2010 NUIT BLANCHE À MONTRÉAL
at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts



Montreal, February 1, 2010 – As part of the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will take part in the Nuit Blanche à Montréal on February 27, 2010, and offer visitors a number of free activities, many on the theme of glass, from 5 p.m. to2 a.m. Visitors will also be granted half-price admission to the exhibition Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour ($7.50 instead of $15).

The magnificent objects and beautiful stained glass windows featured in this exhibition are sure to make visitors want to pursue their discovery of glass through a wide array of activities:

  • Creation of a collective work by recycling
    old baubles and glass marbles
    Festival-goers are invited to bring glass marbles and old
    jewellery to the Museum to participate in a collective work
    while learning more about the art of the mosaic.
    - 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. (free admission)

  • Glass-blowing demonstration
    This fascinating educational demonstration will show how
    glass-artists can stretch and transform glass into a multitude
    of shapes using a blowpipe and blowtorch.
    - 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. (free admission)

  • Vitr’ art
    Watch a stained glass demonstration given by participants
    in Vitr’Art, a programme designed to help street kids and
    marginalized youth develop life and professional skills
    by learning the art of stained glass.
    - 5 p. m to 9 p. m. (free admission)

Plus the following activities:
  • A fresco by François Turbide
    The artist will create a fresco in the Galleries of Contemporary Art.
    5 p.m. to 2 a.m. (free)

  • A meeting with the ceramicist Laurent Craste
    Ceramicist and multidisciplinary artist Laurent Craste will
    reinterpret the classic theme of the still life through video
    installations in which decorative objects serve as projection
    screens for animated poetic motifs. He will be on hand from
    6 p.m. to midnight. (free admission)

  • Drawing from the live model
    An opportunity to try out gesture drawing from the live model
    in the evocative nocturnal setting of the Montreal Museum of
    Fine Arts. A creatively tantalizing activity you won’t want to miss!
    - 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. (free admission)

  • Exhibition ONETOP
    ONETOP is an annual T-shirt design contest. During this night
    of fun and folly, see all the winning T-shirts in 2008 and 2009
    in a special exhibition in the Museum’s underground galleries.
    A complimentary Nespresso coffee will be offered to visitors
    starting at 5 p.m. As of 10 p.m., visitors will also be offered
    a complimentary Boris drink.
    - 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. (free admission)

To catch your breath...

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ rest area at Place Bonaventure
Festival-goers are invited to catch their breath at the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts’ rest area at Place Bonaventure on furniture by Montreal
designers recently exhibited in the Museum’s Design Lab.
An initiative of Art Souterrain.








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