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Hélène Matte

For more than twenty years, Hélène Matte is a cultural worker based in Quebec. She is a free spirit with many strings in her bow: she is a writer, a poet, a curator, a cultural mediator, a performer, a visual artist, a mother and a citizen. She uses the notions of voices, meetings and experimental poetry. She invests performance arts, drawing and writing.
Hélène Matte has made and produced a lot of poetry videos (some of them have been screened in a lot of festivals and she wrote many literary shows ( such as Les Robes).
She held exhibitions in Europe, Canada et in the USA, but she’s also locally active: she coordinates and leads unifying projects in Quebec, such as Apprentis poètes! (2014), Vies de Quartier (2016) and Les confessions poétiques (2019).