebec, Germany, Malaysia, Argentina, Ontario, Turkey and the Uni-ted States will present their moving and living art.

« The FIMA is showcasing many great talents rom all regions o Quebec… We can be proud o the rich-ness o our Quebec artists! », says Paul Haince, president o the SPDAC, the Society or Promotion andDistribution o Arts and Culture, which launched the FIMA in 2000.By participating to the

Public’s Choice Award

, the estival-goers run a chance to win an artwork romtheir avourite artist! Many other prizes will be handed out, like the juried prizes and the Discovery Prizeat the Award Ceremony which will take place at the Cabaret à Mado (1115 Ste.Catherine Street East),on Sunday, July 3, at 8:00 p.m.

New this year on the BoulevArt

: one portion o the street will be dedicated to emerging artists, who runa chance to win the Emerging Artist Prize handed by Kalibre, an organization aiming to promote andproduce emerging artists.

On the program this year…

The FIMA is happy to welcome or the frst time in Montreal the international project

My True Whisper of Skin

Isabel Caccia

, rom Argentina. The artist will build a giant labyrinthine web in the parc Serge-Garant (behind metro Beaudry) with the help o the public and their… pantyhose! That’s right! Isabel willoer you a nail polish in exchange or your stockings. You will also be able to participate to the construc-tion o the web, and walk through it like a spider. BRING YOUR NYLONS AND SPREAD THE WORD!The French artist rom Germany,

Julie Jarennou

, will present

Carnation

, a solo piece about the discre-pancy between the human body and its many representations in western society. She will wear a secondskin made o latex that she will cut with scissors and then sew back with a needle in very tight seams.