TALK MUSIC TO ME! OCT 1-5

Pop Montreal's Symposium is like no other: programming is artist-driven and reflective of our city's diverse and lively culture. This year's panel discussions, listening sessions, workshops and round tables will emphasize skills-building, audience participation, and different cultural perspectives.

The main objective of the Symposium is to empower, educate, and inspire by offering uniquely intimate access to the ideas and forces at the heart of today's music world. 

Charging into its seventh year, the Symposium is branching out to represent all festival segments. In addition to music topics, we will cover themes central to Film Pop, Puces Pop, Art Pop, and Kids Pop, the latter taking the form of a special all-ages series.

All sessions focus on the use of music, culture and creativity to build movements and create change, and are intended not merely to discuss the use of art, but to create it, think critically about it, and be actively engaged in it. 

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GREATEST HITS: VOLUMES 1-6

Such esteemed guests as Patti Smith, David Byrne, Ian MacKaye, Clash producer Sandy Pearlman, nuero-scientist Dan Levitan, and Saul Williams have come to share their experience and expertise on everything from the D-I-Y ethic and social responsibility, to publishing rights and the digital era, to music cognition and much more.

Thanks to more than 500 participants, collaborators and attendees, last year's event, Music Fast Forward was an inspiring and memorable experience. 

Patti Smith. Photo by David F. Miller.

Steve Albini et Sandy Pearlman, "The Future of Analogue". Photo by David F. Miller.