Festivales y eventos

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. L'Illusion, Théâtre de marionnettes presents a show for children aged 3 to 8 in which three star sisters travel through a floating archipelago, assembling and separating strange islands and meeting island creatures. Saturday, December 5, 2026, from 3:00 to 3:45 p.m. Online booking adds a $2 fee.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. A staged reading of the love story between author Marianne Marquis-Gravel and writer Simon Roy, adapted from her books Dans la lumière de notre ignorance and Toi comme hier, with Christian Bégin and Catherine Proulx-Lemay. Tuesday, December 1, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:45 p.m. Online booking adds a $2 fee.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. A highly acrobatic circus show by Productions à l'écart mixing juggling, clowning and balancing acts, created in Nunavut in 2021, that explores solitude and waiting through an absent conversation partner. Thursday, November 26, 2026, from 8:00 to 8:45 p.m. Online booking adds a $2 fee.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. Les Soeurs Schmutt present an excerpt of a work in progress and a discussion: an autofictional dance solo performed by Séverine Lombardo with her sister, choreographer Élodie Lombardo, mixing dance and theatre around belonging, transmission and welcome. Friday, November 27, 2026, from 2:00 to 2:45 p.m. Online booking opens November 13 at 1:00 p.m.; maximum 2 tickets per person.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. The Ciné-Club du Plateau-Mont-Royal screens Juste une illusion by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, a comedy about childhood that follows Vincent, almost 13, in a Paris suburb in 1985 (rated G, original French version). Tuesday, December 1, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. Online booking opens November 17 at 1:00 p.m.; maximum 2 tickets per person.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. A wordless puppet show for young audiences aged 5 and up, set in a medieval world inspired by chivalric quests and tales, with a hippogriff, an orca and a magician who hates princesses. Sunday, December 13, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Online booking opens November 29 at 1:00 p.m.; maximum 4 tickets per person.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. Circus performers René Bazinet and David-Alexandre Després, who both lost their fathers early, explore abandonment and the need to please in a tragic, tender and funny tale in a Beckett like style. Thursday, December 10, 2026, from 7:30 to 8:40 p.m. Online booking opens November 26 at 1:00 p.m.; maximum 2 tickets per person.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. A screening of two works by the Groupe Intervention Vidéo: a 2024 documentary by Shahrzad Arshadi on Kurdish women who joined the PKK militias, and a work by Claudia Bernal featuring three women survivors of decades of civil war in Colombia. Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Online booking opened October 27; maximum 2 tickets per person.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. Julie Dirwimmer gives a mock lecture in which she sorts the food containers in her kitchen and other things that resist organization, asking how far she will go to satisfy her need to classify and tidy. Saturday, January 30, 2027, at 7:30 p.m.

An immersive concert inspired by the desert of southwestern Algeria, mixing ancestral songs, mystic trance and revisited Gnaoua music, fusing the rhythms of the Maghreb and the Sahel with contemporary sounds. Thursday, November 12, 2026, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Free admission (entrée libre); passes have been available since October 29 and online booking adds a $2 fee.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. Alto saxophonist Rémi Bolduc presents his new quartet with Nick Semenykhin (guitar), Devon Gillingham (double bass) and Juan Felipe Calderón (drums), playing original compositions and reworked standards. Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Online booking adds a $2 fee.

Important: free, but you need a free ticket to get in. A show tracing more than eight decades of Québec's history through the life of Marcel Desjardins (1939 to 2024), father of author and director Éric Desjardins, combining theatre, dance, puppets, music and archive footage. Saturday, November 21, 2026, from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Tickets released November 7 at 1:00 p.m.; online booking adds a $2 fee.