Osheaga Through The Ages: Art & Photography Retrospective
A free art and photography exhibition, titled Osheaga Through The Ages, opens tomorrow, A celebration of Canada’s biggest music festival by way of a collection of stunning photography curated through the festivals fifteen year existence.
The arts have taken a beating over these last two years, as the global COVID-19 pandemic has stripped the populous of many of the things that make life so wonderful. To make a list of all these things that have been taken away, would take far too much time and probably create a sense of despair and depression. Instead, lets focus on the positive. Music festivals, and shows in general, are slowly making their return to our lives, and although the process is a slow and difficult one, Evenko is offering music lovers a chance to walk down memory lane, with this free, and great, photography exhibit that shows many of the artists that have played the festival over the years.
Since 2006, the Osheaga Music and Arts festival has established itself as the most important festival of its genre in Canada. With its numerous outdoor stages located at parc Jean-Drapeau on Montreal’s Sainte-Hélène’s Island, Osheaga attracted 120 000 music lovers from North America and Europe in 2019. A huge celebration dedicated to music and visual arts, Osheaga has given itself the objective of discovering local and national emerging talent offering them the opportunity to play alongside some of the biggest international artists in the business.
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The Osheaga Through The Ages exhibit showcases the works of Evenko’s in-house photographers and poster artists with a body of their works collected over the lifespan of the Osheaga festival. This free exhibit displays some amazing photography from the likes of Susan Moss, Tim Snow, Patrick Beaudry, Pierre Bourgault, Eva Blue, Ashlee Mailloux, Claude Dufresne and Alexanne Brisson.
Taking place in Galerie de la Maison du Festival, located just above L’Astral concert venue, and inaugurated in 2011 between the walls of the Blumenthal building, this true house of jazz culture is a flagship attraction of the Quartier des Spectacles. This century-old monument on Sainte-Catherine Street has been ceded to the Montreal International Jazz Festival by the Government of Quebec for a period of thirty years.
AUGUST 6 TO 21, 2021, Free of charge
Galerie de la Maison du Festival (305 Ste. Catherine Street West)
Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Le Central (30 Sainte-Catherine Street West)
Tuesday to Thursday from 5:00 PM to 10:00PM, Friday and Saturday from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
Exceptionally the Galerie de la Maison du Festival will be open on: August 7, 13, 14 and 21 until 9:00 PM.
