MONTREAL – Billed as the premier conference on cultural diversity and private broadcasting, Astral Media, TQS and TVA, in partnership with the CAB are proud to announce Télédiversité.
The conference will focus on the reflection and portrayal of cultural diversity in Québec French-language private television. This one-day event, which will be held on May 12 “will be an excellent opportunity for members of Québec’s ethnocultural and Aboriginal communities and private broadcasters to explore the challenges and opportunities that are current in today’s TV media environment,” says the press release.
The aim of the conference is to create a forum of exchange between Québec’s French language private television broadcasters and journalists, creators, producers and technical personnel from Aboriginal and ethnocultural communities working in Québec. It is also an opportunity for these communities to have direct access to decision-makers in Québec’s French-language television industry including private broadcasters, industry associations, producers and government officials.
Panel workshops will focus on the role of cultural diversity in news and public affairs as well as in television drama and will feature top decision-makers from the Québec media industry.
Opening remarks will be made by Moses Znaimer, founder of CityTv and lunch speakers are Elsie Lefebvre – Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Laurier-Dorion, and Yolande James Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Nelligan.
Télédiversité is an opportunity for both French-language broadcasters and members of ethnocultural and Aboriginal communities who are currently working – or would like to work – in the television media industry to get together to brainstorm ideas, network and explore the challenges and opportunities we all face to ensure a fair and accurate reflection of our cultural diversity (whether that be on camera or behind the scenes).
It is also an opportunity to identify and establish innovative ways to advance diversity in the TV media environment and to continue fostering a constructive dialogue.
For more information on the conference please visit http://www.cab-acr.ca/telediversite/default.shtm.
