{"id":28483,"date":"2020-09-23T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/2020\/09\/23\/le-festival-malgre-tout-3e-partie-pop-montreal\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:56:53","slug":"le-festival-malgre-tout-3e-partie-pop-montreal","status":"publish","type":"dossiers","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/dossiers-360\/le-festival-malgre-tout-3e-partie-pop-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivals, Undeterred (Pt. 3 \u2013 Pop Montreal)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our ongoing dossier continues with Pop Montreal&#8217;s co-founder and programming director, Dan Seligman. The 19th edition of the multiplatform festival begins on September 23 and runs until the 27th. Code orange or not, there are films, workshops, conferences, and of course several shows on the bill, in the flesh or streamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PAN M 360: <\/strong>What were the constraints you had to face for this edition of Pop Montreal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dan Seligman: <\/strong>About a month or so after COVID started, we realized pretty quickly that we wouldn\u2019t be able to do the festival we usually do. So we canceled all the artists from abroad, and we were waiting for the summer to see what would happen, but knew that if we were able to do anything, it would be much smaller, more contained. We were kind of in a waiting game or holding pattern because of not knowing exactly what we could or couldn\u2019t do, with all the municipal and provincial rules and whatnots. We knew that it would be more difficult to produce a streaming event. It&#8217;s more expensive, it\u2019s different production concerns, and we would still have to deal with all the regulations\u2026 So we knew that if we were going to do Pop Montreal this year, it would have to be much smaller in order to do it safely and effectively, obviously with all local artists\u2026 So mostly all the shows we\u2019re producing will be in front of a small audience, and some of them will be stream only, with a small percentage of artists who are not from Montr\u00e9al and who will be streamed from their hometowns, but all are from Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dossier-Festival-Pandemie-3.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28350\"\/><figcaption><em>Dan Seligman<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only artist that\u2019s coming in from outside Montreal is Lido Pimienta (Toronto) whom we had already confirmed to play at the festival before covid started. She\u2019s going to perform at the Rialto but all the others playing in front of an audience will be local artists. Mostly all of the shows will be at Rialto and a at a few pop ups. We\u2019re just trying to keep it as manageable as possible so we can do things safely. Its one of the first festivals in these covid times and we want to do it well, we don\u2019t want to fuck-up. So we\u2019re being very careful, all the tickets must be bought in advance, we\u2019re gonna be controling everything, we\u2019re gonna make sure anyone who enters the room will have to give is contact information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PAN M 360: <\/strong>As for the outdoor concerts, how is that going to work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DS:<\/strong> We\u2019re gonna do a few smaller outdoor shows, but the rules with outdoor right now is that everything has to be very contained, and they don\u2019t want you promoting the events outside. So we\u2019re gonna do a few ticketed shows outside and we\u2019re not going to announce the locations. But we\u2019re doing a Rialto rooftop with only 40 tickets. And then we\u2019re having three or four different pop-up locations where we\u2019ll have shows. The city bylaws were saying that you can do shows, but you have to maintain social distancing, and if it&#8217;s in any kind of public space you can\u2019t announce the location at all. We were told we couldn\u2019t do anything in any kind of public park, like we usually do for the March\u00e9 des possibles, because it&#8217;s hard to control those crowds; you saw what happened on the mountain with the Occupy the Hood event&#8230; So we got a call from the city making sure we would be very very careful and not let something like this happen. So we\u2019re going forward, but obviously very slowly and carefully, and trying to produce an event and bring people music, but make everything as safe as possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/popmontreal.com\/en\/mixtapes\/detail\/pop-montreal-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MIXTAPES-110-POP-MONTREAL-1024x568.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28471\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PAN M 360: <\/strong>Are you expecting check-ups?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DS: <\/strong>We know people from the city or the government will show up to make sure we do things properly. So we\u2019ll be ready, there\u2019ll be hand-sanitizing stations, masks everywhere, security everywhere. We\u2019re gonna be extra extra careful. We\u2019re gonna be 110% by the book. We\u2019re going above and beyond, to make sure that everybody will be safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PAN M 360: <\/strong>Have you considered cancelling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DS: <\/strong>We never really wanted to cancel. The worst case for us is that we would have done a virtual event, and we did everything to avoid that, but if there would have been no other choice, we would have done a streaming-only event. If we were like one of those big American festivals that rely on sponsors and ticket sales, we wouldn\u2019t be able to hold the festival this year, but because we have all this funding from different government bodies with the mandate to showcase artists from here, it helps to keep us alive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PAN M 360: <\/strong>How do you see the future given the current situation, knowing that it could last another year or two?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DS: <\/strong>We\u2019ll take it one day at a time. We\u2019ll first go through this festival and see how it goes. I think we need to adapt and just accept the fact that this is the new way to do things for the time being, and if people really want to see shows, there will be some. And we know people want to see shows because we\u2019re selling a lot of tickets. And we\u2019re also trying to keep it very cheap, you know. It&#8217;s almost like we have to rebuild from the beginning with $5 or $10 shows, with local artists&#8230; It&#8217;s like rebuilding the equation of how to put on an event. Rebuild your audience, give them an incentive to come out with 30-minute shows for $5\u2026 support us, support the artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/popmontreal.com\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">POP MONTREAL OFFICIAL WEBSITE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our ongoing dossier continues with Pop Montreal&#8217;s co-founder and programming director, Dan Seligman. The 19th edition of the multiplatform festival begins on September 23 and runs until the 27th. Code orange or not, there are films, workshops, conferences, and of course several shows on the bill, in the flesh or streamed. 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