Montreal Cultural Calendar

applied filters

art ×
clear all filters

filters

free outdoors

types

music tech community other film dance

festivals

Jardins Gamelin
hide all festivals

Festival BD de Montréal

DatesMay 14, 2026 – May 18, 2026
Whererue Saint-Denis
Tags
Art
https://www.fbdm-mcaf.ca/preparer-sa-visite/plan-du-site/

Le Festival BD de Montréal lancera le bal sur la rue Saint-Denis, du 14 au 18 mai.

Un 15e Festival BD de Montréal

DatesMay 15, 2026
Whererue Saint-Denis, entre Gilford et Roy, Montréal
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Le Festival BD de Montréal installe ses chapiteaux du 15 au 17 mai 2026 afin de créer une balade BD sur 1,2 km ponctuée d'activités, d'expositions et de rencontres. Cette année le Festival a une riche programmation complètement gratuite de plus de 60 activités sous le thème VIVANTE! C'est un record de plus de 350 artistes et 190 exposantes qui sont attendues sous ses chapiteaux. Pour illustrer cette thématique et souligner notre anniversaire, nous avons choisi une figure marquante de la BD montréalaise : Julie Rocheleau! Ses affichés aux compositions dynamiques sont toujours élégantes et sensibles, avec une petite touche punk qui lui est propre.

Festival BD de Montréal - Vendredi

DateFriday, May 15, 2026
Time12 pm – 8 pm
Whererue Saint-Denis, entre Gilford et Roy, Montréal
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Vendredi du Festival BD de Montréal

Festival BD de Montréal - Samedi

DateSaturday, May 16, 2026
Time10 am – 8 pm
Whererue Saint-Denis, entre Gilford et Roy, Montréal
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Samedi du Festival BD de Montréal

Festival BD de Montréal - Dimanche

DateSunday, May 17, 2026
Time10 am – 5 pm
Whererue Saint-Denis, entre Gilford et Roy, Montréal
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Dimanche du Festival BD de Montréal

Le Mile End en fête

DatesMay 23, 2026 – May 25, 2026
Whererues Laurier et Saint-Viateur (portions ouest)
Tags
MusicArt
plusieurs kiosques et activités prévus du 22 au 24 mai sur les portions ouest des rues Laurier et Saint-Viateur

WHEN WAS the last time you sang?

DatesMay 29, 2026 – May 31, 2026
WhereSquare Saint-Louis, Montreal
Tags
Art
Installation sonore immersive running from May 29 to May 31, 2026

Exposition de tableaux lumineux à la Place de la Paix

DatesMay 29, 2026
WherePlace de la Paix, Montreal
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Vollet 2 — Exposition de tableaux lumineux à la Place de la Paix
Du 29 mai au 5 juin | Accessible en tout temps
Gratuit

Exposition à la galerie ELLEPHANT

DateFriday, May 29, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereGalerie ELLEPHANT, adjacente à la Place de la Paix, Montreal
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Volte 3 — Exposition à la galerie ELLEPHANT, adjacente à la Place de la Paix
Du 29 mai au 20 juin | Accessible du mercredi au samedi, midi à 17h
Gratuit

SPECTACLE - Fin de session de la Caserne

DateFriday, May 29, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:30 pm
WhereLa Caserne, 1622, rue Hochelaga
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Venez découvrir les arts aériens et encourager les membres de la Caserne dans leur parcours artistique et le développement de leur talent !

UNDERSKY - Immersive Installation performance

DateSaturday, May 30, 2026
Time4 pm – 5 pm
WhereCaserne 26, Montréal, Québec
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Come see UNDERSKY as part of Ocean Week Canada on May 29th and 30th at Caserne 26 supported by MAPP, with a special performance on May 30th. Visuals by @taramoves and sound by @grahamsteinman. Link in bio for more details.

Vernissage: Residency Vernissage

DateWednesday, June 3, 2026
Time6 pm – 7:30 pm
Where407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
PriceFree
Tags
Art
The 2026 edition of the PHI residency welcomes Eva Quintas, and Spoonful of Dirt, a collective formed by Andrea Williamson and Nina Pariser. Throughout the month of June, the public is invited to discover the emerging forms of their research and to contribute to them through this exhibition, as well as during a series of free public activities. While distinct in their approaches, the works presented here converge around shared concerns: questioning the environments we inhabit and shape, assessing the effects of human constructions on a diversity of living beings, and dreaming up futures in which more equitable modes of organization might emerge. In resonance with each other, these projects reveal different ways of inhabiting, perceiving, and relating to the territories we share, while opening onto the imagination of new configurations and modes of existence.

Festival MURAL

DatesJune 4, 2026 – June 14, 2026
Whereboulevard Saint-Laurent, entre Laurier et Sherbrooke
Tags
MusicArt
Festival MURAL du 4 au 14 juin sur le boulevard Saint-Laurent, entre Laurier et Sherbrooke

Vernissage: Multisatures en Vestiges by Mathieu Lacroix

DateThursday, June 4, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
WhereMcBride Contemporain
Tags
Art
Multisatures en vestiges is Mathieu Lacroix's second solo exhibition with McBride Contemporain. This exhibition brings together a new series of drawings on recycled paper and hybrid installation techniques, the exhibition reflects on the monumental presence of discarded objects in everyday life. Abandoned furniture, empty boxes, and other residual items that persist within our environments even as they disappear from collective attention, simultaneously occupying space while remaining overlooked by the collective gaze.

Vernissage: Ceremony

DateThursday, June 4, 2026
Time5 pm – 9 pm
Where6595 Saint-Urbain
Tags
Art
Ceremony is a presentation of the recent painting and drawing works of Alexei Kolakis-Landon and Tomas Dessureault, curated by Thomas-Antoine Girard. Together, the two artists envision painting as a site where gesture, material, and colour come together to create a lived aesthetic experience not solely contained to the canvas.

Vernissage: Unstable Ecologies: Between possible organs and latent lives

DateThursday, June 4, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereAda-x
Tags
Art
We have learned to observe living organisms through devices designed to stabilize them: Petri dishes, incubators, monitoring screens. Within this biomedical framework, life becomes observable, isolatable and measurable. Unstable Ecologies proposes a shift. The exhibition, featuring work by Jacqueline Beaumont, Alizée Armet, and Yue Cheng, examines how the life sciences are transforming our perception of the biological realm no longer as a static entity, but as a constantly evolving relational system. Drawing on the concept of biomedia, it reveals continuities between organisms, materials, and technical infrastructures. Against a backdrop shaped by industrial legacies and the promise of technological remediation, Unstable Ecologies invites viewers to rethink the living as a shared, unstable, and evolving environment. Rather than providing answers, Unstable Ecologies invites viewers to inhabit uncertainty and to think of life as relation, process and latency.

Vernissage: With the workx by Philippe Gratton

DateFriday, June 5, 2026
Time5 pm – 10 pm
WhereGalerie Deschênes
Tags
Art
The pieces that make up this exhibit were salvaged over the years and repurposed in the present time. They were found and taken on worksites, in the shade of rising structures, the dust of sanded plaster, the smell of wood being chopped.

Vernissage: Art Sur Papier

DateSaturday, June 6, 2026
Time1 pm – 5 pm
WhereGalerie ERGA
Tags
Art
Honouring the past and yet looking forward, Art Sur Papier celebrates Galerie ERGA's 10th anniversary and brings together the work of 49 artists whose practices resonate with the spirit and vision of the gallery. Using paper as a material connection, each artist varies medium, style and approach to their work, creating a dynamic but cohesive exhibition.

Vernissage: LAB-545

DateThursday, June 11, 2026
Time3 pm – 8 pm
Where6524 Rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal, QC H2S 2M3
Tags
Art
Ateliers Belleville and Eastern Bloc are celebrating the opening of LAB-545: a new independent creative space in Montreal. This massive group exhibition, curated by Ariane Plante and Alexis Bellavance, highlights the diversity of members of Ateliers Belleville and invites the public into the heart of their workspaces. A selection of works is freely accessible on the first floor; to discover the other works, reserve a spot for one of the guided tours.

Vernissage: A Rope and a Wheel, A Dress and a Squeal by Molly Bertheaud

DateThursday, June 11, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 8 pm
WhereCafê Bloom
Tags
Art
A Rope and a Wheel, A Dress and a Squeal opens with a loon calling out to a potential mate, or perhaps to the other species that appear in Molly Bertheaud's work; bird, cetacean, human and otherwise. Through painting, industrial knit tapestry and hand embroidery, Molly's work explores interspecific ways of imagining responsibility, desire, love and folly.

Vernissage de Vent bleu. Maude Arès, Guido Molinari, Anne-Marie Proulx

DateThursday, June 11, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
Where3290, rue Sainte Catherine Est, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H1W2C6
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Joignez-vous à nous le 11 juin dès 18h pour le vernissage de l'exposition Vent bleu. Maude Arès, Guido Molinari, Anne-Marie Proulx. À cette occasion, les revues Espace, art actuel et Sabor seront églement des nôtres pour vous présenter leurs plus récent numéro ! L'exposition, qui se déroulera du 11 juin au 23 août 2026, s'accompagne d'une riche programmation d'événements en arts vivants avec une performance de Erin Hill et Nina Vroemen (Horizon Factory), en musique avec Mykalle Bielinski, ainsi qu'en poésie avec une résidence d'écriture de Vanessa Bell et de Catherine Cormier-Larose.

Exhibition: Scaffold by Thomas Bergeron

DateThursday, June 11, 2026
Time6 pm – 11 pm
Where7615 rue Berri
Tags
Art
Scaffold is a collection that seeks to anchor itself through the rituals of everyday use. Developed through local fabrication, the series places material and formal honesty at the centre of each object. Restraint shapes the collection. Forms are derived from practical requirements, and production remains intentionally straightforward. The intention is to maintain clarity of purpose and to stay close to the scale of the body and its movements. Shown In-Situ this collection aims to gather friends, family, neighbours, and community in an informal familiar setting where life can unfold alongside it.