Lecture report

The lecture our group went to listen is “Does money change the way we create?” There are two guests in the lecture, first girl her name is Emilie Monnet, she is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked in Canada, Europe and Latin America. She often works in collaboration with Ondinnok, an aboriginal theatre company, and is also an organizer for artivistic, a collective that explores the relationship between art and activism. Over the last several years, she has been involved with a variety of projects that aim to build bridges among the native peoples of the American. Her mother is an Algonquin and her father is French, she grew up living in both the Outaouais region of Québec and Bretagne, France. Another guest her name is Gullaine Royer, she spent ten years training in the musical arts at the Charleville-Mezieres conservatory for music and dance. She later earned university degrees in contemporary history and performing arts management. Since 2005, Guilaine has worked at MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels), an organization that seeks to present and promote contemporary intercultural artistic practices.
During the lecture those two girls share their own experience with audience. First, girl Monnet, she work for the government, her job is to help artist and assist their problem. Before she also have bankroll problem when she do the art, but she gets help from other people and government. So today she helps other artist have same problem as her. The second girl she also is a artist, before she don’t have enough money and time to do with her arts, because she have to work to earn money to support her basic life. But she gets many help from government too and also she fined some artist have same problem as her, they could work together, sell their production and perform to earn money. Both of them were encountered similar problem, but they tried to help themselves and also they get many help from the government. So as a result, the way artist created art was changed by the money.
There are around 20 people in the lecture, and the lecture was hold in a coffee shop many of them are artist. During the lecture, the guests talk their opinion and gave example from their own. The audience can easy understand. After the guests talk we have a long time to talk with other audience to share our opinions. The reason is many listeners are have similar problems as the guests, so they talk a lot of reasons and gave many examples. The environment is very comfortable and we can easy to understand. So we are having a good time in the lecture.Finally, the main point about the lecture is “the relationship between money and art”. We know the money and art cannot discerption, because artists are same as other people, they need money to life and support their arts. In the lecture some people think money can change the way we create, some people are not, every people have their own opinions. But in my opinions I think nobody can live without money, so artists can do their arts and get a part job for themselves, also the government should gave more help to artists, can will help them to create the arts.