Here we will provide answers to technical questions that journalists and photographers might have. We have tried to be as clear as possible but if you still need more info, contact Florence Allegrini by e-mail or by phone 514-932-1112 ext. 30.
CAN I GET A GENERAL PASS FOR THE FESTIVAL?
NO, BUT...
Because of fire regulations and for security reasons, no general passes can be given out except to the official media partners of the Festival and to accredited photographers, who will not require seats. But once you're accredited, you get complimentary tickets.
DO I NEED ACCREDITATION?
YES
How to get your accreditation:
Fill in the accreditation form. Click here to download it and send it back to us by fax at 514-932-1148 or email at info@bluemetropolis.org. The form will also be available at the Festival press room.
DO I NEED TO GET TICKETS?
YES and NO
YES, if you're a journalist: Accreditation does not give you access to the events but allows you to obtain complimentary tickets for the events when you go to the ticket office. No one can enter a room to attend an event without a ticket (unless it's a FREE event ).
NO, if you're a photographer: You may show your accreditation to get in the room. Please note that we don't reserve seats for photographers. Please limit photos to the first 15 minutes of an event.
HOW DO I GET MY COMPS?
Once you're accredited, you may go to the Festival ticket booth to ask for complimentary tickets (while supplies last). Press allocation is limited. You can obtain only one complimentary ticket per event. If you want more tickets, you will have to buy them. You can also provide us with a list of events you would like to attend (please mention the event numbers and titles) and send it back to us by fax at 514-932-1148
Please note you must be accredited to get comps.
MAY I INTERVIEW PARTICIPANTS?
YES
Prior to their arrival in Montreal: When the interview relates to the participant appearing at the Festival, we will do everything we can to facilitate this.
At the Festival: We will arrange the best possible access.
Contact for anglophone media:
Shelley Pomerance 514-270-1199
CAN WE FILM/RECORD EVENTS AT THE FESTIVAL?
YES, BUT...
Radio stations or TV channels (local or international) have news access to the Festival, but may not film/record more than three (3) consecutive minutes, nor broadcast more than ninety (90) seconds, of any scheduled event. Access to the site is, of course, available for discreet crews, provided that they are accredited. For CBC BLUE / RADIO-CANADA PREMIÈRE CHAÎNE events (they are clearly identified as such in the programme), a special authorization may be obtained from the producers.
If you are doing a feature about one of our participants, you may contact Florence Allegrini, Director of operations, at 514-932-1112, ext. 30 or florence.allegrini@bluemetropolis.org to negotiate an agreement to credit the Festival in the finished product.
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• Philippe Béha and Monique Polak Named Honorary Patrons of the 2013 Blue Metropolis Children's Festival, BookCentre.ca, December 6, 2012
• Montreal’s Blue Metropolis launches Spanish-language prize, reveals jurors, quillandquire.com, November 15, 2012
• Interview with Egyptian author and journalist Ahdaf Soueif in Montreal, Montreal Media Coop, April 27, 2012
• Ahdaf Soueif receives award at Blue Metropolis, RCI's The Link, April 25, 2012
• Blue Metropolis: A scaled-down affair, but with charms of its own, The Montreal Gazette, April 25, 2012
• Letter: Bravo, Blue Met!, The Montreal Gazette, April 24, 2012
• Notes from Blue Met: Writing Women, CBC Books, April 24, 2012
• Coming up: Joyce Carol Oates, CBC Radio Writers & Co., April 24, 2012
• Simenon and the man who didn't stay to lunch, Magnificent Octopus, April 23, 2012
• Biting Stories: Meet Alyxandra Harvey, Moniquepolak.com, April 23, 2012
• The Write Way to Do Montreal, TIME Magazine, April 23, 2012
• Love to All, Rover Arts, April 23, 2012
• Blue Metropolis 2012 in review: as Frank once sang, it was a very good year, The Montreal Gazette, April 22, 2012
• Tumour Humour in "Failure to Thrive", Midnight Poutine, April 22, 2012
• L'arriviste, Rover Arts, April 21, 2012
• Face to Face, Rover Arts, April 21, 2012
• Blue Metropolis Day Four, pt 1: Joyce Carol Oates, take one, The Montreal Gazette, April 21, 2012
• Joyce Carol Oates: reine des lettres, cyberpresse.ca, April 21, 2012
• In conversation: Ahdaf Soueif, Macleans, April 20, 2012
• Notes from Blue Met: Crime Stories, CBC books, April 20, 2012
• Blue Metropolis Day Three, pt 1: The Wild West that is today’s book market, The Montreal Gazette, April 20, 2012
• Canadian literary event roundup: April 20-26, Quill and Quire, April 20, 2012
• Poésie au Metbleu, (in French), Lmoussakova.wordpress.com
• Écrire avec Perrine Leblanc, (in French), cyberpresse.ca, April 20, 2012
• Eduardo Manet: mémoire d'un siècle, (in French), cyberpresse.ca, April 20, 2012
• Metropolis bleu: premiers frissons, (in French), closeille.com, April 19, 2012
• Kim Thuy à Metropolis bleu, (in French), cyberpresse.ca, April 19, 2012
• Le Metropolis Bleu s'arrête à Outremont, (in French), ExpressOutremont.com, April 19, 2012
• Hasta el domingo, el Festival Metropolis Bleu, (in Spanish), NoticiasMontreal.com, April 19, 2012
• Blue Met: Montreal’s International Literary Festival, Zurbaines, April 18, 2012
• Everything you need to know about Montreal’s Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, The Montreal Gazette, April 18, 2012
• Blue Metropolis literary festival spiked with big names, The Montreal Gazette, April 18, 2012
• Blue Met Events to Check Out!, Montreal Review of Books, April 18, 2012
• Blue Metropolis Day One: and so it begins…, The Montreal Gazette, April 18, 2012
• Blue Metropolis: Montreal's International Literary festival, The Montréal Buzz (Tourisme Montréal), April 18, 2012
• Samsara, (in French), lamarelle.mag, April 18, 2012
• Metropolis Bleu : les talons hauts à la page, (in French), Closeille.com, April 18, 2012
• Metropolis Bleu à Montréal : j'aime, tu aimes, nous aimons. Vous y viendrez aussi !, (in French), Closeille.com, April 18, 2012
• Gearing Up for Blue Met 2012, MoniquePolak.com, April 17, 2012
• Coming up: Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Recreating Eden, April 17, 2012
• Notes from the Blue Met: Reading in public, CBC Books, April 17, 2012
• Festival des enfants Metropolis Bleu : rencontre avec des auteurs dans le Sud-Ouest, (in French), LaVoixPop.com, April 17, 2012
• Metropolis Bleu, Nuits et jours, Metro.ca, April 17, 2012
• A Daydream Believer, The Times Colonist (BC), April 15, 2012
• Arsenault Writes in English, But Is Published in French, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 20
• The Vagaries of Life, Set to Music, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Healthy, Happy, Productive, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Drama in a Los Angeles Hotel, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Quebec's Master of Horror, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• New Publisher Likes a Challenge, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Teen Plays Sex Slave, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Novels Begin in Thinking, Not Writing, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Globalization's Impact on Italy, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• 2012 Blue Metropolis has big names and future stars, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Seeing the Faces in Tahrir Square, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Healing the World A Case at a Time, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• Blue metropolis festival promises to be a page-turner, The Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2012
• La vieillesse, connais pas, (in French), cyberpresse.ca, April 14, 2012
• Tertulia con Jorge Carrigan e Ihosvany Hernandew en el….. (in Spanish), NoticiasMontreal.com, April 14, 2012
• 5 questions à William St-Hilaire, (in French), Le Journal de Montréal, April 14, 2012
• Things are going well these days for Ray Robertson, The Montreal Gazette, April 13, 2012
• Montreal novelist Catherine McKenzie is also a lawyer, The Montreal Gazette, April 13, 2012
• Lettres majuscules, VOIR, April 12, 2012
• Le Festival des enfants Metropolis bleu: 55 lieux de diffusion, (in French) MontrealExpress.ca, April 12, 2012
• Shoe Stories : une histoire de chaussures, (in French) Journal Métro, April 12, 2012
• Annual literary festival launches April 18, The Press Republican, April 11, 2012
• Literary footprints Blue Met fundraiser pays tribute to women and their shoes, The Montreal Gazette, April 11, 2012
• Un Festival pour donner le goût de lire aux enfants, (in French), Montrealexpress.ca, April 10, 2012
• Un après-midi de conte dans le cadre du Festival Metropolis bleu, (in French), MessagerLaSalle.com, April 10, 2012
• Queer Corps, CKUT, April 9, 2012
• Literary Feast, Hudson St. Lazare Gazette, April 7, 2012
• Party Continues for Irving Layton at Blue Met, The Canadian Jewish News, April 5, 2012
• Festival des enfants TD-Metropolis Bleu, (in French), Huffington Post Québec, April 4, 2012
• Festival Metropolis Azul 2012 :Leonardo Padura y Wendy Guerra de Cuba, (in Spanish), La Voz, March 28, 2012
• FACULTY AWARD: Oates wins Blue Met Literary Grand Prize, News at Princeton, March 28, 2012
• Thornhill writer Daniel Karasik wins CBC short story contest, Toronto Star, March 26, 2012
• Joyce Carol Oates Awarded 2012 Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix, The Reader, March 26, 2012
• Festival Highlights, The Montreal Gazette, March 24, 2012
• U.S. author Joyce Carol Oates scores Montreal's Blue Metropolis' Literary Grand Prix, Global Montreal, March 22, 2012
• Blue Metropolis Announces its Line-up, Italocanadese.com, March 22, 2012
• Léonora Miano à Montréal pour Metropolis bleu, (in French), ToukiMontreal.com, March 22, 2012
• Joyce Carol Oates wins $10K Blue Met award, CBCnews.ca, March 21, 2012
• Joyce Carol Oates et Cuba à l'honneur du Festival Metropolis Bleu, (in French), LeLibraire.org, March 21, 2012
• Encore plus urbain et métissé, (in French), La Presse, March 21, 2012
• Un 14e Metropolis bleu, plus intime, (in French), Le Devoir, March 21, 2012
• Blue Metropolis festival looks to Cuba and crime, The Montreal Gazette, March 20, 2012
• Blue Metropolis 2012, Magnificent Octopus, March 20, 2012
• Metropolis bleu : la programmation du 14e Festival littéraire international de Montréal annoncée, (in French), Huffington Post Québec, March 20, 2012
• Muticulturalisme au cœur des activités, (in French), canoe.ca, March 20, 2012
• Littérature - Cuba sera au programme du Metropolis bleu, (in French), yahoo.ca, March 20, 2012
• Blue Metropolis refines and extends its web presence, The Montreal Gazette, March 3, 2012
• Metropolis bleu, (in French), canada.grandquebec.com, February 29th, 2012
•L'intimidation à l'école : une nouvelle plateforme d'écriture pour les jeunes à risque, (in French), Planete.qc.ca, February 16, 2012
•Intimidés, ils sont, (in French), Châtelaine, February 13, 2012
•Bonjour la côte, (in French), Première chaîne, February 13, 2012
•Metropolis bleu sur le web, (in French), La Presse, January 27, 2012
• Nouveau site web pour Metropolis bleu, (in French), La Metropole, January 27, 2012
• Seniors circle their waggings at Wakefield, Quebec storytelling workshop, The Low Down Online, January 26, 2011
• Eleanor Wachtel interview with Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee and K. Satchidanandan, CBC Radio One, June 5, 2011
• Michael Enright interview with Gore Vidal, CBC Radio One, May 8, 2011
• Quebec Roots: The Place Where I Live, CBC Radio Quebec network, April 29 & May 4, 2011
• Désautels interview with Caroline Fourest, Première Chaîne de Radio-Canada, April 29, 2011 (in French)
• Le lendemain de la veille interview, (in French. At minute 43), CKUT, April 14, 2011
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William St. Hilaire, President, General Manager and Artistic Director
Gregory McCormick, Director of English and Allophone Programming
Website launch photos (January 25, 2012)
Credit for all photos: Jean Bernier
