| DU MUSÉE AVENUE | August program The Museum’s pedestrian walkway is teeming with life all summer long with a series of outdoor events. Mark your calendars! 〰️ Creative Laboratory • Festival Quartiers Danses | Wednesday, August 3 >> The Festival Quartiers Danses has made it its mission to democratize contemporary dance in all its forms and hybrids. 🎶 Concert with Ohm Hourani | Wednesday, August 17 >> Ohm Hourani will perform Jazz of the Machine, an ambitious musical project that blends electronic music and free jazz. 🥁 Taiko: Japanese drumming with Arashi Daiko | Saturday, August 27 >> The band Arashi Daiko will beat its taikos – traditional Japanese drums – in a performance combining percussion, movement, vocals and nuances of martial arts. |
| YOUR TO-DO LIST | Go market shopping on Du Musée! 🍓🥬 Grab your basket – the Museum’s Farmers’ Stand is back this year on Du Musée Avenue. Come discover 100% local and regional products sourced through short distribution channels, in collaboration with Les Marchés d’ici. Also, have fun learning about pollinators and urban beekeeping with Alvéole! 🗓 Tuesdays, July 26 and August 30 Learn more >> |
| Artist Stanley Février‘s Museum of the Art of Today/Department of the Invisible showcases installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and videos created by artists from diverse backgrounds. Come discover breathtaking works by Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, Shazia Ahmad, Tasha Aulls, Claudia Bernal, kimura byol-lemoine, Esther Calixte-Béa, Jesús Castro Rosas, Cluca, CODE BLANC, My-Van Dam, Livia Daza-Paris, Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux (a.k.a. Séadé), José Dupuis, Montserrat Duran Muntadas, Maria Ezcurra, Wilman Gomez Tamayo, Maryam Izadifard, Joyce Joumaa, Anahita Norouzi, Eliza Olkinitskaya, Oski (Joseph Alex Olivier Vilaire), Emily Royer, Michaëlle Sergile and Vanessa Suzanne. These artists have been given carte blanche to the Museum’s Instagram account for the summer! Learn more about their artistic processes and favourite mediums, as well as their histories and identities by visiting the MMFA’s account. |
| Follow their Volunteer Guides on a discovery of the exhibition Nicolas Party: L’heure mauve, the treasures of the museum’s collections, the Sculpture Garden and the architectural history of the Museum’s pavilions. See the schedule >> |
| Check out the summer program at the Museum’s School of Art! Explore your creativity in Monoprinting without a Press, Portraits in Graphite and Sculpting the Full Human Body. Don’t delay – classes are filling up quickly! Choose your summer class >> |
| In its 2022-2023 season, Bourgie Hall is presenting four family concerts, including one that will take place during the winter holidays! Inventive, poetic and playful, they are sure to delight young and old alike. Share your passion for music with your family, and enjoy a 30% discount when you purchase tickets to all four concerts in the series! Learn more >> |
| In July and August, bask in the coolness of the Museum’s theatre as you discover great movies on the big screen! ◾️ In their regular program, don’t miss The Passengers of the Night (EST) by Mikhaël Hers, Murina (FST) by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Un été comme ça (in French) by Denis Côté and Fuir (in French) by Carole Laganière. ◾️ Take part in and discover the rich festival programs of FANTASIA (July 14 to August 3) and PRÉSENCE AUTOCHTONE (August 10 to 18). Info and tickets >> |
