Residency

Pallina Michelot – BEING BLACK

13 ⇾ Jul. 25 2026 (Monday – Saturday)

Regular Residencies

Biography

Pallina Michelot is an Afro-Quebecois artist, actress, and trained theater creator. She explores the performing arts in a variety of forms. With a deep interest in the intersections between the performing arts, healing, and the empowerment of marginalized communities, she has developed over the years a unique expertise and sensitivity regarding healthy representation. This approach is grounded in principles of inclusive and intersectional democratization, with the goal of making art accessible to everyone. A self-employed professional in the performing arts for the past 10 years, she also participates in various spaces for research, reflection, and advocacy work on social issues. Pallina has worked throughout Quebec, notably in the Mauricie region, in Montreal, on the North Shore, in Saguenay, and with various Indigenous communities. Positive and ambitious, yet down-to-earth and compassionate, Pallina Michelot is a source of energy and spares no effort to successfully carry out the projects entrusted to her.

Project Details

(In)visible narratives, Black memory, colonial history, Creolity — somewhere between a poetry anthology, a living manifesto, and the intimate depths of Blackness, juxtaposing the sciences —sociological, political, historical, anthropological, morphological — with their creative texts, their thought, their universe and their experience of the world as a BEING BLACK. This project is an intimate thought in motion, interwoven with well-known texts on Blackness, the body, and Black culture across Quebec, the Americas, and colonized territories, in order to explore the realities of BEING BLACK in Quebec.