Cet article que l’on retrouve dans The Nation porte sur la tournée de l’artiste de hip-hop et travailleur auprès des jeunes, David Hodges, au sein de plusieurs communautés cries. Hodges a notamment collaboré avec QCGN pour ce qui concerne la chanson Notre Home, un hymne visant à renforcer le sentiment d’appartenance des jeunes Québécois d’expression anglaise.
N’we Jinan hip-hop project tours Eeyou Istchee
By Amy German, The Nation
Montreal hip-hop artist and youth worker David Hodges is bringing hip-hop beats and rhymes to Cree youth across Eeyou Istchee. Cree Nation Youth Council is using the tour to provide young Cree with musical aspirations the opportunity to collaborate with a pro.
Starting in Waswanipi and ending a month later in Washaw Sibi, Hodges said he has changed the format that he used throughout his school tour in southern Quebec. Due to the flexible nature of the project, Hodges will shape his hip-hop/spoken word/slam poetry and public-speaking tour to fit the needs of each Cree community.
24h, Lydia Labbé-Roy
La chanson Notre Home de David Hodges, lancée dans la controverse en janvier par le Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), ne semble pas avoir séduit les utilisateurs d’iTunes puisque seulement 19 personnes ont téléchargé la version francophone et 29 la version anglophone.
Notre Home a été lancé dans le cadre d’une campagne visant à interpeler le sentiment d’appartenance des jeunes Québécois, francophones et anglophones, envers le Québec. L’auteur de la chanson, David Hodges, a rencontré environ 10 000 jeunes lors d’une tournée dans les écoles qui s’est terminée en juin.
24h, Lydia Labbé-Roy
La chanson Notre Home de David Hodges, lancée dans la controverse en janvier par le Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), ne semble pas avoir séduit les utilisateurs d’iTunes puisque seulement 19 personnes ont téléchargé la version francophone et 29 la version anglophone.
Notre Home a été lancé dans le cadre d’une campagne visant à interpeler le sentiment d’appartenance des jeunes Québécois, francophones et anglophones, envers le Québec. L’auteur de la chanson, David Hodges, a rencontré environ 10 000 jeunes lors d’une tournée dans les écoles qui s’est terminée en juin.
Hip-Hop artist David Hodges visited more than a dozen regions of Quebec and met with more than 10,000 young people during the tour to encourage dialogue and combat bullying.
Montréal, June 14, 2013 – On the eve of its annual convention, taking place on June 14 and 15, the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) marked the end of the provincial Notre Home Tour this evening with a benefit concert in aid of Kids Help Phone. Held at the Crowley Arts Centre in Montreal, the event attracted more than 200 people.
“The Notre Home Tour was highly praised by all communities across the regions, and we felt we should get together to celebrate this success. Since the tour was designed to promote dialogue among young people, we wanted to reach out one more time,” said Sylvia Martin-Laforge, QCGN’s Director General, noting that the QCGN also created a recap video of the tour.
L’artiste David Hodges a visité plus d’une dizaine de régions du Québec et fait la rencontre de plus de 10 000 jeunes au cours de la tournée pour encourager le dialogue et combattre l’intimidation.
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Montréal, le 14 juin 2013 – À la veille de son congrès annuel qui se tiendra les 14 et 15 juin prochains, le Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) a souligné ce soir la fin de la tournée provinciale Notre Home par le biais d’un concert-bénéfice au profit de Jeunesse, J’écoute. L’événement auquel ont assisté plus de 200 personnes, s’est tenu au Centre des Arts Crowley, à Montréal.
« La tournée Notre Home a été fortement applaudie par toutes les communautés en région et nous voulions nous réunir pour célébrer cette réussite. Étant donné que la tournée fut conçue pour favoriser le dialogue auprès des jeunes, nous avons souhaité leur tendre la main une fois de plus », indique Sylvia Martin-Laforge, directrice générale du QCGN, en ajoutant que le QCGN a aussi produit une vidéo de fin de tournée.
Gaspe Spec
GASPE: – Between March 19 and 21, students from English secondary schools along the Gaspe Coast attend music workshops with hip hop artist David Hodges. Mr. Hodges relays his message through performance. “With talks and videos between the songs, we discuss difficult issues such as living your dreams, don’t be afraid of being different, and we encourage Quebec students to get involved in their communities.” He met the BPS students on March 19 at Bonaventure Polyvalent and those of Gaspe and Chandler on March 20 at the Douglas Community Center in Douglastown. The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) initiated the project called “Notre Home,” in order to foster cultural exchanges between English and French-speaking communities of Quebec.
“Notre Home” is the name of a bilingual song, written by David Hodges, which became the project’s rallying point. (Genevieve Gelinas)
Gaspé Spec, Letter to the editor, by David Hodges, Montreal-based hip-hop artist
I am a proud to be an Anglo-Quebecer, a Québécois. For most youth of my generation we believe our future in Quebec is contingent on breaking down socio-cultural and linguistic barriers through collaboration, dialogue … and song.
We are the generation born and raised to be the same
I’m with my brothers and sisters; we wanna be the change
We’ve come to know a beautiful culture, we mustn’t go
We’re here to stay, sing and praise a place we’re calling Notre Home
These lyrics express my sentiment of belonging to the province of Quebec. My Home. “Notre Home”.
Now back from our Notre Home tour in the Gaspé, I am most impressed by the resilience and the strong sense of belonging that young Gaspesians have towards their region. However, this part of the country is far away from major centres, so the youth, and in particular English-speaking youth really need to find new ways in which to celebrate their culture and history.
Gaspé Spec, Letter to the editor, by David Hodges, Montreal-based hip-hop artist
I am a proud to be an Anglo-Quebecer, a Québécois. For most youth of my generation we believe our future in Quebec is contingent on breaking down socio-cultural and linguistic barriers through collaboration, dialogue … and song.
We are the generation born and raised to be the same
I’m with my brothers and sisters; we wanna be the change
We’ve come to know a beautiful culture, we mustn’t go
We’re here to stay, sing and praise a place we’re calling Notre Home
These lyrics express my sentiment of belonging to the province of Quebec. My Home. “Notre Home”.
Now back from our Notre Home tour in the Gaspé, I am most impressed by the resilience and the strong sense of belonging that young Gaspesians have towards their region. However, this part of the country is far away from major centres, so the youth, and in particular English-speaking youth really need to find new ways in which to celebrate their culture and history.
Le Quebec Community Groups Network a collaboré avec l’émission de radio Vues et Voix, anciennement connue sous le nom de la Magnétothèque, sur une série d’entrevues visant à faire connaître la communauté d’expression anglaie. L’objectif de cette série spéciale est de parler des préoccupations, des réussites et des défis de notre communauté. Écoutez ci-dessous le huitième segment avec l’artiste David Hodges, qui aborde le sujet de sa tournée Notre Home à travers le Québec.
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