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April 2004 | No 6 | |
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Early
Registration Begins
1
June 2004
The
countdown has begun! 56 days to go before
Early Registration starts!
Registrations for Rendez-Vous
Montréal 2006 Games must be done on an
individual basis, even if you are part
of a sports team, choir or band. Register
as of 1 June 2004 through our user-friendly
website at www.montreal2006.info.
If you cannot access the Internet, please
write to us at media@montreal2006.org
and we will send you a Registration Form
by mail.
Three
good reasons for you to register early!
- A
guaranteed place in your event
- A
discount on the regular registration
fee
- A
chance to win a pair of Air Canada tickets
to the Games and to participate in monthly
draws (conditions apply - see
our website)
Registration
includes:
- Participation
at the Opening Ceremony
- Participation
at the Closing Ceremony
- One
event (sport or culture)
- One
metro/bus pass
- A
participation medal
- Eight
days of friendship, fun and discoveries!
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Requests
for Promotional Materials
If
you would like to receive information,
brochures, flyers or posters, please email
us at media@montreal2006.org.
Free
Club Montréal 2006 Membership
Set up your own free "Club Montréal 2006"
Profile and immediately start receiving
Club Montréal 2006 e-mail Newsletters,
which contains exclusive promotional offers
to members, latest news from the Montréal
2006 Games, and contests exclusive to
members.
Click
here
to become a member!
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SPORTS
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Montréal
2006 Adds Two New Sports!
After
the huge success of the Beach
Volleyball tournament presented
during the Rendez-Vous
in the Village, Bronze Edition
last September, the Sports Department
decided to add this sporting discipline
to the official games programme. Matches
will be held in beautiful Jeanne-Mance
Park at the foot of Mount Royal. The park
is well known to Beach Volleyball enthusiasts
who use the site regularly for competitions.
Dragon Boat
Racing has also been added to the official
games programme. This fast-growing and
increasingly popular sport is enjoying
great success around the world. Competitions
will be presented in the renowned Olympic
Basin of Montréal. The Montréal 2006 Organising
Committee has the full support of the
local Kraken club as well as that of the
Montréal Dragon Boat Race Festival Organising
Committee.
The
International Gay & Lesbian Athletics
Conference (Boston)
The
Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 team attended
the Gay & Lesbian Athletics Foundation
(GLAF) conference in Boston where the workshop
on the 2006 games in Montréal was a great
success. Mark Tewksbury (Co-President) and
Josée Généreux (Sports Director) unveiled
the new additions to the sports programme
and delivered a presentation with images
of the various competition sites to be used
during the games. A general overview of
recent developments along with latest news
on preparations for the games were also
presented.
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The
Tour Continues
Mark Tewksbury,
Co-President, and Josée Généreux, Sports
Director, continued their world tour of
sports teams. Teams in Vancouver, Calgary
and Toronto were visited in February.
The pair also attended the annual assembly
of the EGLSF (European Gay & Lesbian
Sport Federation) in March.
If your team would like
to organize a visit from Mark Tewksbury
or Josée Généreux, please email us at
sport@montreal2006.org.
New
Faces
The
department now has three new coordinators
for the sports and Outreach programmes:
Caroline Ayotte, Éric Pineault and Sylvain
Guibord. The team is currently completing
the sanction process with various sports
federations and is working in close collaboration
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Creation
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In Boston
on March 27, 28 and 29, GLISA (Gay and
Lesbian International Sports Association)
was born.
Over
the last six months, the groundwork was
laid for the creation this international
association thanks to the efforts of over
one hundred gay and lesbian sports teams
around the world.
In
January of this year, a Think Tank was
organised in Montréal during which about
twenty representatives of sports teams
and of the GLBT sporting community in
general decided to begin consultations
with various sports teams around the world.
The reponse was overwhelmingly in favour
of the creation of a new international
body providing services to athletes and
teams. As a result of these consultations,
the founding assembly of GLISA was held
in Boston this weekend.
The
founding assembly also announced that
GLISA will immediately begin negotiations
with Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 to sign
a partnership agreement for Montréal to
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On
4 March, Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 signed
an agreement with the EGLSF (European
Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation)
outlining provisions for the exchange
of information on the successful organisation
of sporting competitions. This agreement
also provides for the promotion of the
Montréal games by the EGLSF at the various
European sports activities it coordinates
each year.
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GALA
Choruses in Montr??al this July! |
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Organisers
of VIIe
Festival International GALA Choruses,
to be held 17 to 24 July, 2004, in Montréal
(Québec), Canada, already have more that
5,000 registrants for the festival. This
marks the highest number of advance registrations
of any GALA Choruses quadrennial festival.
The beautiful
performance facility of Place des Arts
will be the sight of formal concerts presented
by the more than 5,000 delegates expected
to attend the eight-day festival. The
festival will also offer an Exposition
at Complexe Desjardins and special community
events open to the general public. Most
of the choruses and ensembles registering
have come from the U.S.A. (84%) and Canada
(13%). Other countries including the U.K.,
France, Germany, Ireland and South Africa,
will be represented. Choruses are comprised
primarily of women's choruses (22%), mixed
men's and women's choruses (29%) and men's
choruses (48%). The sizes of choruses
range from a quartet to more than 200
singers. Performances deliver powerful
messages about social justice and the
lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender
people. Many new works commissioned by
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Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006
and Gala Choruses have signed an exclusive
agreement to have the choral association
produce a cultural event during the 2006
games in Montréal at which 1,500 to 2,000
choral singers will perform. |
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"The
Right to Be Different" Conference |
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The
Nuit d'argent Gala Benefit Evening |
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The international
conference on gay and lesbian rights,
which will be held within the framework
of Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006, will be
officially launched on 30 May 2004. Members
of the International Scientific Committee
will hold their first meeting to work
on establishing the conference program.
This committee will be composed of 30
members, 19 of whom will be traveling
from overseas to attend. All continents
will be represented. The conference will
even enjoy the presence of a delegate
from, Mr. Dan Zhou, a lawyer residing
in Shanghai.
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The Minister of Relations avec
les citoyens et de l'immigration du Québec,
Ms. Michèle Courschene, along with the
Mayor of Montréal, Mr. Gérald Tremblay,
have agreed to co-host the Nuit d'argent
gala benefit evening. This gala fundraiser
for Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 will be
held at the beginning of September 2004.
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Improvements
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The City of
Montréal has just announced that, in anticipation
of the Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 Gay Sport
and Cultural Festival, the city's Gay
Village will be the focus of a major revitalization
project. Located in the heart of the city,
the Gay Village will be the center of
cultural and tourist activities for the
7 days of the Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006
event. This neighbourhood has seen significant
development over the past 15 years and
has become one of the most visited areas
of the city by tourists in general. Filled
with charming restaurants, terraces, theatres,
book stores and trendy bars, this vibrant
community will also be the location of
the new Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
(National Library of Québec). Part
of the revitalisation project includes
improvements to buildings on Sainte-Catherine
Street, the city's oldest urban thoroughfare
which bisects the Village from west to
east.
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Please
Use Our Logo! |
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Official
logo 180X136 |
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All
associations, teams and sports clubs are
welcomed to use our logo on their web
site, by copy/pasting our logo on the
right (180X136) and by creating a link
to the Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 site.
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The
Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 Organizing
Committee is a non for profit
organization. The Games will
be held from 29 July to 5 August
2006 with more than 16,000 participants
in the sport, cultural and conference
programmes. Thirty three sports
disciplines will be represented
during seven days of competitions.
Athletes from around the world
and from over 100 different
countries are expected. Opening
and Closing ceremonies will
cap off the sports competitions,
open to all. An international
gay sport and cultural "Rendez-Vous"
not to be missed!
Many
thanks to our Strategic Aliances:
Air
Canada, Arrondissement de Ville-Marie,
BBCM Foundation, Équipe Montréal,
Hotel Association of Greater
Montréal, Montréal Sports International
Corporation, Palais des congrès
de Montréal, Québec Gay Chamber
of Commerce, Régie des installations
olympiques and the Village Merchands
and Professionals Association. |
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organisateur Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006.
All rights reserved. |
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