Festivals in Montreal

• Montreal Reggae Festival
• Montreal Jazz Festival
• Fantasia Festival
  Fantasia Festival
  Fantasia International Film Festival is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996...
  
   Genre films festival
• Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
  Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
  Les FrancoFolies de Montréal is a large annual music and performance festival held in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, featuring over 1,000 French-language performers from all over the world, as well as attracting over 500,000 visitors....
  
  
• Divers/Cité
  Divers/Cité
  Divers/Cité is an LGBT multidisciplinary arts and music festival taking place each year in the heart of Montreal, since 1993. An avant-garde event in the heart of downtown Montreal and in Montreal's Gay Village area held usually on the end of July and beginning of August every year and extending...
  
   gay pride celebrations
• Just for Laughs
  Just for Laughs
  Just for Laughs is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1983. It is the largest international comedy festival in the world.- Information :...
  
   comedy festival
• Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal
  Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal
  Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal also known by the acronym RIDM is Montreal, Canada's international documentary film festival....
  
  
• Pop Montreal
  Pop Montreal
  Pop Montreal is an annual music festival occurring in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the early fall, usually at the end of September or the beginning of October. More than 400 acts are scheduled to play in more than 50 venues across the city, mostly located in the Mile End area...
  
   indie-rock festival
• Black and Blue Festival
  Black and Blue Festival
  The Black & Blue Festival is the world's largest gay-benefit dance festival, attracting thousands of tourists to Montreal every Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, which raises money for HIV/AIDS and the gay community. It is organized annually by the Bad Boy Club Montréal .The various events attract up...
  
   gay Circuit party
  Circuit party
  A circuit party is a large dance event, extending through a night and into the following day, almost always with a number of affiliated events in the days leading up to and following the main event...
  
   and AIDS
  AIDS
  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
  
   research fundraiser
• Blue Metropolis
  Blue Metropolis
  Blue Metropolis is the name for the Montreal International Literary Festival. Also known as Blue Met, is the world's first multilingual literary festival and has been held annually in Montreal since April 1999. It was founded by Montreal writer Linda Leith....
  
   The Montreal International Literary Festival
• Montreal World Film Festival
  Montreal World Film Festival
  The Montreal World Film Festival , founded in 1977, is one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF...
  
  
• L’International des Feux Loto-Québec - International fireworks
  Fireworks
  Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event is a display of the effects produced by firework devices...
  
   competition
• FestiBlues international de Montréal
• Montreal High Lights Festival
• Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media
• Mondial de la Bière, one of North America's largest Beer festival
  Beer festival
  A Beer Festival is an organised event during which a variety of beers are available for tasting and purchase. Beer festivals are held in a number of countries...
  
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• Jamaica day
• Trinidad day
• MEG stands for Montreal Electronic Groove festival
• Fringe Theatre
  Fringe theatre
  Fringe theatre is theatre that is not of the mainstream. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival as a ‘fringe’, writing: ‘Round the fringe...
  
   Festival
• Osheaga rock festival
• Mutek Mutek electronic and avant-garde music festival
• Kinetik Festival electronic noise and IDM music festival
• Otakuthon
  Otakuthon
  Otakuthon is Quebec's largest anime convention promoting Japanese animation , Japanese graphic novels , related gaming and Japanese pop-culture. It is held annually for 3 days in Montreal during a weekend in the summer months...
  
  , a Japanese animation convention/festival
• Romani Yag, a Roma/gypsy cultural and musical festival
• UnPop Montreal
  UnPop Montreal
  UnPop Montreal is an annual music festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The festival typically occurs at the end of August or early September. UnPop Montreal started as a weekend long event featuring unknown bands...
  
   indie-rock festival
• Igloofest
  Igloofest
  Igloofest is an annual outdoor music festival which takes place in Old Port of Montreal in Montreal, Canada. Co-produced by Piknic Electronik and the Quays of the Old Port, it began in January 2007 and now draws crowds in the tens of thousands every year.-"One-Piece" Contest:Every weekend, a...
  
  , outdoor music festival in January

Parades in Montreal

• Montreal's St. Patrick's Day parade and the Irish in Quebec (in French) Montreal's is the longest continuous running St. Patrick's Day Parade in North America and the largest parade in Montreal, see also the United Irish Societies of Montreal (in English)
• Greek Independence Day Parade on Hutchison in Jean Talon, it happens right after the St. Patrick's Day Festival. First celebrated on March 25, 1821, this parade gathers numerous Greek schools such as Socrates, and Demostenes for example, and the church groups and the different provinces from Greece, such as the Ionian Islands, the Cyclades and many more. It's expressed as the day that Greece marks its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
• Fête nationale du Québec
  Fête nationale du Québec
  Quebec's National Holiday is celebrated annually on June 24, St. John the Baptist DayIn Quebec, the national holiday is a paid statutory public holiday covered under the Act Respecting Labour Standards...
  
   parade
• Canada Day
  Canada Day
  Canada Day , formerly Dominion Day , is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act , which united three British colonies into a single country, called Canada, within the British Empire...
  
   Parade, celebrating Canada's birthday
• Carifiesta Montreal, a Parade celebrating the Caribbean culture of Montreal
• Twins Parade, a parade
  Parade
  A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind...
  
   hosted by Just For Laughs Festival
• Divers/Cité gay pride parade
  Divers/Cité
  Divers/Cité is an LGBT multidisciplinary arts and music festival taking place each year in the heart of Montreal, since 1993. An avant-garde event in the heart of downtown Montreal and in Montreal's Gay Village area held usually on the end of July and beginning of August every year and extending...
  
  , celebrating Montreal's gay community
• Santa Claus parade

See also

• List of festivals in Canada
• List of festivals in Quebec