on the official Website of the
World Leisure Congress
Québec 2008

[Communications and videos]
[Official final program]

[Publication]

Communications and videos1

 Communications presented at the Congress

 Videos of lectures in the morning (to come)

 

Official final program 1

Consultez le programme officiel final en format PDF

 Final program

 Detailled final program

 Field workshop presentation

 

Publication 2

Every participant received the book, Public and Civil Leisure in Quebec – Dynamic, democratic, passion-driven, and fragile of the author André Thibault. This publication is published by the Presses de l’Université du Québec.

To order this book: www.puq.ca

Public and Civil Leisure in QuebecDescription:
Public and Civil Leisure in Quebec
Dynamic, Democratic, Passion-driven and Fragile

André Thibault
Collection
Temps libre et culture

Between the world of commercialized leisure and the world of home cocooning lies a middle groundin Québec replete with public and community organizations that work together by the thousands to offer recreational and leisure opportunities to Quebecers and growth opportunities to communities. At some point everybody takes part in a festival, enrolls their children in team sports, visits a park,uses a bicycle path, volunteers for an amateur theater troupe, organizes a soccer tournament, expresses a need for recreation, or claims the right to leisure.

Through more than 50 case studies that provide a compelling portrait of leisure in Québec, this work illustrates that public and civic leisure model that Quebecers use in their recreational pursuits. It presents the model’s mission, its values, certain principles, the resources used, the main challenges ahead, and the ways of meeting and working together that enable the model to thrive and develop.

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Bulletin vol. 6 no. 3 of the Observatoire québécois du loisir

Lesson of the World Leisure Congress: the perception of leisure remains Folk
By André Thibault, directeur if the Observatoire québécois du loisir and Director of the Program of the World Leisure Congress

Allowed the opportunity to occupy the public as to the media than from the population, media interposed. The examination questions and comments of journalists and media leaders revealed that the perception of leisure remains, after all, fairly standard and that the scope of the discourse of experts and professionals has not reached the population.

This finding us and can not be ignored. With its mandate to inform decision makers in entertainment, the Observatoire, in this bulletin, report the major issues and outline the responses heard during the Congress.

To read the bulletin (in French only).

 


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