Montreal Cultural Calendar

ATTENTION: L'ÉVÉNEMENT DÉBUTE EXCEPTIONNELLEMENT À 18h00

Un mercredi sur deux, rejoignez-nous pour une session de musique traditionnelle en plein air où tout le monde est le bienvenu à partir des tounes, à danser et à giguer! Que ce soit votre premier jam ou votre énième, on a hâte de vous avoir parmi nous!

Apportez votre chaise et votre eau.

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anabasine's psychedelic dancefloor sensibility fuses hypnotic polyrhythms and propulsive bass-oriented grooves pulled from a widely dug library of rave musics past and present. A passionate participant in Montreal's underground for over a decade, he was first contaminated with the techno virus in the thriving 2010s DIY scene at venues like la Brique, Tarot, and the Furnace, but developed a certain terminal infection after cutting his teeth DJing acid raves in a WWII bunker at the Psycho Thrill Cologne parties in Germany. He hosts a monthly radio show on CKUT, and works as a sound engineer and producer. In support: CMD, Emil Paquin & somebody3lse

Visit the studios of Alia Aluma, Bastik, Bronwyn Garden-Smith, Christelle Saint-Julien, Dana Sulit, Flore de Ris, Gemma Else, Linsey Myriam Bain, Lovestruck Prints, Pascha Marrow, Rebecca Munce, Sadé Huh, and Sloane Sherman! Take a sneak peek at the process, browse prints, and meet the artists!

Event by Piknic Électronik Montréal and Avec Courage

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Four Tet - OfF Piknic 2026
VENDREDI 26 JUIN 2026
16H - 20H @ Parc Jean-Drapeau
SCÈNE FIZZ
Four Tet
Programmation à venir
➤ BILLETS
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Prévente : Jeudi 2 avril, 10h ET
Mise en vente : Vendredi 3 avril, 10h ET
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Produit par Multicolore / Programmation par (Avec) Courage!
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Four Tet - OfF Piknic 2026
FRIDAY JUNE 26 2026
4PM - 8PM @ Parc Jean-Drapeau
FIZZ STAGE
Four Tet
Lineup TBA
➤ TICKETS
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Presale: Thursday, April 2, 10 AM ET
General on‑sale: Friday, April 3, 10 AM ET
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Produced by Multicolore / Line-up by (Avec) Courage
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Master's students in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM, from all cohorts, invite you to their summer group exhibition. Over 30 artists will showcase the results of their recent research-creation work.

Through a series of four outdoor concerts in the parks of Plateau-Mont-Royal, come and meet artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. Each concert celebrates cultural diversity at the crossroads of musical traditions from around the world. Musical Stopovers is a series of four open-air concerts presented in the parks of the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood, creating intimate moments of connection between artists and audiences in the heart of the community. Each stopover highlights a musical tradition performed by exceptional artists: Sarah Borna (kamanchen – Persian music), Deo Munyakazi (inganga and vocals – Rwandan music), Ran Wang (guzheng – Chinese music), and Charles Cantin (traditional Quebec violin). All concerts are accompanied by percussionist Ziya Tabassian, fostering a meaningful dialogue between cultures. This concert, dedicated to traditional Quebec music, will be performed by the duo Charles Cantin and Ziya Tabassian. As part of the Cultural Action Support Program. Cancelled in case of heavy rain.

Treat it like birding. Bird's Eye is a trio show with work by Gabor Bata, Emma Cross, and Fiona Ruth, on a pine tree path in Jarry park (coordinates 45.5347910,-73.6249403).

Adeu x Olivier Rodrigue is a collaborative exhibition and immersive experience, marrying visual art and gastronomy. The exhibition features ten paintings by Montréal artist Olivier Rodrigue, including six works never before exhibited, alongside a site-specific installation created for the occasion. The culinary collective ADEU will present a series of bites inspired by the artworks, creating a conversation between image, material, and taste. Risk lies at the heart of Rodrigue's practice. His paintings are built within a fragile balance between intention and accident, embracing uncertainty as a creative force. Rather than seeking complete control, he allows each work to emerge through experimentation, resistance, and discovery. This exhibition brings together two disciplines united by a shared openness to process, intuition, and the unknown.

samedi 27 juin | 17h à 23h

🎶 PROGRAMMATION - SISSADIX
avec Poirier

🎫 17H À 19H : ENTRÉE GRATOS
🎫 APRÈS 19H : BILLET EN LIGNE UNIQUEMENT

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Pieds dans le sable, tête dans le beat. ☀️
Tout l’été, le VPC prend des airs de village vacances au bord du fleuve - là où les journées s’étirent, les verres se remplissent et les DJ sets font bouger même les plus sages. Pas besoin de passeport. Montréal, c'est déjà le Sud. 🏝️

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Saturday, june 27th | 5pm to 11pm

🎶 LINEUP - SISSADIX
with Poirier

🎫 5PM TO 7PM: FREE ENTRY
🎫 AFTER 7PM: ONLINE TICKET ONLY

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Feet in the sand, head in the beat. ☀️
All summer long, VPC turns into a riverside vacation village - where days stretch out, drinks keep flowing, and DJ sets get even the shyest ones moving. No passport needed. Montréal is already the South. 🏝️

🌈 Produced by Multicolore / Line-up by (Avec) Courage

Merci à nos partenaires 🧡 Thanks to our partners
Fizz | Captain Morgan | Boréale | Amermelade | Tourisme Montréal | Ville de Montréal

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Portes: 20h00
Masahiro Takahashi & Naomi McCarroll-Butler: 20:30

Li Alin: 21:30
ENREGISTREMENT EN DIRECT de mon nouvel album solo La Nouvelle Préhistoire !
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Li Alin est une artiste sonore et performeuse interdisciplinaire basée à Montréal. Son travail musical explore un large éventail de styles, des ballades mélancoliques au piano aux danses expérimentales, en passant par la cave et la bass music.

Alin a également conçu des machines à rêves lucides en réalité virtuelle et une installation sonore de synchronisation des battements cardiaques robotiques, présentée à la Fondation Made in Cloister à Naples.

Son album solo, Nouvelle Préhistoire, prévu pour 2026, raconte l'histoire d'un personnage réfugié dans une grotte. Cet être tente d'envoyer des signaux de basse fréquence pour communiquer avec d'autres êtres.


Li Alin is an interdisciplinary sound / performance artist based in Montreal. Her musical work spans from piano-driven torch songs, experimental dance orientations to cave and bass.

Alin has also built lucid dreaming machines in VR and robotic heartbeat synchronisation sound installation exhibited at the Made in Cloister Foundation in Naples.

Her solo record Nouvelle Préhistoire - to be released in 2026 - is the story of a character who takes refuge in a cave. This being tries to send low frequency bass signals in an attempt to communicate with Others.

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Venez célébrer la clôture festive de notre série Dimanches Soupes & Chants ainsi que du festival Suoni Per Il Popolo à la Sala Resto!

📅 Dimanche 28 juin
🕐 Ouverture des portes : 13 h
🎵 Festin & chant : 13 h 30 – 16 h

On vous servira un généreux festin familial à partager, inspiré des traditions culinaires des Balkans, de l’Ukraine, de la Géorgie et de l’Italie. Entre les bouchées, on chantera ensemble — chansons traditionnelles, chants de villages et chansons de célébration de ces différentes cultures.

Chants guidés par Dina avec Sava, Natalia avec Murmurosi, Josée avec Ensemble Supra et Mario Morello.

🎫 BILLETS (inclut le festin + chant participatif)
• Billet soutien – 50 $ (frais et taxes incluses)
• Billet communauté (pour les personnes avec moins de moyens financiers) – 40 $ (frais et taxes incluses)

⚠️ ACCESSIBILITÉ
La Sala Resto n’est malheureusement pas accessible (escaliers seulement).

✨ Tous les âges bienvenus
🍷 Vin et boissons en vente sur place
🎟️ Places limitées — billets à l’avance recommandés.

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Join us for a festive afternoon celebrating the season closing of our Soup & Song Sundays series as well as the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival at Sala Resto!

📅 Sunday, June 28
🕐 Doors: 1:00 PM
🎵 Feast & Singing: 1:30–4:00 PM

We’ll be serving a generous family-style feast inspired by Balkan, Ukrainian, Georgian, and Italian traditions. Between bites, we’ll sing together—folk songs, village songs, and songs of celebration from across these cultures.

Join in songs led by Dina with Sava, Natalia with Murmurosi, Josée with Ensemble Supra, and Mario Morello.

🎫 TICKETS (includes feast + singalong)
• Supporter – $50 (fees & taxes included)
• Community (For people with fewer financial means) – $40 (fees & taxes included)

⚠️ ACCESSIBILITY
Sala Resto is unfortunately not accessible (stairs only).

✨ All ages welcome
🍷 Wine & drinks available for purchase
🎟️ Limited tickets. Advance tickets recommended.


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Fondé en 1992, Ratchet Orchestra rassemble plusieurs des musicien·ne·s les plus actif·ve·s de la scène montréalaise de la musique improvisée. Ensemble phare et en constante évolution, le Ratchet développe une musique dense et collective où la puissance sonore n’est jamais dissociée d’une profonde fragilité humaine.

Porté par un large ensemble de voix, vents, cordes, guitares et percussions, le Ratchet Orchestra explore la tension entre écriture et improvisation, chaos et écoute, énergie brute et délicatesse. Chaque performance devient un espace de risque partagé, où le son se construit dans l’instant et dans le mouvement du groupe.

Line-up actuel:
Kim Zombik : voix
Lori Freedman : clarinettes
Jean Derome : flûtes et sax baritone
Yves Charuest : saxophone alto
Aaron Leaney: saxophone ténor
Andy King: trompette
Émilie Fortin : trompette
Kalun Leung : trombone
Julie Richard : sousaphone
Julie Houle : tuba
Hélios Paradis : violon
Adrianne Munden-Dixon : violon
Guido Del Fabbro: violon
Jean René : alto
Chris Burns : guitare
Ken Doolittle : percussion
Jahsun Promesse: batterie
Nicolas Caloia : contrebasse

Founded in 1992, Ratchet Orchestra brings together some of the most active musicians from Montreal’s improvised music scene. A large, ever‑shifting ensemble, the Ratchet creates dense collective music in which raw sonic power is inseparable from human vulnerability.

Drawing on voices, winds, strings, guitar and percussion, Ratchet Orchestra explores the dynamic tension between composition and improvisation, intensity and sensitivity. Each performance becomes a shared act of risk‑taking, where sound emerges through close listening, momentum and collective presence.

Bellbird est un quartet basé à Montréal réunissant Claire Devlin (saxophone ténor), Allison Burik (saxophone alto, clarinette basse), Eli Davidovici (contrebasse) et Mili Hong (batterie). Ancrée dans le jazz contemporain, la musique du groupe intègre des influences allant du contrepoint atonal aux grooves rock, en passant par des mélodies folk, le minimalisme et une énergie (post)punk assumée.

Issu·e·s de parcours et de scènes musicales variés à travers trois pays, les membres se sont rencontré·e·s dans l’underground montréalais. Leur premier album Root In Tandem (2023) a été salué par la critique, et après une tournée remarquée sur le circuit des festivals de jazz canadiens en 2024, Bellbird a signé chez Constellation Records. Leur second album, The Call, est paru en février 2026.

Bellbird is a Montreal‑based quartet featuring Claire Devlin (tenor saxophone), Allison Burik (alto saxophone, bass clarinet), Eli Davidovici (double bass), and Mili Hong (drums). Rooted in modern jazz, the group weaves in influences ranging from atonal counterpoint and rock grooves to folk melodies, Minimalism, and a driving (post)punk spirit.

Coming from different countries and musical scenes, the quartet coalesced within Montreal’s genre‑bending underground. Their 2023 debut Root In Tandem received strong critical praise, followed by an acclaimed run on Canada’s jazz festival circuit in 2024. Signed to Constellation Records in 2025, Bellbird released their second album, The Call, in February 2026.

A very special addition to the line up is coming soon!