All-Nighter at the Montreal High Lights Festival

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The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is proud to join with the Montreal High Lights Festival in blowing out the candles marking the event’s 10th anniversary.

The festivities the museum has scheduled for the All-Nighter will begin on Saturday, February 28 at 6 p.m. and run until 5 in the morning on Sunday, March 1.

The MAC has dreamed up a night that appeals to all the senses, starting with sight, of course, with the exhibitions Claude Tousignant, A Retrospective; The Collection: Some Installations (three major installations by Christine Davis, Adad Hannah and Franz West) and the Projections series, featuring films by Japanese-born artists Takashi Ishida and Yuki Kawamura.

There will be plenty to stimulate the senses of sound, motion, smell and taste, as well. On the plaza outside the museum, NeoGrafik, in collaboration with Mutek and the MAC, will project luminous graffiti on the walls of the House of Jazz, and the mobile shelter Flexigloo will be the scene of street entertainment at around 9:05 p.m., 12:20 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.

Indoors, the museum’s atrium will rock with a mash-up atmosphere created by the electrifying DJ Abeille Gélinas from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

The Musée and Grandbois Chocolatière are setting up a chocolate “shop” in the foyer offering tastings of chocolates and chocolate “espresso.” A whole night’s worth of excitement for festival-goers!

All night long, roam as you please through the museum’s three floors and its nine exhibition galleries. Apart from the chocolate (from $3 to $5), it’s all free!

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