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Taking the metro puts its users in contact with each other, leading to a real collective performance. If public transit meets an individual need (traveling from a point of origin to a destination), the journey itself is a social experience, which is particularly noticeable at peak times, inÌýextreme density. Customers with a variety of socio-economic profiles are thus led, day after day, to negotiate the modalities of their journey, with strangers sharing a wagon, a wharf or a corridor. In this context, the need to take the metro can become a source of frustrations, orÌýeven conflicts, as the proximity can be an irritant.

How do we react to the presence of others in this context? Is it possible to improve our public transit experience? What can artists' eyes reveal about what is at stake in this collective performance?

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Five panellists are invited to exchange on these issues as part of a discussion moderatedÌýby Laurent Vernet (CIRM;Ìý) :Ìý

• Ìý(artistÌý; teacher, )
• Ìý(teacher, ; Co-Deputy Director of theÌý"Immigration, living conditions,Ìýand religion" axis, CIRM)
• (dance critic and performer; poet; journalist at Le Devoir)
• (writer)
• (President, Société de transport de Montréal)

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The event,Ìýopened to the public, will take place atÌýon SeptemberÌý6, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.