Five Montreal artist centres have joined in a group initiative to launch a new international event in Montreal — Viva! Art Action — to take place from Thursday September 28 to Sunday October 8, 2006. Artists, the public, curators, and providers of exhibition spaces will come together to showcase and promote action art — performances, “manoeuvres,” public and participatory interventions —, characteristically ephemeral, ethereal, changing, unfolding in the “here and now.” This first edition of Viva! Art Action will also inaugurate the 14th So, To Do (Something To Do) Performance Art Congress, revealing about thirty artistic works scattered through the programming of the artist centres and in other intervention spaces. On this occasion, Bain Saint-Michel, serving as welcome venue and daily meeting place, will host theoretical discussions, practical workshops, and festive evenings. To support the Réseau des Centres d’Artistes Autogérés du Québec, an artist touring program is also scheduled throughout the region, in collaboration with Praxis Art Actuel, in Sainte-Thérèse, and TRAFIC Inter/nationale d’art actuel en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, organized by Écart. Watch for detailed programming info for all participating centres soon to be made available on their Web site: www.vivamontreal.org.

Canadian Performance Art Presenters and Festivals FADO Performance Inc (Toronto, ON) - artist-run centre AKA Gallery (Saskatoon SK) - artist-run centre Artspace (Peterborough, ON) - artist-run centre Artspeak (Vancouver BC) - artist-run centre La Centrale (Montréal QC) - women's artist-run centre; producer of Mois de la performance eyelevelgallery (Halifax, NS) - artist-run centre; online archive of First Nations performance grunt Gallery (Vancouver BC) - artist-run centre; online archive of First Nations performance Latitude 53: Society of Artists (Edmonton AB) - artist-run centre; producer of VisualEyez festival Le Lieu (Quebec QC) - artist-run centre, publisher of Inter magazine, producer of Rencontre internationale d'art performance LIVE Biennial of Performance Art (Vancouver, BC) - festival Modern Fuel Artist-run Centrel (Kingston, ON) - artist-run centre Neutral Ground (Regina SK) - artist-run centre St Norbert Art Centre (St Norbert MB) - artist residency centre, producer of The State of Breath site specific performance process project Sâkêwêwak Artists' Collective (Regina SK) - First Nations artist-run centre 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival (Toronto) - performance art collective; producer of biannual festival as well as residency projects, exchanges, symposia, etc. Struts Gallery (Sackville NB) - artist-run centre The New Gallery (Calgary AB) - artist-run centre The Western Front (Vancouver BC) - artist-run centre YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto) - artist-run centre International Performance Art Presenters and Festivals ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Finland) - festival Art Service Association (Germany) - producer, network, archive Blurrr Biennial for Performacne Art (Israel) - festival Castle of the Imagination (Poland) - festival Centrum Kultury w Lublinie (Poland) - producer (curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk club8 difusió de la performance (Spain) - producer of eBent International Performance Festival of Barcelona Currency International Festival of Performance (USA) - festival Full Nelson (US) - festival Future Factory (Bonington Gallery) (Uk) - producer Hull Time Based Arts (UK) - producer, ROOT Festival Interakcje Art Action Meeting (Poland) - festival International Multimedial Art Festival (Serbia) - festival International Performance Art Festival Navinki (Belarus) - festival Là-bas (Finland) - producer Locus+ (UK) - producer new world disorder (Philippines) - artist collective, producer PerfoPuerto (Chile) - festival, producer Polysonneries (France) - festival (no longer producing) Trace: installaction art space (Wales) - producer 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts - (USA) producer, enteractive Language Festival Urban Festival - (Croatia) festival Archives, Listserves and other Performance Art Resources Alpha Girls (Canada) - DVD performance project ARCCO Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario (Canada) - network of artist-run centres Community Arts Network (US) - web resource for community-based arts, forums, elist Franklin Furnace (USA) - producer, archive, elist glowlab (USA) - psychogeography site, producer, newsletter Instant Coffee (Canada) - artist collective, producer, elist International Association of Performance Art Organizers (International) - network, listserv Latvia ir writing (Latvia) - artist information, discussion forum liveartmagazine - listings, reviews, news, previews and discussion liveartwork - listings, reviews, news, dvd magazine Performance Art Index - website, monthly newsletter Performance Studies international (International) - professional networking association for scholars and practitioners, annual conference Popstart - web resource for Canadian interdisciplinary artists Wizya Vidéo Art Action (France) - archive