Pre-FAVA activity
Re-enchantment
In 2022, the Centre de Bénévolat de la Péninsule acadienne, in partnership with the Festival des arts visuels en Atlantique, launched the project Réenchanter le quotidien, which gave rise to the exhibition Réenchantement. The following partners contributed to the project: La Croix-Rouge, UNI Coopération financière, Centre culturel de Caraquet, Ville de Caraquet, Club Richelieu, Arts culture NB, Port de Belledune, Société culturelle Centr'Art.
The Réenchantement project is a community, artistic and intergenerational project that brings together art and all the programs offered by the CBPA. Ten of the organization's programs are symbolically showcased in this groundbreaking exhibition.
Artist Carole Bherer is the artistic director of this project, and has done a superb job of art and cultural mediation by leading art workshops for people of all ages in connection with the CBPA's. The artist's expertise and tact she brought to the artistic direction of this project enabled her to grasp each of the reason to be and all the particularities of the programs offered at the CBPA, and to achieve the result you are discovering here.
Some of the symbolic elements on the canvases were painted by CBPA participants (from early childhood to seniors) and staff.
Inspired by Acadian landscapes, the works in this exhibition include a whole horizon line that invites you to daydream, to open up, to all the possibilities.
Finally, the paintings from the Réenchantement exhibition will be on permanent display in the CBPA corridors at the Centre culturel de Caraquet. A community art gallery to discover...
Carole Bherer
Born in Montreal of Acadian roots, Carole began her visual arts training in 1975 and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Bishop's University in 1994.
Based in Bathurst in 1998, Carole participates in FAVA Caraquet (2000 - 2010), and exhibits at Galerie Georges Goguen (2003), Galerie Bernard Jean Caraquet (2006, 2010, 2015), Théâtre Capitol (2015), New Brunswick Community Centers (2016, 2017, 2020) and Galerie 12 (2016, 2019). In 2009, she was selected for the exhibition Irréductibles racines and for the Symposium d'art actuel : Espaces Cathédrales de Caraquet. In 2013, she received a professional training grant from artsnb.
Aware of the importance of creativity in education, Carole developed nineteen projects with elementary school students, such as Génie arts and Une école, une artiste, reaching over 2050 students (2004 to 2018). She offers training courses on the creative process to school staff and adults (2008, 2011, 2014, 2016).
Her travels in the Mediterranean, Europe, Asia and Australia, and her scuba diving explorations around the world define her passion for the sea and the colour blue, elements that underpin the research of her artistic approach.
