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 04, 05, 06, 07, 12, 13 & 20, 2025-- 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 26, 2025 -- 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 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20, 23 & 25, 2025 -- Bourgie Hall
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 27 TO MARCH 9, 2025 | GASTRONOMIC PROGRAMMING STARTING FEBRUARY 20 -- Quartier des Spectacles
One of the largest winter celebrations in the world. Discover its outdoor site including an icy skating path, luminous works and a unique atmosphere. Gastronomic offerings and artist shows. MEL also takes part in the Nuit blanche and its activities throughout the night.
March to 2025 - 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
March 28 to 30, 2025 -- Palais des Congrès
The ultimate girls' outing! An unparalleled discovery and shopping weekend awaits you at the National Women's Show with more than 300 exhibitors on hand to offer you everything from food and wine tastings, fashion shows, celebrity guests, free beauty transformations, secrets of beauty and well-being, cooking demonstrations, planning tips and travel ideas.
February 14 to March 02, 2025 -- Various Locations
The 12th edition of the Montréal/New Musics international festival focuses on the theme of "music and images," with over 15 concerts and activities to fill your ears… and your eyes!
Discover now seven concerts which explore the endless diversity of interactions between musical and visual creation. Other concerts and activities will be announced shortly. Follow us!
February 19 to March 01, 2025 -- 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.
March 06, 2025 -- Pictures at an Exhibition/ Salle Pierre-Mercure Centre Pierre-Péladeau
Founded in 1984 by Yuli Turovsky, the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra has been sharing its passion for classical music for over 35 years. The 15 exceptional musicians who make up the orchestra bring to life a varied repertoire ranging from the 17th century to the present day, accompanied by their principal guest conductor and artistic advisor Jean-François Rivest. With a program based on tradition, originality and innovation, the Orchestra stands out for the place it gives to numerous emerging and renowned artists with whom it partners to offer you a colorful and meaningful musical experience. I Musici de Montréal has built a solid reputation thanks to its numerous international tours and 40 recordings that meet the highest standards. The Orchestra also acts as a creative catalyst within the city of Montreal and continues to strengthen its roots in the community by collaborating with various organizations and schools on its territory.
Until April 2025 -- Museum of Fine Artse
The MMFA is presenting the Canadian premiere of an immersive video installation by world-renowned French-Albanian artist Anri Sala in its Contemporary Art Square. Ravel Ravel Interval (2017) is adapted from the work Ravel Ravel (2013), which was first shown at the 55th Venice Biennale, where Sala represented France.
March 03 to 09, 2024 -- Various Locations
Festival international de Casteliers is an international puppet theatre festival for adults and children. This one-of-a-kind annual 11th art happening showcases artists from Québec, Canada, and from around the world. The festival is blowing out its 20th candle in 2025, and its team is preparing a whole program to celebrate this 20th anniversary.
March 20 to 23, 2025 -- Verdun (Wellington Street)
Come celebrate the return of spring and the flow of maple trees like no other in Montreal. Shoot on the snow, music to swing your pool and tap your mittens, good food to fill your belly and bouésson to quench your thirst. This is the meeting place for lumberjacks not to be missed!
November 28, 2024 to March 09, 2025 (Every day from 10h00 to 23h00) -- Esplanade de la Place des Arts
Light, creativity and Nordicness come together for Lumino, the unmissable Montreal winter event, which returns in a renewed version for its 15th edition.
Discover contemplative and luminous participatory works, indoors and outdoors, and let yourself be seduced by an evolving and dazzling program that warms the cold nights in the heart of the metropolis and the Quartier des spectacles. Place des Arts will host three of these works on its outdoor Esplanade.
March 01 to 09, 2025 -- 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.
March 01, 05, 07, 08, 14, 21, 23, 28, & 29, 2025 -- Various Locations
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 01 to 31, 2025 -- 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 $39, $49, or $59.
Moreover, $29 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 28 to 30, 2025 -- Place Bonaventure
An audio enthusiast's paradise!
Celebrating its 36th edition this year, Montreal Audiofest remains the must-attend event for audiophiles. This long-standing tradition showcases the latest advances in high-fidelity audio equipment, featuring over 300 speaker brands, innovative music streamers and high-quality headphones.
March 15 to April 06, 2025 -- Various locations throughout the city
Art Souterrain is dedicated to making contemporary art accessible by creating new cultural interactions in unconventional venues.
For over 15 years, Art Souterrain has organized an annual festival focusing on a different theme each year. In addition to its three-week exhibitions, Art Souterrain offers various activities such as workshops, guided tours, artist talks, and conferences. The festival also includes a series of free artistic performances available to the general public.
Each year, the festival proudly showcases more than 30 artists, 200 artistic projects, and 15 events and activities along 6 kilometers of the underground pedestrian city.
Year round exhibits -- Palais des Congrès
OASIS immersion offers a new, permanent, all-immersive 2,200 m2 (over 23,500 ft2 ) space located on the ground floor of the Palais des congrès de Montréal. The site is home to enthralling exhibitions inspired by the people, places and ideas that shape and galvanize our world, here and now. OASIS immersion is a sort of immersive magazine where spirited minds come to refuel and escape the routine of everyday life. There, visitors find fresh new ideas and inspiring works. It's a place to rethink society and its foundations through the prism of optimism. The mood is upbeat,
energizing and inspiring, one that calls to action. Light and movement are at the heart of the experience and this is reflected in our logo. The rays of the light spectrum criss-cross, reminiscent of the rich yet playful multi-sensorial projections of light, sounds, colours and themes, while the esthetics of the logo draw on contrasts and refinement.
Developed by local entrepreneurs and creatives, the OASIS immersion space features a world-class contactless, walk-through experience. 3X All-Immersive Galleries, 2X Light Exhibits, 1X Lounge & 1X Podcast.
March 16, 2025 -- 2024 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 2025
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.
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, 2024 to March 10, 2025 -- 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.
