The Center d’Apprentissage Parallèle de Montréal (CAP) is back with its benefit auction I love you for the ninth consecutive year.
Until May 18, the public can bet online on one hundred self-portraits of Quebec public figures. Proceeds from sales will go to the organization, which offers artistic support to people struggling with mental health issues.
Singer-songwriter Marc Déry, filmmaker Louise Archambault, former soccer player Patrice Bernier as well as writer Kim Thúy have notably lent themselves to the game.
There was also the participation of Olympian sprinter Bruny Surin, who is the spokesperson for this year’s benefit auction.
Mental health is a concern for all of us. We all know someone near or far in our community who is affected by ithe said in a statement.
Recognized artists, such as Mario Ardonetto, Malgosia Bajkowska and Michel Beaucage, also created their own photos for the occasion.
An exhibition for public creations
Along with its benefit auction, the TAKIP also organizes an exhibition entitled we love me at the Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal until May 29.
Visitors will see more than 500 self-portraits from Quebec and elsewhere, the result of an appeal to all organizations on social networks in the spring of 2020.
Source: Radio-Canada
