THE BEST WAY TO END THE YEAR!
From December 27 to December 31, 2024
Everyday, from 2pm to 9pm
FREE ADMISSION!
To end the year in style, Festival Kaléidoscopes offers you a range of the cultural, festive and epicurean dynamism of Québec City. Come celebrate with us the richness of Québec's heritage, in the heart of Old Québec, on the sites of the Quebec City German Christmas Market.
The event takes its name from the kaleidoscope, this optical instrument that reflects light and color endlessly, creating surprising and captivating patterns. This definition perfectly represents the very essence of the Kaléidoscopes Festival! On four different sites, you will find unique (and free!) animations to celebrate the end of the year as it should be. Each site allows you to explore a different universe, featuring several cultural partners from Québec City. You will discover a varied program, featuring music, theatre, literature, photography, visual arts and performing arts, without forgetting the gourmet side!
Music · Theatre · Visual arts · Living heritage
Jardins de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
MUSICAL PROGRAM BY LE PANTOUM
The public will be able to enjoy a diverse and FREE musical program, a catering service, local delicacies and a selection of microbreweries.
Driven by a love of music and arts, Le Pantoum is a creative cultural complex intended for emerging local artists. Strategically located in the National Capital, one of the objectives of this non-profit organization is to make Québec City an internationally recognized cultural hub. Once again this year, Le Pantoum is proud to present the musical program of the Kaléidoscopes Festival and to bring local artists into the spotlight.
And there will be plenty to stop for a moment and make great musical discoveries in front of the stage of the Jardins de l’Hôtel-de-Ville. From pop and folk to gypsy jazz, trad, afrobeat, electro and instrumental music, established artists will rub shoulders with the next generation in this rich and oh-so-festive program that Le Pantoum has in store for us from December 27 to December 31. Are you ready to dance with us?
THE FULL LINE-UP WILL BE ANNOUNCED DECEMBER 12!
FESTIVE AND GOURMET SPACE
Everyday from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
In addition to the diverse and FREE musical program, the public will be able to taste a range of local drinks and delicacies, and discover local artisans!
EXHIBITORS LIST COMING SOON!
Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
KALEIDOSCOPES - EMERGING THEATRE
Non-stop from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM, every day.
Visit an unusual village, where the houses are furnished by a team of up-and-coming creators who have been given carte blanche. On site, the inhabitants play, sing, write and dance for you, for themselves: so as not to be alone.
This site brings together ephemeral creations that highlight the emerging local theatrical culture. Treat yourself to the pleasure of wandering from kiosk to kiosk, to discover multiple windows leading to grandiose or intimate interiors.
From a traveling choir to a public writer and the ice house, you are invited to make a village with these artists who have created their worlds.
Let’s get together at the Village to not be alone!
Place D'Youville presented
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH PLEASURE, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN!
Non-stop from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM, every day.
Proud promoter of the arts of the traditional party, Ès TRAD welcomes you to the Living Heritage Space on Place d’Youville. Every day, local artists from different cultural traditions take turns to offer varied performances in song, story, music and called dances. It will be the perfect place to celebrate the end of the year (and the beginning of the new one) as we know how to do in Québec: by immersing yourselves in the living traditions of our region, where festivities and joie de vivre are omnipresent.
THE FULL LINE-UP WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON DECEMBER 12!
VISUAL ART
Visual works produced in front of the public, by local artists from the emerging art world.
Partners of the Kaléidoscopes festival
