What better time to rediscover the many facets of our city and fall in love again with its rich cultural heritage, not to mention its many culinary offers and the irresistible joie de vivre! From planning culinary adventures to organizing a weekend getaway, we are here to ensure you a most memorable experience. Nothing in life is guaranteed but we can assure you that we will do our utmost best to make it happen.
March 01, 09, 23, 28 & 30, 2023 -- Place Des Arts/Maison Symphonique
Since its founding in 1934, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal has distinguished itself as a leader in the orchestral life of Canada and Québec. A cultural ambassador of the highest order, the Orchestra has earned an enviable reputation internationally through the quality of its many recordings and tours. Internationally acclaimed conductor Rafael Payare was named the OSM's Music Director Designate for the 2021--2022 season following a unanimous vote by the Orchestra's selection committee. The Venezuelan conductor will commence full duties in 2022--2023--his tenure will last a minimum of five years--becoming the ninth Music Director in the OSM's history.
March 03, 2023 -- Places des Arts/Maison Symphonique
Comprised of Quebec-born musicians, who are also mainly Quebec-trained, the Orchestre Métropolitain boasts an international calibre of excellence as an organization dedicated to promoting wider public access to classical music and to strong community involvement, as well as to artistic innovation and creativity. The Orchestre Métropolitain owes its international calibre to the quality and reputation of its Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
March 02, 03, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 12, 13, 15, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29 & 30, 2023 -- Bourgie Hall
Recitals, chamber music, vocal art, Baroque music, jazz, world music, family shows, and more: each year, Bourgie Hall produces over a hundred concerts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in its exceptional venue.
Inaugurated in September 2011, Bourgie Hall offers top-rate artistic programming and welcomes on its stage Canadian and international artists in equal numbers. Whether they are just starting out or already critically acclaimed, these musicians are chosen to perform in Bourgie Hall on the basis of their immense talent. The public can't go wrong: audiences know that they can count on the quality of concerts "approved by Bourgie Hall!" In addition to offering remarkable concerts at affordable prices, Bourgie Hall organizes music workshops for families and amateur musicians. These friendly encounters enable participants to develop their musical gifts in a convivial environment.
Bourgie Hall's programming also brings out astonishing connections between music and art collections. To be discovered at the concerts or during events in the Museum's exhibition rooms!
February 16 to March 05, 2023 -- Quartier des Spectacles
Every winter since its inaugural edition in 2000, MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE offers Montrealer's and visitors hundreds of delicious activities to enjoy. Since its beginning, over 600 special guests from the culinary world, from over 20 countries, have come to celebrate the best of what Quebec gastronomy has to offer: its chefs, producers, artisans, and culinary culture. During the Festival, the Quartier des Spectacles and its Place des Festivals--the headquarters of downtown celebrations--become THE essential winter destination offering a wide range of free activities for all. The Nuit Blanche gathers thousands of night owls who brave the winter temperatures in order to fully experience a uniquely wild urban adventure, featuring many cultural activities throughout the city.
February 24 to March 5, 2023 - Quartier Latin (Saint-Denis/Ontario streets)
APIK is a FREE urban event in the heart of Montreal for adrenaline enthusiasts. Winter activities for all ages (mini snowpark, obstacle course, boulder climbing wall), ski and snowboard competitions for snow lovers, pop up shops, DJ sets, after party… The mountain spirit comes to town, it's the perfect opportunity to enjoy winter with family and friends
February 22 to March 04, 2023 -- Various Locations
Each winter, film enthusiasts and visitors from all over gather at the biggest celebration of Québec cinema in the country. The festival program features hundreds of movies, festive cocktails and a wide variety of events hosted by some of Québec's most talented film directors and actors.
February 21 to March 12, 2023 -- Centaur Theatre
An autobiographical story of a gay man in his late 50's who thought his life was settled only to be thrown into a new world where he has to reimagine everything. This is Steve Galluccio's most personal play since Mambo Italiano.
Three old friends gather and reminisce about the past -- the good, the bad, and the outrageous. They talk about everything from boyfriends to Sunday night dinners, backed by a soundtrack of Blondie, the B-52s, and the Village People. Everything bubbles to the surface while memory and loss stir up questions about healing and moving on.
With an open heart, Galluccio has penned a story about his own loves and losses in an unabashed love letter to Montreal. How do you remember your past? At the beginning of time… when everything is fresh and new. Galluccio's newest play reminds us that memories are like a good shot of espresso: best shared among friends.
March 28 to April 02, 2023 -- Place des Arts/Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
Discover a whole new world at Disney's Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical. From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It's an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.
March 28 to April 16, 2023 -- Centaur Théâtre
Centaur Theatre is thrilled to premiere a new English translation by Patrick Emmanuel Abellard, last seen on stage at Centaur in Choir Boy (Season 50). Playing a young man influenced by his peers living in Montreal North, Abellard brings a charged story to the stage that confronts clichés, gun violence and revenge head-on within a Montreal landscape.
March 23 to 26, 2023 -- Place des Arts/Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
A monumental work, the German Requiem of Johannes Brahms is one of the most deeply personal and spiritually uplifting compositions by any great composer. With REQUIEM, choreographer Andrew Skeels offers spellbinding staging, with contemporary choreography inspired by the stirring notes of Brahms's composition.
To begin this double bill, Les Grands Ballets is pleased to present Jeunehomme by Uwe Scholz. On the notes of Mozart's concerto, the belated German choreographer pays homage to the beauty as well as the melancholy of the great composer's works.
March 23 to April 08, 2023 - La Tohu
For the duration of a journey, strangers mingle in a train car. Within this window of time, they exist in a suspended reality. Reflections of their origins and embryos of their futures, they oscillate between regret and utopia. Inspired by the movement and transition of the journey, they tell their stories of escape and encounter. As the rhythm of the journey infuses the soundscape, revealing the contents of their luggage, they reveal themselves to the audience. Witnesses of the world that unfolds before their eyes and transforms them without their knowledge, they transform their compartment into a playground conducive to confidences. In line with the 7 Doigts' previous creations, Passagers is a celebration of the human being and a reflection on the importance and beauty of interpersonal relationships. Expanding the boundaries of the stage experience by combining dance, physical expression, acrobatics and projection, Les 7 Doigts invite the audience to meet characters who are like them. Once again, this creation is supported by original musical compositions and an international cast selected for its creative, multidisciplinary and collaborative spirit.
February 23 -- March 5, 2023 -- Various Locations
Artists from the Montréal scene and international guests will gather around a daring musical program inviting the public to "commune" for 10 days! From solo to orchestra, chamber music and choirs, 17 concerts, some 70 composers and nearly 400 performers will punctuate the festival. Two international conferences, two study days, a conference and installations will round out the program.
March 19 to April 02, 2023 -- Seagal Centre
A heartfelt and humorous look at what gets lost in translation
"English always!" That is the class rule as four Iranians assemble in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) classroom in Karaj, Iran. As the class slowly devolves into a linguistic mess, some students cling more tightly to their mother tongues while others chase the promise of new identities. The students play word games, translate Shakira songs, and endure major preposition confusion, and we are left with questions of how much it ultimately costs to fit in.
March 02, 03, 04, 09, 10, 17, 23, 24, 31, 2023 -- l'Église St-Jean-Baptiste, à la Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-bon-Secours et à l'Église Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs !
These magnificent candle-lit classical music concerts are in Montreal!
Montreal now hosts the famous classical music concerts that have caused a stir around the world! Candlelight shows adopt a new concept that engages all of your senses for a magical musical experience….DO NOT MISS ! This series of candlelit concerts, simply named "Candlelight", invites you to relive the greatest moments of classical music in the most magical places of Montreal. In an intimate and warm atmosphere, rediscover the works of Vivaldi, Mozart, Chopin or even Beethoven. After having been a huge success around the world - in cities like New York, Barcelona or London - this unique experience is finally coming to Montreal.
March 02 to April 02, 2023 -- Various Restaurants throughout Old Montreal
(Re)discover Old Montreal's best restaurants without breaking the bank during Happening Gourmand. Creative, lively and unique, Old Montreal is a real foodie paradise. While some gourmet spots showcase the city's chill, welcoming and quirky sides, you can also find over 10 restaurants that are showcasing their own cooking style with 3-course table d'hôte menus for just $32, $42, or $52.
Moreover, $22 2-course table d'hôte menus for brunch are also available for the weekend. Participating restaurants are offering brunch dishes that stand out by the quality of their food, the amazing flavours as well as for their appealing presentations. If you are in a party mood, a boozy brunch option, where bottomless mimosas are provided, is also available in many restaurants.
March 24 to 26, 2023 -- Place Bonaventure
The Montréal Audiofest brings in more than 5,000 visitors who want to hear, see and touch over 300 brands of audio products under one roof. It's the biggest get-together of audio-video industry manufacturers, distributors and retailers in Canada.
Come meet over a hundred exhibitors, all eager to share their passion for music with you, by demonstrating some of the world's best sound systems from $1000 to $1 000 000.
March 18 to April 09, 2023 -- Various locations throughout the city
"The feast of actions, gestures and details that influence our experience of space are intertwined. Removed from everyday life, the spirits find themselves projected into a fantasized elsewhere, momentarily. Flooded with lights, sounds and movements, changing atmospheres and reunited bodies, the occupied places present themselves as spaces to be invented, between utopia and reality. The party often stems from an appropriation of various environments -- whether neglected, underused, undefined, banal, domestic or strictly functional -- conducive to a prospective and emancipatory drift, devoid of known purpose. With all the power of exploration that the night and the city offer, the party is created and imposed, causing chance encounters. Transgressing the established limits and celebrating the incongruity generates another world, heterogeneous and unruly, where it is still possible for us to be together among our differences.
March 19, 2023 -- 2023 PARADE ROUTE - TO BE CONFIRMED
THE 198TH MONTREAL ST-PATRICK'S PARADE IS A GO FOR 2023. THIS WILL BE A FULL SCALE PARADE AS IN PAST YEARS. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.
Entire month of March & part of April 2023
Sugaring off is a cultural rite-of-passage in Montreal. A short-lived season that varies every year, somewhere from late February to early May, perhaps the best known activity is eating hot maple taffy off fresh snow. Hot-taffy-on-snow stands start appearing in town around early March near Mont-Royal Metro, the Jean-Talon Market and other select locations around the city. While they soothe urgent maple cravings, they also bring up the nostalgia for an authentic sugar shack or cabane à sucre experience.
February 25 to March 05, 2023 -- Cinéma Beaubien
FIFEM is an intergenerational and festive international film festival, a family version of the biggest film events in the world! FIFEM's mission is to train the film lovers of tomorrow, by offering them a range of the best children's cinema in the world. The festival lives in the age of globalization and takes a stand, through its programming choices, for a harmonious future in cultural diversity. It aims to complement the school career, through educational activities that provide young people with the means to acquire a visual understanding of cultures, traditions and experiences that may be foreign to them. Thanks to its rich program of fascinating -- even provocative -- films, FIFEM uses cinema as a tool to stimulate the curiosity of young people, promote critical thinking and enlightened dialogue.
Notre-Dames Basilica
A luminous experience in the heart of the Basilica Light unveils the richness of Notre-Dame's heritage and invites you to celebrate its beauty. The AURA Experience immerses you in a captivating visual and musical universe, presented upon one of the most sublime canvases imaginable: the French-inspired, Gothic Revival architectural interior of Notre-Dame Basilica of Montréal. The experience offers a four-act multimedia display of dynamic light, orchestral music, and expressive architecture.
Since July 20, 2017 -- Mont Tremblant
Montreal multimedia phenom Moment Factory has just launched a new nature walk. A night walk in search of the giant! Deep in the heart of Mont Tremblant, the last of the giants has awoken. Follow your sense of adventure to discover the secret he wants to share. The Tonga Lumina illuminated trail is a sensory experience in the forest. This 1.5-km nocturnal walk takes place on a stone dust pathway at the heart of nature. To start off, visitors show up at the bottom of the Flying Mile chairlift that will take them up to the midway station where they will be led to the entrance of the trail. After taking visitors on a brief ascension, the trail slowly weaves its way down the hill through the woods, crosses streams and clearings. Participants can anticipate being on the pathway an average of one hour. Departures are continuous from sunset to closing, with a maximum of 300 people admitted per half-hour on the course.
Opened in February 2022 -- Quartier des Spectacles
Esplanade Tranquille is the newest public space in the Quartier des Spectacles. Montrealers are welcome to visit this fun and inviting all-seasons spot, inspired by urban backyards. Families and other visitors will discover a diverse and entertaining cultural program -- a true reflection of the city. Esplanade Tranquille is named in honour of the Tranquille bookstore, once located on the site, and its owner, Henri Tranquille (1916-2005). It is an important site in contemporary Quebec history, having hosted the launch of the Refus global manifesto in 1948.
December 01, 2022 to March 10, 2023 -- Basin Bonsecours
At the Old Port, the joys of winter come earlier than anywhere else, thanks to the skating rink opening on December 1! Perfect ice, incredible views of historic Old-Montreal and the river, and dynamic, exhilarating and entertaining activities are what await you at the Old Port skating rink all winter long! The great music and special lighting only add to the fun!
Throughout Old Montréal
Loosely inspired by the history of Montreal, Cité Mémoire invites you to meet a host of characters who've witnessed the city's evolution first-hand. Poetic, dreamlike and occasionally playful, the tableaux come alive with images, words and music. Projected throughout Old Montreal, the work appears on the very walls that surround us, the ground on which we walk, the trees that frame our present. A creation by Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, in collaboration with Michel Marc Bouchard.
March 07, 09, 11, 13, 21 25 & 30, 2023 -- Centre Bell
Watching a hockey game in Montreal is the ultimate hockey experience.
March 01, 03, 04, 08, 17, 18 22 & 24, 2023 -- Place Bell
Watching a hockey game in Montreal is the ultimate hockey experience.
