Montreal’s Neighbourhood Celebrations for The Transition

Photo: Fair of possibilities in the small homeland, organized by Solon in September 2020. Credit City of Montreal

Interested in joining forces for a greater mobilization for the transition in Montreal’s neighbourhoods? Are you organising or want to organise a party in your neighbourhood between the end of August and the beginning of October 2023, or in 2024? Contact us (info@transitionencommun.org) and we will explore the possibilities together.

Neighbourhoods are at the heart of the Transition en Commun (TeC) approach and mobilise every year to offer their citizens neighbourhood festivals in a variety of forms, taking on the colour and flavour of each neighbourhood. These events are moments of celebration, mobilization, awareness, learning and many more.

We are currently reflecting with our members on the contributions of TeC as an alliance to these events in the form of pooling events, which is for the benefit of both the neighbourhoods and their events, and the transition movement as a whole in Montreal.

This pooling can cover several axes. Here are some ideas and proposals, resulting from discussions with several neighbourhoods that have already been mobilised. Exploratory ideas, non-exhaustive, not mandatory…. To be tested as early as this year 2023 with the hope of growing Montreal’s collective mobilizations in 2024.

  • The calendar and the development of a sense of belonging
    • To give ourselves a joint calendar and to converge as much as possible neighborhood events over the same period, from the end of August to the beginning of October, to reinforce the message and the weight.
    • Establish a joint calendar as a communication tool, on the TeC site and elsewhere, and to avoid duplication and strengthening.
    • Integrate complementary events into this joint calendar that reinforce the logic, such as a Montreal-wide closing event at the end of September 2023.
  • The commmunications
    • Develop a form of common, light branding, to develop a sense of belonging to a common project and support communications.
    • Support the communications of all the events on the calendar, via the various TeC networks and its members, to push participation and diversity of participation, but also to inspire other neighbourhoods and support solidarity between neighbourhoods.
    • Work on media relations for the entire calendar and, more broadly, take advantage of this coordination to broaden and deepen media and artistic coverage, and the influence of the transition. This coverage could also be applied, beyond events, to types of projects present in neighbourhoods in order to better contribute to their outreach.
  • The content
    • Stimulate the exchange of good practices and ideas between events, see the creation of common objectives and common lines (e.g. fight against poverty and risk of gentrification, JEDI, etc.).
    • Develop links with the cultural community, both as a production partner, but also and above all upstream to contribute to the design of events.
    • Solicit contributions from alliance members and its bodies and working groups (e.g. demotorization, housing in transition, food, etc.)
    • By invitation, make yourself available as an alliance to ensure a presence at block parties and to promote TeC as a Montreal project.
    • Build Montreal projects, which can travel to several neighbourhoods and strengthen events (theatre, special booths, etc.).
  • The ressources
    • Strengthen the relationship and cooperation with certain institutions, and the ability to seek additional financial and material resources.
    • Pool logistics and requests for equipment when and if relevant.

In 2023, the districts that are part of a pilot version are for the time being:

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