/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Interview Opportunity - Photo Opportunity -
Unveiling of the Segal Centre's 2010-2011 Season/

Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Your Key to Culture: First-class theatre, music, dance, and cinema

MONTREAL, May 5 /CNW Telbec/ - The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will unveil its 2010-2011 season on Thursday, May 6th, along with its all new Key to Culture card. Blessed with rave reviews and remarkable success at the box office this season, the thriving performing arts destination has augmented its high quality theatre, music, dance, cinema and performing arts education programming for 2010-2011. The Segal Centre's innovative, inspiring and entertaining program schedule will interest people of all ages and backgrounds, building on its reputation to create cultural bridges through the performing arts.

    
    Where: Segal Centre for Performing Arts
    5170 chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal
    

Who is available for interviews?

Directors, and performers including celebrated actress Françoise Faucher 2010 recipient of a Governor General Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement.

    
    Artistic Director, Bryna Wasserman
    Executive Director, Manon Gauthier

    When: Thursday, May 6, 2010

    10 am - 12 pm
    10:00 - 10:30 - media check-in
    10:30 - 11:00 - official launch in main theatre (cameras are welcome)
    11:00 - 11:45 - interview opportunities
    

Refreshments will be served.

ABOUT THE SEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is one of Montreal's leading, multi-disciplinary performing arts organizations. It is comprised of five pillars: The Segal Theatre, an award-winning, professional, English language theatre; The Academy, educating artists and audiences of tomorrow; The Studio, an intimate, inspiring venue, presenting the next generation of performing artists; CinemaSpace, a boutique screening room showcasing the best of Montreal and world cinema; and the award-winning Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, celebrating over fifty years of dramatizing the Jewish experience and building intercultural bridges through the arts.

www.segalcentre.org

For further information: or to schedule an interview: Suzanne Shugar, Director, Public Relations, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, [phone] ext. 8302, [email protected]; Émilie Hervieux, Media Relations, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, [phone] ext. 8365, [email protected]