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NUIT BLANCHE 2010 @ THE NEW CITY GAS COMPLEX
 Over 300 participants sampled the Silent Disco experience at the New City Gas complex during the 2010 Nuit Blanche! Held on Saturday, Februsary 27th, the event, sponsored by Maurice Forget, Lawyer, Fasken Martineau, Arts and Business Personality 2009, allowed Montrealers to experience this innovative musical experience direct from Holland via Dutch DJ Groovy Jack, and dance – or watch - while wandering through one of Montreal’s most interesting and emblematic industrial heritage sites.
A full house was also in attendance for Dinu Bumbaru’s presentation “The Art of Not Destroying Cities” which was also part of the evening’s programme and was widely appreciated.
To view more photos and video clips of our Silent Disco visit our Facebook Group page.
A very special Thank You to the organizers of Nuit Blanche at the New City Gas Complex and in particular: Ringmasters Esther Hageman & Harvey Lev, organizer extraordinaire Judith Bauer and the Griffintown Cultural Corridor! In all, over 1600 people visited this historic industrial site which came to life for the night with a multitude of artistic and cultural presentations – poetry, dance, visual art, sculpture, film, music and a range of lectures as well as presentations on Griffintown.
AN INVITATION TO DISCOVER MONTREAL’S AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE
For the second consecutive year, Heritage Montreal, in collaboration with ICOMOS Canada, has reunited a variety of local partners to present a program of activities to celebrate the International Day for Monument and Sites. A wide range of activities highlighting the city’s rich agricultural past will be offered by Heritage Montreal, the Château Ramesay, the City of Montreal (the Bureau du patrimoine et Conseil du patrimoine de Montréal), The Canadian Heritage of Quebec as well as the Centre d’histoire de Montreal.
Beneath its urban metropolitan airs, Montreal reveals a fascinating heritage tied to its agricultural roots via our original cadastral property lots that find their traces in the streets of today; the farm houses and stone windmills doting the island as well as in our open air markets filled with fresh farm produce… Not to mention the archeology, the landscape or our faculties specialized in agronomy as well as our renowned Jardin Botanique.
Activities offered by Heritage Montreal :
Thursday, April 15
Public lectures in French offered by Héritage Montréal
The Conservation of Agricultural Heritage in Quebec
by Mehdi Ghafouri, Architect and Heritage Consultant
Agricultural Heritage in Montreal and Around the World
by Dinu Bumbaru, Policy Director of Héritage Montréal and President of ICOMOS Canada
Centre d’histoire de Montréal, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Free admission
Sunday, April 18
Guided tour: Downtown’s Agricultural Heritage (bilingual)
Discover the traces of the agricultural past of what is now Downtown’s west end, through the area’s constructions, built on the former Domaine de la Montagne, created by the Sulpicians at the end of the 17th century.
Point of departure : on the corner of Sherbrooke Street and Atwater Avenue,
From 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. By reservation.
To consult the complete programm of activities on our website, click here !
ANNUAL HOLIDAY FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN 2009-2010
 Luc Leblanc receives his prize from Executive Director Marie Senécal-Tremblay
A heartfelt Thank You to all our donors and new and long time members: it is with your support that Heritage Montreal continues to be this city’s most respected Heritage voice. This year’s annual holiday campaign was a great success!
Thanks to your enthusiastic participation in our annual holiday draw…we exceeded our modest objective by $3,000 and raised a total of $16,000! Our grand prize winner of the weekend for two in the John Lennon/Yoko Ono Suite at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel was Mr. Luc Leblanc.
Thanks to all who participated as well as our generous partner, the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel! Our follow up winners: Mary Leslie Aitken, Matthew Aronson, Bernard Lamarre and Nicholas Wardropper received a copy of Joan Athey’s Give Peace A Chance: John and Yoko’s Bed-in for Peace 1969, graciously donated by the author. Congratulations to all our winners! |
