Board of Directors

Vacant, Chair of the Board

Hugo von Levetzow, Treasurer

Freelance editor of films, documentaries and TV. Hugo has been an editor since 1985.

His editing career started during the infancy of MuchMusic. As a drummer in a post-punk band, his group needed exposure on the burgeoning station. He produced two videos that received regular rotation and helped him launch a career that has been exciting and fun ever since.

Soon after Avid introduced its first NLE, Hugo was given the opportunity to learn and work at the same time using the revolutionary new editing platform.

In 1994, he started Triangle Post with a few partners. During his 25 years at Triangle, Hugo edited documentaries, commercials, corporate productions and hundreds of hours of programming for television.

Over the years, he broadened his skills as a Finishing Editor and as a Colourist using DaVinci Resolve and Baselight. With extensive picture editing and finishing experience, clients appreciate his passion, versatility and patience.

When not enjoying editing work for fabulous clients, Hugo teaches SCUBA as a PADI Instructor and travels the world, on land and under the sea. His latest projects include films about musical collaborations between diverse cultures and protecting life in our fragile oceans.

Hugo von Levetzow

Magaly Macia, Secretary

A Franco-Canadian who has lived in Canada for 14 years, Magaly Macia has integrated into her new land with ease and enthusiasm. Open to the world and curious by nature, she is involved in environmental, community, social and cultural initiatives in her region. Magaly takes to heart the well-being of the community and the values of sharing.

Goulimine Sylvie Cadôret, Officer

Born in Ontario in 1962, she came to Quebec to spend her childhood on the banks of the majestic, wide-watered river that inspires her to travel the world. Her sensitivity to ecology developed on its banks. From her grandparents, she learned to love the fields, the forest and the ties with the earth that nourishes her. She learned about the power of creation, work and freedom.

A beadworker, she threads ideas and figures into cultural works. A visionary and a conceptualist, many cultural projects have sprung from her ideas. Long involved in social and cultural development, she stands out for her boldness and generosity in creating events that bear her stamp.

As someone who prefers to live in harmony with nature, she persists in believing and expressing that there is such a thing as rural, forest, peasant and organic culture!

Cultural achievements since 2010

  • Development of the Halte Lacustre du Grand Lac Squatec
  • Center Nature et Culture La Pyrole Enchantée
  • Cultural space at the Halte Lacustre du Grand Lac Squatec
  • Numerous cultural projects
  • SOLSTICE puppet theater and fairground arts festival (three editions)
  • LE JEUNE ARCHET music and traditional arts festival (thirteen editions)
  • Salon des artistes et artisans du Témiscouata (fifteen editions)

Francine Lévêsque, Officer

 A graduate of Laval University in visual arts. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she began creating unique hand-painted wooden decorative objects from old recycled pieces. She also created and manufactured decorative objects in series, always in wood. In addition to this creative work, she taught drawing and painting for over 25 years. Now retired, she devotes part of her free time to painting. She combines abstraction and figuration on canvas in the form of vivid and colourful landscapes. Some of her works are part of permanent collections such as Bell Canada, Loto-Québec, Desjardins.

Francine Lévêsque

Hortense Dubus, Officer

Hortense Dubus is an ethnomusicology researcher, musician, composer, and performer, currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on the intersections between Women, Music, and Spiritualities through a transdisciplinary approach. With expertise in music education, graphic design, and artistic production, she has collaborated with organizations such as the Festival Nuits d’Afrique, OICRM, and the Festival du Monde Arabe, contributing to programming, production, and cultural mediation projects. She is now dedicated to Vision Diversité as a production coordinator. Passionate about the diversity of musical traditions, she is committed to promoting artistic and cultural practices from around the world within Montreal’s music scene.

Mouhsine EL MABROUD, Officer

Originally from Morocco, Mouhsine is a nurse with 14 years’ experience working between Morocco and Quebec. He arrived in Quebec in October 2022, and in addition to his nursing diploma, holds a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees in private law. He is currently working as an assistant head nurse in a CHSLD, having completed his equivalency course a year ago.

Maha Bensouda Officer

Maha Bensouda is the founder and chef of the catering service La caravane gourmande, which specializes in organizing private and corporate events that bring people together around Moroccan culinary art.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Maha worked for 17 years in the media industry. Starting out as an intern in a media agency, she pursued her career as a media expertise analyst at Radio-Canada, where she held several positions as research officer, audience analyst and analyst in media revenue optimization planning and strategies.

Now in her forties, she decided to follow her passion and launch her own business, offering her services as a home chef, corporate caterer and culinary workshop. Her project, based on living together, aims to bring people together and unite them around a cuisine that connects and shares, while at the same time making their lives easier. More recently, she joined the La tablée des chefs organization as a teaching chef to pass on her passion to young people in schools.

Always on the lookout for new challenges, Maha seeks to create partnerships and participate in innovative projects to promote living together through her cuisine and by acting as an ambassador for organizations such as La Boite Interculturelle.
In her spare time, she practices yoga and travels whenever she can. Her travels expose her to other cultural and human realities, and inspire her culinary creations. This enables her to offer a modern and fresh cuisine, as well as sharing an authentic and ancestral cuisine from her native Morocco.

Maha is always open to exploring the world from different angles (travel, projects, cultural events…etc.) and promoting a world without borders.