Mandoline Hybride celebrates its 18th anniversary ㅡ Donation campaign
In November 2025, Mandoline Hybride celebrates its 18th anniversary and launch a major fundraising campaign to support its activities and ensure its sustainability!
A leading cultural organization in the Haute-Gaspésie region, Mandoline Hybride is an artistic incubator focused on research and creation, a dance presenter that plays a unique role in Quebec by supporting atypical practices such as dance film and site-specific dance, and a bold producer that promotes high-calibre multidisciplinary projects. With its FURIES festival, its Canadian dance film Regards Hybrides Collection, its artist residencies at Salon58, and its community events at L’Hybride, Mandoline Hybride is a true catalyst for emulation on both the local and international levels!
Mandoline Hybride is proud to mark this important anniversary in collaboration with the Fondation Communautaire de la Gaspésie and to use this campaign to support Animation Jeunesse Haute-Gaspésie, a local organization to which 15% of the funds raised will be donated.
Why support Mandoline Hybride?
EQUITY: because rural populations have the right to equitable access to contemporary art without having to leave their region;
BOLDNESS ON A HUMAN SCALE: to participate in projects on a human scale, while promoting international collaborations and visionary initiatives;
VITALITY: because culture is a vector of socioeconomic vitality that is essential to our ecosystems;
COLLECTIVE THINKING: because art opens up spaces for critical reflection and imagination that our societies greatly need in these times of precariousness and global upheaval!
Concretely, your donations will go directly to supporting our flagship activities that reach a variety of populations: FURIES, Regards Hybrides Collection, Salon58, L’Hybride.
In keeping with Mandoline Hybride’s spirit of solidarity, 15% of the donations collected through this campaign will be donated to Animation Jeunesse Haute-Gaspésie, an organization whose work in our region is as indispensable as it is rigorous! AJHG supports and stimulates local youth with a host of activities tailored to the next generation of Haute-Gaspésie.
Nostalgia, my love
From Montreal to Marsoui, with international initiatives in between, Mandoline Hybride is a non-profit organization that has been active in the cultural sector for 18 years.
Originally founded by Priscilla Guy in 2007 to promote the production and dissemination of her choreographic works, Mandoline Hybride has made possible several Quebec, Canadian, and international tours for creations that are often unclassifiable and aesthetically diverse. Whether with Les Installations Mouvantes (2010), Singeries (2016), Deux squelettes (2019), Peau (2023), or the dozens of choreographic short films made by Priscilla Guy from 2011 to the present, the works supported by Mandoline Hybride have renewed the curiosity of audiences thanks to their unique voices and commitment to experimentation.
Over time, the organization has become an important source of support for the professional community, with structural initiatives implemented by its founder. The creation of Regards Hybrides in 2012 is the best example of this, with its specialized dance film services and its international biennial RIRH, which has led to the ongoing growth of the Regards Hybrides Collection, rich in works, reflections, and archives from dozens of Canadian artists.
Mandoline Hybride also acted as executive producer for several dance artists from 2015 to 2019—Sébastien Provencher, Danza Descalza, Chloé Bourdages-Roy, Catherine Lafleur, Emilie Morin—and provided numerous personalized support services to regional artists, including Soraïda Caron and Laurence Dufour.
After more than a decade in the city, the organization moved to Marsoui, in Haute-Gaspésie, in 2018. This new phase was an opportunity to further assert its role as a specialized dance presenter and its diverse production initiatives — publishing feminist anthologies, producing a podcast, creating a video mapping journey, etc.
Today, Mandoline Hybride is led by a strong co-executive team, with Marie-Charlotte Castonguay-Harvey joining Priscilla Guy in 2023, as well as a permanent staff and dozens of regular collaborators who are passionate about developing the organization’s mandate.
Dancing into the future
While the last 18 years have been rich in creativity, there is no shortage of projects to fuel Mandoline Hybride’s future.
Building on its long-term projects in Haute-Gaspésie and its Regards Hybrides Collection, the organization is actively considering ways to revitalize its community by collaborating on the renovation of local infrastructure. After working with the Municipality of Marsoui to transform its recreation center and village café, Mandoline Hybride has been working for two years now to acquire and repurpose the Marsoui Church as a cultural and community space.
By promoting art as a key socioeconomic lever, Mandoline Hybride hopes to continue contributing to local vitality and to the national and international recognition of local talent.
