'Living in Ruins': Montreal students put on play about their run-down high school
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Grade 10 students at a high school in Montreal's Ahuntsic neighbourhood are using theatre to reimagine the school's crumbling building.
Inspired by École Sophie-Barat's dilapidated state, students took to the stage in a play to showcase the heritage building and voice how they want Quebec to renovate it.
The province allocated $164 million to renovating the high school, making it the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal's biggest expansion project to date. Sophie-Barat is also the oldest school of the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal.
Renovations will add 200 to 250 places at the school, which currently has about 1,400 students enrolled.
But a specific timeline hasn't been set for the project.
The show, Habiter les ruines (Living in Ruins), is a theatrical journey around a school rich in history, but neglected to the point of being partially shut down.
Since August 2020, classrooms for Grade 7, 8 and 9 students have been relocated, and older students can no longer access the cafeteria or the newly renovated library.
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