Place aux jeux

May 8th, 2025 →
September 29th, 2025
All audiences
Free

Ariane Moffatt invites you to come out and play! 

This summer, the Quartier des Spectacles is an enormous playground and game room with giant chess, pear balls, seesaws, a b-ball hoops tree, endless hopscotch, a most unusual ping-pong table and gigantic hidden words. So many great ways to exercise your mind and body – and make new friends!  

May 8 to 25, 2025 
Returning in mid-August until September 28 
Sainte-Catherine St. West in the Quartier des Spectacles 

Equipment loans: 
Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 10 p.m. 

Place aux jeux is a presentation of the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership in collaboration with Complexe Desjardins. The project is made possible by the financial support and collaboration of the Ville de Montréal. 

“I’ve been coming to the Quartier des Spectacles for a long time, whether to play my music or to attend shows. I’m delighted to be able to make a different kind of contribution this summer by bringing my colour and energy to the Quartier, and by sharing the joy of getting together and playing outside. I hope families and other visitors will want to move, sink some baskets and have fun!”

Ariane Moffatt , Singer-songwriter

The games

  • Hopscotch                  
  • The Ping-Pong Table
  • The Basketball Tree
  • Word Search              
  • Chess
  • Seesaws           
  • Pear Balls
  • The Big Gaming Table: Tic Tac Toe / Snakes and ladders / Checkers / What am I playing?

We’re also playing indoors and on the walls

The fun continues indoors with a hanging cascade of balls around the Complexe Desjardins fountain, to be installed June 17. A nod to the theme of games, the installation will include 600 colourful balls – it’s sure to get everyone’s attention.  

A video projection by Montreal artist Jérémy Fassio beckons visitors back to childhood by revisiting iconic playground games. The tableaux capture the imagination with their lightness and motion. On the walls adjacent to Saint-Laurent metro (May 15 to August 13) and on the façade of Édifice WILDER – Espace Danse (May 15 to September 3). 

Finally, a series of four creative workshops for kids, designed by Ariane Moffatt in collaboration with ABL BLA LAB, will be held in the Esplanade Tranquille pavilion. Dates and other details will be announced soon.  

The giant hopscotch

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