Tau S. Bui has 20 years of administrative experience, ten of which were spent in business enterprises (AbitibiBowater, Bell Canada, SITQ/Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and KPMG). Bui joined the cultural milieu in 2012. She joined the team at the Festival TransAmériques where her development led her to become Director of Finance and Operations. In 2018, she became Director of Administration at Tangente Danse. Through her passion for human resources, the organization decided to establish an HR department. During this mandate, she also discovers strong skills in business strategy, and joins several boards of directors over the years. From 2021 to 2023, Tau S. Bui takes over the executive direction of Diversité Artistique Montréal. She will take this opportunity to develop numerous projects to serve the community, as well as programs in partnership with other Canadian provinces. Faithful to her commitments, she continues to support the DAM in its current succession planning.
She is passionate about arts management in Montreal and Quebec, pays particular attention to the building of strong human ties, believes profoundly in the collective and the pooling of resources, as well as in the role of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in business practices. Today, as Executive Director of the Machinerie, Tau S. Bui hopes to make the most of this new role to convey her values of inclusion and support artists in structuring their most ambitious projects.
tau@machineriedesarts.ca
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Ariel Lefebvre is an opera singer and a graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. Since his start at the Machinerie in 2019, Ariel has developed an expertise in cultural management, specializing in grant applications and the analysis of the needs of both organizations and individual artists in the performing arts. His ability to communicate, combined with his knowledge of good management practices, has allowed him to help and support dozens of creators and companies over the years.
Parallel to his role as cultural manager, which he has fully taken on since his first experience as administrative coordinator for the vocal ensemble Les Rugissants, Ariel develops his own artistic projects as a creator and producer. He is mainly interested in applying a multidisciplinary approach to lyric arts in which the performer is not limited to singing on stage. To this end, he is a founding member of the new Canadian-Italian collective Corifea, whose mission is to present vocal arts in an alternative way.
ariel@machineriedesarts.ca
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Interested in poetry and the possibility of playing with words from a very young age, Brice Noeser became attached to languages and the invention of languages to create his own worlds. He then crossed paths with dance and made it his discipline in Quebec. After graduating from the École de danse de Québec (2006), he developed a gestural writing that makes sense in his body and in abstract universes. The duet with Karina Iraola, Ruminant Ruminant (2014) marked a turning point in his practice, digging into the notion of mental overload and the obsession of discourse.
While pursuing various creation and production projects with collaborators in Quebec and internationally, his career is enriched by different professional experiences that connect him to his interest in language, notably in translation, after a year-long program at the University of Montreal in 2016, and in teaching French in private classes. At the same time, while developing new customer service skills, he held a role at the reception for Place des arts for 4 years. Since 2020, he has been perfecting his management and governance skills through his role as assistant to the director at Créations Estelle Clareton.
brice@machineriedesarts.ca
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Yvonne Patel is a multidisciplinary artist who is inspired by various forms of transitions found in nature, identity and culture. She constructs from her perceptions and lived experiences, and expresses them through poetry, performance, writing, textiles, painting, and drawing.
She has a degree in business administration and her professional experience spans the fields of technology, education, hospitality and event management. Passionate about languages from an early age and after much reflection during the pandemic, Yvonne decided to move to Montreal in 2021 and began learning French.
Through her role as Liaison Agent, she seeks to develop her understanding of the arts sector, while applying her skillset to support the team towards enriching relationships with its community of artists and cultural workers.
yvonne@machineriedesarts.ca
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Margot est une travailleuse culturelle et commissaire d’exposition émergente qui effectue actuellement sa maîtrise en histoire de l’art à Concordia. Spécialisée en art contemporain, plus précisément, en images et pratiques archivistes contemporaines Sud-Africaines, Margot est passionnée de photographie, de cinéma, et de recherche.
Elle est diplômée d’un Baccalauréat en Histoire de l’Art, Communication, et Cinéma de l’université McGill et possède quatre ans d’expérience en tant que gestionnaire de projets auprès des artistes émergent·e·s contemporain·e·s en arts visuels. À la tête de la seule foire publique en pratiques émergentes en arts actuels pour artch art contemporain émergent, Margot a notamment acquis des compétences en production, financement, et diffusion d’événements culturels ainsi qu’en professionnalisation et accompagnement d’artistes, expertises qui sont maintenant mises au service des artistes de la Machinerie.
En parallèle de son poste à la Machinerie et de ses études, Margot a effectué le commissariat de plusieurs expositions. Elle a aussi donné plusieurs séries de formations et d’ateliers dédiés à la carrière des artistes émergent·e·s, a fait de la médiation culturelle dans plusieurs institutions culturelles (Vox, Arsenal) et elle est aussi agente d’artistes.
Pallina Michelot est une jeune artiste afro-québécoise. Comédienne et créatrice de théâtre de formation (Cégep de Trois-Rivières, 2014 & École théâtrale russe Demain le printemps, Biélorussie, 2015). L’interprétation, la mise en scène, l’écriture, la facilitation d’ateliers, la direction artistique, la médiation culturelle et intervention sociale font toutes parties de sa pratique.
Au fil des années, Pallina Michelot a développé un intérêt et une spécialisation marquées pour la représentation des artistes, artisans et gestionnaires culturels s’identifiant aux communautés marginalisées. Elle est ainsi impliquée dans plusieurs projets qui répondent à ses enjeux à travers le Québec (Mauricie, Côte-Nord, Montréal, différentes communautés autochtones). Travailleuse autonome dans le domaine des arts vivants depuis déjà plusieurs années, elle s’implique également au sein de plusieurs recherches, conversations et travaux de consolidation/mutualisation de ces enjeux, qui l’a menée à co-fonder l’organisme Agence On est là en 2021, où elle a consolidé sa forte expérience de gestion.
Perrine Cadiou est médiatrice culturelle. Elle s’épanouit en créant des espaces de dialogue entre artistes, œuvres et publics. Après un Master en Médiation culturelle des arts, option spectacle vivant, de l’université Aix Marseille I, elle commence sa carrière au service de médiation culturelle de Très Tôt Théâtre à Quimper, avant de passer une saison au Volcan, scène nationale du Havre.
En 2015, elle rejoint le service des relations avec le public du Théâtre National de Bretagne, Centre Dramatique National, à Rennes. Pendant sept ans et demi, elle développe des projets de médiation et d’éducation artistique auprès de divers publics. Elle participe également à plusieurs programmes européens, notamment sur la place de la jeunesse dans les lieux culturels en Europe.
En 2019, elle poursuit des études en parallèle de son emploi, avec un Master Médiation du spectacle vivant à l’ère du numérique à l’université de Rennes 2, où elle se spécialise dans les outils de médiation sonore. En 2023, elle travaille comme Gérante de salle au théâtre de Quat’Sous et coordinatrice administrative à Diversité Artistique Montréal. Elle rejoint l’équipe de la Machinerie des Arts en tant que conseillère et chargée des projets de Cartographies Organisationnelles et de la Transition Écologique.
Michael Toppings is a writer, artist and cultural worker having worked as a curator, programmer and managing director for some 25 years. He has developed a practice within the non-profit cultural sector working for various performing and visual arts organizations located in the provinces of Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec. Having developed expertise in the areas of project conception and programming, administration, production, tour development, project management, etc., Toppings now focuses on sharing and transmitting his knowledge and experience to future generations of artists in all disciplines.
michael@machineriedesarts.ca
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