 Although they may appear randomly from time to time during the year, they are always visible in the cultural events such as the Winterlude in Gatineau, the Quebec Winter Carnival, the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival, the Quebec City Summer Festival, the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and the Festival of New France in Quebec.The National Circus School and the "École de cirque de Québec" were created to train future Contemporary circus artists.For its part, "Tohu, la Cité des Arts du Cirque" was founded in 2004 to disseminate the circus arts.