Cultural suggestions | Weekend plans

The Big Return Factory

This weekend, it will again be an opportunity to get their hands on local cultural suggestions | weekend plans creations and local products, as part of the eighth edition of the Grande Factique which will animate Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Similarly, More than 200 kiosks will welcome visitors on rue Sainte-Catherine this year. Consequently, between the avenues Desjardins and Aird, with craftsmen as a workshop clay, Unisham, Confetti Mill workshop, Oh Mon Doux, it’s Paulette or Rose Poer Clothing. However, In short, it will be the ideal place to find eco -responsible and unique gifts! In addition. Nevertheless, there will be inflatable games and makeup for the little ones, a bar service and DJs for adults, and street food for all.

Tneslids, The press

Saturday from 11 a.m. For example, to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. However, to 5 p.m.

Consult the site for all the details

Have a good trip recovered

Warmly welcomed during its presentation last summer, the show Have a good trip From Cirque Éloize is back at Dalhousie station. In this ambulatory imagined by the director Fernand Rainville. circus arts, physical theater and projections on 360 degrees combine to dive the public at the end of the 19th century^e century. Between historical facts. fiction, we follow the fate of two lovers separated by life, in an abundant cultural suggestions | weekend plans Montreal who saw the trains of the very first Pan -Canadian crossing.

Stéphanie Morin, The press

Until August 17th

Consult the show page

Just to laugh Quebec

It’s a bit mixing, but not that complicated: the humor festival that bore the name Comediha until last summer! Fest-Québec is now called just for laughter Quebec. But in its comic cultural suggestions | weekend plans DNA. the great meeting of the hahaha has not changed so much, with its traditional galas (piloted by Matthieu Pepper, Laurent Paquin, PA Méritique, Tommy Néron and Billy Tellier, Véronique Claveau as well as Claude Legault) and her property, during which will tease Patrice L’Écuyer, Gildor Roy, Marina Orsini and Garou. Programming also includes several free events. including white cards on George-V square, as well as a string of new funny new people with whom laughs for the first, but not the last time.

Dominic Tardif, The press

Until August 23

Consult the Festival website

Festival Orientalys

The oriental cultures, from the Maghreb to Mongolia, are in the spotlight at the Orientalys festival, which is held until Sunday at the Quai de l’Horloge du Vieux-Port de Montréal. The majority of activities. shows, which range from Iranian dance to that of Bollywood via the Algerian Rai, are accessible for free, with the exception of Saturday programming. That day, the headliner is the Moroccan singer Hatim Ammor.

Alexandre Vigneault, The press

Consult the programming

Matt Lang and Loud in Brossard

The singer Country Matt Lang and the rapper Loud will each offer a free show as part of the Festin Cultural Festival, which will be held on Friday and Saturday in Brossard. A secondary scene will host different musical performances throughout the event. And as its name indicates, the cultural feast will make a good place for the kitchens of the world. About fifteen restaurants will be present. On site. families will also be able to have fun in the inflatable playground or try one of two zip lines. On Saturday, the party will end with a fireworks display.

Véronique Larocque, The press

August 8 and 9 cultural suggestions | weekend plans at Poly-Arna Park, in Brossard

Consult the website of the city of Brossard

International hot air balloon

The International of Montgolfières de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu will be deployed from August 8, with a host of shows on the program for all tastes. Among the artists scheduled during the first weekend. note Alicia Moffet and Talk on August 8, Clodelle and T-Pain on August 9, and Billie du Page and Marie-Mai on August 10. Then the festivities will resume on August 14 cultural suggestions | weekend plans with artists like Mathieu Dufour on August 15. diplo on August 16, and Fouki, who will close everything in pleasure on August 17.

Josée Lapointe, The press

From August 8 to 17 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

Consult the event page

A classic from Melville to the canal

From Godard to Scorsese via Woo and Tarantino, Jean-Pierre Melville’s cinema has been a great cultural suggestions | weekend plans source of inspiration for various filmmakers since the new wave. As a penultimate film of the season. film noir in the canal, in collaboration with the review 24 imagesoffers moviegoers to discover or review Bob the flambe (1956), Sunday evening, at Square Saint-Patrick. In case of rain, the projection will be postponed to Monday August 11.

Manon Dumais, The press

At Square Saint-Patrick, Sunday, from 7:30 p.m.

Consult the black film website at the canal