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Politiquement incorrect

Wednesday 7th May 2008 by maroussia
Passage Oublié et les interstices du pouvoir. Une présentation bien trop tôt le matin.

Where you from / Where you at

Saturday 24th November 2007 by maroussia
A conference about the identity of hip hop in Quebec

Street sounds

Saturday 24th November 2007 by maroussia
A flyer for a non-profit showcase of the freshest talent of Parc Extension. The event took place at Kola Note, a venue holding 450 people. Since October 2001, PEYO has been offering Hip-Hop workshops with the financial help of the McConnell Family Foundation. The yearly show is the conclusion of these bi-weekly workshops. They take place in the St-Roch auditorium, and are moderated by two mentors. The room is equipped with a full sound system, and is often filled with an eager audience. (...)

Peyo youth intervention website

Friday 23rd November 2007 by maroussia
This website was one of my first explorations of Flash. The youth program at Peyo had an identity of its own; it needed to attract and reflect its specific clientele. The youth program was a dynamic environment involved in Copwatch -citizens watching police arrests making sure they leave racial profiling and brutality out of it- ,as well as bhangra breakdance, emceeing, graffiti workshops and events. The idea of the workshops is to use youth culture as a means of outreach, a common ground (...)

Terrazul

Thursday 22nd November 2007 by maroussia
During a three-month internship in Fortaleza, Brazil in 2004, I created a website with spip, a content management system for a socio-environmental organization named Terrazul. The idea was also to transmit computer skills and teach website update to staff. For the past three years local volunteers have updated it daily, and more than a million people visited it.
Project website

moniquelevesque.com

Wednesday 21st November 2007 by maroussia
My very first website, in 2001. Ms Lévesque (Hi mom!) asked me for a simple, elegant website to enhance her web presence. As an academic, she had seminars and essays to be distributed. Her practice as a psychoanalyst also benefited from this web presence.
Website

Bonzai Vibes, Wyzah’s website

Wednesday 21st November 2007 by maroussia
In 2004, I started making this website for Wyzah aka Waahli, a prolific and talented rapper. So prolific that we found little time to finish the website...
The website features flash Mp3 player, allowing the audience to listen but not rip music. It is also punctuated with nifty little animations, which you can hopefully see in action one day.

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