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Expression LaSalle Mental Health Community Centre & Art Therapy

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hen many of us think of therapy we may recall clichĂŠs of "talk-therapy", conjuring up images of a psychotherapist asking his or her patient the proverbial dreaded question, "How does that make you feel?" We know that a "resistant" patient may be reluctant to fess up to their true feelings to a total stranger i.e. therapist if they are "stuck in denial". Then again, they may be tempted to "act out" when they should be "talking it out". Or maybe the patient is "projecting" their own feelings onto someone else, or has just gone "OCD" over their pet obsession. Some may be just too "anal" to benefit from therapy, or have a counterintuitive "reptilian brain". Whatever the professional argot or popular jargon, this kind of "psychobabble" can drive even the sanest person a little nuts. Everybody's seen Woody Allen's movies. Who needs therapy anyway?!

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first have to be evaluated to assess their particular situations and to determine which type of art therapy is best suited to their needs.

"Art is done as a vehicle to help them (members) in their therapeutic process," she says, noting that the art created often does have beauty. However, this isn't the goal of art therapy. "It's better sometimes not to have art skills," she says. "People often don't, they draw stick figures," she says, laughing. "It's about bringing out the unconscious, not about the aesthetics."

Before any intake is done, newcomers have an opportunity to meet the staff at an annual information session. At a typical "Open House" the therapists give a presentation on the modality of each art therapy to prospective members, as well as clinical professionals from CLSC's and hospitals in the surrounding area.

"It allows people to come and meet therapists and decide which therapy is a better fit. There is an experiential part of it," Olivier says. A music presentation, might help a potential member to discern that music would be a better fit for her than say drawing and painting, she says. This year's presentations at LaSalle Expression will be taking place in the spring of 2017 although the details aren't finalized yet.

This forum is also an opportunity for people to trying to decide whether the centre's creative therapeutic approach might work for them to talk with current members. They can ask them, "How did it help you?" or "What did you like or not like?" Olivier says. The open house helps to demystify the services. "It is an opportunity for people to come and see the place, to become familiarized with the setting," she says.

There are 5 permanent part-time employees, and roughly half a dozen student interns each year, who are studying art therapy and social work. LaSalle Expression offers individual and group sessions to its members on an rotating basis. It also has "closed groups" (no newbies) which can run from between 6-9 months.

Well, there is therapy and then there's therapy.

Expression LaSalle Mental Health Community Centre in the southwest borough of LaSalle provides free non-traditional therapeutic services to all citizens throughout the Greater Montreal Region. Its alternative art therapy model involves the use of art (including an approach specific to survivors of sexual abuse), drama, music, and relaxation and meditation techniques, as well as counselling sessions to help members of the centre connect with their feelings and work through problems.

The people who come to be a part of the LaSalle Expression Mental Health Community Centre are "members", not patients or clients.

So, says Director Julia Olivier, who is an accredited psychotherapist, in addition to being an art therapist. Anyone can apply to become a member of the centre although 80% of those in LaSalle Expression's programs are women.

Otherwise, membership cuts across a wide demographic swath: 18-65 years of age; working (often part-time), or unemployed. Many members are either low-income or on governmental assistance, while some are disabled, working alongside the able-bodied on their creative projects. "People can come and participate as long as they need to," she says. However, they www.mtltimes.ca WEDNESDAY

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Fund-raising for the non-profit centre, estab- Festival draws tens of thousands of particilished in 1990, is an ongoing concern. "It's pants each year, overlapping Montreal's Grand tough," Olivier frankly acknowledges. The cen- Prix Weekend. So, if nothing else, Project X's tre's work is recognized though, she says. It endeavor helped to get the word out to lots of has recurrent funding from the Quebec Gov- folks in a relatively short time that it's OK to talk ernment, as well as from private foundations about mental health problems. It is a measure and individual donors. In June 2016, a profes- of the recognition of the value of the work that sional theatre company known as Project X Expression LaSalle Centre does that it is garwhich explores themes relating to mental nering such community support. health in its works donated the proceeds from one of its shows at the St. Ambroise Montreal Expression LaSalle Mental Fringe Festival. Project X is an independent Health Community Centre body with a two-fold mandate to destigmatize 405 Newman Tsse, LaSalle, QC H8R 1Y9 mental health problems and fund-raise to help http://www.expressionlasalletherapies.ca/ raise awareness about mental health.

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Cote St. Luc Dramatic Society starts 2017 season with “Our Town”

Cote St. Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein (right) and Matthew McKeown, who will be performing in the Cote St. Luc Dramatic Society's production of "Our Town" from January 24 to 29

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he Cote St. Luc Dramatic Society (CSLDS), since it was established more than five years ago, has built a solid reputation staging award-winning comedies and musicals such as “Catch Me If You Can”, “Hairspray” and “Mel Brooks’ The Producers”. However, to start off its 2017 season, the CSLDS has decided to venture into its first presentation of a bona fide drama.

The play they chose was “Our Town”, Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which will have a run of eight performances from January 24 to 29 at the Harold Greenspon Auditorium, which is located at 5801 Cavendish Boulevard. “Our Town” takes place in the fictional small town of Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire during the early 1900s, and explores the everyday lives of its citizens, and the joys, heartbreaks and daily life experiences that go with it, and is narrated by a stage manager, who guides the audience through the different stories that take place.

“The Cote St. Luc Dramatic Society was known for producing lots comedies and musicals, and it was about time that we did a real drama, and do something good. Which is why we decided to stage Our Town,” said Cote St. Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein, who also co-founded the society.

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“And Grover’s Corner is in a way similar to what Cote St. Luc was like, and how it evolved in so many ways. And the play conveys how relationships between the town and its people remain so timeless. People who will go to see this play will laugh, smile and reflect on how the lives that are portrayed in Our Town are similar to their lives in Cote St. Luc.” The production will once again be directed by CSLDS co-founder and artistic director Anisa Cameron, and will have a cast of 18 people ranging in ages from 15 to 80. One of them is Matthew McKeown, who is making his third appearance in a major CSLDS production. He will be portraying the father of Emily Webb – the play’s female lead -- and he is no stranger to doing father figure roles, which he has been doing in other dramatic productions across Montreal. “Somehow doing father figure roles – or roles of authority figures like teachers – seems like a good fit for me,” said McKeown, who works by day at a data management services company, where he trains employees on how to troubleshoot. “I always enjoyed being the person who knows better, who can relate to others and always has something to say, which is similar to the town sage.”

And Brownstein, who has been acting onstage since he was a child, will once again trod the boards for the CSLDS, this time as Our Town’s other father figure, Dr. Gibbs, the father of male

lead George Gibbs. “I have really enjoyed learning my lines for this production, and I have learned a lot doing the part of Dr. Gibbs,” he said.

“He is a good father, a good husband, a good community leader and a good mentor, which is why I found him to be such an interesting character.” Brownstein adds that the production will stick to the way the play was originally staged on Broadway back in 1938, with period costumes, a bare stage and a few props. “We are sticking close to the way Thornton Wilder would have wanted it; however, it’s a lot of work trying to pick up a fake coffee cup, but we are adapting to it and enjoying every minute of it,” he said.

As well, the Cote St. Luc Dramatic Society’s 2017 season continues with their production of “Fancy Nancy” at the beginning of March, and conducting theatrical workshops for children and seniors; and for those who have enjoyed their trademark musicals, they will be staging “Little Shop of Horrors” this spring.

Tickets for “Our Town” are $25, $20 for seniors and students, and $20 for the preview performance on January 24; they are available for purchase at the Eleanor London Cote St. Luc Public Library (5851 Cavendish Bouelvard), the Aquatic and Community Centre on Parkhaven Avenue, or online at www.CSLDramaticSociety.com .

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Montreal: a cultural balance Leonard Cohen 1934 - 2016

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THE DEPARTURE OF AN ICON Leonard Cohen was born in Westmount but chose to live in the Plateau near Saint Laurent Boulevard. An area marked by successive waves of immigrants, including, of course, many of the members of his Jewish community at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. That was also the neighbourhood where Mordecai Richler grew up and where he concocted most of his stories. Cohen too must have taken lots of material for his songs from that area: a place of opportunity and poverty, hope and disillusionment, of bars where people would share their dreams and small shops and factories where they would try to make a living. All of that mixed with some atmosphere of mysticism and nostalgia reflected somehow in the songs/poems of Leonard Cohen who at the age of 82 left us on November 7, 2016.

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CITY OF FESTIVALS Starting with the Montréal en Lumière winter fest in February, then the FrancoFolies in mid-May, to the Fireworks Competition, the Comedy Festival and the Jazz Festival during the summer, to finish with the World Film Festival and the New Cinema Festival in the fall, Montreal's reputation as a city of festivals was reaffirmed once more this year. Significant events only marred by the difficulties faced by the World Film Festival (held in August) due to the loss of government funding, which in turn resulted in a rather embarrassing situation—not for the organizers of the festival, in this case the controversial Serge Losique and his team—but for the city and the government agencies mandated to support these events. Not surprisingly, since government officials rarely are in sync with what regular folks think, Losique's festival despite all adversities, still enjoys the support from the public, as noticed by the attendance to the screenings.

So, once more we repeat a question many people asked: who has given the bureaucrats of Telefilm Canada and Sodec, the right to decide for the public of Montreal what festivals deserve government funding? After all, it's our money and not the bureaucrats', isn't it?

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Ryan Gosling in "La La Land" a tribute to the great tradition of the Hollywood musical

THE BEST OF 2016 Unlike other years when the offer of remarkable movies was abundant, 2016 instead didn't present a big problem for this critic to select what could be considered the best of the year. Of course—like any evaluation—choosing the best movies is, in the end, a subjective exercise.

Although with some rules of quality based on parameters where there is some objectivity: a good story, elements of unpredictability in its plot, consistency in the story and the characters, some plausibility within the framework of the plot itself, and good photography and acting.

Let's start by some honorary mentions: "Kubo and the Two Strings" (Directed by Travis Knight, USA). An interesting animation movie made by Americans but in the style of Japanese animation.

"Snowden" (Dir. Oliver Stone, USA). A well-narrated and engaging story based on the whistleblower who helped the world learn about the dirty tricks of American spy agencies.

"Jackie" (Dir. Pablo Larrain, USA). Focused on the life of the former American first lady after the assassination of her husband, it is also an examination of the Kennedy period (Camelot) as a time of promise tragically interrupted.

And then the ten best in ascending order: 10: "Zootopia" (Dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore, USA). An animation movie that presents human characteristics in the best fable tradition, under zoomorphic characters. (I loved the scene where the bureaucrats at a public office are represented by sloths). www.mtltimes.ca

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REVIEW 9: "Eye in the Sky" (Dir. Gavin Hood, UK-South Africa). With Helen Mirren as a colonel facing a tough moral dilemma now when you can kill at a distance using drones.

"Captain Fantastic" is the third best movie of 2016: a delightful comedy with a message

3: "Captain Fantastic" (Dir. Matt Ross, USA).

The rebellious father (Viggo Mortensen) and Xavier Dolan directed "Juste le fin du monde / his children battling the establishment in a deIt's Just the End of the World" a Canadian movie lightful comedy that also makes you think among the ten best about current societal values.

8: "Juste le fin du monde" /"It's Just the End of the World" (Dir. Xavier Dolan, Canada). Quebec director Xavier Dolan shows his masterful handling of the difficulties found in human communication.

7: "The Handmaiden" (Dir. Chan-wook Park, South Korea). With steady doses of eroticism and intrigue, this Korean movie was one of this year's surprises. Based on a Victorian-era story it has many twists that kept the audience wondering what's next.

6: "Manchester by the Sea" (Dir. Kenneth Lonergan, USA). Great acting by Casey Affleck and a dark ambience created by an excellent Meryl Streep as the worst opera singer in "Florence cinematography, makes this sombre story anJenkins Foster" second best movie of 2016 other film not to be missed.

2: "Florence Foster Jenkins" (Dir. Stephen Fri5: "Arrival" (Dir. Denis Villeneuve, USA). An- ars, USA). The "worst opera singer" (played other impressive work by this celebrated Que- wonderfully by Meryl Streep) and her scheming bec director. An excellent acting by Amy companion (Hugh Grant) are featured in this Adams in the role of a linguistics professor try- charming story based on real events and charing to find a way to communicate with aliens acters. whose purpose is unknown. The key to the 1: "Lion" (Dir. Garth Davis, Australia). Also meaning of the story is in the narrative itself. based on a real story, a 5-year-old Indian boy 4: "La La Land" (Dir. Damien Chazelle, USA). from a poor family who gets lost, ends up A tribute to the great tradition of Hollywood mu- adopted by an Australian family and twenty sicals, but it also presents an articulate plot and years later try to find his roots. Great performsolid performances by Ryan Gosling and ances by Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman.

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r. Stock, who is born and will help anyone on the drop of a dime. He raised in Montreal and now loves his community of Hudson - St. Lazare lives in St. Lazare, Quebec, is and he is a true Montrealer. That is why we a man often lauded for his asked PJ to represent the Vaudreuil Soulanges successes on the ice where area as this year Grand Marshal of the Hudson he spent seven years as a St. Patricks' Day Parade." professional hockey player, playing for the likes PJ's responsibilities as Grand Marshal will be of the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, to lead the parade down Main Road in Hudson and preside over all the floats and organizaPhiladelphia Flyers and the Boston Bruins.

PJ's professional hockey career was brought tions who will be in attendance.

There will also be a Grand Marshal ROAST to a halt when a eye injury led to an early retirement, but his successes continued to grow & TOAST dinner for Mr. Stock, where many of his friends and peers will be in attendance to off the ice.

PJ took his quick wit and energetic passion tell stories and to ROAST this years Grand to a number of hosting roles, ranging from the Marshal. The dinner will take place Saturday, Stock Exchange on Team990 and the Chom March 4th starting at 6:00pm at the Whitlock morning show, to Hockey Night in Canada and Golf & Curling Club. Tickets are $55 each and Sportsnet on television. You could also find PJ it includes performances by the Bernadette as a panelist on RDS' "Antichambre" and as a Short Dancers and of course Whitlock's famous Italian buffet with a Roast Beef Carving contestant on "Battle of the Blades".

Among it all, PJ has been noted as a dedi- station.

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For more information on the parade, please "We are very honored that PJ accepted our nomination to be this years Grand Marshal" go to www.hudsonparade.ca or www.facebook.com/hudsonparade for more says parade director, Jim Beauchamp.

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Barbegazi festival part of the mtl375 celebration continues this weekend Stay warm by one of the fires lit up at the Barbegazi festival

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Kicking off the year-long celebrations, is Barbegazi festival - an outdoor festival designed to keep people active and outside even during the most frigid of times. Folks come out to participate in lumberjack style wood cutting contest, arm wrestling, an obstacle course and a Christmas tree lobbing contest! That has to be a first!

Also among the popular activities, was a snowskate hill, aimed at introducing people to the crossover sport - mixing snowboarding with the smaller board found in skateboarding circles. A tug of war on slippery ground made for an amusing sight. Food trucks fed the hungry and fire pits warmed frozen extremities.

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Are you interested in working for a vibrant company, in an exciting, fast-moving environment? Simard Transport is seeking bright, motivated, hardworking individuals to fill the below positions!

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