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15th edition of LUMINO: new evolving format with more sites
November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025
Montreal, November 8, 2024 – For its 15th edition, Luminothérapie’s metamorphosis continues: the event is now LUMINO! In its all-new format, this Quartier des Spectacles Partnership production extends outside the Quartier des Spectacles into the wider downtown core with an evolving urban winter experience including both indoor and outdoor components. From November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025, Montrealers and visitors will discover thirty works – whether luminous, interactive and contemplative. Thanks to the collaboration of numerous partners, the installations will be presented on an expanded territory stretching from the Esplanade PVM at Place Ville Marie to Place Émilie-Gamelin. The renewed LUMINO event reflects a desire to offer plenty of opportunities to enjoy winter to the fullest in the Quartier des Spectacles and downtown by presenting a rich and original set of artistic offerings showcasing local and international creativity. The works will be unveiled progressively as the weeks pass. LUMINO is an essential attraction for tourists, and the city’s marquee winter event!
The works are installations and video projections that bring light and colour to winter in some 15 indoor venues and public spaces. The new, evolving version of LUMINO is made possible by the financial support of the Ville de Montréal and Tourisme Montréal and by the participation of ten co-exhibitors: Place des Arts, Complexe Desjardins, Montréal centre-ville, Place Ville Marie (PVM), the Palais des congrès de Montréal, SDC Quartier latin, BAnQ, Le Central, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth and UQAM.
This edition is dedicated to the late Pierre Fortin, who was executive director of the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership from 2009 to 2020. Mr. Fortin was one of the key people behind the creation of Luminothérapie.
MAJOR WORKS TO DISCOVER
To celebrate its 15-year milestone, LUMINO presents an unprecedented lineup of major works, some of them making their North American premiere. Éloge de l’air, by French studio ChevalVert, combines the flagpole and the swing. Comprising nine swings, the work invites members of the public to raise enormous banners nearly five metres tall. At the Hand, by Montrealer Patrice LaCroix, is a colossal, four-storey interactive work comprising more than 24,000 LED lights. It invites visitors to control an interactive hand using computer vision and artificial intelligence. Les Fabuloscopes, by Montreal studio La Camaraderie, with artist Eruoma Awashish, is an installation that humorously revisits children’s stories with three large machines inspired by bygone optical toys. By taking the controls of each device, visitors activate stroboscopic animations, bringing old stories to life in short scenes. Lustres, by French studio TILT, will decorate the Montreal sky with majestic lights that transform the city into an open-air ballroom and invite people to gather to play a captivating silent symphony of lights. Biolumen, by Rahda Chadah and Toronto studio RAW Design, combines art, science and nature with an installation inspired by bioluminescent aquatic organisms. At night, the sculptures light up from the inside, projecting colourful shapes all around as a soft melody plays.
The façades of the Édifice WILDER | Espace Danse and UQAM’s Pavillon Président-Kennedy, and the wall adjacent to Saint-Laurent metro, will light up with the video projection Étrangement satisfaisant, by Montreal studio COLEGRAM. The work is a series of three projections riffing on Web culture and the videos that give us a strange sense of relaxation and intense satisfaction.
The complete program for the 15th edition of LUMINO will be announced on November 28, during the official opening.
November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025
Free and open daily from sunset to 11 p.m.
ABOUT LUMINO
Now in its 15th year, the Luminothérapie event, initiated and produced by the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, presents an original, captivating and participatory winter experience featuring light and sound installations in public spaces. For its 15th edition, Luminothérapie becomes LUMINO, with a new, expanded format extending throughout the downtown core and the Quartier des Spectacles, with an extensive evolving program featuring both indoor and outdoor works. LUMINO continues to encourage creativity in urban installations and digital art. The event, from November to March, is an essential part of winter in Montreal and attracted the attention of cultural districts around the world, which now welcome its installations, created by local and international artists. Touring works are distributed by Quartier des Spectacles international.
To learn more about LUMINO and see the works presented in previous years, view the LUMINO press kit (in French).
About the Quartier des Spectacles and the Partnership
The Quartier des Spectacles is Montréal’s cultural heart. It offers the greatest concentration and diversity of cultural venues in North America and hosts 52 major musical, dance, theatrical, film, literary and circus events, inviting Montrealers, festivalgoers and tourists alike to experience the excitement of festivals in the public squares and halls of the Quartier des Spectacles. The Quartier also hosts innovative urban installations involving cutting-edge lighting design and immersive environments. The Quartier des Spectacles has become an international showcase for digital public art.
The Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, founded in 2003, is a non-profit organization with more than 85 members active in the district. It is responsible for animating the Quartier des Spectacles by programming cultural activities, managing and animating public spaces, providing distinctive illumination and promoting the Quartier as a must-visit cultural destination. The Partnership benefits from the support of the Ville de Montréal.
More information: quartierdesspectacles.com
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MEDIA CONTACT
Communications Mingotwo
Mélanie Mingotaud
melanie@mingo2.ca
(514) 923-6772
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Chloé Goldstein
Quartier des Spectacles Partnership
chloe.goldstein@quartierdesspectacles.com
514 812‑2193
ANNEXES
*Lustres by TILT
Co-presented with Montréal centre-ville
Parvis of St. James United Church
November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025
*Éloge de l’air by ChevalVert
Co-presented with PVM
Esplanade PVM, Place Ville Marie
November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025
Biolumen by Radha Chadda & RAW Design
Co-presented with the Palais des congrès de Montréal
Palais des congrès
November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025
At The Hand by Patrice LaCroix
Co-presented with Place des Arts
Place des Arts Esplanade
November 28, 2024, to January 5, 2025
Les Fabuloscopes by La Camaraderie in collaboration with Eruoma Awashish
Co-presented with BAnQ
Grande Bibliothèque
November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025
*Étrangement satisfaisant by COLEGRAM
Façades of Édifice WILDER | Espace Danse and pavillon Président-Kennedy de l’UQAM and on the wall adjacent to Saint-Laurent metro station
November 28, 2024, to March 9, 2025
*North American premiere