Creative workshop with Noémie Sauvageau
La vie d’artiste — Jouer avec le vivant
November 15, 2025, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Limited admission — Reservations required
If you have any questions, please contact us at education@plein-sud.org
The creative workshop is accompanied by a guided tour of the Corps Saumâtres exhibition, currently on show at Plein sud, led by Amanda Préval.
This activity is offered in French only.
La vie d’artiste is back with a brand new program! This edition offers four creative workshops throughout the year, inviting participants to meet, experiment, and discover current artistic practices.
The workshop Jouer avec le vivant (Playing with Life), designed and led by visual artist Noémie Sauvageau, kicks off the season!
Offered free of charge at Plein sud thanks to the support of the City of Longueuil, La vie d'artiste is a program of cultural mediation activities focused on artistic practice. It invites the general public—children and adults aged six and up—to come and create alongside professional artists in a workshop that promotes discovery, exchange, and sharing of artistic approaches and know-how.
Workshop Jouer avec le vivant
Inspired by ecopoetics and writing, Noémie Sauvageau creates ephemeral installations and site-specific works using locally harvested plant materials. Her workshop Jouer avec le vivant (Playing with Life) transposes this approach by offering a sensory and poetic experience centered on working with natural materials: clay, wood, herbs, dried flowers, and fibers. A large table laden with natural materials invites participants to experiment freely through modeling, rubbing, assembling, or printing. Introspective writing also plays an important role and accompanies the process, inviting everyone to connect sensations, gestures, and reflections.
The workshop encourages improvisation, curiosity, and play, while creating a collective map of living things and inviting participants to reconnect with their sensitive relationship to nature.
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The workshop will be held in the Plein Sud Educational Space located at 150 De Gentilly Street East, room D0626, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Space is limited, so reservations are required and must be made before Thursday, November 13, 2025.
Biography
Picture : Thomas Loiselle, 4 year-old
Noémie Sauvageau cultivates a deep love for life in all its forms. Her career, marked by a wide range of experiences—including teaching, coaching, creation, and research—has nurtured a sensitive understanding of our connections, our vulnerability, and the subtle forces that link us to nature. Trained in philosophy, she approaches thought as an embodied, porous gesture.
Rooted in her hypersensitive relationship with the world, her artistic practice is first and foremost a way of inhabiting the world. Poetry, experimentation, and play become tools for interaction and understanding. She considers play to be a form of gentle resistance, a space for discovery where we learn to dialogue with living things rather than constrain or dominate them. The creative act is a way of listening, of connecting, in the same way that she gardens, approaches a stranger, or cooks.