THURSDAY
Where can you find one day full of 6 riveting talks in a very intimate atmosphere? OFF 2013 takes place today and promises to be the ideal day for the young professional. After a successful inaugural edition, OFF will once again welcome today’s most insightful international thinkers and experts for a complete day of presentations and discussions about innovation, designed especially for Canadian businesses.
If you ever wondered which business concepts are leading the way to the future, how a company can build a strong innovation culture, or how can companies diversify their sources of creativity and inspiration, then this is the place to get your answers. Don’t miss this unique event, attended by the most influential people in several industries.
In the mood for oysters in a super cool new setting? The Old Port Fishing Co and El Tinieblo Mezcal are proud to join forces in the launch of Thursdays at Brasserie Central! What is this night all about? The love of oysters, Mezcal meets classic French Brasserie and a bunch of really great people.
Our dear friend Daniel Notkin will be there shucking the oysters, and Matt McKean the Canadian importer of El Tinieblo into Canada will be there pouring the spirit all around!
Oysters and Mezcal will be served all night long, and there will be very special little menu for the 5 to 8 crowd. A fun, young professional time is guaranteed!
FRIDAY
Are you a big 5 a 7 fan? Then join Cafe Bloom in celebrating their opening in Pointe-Saint-Charles and discover their very first menu. Tartines, chocolate tarts, coffee, tea and wine will all be available for this special event. As their first exhibition, artworks by young visual artist Véronique Lépine, who lives in the neighbourhood, will be exhibited. Join this new artsy and cozy Cafe in their launch and support local talent while networking with some of Montreal’s hippest kids.
If you’re rock and roll fans likes us and love to annoyingly sing along to every classic hit out there then Rock Of Ages was made for you! Broadway Across Canada and evenko present the new hit musical set in 1987 on the Sunset Strip where a small town girl met a big city rocker and in LA’s famous rock club. What happens next? They fall in love to the greatest songs of the 80’s featuring 28 classic rock tunes including Don’t Stop Believin’, Every Rose Has it’s Thorn, I Wanna Know what Love Is, Here I Go Again and many more! Warm up those vocal cords, it’s going to be a loud one!
SATURDAY
One of our favourite local artists and Notable.ca Fusion Award nominee Antoine Tavaglione hosts a TAVA Solo Exhibition entitled The Milky/Milky Way tonight at ARTVStudio at Place des Arts.
This project seeks to tell a story that evokes feelings of inspiration and creation. It wants us to experience a sense of nostalgia when engaging with aesthetic practices once used in vintage cartoons. The installation will be composed of life-size hand painted murals and interactive cut outs. As always, Antoine will be interactive with the audience, allowing us to see him work his magic live!
Ready for a full day of some of the best DJs around? Music Is My Sanctuary, Red Bull Montreal, La Nuit Blanche de Montreal & Le Bleury present 24 Hours of Vinyl #7. The concept is simple but genius: put together approximately 15 DJs, have them relay on the decks while playing only vinyl records for an entire day and stream the whole event on the internet. It is a daylong tribute to the musical format that simply does not want to die: vinyl records. But above the love of vinyl, there is, of course, the love of good music and this is what the main goal of the event is. Come see these vinyl geniuses get creative for 24 hours at Le Bleury and dance the day and night away.
With the Nuit Blanche festivities happening all night, a must see is “Dead Man Walking”, a collaboration of Opéra de Montreal and Place des Arts, available to the public for free. A powerful, pioneering modern opera, Dead Man Walking will be presented for the first time in Quebec by the Opéra de Montreal starting March 9th, but now you can get an earlier glimpse and experience a profound evening discovering the music of this artwork at the very doors of the prison. Dramatic? Indeed.
SUNDAY
Montreal, forget that diet you have been working so hard on because FAB BOSS is about to ruin it. Alongside DECADENT (food art music), the First Annual Urban “CABANE À SUCRE” at Restaurant GLOBE is taking place today. Get ready to eat all those classic dishes you’ve experienced at the conventional cabane à sucre, but with a DECADENT twist! This includes their very own “in-house” maple syrup taffy and a maple derived cocktail by Nectar & Mixology. A day filled with fatty but delicious food, music by the High Society Crew, special performance by Spidey the magician, Black Mohawk and, of course, all the maple syrup your heart desires.
Our friends at Matinee present “Winter Wonderland,” Montreal’s first ever winter wonderland champagne brunch party! This notable brunch will be held inside a massive igloo located in the Villages des Neige in Parc Jean Drapeau. An amazing brunch will be served by the 5-star chefs of the Intercontinental Hotel. After the feast, the party will move into the Ice Bar Igloo where guests, clad in their best 80s and 90s neon suits, will dance the day away to DJs Toddy Flores and Danny Torrence. We hope you still have your best one piece suit at home young professionals!
Cover Photo: Ed Anderson