List festivals and events of the town of Quebec

This article supplements the principal article of the town of Quebec .

Quebec counts many festivals and events all during the year, which allow the inhabitants and the visitors to attend spectacles of music of any kind, to make knowledge with cultures of various people and times or quite simply to have fun firm between friends or in family. Here is the list.

Contest

Concours of music of Canada (It) Official site was born in Quebec and is addressed to the young old Canadian musicians from 5 to 25 years (30 years in song) which enables them to be familiarized with the requirements of a contest of international level while having to respect the musical program required according to each category. One counts various categories of instruments of which: cords (violin, viola, violoncello, double bass, guitar, harpsichord, toothing-stone, piano, piano four hands, two pianos); winds (flute, recorder, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, organ); song; chamber music; sonata for piano and cords; marimba. Representations of the regional, provincial and national finales take place in Quebec according to the years.

Festivals and events

Fall

Take-off and macadam is at the same time a contest of alternative music for the changing and a festival of alternative music being held annually on an end of the week in September. It is devoted to the new musical tendencies (Punk, hip-hop, techno, rock'n'roll…) by spectacles in rooms and urban outside. Official site

Festival of the district Saint-Saver Festival of district of the 1st district annually celebrated in September.

Festival of the days of Africa, Dances and Rates/rhythms of the world Official site is held annually since 1996 over two weeks in September and presents various spectacles in sport and rooms of artists of Africa and Latin America.

Fête Rainbow Official site is a festival to celebrate the merry and lesbians of Quebec , and obviously, all is welcome, is held beginning September annually, the 1,2 and 3 in 2006. The majority of the activities proceed in the merry district (district St-Jean-Baptist) like with the square of Youville and account inter alia a great picnic in Low-City.

Celtic Festival of Quebec Official site is a celebration of the various roots of the inhabitants of Quebec, which they are Scottish, Breton or Irish. The festival takes place with the mainly intramurally at the beginning of September (August 31st at September 2nd in 2007). Several activities, workshops and spectacles are offered free.

Journées of the Culture (Them) Official site is a side-Québécois demonstration during which various cultural events (spectacles, museums…) are offered free to the public in all the province of the Quebec on an end of the week of September annually, of which several in Quebec.

Quebec Ateliers Open Official site proposes, at every two years, out of two end of the week of September to the public to visit the workshops of the craftsmen and creators of the Town of Quebec, who present to it free their techniques and their works in gestation.

International festival of Traditional Arts of Quebec Official site Activity celebrating the alive inheritance which is the demonstration current and contemporary various traditions which marked out the evolution of our company.

national Day of the sport and the physical-activity Each year, first Friday of the month of October is issued national Journée of the sport and of the physical-activity and the activities are organized by the City to make move its population.

Fair of the Diversity of Quebec Official site This day of at the beginning of October which takes place in the center of purchases of the Galleries of the Capital, is with savors and with the colors of the world will be an exceptional occasion to discover the multicultural richness of Quebec and to meet its various faces. The families are particularly invited to take part in the many activities: spectacles of music of the world and dance, demonstrations culinary and tastings, make-up for children, fashion shows by the children of the world, tales animated, workshops of dance, African braids, Chinese penmanship, origami, tattooing with henné and other animated kiosks.

Festival Antenna-HAVe vibrates at the rate/rhythm of the Saint-Roch district at at the beginning of October, with the menu discovered musical and sanguinary combat of iPods, technological discovery, etc

Winter

Carnaval of Quebec (It) Official site is the most important winter carnival in the world and the second all seasons confused in the world, presents annually in February two weeks of cultural, sporting and family activities winter, of which the most run are the processions in the 1 {{er}} district in the districts of the High-City and the Low-City of Quebec, counting on the whole several hundreds of thousands of spectators. Several impossible to circumvent: the castle of ice of the Catch Carnival (the mascot), the international contest of sculpture on snow, the race in boat on the cold river, etc

Karnavaloff Official site is the event parallel with the Carnival of Quebec in February. They are first of all associated unit. Karnavaloff organizes hot evenings for adults in various bar-discotheques-lounge of the Town of Quebec. As much in the district St-Roch, that the district co.-Foy and Montcalm.

Salon of the Music Independent of Quebec is an event offered in beginning February, gathering all the speakers of the music scene independent of the whole of the province.

French-speaking Very favorite (It) Official site is a festival of the French-speaking song presented in November each year in 8 cities to Canada. In Quebec, the event is presented during 10 days in small rooms of spectacles.

Festival of the sacred musics of Quebec (It) Official site presents, beginning November since 1997 with the Saint-Roch church of the spectacles of sacred musics inspired by the spirituality of various nations and times.

Parade of the toys (It) Official site is an interactive parade of mascots and allegorical tanks which is organized annually with the mid-November by the firemen of the city in order to inaugurate the season of the festivals and to pile up toys and gifts for the underprivileged children of the Town of Quebec.

Mois Multi (It) Official site presents to the Complexe Jellyfish demonstrations and exposures d'" art multidisciplinary and électroniques" annually in February.

Quebec celebrates Christmas Official site organizes, in the months of December and January, annually, various activities and exposures (gone of Christmas, exposure on Christmas of the various cultures, etc) in various places of Quebec.

Spring

Cinema festival of 3 Americas (It) Official site is held over 5 days in March/ April and is devoted to the cinema coming from all the countries of Americas, particularly with the independent cinema. In the past named " Images of new the monde" , the FC3A presents hundreds of works, length and short films, with the Québécois film enthusiasts.

international Crossroads of theater of Quebec (even years) and the festival Théâtres besides (odd years) Official site present each spring, in May or in June , various parts from here and besides, of new creators or known faces, with the public of the town of Quebec.

Manif of art , Biennalde of Quebec Official site International demonstration of art of Quebec presents, of the May 1st at June 15th, 2008, the MANIF Of ART 4 , biennial devoted to the promotion and the diffusion of current visual arts. It joined together, in various places of the town of Quebec, more than 70 artists of Quebec and international like several satellite activities around the same topic.

Festival of merry art of Quebec Official site Presented at the end of April until the end of June , the whole of the population will be able to discover the achievements artistic of merry, lesbians, bisexual, transgenres and others. Will know for the moment that the last week of April will be devoted to the literature. Indeed, the festival will begin with the presentation from the first prize winner from the international prize Altern' Art-Quebec, given to the author whose work published in 2005 will have marked the altersexuelle community of the world francophonie the most. Other authors will join the prize winner to emphasize the recent publications of more interesting works all the ones than the others.

Festival of the gastronomy of Quebec - Cut of the Nations (It) Official site introduces to an end of the week of April various exhibitors of the medium of the craftsmen of food products, restorers and speakers of the medium of the food, in addition to one contest of wine and ciders, the Coupe of the Nations .

International fair of the book of Quebec (It) Official site takes place each year in April. The living room introduces exhibitors, conferences, meetings of meetings with authors, exposures and debates on all the fields of the literature.

Festival of the French-speaking cartoon of Quebec Official site the event is held at the same time and with the same place that the Internationae Living room of the Book of Quebec. A 30aine international bedeists give each other appointment to Quebec for the happiness of all.

Rendez-vous cultural of Art' rondissement of Charlesbourg (Them) offers exposures, spectacles, theater and music is with go for the greatest pleasure of the spectators of mid-April until mid-June in the Charlesbourg District.

Festival of theater amateur of Quebec organized by Fusion New Theater, which proceeds usually at the end of April, at the beginning of May, presents eight troops which will follow one another, days after days, on the scene of the Joseph-Lavergne auditorium of the Gabrielle-Roy library.

Festival of studied film of Quebec Official site the Festival of student Film of Quebec is an event which seeks to facilitate the emergence of the young scenario writers and vidéastes of the changing and has the role them Inspirer, them Rassembler and them Diffuser usually presented in at the beginning of May .

Summer

Fête of the town of Quebec (It) Official site gives place to family festivals of district in the districts of the City the July 3rd of each year . Major demonstrations will take place all the summer 2008 for the 400e birthday of foundation of the City.

1st district (the City)

Grand Laughter (It) Official site is a festival of humor, which takes place over 10 days in June. Spectacles in sport and official receptions in room introduce humorists of Quebec and besides, beginners or experienced.

national Festival of the Inhabitants of Quebec and Québécois the is celebrated by various activities including one large spectacle in sport the evening of the June 23rd on the Plaines of Abraham.

Fête of the Canada (It) Official site is celebrated the June 30th and on July 1st on various sites of Old man-Quebec, inter alia by spectacles in sport and activities and visits free in the national historic sites of the City.

Chinese Cultural Festival of Quebec Official site is an event which stresses the Chinese culture. Usually presented to the beginning July over two days, one presents demonstrations of martial arts, boat-dragons, Chinese market, Chinese exhibitor, etc

to us

Festival of summer of Quebec (It) Official site is an major event which annually presents during two weeks in July a great number of musical productions (popular, French-speaking and anglophone, music of the world, classical music) for the majority in sport and of many services in arts of the street to various places in the old capital as well as interior spectacles in various rooms of the capital.

Festival Off of Quebec Official site This festival is specialized in the emergent music. This event takes place each year in Quebec during July during the Festival of international summer of Quebec. The spectacles of this festival are almost all free, they are held in the small rooms and on the public places of the city.

Fête of the Suburb (It) is a fair of street which takes place in the district Saint-Jean-Baptist in the 1 {{er}} district on an end of the week beginning July, annually.

Fêtes of News-France (Them) Official site is an major event which presents during one week in August various activities allowing of replonger the XVIIe century, the time of News-France, in the Old man-Quebec and in the Royal Place (processions, spectacles, animations, demonstrations of the daily life of the time, gone in sport of News-France, observers and citizens dressed up, etc).

Plein Art Official site presents, during two weeks in August of each year, an exposure/sale external of works of trades of art: of ceramics, of glass, textiles, jewels and others, Québécois craftsmen and international guests. It is the most important event of the kind in Canada.

5th district (Beauport)

Large Fires Lotto-Quebec Official site is a series of spectacles of fireworks in music on the site of the Chutes Montmorency in the 5 {{E}} district in July by 2 spectacles per week (Wednesday & Saturday).

6th district (Limoilou)

Expo Quebec Official site is an agricultural, commercial fair and the greatest fun fair of the east of Canada which takes place in the month of August on the site of Expo Cité. One finds there inter alia musical productions, the provincial finales of the contests of animals of farm of Quebec, commercial and institutional exhibitors, horse-gears and various family activities.

International festival of military musics of Quebec (It) Official site annually takes place over four days in end August. It gathers several formations of military music of North America, the south and Europe which present spectacles in sport and room.

International festival of traditional arts (It) Official site introduces on an end of the week of October various artists, mainly of Quebec but also of cultures connected with that of Quebec, (France, Ireland, States of the the United States bordering, Acadie, Louisiana…), in folk spectacles of music, of dance or tales

7th district (the High-St-Charles)

Family celebrations of the district Saint-Emile Festivals of the families of the St-Emile district of the 7 {{E}} district and of the Capital of course, with spectacles musical, of the play, works of art for children, pullings, race of jalopies, tournament of soccer, play gonflabes, etc a beautiful small family fair.

8th district (Laurentien)

international air Spectacle of Quebec (It) Official site is presented the even years during one weekend on the grounds of the International airport Jean-Lesage. One presents spectacles of aerobaticss to it, parachuting and flights of special apparatuses, in addition to between 10 and 20 apparatuses on the ground, civilians and soldiers, who can be visited or observed. In 2006 , the event is presented the June 10th and 11th . In 2008, June 7th and 8th .

the Fêtes of Valley-Bélair present annually the June 24th a spectacle in sport of Québécois artists of reputation followed by a fireworks and a bonfire in the district Valley-Bélair, in addition to family activities all the day.

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