One of the biggest names in contemporary art and minimalist electronic music in Japan – and these days around the world too, from Parisian galleries to New York City’s Park Avenue Armory – Ryoji Ikeda now makes his unique audio-visual mark on Montreal. Always a champion of international-scale challenging art work, DHC/Art in Old Montreal hosts Ikeda’s first survey exhibition in North America…
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MEG ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012
Electronic music and Montreal go together like many other Montreal classic combos: bagels and cream cheese, smoked meat and Cott’s black cherry soda, summer-time and hot people. We’ve got Mutek in the early spring, Piknic Electronik all summer, and MEG, a.k.a. Montreal Electronic Groove, heating up nine indoor venues, two outdoor stages and one super fun boat (yes!) July 26 to August 5…
THINGS TO DO IN MONTREAL: JULY 20-26
Even as we near the end July in Montreal, typically a slightly slower city vibe, the festivals keep on coming, with big-name comedy shows, live music and underground film screenings throughout the week, plus non-festival entertainment, arty adventures and food, glorious food, served from the sides of trucks…
THINGS TO DO IN MONTREAL: JULY 13-19
The Montreal streets are alive with the sound of laughter this week, what with two comedy festivals and a circus festival going on, as well as a street fair the runs the length of Sainte-Catherine Street West, outdoor film screenings from Fantasia and Vues d’Afrique, concerts, fireworks and more…
MUSIC AND PARK LIFE AT OSHEAGA 2012
The seventh edition of the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival combines the height of summer, sun and fun in Montreal with rocking out in the great outdoors with thousands of music lovers – it’s pretty much a guaranteed good time for fans of all those things. Especially if you’re also a fan of beer and beautiful people…
MAKING THE MOST OF FESTIVAL SEASON WITH FESTIMANIA
Montreal’s packed summer festival calendar just got a little easier to figure out. Festimania, a new collective and comprehensive website dedicated to helping everyone get the most out of this city’s festivals, gives us the goods on each festival – and gives us free stuff too with the Festipass+…
LAUGH RIOT: ZOOFEST 2012
This July, comedy festivals Just For Laughs and Zoofest have made it their mission to make every single person in Montreal laugh. And they might just do it, especially with the surprises in store at affable and affordable Zoofest…
THINGS TO DO IN MONTREAL: JULY 6-12
It’s a hot summer in the city as the sun shines on the final weekend of the Jazz Fest, plenty of events and performances in Montreal’s parks and the super active and entertaining Montreal Complètement Cirque festival. And when the sun goes down, the city keeps going, with fireworks, comedy and music from around the world…
PARK PARTY: PIKNIC ELECTRONIK TURNS 10!
On a Sunday afternoon ten years ago Piknic Electronik installed itself in sunny, breezy Parc Jean Drapeau, on an island in the middle of the St-Laurent River looking out over Old Montreal. A couple of DJs, a speaker system and a few hundred people who wanted nothing more than to dance: a phenomenon was born…
THINGS TO DO IN MONTREAL: JUNE 29-JULY 5
Montreal is not only abuzz with jazz – and blues, rock, electro and more, indoors and out – this week at the The Montreal International Jazz Festival Jazz, but alight with Canada Day celebrations, in flight with a circus festival, and all aflutter with outdoor activities, mind-expanding art, and body-rocking music.
