Because of your support, we'll be able to give away free tickets to families who can't afford to attend, and provide shuttle services for our spectators and volunteers.

FESTIVAL SHAZAM IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION 

FOUNDED IN 2006 

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MEMBERS OF ITS CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

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ELISABETH BESOZZI, PRESIDENT

ALYSSA TESSIER,VICE-PRESIDENT

PAUL MULLER, SECRETAIRE

CHARLES LAMONTAGNE, TREASURER

ANNE-MARIE VACHON, ADMINISTRATOR

SASHA PRZYTYK, , ADMINISTRATOR

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ZIV PRZYTYK, FOUNDER, GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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Mission:

Festival Shazam is a non-profit event producer that celebrates the next generation of musicians and artists through cultural and intergenerational gatherings in rural areas. 

Vision:

Festival Shazam creates a more diverse, dynamic and caring world by promoting kindness, equality, environmentalism, fulfillment of youth, community building and cultural democracy. By providing a safe space for spectators to network creatively and come together through artistic expression and play, it fosters community engagement, ecological responsibility and cultural democratization.

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Orientations:

FESTIVAL SHAZAM is a non-profit organization and a social economy enterprise with a mission of sustainable development in the arts and agricultural sectors:

 

- To organize quality events, with the goal of discovering and celebrating cultural differences through music and other mediums.

 

- To bring together and promote local, national and international culture, music and art in the form of festivals and other intergenerational events.

 

- To stimulate the participation of emerging artists in order to encourage self-management, exchange, learning and development by offering an alternative scene.

 

- To favour the creation of jobs for young people and adults in the Estrie region.

 

- To promote and encourage the artistic participation of the public in events that bring people together.

 

- To promote local agricultural and artisanal products during festive events. 

 

- To promote the following values during events: exchange, voluntarism, sharing, respect for people, animals and the environment.

 

- To encourage the development of infrastructures that allow for a certain degree of food autonomy during large events.

 

- To offer a greener and more eco-responsible festival in a vision of sustainable development.

 

- To create a net benefit for the whole community, by supporting artists and businesses in the region and by offering free cultural mediation activities.

 

- To promote food autonomy through the presentation of workshops and conferences related to urban and rural agriculture.

 

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