Shedding light on the new site!
Festival fans, prepare to be amazed by your new playground! The festival celebrates
its return to the downtown core where it was born in February 2000, the heart of
the now-completed heart of the Quartier des spectacles around Place des Arts. The
brand-new free outdoor MEL site—now on the
Place des Festivals and
its environs— has had a complete makeover and promises to showcase the
brightest MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE ever.
Among the multitude of attractions, get ready for a mind-blowing new-generation
interactive
slide, projections and lighting displays redesigning the facades of the
surrounding architecture,
spectacular video mapping displays on the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan
(3 displays nightly), illuminated musical spectacles,
characters in illuminated costumes created especially for the MEL…
And, in a major new addition this year, fine dining joins the outdoor celebration,
with the Escales Gourmandes—
gourmet stopovers located all over the site offering various culinary salutes to
Wallonia-Brussels. MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE will be more deliriously dynamic and delicious
than ever!