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After a hugely successful inaugural season last summer, the team behind MosaïCanada 150 have their work cut out for them to build similar hype for the horticultural exhibit’s second iteration in Gatineau.
“The challenge is to present something more than last year,” Lise Cormier said Tuesday. Cormier is the vice-president of Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal, the non-profit behind the garden dreamscape that drew 1.3 million visitors to Jacques-Cartier Park during Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations.
While the visitor target for Mosaïculture is a more subdued 500,000 visitors, Cormier said her team is scaling up this year’s topiary art exhibition with more plants and individual sculptures, as well as a few novel ideas.
Here are five things you should know about Mosaïculture Gatineau 2018.
It’s opening earlier, thanks to a friendly forecast
With the rise of Tuesday’s full “flower moon,” a moniker for a full moon in May, and a forecast that looks clear of frost or major weather challenges, “we can go full speed ahead” with planting, spokeswoman Geneviève Ménard said. The exhibition is expected to open to the public June 22.
Last year, opening day was a slightly later June 30 thanks to some lingering frost risk, said Ménard.
The garden in Jacques-Cartier Park will be open daily from 10 a.m. to dusk until Oct. 15.
Mother Earth being worked on as we get a sneak peek tour of the MosaiCanada 150 gardens opening at the end of June in Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau.
A new marquis creation
The ethereal Mother Earth floral sculpture was last year’s hallmark installation. This season, she’ll have to share centre stage with a soaring new creation: the Tree of Birds will feature 56 endangered avian species from around the world, each weighing between one to three tonnes.
Construction was underway on the plant-and-paint covered metal sculpture Tuesday, with cranes hauling each bird to its perch on the tree. A structural engineer is helping oversee the project.
Workers water and assemble The Bird Tree, which pays homage to 56 species of bird that are endangered. The installation, being set up Tuesday, has birds with a ten-foot wingspan, is 16 metres tall with a crown of 18 metres. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
“A bird specialist would recognize them, they’re really faithfully represented,” said Louis Roquet, the chairman of Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal.
Cormier also let this newspaper in on a yet-to-be-announced secret: they’ve had a symphony piece composed to accompany the Tree of Birds installation.
An open casting call
Another of this year’s much-hyped new sculptures is the Man Who Planted Trees, based on a short story by French author Jean Giono, which gave rise to a 1987 Oscar-winning animated short film by the same name.
The Canadian Museum of History will be playing the short this summer, while more than 100 narrators will descend on the park to tell the story of the Man Who Planted Trees at sunset.
Ménard said her team will put out a casting call for narrators, and everyone’s invited to audition.
“It can be a five year old, or it can be a 105 year old.” The story has also been translated into more than 30 languages, so aspiring narrators of different backgrounds, tourists and locals alike will be welcome.
Plants!
Mosaïculture is upping the floral ante. Last year’s run saw three million plants, while this year, more than 5.5 million will sprout across the park. The number of plant-based sculptures has also grown to 45 from 33.
With all risk of frost gone, workers moved into high gear this week at Jacques Cartier Park, planting and setting up Mosaiculture 2018 Gatineau. Following last year’s triumph, Mosaic is back with 45 massive floral masterpieces, designed with more than 5.5 million plants for this year’s show, which opens June 22nd and runs through until October 15th this year. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Feedback received from last year’s visitors also prompted the addition of a new feature, Cormier said. People were always asking for the names of the different plants that comprised the exhibition. This summer, they’ll be able to name and identify all 200 species in a dedicated garden.
Bring your wallet
Unlike the free-to-see Canada 150 exhibition, admission to this year’s garden comes with a price tag — $20 for people 12 and older, or $15 for Gatineau residents. Reduced rates are available to seniors, students, youth and families.
Gatineau mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin put a call-out Tuesday to Ottawans: cross the bridge and come see us again. MosaïCanada 150 “brought our cities closer together,” he said, and thinks the same result is possible this summer.
Bonus: What is Mosaïculture anyways?
Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal describes it as “the most spectacular of all the horticultural techniques,” with roots that date back to the Renaissance. Mosaïculture blends sculpture, painting and horticulture.
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“The challenge is to present something more than last year,” Lise Cormier said Tuesday. Cormier is the vice-president of Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal, the non-profit behind the garden dreamscape that drew 1.3 million visitors to Jacques-Cartier Park during Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations.
While the visitor target for Mosaïculture is a more subdued 500,000 visitors, Cormier said her team is scaling up this year’s topiary art exhibition with more plants and individual sculptures, as well as a few novel ideas.
Here are five things you should know about Mosaïculture Gatineau 2018.
It’s opening earlier, thanks to a friendly forecast
With the rise of Tuesday’s full “flower moon,” a moniker for a full moon in May, and a forecast that looks clear of frost or major weather challenges, “we can go full speed ahead” with planting, spokeswoman Geneviève Ménard said. The exhibition is expected to open to the public June 22.
Last year, opening day was a slightly later June 30 thanks to some lingering frost risk, said Ménard.
The garden in Jacques-Cartier Park will be open daily from 10 a.m. to dusk until Oct. 15.
Mother Earth being worked on as we get a sneak peek tour of the MosaiCanada 150 gardens opening at the end of June in Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau.
A new marquis creation
The ethereal Mother Earth floral sculpture was last year’s hallmark installation. This season, she’ll have to share centre stage with a soaring new creation: the Tree of Birds will feature 56 endangered avian species from around the world, each weighing between one to three tonnes.
Construction was underway on the plant-and-paint covered metal sculpture Tuesday, with cranes hauling each bird to its perch on the tree. A structural engineer is helping oversee the project.
Workers water and assemble The Bird Tree, which pays homage to 56 species of bird that are endangered. The installation, being set up Tuesday, has birds with a ten-foot wingspan, is 16 metres tall with a crown of 18 metres. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
“A bird specialist would recognize them, they’re really faithfully represented,” said Louis Roquet, the chairman of Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal.
Cormier also let this newspaper in on a yet-to-be-announced secret: they’ve had a symphony piece composed to accompany the Tree of Birds installation.
An open casting call
Another of this year’s much-hyped new sculptures is the Man Who Planted Trees, based on a short story by French author Jean Giono, which gave rise to a 1987 Oscar-winning animated short film by the same name.
The Canadian Museum of History will be playing the short this summer, while more than 100 narrators will descend on the park to tell the story of the Man Who Planted Trees at sunset.
Ménard said her team will put out a casting call for narrators, and everyone’s invited to audition.
“It can be a five year old, or it can be a 105 year old.” The story has also been translated into more than 30 languages, so aspiring narrators of different backgrounds, tourists and locals alike will be welcome.
Plants!
Mosaïculture is upping the floral ante. Last year’s run saw three million plants, while this year, more than 5.5 million will sprout across the park. The number of plant-based sculptures has also grown to 45 from 33.
With all risk of frost gone, workers moved into high gear this week at Jacques Cartier Park, planting and setting up Mosaiculture 2018 Gatineau. Following last year’s triumph, Mosaic is back with 45 massive floral masterpieces, designed with more than 5.5 million plants for this year’s show, which opens June 22nd and runs through until October 15th this year. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Feedback received from last year’s visitors also prompted the addition of a new feature, Cormier said. People were always asking for the names of the different plants that comprised the exhibition. This summer, they’ll be able to name and identify all 200 species in a dedicated garden.
Bring your wallet
Unlike the free-to-see Canada 150 exhibition, admission to this year’s garden comes with a price tag — $20 for people 12 and older, or $15 for Gatineau residents. Reduced rates are available to seniors, students, youth and families.
Gatineau mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin put a call-out Tuesday to Ottawans: cross the bridge and come see us again. MosaïCanada 150 “brought our cities closer together,” he said, and thinks the same result is possible this summer.
Bonus: What is Mosaïculture anyways?
Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal describes it as “the most spectacular of all the horticultural techniques,” with roots that date back to the Renaissance. Mosaïculture blends sculpture, painting and horticulture.
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