Kaleidoscopes

FESTIVE · GOURMET · VIBRANT

From December 27 to December 31, 2023

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 2023 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 · Poetry · Visual arts · Living heritage · Québec terroir

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?

SHOW SCHEDULE

DECEMBER 27

4:00 PM: Flavia Nascimento

6:00 PM: Pure Carrière

7:45 PM: Ping Pong Go

DECEMBER 28

4:00 PM: Sara & Rebecca

6:00 PM: Alexandra Lost

7:45 PM: Simon Kearney

DECEMBER 29

4:00 PM: Sandra Contour

6:00 PM: The Blaze Velluto Collection

7:45 PM: Le Rêve du Diable presented by gouvernement du Québec

DECEMBER 30

4:00 PM: Les Livreurs d'agréments

6:00 PM: La Ola

7:45 PM: L'Ensemble Afrovibes

DECEMBER 31

4:00 PM: Baladeur

6:00 PM: Pako

7:45 PM: Fovelle

LITERARY ARTS BY SPOKEN WORD QUÉBEC

2:30 PM to 3:15 PM / 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM / 7:00 PM to 7:15 PM

What exactly is Spoken Word? It’s spoken, slammed, sung or rapped texts, accompanied by music. For the Kaléidoscopes Festival, the Spoken Word Québec collective offers the public five unique literary experiences. By moving from traditional literary cabarets to poetic karaoke, the collective seeks to make literature accessible and dynamic.

DECEMBER 27: Boxing Day Cabaret

DECEMBER 28: Boxing Day Cabaret

DECEMBER 29: Literary DJ

DECEMBER 30: Literary Karaoke

DECEMBER 31: Evening of traditions

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 enjoy the offer of restaurants and microbreweries.

Come taste a range of local drinks and delicacies, and discover local artisans!

EXHIBITORS LIST

Microbreweries

La Barberie , La Fosse, Le Griendel, La Souche.

Food and local products

La Bourrache, La Cabane à Chichis, Casse-Croûte européen chez Markus, Délices de Charlevoix, Chumrros, Ferme Champ Gauche, Forêt Boréale, L’Érablière de l’Avenir, Këks Pâtisseries, Miel L'Été Doré, La Maison Gourmande, La P’tite Maison Gourmande, Saucisse Kévy.

Crafts and Gift Ideas

Les Chapeaux de Lana, La Maison Simons, Olivia, Potions Boréales, Pomponnetfurs, Les Saisons.

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!

Credits

Ideators

Odile Gagné-Roy, Vincent Massé-Gagné, William Savoie, Noémie Richard, Gabriel Beauchesne, Élie Lefebvre Pellegrino.

Scenographers

Mélanie Robinson, Émily Wahlman, Jeanne Huguenin, Coralie Dansereau, Béatrice Lecomte-Rousseau, Noémie Richard.

Artists, actors and actresses

Paul Fruteau de Laclos, Vincent Massé-Gagné, Mathieu Dufort, Rébecca Veilleux, Maxence Lasserre, Rosalie Brulotte, Gabriel Provencher, Émilie Baillargeon, Michael Thériault, Aleksey Shegolev.

Management Team

Art direction: Vincent Nolin-Bouchard

Production management: Miguel Fontaine

Sound direction: Dillon Hatcher

Light direction: Keven Dubois

Scenographic direction: Véronique Dumont

Sainte-Anne Street

KINOMADA MEETING SPACE

Kinomada is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 and working in media arts, whose main activity is to set up intensive short film creation labs in Québec and internationally. They also run photographic exhibitions that travel the French-speaking world.

Kinomada’s meeting space presents an analog photography workshops project made by the youth of the Centre multiethnique de Québec. The project goal was to bring them closer to the practice of photography as a mean of expression. Under the guidance of filmmaker and photographer Yannick Nolin, they learned about the principles of composition, lighting, and highlighting themes that deal with their realities and what drives them.

Credits:

Yannick Nolin - Teacher, Founder and Artistic Director of Kinomada

Madeleine Aubin - Kinomada Coordinator

Ghislain Muzinga Kasenda - Youth Section Cultural agent at Centre multiethnique de Québec

Eureka Abios Ayingi, Tarcis Eden Ayingi, Sabina Reyes, Joshua Calveyrac, Samuel Calveyrac, Maëlys Batiotila.

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.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

DECEMBER 27

5:00 PM: Drinking Songs with Alexandra Bouchard et Philippe Guay

7:00 PM: Traditional dance evening with La Famille Aucoin

DECEMBER 28

3:00 PM: Musical Performance by Éric Favreau & Paul Marchand

4:00 PM: Storytelling with Sarah Paquin

5:00 PM: Los trovadores Mariachi Show

6:15 PM: Trad DJ with DaOvee

8:00 PM to 11:00 PM: La Veillée des Chauffeurs à Pieds · Édition Hors Série with Jean-François Berthiaume calling the dance

DECEMBER 29

3:00 PM: Trad DJ with DaOvee