{"id":691,"date":"2026-06-28T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/montreal-au-top-du-slam-jeunesse\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:02:29","slug":"montreal-au-top-du-slam-jeunesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/montreal-au-top-du-slam-jeunesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal at the top of Youth Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The young artists Maksen Blidi, Ethan Sacha You and R\u00e9mi Lalonger will fly to France in October, after their victory in the 8th edition of the national Youth Slam competition, which took place on April 25, 2026 at the Camp Musical in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska.<\/p>\n<p>The camp auditorium was filled with spectators who came to listen to nearly thirty young finalists from the 4 corners of Quebec (Outaouais, Estrie, Capitale-Nationale and Bas-Saint-Laurent). This final was presented in front of a multitude of distinguished guests: Mathieu Rivest (MP C\u00f4te-du-Sud), Denis Racine (vice-president of the R\u00e9seau Qu\u00e9bec-France Francophonie), Jos\u00e9e Beaudoin (president of the Association Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise des Professors de Fran\u00e7ais), Gabrielle Th\u00e9riault (ACLAM representative), Marco Voyer-B\u00e9langer (slammaster of Rivi\u00e8re-du-Loup) and even the winner of the last National Grand Slam, Julie Carmel (godmother of the event).<\/p>\n<p>Maksen, Ethan and R\u00e9mi will represent Quebec in France thanks to the welcome of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration France-Qu\u00e9bec Francophonie, through performances and workshops with young French people in Brittany and P\u00e9rigord. The trio will be accompanied by their coach Yanis Benyou, as well as the organizers of the Youth Slam, Mael Pelletier and Lucia Savard.<\/p><div id=\"linit-1476451371\" class=\"linit-dans-le-contenu linit-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"linit-482511585\" class=\"linit-apres-contenu linit-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young artists Maksen Blidi, Ethan Sacha You and R\u00e9mi Lalonger will fly to France in October, after their victory in the 8th edition of the national Youth Slam competition, which took place on April 25, 2026 at the Camp Musical in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska. The camp auditorium was filled with spectators who came to listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}