Montréal International Jazz Festival (Festival International de Jazz de Montréal)
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| Country and Region | Canada — Quebec |
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| Type of Festival | Music |
| Location of Festival | Montréal, Quebec, Canada |
| Festival Address Information | Festival International de Jazz de Montréal |
| Festival Description | The Montréal International Jazz Festival offers 11 days of non-stop entertainment, from noon to midnight, right in the heart of downtown Montreal. Around the Place des Arts, several city blocks are closed to traffic to create a festive site with 10 outdoor stages, street performers, cafés, bars and bistros. Featuring 2,500 artists in 500 concerts, including 350 free outdoor performances, and its 2 million peaceful festival-goers, the Montreal Jazz Festival is the biggest in the world. |
| Festival Dates | June 25 - July 6, 2010 |
| Festival Links | http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/ |
Festival Story:
Recognized internationally for its unique concept of free urban entertainment in an outdoor site that is safe, clean, visitor-friendly and free of car traffic, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal—dubbed the biggest festival in the world by the Guinness World Records—has made a strong contribution to Montreal’s reputation as a tourist destination and to the promotion of sustainable living.
Green for almost 20 years—The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal has always been proactive to promote means of increasing waste recovery and recycling. It has taken part in numerous pilot projects aimed at finding innovative solutions to the various logistical problems related to waste recovery: recycling drums made of recycled cardboard and bearing the recycling symbol, a cardboard compacter, an on-site sorting centre and an on-site clean-up team, etc. Today this recovery and recycling system serves as a model for countless public events. This landmark agreement also brought about a sharing of responsibilities meant to make the most of the in-depth skills and know-how available from both parties, resulting in an improvement of clean-up and collection activities around the stages since 2004.
As part of its ongoing efforts to achieve sustainability:
- recycle the wood used during set-up;
- recycle paper, cardboard, glass, plastic and aluminium generated during set-up;
- step up efforts to recycle paper and cardboard in production offices, at on-site kiosks, in the press room and in artists’ dressing rooms;
- provide an on-site coordinator and maintenance staff of 70—the Jazz-Net team—to ensure waste collection and clean-up;
- working round the clock for the 11 days of the Festival, this team attests to the Festival’s real commitment to sustainability and to an excellent collaboration with the team from Consortium Écho-Logique;
supply the equipment needed to ensure that recycling operations are run effectively. For more about Consortium Écho-Logique visit
http://www.ecosolutions.ca/; - stage an on-site promotional campaign.
- For more about the Festival’s commitment to sustainability and responsibility click on
http://www.equipespectra.ca/communiques/fijm/20070626[1].PDF
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Podcast interviews:
- If you like this festival — listen to…
- Dan Seligman, creative director of POP Montreal
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=1268 - Miguel Zenon, musician and composer
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=949 - DJ Spooky, aka Paul Miller, a composer, multimedia artist and writer
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=942
- Dan Seligman, creative director of POP Montreal
Practical Info:
Information:
- By phone
514-871-1881, or toll-free (01) 888-515-0515 - Online
http://www.montrealjazzfest.com
Tickets:
- By phone
(01) 514-905-0070 - Online
http://www.ticketpro.ca
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