Gesu Lighting Contest

As part of an ideas competition, the Quartier des spectacles Partnership, the Gesu and the City of Montreal's Design Montreal agency invites designers and creators to submit lighting, architecture and scenographic propositions that will reveal the unique personality of the Gesu.

The competition is sponsored by Mr. Andre Lavallee, who handles urban planning and development and public transport for the City of Montreal Executive Committee.

This ideas competition will consist of a single round of judging, is open to all and is part of the Lighting Plan for Montreal's Quartier des spectacles.

The competition will be a collective reflection on the challenges of expressing the identity of a remarkable heritage building through the enhancement of its facade.

For fifteen years, this building has been a centre for multidisciplinary cultural activities, including a program that supports the creation of contemporary art.

The Gesu was recognized as a cultural asset in 1975 and has since continued to extend its activities, which contribute to the development of Montreal's culture.

It is a place of art and history, of performances and conferences, of the exposition of contemporary art, of research and creation in dance and intercultural relations - all alongside its life as a religious site.

The complexity of its program makes it an atypical creative centre.