Franco-American Activities at the University of Southern Maine

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Rêves et Réalités de la Franco-Amérique *On 8-9 March 2002 we sponsored Rêves et Réalités de la Franco-Amérique at Lewiston-Auburn College as one of the USM Convocation events in the series Diasporas: The Meaning of Home. This three-day event showcased some of the contemporary creativity and scholarship of Franco-America from members of Le Consortium de la Franco-Amérique and Maine's Franco-American community.

Steve Riel, Massachucetts, & Yvon Labbé, Maine

From the Consortium came novelist Clark Blaise from San Francisco, singer-songwriter Michel Marchildon from Saskatchewan, museologist Andrée Gendreau and CEFAN director Simon Langlois from Québec, playwright Greg Chabot of Waterville, geographers Eric Waddell & Dean Louder from Laval University, historian Melinda Jetté from Oregon, and cinematographer Andre Gladu & geo-poet Jean Morisset of Montréal. Their presentations included songs and stories, films and website presentations, poetry and essay-readings. Events expanded into presentations and workshops with Maine artists and writers, politicians, films and plays, an open supper, theater, music, and dancing. This event was a celebration of French North America and helped develop our vision of its future.

Congressman John Baldacci & Dean Betty Robinson, Maine	Linda Pervier & Judy Paradis,Maine
Andrée Gendreau, Québec, & Christian Morisonneau, Montréal	Jean Morisset, Montréal
Michel Marchildon, Saskatchewan	Lucie Thibodeau, Yvon Labbé, Josée Vachon, John Jenkins, Liliane Labbé, Sharon Albert, André Gladu, Maine & Montréal
Christian Morrisonneau, Montréal, & Liliane Labbé, Maine	Severin Beliveau, Maine, & Anne-Célia Waddell, Québec
Penelope Markle & Cynthia Beliveau, Maine	André Senecal, Vermont, & Clark Blaise, San Francisco
Jean-Paul Poulain with Friends & Family, Maine	Josée Vachon, Massachucetts, & Don Cyr, Maine

*On March 2002 we held the first International Tortièrre Bake-off…

Chief Judge of the First International Tortiére Bake-off - Dick Bussière - & friends	Judges of the First International Tortiére Bake-off - Maureen Perry, Sheila Rose, & Joanie Seiman
Winners of the First International Tortiére Bake-off - Pauline Perry, Lewiston, Barbara Waddell, Québec, and Kenai Rodrigue, Bath	Ross Paradis, Maine
Pauline Perry's Award winning recipe in PDF format

André Gladu, Montréal,& Dean Louder, Québec

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