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The blog of the Quartier des Spectacles is a window on the people and places that make Montreal’s cultural heart beat. From festivals to performance venues, from restaurants to avant-garde art. Every week, you’re invited to discover the city’s liveliest square kilometre!
Tumbling dominos and their distinctive clicking sound come together this winter until January 27, in a festive interactive experience in the Place des Festivals, for the ninth annual Luminothérapie event.
There’s a cultural event in the Quartier des Spectacles for you this month. Why not make a gift of them – or treat yourself?
Until December 7, the Montreal Bach Festival celebrates the musical genius of Johann Sebastian Bach with 35 concerts and plenty of workshops and talks.
Already tired of the cold and snow? Come by the Quartier des spectacles and step inside the colourful – and snowy! – world of the illustrator Cyrielle Tremblay.
Drawing die-hard cinema enthusiasts and weekend movie fans alike, the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) will soon bring its unique brand of energy to the Quartier des spectacles. This year, the highly anticipated event takes place from November 8 to 18.
Cool breeze giving you chills? That’s not just the weather, it’s Halloween’s spine-tingling teaser! From ghouls and goblins to zombies and ghosts, you’ll find all the scary things in the Quartier des Spectacles!
The Quartier des Spectacles project was launched 15 years ago. The whole story is found in the new book Tous pour un: Le Quartier des spectacles, by Claude Deschênes.
From October 18 to 20, MAPP_MTL presented in collaboration with the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership will display its digital art on the city’s walls. Don’t just look at the art, be part of it!
From September 28 to 30, take your pick of thousands of free activities, representing the vast panorama of cultural disciplines, with the Journées de la culture. From dance to theatre to music to street art, fill your weekend with some amazing culture in the Quartier des Spectacles!
With fall around the corner, people are getting busy again. Have those restful summer days stoked your creativity? Better make the most of it! Here are six coworking spaces to check out in the Quartier des Spectacles.
On September 15 and 16, there won’t be any orange cones in or around Place des Festivals, but it’s still going to be a big construction site! Construisons Monumental !, will culminate in the construction of a cardboard replica of a Montreal icon : the Jacques Cartier Bridge.
Local street art is the main attraction in the Quartier des Spectacles! Until October 28 on the Promenade des Artistes, 16 Montreal-based artists and collectives are exhibiting new pieces commissioned for “Surfaces,” a unique new exhibition.