Morrin Centre S.T.E.A.M Club gets cooking for the holidays…
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Mina Kim, 10, uses science to see what will happen when combining hydrogen peroxide with dish soap, food colouring and yeast in the chemistry lab. The Morrin Centre S.T.E.A.M. club (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) will have a holiday special event on Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. for registered participants to build and decorate festive gingerbread houses (Photo by Danielle Burns) 
Luca Sapienza is among the best drummers in What The Heck history. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin) 
This image shows the proposed QSL container terminal at the tip of the Port of Quebec industrial zone in Beauport. (Photo from QSL) 
Meb Reisner and Gina Klassen enjoy their Indian lunch at the Eastern Québec Learning Centre. Some 60 people attended the event, which raised funds for the Community Christmas Hamper Campaign. (Photo by Hugh Glassco) 
Lace up your skates, the rink at Place D’Youville is officially open! (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin) 
Young children had the best “seats” in the house as they gathered on the floor in the main aisle of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity to watch Aldo’s Christmas, a humorous adaptation of John Rutter’s Brother Heinrich’s Christmas, about a donkey who dreams of joining the Cathedral Choir. (Photo by Oksana Mukhina) 
As part of the year-long 350th-anniversary celebrations of the Archdiocese of Quebec, the first Catholic diocese in Canada, the vocal ensemble Voces Domini launched their album Musica sacra in ecclesia during the Nov. 17 mass at the Basilica-Cathedral Notre-Dame de Québec, presided over by Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, the bishop of Québec. Directed by Jean-Claude Picard, who also directed the male choir of the Basilica for many years, the vocal ensemble of eight local professional singers – Richard Duguay, Frédéric Corneau, Dominique Gagné, Gabriel Provencher, Robert Huard, Michel Légaré, Manuel Provençal and Michel Cervant – was formed to make this original recording, to perpetuate the beauty and promote the sacred art of Gregorian chant and the great polyphonies inspired by faith. Marc D’Anjou, organist at the Basilica since 1993, accompanied the singers. (Photo by Shirley Nadeau) 
The Orchestre symphonique de Québec (OSQ) under the direction of British guest conductor Dinis Sousa (second from left); soloists Tomislav Lavoie, Philippe Gagné, Rihab Chaib and Anna-Sophie Neher; and the choir of the OSQ, prepared by director David Rompré (far left), gave an outstanding performance of the eight movements of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s famous Requiem at the Grand Théâtre on Nov. 6. This was preceded by Richard Wagner’s delightful Siegfried Idyll and Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, also known as the Unfinished Symphony. Sousa is the principal conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the associate conductor of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras and the founder and artistic director of the Orquestra XXI in England. In 2023, he was the recipient of the British Critics’ Circle Young Talent Award. (Photo by Shirley Nadeau) 
Renowned Greek violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos enthralled the audience at the Palais Montcalm during his concert on Nov. 5. Alone onstage with his 1734 Stradivarius violin, he commanded their rapt attention for over an hour (with a brief intermission) as he magnificently played two sonatas and a partita, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) for solo violin, completely from memory. The artistic director of the Camerata Salzburg from 2007 to 2009, Kavakos has been a performer and guest conductor of several other American and European symphony orchestras. He has won many awards and recorded five albums in the past seven years. The concert was the first of Le Club Musical de Québec’s 2024-2025 season which features “New Musical Destinations.” The Israeli Chamber Project will perform Nov. 28. (Photo by Shirley Nadeau)