Divers/Cité is an
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multidisciplinary arts and music festival taking place each year in the heart of
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, since 1993. An
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event in the heart of downtown Montreal and in Montreal's
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area held usually on the end of July and beginning of August every year and extending usually for a full week, it is open to all audiences,
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and
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, including many events that are free.
Programming is diverse as the title suggest, and includes during the festival contemporary dance, DJing, outdoor cinema, photo exhibitions, jazz, pop, Latin, rock, house, R&B and electronica concerts.
Mostly outdoors and free, Divers/Cité's programming also features many indoor dance events including
Lesbomonde, an important Canadian
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happening.
Also a very popular annual event is
Mascara, La Nuit des Drags the biggest
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event in the world pioneered by Montreal drag queen and gay icon
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.
Another is
La Grande Danse, a big open-air house event for 11 hours with some of the biggest international DJs names appearing.
See also
- Fierté Montréal
Fierté Montréal aka in English as Montreal Pride is an LGBT multidisciplinary arts and music festival taking place each year in the heart of Montreal. It is the second biggest LGBT event in Montreal after Divers/Cité...
- Gay Village, Montreal
Montreal's Gay Village is located on Saint Catherine Street East, centred on Beaudry metro station, and on Amherst Street in the Ville-Marie borough of the city...
- Pride Week (Toronto)
Pride Week is a ten-day event held in Toronto, Canada, during the end of June each year. It is a celebration of the diversity of the LGBT community in the Greater Toronto Area. It is one of the largest organized gay pride festivals in the world, featuring several stages with live performers and...
- Capital Pride (Ottawa)
The Capital Pride Festival is the annual Pride event in Canada's National Capital Region, which includes the cities of Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. It has been held annually since 1986.Capital Pride is a non-profit organization...
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