10.6084/m9.figshare.7514183.v1 Lucie Villeneuve Lucie Villeneuve Student Outreach at Festival Transamériques (FTA): a cultural mediation experience that stimulates personal transformation SciELO journals 2018 Cultural Mediation Adolescents Contemporary Creative Arts Rite of Passage Openness to Self and Others 2018-12-26 04:54:02 Figure https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/figure/Student_Outreach_at_Festival_Transam_riques_FTA_a_cultural_mediation_experience_that_stimulates_personal_transformation/7514183 <p></p><p>Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present the educational spinoffs of the Student Outreach program of the Festival Transamériques (FTA), a festival devoted to the creation of contemporary theatre and dance performance in Québec. A first field investigation was conducted in 2010 with fifty adolescents, followed by another in 2014 to validate its results. The research showed that the event acts as a kind of rite of passage for young people, serving as a source of self-discovery as much as well as generating openness to others at an aesthetic level and on a cultural and socio-political plan.</p><p></p>