{"id":133714,"date":"2025-02-27T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/interviews-panm360\/centre-phi-nuit-blanche-nuit-pop\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T19:58:31","slug":"centre-phi-nuit-blanche-nuit-pop","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/centre-phi-nuit-blanche-nuit-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Center PHI: All-nighter\u2026 POP Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like all the urban events lighting up Montreal this weekend, the Nuit Blanche at the Centre PHI will be back from Saturday to Sunday, until 3am. Under the theme of Nuit POP, the Centre PHI will be offering a host of activities and performances in real time, for a night that’s bursting at the seams. Concocted in conjunction with Pop Montr\u00e9al, the line-up of artists promises to be impressive: Raph\u00eb, Rosario Cam\u00e9l\u00e9on, La FHomme, Jashim, Teikirisi, VIOV visuals and more. To find out more, PAN M 360 spoke to Renelle Desjardins Chiasson, Director of Programming at Centre PHI.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360: How have previous Nuits blanches at the PHI Center gone? Has this become an annual tradition, since you’re taking up the collar again in 2025? Do you have a targeted audience, or is it more a case of people stopping by by chance, on the spur of the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renelle Desjardins Chiasson<\/strong>: Until now, the Nuit blanche at the Centre PHI has been a free cultural experience accessible to a varied clientele, including students, festival-goers, art lovers and tourists. By collaborating with local partners, the event aims to welcome 2,000 unique visitors, and to rank among the top 5 Nuit Blanche events in Montreal 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360: What is the route taken by night owls if they decide to drop in at the PHI Center among other nocturnal activities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renelle Desjardins Chiasson: <\/strong>Audiences can grab a bite, we’ll have churros, empanadas. Drop by the PHI among other destinations, or stay all evening because the programming is so diverse. It doesn’t have a specific itinerary, but there are 3 offerings from 9pm to 3am: 3 installations with performances in the public square, live music and DJ sets in the space on the 1st and 2nd floors, and the public can see Jean-Marc Vall\u00e9e’s MIXTAPE exhibition until midnight. The party continues on the first floor until 3am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360: What is the concept of Nuit POP? How is it a POP night?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renelle Desjardins Chiasson:<\/strong> Every year, the Spectra group launches a theme for the opening of applications – for official participation in this great cultural evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our team rallies around the theme suggested by Spectra. So we explore the term \u201cpop\u201d: pop music, pop culture, pop art, popping, pop of color, pop-up – its ephemeral, off-the-wall side – the sound of a bubble bursting and everything else that this onomatopoeia evokes.We’ve done this in the past: in 2019, for example, it was \u201cThe Future\u201d and we presented the An\/ demain evening; in 2020 it was \u201cgreen\u201d and we presented Simulation \/ Acceleration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360: Did you work in collaboration with POP MTL? What else?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renelle Desjardins Chiasson:<\/strong> For the musical programming, I worked with Daniel Seligman. For the public space, it’s a team effort with our in-house team specifically, this year with Clara Boulinguez, H\u00e9di Rollet, Raph\u00eb, Maxime Lacoue, \u00c9milie Heckmann, Sylvain Dumais and Vincent Lafreni\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360: Can you tell us a bit about each of the artistic performances on the program?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n