THE QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES BLOG

Starting today, a 2,800-square-foot banner, displaying the diverse cultural options of the Quartier des spectacles, hangs on the exterior wall of Club Soda facing the Intersection of the Mains.

For more than a century, the neighbourhood has been a

At the awards ceremony for the third edition of the Créativité Montréalcompetition, the Quartier des spectacles was recognized twice.

These two prizes, added to the four it has already won, bring the Quartier to six awards in total!

The wayfinding and street

The financing for the keystone project of the Quartier des spectacles is now complete. $7.5 million will come from the government of Quebec and the City of Montreal and $9 million from the private sector, bringing the

The setting for the lighting of the first “electric candle” in Canada, Montreal's only entirely baroque church houses the oldest operating performance hall in Quebec. This highly symbolic venue is about to come out of the shadows.

The

Place des Arts’s Hall des Pas Perdus will soon be refurbished as the “Grand Foyer culturel”, thanks to a 12,5 million dollar investment from Quebec’s ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du

On July 9th, the architectural models for the future Place des festivals were unveiled at the Musée d’art contemporain.

In response to the vision developed by the Quartier des spectacles Partnership, which called for infrastructure to make permanent the

After more than five years of devoting himself to the Quartier des spectacles Partnership, Pierre Deschênes is leaving his position as general manager to pursue new challenges in the private sector.

"I am leaving with the satisfaction of

On May 5th, the Quartier des spectacles Partnership submitted a document for the Special Planning Program (SPP) of the Place des Arts area during the public consultation held by the Ville-Marie borough.

In the document, the Partnership made

The City of Montreal has agreed to make an annual contribution of $650,000 to the Quartier des spectacles Partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010. This effort demonstrates the City’s wish to make the Quartier des spectacles a

Upstairs Jazz bar & Grill, which offers performances 364 days a year in its current 60-seat digs on Mackay Street, will move to the future Maison du Festival de Jazz in 2009.

The new Upstairs will occupy the

On April 28th, CIBL Radio-Montréal organized a 5 à 7 at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) to announce a financial strategy for its project to move into the building adjacent to the SAT.

At the heart of

A new performance space has opened at the Quartier Latin pole of the Quartier des spectacles.

Théâtre TELUS, the outcome of a ten-year partnership between Groupe Laberge and TELUS, can welcome up to 1200 people. Groupe Laberge is also