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Laurence Brunelle-Côté, APA's office Laurence Brunelle-Côté is a Quebec poet and performer. Fortunately, his handicap led to the development of new vocabularies and enabled him to follow other paths. She likes to blur the tracks. She is co-artistic director of the Bureau of the APA, a workshop of undisciplined DIY that manufactures multiform artistic creations. We're interested in how to end things and make it work together. She died on September 8, 2025 in peace with her journey and with an appetite for inentameous life. His word will carry again. The projects of the ABS Office are offered in unexpected ways according to what we want to say, show and demonstrate. From one project to another, we try to remain in the service of an intention free of disciplinary work requirements, since we must not take foot in closed vases. We may have to go looking for horspic solutions and let go of the notions of virtuosity and skills. The results and conclusions emerge from themselves through improvisation and adaptation to the circumstances. www.bureaudelapa.com Ludovic Fouquet Ludovic Fouquet is a lecturer, director and visual artist. With his mechanical dreams (France, 1998-2012), he created multimedia shows and museum performances questioning the relationship between a body and an image. In museums (Louvre, Museums of Fine Arts of Blois, Mac/Val, Bourdelle Museum...), he creates paths in collections as much dialogue with works. He has conducted numerous video-cenic workshops (theatres, universities, arts schools...) and gives courses and workshops around the rapprochement of dramatic art and other arts. In 2024, he directed an in-situ creation at the Musée de la civilisation with the École du Circus de Québec, Interstices. Since 2016, he has collaborated as a performer on interdisciplinary projects with the Bureau de l'APA, the collectives We are here or Universal Code, the Théâtre Astronaute, among others. With Karine Ledoyen, he designed and staged a painting for the Pathway where you go when you sleep walking,suspension points- (2019). He is a member of the Engram artist centre (Quebec), where he regularly gives screen printing workshops and intervenes in cultural mediation. As an author, he writes both theatre research, aesthetic articles in theatre journals (including JEU) or visual art (ETC) as well as dramatic texts, which he has often staged. For example, 689 film films were initiated during a writing lab led by Wajdi Mouawad at the CNA (2005-Ottawa) and received national support for the dramatic creation of the Ministry of Culture (2007-France, creation of 2008). https://ludovicfouquet.com and http://songesmecaniques.com/ Geneviève Brassard-Roy Geneviève Brassard-Roy is a diversity actress trained in the workshops of the organization Entr. Geneviève is interested in living arts in all their forms and writing. She recently featured in "Arnaud pour Justine" (role of Justine), a show on the sexual assistanat led by the collectives We are here and Venus by bike, presented at the Periscope last April. Gabrielle Bouthillier Gabrielle Bouthillier is a stage artist and a sung heritage transmitter. She is involved in many projects of living arts (Strada, Serre l'Écoute, les Métamorphoses, l'Orchestre d'hommes-orchestres, Les New Cackle Sisters, le Bureau de l'APA, Théâtre Rude Ingénierie, les Incompletetes, Michel Faubert, Yule). She also co-ordinates and hosts the Quebec Traditional Song Workshop and the Quebec Harmony Workshop. The artistic projects in which she participates often become sung or musical heritage projects. Off-stage, it seeks to reinvent spaces and strategies for the transmission and reappropriation of oral traditions, encouraging their active and collective practice.