Photo : © Moïse Marcoux-Chabot
On Thursday, July 24, 2025, prior to the opening night, FURIES will be holding the fourth edition of its PRO Day dedicated to arts professionals. Artists, presenters and cultural workers will gather for a day of exchange, reflection and artistic discovery at Marsoui. Registration gives access to the PRO Itinerary, an all-access pass to the festival’s performances, workshops and related activities. Please familiarize yourself with the entire PRO Itinerary before registering. It is fixed in advance and cannot be changed or exchanged.
PRO Day is supported by Culture Gaspésie.
9 am to 10 am — Salon58
Welcome with coffee, fruit and pastries.
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. – Salon58
Discussion on cultural reconnection, arts and territory with Alexia Vinci (Montreal) and Valérie Ivy Hamelin (Gespeg).
12 p.m. to 2 p.m. – Centre récréatif
Lunch break.
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. – Salon58
International round table: Dance on a human scale in an unstable geopolitical context with presenters from Norway, Scotland, Finland and Portugal.
4 p.m. to 5 p.m. – L’Hybride – café & bookstore
Apéro-réseautage.
7 to 9:30 p.m. – Centre récréatif
Opening night of the 6th edition of FURIES.
For the first time this year, due to the arrival of a first cohort of international presenters from Spain, Finland, Scotland and Norway, PRO 2025 Day activities will take place in English. However, it will still be possible to intervene or ask questions in French. Our team will be happy to translate your contributions into English for our guests, many of whom speak English as a second language.
With the aim of welcoming people from different strata of the professional cultural milieu and generating rich conversations, the FURIES PRO Day offers variable-geometry rates.
Registration entitles the holder to a PRO Itinerary (value $300 CAD), as well as to the activities and meals offered during the PRO Day (value $115 CAD), for a total value of $415 CAD, taxes included.
Transportation and accommodation are at the participants’ own expense. Places are limited for each rate.
Alexia Vinci is a two-spirited multidisciplinary artist from the Gespeg Mi’gmaq Nation. Trained as an actress, she also excels as a creator and improviser. At the heart of her artistic approach are dialogue, encounters and collective experiences. Her artistic work spans diverse territories, from the sacred to the intimate, from memory to roots. She has participated in readings at the Jamais lu festival and Théâtre La Licorne, and played the character of Noémie in the adaptation of Naomi Fontaine’s novel Manikanetish, presented at Duceppe. She is currently artistic director of the Tiohtià:ke: cartographie de récits autochtones project. (Photo : Julie Artacho)
Valérie Ivy Hamelin is a multidisciplinary artist who expresses herself on voice, flute, hand drum, African percussion and gumboots. A member of the Gespeg Mi’gmaq Nation, she loves to celebrate, honor and participate in the revitalization of her culture and language through song, music, storytelling and connection to the land. She performs with her group Mi’gmafrica, formed with Senegalese griot Sadio Sissokho. She holds a bachelor’s degree in governance and indigenous intervention from UQAT. She is an activist for the protection of the territory and positions herself as a water carrier. She has collaborated with various environmental protection organizations and indigenous communities, campaigning for many years for the protection of water, rivers and the ocean, as well as against the invasion of oil companies on Gespe’gewa’gi territory. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)
Karl Jay-Lewin is a choreographer, performer and presenter with a 30-year career of dance making and curation, working across Scotland, the UK and internationally. As Creative Director of Dance North Scotland, Karl programmes and directs RISE, the annual festival of contemporary dance and performance, cementing a strong reputation for the organisation as being at the forefront of contemporary dance – unequivocally bold, experimental and ambitious with a programming policy that assures diversity and a balance of Scottish and international work. (Photo : © Alex Williamson)
Kerstin Schroth, is a curator and arts manager based in Berlin and Paris. Since 2019, she has been the Artistic Director of Moving in November, an annual contemporary dance festival in Helsinki, Finland, where she has been responsible for reimagining the festival and shaping the program. Her curatorial interests revolve around the notion of the festive, hosting, and creating social spaces within the frame of a festival. She approaches contemporary dance through the lens of choreography with an non-hierarchical, perspective and working method. She has a special passion for storytelling and for how language manifests itself in our bodies and politics. (Photo : © Mariangela Pluchino)
Marianne Bilger is a French-Norwegian curator and performing arts manager with expertise in dance and new circus. She is currently the artistic director of the Færderbiennalen festival, an international festival for dance and architecture taking place in a rural coastal environment in Southern Norway – developping site specific curating and transdiciplinary works with a clear international dimension and a local anchoring. (Photo : © Tomas Lauvland Petterson)
Rui Torrinha is currently the Artistic Director of Centro Cultural Vila Flor (CCVF) and Performing Arts programming. He also directs international annual festivals like GUIdance, Westway LAB and Gil Vicente covering different art fields such as contemporary dance, music and theatre along with CCVF’s intense regular programming throughout the entire year. He’s in charge of the support plan for the performing arts creation process, an annual scheme developed by CCVF and Centro de Criação de Cardoso (CCC) in the form of coproductions and artistic residencies. (Photo : © Nuno Sampaio)
PRO Day is now fully booked.
