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About the International Garden Festival
Created at the turn of the new
millennium by Marie-Josée Lacroix,
Denis Lemieux, Philippe Poullaouec-
Gonidec, and Alexander Reford,
the International Garden Festival is
recognised as one of the most important
contemporary garden festivals in North
America. Since its inception in 2000,
more than 180 contemporary gardens
have been exhibited at Grand-Métis, and
as extramural projects in Canada and
around the world. Presented at Les Jardins
de Métis / Reford Gardens, at the gateway
to the Gaspé Peninsula, the Festival is
held on a site adjacent to the historic
gardens created by Elsie Reford, thereby
establishing a bridge between history
and modernity, and a dialogue between
conservation, tradition, and innovation.
Each year the Festival exhibits over
20 conceptual gardens created by more
than 70 landscape architects, architects,
and designers from various disciplines.
Over the years, the Festival has received
numerous distinctions, including the
Hector-Fabre Award (2007), given
out every two years by the Ministère
des Relations internationales et de la
Francophonie to an organisation that has
contributed to the international renown
of its region. dw
Festival International des Jardins du Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, "Bruissement d'ailes"
Photo credit: Martin Bond www.internationalgardenfestival.com
www.jardinsdemetis.com/en

Shaza Bazzi, Maëlle Bellemin, "Histoires à tisser"
Photo credit: Martin Bond

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