Podcasts and Videos - Chaire en économie créative & mieux-être

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The Discoverability challenge led by cultural stakeholders

30 March 2026

How can the visibility of cultural works be enhanced in an increasingly saturated environment? Two key figures from Quebec’s cultural sector—Michel Vallée (President and CEO of Culture pour tous!) and Jean-Benoît Dumais (Executive Director of the Coopérative des librairies indépendantes du Québec – leslibraires.ca)—share their perspectives and initiatives.

Perspectives and the Future of the Creative Economy

23 March 2026

Students from CREAT share their perspectives and research. From regional culture to the arts and health, as well as digital creativity and discoverability, these intersecting viewpoints offer an inspiring glimpse into the future of the creative economy and its impact on collective well-being.

Understanding the challenges of discoverability to make music accessible

16 March 2026

At the intersection of migration trajectories and Québec’s cultural ecosystems, this episode explores the priorities that should guide efforts around discoverability. Caroline Marcoux-Gendron, Affiliated Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and Romuald Jamet, Associate Professor at INRS, discuss the distinctive features of Québec’s music landscape: its linguistic, institutional, and cultural dynamics, as well as the recognition biases that affect, among others, artists from immigrant backgrounds.

CREATivity in Action: Stories of Digital Practices

9 March 2026

Digital creativity is transforming the ways we produce and interact. Two researchers from CREAT—Philippe Vaucher, professor in the Unité d’enseignement et de recherche en création et nouveaux médias at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), and Louis-Philippe Rondeau, also a professor at the École des arts numériques de l’animation et du design at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (NAD/UQAC)—shed light on current innovations in this field.

“L’écho des Plantes” : An Ecological and Poetic Opera

2 March 2026

Is it possible to create an opera with plants?
This episode takes you inside a groundbreaking artistic initiative.

Imagined in collaboration with teenagers, L’Écho des Plantss is a transdisciplinary opera that brings together living systems, the arts, and science in a dynamic dialogue.

Charlotte Gagnon (Manager of Social Action and Education at Opéra de Montréal / Co-founder and Co-Artistic & Executive Director of Productions Rigoletta) and Antoine Bellemare (multidisciplinary artist and postdoctoral researcher) take us behind the scenes of this collective creation, where emotions, plant signals, and words intertwine to shape a new way of listening to the world.

The CREAT Chairheaders

17 February 2026

This episode features four interviews with the headers of the Research Chair in Creative Economy and Well-Being (CREAT). Learn more about their backgrounds, areas of interest, and research.

Reflections on Social Design

13 January 2026

Produced in the wake of the symposium Beyond Social Innovation: Social Design?, this podcast extends the discussions by giving a voice to invited guests. It offers a broader perspective on reflections surrounding social design and its role in addressing contemporary social, cultural, and environmental challenges.

Enjoy listening!

Vidéos

Music & Immigration project

7 January 2026

The Discoverability Axis supported the production of an outreach video related to the project Music & Immigration, an online cultural mapping initiative highlighting the musical practices of professional immigrant artists in Quebec.

The project is led by two CREAT members: Caroline Marcoux Gendron (UQAM), collaborator of the Discoverability Axis, and Guillaume Blum (ÉTS), Head of the Axis. It is part of ongoing research on the visibility and accessibility of cultural content.

PERSEIS Channel

21 November 2025

YouTube Channel, PERSÉIS Project.

What Is Creative Economy?

30 October 2025

Short videos in which the Arts and Health Axis team asked members of the public, on the spot, to share their definition of the creative economy. Take a listen—we captured sparks of imagination that reveal the richness and diversity of this concept!

Silaup Asitjivallianinga

12 August 2025

“Silaup Asitjivallianinga“, a short documentary produced by La Boîte Rouge Vif on the creative process surrounding the Arts and Health Axis project on climate change and Inuit art.

Film on the Art in All Its Forms! Dance and Theatre Initiative by Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

4 April 2025

Led by the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, with the support of the Arts and Health Axis, the program Art in All Its Forms! explores the benefits of dance and theatre for autistic young adults through an artistic and scientific approach.