This weekend, members of CUTV (Concordia University Television) will be hosting Remember Griffintown, an event which organisers say is a way to “allow the citizens of Montreal, as well as anyone else, to get to know a forgotten part of Montreal.” and is “a celebration of the rich history this area has to offer.” Organiser Paul Aflalo discusses the event and his reasons for staging it at length in a story featured last month in The Gazette.
Most of the events will take place in or around the New City Gas building at 950 rue Ottawa and in the Griffintown Gallery inside the building. A calendar of the many events planned can be found on their website. Some highlights include a vernissage at the Griffintown Gallery, film screenings, day tours, and a neighbourhood scavenger hunt. A long lineup of bands will also be performing over the weekend as well. To put the icing on the cake, everything (except food and drinks) is completely free.
If you have some time to kill this weekend, a trip to Griffintown would be more than worth the trip!