{"id":1057,"date":"2008-06-23T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/06\/23\/bonne-saint-jean\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:57:22","slug":"bonne-saint-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/23\/bonne-saint-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonne St-Jean!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/330462208\/in\/datetaken\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/330462208_17a0233ea7.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the F\u00eate nationale des Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois or, as everyone who is not the government puts it, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste. I&#8217;m not big on national holidays in general but what makes this one so agreeable is that it involves a ton of great public celebrations, including dozens of small-scale neighbourhood parties, in every corner of town. The official F\u00eate nationale website has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fetenationale.qc.ca\/festivites2\/montreal.html\">comprehensive list<\/a>, by district, of the celebration. Some are more exciting than others (personally, I&#8217;m not willing to get out of bed before noon for face-painting and clowns) but there&#8217;s at least plenty of options for you to make a choice of what to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of a tradition for me to head down to <b>Chinatown<\/b> on Saint-Jean. This year, as always, there will be a big sidewalk sale and a variety show presented on the stage at Sun Yet Sen Square. It&#8217;s always fun, busy and Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois in the most post-modern of ways. After that I usually hit up one of the many other neighbourhood festivals around town. <b>Outremont<\/b>&#8216;s celebration is enjoyable if only because you get to spend an evening sitting under the lush canopy of Bloomfield Street; there&#8217;s even a big communal supper (bring your own food). How long you stay depends entirely on your tolerance for bourgeois chit-chat and wholesome family fun. Not too far away, the festivities in <b>Parc Lahaie<\/b>, at the bottom of Mile End, get started at the end of the afternoon and run until just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>By then, however, you could very well have something even better to do: say goodbye to the Parc sans nom with a memorable under-the-viaduct Saint-Jean blowout. Dare-Dare will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dare-dare.org\/archives\/133\">hosting a vernissage<\/a> for J.R. Carpenter&#8217;s new project, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/luckysoap.com\/inabsentia\">In absentia<\/a><\/i>, about memory and absence in Mile End; it will start at 5pm and run until 11pm (at least officially) with a soundtrack provided by a number of DJs and musicians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/275665218\/in\/datetaken\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/84\/275665218_b34d52fdec.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the F\u00eate nationale des Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois or, as everyone who is not the government puts it, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste. I&#8217;m not big on national holidays in general but what makes this one so agreeable is that it involves a ton of great public celebrations, including dozens of small-scale neighbourhood parties, in every corner of town.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/23\/bonne-saint-jean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Bonne St-Jean!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53,455,38,2621],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-chinatown","tag-food-2","tag-mile-end","tag-sun-yet-sen-square"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bonne St-Jean! - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/23\/bonne-saint-jean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bonne St-Jean! - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tomorrow is the F\u00eate nationale des Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois or, as everyone who is not the government puts it, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste. 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