Who are we?
La Nuit sur l’étang is part of the Northern Ontario cultural effervescence of the 1970s that included the creation of Northern Lights Festival Boréal. In fact, performers such as Robert Paquette, Chuck Labelle and numerous others performed at both the Festival Boréal and La Nuit sur l’étang. There was a great complicity between the francophone and anglophone artistic communities in the 1970s in Sudbury.
The French language community in Ontario identified as French Canadians up until the late 1960s when the Québécois broke away from the French-Canadian Nation to create their own ‘’space’’. This forced young Franco-Ontarians (as well as Acadians and all francophones outside Quebec) to forge their own identity. And that is exactly what these poets, academics, journalists, actors, photographers, musicians, authors, and singer songwriters did: they created a publishing company, Prise de Parole in 1973, a theatre company in 1971 Le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, a gallery – La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, a coop community CANO, a musical group CANO-Musique and a solo artist in Robert Paquette (often paired with Pierre Germain).
And of course, La Nuit sur l’étang in 1973. It came about as the cap to a convention on Franco-Ontarian culture, politics, and economics: while Quebec was seeking its identity, many Franco-Ontarians felt they had been abandoned by their Quebecois brothers and sisters. To this day, many Quebecers are astonished that there are vibrant francophone communities outside Quebec’s borders: ‘’Hors du Québec, point de salut’’ roughly translated; beyond Quebec’s borders, forget it.
In the 1970s and beyond francophones were called ‘’ frogs’’ in a derisive way. Organizers of la Nuit in 1973 decided to turn this epitaph on its head and create a Night on the Pound. We are frogs? Fine, let us celebrate who we are. Throughout the first 30 years or so, it was tradition that the audience imitate the sound of frogs in the pond.
In 1983 this six-and-a-half-hour concert was broadcast live on the French language network of the CBC in Ontario. It eventually went nation wide being the longest broadcast outside of politics and even sports in Canadian history.
Both francophone and anglophone audiences will recognize the likes of Robert Paquette, originally from Sudbury, Chuck Labelle from Azilda and Stef Paquette from Chelmsford
While dozens of performers have launched their careers at la Nuit sur l’étang, the organization also was a hotbed of training for organizers who moved on to become journalists, educators, chiefs of staff of ministers of education, directors of public relations for colleges and universities, businesspeople, and accomplished lawyers. That’s part of the heritage of an organization celebrating 50 years.
For more specific information, contact Marcel Vaillancourt at 647.203.1744 or marcel@lanuit.sca
Mission Statement
- Contributing to the development and the culture of the Franco Ontarian community;
- Be a stepping stone to up and coming artists;
- Play the role of broadcaster to professional Franco Ontarian artists and their cultural material;
- Promote the Franco Ontarian culture to the youth of Ontario;
- Contribute to the training of young professionals and to the social and cultural sensibility of our young organizers.
Mandate
- Give to the Franco Ontarian public the opportunity to participate in cultural activities that are rewarding, invigorating and diversified;
- Increase the number of occasions that will allow the Franco Ontarian community to take notice and appreciate the French artists of Ontario and elsewhere;
- Allow the artists to acquire experience, to polish their artistic material and to broadcast it in a professional context;
- Broadcast and promote the professional Franco Ontarian artists
- Allow the young organizers to develop the skills and the knowledge necessary to participate actively in the management of the arts in French.
Sponsorship
La Nuit sur l’étang would like to help you reach your goals in 2022 by becoming the organization’s sponsor for the events celebrating the 49th year of La Nuit sur l’étang, the 40th of La Brunante music competition and professional workshops, the edition of La Nuit émergente and the development of a new projects for young Francophones in Ontario.
Levels of Sponsorship
15 000 $ +
- Mention as a partner
- Your logo and mention of your name on all Facebook, Instagram and Twitter releases.
- Your logo on the promotional posters of the 49th Nuit sur l’étang;
- Your logo on the 40th La Brunante promotional posters;
- Two full pages of advertising (black and white) in all programs;
- Kiosk in the lobby of a show or event;
- Your logo on press releases and kits;
- Be invited to say a word during our press conferences;
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
- 15 VIP passes for all events of the 2022 season;
- Other visibility to negotiate:
10 000 $ +
- Mention as a collaborator
- Your logo on the promotional poster of the 49th Nuit sur l’étang;
- Two full pages of advertising (black and white) in all programs;
- Kiosk in the lobby of a show or event;
- Your logo on press releases and kits;
- Advertising during our press conferences;
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
- 10 VIP passes for all events of the 2022 season;
- Other visibility to negotiate;
5 000 $ +
- Your logo on the promotional poster of the 49th Nuit sur l’étang;
- Your logo on the 40th La Brunante promotional posters;
- A full page of advertising (black and white) in all programs;
- Kiosk in the lobby of a show or event;
- Your logo on press releases and kits;
- Advertising during our press conferences;
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
- 5 VIP passes for 2022 season events.
4 000 $ +
- Three quarter page ad in all programs;
- Kiosk in the lobby the night of the show;
- Your logo on press releases and kits;
- Advertising during our press conferences;
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
- 4 VIP passes for 2022 season events
2 000 $ +
- Half a page of advertising in all programs;
- Your logo on press kits;
- Advertising during our press conferences;
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
- 2 VIP passes for 2022 season events;
1 000 $ +
- Quarter-page ad in all programs;
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
- 4 tickets for the 49th Nuit sur l’étang;
500 $ +
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
- 2 tickets for 49th Nuit sur l’étang;
250 $ +
- Your logo and a hyperlink to your site on our website;
- Your logo on the sponsors page in all programs;
For more information
Pierre Paul Mongeon
Executive Director
705-673-6848
ppm@lanuit.ca
