The Majesty of the Urban Horse
Multimedia Installation and Horse-Related Activities
At the Centre d’histoire de Montréal
August 31 to September 24, 2006
Montréal, September 7, 2006 – The Centre d’histoire de Montréal is offering tourists and Montrealers alike an opportunity to rediscover a companion and work partner down through the ages, the horse. For an entire month, different activities will highlight the majesty of the horse in our urban environment.
Urban stables: a heritage to be preserved The initiative for this project came from the concern felt by Juliette Patterson, landscape architect, Johanne Lafond, author and architectural technician and Edmund Nash, multimedia designer, to preserve the heritage of Montréal’s stables, of the horses that live in them and of the professions closely or more distantly connected with them. There are still a half dozen urban stables, sprinkled here and there in Griffintown and Pointe-Saint-Charles that to this day are fulfilling their original functions.
A day in the life of the urban horse Part of the life of Ville-Marie since 1647, they still live in this city that they helped us build. They are still here, by our sides, but we barely notice them and take little advantage of their presence. And yet their beauty, the particularity of the places they live, the passion of the people whose different trades contribute to their well-being constitute a universe to be discovered. The Centre d’histoire de Montréal will be offering a range of programs designed to present and to share this precious heritage: an audio-visual portrait; activities having to do with the different professions that relate to horses, to take place in the area in front of the museum; and a guided tour by horse and carriage of the historic Faubourg des Récollets district.
A program developed by the Centre d’histoire de Montréal, the architecture and landscape architecture firm Catalyse Urbaine and the multimedia production company mPaevum. Special thanks to CEPAQ.AERO, Point du jour Ltd. And the Société de Développement Commercial du Vieux-Montréal.
Activities and guided tours every Sunday in September starting at 1 p.m. Information and reservations: 514-872-3207
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Do not hesitate to consult and to publicize the attached programming notes.
For any additional information, contact:
André Gauvreau 514-872-9385 (from August 31, 2006)
Media Relations: andregauvreau@ville.montreal.qc.ca
Centre d’histoire de Montréal
Service du développement culturel, de la qualité du milieu de vie,
et de la diversité ethnoculturelle
City of Montréal
