Montreal Planetarium New Program Unveiled
This season, the Montreal Planetarium is presenting a double feature of two quite remarkable productions.
ONE DAY… ON MARS
Multimedia show with live commentary
Location: Milky Way Theatr
Audience: Ages 7 and up Length:
40 minutes
Join an expedition to Mars and enjoy a thrilling immersive experience. You will dive into the depths of seemingly bottomless canyons and brave the violent winds sweeping across the Red Planet’s icy dunes. Set to original music by Dumas, One Day… on Mars takes you to a world that humans may well visit in just a few decades in our ongoing search for life there.
Produced by: Montréal Space for Life
Director and Scriptwriter: Maxime Pivin Lapointe
Executive Producer and Project Manager: Sébastien Gauthier
Artistic Director: François Guinaudeau
Assistant Director: Nicolas Didtsch
Text: Loïc Quesnel, Maxime Pivin Lapointe and Isabelle Pruneau-Brunet
Sound Designer: Benoît Dame
Production Co-ordinator: Jade-Anaïs Généreux-Gamache
Original music: DUMAS
Music co-produced by: DUMAS and Martin Roy
Graphic design and postproduction: François Guinaudeau, Nicolas Didtsch,Pierre-Guilhem Roudet , Antonin Gaud, Arnaud Mariat, Maxime Pivin Lapointe and Bruno Colpron
Commentary coaching: Véronique Pasca
This is the second filmographic work included in the Montreal Planetaruim's double feature:
ASTEROID: MISSION
Multimedia show
Co-produced by Sky-Skanand National Geographic
English narration: Sigourney Weave
French narration: Isabelle Blais
Location: Chaos Theatre Audience:
Ages 7 and up
Length: 25 minutes
Asteroids are both a danger and a fascinating opportunity for humankind. What if they could be used as way stations for future space missions? The challenges are enormous, but a mission so extreme could ultimately help us protect our planet and inhabit others.
Text: Annette Sotheran-Barnett and Mose Richards
Executive Producers: Brooke Runnette and Steven Savage
Producer and Director: Annette Sotheran-Barnett
Lead Animator: Troy Whitmer
Post-production: Scott Wyman
Music, Sound Editors: Pip Greasley and Dale Corderoy
French adaptation: Montréal Space for Life
Translation: Emmy Bos, Marc Jobin and Loïc Quesnel
Executive Producer: Sébastien Gauthier
Project Manager: Loïc Quesnel
Voice Director: Nicolas Charbonneaux
Sound: Peak Media and Benoît Dame
New exhibition – Mars Rocks
Montreal Planetarioum has also mounted a new exhibition Mars Rocks. Mars has fascinated humans for as long as we can remember. Human travel to the Red Planet is still a few years down the road, but you can already see pieces of Mars for yourself – up close! The Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium is presenting actual fragments of Martian meteorites, and explaining their astonishing voyage and the string of coincidences that put them on Earth’s path.
For further information and to purchase tickets online, visit the Montreal Planetarium's website website.
