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SAT Fest 2026

DatesMarch 24, 2026 – March 28, 2026
Where1201, Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2X 2S6
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1361151872479817/
Event by: Société des arts technologiques [SAT]


1201, Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2X 2S6
www.tixr.com/e/173653

SAT Fest is back from March 24 to 28, 2026, for a full week dedicated to fulldome cinema!
Experience 52 immersive films, participate in 9 professional activities, meet artists from 14 countries, enjoy networking opportunities, an awards ceremony, and a closing party.
Festival pass: gives access to the opening cocktail party, three evenings of film screenings, the awards ceremony, and the closing party.

Pro pass: gives access to the same events as the festival pass, plus three full days of professional activities!
Join us to discover the best of fulldome from around the world, connect with artists, and explore the future of immersion!
SAT FEST
March 24-28, 2026
For more details and to purchase your pass: https://sat.qc.ca/en/events/sat-fest-2026

Salon National de la Femme

DatesMarch 27, 2026 – March 29, 2026
WherePalais de Congrès, 1018 Rue de Bleury, Montréal, QC H2Z 0A1, Canada
https://nationalwomenshow.com/fr/shows/montreal-2/
https://www.instagram.com/salondela_femme/

Vente de succession

DatesMarch 27, 2026 – March 29, 2026
Where372 rue Sainte-Catherine O, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3B 1A2
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1618739599336361/
Event by: CIRCA art actuel


372 rue Sainte-Catherine O, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3B 1A2
Duration: 3 days

CIRCA art actuel annonce la tenue de la vente de succession de Jules Gaulin, membre profondément engagé dans la vie du centre.
Au fil des années, Jules Gaulin s’est investi avec générosité et conviction, contribuant de façon significative au dynamisme et au rayonnement de CIRCA. Fidèle à son attachement envers le centre, il a souhaité que la vente de ses biens soit entièrement versée à CIRCA, afin de soutenir sa mission et la vitalité de ses activités.
Son quotidien était entouré de véritables trésors. Collectionneur, Jules aimait s’entourer d’œuvres d’art soigneusement choisies, témoignant de son regard attentif sur la création. La vente comprendra ainsi plusieurs œuvres issues de sa collection personnelle.
On y retrouvera également de magnifiques vases de grandes marques telles que Alessi et Val Saint Lambert, des chaises de style victorien, de la vaisselle en porcelaine raffinée, des verres gravés en mousseline, ou encore des meubles et des tables au charme intemporel. Une collection éclectique et élégante qui saura séduire les amateurs d’art et d’objets uniques.
Informations pratiques

27, 28 et 29 mars 2026

4510 rue de la Roche, #2, Montréal, H2J 3J6

Modes de paiement acceptés : argent comptant ou virement Interac
Merci de votre soutien et de votre présence ! See less

OK LÀ! 28 mars 2026 - Still House Plants, Milkweed, Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki

DateSaturday, March 28, 2026
Time6 pm – 7 pm
WhereQuai 5160 - Maison de la culture de Verdun
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/907773078436260/
Event by: OK LÀ and Quai 5160 - Maison de la culture de Verdun


Quai 5160 - Maison de la culture de Verdun
www.okla.quebec

OK LÀ! et le Quai 5160 présentent fièrement:
Still House Plants (Royaume-Uni)
Milkweed (Royaume-Uni)
Natalia Koziel-Kalliomäki présente WARM DATA (Pologne)
28 mars 2026
18h00 au Quai 5160
5160 Blvd Lasalle, Verdun
Billets par ici - www.okla.quebec
Affiche par Aless MC
Meet your hosts
OK LÀ

Saturday night Contradance / Contredanse samedi soir

DateSaturday, March 28, 2026
Time6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Where7355 Ave Christophe-Colomb, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2R 2S5
Linkhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2307969006346175/
(Français ci-bas)
Contra dance is a high energy American folk dance accompanied by driving live music and taught by a caller. No partner or experience required! This dance will be called using the role names "Larks and Robins."

Music by our Open Band
Called by On Call, Montreal's Callers Collective

Patro Villeray, room R.01
7355 Christophe-Colomb
Montréal (Québec)
H2R 2S5
6:30 pm - 7 pm: Introductory session. Recommended for new dancers.
7 pm - 9:30 pm: Dance

There will be a snack table at the break, if you want to contribute and help ContraMontreal, bring some food to share!

Health and Safety
- Masks are welcome at our events and recommended during flu season
- Please stay home if you have cold or flu-like symptoms

Sliding Scale
Minimum: $8 (No minimum for children under 13)
Suggested: $15
Sponsor: $20 - $25
* You can buy your ticket in advance by sending an Interac transfer to info@contramontreal.org

To keep our floor clean, bring indoor shoes to change into. Also please bring your water bottle!
Please be aware that participants often take videos and pictures during the event, and those images may be used by ContraMontreal for promotion.

For more info, other dances, etc.: www.contramontreal.org
Write to us if you have any questions at info@contramontreal.org.
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La contredanse est une danse folklorique énergique de la Nouvelle-Angleterre qui est accompagnée de musique à cordes live et qui est enseignée par un calleur. Il n'est pas nécessaire d'avoir un partenaire ni d'expérience en danse! Cette soirée sera callée avec les noms de roles "Larks et Robins"

Musique par notre "Open Band"
Callé par On Call, le collectif de calleur.e.s de Montréal

Patro Villeray, salle R.01
7355 Christophe-Colomb
Montréal (Québec)
H2R 2S5
18h30 à 19h : Session d'initiation Conseillée pour les débutant(e)s
19h à 21h30 : Danse

Il y aura une table de collations à la pause, si vous voulez contribuer et ainsi aider ContraMontreal, amener une collation à partager!

Santé et Sécurité
- Les masques sont toujours les bienvenus à nos événements et recommandés lors de la saison de grippe
- Si vous avez des symptômes de rhume ou grippe, s'il vous plaît restez à la maison

Paiement flexible
Minimum: 8$ (Pas de minimum pour les enfants de moins de 13 ans)
Suggéré: 15$
Parrain/marraine: 20$ - 25$
* Vous pouvez acheter votre billet d'avance en envoyant un transfert Interac à info@contramontreal.org

Apportez votre bouteille d'eau et, pour que nous puissions garder nos planchers propres, vos souliers d'intérieur.
Soyez avisés que les participant.e.s prennent souvent des photos et vidéos pendant la soirée et que ces images peuvent être utilisées par ContraMontréal pour de la promotion.

Calendrier complet, info, autres danses, etc. : www.contramontreal.org
Si vous avez des questions, écrivez-nous à info@contramontreal.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/2307969006346175/

Les Vespérales / Musique rayonnante : OLIVIER ST-PIERRE / YVES CHARUEST– un tuyal, des tuyaux…

DateSaturday, March 28, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where1471, rue Ontario Est, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2K 1V2
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/850865017647624/
Event by: Les Vespérales de l'orgue du Sacré-Cœur and Yves Charuest


1471, rue Ontario Est, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2K 1V2
www.zeffy.com/fr-CA/ticketing/les-vesperales-musique-rayonnante-olivier-st-pierre-et-yves-charuest-un-tuyal-des-tuyaux

Yves Charuest et Olivier St‑Pierre interpelleront l’espace acoustique de l’église Sacré-Cœur-de-Jésus dans une exploration des parentés et différences de leurs instruments respectifs à travers le jeu délié du saxophone et la complexité sonore et timbrale de l’orgue.
Une coproduction de Musique Rayonnante et Les Vespérales de l’orgue du Sacré-Cœur, présenté en partenariat avec le Concours international d'orgue du Canada et Suoni per il popolo, avec le soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
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Yves Charuest est un improvisateur engagé dans la musique de création depuis plusieurs décennies. Ayant toujours consacré l’essentiel de son travail de création à l’improvisation sous diverses formes – improvisation libre, ensembles d’improvisateurs explorant les liens avec la composition écrite, free jazz – Charuest est connu pour son approche singulière, son sens du développement et son attention aux propriétés sonores et au potentiel formel des matériaux avec lesquels il travaille. Au fil des ans, il s’est produit en solo et en groupe au Canada et dans de nombreux pays (États-Unis, Royaume-Uni, Allemagne, France, Belgique, Pays-Bas, Italie, Autriche, Hongrie, Croatie, Serbie, Slovénie et Finlande).
Olivier St-Pierre est un compositeur, pianiste et organiste montréalais spécialisé en musique contemporaine. Après des études de philosophie, Olivier complète des concours en composition instrumentale et en analyse au Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, sous la direction de Nicolas Gilbert, Jimmie LeBlanc et Martin Bédard. Depuis 2019, il est organiste titulaire au Sanctuaire-du-Saint-Sacrement, à Montréal, où il anime une série de concerts dédiés au répertoire contemporain et à la musique de création pour orgue (« Les concerts du Sanctuaire »). Son approche compositionnelle, inspirée par la musique ancienne et la technique polyphonique et combinatoire, se centre sur l’exploration de la relation entre le son et le temps, en s’appuyant notamment sur l’usage de la microtonalité et de la polyrythmie, dans une perspective résolument expérimentale. Il a écrit pour une grande variété de formations instrumentales et d’ensembles, tant au Québec et au Canada qu’à l’étranger, et se produit régulièrement comme pianiste et organiste improvisateur.
Meet your hosts
Les Vespérales de l'orgue du Sacré-Cœur

Les Van Hornies en Instrumental et Brassaoke

DateSaturday, March 28, 2026
Time8 pm – 9 pm
WhereCafé La ligne Verte
Event: fb://event/1255525959873071

10$ à la porte (11$ avec carte débit/crédit)

Les Van Hornies vous font déchanter... ou pas !

Nous serons de retour au Café La Ligne Verte le 28 mars pour présenter notre tout premier spectacle de l'année et, par le fait même, lancer notre 10e saison de festivités !

Pour l'occasion, nous vous avons concocté un programme spécial mêlant nos grands classiques, des nouveautés et une surprise de taille : le Brassaoke (du karaoké accompagné par nos cuivres !).

Venez célébrer cette merveilleuse soirée avec nous et, tant qu'à y être, apportez votre plus belle voix !

taBURNak! 12e ÉDITION - 28 mars 2026

DateSaturday, March 28, 2026
Time10 pm – 6 am
Where2111 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2X 2T5, Canada
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1142217691079044/


1.2K people responded
Event by 'taBURNak!'
2111 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2X 2T5, Canada
Tickets · CA$54.58 - CA$86.53
www.eventbrite.ca/e/billets-taburnak-12-evenement-co-creatif-communautaire-artistique-et-humain-1979322010415

taBURNak! 12e édition : “BURNING MAN” A LA SAUCE QUÉBÉCOISE
(EN follows)
Tu as entendu parler de l’expérience “Burning Man” par la bande… et tu préférerais plutôt en vivre l’essence distillée le temps d’une nuit dans un lieu magnifique en plein cœur de Montréal?
On a le party qu’il te faut!
taBURNak!, en fait, c’est bien “plus” qu’un “party” : c’est LA porte ouverte vers une communauté incroyable de créatrices et créateurs talentueux.ses et excentriques qui font vivre à l’année des valeurs de partage, d’entraide, d’expression de soi radicale et d’inclusivité, sans compromis.
Immerge toi dans un univers pétillant de créativité, d’imagination et d’ingéniosité, dans un cadre sécuritaire favorisant le respect mutuel : chez nous, PAS DE JUGEMENT. Le CONSENTEMENT est le mot d'ordre.
Viens comme tu es, engouffre toi dans la magie de notre univers et laisse toi porter jusqu’aux confins de ton imagination par une myriade d’expériences exceptionnelles et troublantes.
NOUS SOMMES UN ORGANISME À BUT NON-LUCRATIF
Toutes les informations sur notre initiative : http://taburnak.org
== PROJETS / EXPÉRIENCES ==
Capsule temporelle de l’édition 11 : tu te rappelles peut-être de ta game d’échecs de 1:45am où tu as blâmé le brouillard pour justifier ta défaite? Ou de ta folle danse silencieuse à côté du Bar en ébullition? De ta photo en surimpression avec celle de ton crush de la soirée, que tu as amené.e ensuite faire un câlin de circonstances dans un peignoir interactif pendant le solo de saxophone? Les bouchées sucrées et salées qui ont magiquement apparu pendant ton down d’énergie du dance-floor?
Cette année, ce sont plus de
45 installations immersives et expérimentales, interactivités artistiques et culinaires, performances musicales et scéniques… et autres projets farfelus et uniques en leur genre qui reviennent te faire vibrer toute la nuit!
Les formulaires de pARTIcipation sont encore ouverts jusqu’au 2 mars 2026. N’attends plus pour participer/performer : on t’accueille les bras grands ouverts, lance-toi!
== BILLETTERIE ==
La billetterie officielle de l’événement ouvrira le mercredi 18 février 2026.
== VALEURS ET ENGAGEMENT SOCIAL ==
Tous les fonds servent à soutenir l’art et la communauté locale. Les organisateurs sont 100% bénévoles. Transparence totale : nos états financiers sont consultables ici https://montrealburners.com/
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taBURNak! 12th Edition: “BURNING MAN” - QUEBEC-STYLE
Have you heard about the “Burning Man” experience from your entourage … and would you rather experience its essence firsthand for one night, in a magnificent location in the heart of Montreal?
Oh do we have the party for you!
taBURNak! is really much more than just a party: it's THE gateway to an incredible community of talented and eccentric creators who bring to life year-round principles ​​of sharing, mutual support, radical self-expression, and uncompromising inclusivity.
Explore a sparkling universe of creativity, imagination, and ingenuity, in a safe environment that fosters mutual respect: with us, there is NO JUDGMENT. CONSENT is key.
Come as you are, immerse yourself in the magic of our world, and let yourself be carried away to the far reaches of your imagination by a myriad of exceptional and unsettling experiences.
WE ARE A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
All information about our initiative: http://taburnak.org
== PROJECTS / EXPERIENCES ==
If we crack open the time capsule of edition #11: perhaps you would remember your 1:45 a.m. chess game where you blamed the fog for your defeat? Or your wild, silent dance next to the boiling Bar? Your photo superimposed with that of your crush from the evening, whom you then brought for a prearranged hug in an interactive bathrobe during the saxophone solo? The sweet and savory bites that magically appeared when your energy waned on the dance floor?
This year, with over
45 immersive and experimental installations, artistic and culinary interactions, musical and stage performances… (and other quirky and unique projects) have returned to keep you entertained all night long!
Participation forms are still open until March 2, 2026. Don't wait any longer to participate/perform: we welcome you with open arms, go for it!
== TICKETING ==
Official main sale starts on Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
== VALUES AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT ==
All the money is used to support the art and the local community. The organisers are 100% volunteers. In the sake of transparency, all our financial statements are available here : https://montrealburners.com/

MONTREAL PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET # 12 - Presented by Loser Jamboree & Foufounes Électriques

DateSunday, March 29, 2026
Time11 am – 6 pm
WhereFoufounes Electriques
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/montreal-punk-rock-flea-market/4309212919333822/
Get ready for the return of the almighty LOSER JAMBOREE – A MONTREAL PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET brought to you by the legendary Foufounes Électriques & Loser Jamboree.

DRINKS! LAUGHS! STUFF! DUMB JOKES! COFFEE! AWESOME MUSIC! OUR FAVORITE PEOPLE!

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Préparez-vous pour le retour du tout puissant LOSER JAMBOREE, un MARCHÉ AUX PUCES PUNK ROCK présenté par les légendaires Foufounes Électrques et Loser Jamboree.

BOISSONS! RIRES! COSSINS! BLAGUES LOUCHES! CAFÉ! MUSIQUE QU’ON AIME! NOS AMIS VRAIMENT COOL!

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FREE / GRATUIT

29/03/2026

11AM @ 6PM

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SUBMISSIONS INFO TO COME

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Artwork by Francis Léveillée

(PWYC) Grantwriting workshop

DateWednesday, April 1, 2026
Time7 pm – 8:30 pm
WhereCyber Love Garden

Common Ground: Marion Schneider Residency Presentation

DateThursday, April 2, 2026
Time6 pm – 9 pm
WhereAda X, 4001 Berri Street, #201 and on Zoom
Join Marion Schneider for the presentation of her project carried out as part of her residency at Ada X from February 3 to March 27, 2026. Common Ground is a research-creation project that explores how digital art can become a space for improvisation, shared attention, and collaboration between humans, machines, plants, and fungi. At the crossroads of queer ecology, neuroscience, and media arts, it questions our ways of thinking about intelligence and seeks to decenter the anthropocentric perspective. The symbiotic audiovisual performance tool that Marion is working on uses EEG (electroencephalogram) brain signals, biosignals from lichens and mosses, and local artificial intelligence to generate images and sounds in real time. Discussion starts at 7pm and is facilitated by Dounia Bouzidi (in French). The event is free and open to all. Snacks and drinks will be served. Contact info@ada-x.org to register. [talk]

Buffet musical presents: 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓽

DateSaturday, April 4, 2026
Time5 pm – 9 pm
WhereVilleray
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1752628289046452/
Event by: Rosalie Chretien and Ben Grossman


· Anyone on or off Facebook
Buffet musical presents: Beast + Les Petits Plats de Rosalie
Les Petits Plats de Rosalie are back for Easter! Joined by the incredible duo Beast (Katelyn Clark & Ben Grossman — organetto + hurdy-gurdy magic).
Good food. Grand sounds. Sweet spring energy.
https://bengrossman.bandcamp.com/track/cetus
https://www.facebook.com/lespetitsplatsderosalie/
Saturday, April 4
5–9 PM (music around 7 PM)
PWYC, BYOB
Villeray (DM for address)
Come welcome the light with us
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Buffet musical présente: Beast + Les Petits Plats de Rosalie
Les Petits Plats de Rosalie reprennent du service pour Pâques! Le duo extraordinaire Beast composé de Katelyn Clark (organetto) et Ben Grossman (vielle à roue), se joindra au buffet.
Laissez-vous bercer par une musique grandiose et venez déguster un festin aux saveurs pascales
https://bengrossman.bandcamp.com/track/cetus
https://www.facebook.com/lespetitsplatsderosalie/
Samedi 4 avril
17h–21h (musique vers 19h)
PWYC, BYOB
Villeray (DM pour l’adresse)
Venez célébrer l’arrivée du printemps avec nous
Meet your hosts
Rosalie Chretien

FENCE HOP x Pikete

DateSaturday, April 4, 2026
Time8 pm – 4 am
WhereTBA - LOCATION SENT TO TIX HOLDERS ON DAY OF EVENT
Tags
Dance
Fence Hop and Pikete chart out the scenic route to the dance floor. Expect a sunset-to-sunrise blend of baile funk, Latin bass and renegade rave energy. TBA-LOCATION SENT TO TIX HOLDERS ON DAY OF EVENT - EMAIL US IF YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED IT: fencehop.party@gmail.com. JULY 4 Pikete and Fencehop join forces to deliver a not-tiresoe experience. DJ Campechano on 1990s - an outdoor rave from 8 pm to 6 am. We are being honoured by the international presence of NEGRACONDA for the affair. Open decks from 8-9. Come early play late! BBQ lunch 8-10 pm - because every match deserves a hot dog (veggies or meaty available). Drink a drink at our bar to help us support our talented band and these enormously important causes. Wanna volunteer or be part of our open decks? DM! Money is tight! Email! Flyer by @ecofig and @carimbvda. This is an outdoor renegade rave on the party could be cut short at any time. Its deemed when coming in and out of the space! And dress accordingly (including bug spray). We encourage you to respectfully and consent in what keeps the party going! Talk to a host or DJ if help is needed! Fence Hop is a community-centered event and artist collective that creates inclusivity, DIY gatherings in unconventional spaces, and now Pikete is helping in the spaces! It welcomes people of all backgrounds to come together in collaboration, conversation, creativity, and mutual care. Attendees are encouraged to use out-of-the-box solutions and their growing to show support from crew members when applicable. To strengthen, solidarity, and imagination in the Kahnén:kehá (Mohawk) Nation, a historic gathering place for many indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Métis, and we acknowledge that this land and waters and expresses its support.

Some Became Hollow Tubes + 1/4 Tonne Pysanka Heist + Fumerolles

DateSunday, April 5, 2026
Time7 pm – 8 pm
Where4848 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1R5, Canada
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1908747806450106/
Event by: Jesse Eckerlin, Eric Craven and 2 others
Venue: La Sotterenea


· Anyone on or off Facebook
The rabbit is out of the hat: this coming Easter Sunday, we are pleased to bring you an evening of droney, doomy, and exploratory sounds from three of Mtl's finest.
Fumerolles (Frédérique Duval) will open the evening with a rich tapestry of solo electronic sounds for inner and outer landscapes.
This will be followed by the collagist avant-rock improvisations of 1/4 Tonne, featuring Eric Craven on drums, Nick Kuepfer on guitar and reel to reel, and Mark Molnar on cello and electronics.
The evening will culminate with the hypnotic psychedelic excursions of Some Became Hollow Tubes, featuring Eric Quach from thisquietarmy on guitar and effects and Aidan Girt from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Exhaust on drums.
There will be chocolate.
Advance tickets available for 15$ + fees. 20$ at the door. NOTAFLOF
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Thank you to @thisquietarmy for the incredible hand-drawn poster. See less
La Sotterenea
4848 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1R5, Canada

Life Drawing Session - Every Monday and Thursday

DateMonday, April 6, 2026
Time6:30 pm – 9 pm
WhereMontreal Art Centre (Montreal, Quebec, Canadá)
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/life-drawing-session-every-mon/1239845240305247/
Join us for an evening of drawing and sketching.

Come and practice your drawing skills.
Share your experience with other artists!
All levels are invited!

Bring a friend!

Book online to ensure your spot (15 max).

We provide the easels and drawing tables.

Bring your own drawing & painting material.

Please arrive 10 to 5 minutes before the session.
$17

I Trespass Through The Lens

DateMonday, April 6, 2026
Time6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Where4848 Boul Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1R5
Tags
Film
I Trespass Through The Lens considers the potential of experimental cinema to link the parallel geopolitical histories of Palestine and Sudan. Through time and testimony, collective imaginaries converge and enter the frame. This screening is organized by Regards Noirs and members of Regards Palestiniens.

French Practice @ Replika

DateMonday, April 6, 2026
Time7 pm – 8 pm
WhereCafé Replika, 252 Rue Rachel E, Montréal, QC H2W 1E5, Canada
Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/boo-qxid-kys

Learn more about Meet at: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720

Alex Harding & Lucian Ban

DateMonday, April 6, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 9:35 pm
Where4873 Boul Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1R6
Tags
Music
Event by Suoni Per Il Popolo

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Suoni per il Popolo est fier de présenter Alex Harding @alex.harding.75054 et Lucian Ban pour une soirée intime. Avec DARK BLUE (sorti chez Sunnyside Records), les deux musiciens célèbrent leur fraternité musicale avec un mélange unique de morceaux originaux et d’improvisations inspirées des traditions du jazz, du blues et de la musique de chambre européenne. De l’avant-blues aux improvisations spontanées, des morceaux originaux aux ballades inspirées de Sun Ra (Alex collabore fréquemment avec le célèbre Arkestra), DARK BLUE est un document saisissant sur deux artistes à maturité, deux vieux amis qui conversent dans le langage du jazz moderne. Accompagnés par le trio local composé de superstars Allison Burik à la clarinette basse, François Zaïdan au buzuq et ben grossman à la vielle à roue ! À ne manquer sous aucun prétexte !
Suoni per il Popolo is proud to present Alex Harding and Lucian Ban for an intimate evening at Casa. With DARK BLUE (out on Sunnyside Records) the two musicians are celebrating their musical brotherhood with a unique amalgamation of original pieces and improvisations informed by traditions of jazz, blues, and European chamber music.…

Michael Snow: Orbiter Slates

DateTuesday, April 7, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 9:35 pm
Where7080 Rue Alexandra, Suite 508, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5
Tags
Film
Developed in conjunction with Satellites! — a previous exhibition at Emporium Builder Supplies — this event is a screening of three works by Michael Snow. Snow, an artist and filmmaker working throughout the mid 20th century in Canada sought to use a medium's materiality to draw attention to the sensory experience of viewing art. This selection of his 16mm films also features a discussion with André Habib, professor and historian of art and film; writer and experimental filmmaker Clint Enns; and researcher Léa Jusseau.

Librairie éphémère du CCA à l’Université Laval

DatesApril 8, 2026 – April 9, 2026
Where1 Côte de la Fabrique, Québec, QC G1R 3V6, Canada
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1710527099920261/
Event by: CCA, Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture


1 Côte de la Fabrique, Québec, QC G1R 3V6, Canada
Duration: 2 days

Pour une troisième fois, la librairie du CCA se déplace sur le campus de l’Université Laval à l’École d’architecture pour deux jours. Cette librairie éphémère, organisée en collaboration avec le Comité Culturel ÉAUL, réunit une sélection de livres et magazines d’architecture, d’urbanisme et de design, ainsi que les plus récentes publications CCA.
Le mercredi 8 avril à 18h, joignez-vous à notre rédactrice Victoria Addona pour une discussion autour de notre dernière publication How Modern : Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979, et future publication qui accompagnera l’exposition L’atout de la ville c’est qu’elle n’a jamais été parfaite.
N’oubliez pas d’apporter votre sac réutilisable ou procurez-vous le nouveau sac du CCA 2026, dont tous les profits seront versés à nos programmes jeunesse.
Cet événement est public, aucune réservation requise.
Horaire de la librairie :
8 avril : 12h à 19h
9 avril : 12h à 19h
Salle Jean-Marie Roy
École d’architecture, Université Laval
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For a third time, the CCA Bookstore moves to the Université Laval campus at the École d’architecture for two days. The pop-up bookstore, organized in collaboration with the Comité Culturel ÉAUL, showcases our latest CCA publications alongside a selection of books and magazines on architecture, design, and urban planning from other publishers.
On Wednesday 8 April at 6pm, join us for a discussion with our editor Victoria Addona about our latest publication How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979 and the upcoming book accompanying the exhibition The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect.
Don’t forget to bring your own bag, or pick up the new CCA tote 2026, with all proceeds supporting our youth programs.
This event is open to the public, no reservation required.
Bookstore hours :
8 April: 12pm to 7pm
9 April: 12pm to 7pm
Quebec, Quebec

Tiohti:áke: A History of Making, Using, Describing and Making Accessible Electronic Circuit Diagrams

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
WhereSchool of Information Studies, McGill University, 3465 Durocher, rm 223
A History of Making, Using, Describing and Making Accessible Electronic Circuit Diagrams 

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Vernissage: Dreamed Her Badly by Arta Ajeti

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 8 pm
WhereGalerie Nicolas Robert
Tags
Art
In her first solo exhibition, Arta Ajeti presents a new body of intimate graphite drawings based on a personal archive of photographic references. Feminine figures appear in shadowy, dreamlike scenes populated by wrecked cars, theatrical curtains, static-filled screens, stairwells, storm clouds, and ornamental surfaces, where glamour and decay sit in uneasy proximity. Using graphite, Ajeti pushes the image toward both clarity and breakdown, creating works suspended between memory, fantasy, and desire.

Artist Talk: In Conversation with Zohra Opoku and Mallory Lowe Mpoka

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 7:30 pm
WhereEspace Rodier
Tags
Community
Artists Zohra Opoku and Mallory Lowe Mpoka discuss shared concerns surrounding memory, materiality, and the transmission of diasporic histories. Both artists engage with the space between identity and memory as a means of movement and connection, bridging cultures, geographies, and time. This talk is part of a larger initiative titled "Networks of the Black Atlantic: Cultural Heritage, Knowledge, and Solidarity."

Vernissage: Histamine by Shahan Assadourian

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 9 pm
WhereCarrefour
Tags
Art
Carrefour is opening on Wednesday, April 8th with histamine, Shahan Assadourian's first solo exhibition. Located in Family's former gallery space on Laurier West, Carrefour is the brainchild of Sophie présente and Family. The show brings together an entirely new body of work that investigates Shahan's previous exploration of infection, emotional freedom, and cuteness overload.

Vernissage: A GOOD SLEEPER by Jérôme Nadeau

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 8 pm
WhereGalerie Nicolas Robert
Tags
Art
Jérôme Nadeau will present his solo show A GOOD SLEEPER. The paintings in the exhibition were developed through multiple phases. Images shift and transform from one state to another: drawings and photographs are digitized, compressed, translated into sound, then reconverted, printed, altered, scanned, and digitally reconfigured before being screen-printed at the limits of legibility. The works do not seek to illustrate or stabilize, but to probe what wavers: blurred thresholds of perception, zones of noise, surfaces shaped by error and uncertainty.

Vernissage: Patience by Tony Romano

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 9 pm
WhereCarrefour
Tags
Art
Patience is a solo presentation by Ontario-based artist Tony Romano. Carrefour is pleased to host Romano's work in Montreal, revisiting a selection of video and sculptural works produced between 2022 and 2024. This exhibition is made possible thanks to Franz Kaka.

Radio Snack Open Hours - Screen printing workshop

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 9 pm

Bio-Inspired Folding Techniques Workshop

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time1 pm – 5 pm
WhereMilieux Resource Room EV 11.455
Tags
Community
First workshop of the 'Reimagining Research' Spring Workshop Series. Hosted by Lucie Leroux (Laboratoire Textile, Montreal), in collaboration with Alice Jarry and Miranda Smitheram, this four-hour workshop introduces bio-inspired folding as a research-creation methodology at the intersection of design, engineering, and living systems. Moving beyond the representation of natural phenomena, participants will explore folding as a performative, speculative, and relational process that translates principles of growth, locomotion, deployability, adaptation, and responsiveness into material form. Through hands-on experimentation and an introduction to accessible techniques, participants will prototype paper and fabric structures, foregrounding folding as a medium for developing soft and adaptive applications. Part of the NFRF project Origami-inspired Deployable Sensoriactuator Soft Robots, co-directed by Hamid Akbarzadeh, Alice Jarry, Miranda Smitheram, Marta Cerruti, and David Meger. The event is supported by Hexagram: Research-creation network in arts, culture, and technology. Questions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca

Soca dance class with Nessa | All levels welcome

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
WhereConcordia University SGW Campus LeGym Studio D
Concordia Caribbean Student Union (CCSU), McGill Caribbean Students Society (CSS) and @nessafitriddim are teaming up to bring you a high energy Soca Dance Class you don’t want to miss 💃🏽🌴
All levels welcome, just come ready to move and have a good time ✨
Let’s create a space that feels like home, one wine at a time

DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR FLAG!🇻🇨🇯🇲🇭🇹🇰🇳🇱🇨🇸🇽🇹🇹🇬🇩🇬🇫🇩🇲🇧🇧🇧🇸

Finissage: Idyll and Labour

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
WhereVAV Gallery
Tags
Art
As Concordia rounds out the academic year the VAV gallery is hosting a finissage for Idyll and Labour, a group show featuring works by Renée Rothe, Kelly Halseth, Gemma Else and Laure-Charlotte Côté.

Vernissage: Le Jeu by Antoine Lussier

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereMes Pants de Queer
Tags
Art
Le Jeu is a photographic exhibition that explores the perceptions of day, the temporality of night. The intimacy of the body. The gazes cast upon the other that teach us about ourselves. How we look, what we feel. Lussier's work often employs experimentation, fragmentation and distortion to highlight feelings and spaces of intimacy surrounding the body. The opening reception is BYOB.

Parlons de mort!/ Let's Talk Death!

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time6:30 pm – 8 pm
WhereLa Feuille Verte Cafe, Montréal, QC
Tags
Community
Lightly guided discussion on all topics related to death and dying. Open to death care workers and the general public, offering a space to gather and be in community. This is not a grief support group. Discussion guidée, mais non formelle, sur tous les sujets liés à la mort et au deuil. Ouvert aux professionnels du milieu funéraire et à toute personne gravitant autour de cet univers, dans un esprit de rencontre, d'échange et de réseautage. Presented by TalkDeath + Montréal Death Care

Yolk Literary 6th Anniversary

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time7 pm – 11:30 pm
Where1050 Rue Beaubien Est, Montréal, QC H2S 1T4
Tags
Other
Six years ago a hundred people crammed into a small art space in Hochelaga, braving a typical Montreal blizzard, for the inaugural Egg The Poet, celebrating poetry and community and the birth of the city's newest literary journal. It's in this spirit that Yolk Literary has carried on over six years, amplifying the voices of writers and artists in Montreal and beyond. The event will have live music, dancing, pop-up poetry, limited edition merch, light food, beverages, and free goodies, and Yolk's first art exhibition since 2021.

Book Launch: There's Always More to Say

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time7 pm – 9 pm
WhereArgo Bookshop, 1841a rue sainte-catherine, Montreal QC
PriceFree
Tags
Community
Join us in store for the launch of Natalie Southworth's short story collection, There's Always More to Say. The author will be joined for a Q&A with Paige Cooper, author of Zolitude. In the title story, sisters sneak out of their unstable mother's apartment to find "reality," an experience with lasting repercussions. Southworth concentrates on moments of disconnection, family fragility and unexpected expressions of love. The stories focus on characters struggling to achieve what they think they should want despite the demands and loneliness of modern life. Infused with humour and verve, yet full of warmth, Southworth interrogates the quest for more and what it means when ambition clashes with private reality. Masks are not required, but will be provided for free at the door. For elevator access to the store, please contact us at least a day in advance.

DANCE OF THE DREAM MAN – Hommage à David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
WhereSalle Joseph Rouleau, 305 av Mont Royal E
Dylan Pinette is a Métis Two-Spirit multi-instrumentalist and composer from Sainte-Rose-du-Lac, Manitoba. Self-taught until arriving in Ottawa in 2022, Dylan has since performed with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Festival Classical, the Orchestre de la Francophonie, the Orchestre des Mélomanes, Hadron, and many others. Now based in Montreal, they are pursuing a Master's in oboe at McGill University. Two performances: 19h30 & 21h30.

Performers: * Dylan Pinette

Ways of Hiding / Nicky Band (HEX) / Vitamin Pink

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time8:30 pm – 11:35 pm
Where57 Rue Prince-Arthur Est, Montréal, QC H2X 1B4
Tags
Music
Ways of Hiding, Nicky Band (HEX), Vitamin Pink

Plural Foire d'art contemporain ✦ Plural Contemporary Art Fair

DatesApril 10, 2026 – April 12, 2026
Where200 de la Commune W., Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2Y 4B2
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1408607340965335/


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Event by Plural Foire d'art contemporain - Plural Contemporary Art Fair
200 de la Commune W., Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2Y 4B2
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Du 10 au 12 avril, la foire Plural accueillera au Grand Quai 38 galeries et 7 espaces projet en provenance de 9 villes canadiennes. Créée par l’AGAC, la foire Plural célèbre le meilleur de l'art contemporain au Canada !


Lieu
Grand Quai du Port de Montréal
200, rue de la Commune O.
Montréal, H2Y 4B2
En métro : Place-D'Armes ou Square-Victoria-OACI


Horaire
Vendredi 10 avril : 12 h à 21 h
Samedi 11 avril : 11 h à 19 h
Dimanche 12 avril : 11 h à 18 h


Tarifs
Admission générale (billets horodatés) : 25 $
Aîné·e (billets horodatés) : 23 $
Étudiant·e (billets horodatés) : 20 $
Passe 3 jours : 60 $


→ Achetez vos billets ici :
https://weez.li/ZWFYMHNV


*Gratuit pour les enfants de 15 ans et moins.
*Il sera également possible d'acheter des billets directement sur le site de l'événement.
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From April 10 to 12, the Plural fair will welcome 38 galleries and 7 projets spaces from 9 Canadian cities to the Grand Quay. Created by AGAC, Plural celebrates the best of contemporary art in Canada!


Location
Grand Quay, Port of Montreal
200 de la Commune St. W.
Montreal H2Y 4B2
By Metro : Place-D'Armes or Square-Victoria-OACI


Schedule
Friday, April 10: 12 pm - 9 pm
Saturday, April 11: 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, April 12: 11 am - 6 pm


Rates
General Admission (timed-entry tickets): $ 25
Senior (timed-entry tickets): $ 23
Student (timed-entry tickets): $ 20
3-day pass: $ 60


→ Buy your tickets here: https://weez.li/ZWFYMHNV


*Free for children 15 and under.
*It will also be possible to purchase tickets directly at the event site. See less
Visual arts

DOUBLE VERNISSAGE : Common Absurd + LUCABOT

DateFriday, April 10, 2026
Time5 pm – 8:30 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Local 301, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2L 4H2
Tags
Art
Event by OBORO

OBORO vous invite au vernissage de sa programmation du printemps 2026, présentant les expositions "Common Absurd" d'Adam Basanta et "LUCABOT" de Julie Tremble.
Joignez-vous à nous pour découvrir des oeuvres qui interrogent notre relation au monde, du microscopique au numérique, à travers la vidéo, la sculpture et l’installation.
L’équipe d’OBORO et les artistes seront sur place pour accueillir le public dans une atmosphère chaleureuse. Une belle occasion de célébrer le début de la belle saison, d’échanger et de rencontrer les artistes.
Entrée libre, bienvenue à toustes.
Plus d'informations sur les expositions ici :
oboro.net/exhibition/common-absurd
oboro.net/exhibition/lucabot
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OBORO invites you to the opening of its Spring 2026 Programming, featuring the exhibitions "Common Absurd" by Adam Basanta and "LUCABOT" by Julie Tremble.
Join us to discover new works that question our relationship to the world, from the microscopic to the digital, through video, sculpture, and installation.
The OBORO team and the artists will be on hand to welcome the public in a warm atmosphere. A great opportunity to celebrate the start of spring, exchange ideas, and meet the artists.
Free admission, everyone is welcome.
More information about the exhibitions here:
oboro.net/en/exhibition/common-…

Vernissage: Open House: Anne-Renée Hotte and Martin Schop

DateFriday, April 10, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereCollection Collection
Tags
Art
The Open House series, presented by Collection Collection, invites viewers to see the private collection as a space for exchange and reflection. The works chosen from within the collection reflect the collectors' singular perspective and shape an exhibition in their own image. This curatorial gesture explores collecting as a living practice, made up of correspondences, affinities, and shared narratives. This edition features works from the private collection of artist Anne-Renée Hotte and Martin Schop of Schop Framing.

Ambient Church: Laraaji 'Day of Radiance'

DateFriday, April 10, 2026
Time7:15 pm – 9:20 pm
WhereSt. James United Church, 463 Rue Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Canada
Tags
Music
Join us for a special performance by celestial music pioneer Laraaji, presenting an expansive live set drawn from across his radiant, decades-spanning body of work. Emerging from the downtown New York loft scene of the 1970s and known for transforming the zither into an instrument of ecstatic resonance, Laraaji's music bridges devotional practice, deep listening, and spontaneous improvisation. His performances weave crystalline tones, gentle rhythms, and meditative atmospheres into an unfolding journey that evolves in real time. Inside this historic sanctuary, immersive architecturally-mapped projections will bathe the space in shifting light, shaping a fully enveloping audio-visual experience.

Roma Carnivale / Dumai Dunai / Dead Gong

DateFriday, April 10, 2026
Time8 pm – 10:30 pm
WhereL'Escogriffe Bar, 4461 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2J 2L2, Canada

hyperpop 90s eurodance diva house with dj tong

DateFriday, April 10, 2026
Time11:30 pm – 1:15 am
Whereturbo haus
PriceFree
Tags
Dance
you already know what this is about - starts right after the low - dance music only

Printemps citoyen | Consommer différemment

DatesApril 11, 2026 – April 12, 2026
Where4101 Sherbrooke est, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H1X 2B2
Tags
Music
Event by Espace pour la vie

calendrier.espacepourlavie.ca/printemps-citoyen
Et si vos fins de semaine devenaient une source d’inspiration… gratuite et accessible à toutes et à tous?
Chaque fin de semaine d’avril, la série d’événements gratuits Printemps citoyen vous invite à explorer la transition socioécologique.
Une programmation pour tous les goûts
11 et 12 avril — Consommer différemment
Fabriquer et réparer
Emballages alimentaires en cire d’abeille
Cartes de souhaits recyclées et ensemencées
Éponges tawashi
Fabrication d’un lombricomposteur
Initiation à la vannerie
Réparation de vêtements et d’objets du quotidien
Écoconsommer
Découverte de la monnaie locale de Montréal (îlot)
Conférence sur le cycle de vie des objets
Démonstration de vélo cargo
Bouger en nature
Chorégraphie avec la nature
Randonnée guidée parmi les arbres de l’Arboretum
En famille ou entres ami.e.s, découvrez des ateliers, activités et rencontres inspirantes, en collaboration avec plus de 40 organismes engagés dans le rapprochement avec la nature.
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What if your weekends became a source of inspiration… free and accessible to everyone?
Every weekend in April, the free Citizen Spring series of events invites you to explore the socio-ecological transition.
A program for everyone
April 11 & 12 — Consume Differently
Make…

Bazar Vintage du Plateau

DateSaturday, April 11, 2026
Time10 am – 5:30 pm
WhereÉglise St-Denis, 5075 rue Rivard, Mtl, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2J 2N9
Tags
Other
Église St-Denis face au métro laurier. Samedi le 11 Avril 2026 de 10h@17h30. It's saturday, April 11th 2026. Passionnés de vintage? Le bazar vintage du Plateau est le lieu tout désigné pour dénicher, parmi nos 35 marchands, des objets de collection, des articles de cuisine, des vêtements, vinyles, décos, bijoux, jouets et plus encore. L'achat d'articles vintage est une bonne façon de penser vert et d'être

Brunch Belgo

DateSaturday, April 11, 2026
Time11 am – 1:05 pm
Where372 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Tags
Music
Event by Plural Foire d'art contemporain - Plural Contemporary Art Fair, Centre Skol and McBride Contemporain

En parallèle de la foire Plural, les galeries, centres d’artistes et ateliers du Belgo vous ouvrent leurs portes pour un moment convivial en présence de certains artistes. Pour un café ou une boisson, dirigez-vous vers le Centre des arts actuels SKOL, qui inaugure son nouvel espace café.
11 avril, dès 11 h
Édifice Belgo : 372 rue Saint-Catherine O.
→ La majorité des espaces ici-bas sont ouverts jusqu'à 17 h le samedi.
4e étage
✦ Galerie B-312 (#403)
L'équilibre des vrilles : Jacynthe Carrier, Hannah Claus, Andrée Levesque Sioui, Karine Locatelli et Kristel Tremblay
✦ Galerie Wishbone (#406)
Germinal : Mona Sugata, Nathan Bartley, Magdalena Rantica, Charlotte Caron, Amielle Clouâtre
✦ Atelier d'art photographique (#413)
Coups de cœurs photographiques : Jean-Claude Lussier
✦ McBride Contemporain (#414)
Holding Still : Michelle Bui & Kuh Del Rosario
✦ Chiger Art Contemporain (416)
American Scenery et autres vues d'ensemble : François Simard
✦ Espace DÈS_ (#418)
Lieux de passage : Jean-Francois Brière
✦ Louis-Bernard St-Jean Art contemporain (#423)
Exposition permanente et nouvelles œuvres : Louis-Bernard St-Jean…

Blind Field Shuttle Avec Carmen Papalia

DateSaturday, April 11, 2026
Time2 pm – 4:05 pm
Where3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance, Montréal, QC H2X 2K5
Tags
Art
Blind Field Shuttle (2010–aujourd'hui) est une performance de marche collaborative où Carmen Papalia guide de grands groupes de participant·es lors d'un parcours non visuel à travers des environnements urbains ou ruraux. Placé·es en file derrière l'artiste, les participant·es tiennent le bras de la personne devant eux·elles et acceptent de garder les yeux fermés pendant toute la durée de la marche, d'environ une heure. Prolongement de la pratique personnelle de marche de Papalia, cette performance invite les participant·es à mobiliser leurs sens non visuels tout en négociant collectivement les déplacements, les obstacles et le contexte culturel dans lequel la vision est dominante. À mesure que les participants avancent ensemble, l'œuvre révèle à la fois les barrières créées par la primauté du visuel et les réseaux de soutien interdépendants qui sous-tendent la culture du handicap. Blind Field Shuttle remet en question les idées reçues sur le handicap et l'accessibilité en considérant le handicap comme une expérience révélatrice et précieuse, et l'accessibilité comme un « espace temporaire et collectif ». Rendez-vous au Café du MAI – Parcours de marche à déterminer. Événement en français & anglais. Cet événement fait partie de la programmation public +.

A Taste of Queer Montreal Exhibition Vernissage

DateSaturday, April 11, 2026
Time2 pm – 5 pm
WhereArchives Gaies du Quebec (Les), 1000 Atateken #201-A Montreal, QC H2L 3K4
PriceFree
Tags
Art
Vernissage for A Taste of Queer Montreal: A Multi-lingual Exhibition of 2SLGBTQ+ Food and Drink History. See the new exhibition, hear talks from the curators, and enjoy the newly composed Exhibition House Mix Track interweaving oral histories, Montreal's historical house music, and new compositions. Talk/speeches will start at 2:30 pm. Free coffee, sparkling wine, and sparkling water provided. The physical exhibition includes materials from the Archives gaies du Québec, the Archives lesbiennes du Québec, and private collections. This digital exhibition available at cafequeermontreal.com compliments the physical exhibition. A free walking tour related to the exhibition is available at: https://www.cafequeermontreal.com/p/walking-tour-visite-guidee.html A database with 2SLGBTQ+ food and drink spaces in Montreal over time is available at: https://www.cafequeermontreal.com/p/directory-of-montreals-2slgbtq-food-and.html Exhibition curators and creators of the walking tour are Alex D. Ketchum, Al Dervisevic, and Kerrilee Commier.

Visite commentée d'exposition / Commented visit - Didier Morelli

DateSaturday, April 11, 2026
Time3 pm – 4 pm
Where5445, avenue de Gaspé, espace106, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2T 3B2
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1659477498812009/
Event by: OPTICA, un centre d'art contemporain l a centre for contemporary art


5445, avenue de Gaspé, espace106, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2T 3B2

Dans le but d'appronfondir des aspects de la programmation actuelle, le commissaire Didier Morelli partagera sous forme de visite commentée sa démarche curatoriale qui a mené à la réalisation de l'exposition
Street Actions : Women Performing in Montréal and Toronto, 1970-1980 [Actions de rue : femmes en performance à Montréal et à Toronto]
Commissaire : Didier Morelli ;
Artistes : Elizabeth Chitty, Marie Décary, Johanna Householder, Kamissa Ma Koïta, Francine Larivée, Lise Nantel, Bé van der Heide
Exposition présentée jusqu'au 13 juin 2026.
Visite commentée par Didier Morelli, samedi le 11 avril, 15h-16h
En présence des artistes Marie Décary et Lise Nantel
With the aim of exploring aspects of the current programming in greater depth, curator Didier Morelli will share his curatorial approach that led to the creation of the exhibition
Street Actions: Women Performing in Montreal and Toronto, 1970-1980
Curator: Didier Morelli;
Artists: Elizabeth Chitty, Marie Décary, Johanna Householder, Kamissa Ma Koïta,
Francine Larivée, Lise Nantel, Bé van der Heide
Exhibition on view until June 13, 2026.
Guided tour by Didier Morelli, Saturday, April 11, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
In presence of the artists Marie Décary and Lise Nantel

Vernissage: A Set of Favours

DateSaturday, April 11, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
WhereFais-moi l'art
Tags
Art
Organized by Jarrah Csunyoscka and Rosy Hanna, A Set of Favours is a group exhibition presenting sculptures, paintings and works on paper by Jarrah Csunyoscka, Joss D'Alton, Rosy Hanna, Stéphanie Alèxe Hébert, Beatrix Prior.

Étoile du Parc

DateSaturday, April 11, 2026
Time8 pm – 9 pm
WhereÉtoile du Parc
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/939198415272322/
Event by: Everyday Ago, Mel Azevedo and Jean Néant


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༽ Everyday Ago

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༽　༽　༽　༽ Miel
༽　༽　༽　༽　༽ LA ZONE
༽　༽　༽　༽　༽　༽ 8815 Ave du Parc
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8:30 PM
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Everyday Ago

Friperie solidaire queer - T'es mon genre

DateSunday, April 12, 2026
Time1 pm – 4:30 pm
WhereSalle 1.04, Patro Villeray, 7355 Av. Christophe Colomb (station Jean-Talon)
T'es sorti du placard et maintenant ton placard est vide? Viens le remplir! Ton placard est plein de linge qui ne te ressemble plus? Viens le vider!

Dons avant le 10 avril:
- CJE Centre-Nord (Villeray) 1378 Rue Jarry E (station Jarry)
- CJE Centre-Nord (Saint-Michel) 401-3565 rue Jarry E (station Saint-Michel)
- Ou au Patro le jour même.

Viens te chercher du nouveau linge (aucun don requis), jaser avec d'autres gens queer et peut-être repartir avec d'autres goodies!

Price: Gratuit / Free

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Artistic Prophecies: Occult Influences in Contemporary Art

DateSunday, April 12, 2026
Time2 pm – 3:15 pm
Where200 de la Commune W., Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2Y 4B2
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/artistic-prophecies-occult-inf/1427098358890033/
( 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐎𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐭 )
→ Panel discussion
→ Sunday, April 12, 2 p.m.

Presented by:
Espace art actuel and AGAC

Amid seemingly endless crises, several artists look to the occult in search of alternative ways of engaging with the world. Divination, spirituality, access to invisible realities: it becomes tempting to see the artist as a prophetic figure, tasked with rethinking the future in a present obsessed with projections, speculations and conjectures. This discussion, inspired by the latest issue of ESPACE magazine, "Prophecies", will be an opportunity to explore the scope and implications of the intersection between contemporary art, belief and the occult.

Moderator:
• Fanny Curtat, Art Historian, Independent Curator and Consultant

Panelists:
• Andrée-Anne Roussel, Media Artist and Filmmaker
• Horizon Factory: Erin Hill, Artist, Writer and Birth Support Practitioner & Nina Vroemen, Multidisciplinary Artist and Educator

🎟️ 𝘈𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮.

→ This event will be held in English, with interpretation in American Sign Language (ASL).

Sunday Afternoon Contradance / Contra de dimanche après-midi

DateSunday, April 12, 2026
Time2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Where7355 Ave Christophe-Colomb, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2R 2S5
Linkhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1162949596044654/
(Français ci-bas)

Contra dance is a high energy American folk dance accompanied by driving live music and taught by a caller. No partner or experience required! This dance will be called using the role names "Larks and Robins."

Music by McKinley James, Maia Dagher and François-Félix Roy
Called by Jonathan Werk

Patro Villeray, room 1.02-1.03 (double room!)
2:30 pm - 3 pm: Introductory session. Recommended for new dancers.
3 pm - 5:30 pm: Dance
There will be a snack table at the break, if you want to contribute and help ContraMontreal, bring some food to share!

Health and Safety
- Masks are welcome at our events and recommended during flu season
- Please stay home if you have cold or flu-like symptoms

Sliding Scale
Minimum: $8 (No minimum for children under 13)
Suggested: $15
Sponsor: $20 - $25
* You can buy your ticket in advance by sending an Interac transfer to info@contramontreal.org

To keep our floor clean, bring indoor shoes to change into. Also please bring your water bottle!
Please be aware that participants often take videos and pictures during the event, and those images may be used by ContraMontreal for promotion.

For more info, other dances, etc.: www.contramontreal.org
Write to us if you have any questions at info@contramontreal.org.
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La contredanse est une danse folklorique énergique de la Nouvelle-Angleterre qui est accompagnée de musique à cordes live et qui est enseignée par un calleur. Il n'est pas nécessaire d'avoir un partenaire ni d'expérience en danse! Cette soirée sera callée avec les noms de roles "Larks et Robins"

Musique par McKinley James, Maia Dagher and François-Félix Roy
Callé par Jonathan Werk

Patro Villeray, salle 1.02-1.03 (salle double!)
14h30 à 15h : Session d'initiation Conseillée pour les débutant(e)s
15h à 17h30 : Danse

Il y aura une table de collations à la pause, si vous voulez contribuer et ainsi aider ContraMontreal, amener une collation à partager!

Santé et Sécurité
- Les masques sont toujours les bienvenus à nos événements et sont recommandés lors de la saison de grippe
- Si vous avez des symptômes de rhume ou grippe, s'il vous plaît restez à la maison

Paiement flexible
Minimum: 8$ (Pas de minimum pour les enfants de moins de 13 ans)
Suggéré: 15$
Parrain/marraine: 20$ - 25$
*Vous pouvez payer votre billet en avance en envoyant un transfert Interac à info@contramontreal.org

Apportez votre bouteille d'eau et, pour que nous puissions garder nos planchers propres, vos souliers d'intérieur.
Soyez avisés que les participant.e.s prennent souvent des photos et vidéos pendant la soirée et que ces images peuvent être utilisées par ContraMontréal pour de la promotion.

Calendrier complet, info, autres danses, etc. : www.contramontreal.org
Si vous avez des questions, écrivez-nous à info@contramontreal.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/1162949596044654/

Reading: Spring Reading

DateSunday, April 12, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WherePolari
Tags
Community
A light spring reading to welcome in the warmer weather. Featuring words by Pamela Beyer, Maya Stewart Pathak, Jake Valente, Chloe Latour, Savannah Dalcourt, and Marie Ségolène C Brault.

Designing for the North: Sustainable, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light, Air Quality, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies

DateMonday, April 13, 2026
Time2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
WhereResource Room EV 11.705
Tags
Community
Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza. This lecture will present insights from research projects focused on improving indoor environmental quality in Northern localities. Dr. Espinoza Sanhueza is an architect, researcher, and educator dedicated to creating sustainable, carbon-neutral environments that place human well-being at their core. Her work integrates architectural design with environmental performance, using building parameters, light quality, indoor air quality, and thermal comfort, as levers for enhancing occupant health and spatial experience, specifically in Northern climates. Her research advances simulation-based methods, immersive visualization, and post-occupancy evaluation to support evidence-based design decision-making.

JenniCam@30: Thirty years of live streaming cultures

DateTuesday, April 14, 2026
Time10:15 am – 12:20 pm
Where1400 Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8
Tags
Community
Thirty years later, we will commemorate JenniCam's anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming practices. Keynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online), plus an in-situ conversation. Snacks and beverages will be provided.

BAD BRAIN Trivia No. 44

DateTuesday, April 14, 2026
Time8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Where221 beaubien est, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec h2s1r5
Event: fb://event/2251280775403057

Honestly, it's getting to the point I'm practically posting these after the show has already happened BUT here is your Facebook event for this month's Bad Brain show, which will feel comparatively normal after reading the morning news. Fatal hockey brawls, plastic surgery gone wrong, scientific racism, troubling old time slang, deep punk nerdery and more are on the docket this month. As always, it's free, you can play alone, bring friends, or make some pals on the spot (ask the host and I'll see if I can help set you up!), round winners snag a round of shots, winners on the night can grab a $30 bar tab or the seedy contents of THE MYSTERY BOX.

IFRC Research Bites: Tarcisio Cataldi

DateWednesday, April 15, 2026
Time12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
WhereIFRC HQ EV 10.705
Join IFRC for their next Research Bites session featuring Tarcisio Cataldi! 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 is a lunchtime series hosted by the IFRC that creates a space for members to share their work in a casual, conversational setting. Bring your lunch, meet fellow researchers, and join us for inspiring exchanges across disciplines!
Tarcisio will share his research on an Afro-Brazilian visual imaginary, drawing on the concept of Quilombismo as articulated by Abdias do Nascimento. In Tarcisio’s work, he explores how flags can be a powerful medium for speculation, reimagining collective symbols and narratives. Through research-creation, he investigates how national identities are deliberately designed and how they can foster new understandings of resistance and belonging in the Brazilian context. 
 
𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶 (he/him) is an Afro-Brazilian designer and artist born in São Paulo and now based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Committed to Black-centred creation through a Quilombista lens, Tarcisio specializes in speculative design and diverse cultural manifestations across design and art. His work explores the design, symbolism, and cultural significance of flags. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Universidade Estadual Paulista (São Paulo State University) and a Master’s degree in Design from Concordia University in Montreal. He currently works as a designer for the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre. 
 
 
 
 
April 15, 2026
12:30 PM
IFRC HQ, EV 10.705

Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series: Sustainable Design: Collaborative Practices of Heat, Energy and Environment-Making

DateWednesday, April 15, 2026
Time2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
WhereResource Room EV 11.705
Tags
Community
Second presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Iva Rešetar, an architect and interdisciplinary researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Iva Rešetar studied architecture at the University of Belgrade and the Städelschule in Frankfurt and received her doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts' Department of Digital and Experimental Design. Her dissertation critically examines the relationship between architecture and environmental technologies, searching out historical and experimental knowledge of thermodynamic processes of phase change in architecture – how they are sensed, mediated and acted upon in context of the current climate crisis. Her interests lie in fluid materialities, methods and practices of energy and heat, and their implications for environmental regeneration and repair of the built environment. Recent publications include Breath: Morphological, Ecological and Social Dimensions (De Gruyter, 2022), and Thermodynamic Structures: Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture (Berlin University of the Arts, 2025).

Projection & panel - A Chip Odyssey

DateWednesday, April 15, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
WhereCiné-Campus de l'Université de Montréal / Pavillon J.-A.-Desève / Salle B-6420 (6e étage), Montréal, QC
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/projection-panel-a-chip-odyssey-tickets-1984333029508

Projection de A Chip Odyssey suivie d'une discussion avec deux expertes sur l'impact géopolitique mondial des semi-conducteurs taïwanais. Plongeant dans cinquante ans d'innovation, A Chip Odyssey retrace l'ascension fulgurante de Taïwan au cœur de l'industrie mondiale des semi-conducteurs, devenue un pilier essentiel de l'ère de l'IA et de la fabrication avancée des puces. Le film met en lumière la manière dont cette industrie a transformé l'île en acteur technologique incontournable. La projection sera suivie d'une discussion avec les spécialistes Dr. Olga Alexeeva et Dr. Honghong Tinn, qui analyseront le rôle stratégique du secteur dans la trajectoire de Taïwan, son poids dans la rivalité sino-américaine et les risques systémiques qu'impliquerait une interruption des exportations taïwanaises vers les entreprises occidentales en cas de conflit. 17:00 - Remarques d'ouverture; 17:10 - Projection du film (VO mandarin avec STF); 19:00 - Entracte; 19:10 - Panel de discussion (anglais / français); 20:00 - Fin. Doors at 4:30 PM. All ages. Organizer: Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/projection-panel-a-chip-odyssey-tickets-1984333029508#organizer-card [screening]

Vernissage: Every Part of Me Feels

DateThursday, April 16, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
Where453 Rue Saint-François-Xavier, Montréal, QC H2Y 2T1
Tags
Art
Every Part of Me Feels explores somatic memory: how green spaces, damaged or destroyed by human activity, live on in our collective bodies. The exhibition presents the practices of Mila Figuet, Oriana Confente, and Bastik (Anick Jasmin), who explore the retention of emotional memory of Boisé Steinberg.

Vernissage: Artefacts by Concordia Design and Computation Arts

DateThursday, April 16, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereConcordia EV, 5th-6th Floor
Tags
Art
Artefacts is a showcase of graphic, object, and multimedia design bringing together the work of Concordia's Design and Computation Arts students. The show focuses on critical perspectives and sustainable approaches to materialism, crafting meaningful experiences that challenge design's role in contemporary and future societies.

Vernissage: Receptacle

DateThursday, April 16, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
WhereLes Forges de Montréal
Tags
Art
Receptacle is a foundry-focused exhibition that brings together advanced metal casting undergraduate students from Concordia. The show foregrounds the labour, process, and collective knowledge at the heart of foundry practice. The showcased cast works were developed in part from recycled aluminum and bronze. The exhibition invites viewers to find the art hidden within the everyday objects of the historical site.

The Antlers + Toth

DateThursday, April 16, 2026
Time6:30 pm – 11 pm
Where179 Jean-Talon Ouest, Montréal, QC H2R 2X2
Tags
Music
Blue Skies Turn Black présente The Antlers avec Toth au Bar Le Ritz PDB à Montreal. The Antlers en concert au Bar Le Ritz PDB le

Tatsuya Nakatani + Cosmic Diver + IARA108 (Shota Nakamura, Markus Floats, Kyle Hutchins)

DateThursday, April 16, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where4833 St Laurent Blvd, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1Z5 ) Date: 16 avril 2026 Portes: 19h30 Musique: 20h00
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1468117161638381/
Event by: Arts in the Margins
Venue: Club Español de Quebec - Club Espagnol du Québec


Club Español de Quebec - Club Espagnol du Québec
tickets.venuepilot.com/e/tatsuya-nakatani-cosmic-driver-iara108-2026-04-16-la-toscadura-montreal-855e61

English version follows.
Salle: Toscadura (4833 St Laurent Blvd, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1Z5 ) Date: 16 avril 2026 Portes: 19h30 Musique: 20h00
Billets: $15 plus taxes et frais en avance / $20 à l’entrée
Co-diffusé avec Mardi Spaghetti
Tatsuya Nakatani est un percussionniste d’avant-garde, un compositeur et un artiste sonore. Actif sur la scène internationale depuis les années 1990, Nakatani a publié plus de 80 enregistrements et effectué de nombreuses tournées, donnant plus de 150 concerts par an. Il donne des classes de maîtres et des conférences dans les universités et les conservatoires de musique du monde entier. Originaire du Japon, il vit dans la ville désertique de Truth or Consequences, au Nouveau-Mexique. Grâce à ses activités dans les domaines de la musique nouvelle, de l’improvisation et de la musique expérimentale, Nakatani multiplie les collaborations.
La musique de Nakatani est centrée sur un gong adapté pour être joué à l’archet, soutenu par un ensemble de tambours, de cymbales et de bols chantants. Avec ses archets Kobo qu’il sculpte à la main, il a consacré des décennies à affiner et développer son univers sonore : un agencement de vibrations qui s’enlisent dans des strates scintillantes de silence et de texture. Au cœur de cette œuvre contemporaine, on perçoit encore le rythme dramatique, l’élégance formelle et l’espace (ma) caractéristiques de la musique traditionnelle japonaise.
Cosmic Diver est un duo de performance sonore et vidéo composé de Lina Choi et Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic qui explore un monde sous-marin imaginaire où les frontières entre les profondeurs de la mer et l'espace s'estompent. À travers des paysages sonores immersifs, le duo invite le public à dériver entre les dimensions dans un état onirique.
IARA108 présente son tout premier concert avec Shota Nakamura à la guitare et au chant, Markus Floats à la basse et Kyle Hutchins à la batterie.
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Venue: Toscadura (4388 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1Z5) Date: April 16, 2026 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15.00 plus taxes and fees in advance / $20.00 at the door
Co-presented with Mardi Spaghetti
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.
Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.
Cosmic Diver is a duo sound-video performance comprised of Lina Choi and Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic fthat explores an imaginary underwater world blurring the lines between the deep sea and outer space. Through immersive soundscapes, they invite the audience to drift between these realms in a dreamlike state.
IARA108 presents their first live set ever with Shota Nakamura on guitar and vocals, Markus Floats on bass and Kyle Hutchins on drums. See less

Media Stuff: A Panel on Material Media Cultures

DateFriday, April 17, 2026
Time2 pm – 4 pm
WhereGEM Lab, FB 630.15
Tags
Community
w/ Dr. Meredith Bak, Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott, and Pat Bonner. Respondant: Dr. Haidee Wasson. As film moves to television and television to our pockets, the material conditions of everyday media consumption appear once again to have changed. But not only are past and present media practices more varied, unpredictable, and historically-rooted, they also challenge the (still dominant) visual-centricism of spectatorship studies. Indeed, our sensory experiences (of sound, touch, smell, etc.) are shaped and stimulated by diverse material forms, emotional attachments, and expressive rituals. Drawing on cultural history, media archaeology, and ordinary media stuff, this panel reconsiders the present focus on smartphones, social media and streaming by exploring transformations in material media cultures since the 1980s: toy voice devices, comfort viewing, and interactive video. Together, these talks examine the cultural politics of media consumption in recent decades. Presentations: Meredith Bak - Talking Back: Mediating the 90s Child's Voice; Caetlin Benson-Allott - The Material Culture of Comfort Viewing; Pat Bonner - Video Kids: How Home Video Transformed (Canadian) Children's Television

Climate-Responsive Architecture: Geometries, Materials & Design Futures

DateFriday, April 17, 2026
Time2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
WhereResource Room EV 11.705
Tags
Community
Third presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Zherui Wang. Zherui Wang is a designer and building technology researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. His work focuses on devising architectural methods for cooling and climate-response design for extreme heat while being mindful of material use. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E program, his PhD research explores the design integration of structural form-finding and building thermal mass performance, informed by architectural geometry, materials science, and life cycle thinking. He is a co-author of Hydroculus, an evaporative and radiative cooling roof prototype that was exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale and received a Holcim Foundation Award for Sustainable Design and Construction. Previously, Wang was an Academic Professional Researcher at CHAOS Lab in Princeton. He has practiced in design roles at Barkow Leibinger Architects and served on the design faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, and State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was named the 2020-21 Reyner Banham Fellow. Wang holds a BArch from Pratt Institute, a post-professional MArch from Princeton University, and a graduate certificate in Energy Policy from the Penn Kleinman Center.

New Moon Deep Listening Weekend

DateFriday, April 17, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where5540 Casgrain Ave, Montreal, QC
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3839269572872692/3839269579539358/
Event by: ‎Ayelet Rose Gottlieb איילת רוז גוטליב‎


5540 Casgrain Ave, Montreal, QC
www.naada.ca


March 12 | Online
April 17-19 | In Person (Montreal, Naada Yoga)
For this New Moon Deep Listening Weekend, three certified Deep Listening facilitators - Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Kathy Kennedy, and Katie Down - offer a rich series of experiences inspired by the work of feminist composer Pauline Oliveros.
This two-day, in-person workshop, preceded by an online introduction and a concert, invites participants to reconnect with their voices, bodies, and listening awareness through Deep Listening practices, vocal improvisation, sound walks, guided meditations, and free writing. No prior experience with Deep Listening or music is required—only curiosity and openness.
What Is Deep Listening?
Deep Listening is a practice developed by feminist composer Pauline Oliveros that cultivates heightened awareness of sound, self, and environment. Through simple, often playful practices, including text scores (short written instructions that invite collective attention and sound-making), participants are encouraged to listen deeply to themselves, others, and the world.
Schedule of Events
Free Online Introduction
Thursday, March 12 | 7:30–8:30 pm (Zoom)
A free online gathering offering a taste of what’s to come and an introduction to the facilitators and practices.
Concert
Friday, April 17 | 7:30–9:00 pm
(New Moon in Aries)
An evening concert featuring text scores by Kathy Kennedy and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb from A Year of Deep Listening, alongside selected compositions by Pauline Oliveros.
In-Person Workshop
Saturday, April 18 & Sunday, April 19 | 1:00–6:00 pm
Location: Naada Yoga Studio, Montreal
Over two afternoons, participants will engage in:
* Sound walks
* Vocal improvisation
* Deep Listening practices
* Guided meditations
* Free writing
Participants may attend any or all events.
This weekend is open to all genders.
Registration & Fees
Online Session (March 12): FREE
Concert (April 17): $15
Workshop (Saturday): $75 / $60 early bird (ends March 18)
Workshop (Sunday): $75 / $60 early bird (ends March 18)
Maximum participants: 30
Registration: Please contact Naada Yoga
https://www.naada.ca/
Your Facilitators:
Katie Down is a New York–based sound artist, flutist, composer, music psychotherapist, and certified Deep Listening facilitator. Her work spans sound art, free improvisation, folk, jazz, and experimental music, using both traditional and found-object instruments. Katie has created sound scores for theatre, dance, and film, earning Drama Desk nominations and a Connecticut Critics Circle Award. She has taught music therapy at SUNY and is a frequent guest lecturer at NYU, Vassar, and the School of Visual Arts.
https://www.katiedown.com/
Kathy Kennedy is a Montreal-based sound artist with training in visual art and classical voice. Her practice explores voice, technology, and public space through telephony, radio, and large-scale participatory works. She is a founder of Studio XX (now Ada-X) and the women’s choral ensemble Choeur Maha. Kathy teaches music at Concordia University and regularly leads workshops on listening, acoustic ecology, and vocal improvisation.
https://kathykennedy.ca/


“Gottlieb is one of those singers…whose voice can convey great power and soul, even when singing in a language unfamiliar to listeners.” — Jazziz Magazine
Jerusalem-born, Montreal-based vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb is an international performer and composer whose work blends jazz, Middle Eastern and Jewish music, contemporary composition, and conceptual improvisation. Her collaborations include John Zorn, ETHEL, IONE, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Her recent recording with Dream Keepers - DUST - is currently a finalist for the Opus Prize for “Album of the Year” in the World Music category.
www.ayeletrose.com See less

New Moon Deep Listening Weekend

DateSaturday, April 18, 2026
Time1 pm – 6 pm
Where5540 Casgrain Ave, Montreal, QC
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3839269572872692/3839269589539357
Event by: ‎Ayelet Rose Gottlieb איילת רוז גוטליב‎


5540 Casgrain Ave, Montreal, QC
www.naada.ca


March 12 | Online
April 17-19 | In Person (Montreal, Naada Yoga)
For this New Moon Deep Listening Weekend, three certified Deep Listening facilitators - Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Kathy Kennedy, and Katie Down - offer a rich series of experiences inspired by the work of feminist composer Pauline Oliveros.
This two-day, in-person workshop, preceded by an online introduction and a concert, invites participants to reconnect with their voices, bodies, and listening awareness through Deep Listening practices, vocal improvisation, sound walks, guided meditations, and free writing. No prior experience with Deep Listening or music is required—only curiosity and openness.
What Is Deep Listening?
Deep Listening is a practice developed by feminist composer Pauline Oliveros that cultivates heightened awareness of sound, self, and environment. Through simple, often playful practices, including text scores (short written instructions that invite collective attention and sound-making), participants are encouraged to listen deeply to themselves, others, and the world.
Schedule of Events
Free Online Introduction
Thursday, March 12 | 7:30–8:30 pm (Zoom)
A free online gathering offering a taste of what’s to come and an introduction to the facilitators and practices.
Concert
Friday, April 17 | 7:30–9:00 pm
(New Moon in Aries)
An evening concert featuring text scores by Kathy Kennedy and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb from A Year of Deep Listening, alongside selected compositions by Pauline Oliveros.
In-Person Workshop
Saturday, April 18 & Sunday, April 19 | 1:00–6:00 pm
Location: Naada Yoga Studio, Montreal
Over two afternoons, participants will engage in:
* Sound walks
* Vocal improvisation
* Deep Listening practices
* Guided meditations
* Free writing
Participants may attend any or all events.
This weekend is open to all genders.
Registration & Fees
Online Session (March 12): FREE
Concert (April 17): $15
Workshop (Saturday): $75 / $60 early bird (ends March 18)
Workshop (Sunday): $75 / $60 early bird (ends March 18)
Maximum participants: 30
Registration: Please contact Naada Yoga
https://www.naada.ca/
Your Facilitators:
Katie Down is a New York–based sound artist, flutist, composer, music psychotherapist, and certified Deep Listening facilitator. Her work spans sound art, free improvisation, folk, jazz, and experimental music, using both traditional and found-object instruments. Katie has created sound scores for theatre, dance, and film, earning Drama Desk nominations and a Connecticut Critics Circle Award. She has taught music therapy at SUNY and is a frequent guest lecturer at NYU, Vassar, and the School of Visual Arts.
https://www.katiedown.com/
Kathy Kennedy is a Montreal-based sound artist with training in visual art and classical voice. Her practice explores voice, technology, and public space through telephony, radio, and large-scale participatory works. She is a founder of Studio XX (now Ada-X) and the women’s choral ensemble Choeur Maha. Kathy teaches music at Concordia University and regularly leads workshops on listening, acoustic ecology, and vocal improvisation.
https://kathykennedy.ca/


“Gottlieb is one of those singers…whose voice can convey great power and soul, even when singing in a language unfamiliar to listeners.” — Jazziz Magazine
Jerusalem-born, Montreal-based vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb is an international performer and composer whose work blends jazz, Middle Eastern and Jewish music, contemporary composition, and conceptual improvisation. Her collaborations include John Zorn, ETHEL, IONE, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Her recent recording with Dream Keepers - DUST - is currently a finalist for the Opus Prize for “Album of the Year” in the World Music category.
www.ayeletrose.com See less

Artisanat queer d'avril - April Queer Crafting

DateSaturday, April 18, 2026
Time1 pm – 5 pm
WhereCafé les Oubliettes
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/artisanat-queer-davril-april-q/929353046747283/
(description en français plus bas)

Where?
Café Les Oubliettes

When?
Event starts at 1 pm and ends at 5 pm. Come anytime during that time!

Is it wheelchair accessible?
There is a ramp. However the bathrooms are not adapted.

Do they have food?
They have a full menu, including brunch, along with coffee and tea.

What can I bring?
You can bring any crafting or art project you like, just nothing messy, as this is a café and not a studio. You don't need to be an expert craftster either, we're all just there to hang out.

Do I need to bring a craft project?
You don't actually! Most people do, but you can totally stop by to just chat, draw, work, whatever you feel like.

❤️🧶🖍️🪡✂️🧶🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️🧶✂️🪡🖍️🧶❤️🎉🎊

Où?
Café les Oubliettes

Quand?
On est là à partir de 13h jusqu’à 17h. Présentez-vous n'importe quand durant cette période.

Est-ce accessible par chaise roulante?
Il y a une rampe. Toutefois, les toilettes ne sont pas adaptées.

Est-ce qu'ils ont de la bouffe?
Oui, ils ont un menu complet, en plus d'options brunch la fin de semaine, et de cafés et thé.

Qu'est-ce que je peux amener?
N'importe quel projet d'artisanat ou d'art, tant que c'est pas salissant. C'est un café, pas un studio. Pas besoin d'être un.e expert.e en artisanat non plus, on est juste là pour passer du bon temps.

Est-ce qu'il faut que j'amène un projet d'artisanat?
Non tu n'es pas obligé-e! La plupart de personnes auront un projet, mais tu peux tout à fait juste venir pour jaser, travailler, dessiner, peu importe ce que tu veux!

Raffi | Place des Arts

DatesApril 18, 2026 – April 19, 2026
WherePlace des Arts
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1035121581906366/
Event by: evenko and Place des Arts


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Raffi sera de passage à la Place des Arts le 18 et 19 avril 2026!
Billets en vente vendredi 10h
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Raffi is coming to Place des Arts on April 18th and 19th!
Tickets on sale Friday at 10am See less
Meet your hosts
evenko

An Evening of Sound and Light / Soirée son et image

DateSaturday, April 18, 2026
Time7 pm – 9 pm
Where7080 Rue Alexandra, Suite 508, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5
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Music
An Evening of Sound and Light featuring Kathy Kennedy + Allison Moore, Rosalie Chretien + Graham Beverley & Jeremy Sklad, and Asha Tamirisa

[COMPLET] Angine de Poitrine au Club Soda - Lancement Vol.II

DateSaturday, April 18, 2026
Time8 pm – 11 pm
WhereClub Soda
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/complet-angine-de-poitrine-au-/1421182492954455/
La phase Vol.I s'est avérée un franc succès. Jusqu'où la phase Vol.II mènera les frères de poitrine ? Soyez témoins du décollage de ce nouveau chapitre le samedi 18 avril 2026 pour la rentrée montréalaise !

Nouveau single Mata-Zyklek🔺: https://m.releaseradar.ca/AnginedePoitrine-MataZyklek

COMPLET
Supplémentaire (3 avril) : https://lepointdevente.com/billets/clb260403001

Porte 18h30, Show 20h

Quelques invités surprises fouleront la scène avant la performance de Klek et Khn.

DIY Skill Sharing Day Tech Disobedience

DateSunday, April 19, 2026
Time1 pm – 7 pm
WhereBâtiment 7, 1900 Rue le Ber, Montréal, QC H3K 2A4, Canada

Vernissage: To Move Across the Land: What Survives When Borders Fail

DateSunday, April 19, 2026
Time2 pm – 4:05 pm
WhereGalerie d'art Stewart Hall
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Art
As part of the eighth edition of the Indigenous Contemporary Art Biennial, this exhibition brings together a wide breadth of Indigenous and diasporic artists whose work explores cultural survival, spiritual continuity, and embodied knowledge within their contexts shaped by colonial borders, displacement, and erasure. An ancestral tattooing performance by Megan Samms, Dion Kaszas, and Dr. Mel Lefebvre will take place as part of the reception.

Info/Training Event - Guerilla Grafting

DateSunday, April 19, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
Where1900 Rue Le Ber, Montréal, QC H3K 2A4
Tags
Community
Training event at the end of a day-long event focused on learning various skills. The space is behind the main building so you need to walk outside to the left of the main building that faces the street until you see the sign for 'Recyborg'. This event will be similar to the other ones but it would be helpful to brush up on your skills before our spring campaign begins even if you've come before. This may be the last one before we begin doing the real grafting in May. There will be regular meetups throughout May and June but the plan is for none of them to be focused on learning how to do the technique, discussing the concept of guerrilla grafting, the reasons for doing it, etc. Having said that, if you fail to come to even a single training event, you are still welcome at the events in May and June.

Cookout session #1: Recipe Methodology in AI

DateTuesday, April 21, 2026
Time1 pm – 3:30 pm
WhereSpeculative Life EV 10.625
Tags
Community
Many, Many Machine Agencies' Writing Workshop. AI Chantier of the Hexagram Network brings together maker-thinkers whose work spans machine learning, interaction design, and experience design, to create a community of practice through a publication process. Prompting potential contributors with an unusual format, Many, Many Machine Agencies asks for recipes, instructions, or games that centre the problem of agency and interaction and the importance of new kinds of encounters with machines. This edited collection is indeed a kind of a cookbook for engaging critically with machines, and as such, we take inspiration from celebrated cookbook authors, like MFK Fisher, who provide recipes and instructions for dishes, while embedding them in a broader biographical and cultural narrative. This cookout session invites contributors to the AI Chantier publication drive to: Learn more about the recipe methodology and its relevance for engaging with machine agencies and AI, To talk about their writing project (share ingredients) and get feedback, Get a clearer picture about what the publishing process will look like. Prospective authors and those curious about the project are invited to participate. This activity is produced in collaboration with Machine Agencies and Milieux Institute's Speculative Life Cluster as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters. To register or for any questions, please contact nicole.debrabandere@gmail.com

5@Tech: We organize ourselves together

DateTuesday, April 21, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Suite 301, Montréal, QC H2L 4H2
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CommunitySocialDemos
Fourth 5@tech of the year, presented in collaboration with OBORO. Extended lab hours, a chance to meet other members, share your knowledge, and experiment with our equipment in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Recent graduate? Slightly stressed student? Or just someone with opinions? Come give advice, receive it, or simply enjoy good company. No degree required. Open to all – members and non-members welcome! Bring your friends! Please confirm your attendance in advance by email info@ada-x.org

Conversation: Jakob Kudsk Steensen and Daniel Fiset

DateTuesday, April 21, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
Where407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
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Community
Conversation between artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen and curator Daniel Fiset

La Saqueboute électronique de Hugh Le Caine: inventions et imaginations, 1945-2026

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5 pm – 7 pm
WhereÉcole des Arts Médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal
La Saqueboute électronique de Hugh Le Caine: inventions et imaginations, 1945-2026. Salle à déterminer [talk]

5 à SAT - Inclusive Design

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
WhereESPACE SAT
PriceFree
Tags
Community
A 5 à SAT focused on inclusive design bringing together the Living Lab in immersion and the new Department of Design at ÉTS to celebrate the launch of their new collaboration. At the intersection of academic research and field experimentation, this initiative aims to explore, experiment with, and create more accessible and inclusive immersive experiences. This event is intended to be a forum for discussion and bringing together communities affected by this issue. Goal: open up the discussion, get to know you, and discover your projects. RSVP (free) and full feature via the link in the bio.

Vernissage: Otherworlds by Jakob Kudsk Steensen

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:35 pm
Where407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
Tags
Art
Experience an immersive exhibition by Jakob Kudsk Steensen that explores contemporary ecological realities through virtual reality, sound, and video installations. Drawing from global fieldwork, the artist creates speculative digital worlds that blend scientific observation with imagination to examine the impacts of climate change. Featuring interconnected works, including the North American premiere of Psychosphere (2025), the exhibition unfolds as a layered, dreamlike narrative.

Hugh MacLennan Lecture | Author Maria Reva in Conversation (Hybrid)

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7 pm
WhereChancellor Day Hall, McGill University
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/hugh-maclennan-lecture-author-/1663264621354244/
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The Friends of the McGill Libraries and Blue Metropolis Literary Festival are delighted to present the 2026 Hugh MacLennan Lecture featuring Maria Reva, author of fiction and opera libretti.

Maria Reva's debut novel, Endling, was winner of the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, a finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award, and longlisted for the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize. It was named a best book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail, New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, and many others. She won a National Magazine Award in 2019 and was a finalist for the 2020 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for her debut short story collection, Good Citizens Need Not Fear. Maria Reva's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney's, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She was born in Ukraine and grew up in British Columbia, where she now lives.

The evening will feature a conversation between Maria Reva and Allan Hepburn, James McGill Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at McGill University. Professor Hepburn's research focuses on the novel - British, American, Irish, Canadian. His areas of interest include modernism; contemporary fiction, twentieth-century fiction, and aesthetics.

Books are on sale online through Paragraphe Bookstore. Audience members who bring their own book to the event may have it signed by Maria Reva after the lecture.

Thank you to Donald Walcot for generously supporting the Hugh MacLennan Lecture.

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Les Amis des Bibliothèques de McGill et le Festival littéraire international Metropolis Bleu sont ravis de présenter la Conférence Hugh MacLennan 2026 sous forme d'une conversation avec l'écrivaine Maria Reva, autrice de romans et de livrets d'opéra.

Le premier roman de Maria Reva, Endling, a remporté le prix annuel de fiction Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust 2025, a été finaliste pour les Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général 2025 dans la catégorie fiction, a été retenu dans la première sélection pour le prix Booker 2025 et le Climate Fiction Prize 2026, et a finalement été nominé pour le Prix littéraire de Dublin 2026. Ce roman a aussi figuré dans la liste des meilleurs livres de 2025 du Globe and Mail, du New Yorker, du Publishers Weekly, du Guardian, et de bien d'autres journaux. Maria a également remporté un Prix du magazine canadien en 2019 et avait été finaliste pour le prix Atwood Gibson du Writers' Trust en 2020 pour son premier recueil de nouvelles, Good Citizens Need Not Fear. Ses écrits ont paru notamment dans The Atlantic, McSweeney's, The Wall Street Journal, Granta et The Best American Short Stories. Elle est née en Ukraine et a grandi en Colombie-Britannique, où elle vit actuellement.

La soirée proposera une conversation entre Maria Reva et Allan Hepburn, professeur James McGill de littérature du XXe siècle à l’Université McGill. Les recherches du professeur Hepburn portent sur le roman — britannique, américain, irlandais et canadien. Ses domaines d’intérêt comprennent le modernisme, la fiction contemporaine, la fiction du XXe siècle ainsi que l’esthétique.

L'événement se déroulera exclusivement en anglais.

Les livres sont en vente en ligne via la Librairie Paragraphe. Les participants qui apportent leur propre livre à l’événement pourront le faire signer par Maria Reva après la conférence.

Merci à Donald Walcot pour son généreux soutien à la conférence Hugh MacLennan.

Photo: Anya Chibis.

Info + registration: https://mcgill.ca/x/5YJ

Vernissage: Lies lies lies by Paola Pivi

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:35 pm
Where407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
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Art
Discover Paola Pivi's first major exhibition in Québec, a traveling show featuring sculptural installations that explore themes of freedom, truth, and misinformation. Through immersive and imaginative works, the artist reinterprets familiar symbols to challenge our perception of contemporary reality. At the heart of the exhibition, Lies (2018) invites visitors to reflect on the blurred line between truth and falsehood.

The Basics of Vegetable Gardening

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Activity registration confirmed. Contact Gabriel Gervais-Labelle, Librarian, if you have any questions or need to cancel your participation. [workshop]

COMIC JAM Drink 'N' Draw

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time7 pm – 11 pm
WhereStar Bar
Tags
Community
Drawing hangout focused on comics and drawing games. Great way to loosen your hand, get creative, and have fun. Come anytime. Beginners welcome. Paper provided | Bring drawing stuff

Poetry Reading

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time7 pm – 9 pm
WhereArgo Bookshop, 1841a rue sainte-catherine, Montreal QC
PriceFree
Tags
Music
Join us in store for poetry readings from Stephanie Bolster, Ian Pople, and Derek Webster! Stephanie Bolster's latest book of poetry, Long Exposure, began as an exploration of Robert Polidori's photographs of New Orleans and Chernobyl. Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award and was translated into French. She teaches creative writing at Concordia. Ian Pople's poems have been published in Canada in Fiddlehead and Antigonish Review, the United States in Poetry, Plume, Subtropics and in the UK in London Review of Books, Manchester Review, Poetry Review and Times Literary Supplement. His chapbook, Spillway, was published by Anstruther in Toronto in 2020. Derek Webster's first collection of poems, Mockingbird, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award, and his second collection, National Animal, won the 2024 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. He lives in Montreal and Toronto. Masks are not required, but will be provided at the door. Please contact us at least a day in advance for elevator access to the store.

CLH grant-writing prom

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time8:30 pm – 11 pm

The Ghostly Image

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time1 pm – 4 pm
WhereMilieuxMake Space EV 10.825
Tags
Community
The third workshop of the 'Reimagining Research' Spring Workshop Series. This workshop will allow participants to re-imagine and transform photographs, digital images and other works through Polaroid emulsion lifts. Exploring the materiality of film and photographic practice, participants will work directly with the image of their choosing, lifting, folding, stretching and tearing it. The process of emulsion lifting briefly reduces the image to a ghostly film to then be bonded to another material such as paper, cardboard, or fabric. This physical manipulation of imagery provides a framework to discuss transparencies/opacities of identity and selfhood, thinking through ideas of disclosure and (mis)recognition. Participants are invited to bring pre-existing digital images that can be printed on Polaroid film, or to take photos on site to experiment with the process. Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include within the subject line 'Ghostly Image'.

Vernissage: Romances by Lynda Gaudreau

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
Where2 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC H2X 1K4
Tags
Art
Dissecting and reassembling the elements of photonovels, Gaudreau draws forth details that disrupt its usual narrative continuity. This pop literary genre is thus reconfigured into a choreographic space in which texts and images tumble out of sync.

Vernissage: One's Own Eyes

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
Where2 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC H2X 1K4
Tags
Art
By adopting strategies akin to visual ethnography, the trio, composed of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, multiplies perspectives on the modernization of Iran, its rural regions, and the families witnessing their industrialization. Archives and image-making apparatuses become playgrounds and sites of subversion as much as catalysts for encounters, from which the artists conduct an autopsy of a territory.

Vernissage: Passage à découvert 2026

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:35 pm
Where1400 Rue Berri, Montréal, QC H2L 4S8
Tags
Art
Presented each spring at Galerie de l'UQAM, Passage à découvert showcases the work of UQAM's graduating students in the Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts program, highlighting their creative vitality, freedom, and curiosity. Thanks to the multidisciplinary approach favoured by UQAM's School of Visual and Media Arts, the student works on display address a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and techniques in dialogue with the contemporary world. This year, several projects reimagine the concept of materiality by examining its transformations and modes of perception. Others explore the relationship to the body, identities, and performativity, deploying playful displays that convey a sensitive relationship to reality.

Artist talk: Paola Pivi and Kanika Anand

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
Where407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
Tags
Community
Artists talk between artist Paola Pivi and Kanika Anand, Senior Curator at Contemporary Calgary

Vernissage: Aire de jeu

DateFriday, April 24, 2026
Time5 pm – 9 pm
Where6450 Avenue Christophe-Colomb, Montréal, QC H2S 2G7
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Art
Aire de jeu is the collective exhibition of Samuel Alie, Zélie Delespierre and Gilliane April, graduate students in visual and media arts at UQAM. This exhibition is carried out as part of the Atelier II course facilitated by Professor Claire Savoie, at the CDEx Dissemination and Experimentation Centre.

Concordia art show ev building

DateFriday, April 24, 2026
Time6 pm – 6:30 pm

Performance/screening: Tomorrow's Accident

DateFriday, April 24, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
Where2 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC H2X 1K4
Tags
Film
VOX and VISIONS invite you to a special evening with the artists of the exhibition One's Own Eyes. Moving between the frames of Lovers' Wind (2024) and Chooka (2018), the trio unfolds a live reading and performance—following images as they oscillate across cycles of violence and war. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, moderated by Benjamin R. Taylor and Doriane Biot.

ECHOS XIII : Musique pour grand espace

DateFriday, April 24, 2026
Time9 pm – 10 pm
Where545 rue Legendre Ouest, H2N 1J1
Event: fb://event/739221189212681

ECHOS XIII : Musique pour grand espace

Joignez-vous à nous pour le treizième concert de la série faisant place aux musiques d'exploration / improvisées / concrètes / d'écoute et/ou à l'art audio.

La programmation de cette édition d’ECHOS est présentée par NicheMTL, plateforme médiatique canadienne à but non lucratif dédiée aux pratiques émergentes en art, musique, mode et culture à Montréal.

Les artistes:
Ida Toninato
Racine
Quinton Barnes

Date: Vendredi 24 avril à 21H
Adresse: Aux Ateliers Belleville, 545 Legendre Ouest.
L’entrée se fait par le stationnement à l'arrière du bâtiment sur la rue Meilleur.

Billets en prévente disponibles dans notre bio: 20$ tx incluses.
Billets à la porte: 25$ tx incluses.

Bar sur place + bières de la Brasserie Dieu du Ciel.
Cartes et argent comptant acceptés. NO BYOB.

Tous les profits de l'événement iront aux artistes et au développement des Ateliers Belleville.

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ECHOS XIII: Musique pour grand espace

Join us for the thirteenth concert in the series, showcasing experimental, improvised, concrete, listening-based music and/or audio art.

This edition of ECHOS is presented by NicheMTL, a Canadian nonprofit media platform dedicated to emerging practices in art, music, fashion, and culture in Montreal.

Artists:Ida Toninato
Racine
Quinton Barnes

Date: Friday, April 24 at 9 PM
Location: Ateliers Belleville, 545 Legendre Ouest
Entrance via the rear parking lot on Meilleur Street

Tickets: Presale: $20 (taxes included)
At the door: $25 (taxes included)

Bar on site + beers from Brasserie Dieu du Ciel
Card and cash accepted. NO BYOB

All proceeds from the event will go to the artists and to the development of Ateliers Belleville.