“International Garden Festival – Student Design Competition.”

Alexander Reford, Director, Jardins de Metis, Reford Gardens in Grand-Metis, Quebec.

The International Garden Festival is the leading venue for the public exhibition of contemporary gardens and landscapes in Canada. Fore the past eight years the Festival has provided over 100 professionals working in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture and visual arts in Canada and abroad with a unique opportunity to create avant-garde ephemeral gardens and exhibit them to the public at large.

The LACF funding will assist with a new endeavour for the International Garden Festival a student design competition for 2009, the 10th anniversary of the festival. Students enrolled in landscape architecture and environmental design programs at universities across Canada will be invited to participate through a design competition. Providing there is sufficient sponsorship one to three winning teams will be selected to prepare detailed plans and drawings and to participate in the construction of the garden (by a professional crew).