The Magic of the Orchestra: Educational Workshop and Musical Improvisation 2025-2026
First part: Family Educational Workshop “SOS Concert: Snowstorm Mission” (7:00 – 10:00 PM) – subject to availability, on‑site registration possible.
Alert! Alert! Conductor Dina Gilbert is caught in a snowstorm! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help her find her sheet music and the orchestra’s instruments that have gone missing! Led by Aurélie Négrier, these educational workshops reveal the secrets of the orchestra: what is an orchestra, what are its instruments, what is the conductor’s role? Through a playful and fantastical world, children and adults alike will discover the magic behind the scenes and at the heart of the orchestra.
Second part: continuous activity (10:15 PM – 1:00 AM) – no registration required, subject to availability.
The evening continues with theatrical-musical improvisation guided by Jérémie Larouche. Inspired by great symphonic themes, participants will explore the evocative power of music: joy, sadness, pastoral landscapes, or even haunted manors, medieval castles, magical epics, and more. In an immersive and playful setting, everyone will be invited to let go and be carried away by a collective improvisation filled with laughter, emotions, and magic.
Aurélie Négrier
Aurélie Négrier is an artist and cultural mediator. Trained in France, she is now developping her practice in Québec, engaging in a constant dialogue between different cultural contexts.
She designs and leads workshops that foster engagement, attentive listening, and active participation.
A singer, pianist, and actress by training, she has spent more than twenty years cultivating a practice that blends artistic creation with meaningful encounters with audiences. Her approach is rooted in lived experience: understanding a work through the body, the voice, movement, and listening, within a caring environment that welcomes all emotions without judgment.
In her work, mediation is above all a space for connection — a shared moment where participants take the time to feel and explore together. The workshops she offers are conceived as playful, interactive experiences, but also as moments that leave a lasting impression, both individually and collectively. Her intention is for participants to leave with a personal, intimate connection to the artwork, the artistic gesture, and the moment they have lived.
Aurélie works primarily with children and families, weaving together storytelling, voice, instruments, and movement. Her projects take place in school, community, and cultural settings, with the aim of guiding each person toward a freer, more joyful relationship with the performing arts, nurtured by curiosity, listening, and the pleasure of creating together.
Jérémie Larouche
Jérémie Larouche is a comedian, puppeteer, TV host, and teacher at the National School of Humor who proudly calls himself “walking ADHD.” A true jack-of-all-trades with a passion for pop culture, he brings his own fantastical, story-driven world to life with a unique sense of humor. Jérémie is also an outstanding improviser; as a teacher at the École Nationale de l’Humour, he regularly leads improvisation workshops.