Place aux jeux
September 29th, 2025
Informations
- Place Quartier des spectacles
- Price
Free
Ariane Moffatt invites you to come out and play!
This summer, the Quartier des Spectacles is an enormous playground and game room with giant chess, pear balls, seesaws, a b-ball hoops tree, endless hopscotch, a most unusual ping-pong table and gigantic hidden words. So many great ways to exercise your mind and body – and make new friends!
Until September 28
Sainte-Catherine St. West in the Quartier des Spectacles
Equipment loans:
Everyday, noon to 10 p.m.
Place aux jeux is a presentation of the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership in collaboration with Complexe Desjardins. The project is made possible by the financial support and collaboration of the Ville de Montréal.
Credits
- Ariane Moffatt
- Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles
“I’ve been coming to the Quartier des Spectacles for a long time, whether to play my music or to attend shows. I’m delighted to be able to make a different kind of contribution this summer by bringing my colour and energy to the Quartier, and by sharing the joy of getting together and playing outside. I hope families and other visitors will want to move, sink some baskets and have fun!”
Ariane Moffatt , Singer-songwriter
The games
- Musical bikes
- La traversée
- Hopscotch
- The Ping-Pong Table
- The Basketball Tree
- Word Search
- Chess
- Seesaws
- Pear Balls
- The Big Gaming Table: Tic Tac Toe / Snakes and ladders / Checkers / What am I playing?
We’re also playing indoors and on the walls
The fun continues indoors with Colimaçon, a hanging cascade of balls around the Complexe Desjardins fountain. A nod to the theme of games, the installation will include 600 colourful balls – it’s sure to get everyone’s attention.
A video projection by Montreal artist Jérémy Fassio beckons visitors back to childhood by revisiting iconic playground games. The tableaux capture the imagination with their lightness and motion. On the walls adjacent to Saint-Laurent metro (May 15 to August 13) and on the façade of Édifice WILDER – Espace Danse (May 15 to September 3).
Finally, a series of two creative workshops for children, designed by Ariane in collaboration with ABL BLA LAB, will take place at the Esplanade Tranquille. On August 10, Bouge ton cirque (Move Your Circus) will feature animated team games, physical and creative activities, sequences, and choreography set to music! The second workshop, Joue, dessine et bricole ! (Play, draw and craft!), will offer opportunities to play, draw and craft alone, in pairs or in teams, before creating a collective work on Saturday, August 30.
On September 6, come play on the Place des Festivals, which will be divided into two giant fields for the occasion! It will be the biggest game of dodgeball ever organized in Quebec, maybe even in the world! There will be a large scoreboard to follow the games and bleachers for the public. Door prizes will also be drawn, and artists, including Ariane Moffatt, will be on hand to cheer on the teams and take part in the festivities.
On Saturday, September 20, a game of giant musical chairs will also be organized at the Esplanade Tranquille.
The giant hopscotch
The secret word puzzle
