Thank you for the invitation. My name is Gilles Renaud. We will present our PowerPoint slides in French, but we can make the presentation both in French and English. I'm the
General Director of Ateliers créatifs Montréal.
and Alexandre will talk afterwards for Pied Carré. They are both non-profit organizations. Our role as a non-profit is as a real estate developer.
Our goal is to provide affordable space for artists, craftspeople, and organizations, and we're very diversified. Our goal is to make it affordable, adequate—meaning up to the code and safe—and long-lasting. This is essential for the artists.
We have six different projects in four boroughs in Montreal, over 300,000 square feet of space for artists and organizations, more than 280 studios, and over 750 artists of different practices.
I'll go over our projects very fast. We have Le chat des artistes and CouturOscope, which is a kind of mutualization organization for fashion designers, whom we consider creators as well. We have two other projects, and I'll go very quickly over this one. Le patrimoine industriel in Montreal is a very interesting one. It's a combined deal with the City of Montreal to make a hub with urban designers and visual artists linking urbanism and the people living in this area.
This slide shows a painting we have on the roof of one of our buildings. You have the particulars of the artist there. It's not long-lasting, but it's very spectacular.
That's a very quick look at what we're doing. I will let Alexandre talk about the Regroupement Pied Carré, which is one our of projects. It's the biggest project in Canada for visual artists.