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Put on hold for two years due to the pandemic, Igloofest is back in full force in 2023 to celebrate its 15th edition, still featuring two stages, at the Old Port of Montreal over four weekends, from January 19 to February 11. People from Quebec City and the East will not be left out as Igloofest will hold its first weekend of festivities there on March 2-3-4 at Place Jean-Béliveau, right in the heart of ExpoCité, in front of the Videotron Centre.
In Montreal, the electronic music event offers several new features for the occasion, including Après-ski evenings, warm and cozy in various Montreal venues. The family-friendly Igloofête will also be presented on four Saturdays. But first and foremost, Igloofest means 12 festive outdoor evenings with several DJs from here and elsewhere.
The Après-Ski segment is likely to interest those who prefer to dance in the warmth. The gay community will certainly be interested in these “after” parties at Auberge Saint-Gabriel, Centre PHI, Francesco’s, Soubois, or the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). The organizers have scheduled no less than 27 nights for the true cold warriors. From January 20 to February 11, 2023, the good beats will keep rolling all night from 11 PM to 3 AM!
For the outdoor segment at the Old Port, the evenings of February 9 and 10 will certainly please regulars of gay circuit parties with DJs TIGA and TIESTO among the invited performers. For TIESTO, it will be a first-time participation at Igloofest.
A First for Quebec City
After postponing the first edition of Igloofest Quebec last year, it will be a brilliant start in 2023.
Starting Thursday, March 2, igloosapiens will have no choice but to end their hibernation as Montreal DJ and pillar Misstress Barbara takes over the turntables to thrill the crowd. It's a safe bet that Quebec City's gay community will gather to see and hear one of their dance night icons for many years.
On Friday, March 3, the undisputed Paul Woolford, an omnipresent force on dance floors, and X-Coast, instigator of epic parties on all continents, will break the ice before making way for headliner Diplo; DJ and house music producer, recently nominated for the Grammys for the 8th time and among the most influential in the world.
The hottest party of the winter will conclude on an electrifying note on Saturday, March 4 with the infallible DJ BORING and Montreal’s own Andrea de Tour, before the anticipated performance of Claptone. It’s impossible to stay cool in front of these illustrious artists who will alternate during the three days of festivities!
Once again, the Igloofest organizers have gone all out to satisfy even the most demanding electronic music fans with artists from all over the world.
For more details on the program and tickets:
Montreal - https://igloofest.ca/fr
Quebec City - https://igloofest.ca/fr/quebec/programmation
The Musée national des Beaux-Arts in Québec City will be presenting this fall the long-awaited retrospective of the seminal Canadian artist Evergon, born Albert Jay Lunt in 1946 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. This major exhibition will span his entire career, from 1971 to the present, with a view to shedding contemporary light on the artist’s long-term output. More than 200 works will be assembled for the first time to highlight this colourful individual and his multifaceted work.
Evergon is regarded as a genuine cultural icon in Canada. He is an artistic and social pioneer who focuses on contemporary questions concerning cultural and body diversity and diversity of identity. For nearly 50 years, the artist’s career has centred on bold photographic, technological, and aesthetic research. His always moving and occasionally irreverent striking imagery is often an extension of classical painting. The simultaneously political and sensualistic nature of his work raises questions on sexual orientation. He revisits with rare vitality genres such as portraits, landscapes, or nudes. Through collages, the art of photocopy and an entire array of exploratory photographic approaches, including the Polaroid, Evergon deepens the terms of queer masculine and feminine identity, thereby shaking up fixed ideas.
Numerous striking works underpin Evergon’s career, in particular the immense colour Polaroids from the 1980s, for which he is internationally recognized. Critics and several artistic institutions in the world have also paid tribute to his award-winning work in holography. His series devoted to his mother Margaret renews the representation of the ageing body as few artists have done and has received widespread recognition. Evergon is an immense creative force: identity, body diversity, love, desire, and ageing are at the root of his work. Like death and life, it is the latter in all its facets that the artist celebrates. Evergon grafts on to life notions of autobiographical fiction and extimity, a revelation of the intimate in the public sphere that is common today but that he explored early in his career. The artist deems all his works to be love letters.
Evergon’s concerns encompass social and artistic issues that go beyond the body’s socially constructed limitations. He thus abandons clichés by representing atypical bodies and goes beyond the canons of standardized beauty while relying on the seductive powers of photography, capable of inventing fictional worlds or theatres as is true of another major series in his career, in which he imagines the life of an entire community, that of the characters the Ramboys. Evergon continues to be in perfect synchronicity with the emancipatory challenges of photography: he has forcefully called into question the notion of the author by creating various alter egos. He disrupts the foundations of the photographic image through an astonishing baroque aesthetic and brushes aside the conventional canons of beauty by representing atypical bodies that he invests with panache.
