Featured Events, April 19, 2021 2021-04-19 2021-04-19 Quebecgetaways quebecvacances.com Members at Événements Attractions Québec have some great activities for you in celebration of the renewal that comes along with spring. This month we are featuring the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, the Pulperie de Chicoutimi, the Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival and Space for Life. A 39th edition for the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma A 39th edition for the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma Looking for movies from local filmmakers? From April 28 to May 8, the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in Montréal will be presenting a 39th edition with a wide variety of movie genres and innovative approaches to filmmaking. This festival, the only one dedicated entirely to Quebec’s cinema, has selected about 300 films to show, from veteran filmmakers as well as budding talents. This year’s hybrid edition will host virtual events and will also invite the audience to in-person viewing and offer a number of activities, all while following current health guidelines. You won’t want to miss it! Be a game changer at the Pulperie de Chicoutimi! La Pulperie de Chicoutimi is a must-see museum in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and hosts fascinating exhibitions. This spring, video games are all the rage, including Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Angry Birds, Space Invaders, Flower and Adventure. Those and other revolutionary video games are yours to explore in "Game Changers", a brand new and highly interactive travelling exhibit that shows how innovation has been at the core of the video game industry. In total 120 game-changing games are on display. Explore every aspect of video game creation, including the sounds, storyboards and illustrations, and get your thumbs ready for this exhibit that starts June 5! The Game Changers exhibit at the Pulperie de Chicoutimi Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival A remixed edition at the Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival Calling all music fans! The Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival will be held from June 1 to 30. About twenty fun activities highlighting the culture of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region will have you dancing to jazz and blues rhythms. For more than 25 years, the festival has been a place for thousands of music lovers to enjoy memorable moments focused around jazz, blues and other genres. The program of events for this remixed edition will be revealed shortly and will be replacing the original festival that had been scheduled in April. Space for Life and the Birth of Planet Earth Open every day in Montréal, Space for Life consists of four attractions that each explore aspects of life and nature. One of those, the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium is presenting an ultra-high-definition film this spring: Birth of Planet Earth. Projected onto a 360° dome, this film explains the beginning of life on our planet through immersive simulations based on scientific data. The modern world’s greatest questions are at the heart of it all: how did Earth become a life-sustaining planet following the violent birth of our solar system? What lessons can we draw from its beginnings in order to find worlds similar to our own? Get your ticket to space now! Discover the birth of planet Earth
Members at Événements Attractions Québec have some great activities for you in celebration of the renewal that comes along with spring. This month we are featuring the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, the Pulperie de Chicoutimi, the Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival and Space for Life. A 39th edition for the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma A 39th edition for the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma Looking for movies from local filmmakers? From April 28 to May 8, the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in Montréal will be presenting a 39th edition with a wide variety of movie genres and innovative approaches to filmmaking. This festival, the only one dedicated entirely to Quebec’s cinema, has selected about 300 films to show, from veteran filmmakers as well as budding talents. This year’s hybrid edition will host virtual events and will also invite the audience to in-person viewing and offer a number of activities, all while following current health guidelines. You won’t want to miss it! Be a game changer at the Pulperie de Chicoutimi! La Pulperie de Chicoutimi is a must-see museum in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and hosts fascinating exhibitions. This spring, video games are all the rage, including Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Angry Birds, Space Invaders, Flower and Adventure. Those and other revolutionary video games are yours to explore in "Game Changers", a brand new and highly interactive travelling exhibit that shows how innovation has been at the core of the video game industry. In total 120 game-changing games are on display. Explore every aspect of video game creation, including the sounds, storyboards and illustrations, and get your thumbs ready for this exhibit that starts June 5! The Game Changers exhibit at the Pulperie de Chicoutimi Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival A remixed edition at the Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival Calling all music fans! The Saguenay Jazz & Blues Festival will be held from June 1 to 30. About twenty fun activities highlighting the culture of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region will have you dancing to jazz and blues rhythms. For more than 25 years, the festival has been a place for thousands of music lovers to enjoy memorable moments focused around jazz, blues and other genres. The program of events for this remixed edition will be revealed shortly and will be replacing the original festival that had been scheduled in April. Space for Life and the Birth of Planet Earth Open every day in Montréal, Space for Life consists of four attractions that each explore aspects of life and nature. One of those, the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium is presenting an ultra-high-definition film this spring: Birth of Planet Earth. Projected onto a 360° dome, this film explains the beginning of life on our planet through immersive simulations based on scientific data. The modern world’s greatest questions are at the heart of it all: how did Earth become a life-sustaining planet following the violent birth of our solar system? What lessons can we draw from its beginnings in order to find worlds similar to our own? Get your ticket to space now! Discover the birth of planet Earth