through the city’s cutting-edge arts scene...establishments may close, etc. the authors and...

10 tours through the city’s cutting-edge arts scene

Visual arts - design - Performing arts - music - digital arts

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Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and Library and Archives Canada cataloguing in publicationDelgado, Jérôme Guide to creative Montréal Translation of: Guide du Montréal créatif. Includes index. ISBN 978-2-89464-600-7 1. Montréal (Québec) - Tours. 2. Heritage tourism - Québec (Province) - Montréal. 3. Tourism and art - Québec (Province) - Montréal. I. Title.FC2947.18.D4413 2013 917.4’28045 C2013-940201-2

Research and Writing: Jérôme DelgadoText and Research Contributors: Emmanuelle Bouet, Marie-Eve Corbeil, Fabien Fauteux, Rémi Leroux, Nicolas RoyTranslator: Matthew McLauchlinEditors: Pierre Ledoux, Claude MorneauEditorial Assistants: Annie Gilbert, Judy TanGraphic Design and Layout: Philippe ThomasCover Page Design: Pascal Biet, Philippe Thomas

Cartography: Annie Gilbert, Philippe ThomasIconographic Research: Julie Brodeur

Cover Page Photo: Les Disciplines artistiques, work by the Département studio on the screen mosaic at the Espace Culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme of Place des Arts. Photo: © MatteraJoly / Quartier des Spectacles Partnership

AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank Claude Morneau, Olivier Gougeon and the whole Ulysses team for their confidence and open-mindedness, as well as all those whose comments and suggestions helped improve each of this guide’s tours. The author also wishes to thank Mr. François-Marc Gagnon for his historical precisions, as well as all the people, artists and cultural workers who, week after week, month after month, stimulate and inspire us to shake up the monotony of our daily routines. Finally, warm thanks to Josée, Iris, Lucas and Manuel for tolerating my absences and anxieties.This guide is part of a larger initiative promoting Montréal’s contemporary art venues and events. Information on more than 200 venues and events is available on Tourisme Montréal’s Website (www.tourisme-montreal.org). This initiative was made possible in part by the financial support of Québec’s Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal under the ‘‘Entente sur le développement culturel de Montréal’’ agreement.Tourisme Montréal, Tourisme Québec and the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal also participated in this project. Ulysses Travel Guides acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for this project.Ulysses Travel Guides would also like to thank the Government of Québec – Tax credit for book publishing – Administered by SODEC.

This work was produced under the direction of Olivier Gougeon and Claude Morneau.

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contentsMile End, Outremont, Little Italy 9

Plateau-Mont-Royal 31

Milton–Parc, McGill Ghetto, Mount Royal 59

Quartier des Spectacles, East End of Downtown 75

Quartier Concordia, West End of Downtown 99

Sud–Ouest, Lachine 113

Quartier International, Old Montréal, the Islands 127

Quartier Latin, the Faubourgs, HoMa 155

Côte–des–Neiges, Notre–Dame–de–Grâce, Saint–Laurent 181

Petite–Patrie, Rosemont, Saint–Michel, Villeray 195

Calendar of Festivals and Events 210

Index 222

Resources to Learn More and Stay Informed 224

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How to use this guideThis guide presents ten routes through Montréal’s neighbourhoods, highlighting the many faces of contemporary creativity in the city. Each tour begins with an introduction and an original photo diptych by Denis Farley to spur your curiosity.

Next, a detailed map shows the route as well as the main artistic spaces and works of public art along the way. These locations are identified in an accompanying list and categorized with symbols.

Each tour also has a table indicating the relative importance of the various categories of creativity in the area using the following scale:

««««« Very high concentration, including several important sites/events. Leading area.

«««« High concentration or some important sites/events. Strong area.

««« Significant presence or an important site/event. Noteworthy area.

«« Some presence or a significant site/event. Mentioned in the area.

« Slight presence. Mentioned in passing in the area.

— No presence. Absent in the area.

The table will also tell you how much time you need to cover the whole tour, as well as offer suggestions for subsections of the tour you can take if you have less time; it also lists public transit routes in the area.

At the end of each tour, a creative directory gives the full address and contact information for each cultural site along the tour. The directory also features cafés, restaurants, boutiques, and bars that are favoured by local artists or give a taste of life à la montréalaise.

At the end of the book, you’ll find a calendar listing the many annual creative events that showcase Montréal’s diverse forms of artistic expression, as well as a list of cultural organizations in the city.

Digital arts

Public art

Visual arts

Performing arts

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Jérôme DelgadoJournalist Jérôme Delgado developed this guide’s 10 tours of Montréal’s contemporary arts scene. An art and film critic for the daily newspaper Le Devoir and the film magazine Séquences, in 2010 he was the “reflection and writing” artist-in-residence at 3e Impérial, a contemporary art research centre in Granby, Québec. A graduate of the art history program at the Université de Montréal, he has been a member of the Association québécoise de critiques de cinéma since 2004. He is also a translator, working chiefly with museums, galleries, and art magazines.

Denis Farleywww.denisfarleyphoto.com

Denis Farley contributed many of the photographs in this guide, including the original diptychs at the beginning of each chapter. With a master’s of fine arts from Concordia University, Denis has been working as an artist and a visual arts, design, and architecture photographer since the 1980s. His works, particularly his photographs, have been shown in Québec, across Canada, and abroad, and are held by several important public and private collections such as those of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa, the Musée de la photographie de Charleroi in Belgium, and the Fonds national d’art contemporain in Paris.

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© Jean-François Rollinger

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Montréal on foot, by bike, by metro. Montréal underground or out of doors. Montréal dining, shopping, living. So why not Montréal through your eyes, your ears, all your senses? That’s

what this guide gives you: the city’s thousand facets, sparkling and singing with creativity. Whether hung on a wall or sung from a stage, in a concert hall or on the street, solid and enduring as concrete or ethereal and ephemeral as light.

Montréal is a city of art. Of the arts, plural. A capital of dance and circus, home to countless festivals all year round, from wintry Montréal en Lumière to the sultry sounds of the Jazz Festival. Home to dozens of theatres and four universities swarming with tomorrow’s artists. A technological hotbed at the cutting edge of video game design and digital arts.

The city’s architecture, whether religious, industrial, or vernacular, cherishes the past even as it races towards an innovative future. It’s had its Place des Arts for decades, has just inaugurated its Maison Symphonique, and will soon host a brand-new centre for new music.

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And beyond these major complexes, it’s home to one of the most energetic indie music scenes in the world.

Montréal is firmly established as Canada’s most artistic city. Its indefinable spirit seeps into its artists’ songs, stories, and designs. Its neighbourhoods are dotted with museums of history and art, galleries both august and offbeat. Its public spaces are embellished with acclaimed public artworks and extravagant graffiti murals.

Montréal’s kaleidoscopic cultural menu is a match for the world’s great metropolises. The author has kept that in mind, including the sort of things he’d like to be shown when visiting other cities: the best places to see, the liveliest neighbourhoods to visit, the most interesting spots to hang out. You don’t have to see everything, you just have to know where to look.

Ten different tours are offered, making their way through one or more of the city’s neighbourhoods. You can use your own creativity and decide what you want to discover.

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Cada gotita cuenta, mural produced by the MU organization in partnership with ONE DROP, realised by Julio Cesar Moreno. © Photo: MU

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When you visit Mile End, probably only one thing is certain: you won’t be bored. Considered “Canada’s most artistic neighbourhood,” this part of town packs in a dizzying diversity of cultural life. In terms of

contemporary art alone, Mile End is home to five of the city’s most renowned artists’ centres and one of its most successful private galleries. And you’ll probably bump into some of the artists as well, as many of them live and work, eat and play right in the neighbourhood. One of the best examples is Mordecai Richler, a towering figure in English Québec literature (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 1959), for whom Mile End was both his childhood stomping grounds and the fertile soil for his artistic maturity.

Neighbouring Outremont and Little Italy have their own identities, but they’re inevitably marked by the closeness of Mile End’s creative spirit. However,

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Art and Vitality Atelier Circulaire and Centre Clark. © Denis Farley


Outremont keeps its own contrasting colours, with well-to-do French speakers interspersed with a highly visible Hassidic Jewish community. It’s easier to feel the relaxed, inventive influence of Mile End in the Italian neighbourhood. While its old-country identity still shows through in its shops and restaurants and the conversations you’ll hear in its streets, Little Italy has been changing, moving towards a blending of communities like that of Mile End. And artists are an important part of that mix.

By day, Mile End’s galleries and artists’ centres are an important destination for art lovers; at night, music buffs flock to the neighbourhood’s bars. More than one of Montréal’s legendary festivals has been born here, and more than one theatre has drawn cultured crowds. But the main attraction here is that there’s something to see, hear, or taste in practically every street: Mile End is rich with public and urban art, as well as great places to eat and drink.

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Mile End: 3hrs 30min

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Little Italy: 3hrs

How to get around

On foot

Optional bus ride (line 161–Van Horne)

1 c Twilight Sculpture Garden

2 e Centre Clark e Atelier Circulaire e Diagonale e Dazibao e Optica

3 a Le Cagibi

4 e Monastiraki

5 e Galerie Simon Blais

6 af Bain Saint-Michel

7 c Écritures

8 e Articule

9 a Cabaret du Mile-End

10 e Occurrence – Espace d’art et d’essais contemporains

11 e Galerie Mile-End AME-ART

12 c Lac/Fontaine

13 af Théâtre Rialto

14 af Théâtre Outremont

15 e Galerie d’art d’Outremont

16 c Espace vert

17 e Bigué Art Contemporain

18 e Yves Laroche Galerie d’Art

19 e Lacerte Art Contemporain

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21 e Battat Contemporary

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The tour starts at the corner of Rue Saint-Urbain and Avenue Van Horne. (Take Bus 161 from Rose-mont metro station.)

Mile End is bounded to the north by a railway line, but it developed over the 20th century by turning its back on the rails following the closure of its train station in the 1930s. Despite the dilapidated condition of some of the lands surrounding the tracks, some locals have taken advantage of them, in particular artist Glenn Le Mesurier, whose workshop (135 Avenue Van Horne) is almost always open to the public.

In the vacant lot near his studio, he has created a remarkable sculpture garden all his own: the Twilight Sculpture Garden (1 c) (next to 101 Avenue Van Horne). An unofficial symbol of Mile

End, this set of artworks made from scrap metal and industrial debris is the perfect spot to kick off a tour of the neighbourhood.

The Twilight Sculpture Garden began to sprout up around the year 2000. The open-air gallery—the sculptures are for sale—exemplifies the creativity and resourcefulness of Mile End, not to mention its freewheeling, bohemian atmosphere. But above all, the dozen freestanding sculptures are the perfect example of how, with a bit of initiative, an abandoned, desolate lot can reveal its potential as an inviting urban space. After strolling among Glenn Le Mesurier’s sculptures, take a step back: the garden is worth taking in as a whole, as well.

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Walk east along the viaduct toward Boulevard Saint-Laurent, until you get to the corner of Rue de l’Arcade and Boulevard Saint-Laurent.

Raised viaducts here don’t just speed up car traffic; they also stimulate creativity. Under this stretch of roadway over Boulevard Saint-Laurent are several beautiful examples. A series of murals on the pillars enliven this grey concrete environment even as they draw on it for inspiration. Despite being done clandestinely, several of them show excellent technique and intricate detail. Wait for a break in the traffic to cross Boulevard Saint-Laurent for a closer view.

While you’re at it, climb the staircase onto the viaduct for an excellent view of the neighbourhood. Notice the flatiron-shaped building to your northeast. This vestige of the area’s industrial past, known as Entrepôt Saint-Laurent or Van Horne Warehouse Incorporated, features a huge, conspicuous cistern on its roof.

Continue south along Boulevard Saint-Laurent to Rue Bernard, where you will turn left.

Before turning onto Rue Bernard, consider a stop at Style Labo (5765 Boulevard Saint-Laurent), half antique dealership and half interior design boutique, where you run a good chance of finding something fascinating.

Rue Bernard Est runs along the railway, offering a view of industrial remnants such as the vacant lot still crowned with a large rusting sign promising “Textiles.” Rue Bernard leads onto Avenue De Gaspé, once the heart of Montréal’s garment industry; and a former factory, at 5455 De Gaspé, now serves as a hub for the artistic production in the neighbourhood. As you make your way there, you’ll pass a recently opened bistro, Le Falco (5605 Avenue De Gaspé), where design, espresso, and Japanese food go together wonderfully.

1. Dieu pourvoit (2010) mural by Monk-e off Boulevard Saint-Lau-rent, with a mural by Zek in the background. © Photo: Denis Farley

2. Twilight Sculpture Garden by artist Glenn Le Mesurier. © Photo: Denis Farley

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Centre Clark [artist-run centre, contemporary art, cultural complex]

Rather than going in the main door of Le Plaza (5455 Avenue De Gaspé), continue about 15 metres on, past the yellow stairs. To your right, on the west side of the street, notice the brick building covered in graffiti. This “decoration,” featuring a variety of exotic monsters, is a microcosm of the neighbourhood: built on industrial foundations, its face turned toward the imaginary.

Head back to the yellow stairs which mark the entrance to Centre Clark (2 e) (5455 Avenue De Gaspé, suite 114), one of the leading exemplars of Québec’s unique centres d’artistes autogérés (self-managed arts centres). The Clark, as it’s commonly called, is often listed as one of Montréal’s top attractions. It’s known as much for its rich arts programming as for its mid-December auction, a celebrated holiday season event.

Born downtown on the street that gave it its name, the Clark has been a leader in the arts world for more than 20 years. In that time, it’s hosted numerous seminal shows, such as Les Bricolos in 1998. Leading lights of the 1990s’ generation of artists, such as David Altmejd, Nicolas Baier, Mathieu Beauséjour, Valérie Blass, and many others, spent their early years at the Clark.

In 2001, Centre Clark innovated by moving into this building on Avenue de Gaspé, where they

were followed shortly thereafter by the Atelier Circulaire (2 e), an arts centre specializing in printed media, and by Diagonale (2 e), a unique site dedicated to artistic practices using textiles. Today, the building is a hive of artists’ workshops and a wellspring of creativity in the neighbourhood.

In 2013, two of Montréal’s most renowned artists’ centres also moved into the Plaza: Dazibao (2 e), devoted to the photographic arts but also branching out into film and contemporary art, and Optica (2 e), open to all artistic pursuits. As this guide was going to press, the building’s new configuration had not yet been permanently established, but it was obvious that Avenue de Gaspé was well on its way to becoming one of the city’s creative hotspots.

Backtrack to Rue Saint-Viateur, and follow it back to Boulevard Saint-Laurent.

This area hosts a wide variety of popular cafés and shops, such as Le Cagibi (3 a) (5490 Boulevard Saint-Laurent), a friendly hippie-style café/restaurant, the delicious Asian cuisine of Soy (5258 Boulevard Saint-Laurent), the eclectic bazaar and art gallery Monastiraki (4 e) (5478 Boulevard Saint-Laurent), and the retro fashions of Citizen Vintage (5330 Boulevard Saint-Laurent).

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1. Centre Clark: Sophie Jodoin / De peine et de misère, 2010. © Photo: Bettina Hoffmann2. Centre Clark: Pierre Bourgault / JENESAISPASVRAIMENTOUJEVAISMAISJEMENVAIS, 2012. © Photo: Sébastien Lapointe3. Dazibao: images from mécaniques affectives, Manon Labrecque, 2009. © Photo: Dazibao4. Centre Clark: Dominique Pétrin / POMPÉII MMXII, 2011. © Photo: Sébastien Lapointe

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Galerie Simon Blais [private gallery, contemporary art, great masters]

Galerie Simon Blais (5 e) (5420 Boulevard Saint-Laurent), a leader in the Québec art market, is in the heart of Mile End. It built its reputation on the quality and diversity of the works it offers, representing both contemporary and historical artistic currents, as well as African art.

Its temporary exhibits showcase many of the key figures of today’s Québec art world, such as painters Marc Séguin and Françoise Sullivan, photographers Michel Campeau and Éliane Excoffier, and engravers François-Xavier Marange and Catherine Farish.

Fans of the great modernist masters will also find something to enjoy here. The gallery’s stock includes works by the likes of Piet Mondrian and Antoni Tàpies, as well as Québec masters such as Jean Paul Riopelle, Alfred Pellan, and Guido Molinari.

Take Rue Maguire to Rue Saint-Dominique.

Since the late 1990s, Bain Saint-Michel (6 af) (5300 Rue Saint-Dominique) has played host to a plethora of artistic events of all kinds. This former public bath, with its huge, striking circular window, is the home stage of Infinithéâtre, at the cutting edge of English-language Québec theatre; it also presents events in the madcap FRINGE Festival, performances of the VIVA! Art action festival, and contemporary and electronic music concerts.

Continue south on Rue Saint-Dominique to Avenue Laurier.

Next to Parc Lahaie, once considered the gateway to the neighbourhood, stands the Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus du Mile-End (5039 Rue Saint-Dominique). This 19th-century

church is best known for its richly baroque facade and its interior decoration. Most visitors come for the paintings around the dome and in the chapel, created between 1917 and 1919 by Ozias Leduc, a forerunner of the modernist movement in Québec and mentor to the great artistic reformer Paul-Émile Borduas.

To return westward to the heart of Mile End, you can choose between Avenue Laurier, famous for its stylish boutiques, and Avenue Fairmount further to the north.

Those who want to take in the multicultural feel of the neighbourhood should choose Avenue Fairmount. One after another, you’ll pass Au papier japonais (24 Avenue Fairmount Ouest), an origami studio; Wilensky (34 Avenue Fairmount Ouest), a celebrated Polish restaurant of bygone days; Caffè Grazie Mille (58 Avenue Fairmount Ouest), a quintessentially Italian café; the legendary Fairmount Bagel (74 Avenue Fairmount Ouest); Barros Luco (5201 Rue Saint-Urbain), home of authentic Chilean empanadas; a variety of kosher and halal food stores; and just over the border into Outremont, the famed Middle Eastern restaurant Rumi (5198 Rue Hutchison).

Amid this panoply of businesses, Avenue Fairmount also has its little secrets. A little-known sculpture by modern master Armand Vaillancourt, Écritures (7 c), is suspended from one of the buildings of the Collège Français (162 Avenue Fairmount Ouest) at the corner of Avenue de l’Esplanade. This private school’s other building, across the street (172 Avenue Fairmount Ouest), conceals a majestic former synagogue behind an unfortunate facade that was added when the building changed hands in the 1960s.

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1. The main stage at Igloofest. © Photo: Miguel Legault

2. Les Sœurs Boulay performing during the Francouvertes. © Photo: Michel Pinault

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JanuaryWildside Theatre Festivalwww.centaurtheatre.com/wildsidefestival.phpTwo weeks of audacious, avant-garde and emergent English-language theatre to discover.

Igloofestwww.igloofest.ca/enElectronic music festival under the snow covering the last three weekends of January and early February.

FebruaryFrancouverteswww.francouvertes.comA singer-songwriter festival and a competition where 21 artists perform their work in one of seven weekly shows (February to May).

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MarchEdgy Women Festivalwww.edgywomen.ca/enFeminist festival featuring performances by remarkable artists, video screenings, launches for out-of-the-ordinary books, lectures by artists and popular parties.

SAT Festwww.sat.qc.caLying down on couches set in the middle of the Satosphere, spectators are treated to a dozen short films projected 360 degrees around them (March-April).

1. Edgy Women Festival. © Photo: Heather Cassils and Robin Black, courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

2. International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN): Ulf Langheinrich [DE/CN] – Hemisphere. Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] / BIAN 2012. Production: Epidemic, Paris | Muffathalle Munich. With grants from Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Germany. © Photo: Conception photo

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Art Matterswww.artmattersfestival.orgA showcase for new talent at Concordia University, in visual arts, dance, music, film, theatre, and video art.

Art Souterrainwww.artsouterrain.com/en/homeDuring this art show event, several kilometres of the downtown underground city are filled with works of art.

International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)www.artfifa.com/enA competitive event and the world’s biggest art film festival, with round tables, openings, performances, and installations.

Nuit blanche à Montréal www.montrealenlumiere.com/nuit-blanche-enDuring the Nuit blanche event, the metro stays open all night and no fewer than 170 activities—most of them free—showcase every branch of culture.

Under the snow / Sous la neigewww.underthesnow.caThis five day festival for all budgets promotes and supports up-and-coming musicians in all genres.

D’un œil différentwww.exeko.org/en/dodThis event explores the creativity of artists with an intellectual disability through a series of visual arts exhibits, forums, workshops, and artistic performances.

AprilInternational Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN)http://bianmontreal.ca/enBiennial event focusing on installation pieces that combine art with multimedia (April-June).

Dérapagewww.derapage.caScreenings of short films lasting less than three minutes each at the UQAM’s Centre de design.

Festival temps d’images www.usine-c.comA hybrid festival at the intersection of the arts of the stage and the screen.

Papier – Contemporary Art Fair of Works on Paperwww.papiermontreal.com/welcome-to-the-papier12-art-fairHeld under a huge white tent near Place des Festivals, Québec’s only art fair aims to democratize the collection of works on paper.


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OFFTAwww.offta.com/enFestival showcasing dance, performance art, and theatre revisited by audacious emerging artists (May-June).

Elektrawww.elektramontreal.ca/?l=enLive performances in robotics, video, dance and digital technology, blended with electronic and electroacoustic music.

MUTEKwww.mutek.org/enDigital music and visual arts festival offering some 100 concerts and other events in various venues and galleries over five days (May-June).

Sight & Soundhttp://sightandsoundfestival.caTechnological, digital and multimedia art festival featuring innovative audiovisual performances and installations.

Design Montréal Open Housewww.portesouvertesdesignmontreal.com/enThis biennial event helps visitors understand the creative processes behind designers’, developers’, and artists’ creations trough exhibitions, video clips, and interactive installations.

1. International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN): Bill Vorn [QC-CA] – DSM-VI. Black Box Hexagram-Concordia / BIAN 2012. © Photo: Conception photo

2. Elektra: Yan Beuleux [QC-CA] – TEMPÊTES, 2012. © Photo: Gridspace

3. Festival TransAmériques: Alexis, Una trage-dia greca. © Photo: Pierre Borasci

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SIDIMwww.sidim.com/en.htmlA major showcase for industrial and interior design, showing off the best of the field in Canada and around the world.

Kinetik Festivalwww.festival-kinetik.netThis electro-industrial-noise-hardcore happening promotes the electro-industrial scene in Montréal and encourages cultural exchange between countries.

Piknic Electronikwww.piknicelectronik.com/enIn Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène, the Piknic Électronik is a Sunday ritual for electronic music lovers and picnickers with hungry ears (May-September).

La Biennale de Montréalwww.biennalemontreal.org/enThis biennial festival with no fixed address finds a space and transforms it into an exhibition hall with art of all kinds, from painting to multimedia, from immersive installations to delicate drawings.

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JuneFestival de théâtre de rue de Lachinewww.theatrederue.comMultidisciplinary arts performances in the streets of the borough of Lachine.

The St-Ambroise Montreal FRINGE Festivalwww.montrealfringe.ca/en/homeIn the Plateau and Mile End areas, this bilingual festival presents a stunning kaleidoscope of music, dance, theatre and comedy.

L’Écho d’un fleuvewww.peristylenomade.org/fr/realisations/lecho-dun-fleuvePerformance art, outdoor dance, installations, alley gatherings, collective sculptures and music shows in the public spaces of the Faubourgs neighbourhood.

Festival international de Montréal en arts (FIMA)www.festivaldesarts.org/index_eng.htmA section of Sainte-Catherine Street is closed to traffic and transformed into a large open-air art gallery that also offers multimedia performances, short film screenings, and live creation.

Nuit blanche sur tableau noirwww.tableaunoir.comPopular night festival on Mont-Royal Avenue with free concerts, poetry readings, and other creative and original activities.

Suoni Per Il Popolowww.casadelpopolo.com/suoniperilpopoloThe latest discoveries of the Montréal music scene with established big names in modern music, including jazz, underground rock, noise, and electronica.

Festival International de Jazz de Montréalwww.montrealjazzfest.comIndoor and outdoor concerts by local up-and-comers and the biggest names in jazz (June-July).

1. Suoni Per Il Popolo. © Photo: Eddie Rodgers2. L’Écho d’un fleuve: Nicolas Bonnet, Antéfacts

performance, 2011. © Photo: L’Écho d’un fleuve

3. L’Écho d’un fleuve: Pénélope St-Cyr Robitaille, Responsive bodies in situ dance project, 2012. © Photo: L’Écho d’un fleuve

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JulyMontréal Complètement Cirque http://montrealcompletementcirque.com/enA celebration of the circus arts with a host of ticketed and free events throughout the city.

MEG (Montréal Électronique Groove)www.megmontreal.com/enUrban music festival showcasing Canadian (chiefly Montrealers) electronic, pop, rock, and hip-hop musicians (July-August).

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SeptemberLes Escales improbableswww.escalesimprobables.comVarious venues host numerous installations, shows, and performances, including theatre, dance, music, puppetry and live creation of works of art.

Transatlantique Montréal / Festival Quartiers Danses www.transatlantiquemontreal.comContemporary dance festival held in both indoor and outdoor locations.

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréalwww.moisdelaphoto.comBiennial contemporary photography festival presenting still images, videos and films in a variety of genres, from traditional documentary photography to abstraction (September-October).

POP Montréalhttp://popmontreal.comIn five days, this music festival presents nearly 600 artists as well as events like FilmPop, ArtPop, and KidsPop.

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Montréal Fashion & Design Festivalwww.festivalmodedesign.com/homepageNumerous outdoor runway shows accompanied by amazing music and other wild events like a high heels race.

Osheagawww.osheaga.comA huge music and art festival with an enviable international reputation, this three day outdoor event attracts more than 80,000 festival-goers to Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Île Sainte-Hélène.

1. Montréal Fashion & Design Festival. © Photo: Jimmy Hamelin

2. Plants and Animals performing at Osheaga in 2012. © Photo: Patrick Beaudry

3. Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal: installation view of Arrangements From Life by Alain Paiement, Darling Foundry, 2009. © Photo: Véronique Lépine

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Festival du nouveau cinémawww.nouveaucinema.ca/enAn innovative film festival offering an audacious programme of international films, exploring longs and shorts, videos, animation, installations, performances, and interactive works.

Viva! Art Actionhttp://vivamontreal.org/enThis event is devoted to performance art and all its recent variations (manoeuvre, public intervention, and participatory art), where action’s main medium of expression is the human body.

1. VIVA! Art Action: performance by Martine Viale, 2011. © Photo: Guy L’Heureux

2. M for Montréal. © Photo: Alexandre Bédard3. Danse Danse: Louise Lecavalier / “I” Is

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NovemberCoup de cœur francophonewww.coupdecoeur.caA showcase for French-language song with a fine blend of established and emergent artists.

The HTMlleswww.htmlles.netThis biennial event presents an eclectic portrait of feminine artistic innovation through multimedia and technological artworks in multiple forms.

Souk@SAThttp://souk.sat.qc.ca/englishA lively bazaar with local artisans and creators selling their latest wares at affordable prices (November-December).

M for Montréalwww.mpourmontreal.com/en.htmlM for Montréal shows off Montréal’s up-and-coming musical acts with 40 performances in just three days.

year-roundDanse Danse www.dansedanse.netThis organization works to spread contemporary dance and encourage its development by presenting new choreographic voices from abroad, linked only by their well-deserved success in their home country and around the world.

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréalwww.bjmdanse.ca/?lg=enChoreographies brought to life by contagiously energetic dancers from a variety of artistic backgrounds.

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DesignBonsecours Market 148Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) 109Centre de design de l’UQAM 163Espace VErrE 145Galerie Créa 148Le Chat des artistes 172Maison de l’architecture du Québec 139Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles 200ruelle Land 172Zone Orange 142

Digital ArtsDHC/ArT Foundation for Contemporary Art 141Eastern Bloc 28Oboro 41Perte de Signal 173SAT 82Société des arts technologiques 82Studio XX 41Usine C 169William Notman House 66

MusicBain Mathieu 173Bain Saint-Michel 18Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice 164Bourgie Hall 105Cabaret du Mile-End 19Café Chaos 165Casa Del Popolo 48Centre Pierre-Charbonneau 177Centre Pierre-Péladeau 161Centre St-Ambroise 123Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur 160Club Lambi 50Club Soda 82Coop Les Katacombes 80Corona Theatre 118Divan Orange 51Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste 42Île Sainte-Hélène 150Il Motore 27Inspecteur Épingle 41L’Astral 90La Tulipe 46Le Cagibi 16Le Gesù 90Le National 167L’Entrepôt 125Le Petit Medley 202Le Savoy 81L’Escalier 166L’Esco 44Les Foufounes Électriques 81Le Vivier 160L’Hémisphère Gauche 24

Lion d’Or 170L’Olympia 167Maison de la culture Frontenac 171Maison de la culture Maisonneuve 176Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay 123Maison du Festival rio Tinto Alcan 90Maison symphonique de Montréal 86Métropolis 81New Music Building 68O Patro Výš 42Place des Arts 86Place des Festivals 89Pollack Hall 68Quai des brumes 44redpath Hall 68Sala rossa 48Salle Claude-Champagne 188Salle Émile-Legault 193Théâtre Outremont 23Théâtre Plaza 202Théâtre rialto 20Théâtre Saint-Denis 164Théâtre Sainte-Catherine 163Théâtre St-James 140

Performing ArtsAgora de la danse 36Bain Mathieu 173Bain Saint-Michel 18Centaur Theatre 140Centre Pierre-Péladeau 161Cirque du Soleil 205Corona Theatre 118Édifice Jean-Pierre-Perreault 172Espace La risée 207Espace Libre 172Grande Bibliothèque 165La Licorne 46Le National 167L’Entrepôt 125L’Illusion 46L’Olympia 167MAI - Montréal arts interculturels 65MainLine Theatre 52Maison de la culture Frontenac 171Maison Théâtre 160Montréal Science Centre 147Monument-National 84National Circus Schoo 205Parc La Fontaine 37PHI Centre 141Place des Arts 86Place des Festivals 89Segal Centre 188Théâtre Aux Écuries 206Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui 39Théâtre Denise-Pelletier 176Théâtre de Quat’Sous 54Théâtre du Nouveau Monde 85Théâtre du rideau Vert 47

Théâtre ESPACE GO 49Théâtre La Chapelle 52Théâtre Outremont 23Théâtre Plaza 202Théâtre Prospero 170Théâtre rialto 20Théâtre Saint-Denis 164Théâtre Sainte-Catherine 163TOHU 205Usine C 169

Public Art21 balançoires 85Acer Concordiae 106After Babel, a Civic Square 85À la croisée des mots 118Allegrocube 147Autoportrait 95Bonsecours Market 148Botanical Garden 177Bouillon de culture 206Boulevard Monk 123Cailloudo 193Carrés gris 166CCA Garden 109Centre CDP Capital 133C’est sûrement des Québécois qui ont fait ça 86Champ-de-Mars 149Comme si le temps... de la rue 86Comme un poisson dans la ville 44, 161Cultiver l’imaginaire 186Diorama 134Écho 90Éclosion – Une autre journée au paradis 176Écritures 18Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts

Integrated Complex 106Entre nous 146Espace fractal 165Espace vert 23Give Peace a Chance 70Grande Bibliothèque 165Gratte-ciel, cascades d’eau/rues, ruisseaux... une

construction 166Habitations Jeanne-Mance 160Île Notre-Dame 151Île Sainte-Hélène 150Isocèle 207Laboratoire-échantillon 47La Bourrasque 191Lac/Fontaine 20La Fermière 176La Joute 137La (Les) Leçon(s) plurielle(s) 176La Montagne des jours 71La Peur 142La Puerta de la Amistad 151L’Arc 151La Voie lactée 89Le 2.22 82

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Le Malheureux magnifique 55Le Mélomane 204Les Allusifs 120Les conteurs 47Les Enjeux 39Les grandes formes qui dansent 149Les Leçons singulières 38Les Lieux communs 192Les Moments magiques 68L’homme est un roseau pensant II 54L’homo urbanus 191L’Île des commencements 146Lipstick Forest (Nature Légère) 138Lumière et mouvement dans la couleur 85Machine consciente 36Man, Three Disks (L’Homme) 151Mélangez le Tout 173Mémoire ardente 148Miroirs 192Montréal Eaton Centre 94Monument à la Pointe 121Mouvements 86Murals 124Musée de Lachine 124Neuf couleurs au vent 37Ondes 68Our Lady of Grace 190Palais de justice 147Palais des congrès 137Parallélépipède 188Parc La Fontaine 37Parvis et portail # 22 192Patro Le Prévost 207Peel station 104Phare du Cosmos 151Place Émilie-Gamelin 166Place Jean-Paul-riopelle 137Porte du jour 149révolutions 170Signatures 147Solstice 104Sommeil (ou les séjours sous terre) 135Source 190Square Cabot 110Stratifications pariétales 133Système 191Tables 135Tango de Montréal 44Temps d’arrêt 203Temps présents 192The artist is the one who unveils the other side

of things 86The Eye 105Together 207Topographie/Topologie 188Twilight Sculpture Garden 14Un jardin à soi 177Untitled 108Vanités 3. Les miroirs du temps 146Ventis et soupiraux, turbulences et essouffle-

ments 188Voix sans bruit 165

Visual ArtsAncienne-Douane 146Arprim 93Arsenal 118Art 45 93Artexte 82Articule 19Art Mûr 201Atelier Circulaire 16Bain Mathieu 173Banque Nationale 132Battat Contemporary 26Belgo 92Bigué Art Contemporain 24Centre Clark 16Centre Dare-Dare 80Centre de diffusion et d’expérimentation 163Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal

188Centre d’histoire de Montréal 142Centre St-Ambroise 123Centre Vox 82Château Dufresne 177Cinéma Beaubien 203Cinéma du Parc 66Cinémathèque québécoise 161Circa 92Contemporary Art Galleries Association 93Coopérative Lézarts 172Darling Foundry 143Dazibao 16Diagonale 16Division Gallery 118Écomusée du fier monde 168Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts

Integrated Complex 106Espace Cercle Carré 144Espace projet, art contemporain + design 28Espacio México 104Excentris 52FoFA 107Fondation Molinari 174Fresh Paint! 163Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran 118Galerie B-312 92Galerie Bernard 39Galerie Christian Lambert 92 Galerie Crystal racine 46Galerie D 168Galerie d’art d’Outremont 23Galerie de Bellefeuille 111Galerie de l’UQAM 164Galerie d’Este 111Galerie Dominique Bouffard 167Galerie Donald Browne 92Galerie Espace 50Galerie Hugues Charbonneau 93Galerie Laroche/Joncas 93Galerie Lilian rodriguez 93Galerie Mile-End AME-ArT 20Galerie MX 137

Galerie Nicolas robert 92Galerie Nuances 146Galerie rené Blouin 145Galerie roger Bellemare 92Galerie Simon Blais 18Gallery Gora 67Graff 42Grover building 172Hôtel des Encans 122Joyce Yahouda 92La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse 51Lacerte Art Contemporain 24L’Endroit indiqué 42L’Entrepôt 125Le 2.22 82Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery 106Le repaire des 100 talents 202Les Ateliers Jean-Brillant 121Les Impatients 160Les Territoires 92MAI - Montréal arts interculturels 65Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges 186Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-royal 45Maison de la culture Frontenac 171Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay 123Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 190Maison de la culture rosemont–La Petite-Patrie

202Maison Kasini 93McClure Gallery 123McCord Museum 68Monastiraki 16Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) 105Montréal Science Centre 147Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM)

88Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec 193Occurrence – Espace d’art et d’essai contem-

porains 20Optica 16, 92PArISIAN LAUNDrY 122Pavillon J.-A.-DeSève 188PHI Centre 141Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain 93Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum

of Archaeology and History 146Projet Beaumont 27Quartier Latin 164[sas] 93SBC 92Skol 93Studio 303 93Trois Points 92Usine 106U 54VAV Gallery 108Visual Voice Art Gallery 93William Notman House 66Yves Laroche Galerie d’art 24Zéphyr, lieu d’art 168

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Resources to Learn More and Stay InformedTo learn more and to keep on top of what’s happening in Montréal’s dynamic arts scene, here’s a non-exhaustive list of the city’s cultural initiatives, associations and organizations:

Accès culture Montréal www.accesculture.com

ArtsScène Montréal en.artsscenemontreal.com

Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) www.artsmontreal.org/en

Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC) new.agac.qc.ca

Culture Montréal www.culturemontreal.ca/en

Culture pour tous www.culturepourtous.ca/index_en.htm

District Montréal www.districtmontreal.com/en

Diversité artistique Montréal (DAM) www.diversiteartistique.org

English-Language Arts Network (ELAN) www.quebec-elan.org

La Ligne Bleue www.lalignebleue.ca

La Vitrine www.lavitrine.com

MAP // Make Art Public makeartpublic.wordpress.com

MASSIVart massivart.ca

Montreal Arts-Business portal montrealartsaffaires.org/en

Montréal Créative (CRÉ de Montréal) montrealcreative.org

Montréal, Cultural Metropolis montrealmetropoleculturelle.org

Montreal Galleries galeriesmontreal.ca/?lang=en

Pied carré (PI2) – Regroupement des créateurs du secteur Saint-Viateur Est www.regroupementpi2.org

Quartier des Spectacles Partnership www.quartierdesspectacles.com/en

Réseau Art Actuel (an initiative of RCAAQ) www.rcaaq.org/index_en.php

Voies culturelles des faubourgs voiesculturelles.qc.ca

The Montréal Buzz (Tourisme Montréal blog) www.tourisme-montreal.org/blog

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