{"id":23478,"date":"2019-07-10T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.hamakmarketingnumerique.com\/uncategorized\/vernissage-and-scholarship-awards-at-portage-saint-malachie\/"},"modified":"2019-07-10T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:51:39","slug":"vernissage-and-scholarship-awards-portage-saint-malachie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/vernissage-and-scholarship-awards-portage-saint-malachie\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernissage and Scholarship Awards at Portage Saint-Malachie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, the Portage Drug Rehabilitation Centre at Saint-Malachie hosted a vernissage to mark the end of the school year and the awarding of five scholarships that were presented to the students by St\u00e9phanie Lachance, Member of the National Assembly.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The young residents of the Portage Saint-Malachie Centre<\/a>, located one hour from Qu\u00e9bec City, went all out to welcome guests to their open house event. The special day included a vernissage showcasing the residents\u2019 artistic creations, performance art and the $1,000 scholarship awards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanne Marceau, a teacher with the C\u00f4te-Sud School Board, recently started teaching mathematics, science and art at Portage Saint-Malachie. Johanne loves her new job and the therapeutic environment at Portage. Johanne is native to the area; she used to go skiing at Saint-Malachie before the lodge was converted to a youth rehabilitation centre. She explains what\u2019s different about teaching at Portage: \u02baIn traditional school settings, I spent a lot of time managing cell phone and social media use and maintaining discipline in the classroom. At Portage, the students are engaged in a much more positive process. Some of them had previously dropped out of school, but are now determined to succeed. What\u2019s more, in my previous jobs, I had a lot of students who were using various substances, whereas at Portage, there is no substance use and that makes a huge difference because the students are much more receptive\u02ba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many scholarships are awarded to Portage students throughout Qu\u00e9bec, Ontario and the Maritimes. To highlight the scholarship awards, Johanne decided to organize a vernissage of the residents\u2019 artwork and performance art. She explains that \u02bathe idea was to create a movement, a synergy that would allow the participating youth to influence each other. I decided to suggest that they attend a textile art workshop through a videoconferencing session with the \u00c9cole des m\u00e9tiers d\u2019art de Qu\u00e9bec. The students learned to weave together various concepts\u02ba. Just like in a real art gallery, some residents of the Saint-Malachie centre wanted to engage in performance art. \u02baThere were a lot of performance projects\u02ba, says Johanne. \u02baOne of my students sat in a chair, with a soundscape in the background, and painted abstract art on a canvas. Another one performed a monologue describing a representation of the world; the tone was humorous, but the ending was dramatic. It was really quite powerful\u02ba. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Portage drug rehabilitation centres for youth include a mandatory four hours of schooling per day. The end of the year is fast approaching and several residents will soon be graduating. This year, a student at Saint-Malachie is completing his last year of high school (secondary V) with \u02baexcellent marks\u02ba, according to teacher Johanne Marceau. Two other students will be getting professional training, one as an orderly and the other as a welder. Academic success is one more milestone for these youth, an acknowledgement of the many efforts made throughout their treatment program. School is one of the pillars of the foundation that will enable these youth to become active citizens as they go through life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, the Portage Drug Rehabilitation Centre at Saint-Malachie hosted a vernissage to mark the end of the school year and the awarding of five scholarships that were presented to the students by St\u00e9phanie Lachance, Member of the National Assembly.  The young residents of the Portage Saint-Malachie Centre, located one hour from… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-quebec-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}