Exhibits, Events, and News – May 29, 2024
- The WASM Blog
- May 29, 2024
- 3 min read
Montreal's Museum of Memories is looking for local tips. One Montreal museum is calling on residents to make their own guides, or "zines", to spend time in Montreal. The Montreal Museum of Memories is hosting weekly workshops to encourage the public to make their own city guide, full of favourite places to visit, best summer advice, and more. We'll hear about the project from Robert Tyler Wood. He's the Visitor Experience Team Leader at the Montreal Museum of Memories.
The MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises is now open! Come to 1210 boulevard Saint-Laurent from Tuesday to Sunday and discover its free public spaces and its cultural programming:
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The Tour de l’Île de Montréal and Tour La Nuit offer you a unique urban Sunday: a pleasant and safe bike ride on car-free streets, a discovery of the city’s neighborhoods at a different pace, amazing viewpoints. and the possibility to live this sweet moment with your loved ones. Discover or rediscover Montreal differently!
(Wikipedia)
Check it out here for dates and maps:
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A sneak peek for MMFA members:
We are pleased to invite you to the preview days for the Museum's all-new exhibition:Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks.
Wednesday, June 5, from 1 to 9 p.m.
Thursday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday, June 7, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Preview | Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks (mbam.qc.ca)
Join us for the preshow lecture, led by Katharina Van Cauteren, the exhibition's curator, and Chloé M. Pelletier, Curator of European Art (before 1800) at the MMFA and curator of the Montreal presentation. Don't miss this captivating discussion that will take you across 300 years of Flemish history (1400-1700). Hurry, spots are limited!
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at 7 p.m. In English with simultaneous interpretation in French.
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Music Notes:
The Heavy Metal Suite: 8 composers imagine our future through music. Each piece is dedicated to a crucial mineral that’s mined in the composer's home country. On Earth Day 2024, musicians, composers, researchers, and hundreds of audience members gathered at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver to listen to the sound of metal.
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Christine Jensen on reinterpreting Miles Davis's famous jazz album Kind of Blue. The Canadian jazz musician chats with Q's Tom Power about her new record, Harbour.
Christine Jensen in the Q studio in Toronto. (Amelia Eqbal/CBC)
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Photography:
Montreal photographer, Ilana Block, captured the moment a Canada goose defended itself from a fox at the Botanical Garden.
Short video: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video/c2926245-watch--canada-goose-fights-off-fox-in-montreal
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For kids of all ages to enjoy:
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CBC photojournalist wins photo of the year for shot of Shuswap wildfire evacuee. Ben Nelms' picture of people being evacuated by boat from the North Shuswap during last summer's wildfires was named photo of the year by the News Photographers Association of Canada.
Ben’s web site: https://www.bennelms.ca/
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Heritage Montreal:
Explore our new series of articles dedicated to the history of Eaton's 9th on the occasion of its reopening: before and after, 360-degree views and exclusive archives!
COURTESY OF MARIE-MAXIME DE ANDRADE. BILINGUAL MENU FROM THE 9TH FROM 1934. THE COVER WAS INSPIRED BY NATACHA CARLU'S PAINTINGS. CREDITS: ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO, EATON'S FOND, EATON'S RESTAURANT, F229-162-O
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The Montreal Council of Women Woman of the Year: Nedia El Khouri. We meet one of the people the Montreal Council of Women named "Woman of the Year". Nedia El Khouri talks about advocacy through art with the work she does at her gallery Viva Vida Art Gallery and Art Centre in Pointe-Claire.
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