The top 5 things to do in Montreal: Sept. 18 to 27
Grab a book from the French Literature Festival's open library and leave your pre-loved books in return.
It’s okay – step away from your laptop for a few hours and unwind at these energizing cultural events.
1. A NOVEL AFFAIR
International French Literature Festival | September 12 to 21 | Free
Now’s your chance to get a copy of Proust’s Le Temps retrouvé.
There are nearly 50 different events to discover at Montreal's annual International French Literature Festival (FIL).
Be sure to grab a book from FIL’s open library at Parterre du Quartier des Spectacles, then leave one of your pre-loved books in return.
Find out more about the International French Literature Festival.
2. TOTALLY RANDOM AND POTENTIONALLY AWESOME
Points de vue: exhibition and vernissage | September 24 to 28
| Free on Thursdays
What is going to happen to Montreal’s Wellington tower?
An exhibition at the Darling Foundry
presents the results of four urban labs held this summer to document the tower’s industrial past and imagine its future as a cultural centre. Make sure to explore every inch of the Darling Factory, one of the funkiest venues in town.
3. WEEKLY JAZZ THERAPY
Concordia jazz students at Upstairs
| Weekly on Wednesdays
Calling all jazzbos! Concordia Jazz students improvise and perform on Wednesdays near the downtown campus. Upstairs Jazz Bar and Grill was created by a former Concordia student named Joel Giberovitch in 1995. Thanks Joel, for giving Montreal its very own New York-style jazz club.
Be sure to support your peers early in the evening.
4. DANCE DUO & IDENTITY
Moi | ioT | Geneviève Lauzon | September 18 to 20 | Free
Get swept away at Quartiers Dances. On stage, Phillippe Dandonneau and Geneviève Lauzon revist the notion of identity, raising fundamental questions, such as “What is our place in society?”
Through dance and music, their bodies will interwine as they search for one another in a common space.
Find out more about Moi | ioT | Geneviève Lauzon.
5. INDOOR TAM-TAMS
Drum Circle | September 23 to November 18 |
2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
| Free
Every Tuesday, the Multi-faith Chaplaincy at Concordia University hosts a community event, open to all.
Take part in a drum circle after lunch. No experience necessary and drums are provided.
Find out more about Drum Circle
.
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About the author
Andy Fidel is a Montreal-based freelance journalist, photographer and writer with dreams of living on a submarine. She enjoys metro rides, writer's block and cold instant coffee.