Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada, September 5, 2024 – The International Garden Festival is launching a call for proposals to select designers to create the new temporary gardens for the Festival’s 26th edition, which will open on June 20, 2025, on the site of Les Jardins de Métis | Reford Gardens.

2025 Theme – BORDERS

Borders partition a whole, giving it a value of its own. Tangible without necessarily visible, they mark a distinction of state, nature and materiality. They “separate” digital from analog, inside from outside, garden from expanse, landscape from geography. Sometimes fixed, rigid or more or less hermetic, they can also be porous, ambiguous or multiple. Constantly renegotiated, borders also act as passageways, places of encounter and exchange. For its 26th edition, the International Garden Festival invites designers from all horizons to rethink the notion of borders in today’s post-colonial context, and to transpose their reflections into a gardenenvironment that blurs disciplines, renegotiates preconceived ideas about the garden/landscape, and actively dialogues with the visitor.

Deadline to Submit Proposals

The deadline to submit proposals electronically is Monday, November 4, 2024 at 17:00 EST. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted. All the details are available here: www.projects.internationalgardenfestival.ca.