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France TrépanierMember: Diversité - Francophonie
France Trépanier is the leader of the Culturescope.ca Group, Diversité - Francophonie. The Group evolved from the Diversité et Culture conference and continues to explores issues which emerged there.
The conference, Diversité et Culture, was held in Vancouver from November 25-27, 2005; the conference reflected on the notion of otherness and the future of cultures in the Canadian Francophonie.
France Trépanier is a visual artist, an exhibition curator and a senior public policy advisor in the fields of the arts, aboriginal affairs, cultural diversity and La Francophonie. In recent years, Ms. Trépanier was an invited member of the IntraNation residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta (2004). She organized the international workshop on Cultural Diversity and Every Day Life, as part of the Council of Europe's Transversal Study on Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity (2002). She was also a member of the organizing committee for the Minister's Forum on Diversity and Culture (2003). In this capacity, she accompanied the Minister during the five regional meetings held across Canada prior to the Forum. For two years, France worked at the Canada Council for the Arts before becoming senior public policy advisor for the Department of Canadian Heritage. She has carried out diplomatic functions as First Secretary, Cultural Affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Paris. She created and founded the New Media Centre at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, where she was Director from 1996 to 1999.
During her career, France has represented Canada at a number of international organizations including UNESCO, the Market for African Performing Arts (MASA), the Council of Europe, the Commission internationale du Théâtre francophone (CITF) and the Jeux de la Francophonie.
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