World Alzheimer's Month is the international campaign by Alzheimer's Disease International every September to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds dementia.

Against pandemic odds, Greenwood’s StoryFest has reinvented itself: the 19th edition will be a virtual online experience with authors from across Canada and as far away as England joining in via Zoom this autumn, said an August 14 release.

Haute couture takes the spotlight in the McCord Museum’s lively fall calendar. Christian Dior, an exhibition featuring the exceptional work of this major designer along with some fifty dresses, opens for a three-month run in September. In addition to its exhibitions, the Museum is bringing b…

For its first in-person production since March, the Segal Centre announced in an August 17 release a collaboration with the renowned French theatre, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, and the French Theatre of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

The Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) now welcomes Desjardins as a co-presenter alongside Quebecor, the official MIBFF presenter for the past three years, said an August 19 release.

When veteran Montreal Gazette editorial cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) decided to devote his latest book, Professional Heckler: The Life and Art of Duncan Macpherson, to the career of another cartoonist, he not only infused it with his passion and encyclopedic knowledge of the art form, bu…

Nearly six months of containment has taken its psychological toll on residents at NDG’s VISTA Residence, especially for those lacking computer-skills, close friends or relatives in the area.

Many of us are staying in town for the summer and are searching for fun and exciting ways to explore the city. The Museum of Jewish Montreal is inviting Montrealers to step outside and experience their city as a museum through historic walking tours.

Bourgie Hall had planned to unveil its 10th season last April 2. The pandemic intervened heavily on the 2020–2021 season’s original programming, and some 110 concerts were completely upended.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) invites kids aged six and older and their families to come and make art in its Sculpture Garden, one of the largest collections of public art in Montreal.

Having not slowed down in the slightest since the beginning of the pandemic, the OCM moves forward and continues its activities by opening its new season with the Quebec premiere of the American opera As One on November 20 and 21, 2020 at the Cirque Éloize. The duration of the work is 75-min…

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) presents Sailboats, created by Collectif Escargo on Du Musée Avenue, a pedestrian zone that will welcome visitors and passers by throughout the summer.

Réalisatrices Équitables (RÉ), Women in Film and Television Canada, (WIFT Canada) and Women in View (WIV) are heartened to see the progress Telefilm Canada has made in working toward gender parity across all of its programs. This is reflected in their newly released year-end financial statement.

After months of closed performance venues and cancelled shows due to the current global health crisis, live theatre returns to Montréal this summer with the premiere of the bilingual series of En pointe.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will acknowledge the commitment of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic by offering them free admission on Monday, August 3 and 10.

In show business, timing is everything. Morrisburg, Ontario’s Upper Canada Playhouse, announced in a July 23 release, that it continues to abide by this tried and true advice by cancelling its two Fall productions: the comedy 20-20 Rear Vision as well as the new concert, The Highwaymen. They…

The Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal (OM), their conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label will be on the new DG Stage online portal this summer.

The Lyric Theatre Singers recently released another music video, the second in a series of four they are recording in isolation and posting on Facebook and YouTube  in lieu of the annual June Broadway revue, cancelled due to the pandemic.

When the McCord Museum recently reopened its doors after a three-month pandemic-imposed shutdown, it hit the ground running with Chapleau, Profession: Cartoonist. The mega dose of humour was just what the doctor ordered.

To celebrate Hamilton, the filmed version of the original Broadway production which premieres this Friday, July 3, 2020 on Disney+, the studio has released a special look at the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. 

That’s a wrap for Ceci n’est pas un Fringe ::: This Is Not a Fringe Festival as thousands of festival goers from around the world tuned in for an online lineup of over 150 local and national artists from June 10-20.

Opéra de Montréal’s General Director, Patrick Corrigan announced on June 19 changes to the company’s 2020–2021 season, owing to the current pandemic.

The McCord Museum offers a variety of outdoor activities to make the most of the summer without leaving the city.

Artists 4 Long-Term Care along with The Museum of Jewish Montreal invites the public to a pop-up exhibition in the windows of the museum’s space at 4040 St-Laurent in Montreal (corner of Duluth & St. Laurent).

From Eda Holmes, Artistic & Executive Director, Centaur Theatre Company —— In response to the extraordinary moment we are living through in the performing arts, Centaur Theatre is creating a new initiative to keep artists creating and audiences engaged this coming fall.

Montreal City Voices (MCV), a chorus of female a cappella singers specializing in the barbershop harmony style, and a member of Harmony Inc., recently announced that Jean MacBeth has marked 50 years of membership.

MainLine Theatre and the team behind the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival recently revealed the programming for Ceci n’est pas un Fringe ::: This Is Not a Fringe Festival, taking place June 11-21, 2020.

In order to bring performing arts to life as we know and love them, that is to say on stage, live and in front of a live audience, the Mickaël Spinnhirny Agency approached choreographers Andrea Peña, Christophe Garcia, Dominique Porte and Ismaël Mouaraki to create a show in four movements, e…

After remaining closed for the past 14 weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pointe-à-Callière will finally be reopening to the public as of June 25, with a discount on admission tickets, said a June 2 release.

Hi friends! — Isolation has some good points. Now that every day is clear of pollution I can sit here at my desk and look way out over the St. Lawrence to Mont Sutton. Looking into the future, however, is not so clear. But I remain optimistic and retain a firm grasp on Talisman's vision whil…

During this period of concert cancellations due to COVID-19, music lovers can stay in touch with the OSM and classical music. The section on the OSM website is updated regularly with new content right HERE.

During this time of social isolation, organizations are rethinking ways of reaching out to their audiences. This suspended time thus enables new initiatives and collaborations which would likely not have occurred in the past.

MainLine Theatre announced in a May 21 statement that the team behind the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is eagerly planning This Is Not a Fringe Festival, an  online and socially distanced art festival that will take place June 11-21, 2020. Full programming – including micro-dance vid…

June 1st is World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day. With social distancing and confinement guidelines now imposing a new way of living, Inhaled warns of the heightened risk victims of abuse will face, away from their resources and support network. Montreal author Isabelle Duval shares her da…

The following is a letter signed by Eda Holmes, Artistic & Executive Director Centaur Theatre Company, and Michael Baratta Chairman of the Board, Centaur Theatre Company:

Snowglobe Theatre is set to present a completely virtual production of Denise Boucher's The Fairies are Thirsty (Les fées ont soif) to the theatre community. The company is taking the opportunity of the unique situation we're all facing to experiment with a new medium for theatre — every act…

In an age marked by global quarantines and climate change, the Montreal International Poetry Prize presents people everywhere with the opportunity to engage in a revolutionary creative community in a digital space, turning the often solitary pursuit of writing poetry into a communal endorsem…

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) announced in an April 27 statement the creation of a new and original curatorial position with the appointment of Iris Amizlev to Curator of Intercultural Arts.

The current isolation measures are difficult for all music lovers, which is why l’Orchestre classique de Montréal chose to innovate and present a series of eight mini concerts online. “It’s our way of offering audiences a taste of the upcoming season while bringing light and hope to the hear…

After having cancelled its two Spring concerts, Upper Canada Playhouse, in Morrisburg, Ontario, is also cancelling its four-show Summer season and plans to shift the Spring and Summer shows to 2021. According to Artistic Director Donnie Bowes, this difficult decision made sense on many front…

In a statement released at the end of March, Linda Leith Publishing expressed deep disappointment that all events associated with the Spring 2020 launches have been cancelled and said it was heartbreaking that the most celebrated time in the life of an author, the launch of a book, will nece…

A 2020 survey on Canadian leisure time and reading habits released by industry non-profit BookNet Canada on April 20 has found that readers are much more likely to be podcast listeners. While 59% of readers listened to a podcast at least once in the last year, only 18% of non-readers can say…

While the physical doors of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) have been closed since March 14, its virtual doors remain wide open. Striving to make art and its varied programs accessible to as many people as possible, the Museum's teams have rolled up their sleeves to offer their audie…

The McCord Museum launched on April 8 a photography project to document the daily lives of Montrealers during the pandemic, said a statement released on that day. The project consists of two parts, one participatory with the citizen initiative "Framing Everyday Life: Stories of Confinement,"…

The current isolation measures, which are difficult for all music lovers, inspired l’Orchestre classique de Montréal chose to innovate and present a series of eight mini concerts online. “It’s our way of offering audiences a taste of the upcoming season while bringing light and hope to the h…

SOCAN announced on April 2 that it is expanding its efforts to provide financial assistance to struggling members as a result of the COVID-19 crisis by allocating up to a total of $2-million for emergency royalty advances.

For the second year in a row, two out of every five print books sold in 2019 in both the English- and French-language markets in Canada were categorized as either Juvenile or Young Adult (YA), according to new research released by BookNet Canada. (

Despite exceptional circumstances, the board of directors of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) and Forum RIDM recently announced the appointment of Sofia Laroussi to the position of executive director for both organizations.

“In order to conform to the requirements and continued measures adopted by the government of Quebec, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal announces that all concerts scheduled up to May 24 inclusively* are cancelled, the OSM wrote in a statement released on March 26.

CLASSICAL MUSIC: AN ETERNAL SOURCE OF COMFORT — In these most uncertain times, I wish to address myself to the deep community of Montreal and Quebec, so dear to my heart.