The Fête nationale du Québec in Sutton: a great success!

You were at the rendezvous of our festivities of the Fête nationale du Québec 2022 with your smiles, your energy and your participation! Nearly 400 people gathered, throughout this sunny day, to take part in the proposed activities.

At the D’Arts et de rêves cultural park, about forty people took a guided tour with Samantha la Bouffonne and attended the jazz concert by the Almut Ellinghaus Quartet. During this time, nearly 15 families had the chance to participate in two workshops on handling giant puppets, led by professionals from the Théâtre de la Dame de Coeur who then strolled through the park with larger-than-life puppets to impress visitors: a tree, two ants and a couple of fish.

The inflatable games, water games, face painter and the municipal pool were busy all afternoon! A smoothie-bike animated by our volunteers delighted young and old with its refreshing juices. The visitors were able to satisfy their thirst and their hunger with the kiosks of the Auberge Sutton Brouërie, the Domaine Girouard, Chic Choc and the Cabane à Chichis, as well as the Resto Route 139 present on the spot within the framework of the annual baseball tournament of the Opti-ski organization.

Ceremonial and musical

The raising of the flag and the speeches of our honorary president, Mrs. Isabelle Charest, MNA for Brome-Missisquoi, Minister for Education and Minister responsible for the Status of Women, as well as the mayor of Sutton, Mr. Robert Benoît, kicked off the celebrations whose theme was “Our language with a thousand accents”. Your voice and your hearts were then united to the music of Agnès Boisvert, the Dindons d’trécarré and Alex Burger, headliner of the evening, who made you dance. Finally, magnificent fireworks came to close this day,

A big thank you to all

We would like to warmly thank the organizing committee*, the D’Arts et de rêve cultural park, the Sutton Encore organization, as well as the generous volunteers and all the participants who made this day a success!

We would also like to underline the involvement of the event’s sponsors who allowed us to offer you quality activities: the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste Richelieu/Yamaska, the Fondation Boulanger-Bédard, the MNA for Brome-Missiquoi Isabelle Charest, the Caisse populaire Desjardins Brome-Missiquoi and Câble Axion. We also express our gratitude to the local businesses that contributed to this festive day: Huttopia, BMR, Kubota Max Gagné, Jardins Paquette and Constructions Jean-Simon Lacroix, Anick Cromp of Remax.

*The organizing committee was composed of Marie-Claude Plasse, cultural agent of the Town of Sutton who masterfully coordinated the whole event, Heidi Vanha, general coordinator of Tourism Sutton, Charlotte Jacques, recreation and community life agent of the Town of Sutton, Natasha Elvoy, administrative coordinator of the D’Arts et de rêves cultural park who organized the activities at the DAR park, and Vanessa Lauzon, director of the Sutton Encore organization who was in charge of the musical programming of the evening and brilliantly took up the challenge of animating it. Thanks to them!