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Arts and culture

CULTURAL EVENTS

Arts circut
Phone:  1.800.363.5515
Fax: (819) 583-5555
E-mail: mailto:pierre.corbeil@cldgranit.qc.ca
Website: http://www.culture-megantic.qc.ca/

About twenty artists and craftsmen around the lake Mégantic open you their door to discover them through their art: paintings, potteries, glasses, wooden objects, objects of papers, flowers, hammocks, furniture and antiquities.  

Follow the signs (red narrows) on the route around the lake Mégantic.  A ride of 53 Km. 


Date: --CANCELLED IN 2007--

Schedule:  From 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Rate: Free

Address: Around the lake Mégantic

Artists Spring Show
Phone: (819) 583-4411 poste 231/ 1.800.363.5515
Fax: (819) 583-5344
E-mail: mailto:pierre.corbeil@cldgranit.qc.ca
Website: http://www.culture-megantic.qc.ca/
Great popular holiday dedicated to the arts and to the culture. Come to meet 120 artists and craftworkers of the MRC of the Granite and moreover.

To the program, exhibitions booth (painters, glassworkers, cabinetmakers, potter, jeweler and photographers), creations of collective works in front of public, demonstrations of knowledge - of former days fair, musical performances under a formula Cabaret-Bistro, produced by the soil and a series of activity of animation for the children.

Opening date: June 2, 2007 at 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Rate: Free

Address: Parc des Vétérans, Lac-Mégantic 

Arts Visuels Mégantic inc.
Phone:  (819) 583-5515 / 1-800-363-5515
Fax: (819) 583-5555
E-mail: mailto:tourisme@cldgranit.qc.ca
Website: http://www.tourisme-megantic.com/

Arts Visuels Mégantic inc. invites you to their 7th expo-symposium under the honorable presidency of madam Lisette Marceau Vachon.  The works Varnishing will take place on August 5, 2005 at 7h00 p.m. at the Polyvalente Montignac.  Come to see more than 15 artists and arts amateur.


Date: -- 2007 ???--

Schedule:  Varnishing at 7 p.m. -  Saturday: 1 p.m. to 
                  9 p.m. - Sunday:  1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Rate: Free

Address: Polyvalente Montignac: 3409, rue Laval, Lac-Mégantic

Ceilidh of Lac-Mégantic (Scottish Fest.)
Phone:  (819) 583-4680

The first one Ceilidh of Lac-Mégantic under the honorable presidency of Madam Isabell MacArthur Beattie. Madam MacArthur Beattie is the great-niece of Donald Morrison... a great méganitcoise legend!
 
10:00 am: ceremony «Tribute and recognition to the first Scottish pioneers of Milan». (Cemetery Gisla: rank Gisla in Milan). 1:00 pm: official Opening in the bagpipe sound, Scotland photos exhibition, clowns,  make-up women, balloons and Scottish games for kids.  1:30 pm: tasting of Celtic beers and Scottish whiskeys. 2:00 pm: Scottish Music with bagpipe. 3:00 pm: conference on the history of the Scottish in Eastern Townships and in the MRC of Granite, by the considered historian Jean-Pierre Kesteman. 4:00 pm: public reading of the history and the Duel between Lucius "Jack" Warren and Donald Morrison, the outlaw of Mégantic. 4:30 pm: Scottish Music with bagpipe. 5:00 pm: tasting of scones (typically Scottish dish) with Ceilidh Society of Scotstown. 5:30 pm Scottish Supper under the big top. 7:00 pm: tasting of traditional "Haggis". 7:30 pm: tasting of Celtic beers and Scottish whiskeys. 8:30 pm: entertainment and dance with Salty Dog (Scottish folklore).  
 

Date:  2007 ???

Address: Parc des Vétérans, downtown of Lac-Mégantic

Festival St-Zénon-de-Piopolis (Concerts)
Phone: (819) 583-6060
Website: http://www.festivalstzenondepiopolis.ca/
Many concerts offered to reasonable prices and offering a programming for all the tastes along the year. Depending the entertainment offered the place varies between the Church St-Zénon of Piopolis and the Park of the Moon Crescent (on Grenier's road). Inquire schedules and rates.
 
 
Rate: $15 / concert.  
           Season tickets (4): $45
           Kids under 12  years old :

Address: St-Zénon-de-Piopolis Church, Piopolis
 
Lac en Fęte
Phone: (819) 583-0007 / 1-800-363-5515
Fax: (819) 583-5275
E-mail: mailto:lacenfete@axion.ca
Outdour event where fireworks on majestic lake Mégantic will give way to the inflatable games and the different animations during the weekend. Quality shows with artists of good name of the Quebecois scene. 
 
Programming : To come shortly

On Thursday night, August 9:
 
On Friday night, August 10: 
On Saturday night, August 11:
On Sunday night, August 12:
 
Date:  August 9 to 12, 2007 at noon to midnight 

Rate:  Day ticket:  Adult: $12 to $15 (12 years old and up)
            Passeport:  Adult: $30
            Day ticket: Kid:$8 (12 years old and less)
            Passeport: Kid: $15 (12 years old and less)
 
Address: Parc des Vétérans, Lac-Mégantic 

MegAntiques Cars
Phone: (819) 583-0663
Outdoor Antique Car Exhibition in the Vétérans Park in the middle of the town of Lac-Mégantic.

Date: 2007 ??
Address: Parc des Vétérans, Lac-Mégantic

 
Public special presentation
Phone: (819) 583-5515 / 1-800-363-5515
Fax: (819) 583-5555


The First Méganticois and their twelve
thousand year old tool kit
 
Abstract:
 
The presence at Cliche-Rancourt site of ancient hunters of the last Ice Age is indeed an exceptional discovery for Quebec archaeology at the beginning of the XXIst century. The results of this fifth season on this unique site allow us to define diversity and function of recovered tools, and the nature of these human groups that had occupied the Méganticois region more than 12,000 years ago.


Schedule:  August 16, 7:30 p.m.
Address:  Auditorium of the Polyvalente Montignac (3409, rue Laval), Lac-Mégantic
Ti-Cube Carnival
Phone: (418) 486-7558
Family activities.  

Date: January , 2008

Address: Aréna de Lambton, Lambton
 
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