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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
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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


· Anyone on or off Facebook
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
Tags
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
Tags
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
Tags
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
Tags
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/
La version francaise suit.

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
Tags
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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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.

Workshop: The Shape of Odour: Materializing and Digitizing Sensations

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time1 pm – 3:05 pm
WhereAda-x
PriceFree
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Community
This workshop explores the relationship between scents, 3D digital creation, and memory. Participants are invited to interact with different smells and use creative writing as a springboard to "translate" these scents into 3D digital sculptures, either by digitizing clay models or by using the Nomad app on an iPad. These sculptures become archival manifestations of place and smell, whilst simultaneously testifying to the subjectivity and mutability of memory. The event is free, and you can register by emailing mediation@ada-x.org.

Studio 303 Marathon

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time3 pm – 7 pm
WhereStudio 303, 3e etage, 372 Rue Sainte-Catherine O, Montréal, QC H3B 1A2, Canada
MARATHON #3

Le Studio 303 accueillera la troisième édition de Marathon, une série de 30 présentations courtes de danse et de performance consacrées à l'expérimentation ! Il s'agit de prendre des risques, de repousser les limites et d'explorer de manière créative et collective !
tickets https://www.zeffy.com/fr-CA/ticketing/marathon--3

VERNISSAGE student show

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
Whererue saint-jacques
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Art
Performance à 19h30

Launch: Scatterbrain Magazine Issue 7

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time8 pm – 10:05 pm
Where4848 Boul Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1R5
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Music
Scatterbrain Magazine is launching their 7th issue in Montreal alongside live music and vendors at La Sala Rossa! The show will be a mix of rock, punk, and techno music, guaranteed to keep you dancing all night. You can even get a tattoo done while you're there... This is their first bilingual issue; find projects in one or two languages, alongside photoshoots, quizzes, and art pieces. Meet the writers, editors, artists, and photographers behind it all!

PARTY DE FIN D'EXPOSITION

DatesApril 25, 2026 – April 26, 2026
Where3980, rue Saint-Denis, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2W 2M2
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Music
Event by Livart

www.zeffy.com/fr-CA/ticketing/soiree-de-finissage
Soirée de finissage – Racines créatives
Samedi 25 avril de 21h à 6h
Venez célébrer la fin de l’exposition Racines créatives lors d’une soirée festive et immersive!
Pour l’occasion, le Livart ouvre ses deux espaces. La galerie vous accueillera en mode nocturne pour (re)découvrir l’exposition et assister au spectacle de kora de Zal Sissokho.
À partir de 23h, la grande salle s’anime avec une soirée DJ portée par un superbe line-up qui vous fera danser jusqu’à 6h du matin!
Galerie :
21h00 à 23h00 : Galerie ouverte au public pour visiter l’exposition en nocturne
21h45 à 22h30 : spectacle de kora par Zal Sissokho, @zalsissokho
Grande salle :
23h à 1h : DJ Msquare, @deejaymsquare (afrobeat/electro/trap/konpa)
1h à 4h : Gayance, @gayance (afrohouse/électro)
4h à 6h : Rossy Ross, @rossyross_ondamix (afrohouse)
En partenariat avec Production Usawa.
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Finissage: Racines créatives

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time9 pm – 11:05 pm
Where3980 Rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2W 2M2
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Art
Racines créatives is a group exhibition bringing together seven artists and designers from the Afro-descendant community, spanning from Montreal to Martinique. The exhibition creates a dialogue between their creative expressions, offering a rich and multifaceted cultural portrait. Through a variety of mediums and themes, each participant contributes a unique vision, fostering a collective reflection on cultural identities and urban interactions.

BIRTH 5

DateSunday, April 26, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
WhereWhite Wall Studio
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Film
BIRTH 5 is a 2 part program: a live a Crankie Box performance by Ava Berkson, followed by a 60 minute block of short animated films. BIRTH Screenings is a monthly communion of performance and animation, hosted at White Wall Studio and curated by Ori Peer.

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DateTuesday, April 28, 2026
Time4 pm – 5 pm
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Vernissage: Deux Artisans

DateTuesday, April 28, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
WhereCentre de Céramique Bonsecours
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Art
Photographer Vincent Castonguay and filmmaker David Simard captured the final days of the residency, translating the essence of the space, the richness of gestures, and the beauty of shared daily life into images. The exhibition features photography, ceramic objects by Alexandra Gelinas, and the short film reflecting this living cultural transmission. Beyond borders, this collaboration embodies a choice: to become together. For the past year, Dan, Alexandra, and Quartier Artisan have joined forces to develop a future maker-space in Lac-Mégantic: a multi-disciplinary workshop site dedicated to preserving artisanal knowledge and hosting Québec artisans and designers. Deux Artisans stands as a manifesto for a resilient community in the making. Exhibition presented by SIALart.

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DateWednesday, April 29, 2026
Time3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Vernissage: Point de chute: The World of Design and Arts and Crafts

DateWednesday, April 29, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereAtelier Retailles
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Art
The exhibition will present the work of designer-makers in ceramics, glass, textiles, and woodworking who were invited to reflect on the revalorization and creative reuse of production offcuts and scraps. An inevitable by-product of artisanal production, these materials are either reimagined through new techniques and materials or approached through installative works that reveal their technical, economic, ecological, and poetic dimensions.

Vernissage: Ourse x Lambert et Fils

DateWednesday, April 29, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereGalerie 6250
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Art
After a two-year hiatus, Lambert & Fils is reopening its gallery located in the heart of its Mile End workshop. To mark this happy news, the studio is welcoming Ourse, a Toronto-based contemporary furniture manufacturer with production workshops in Montreal, as its first guest. A reservation is required for this one.

April Translation Book Club

DateWednesday, April 29, 2026
Time7 pm – 9 pm
WhereArgo Bookshop, 1841a rue sainte-catherine, Montreal QC
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Community
Join us for our next Translation Book Club meeting to discuss Season of Migration to the North, written by Tayeb Salih and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. This event is open to all, so feel free to show up if you've read the book and want to talk about it; and if you haven't picked it up yet, but would like to participate, we have copies available in store! After years of study in Europe, the young narrator returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan in the 1960s. He discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa tells him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning. Season of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century. Masks are not required, but will be provided for free at the door. Please contact us at least a day in advance for elevator access to the store.

Clothing Swap

DateThursday, April 30, 2026
Time5 pm – 7 pm
Where1254 Rue Mackay, Montréal, QC H3G 2H4
PriceFree
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Community
Join us for a clothing swap hosted by the Yellow Door Mending Circle. Bring clothes and accessories that are clean and in good condition, and take home a new wardrobe for spring. Find something that doesn't quite fit? You can come back to mending circle in two weeks to tailor or modify it with the help of our wonderful mender, Helen!

Poetry Reading

DateThursday, April 30, 2026
Time7 pm – 9 pm
WhereArgo Bookshop, 1841a rue sainte-catherine, Montreal QC
PriceFree
Tags
Music
Join us in store for poetry readings from Isabella Wang, Christina Shah and Misha Solomon, hosted by Sarah Wolfson! Isabella Wang is the author of Pebble Swing (Nightwood Editions, 2021), a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the chapbook On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press, 2019). Her poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals and five anthologies. She directs her own non-profit editing and mentorship program, Revise-Revision Street, and lives in New Westminster, BC. Christina Shah lives in New Westminster and works in heavy industry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals and has been shortlisted for the Fiddlehead's 2021 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2023. She is one-fifth of the Harbour Centre 5 poetry collective. if: prey, then: huntress is her first full-length poetry collection. Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022) and FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020), and his work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, Arc, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Riddle Fence, and & Change. My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet is his debut full-length collection. 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.

Vernissage: Bonus Room

DateThursday, April 30, 2026
Time7 pm – 10 pm
Where3655 Boul. Saint-Laurent
Tags
Art
Bonus Room addresses the gallery as a third space estranged from the digital sphere. In a distinct moment in time when artists are producing for both physical and digital spaces, the art process and experience can be dissonant from their social intent. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture, seven artists–Andrea Chenier, Julia Mobbs, Thomas Prodani, Dane Matthews, Meriem Haddou, Beatrix Prior, and Colin Mills–explore the contradiction between the flat digital image and the real experience of art's material origins. Responding to the saturation of artwork in the digital sphere, artists question the physical experience of trend-oriented artworks, playfully considering space, material, and image origin. Bonus Room is open for one night only. BYOB.

Cool Party

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time12:15 pm – 4 pm

Vernissage: Ex-tension

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereAtelier L'Abri
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Art
Ex-Tension is an interdisciplinary group exhibition bringing together designers and artisans from Mile-Ex. Conceived as an extension of a neighbourhood, a network, and a place, the project highlights the creative density of this area through an immersive experience. This event will inaugurate Atelier L'Abri's new space with a group exhibition orchestrated by Procedures Industry. The proposal invites the public to discover the richness of the practices and partnerships that animate this creative ecosystem, made up of collaborations, materialities, processes, and exchanges.

Vernissage: Passagers by Galerie Mold

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 10 pm
WhereWIP
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Art
New Age Contamination. MOLD, a nomadic gallery, presents Passengers, an exhibition highlighting the work of designers and artists Emile Algue, Geneviève Grenier, Jacqueline Beaumont, Jean-Michel Gadoua, Juliette Dupont, L.L.Y. Atelier, Olivier Bonnard, Philippe St-Denis, Rachel Bussin, Simon Johns and Sophie Murphy, who challenge the established order, push boundaries, and follow their own path.

Vernissage: Sténopé by Matéo L. Sampaio

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 10 pm
WhereGalerie Deschênes
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Art
Sténopé is the first solo exhibition of Matéo L. Sampaio curated by Mathieu Deschênes. Developed from photographic negatives discovered in an abandoned site, the project unfolds at the intersection of reality and fiction, activating fragments of memory linked to a forgotten family.

Vernissage: Soft Goods by Double Entendre

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereWhite Wall Studio
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Art
Soft Goods, an exhibition organized by Double Entendre, explores how soft materials can give rise to objects through the creative process. Bringing together Canadian designers, artists, and architects, the exhibition invites experimentation with malleable and flexible materials such as fabric, foam, paper, silicone, and other mediums to shape objects that reveal the full creative potential of softness. Focusing on furniture, objects, and small-scale lighting, the exhibition creates a coherent dialogue between works ranging from tactile, organic forms to pieces that evolve toward more structured or unexpected results.

Vernissage: 1,978sq/ft exhibition

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereBeaumont Studios
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Art
Genuinely one of the most interesting artist studios within walking distance from the Mile End. Studio Beaumont, once a functioning industrial building, is now a creative home for an assortment of artists and designers. The tenants are neither an organization nor collective, but instead neighbours sharing walls, tools, and ideas; cooperating to maintain one of the few remaining affordable spaces for independent practices in Montreal.

Ubiquités : Incantations, Geopresence et Telepæsants

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time6:30 pm – 9:05 pm
Where55 Rue de Louvain O #53, Montréal, QC H2N 1A4
Event: fb://event/1567412834354652

Eastern Bloc et Art Souterrain présentent une soirée de téléperformances explorant la notion d'ubiquité, cette capacité d'être présent·e en plusieurs lieux à la fois, réinterprétée à travers les technologies de téléprésence.

Trois projets en développement proposent des approches singulières de cette réflexion. Geopresence, de Paloma Dawkins et Fili Gibbons, ouvre la soirée avec une tapisserie médiatique mêlant son, visuels en temps réel et pratiques incarnées pour décentrer notre regard sur le territoire. Telepæsants, une performance de Michal Seta et Dirk Stromberg, propose un jam électronique entre Montréal et Singapour où distance et latence deviennent matière créative. La soirée se conclut avec Incantations, du collectif Future Ancestors : Koko Mariano, Jielin Liu et Najeeba Ahmed, une performance multisensorielle explorant des formes spéculatives de connexion et de communication au-delà du langage.

La soirée débutera par une marche guidée au coucher du soleil dans le jardin industriel devant Eastern Bloc, diffusée en direct sur notre Instagram.

18h30 Portes
19h00 Marche guidée
20h00 Performances

Entrée gratuite, inscription requise.
Bar sur place (comptant et carte).

Avec nos remerciements à Studio SIT pour son accompagnement technologique auprès des artistes dans le développement de ces projets.

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Eastern Bloc and Art Souterrain present an evening of teleperformances exploring the notion of ubiquity, the ability to be present in multiple places at once, reinterpreted through telepresence technologies.

Three projects in development offer singular approaches to this reflection. Geopresence, by Paloma Dawkins and Fili Gibbons, opens the evening with a media tapestry blending sound, real-time visuals and embodied practices to decenter our perception of territory. Telepæsants, a performance by Michal Seta and Dirk Stromberg, proposes an electronic jam between Montréal and Singapore where distance and latency become creative material. The evening closes with Incantations, by the collective Future Ancestors: Koko Mariano, Jielin Liu and Najeeba Ahmed, a multisensory performance exploring speculative forms of connection and communication beyond language.

The evening will begin with a guided sunset walk through the industrial garden lot in front of Eastern Bloc, livestreamed on our Instagram.

6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Sunset walk
8:00 PM Performances

Free admission, RSVP required.
Bar on site (cash and card).

With thanks to Studio SIT for their technological support of the artists in the development of these projects.

Marché du printemps

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time9 am – 3:30 pm
Where425 22e Avenue E, Blainville, QC J7C, Canada
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1929219707695976/


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425 22e Avenue E, Blainville, QC J7C, Canada
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Les Scouts de Blainville tiendront leur 5e Marché du printemps le samedi 2 mai au parc Blainville (425, 22e Avenue Est, Blainville (Québec) J7C 5S8.
Les tables sont disponibles au coût de 30 $ chacune (25 $/table si 2 tables et +).
Pour faire une réservation, remplissez le formulaire au lien ci-dessous, ou contactez-nous au 450 939-5471 ou à melissa.marcil@scoutblainville.ca
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Event: Corps habité by MAAT Gallery

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time12 pm – 4 pm
WhereStudio Idéal
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Art
As part of Montreal Design Week, MAAT Gallery presents Corps habité, a design exhibition at Studio Idéal featuring a curated selection of local creators.

PRÉSENTATION PUBLIQUE : Silicon Shield de Kevin Day - OBORO x Festival Accès Asie

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time12 pm – 5 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Local 301, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2L 4H2
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/presentation-publique-silicon-/1293359442930003/
Installation multimédia présentée en continu

Kevin Day est l'artiste 2026 pour Intervalles, un programme de résidence d'artiste de courte durée en médias numériques mis sur pied par le centre d'artistes OBORO et le Festival Accès Asie, partenaires de création depuis 1999. Le public pourra découvrir l'œuvre Silicon Shield et rencontrer l'artiste au Laboratoire nouveaux médias d'OBORO le samedi 2 mai 2026 à partir de midi.

Ancré dans une recherche sur les conditions politiques du capitalisme informationnel, son projet Silicon Shield, composé de douze sculptures en plexiglas évoquant des téléphones intelligents, vise à mettre en lumière les infrastructures matérielles et économiques qui sous-tendent les technologies numériques, notamment l’IA, à travers une analyse géopolitique ciblée des tensions entourant Taïwan.

Kevin T. Day est né à Taipei, à Taïwan. Il a obtenu une maîtrise et un doctorat en beaux-arts de l’Université de Colombie-Britannique et vit actuellement à Vancouver. Son travail a été présenté au Canada (Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal) et à l’international (Hong Kong, États-Unis, Allemagne), notamment à la Vancouver Art Gallery, au VIVO Media Arts Centre, à InterAccess, au Center for Creative Media et au Centre CLARK. Il a également présenté ses recherches sur des plateformes de premier plan en art et technologie.

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Multimedia installation presented without interruption

Kevin Day is the artist selected for the 2026 edition of Interval, a short-term artist residency program in digital media set up by OBORO artist-run centre and Festival Accès Asie, creative partners since 1999. The public will be able to experience the work Silicon Shield and meet the artist at the LAB OBORO on Saturday, May 2, 2026, starting at noon.

Rooted in research on the political conditions of informational capitalism, his project Silicon Shield — comprising twelve plexiglass sculptures evoking smartphones— aims to shed light on the material and economic infrastructures underpinning digital technologies, particularly AI, through a focused geopolitical analysis of the tensions surrounding Taiwan.

Admission is free. All are welcome. Accessibility information here.

Journée de Visibilité Lesbienne Montréal/ Lesbian Visibility Day Montreal

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time1 pm – 3 am
WhereAusgang Plaza
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/journee-de-visibilite-lesbienn/1436703131001741/
(Eng follows) Peu de moyens mais beaucoup d’amour, d’énergie et de créativité; les réalisations et les efforts de nos communautés lesbiennes, gouines, dykes, bi, pan, queer, trans, non-binaires représentent une source de grande fierté!! Cette année, la Journée de visibilité lesbienne souligne le pouvoir incroyable - et souvent le travail bénévole - des collectifs lesbo-queers, qui font vibrer les énergies lesbo-queers à travers la province. On se donne rendez-vous le 2 mai pour se célébrer entre nous, et pour découvrir, remercier et festoyer avec les merveilleux·ses organisateur·rice·s qui nous permettent d’être ensemble, visibles et épanoui·e·s à l’année longue à travers festivités, sports, arts et événements divers. On en profite pour lancer en exclusivité l’annuaire lesbo-queer 2026 qui rassemble plus de 55 initiatives festives, sportives, communautaires et artistiques au même endroit - sur une affiche papier distribuée gratuitement et en ligne!

BRAVO ET MERCI LES LESBIENNES!

Few resources but a lot of love, energy, and creativity; what our lesbian, dyke, bi, pan, queer, trans, non-binary communities manage to do is a source of great pride!! This year, for Lesbian Visibility Day, we highlight the incredible power—and often volunteer work- of lesbo-queer collectives, which get sapphic energy to flow across the province We’ll meet on May 2 to celebrate each other, and to discover, thank, and party with the wonderful organizers who allow us to be together and visible all year long through festivities, sports, arts, and various events. We’re also taking this opportunity to launch in exclusivity the 2026 lesbo-queer directory, which brings together more than 55 festive, sports, community, and artistic initiatives in one place—on a (free) leaflet/poster and online!

BRAVO AND THANK YOU LESBIANS!

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ÉCHANGES ET DÉCOUVERTES EN JOURNÉE/DAYTIME TALKS AND DISCOVERIES
13h00 - 19h00
* Exposition/Exhibit Pour que nos mémoires vivent ! Sur les traces d'une histoire lesbienne à Montréal des Archives Lesbiennes du Québec
* Marché saphique / Sapphic Market
* Performance surprise de la Chorale Lesbienne
* Venez prendre votre copie gratuite du dépliant/poster Annuaire Lesbo-queer 2026/Come get your free copy of the 2026 Lesbo-queer directory leaflet/poster

14h00 : Discussion Les powergouines du communautaire
* Magali Boudon (Directrice générale, Conseil québécois LGBT)
* Marie Houzeau (Directrice générale, GRIS-Montréal)
* Samya Amrani (Avocate et organisatrice communautaire, Helem et WildPride)
* Céleste Trianon (Juriste militante)
* Laure Neuville (Archives lesbiennes du Québec)
* MP Boisvert (Directrice générale, Coalition des Familles LGBT+)

16h00 : Discussion Le pouvoir du collectif lesboqueer - des festivités culturelles aux sports!
* Morgan Vallée, BMQS, ligue de balle molle récréative en non-mixité queer / 2SLGBTQIA+ à Montréal
* Marlyne, Sweet Like Honey, a grassroots initiative that produces a variety of intentional events where lesbian/sapphic and BIPOC communities can gather while celebrating local BIPOC artists, talents, and businesses.
* Miriam Ginestier, Mim Productions - production d'événements lesbo-queers à Montréal, notamment le Boudoir (1994-2006 au Lion d'Or), Meow Mix (1997-2012 à la Sala Rossa), le Festival Tango Queer (2013-2017) et HOT FLASH! depuis 2017
* Nancy Sigman et Carole Guy, LezBoat : Équipe de bateau dragon LGBTQIA+ pour femmes, femmes trans et non binaire - en route vers les Gay Games de Valence 2026!
* Nathalie Di Palma, animatrice de l'émission de Radio communautaire Lesbo-Sons en ondes depuis plus de 30 ans!


PARTY OFFICIEL DE LA JOURNÉE DE VISIBILITÉ LESBIENNE/LESBIAN VISIBILITY DAY OFFICIAL PARTY

17h30 - 18h30 : Queer Line Dancing with SPURS!

18h30 - 20h : HOT FLASH
et Kickword, lamathilde, expérience VR interactive, places limitées

20h00 : Remise de prix/Award Ceremony

21h00 : SweetlikeHoney

22h30 : QUEEN&QUEER

12h00 : MESSY

1h30 : GTR - girlstheyrave

ENTRÉE GRATUITE EN TOUT TEMPS!
FREE ENTRANCE ALL DAY AND NIGHT!

Au carrefour des dances

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time2:30 pm – 10:30 pm
WherePatro Villeray, 7355 Av. Christophe-Colomb, Montréal, QC H2R 2S5, Canada
Célébrez le printemps au Patro Villeray lors d'une journée réunissant plusieurs associations de danse traditionnelle et folklorique. Valses, set carrés, gavottes, contredanses et bien d'autres sont au programme. La scène de danse traditionnelle du grand Montréal se réunit pour célébrer la danse, à l'image de la passion d'Alain Vervaet.

AU PROGRAMME (sujet à modification)
Siamsa
Danse Les Étoiles Filantes
Contredanses à Montréal
Contredanses à Laval
ContraMontreal
Danse renaissance
Balfolk Montréal
Micro ouvert (session/chant/etc.)

Vous n'avez jamais dansé? Qu'importe ! Tous les niveaux de danse sont les bienvenus, que vous soyez seul'e ou accompagné'e.

Samedi 02 mai, de 14h à 22h30 Patro Villeray, 7355 avenue Christophe- Colomb (Métro Jean-Talon) salle 1.01 Billetterie en ligne ou sur place, contribution libre (sugg. 15-20$)

Apportez votre bouteille d'eau et des souliers de danse

Boissons et rafraichissements en vente sur place

Apportez votre repas pour le souper

Des questions ? N'hésitez pas à nous contacter message privé ou bien à poster votre question directement dans l'événement.
https://facebook.com/events/s/au-carrefour-des-danses-danses/965221752561845/

Altermode

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time3 pm – 6 pm
WhereCentre de Saint-André (5720 St-André)
Tags
Community
Un événement mensuel où nous réparons, échangeons et repensons nos vêtements. Nourriture et breuvages par Chef Soma, activités pour enfants, venez passer l'après-midi à notre nouveau centre.

BACA x Art Mûr

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time3 pm – 5 pm
Where5826 St-Hubert, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2S2L7
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/baca-x-art-mur/1843114369702961/
Du 2 mai au 20 juin 2026
Vernissage : Samedi le 2 mai 2026, de 15 h à 17 h
Traverser le territoire : La couleur n’est pas neutre
Commissaires : Armando Perla & Michael Patten
La Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (BACA), 8e édition
Art Mûr
5826, rue St-Hubert, Montréal (QC) H2S 2L7

Performances : Manitou Singers, Porfirio Gutiérrez.

Isaac Te Awa, Jamie Berry, Marilyn Boror Bor, Cholita Chic, Diego Ventura Puac Coyoy, Angela DeMontigny, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Tayla Hartemink, Stevei Houkāmau, José Luis Fernando Morales, Adetona Omokanye, Ernesto Ovalle, Antonio Pichilla, Juan Carlos Recinos, Hugo Rivas, Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole, Anders Sunna, Telly Tuita, Mario López Vega, Volcancitto, Renati Waaka, Wabanoonkwe, Silvia Canil Xirúm, ARIA XYX.

Au sein de nombreuses communautés autochtones et de la diaspora, la couleur a été régulée par des systèmes fondés sur la honte et la discipline esthétique. Dans divers contextes coloniaux à travers le monde, les peuples autochtones ont été stigmatisés par des insultes locales qui les qualifiaient d’excessifs, de vulgaires, de sales ou de grossiers dès lors qu’ils conservaient leurs propres systèmes de couleurs et refusaient de s’assimiler à la blancheur. Cette exposition présente ce refus comme un système de savoir souverain et comme une continuité. Réunissant vingt-trois artistes travaillant sur les territoires autochtones et au sein de réseaux de la diaspora couvrant Abya Yala, l’Île de la Tortue, Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, Sápmi et le pays yoruba, l’exposition retrace la manière dont la couleur fonctionne comme un système de savoir vivant à travers des lignées, des matériaux et des relations distincts.

Ce recadrage se manifeste à travers des pratiques telles que la fabrication et la parure, où le savoir est produit et transmis de génération en génération. Dans l’œuvre de l’artiste maya k’iche’ José Luis Fernando Morales, des jades et des pierres multicolores, associés à des formes sculptées, relient le savoir ancestral matrilinéaire au design autochtone contemporain. À travers l’image animée, la couleur et le chant des cigales, l’artiste maori Jamie Berry crée un environnement immersif qui enveloppe une constellation d’ornements transnationaux, façonnée par les échanges de matériaux et la fabrication collaborative à travers le Pacifique.

De l’autre côté du Pacifique, la série Diaspora’s Children de l’artiste tongien Telly Tuita porte en elle la mémoire et la nostalgie à travers des palettes saturées. Cette richesse trouve un écho dans la série Spiritually Fashionable de l’artiste yoruba Adetona Omokanye, où la mode devient un lieu de présence spirituelle et esthétique. Les artistes maoris Lissy et Rudi Robinson-Cole intègrent cette utilisation de la couleur dans des environnements immersifs ancrés dans la lignée et la spiritualité.

En Abya Yala, l’artiste aymara-quechua Cholita Chic utilise la couleur pour construire son identité queer et assurer sa visibilité. L’artiste maya kaqchikel Marilyn Boror Bor enfile des fibres teintes dans du ciment, créant ainsi un lien entre la terre, la contamination et la résistance. À Kuskatan/El Salvador, l’artiste nahua-métis Hugo Rivas utilise le camp et l’intensité pour affronter les histoires de violence militaire, de génocide et de complicité du monde de l’art, tandis que l’artiste maya-mestizo Volcancitto (Juan José Guillén) réalise des collages multicolores qui affirment la mémoire territoriale du Pacifique guatémaltèque.

La couleur reste un langage que nous continuons à parler et que nous refusons de laisser disparaître.

La Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (BACA) tient à remercier le Conseil des Arts du Canada, le gouvernement du Québec, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Secrétariat aux relations avec les Premières Nations et les Inuit, le Conseil des arts de Montréal, Tourisme Montréal, la Collection Desjardins et Creative New Zealand.

https://www.baca.ca/expositions/traverser-le-territoire/art-mur/

Book Talk: Trauma Sensitivity at Work, with Adriana Leigh

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time5 pm – 7 pm
WhereArgo Bookshop, 1841a rue sainte-catherine, Montreal QC
PriceFree
Tags
Community
Join us for a talk with Adriana Leigh about her book, Trauma Sensitivity at Work. Trauma Sensitivity at Work is a clear, compassionate, and practical guide to building cultures of inclusion and safety by addressing an underlying cause of persistent workplace challenges: trauma. Drawing on two decades of global experience in workplace human rights, in leadership, and as a policy advisor—as well as her background as a human rights lawyer and her own healing journey—international changemaker Adriana Leigh demonstrates why trauma sensitivity is a core competency of leadership today and shows you how to cultivate it. Adriana Leigh is an award-winning international consultant and changemaker, and the founder and principal consultant at ALG Consulting. She is a former workplace human rights lawyer turned facilitator, working at the intersection of DEI, gender-based violence and harassment prevention, and psychologically safe workplace systems. She has collaborated with organizations worldwide, including the United Nations, international aid agencies, and both private and public sector entities. Recognized for her transformative work, Adriana has been featured by World Pulse as one of the "21 Women Leaders to Watch" and has received the CREA Global Award. She lives in Montreal, Canada. 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.

POP-UP RAVE ▲ RE/BLOOM

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time6 pm – 11 pm
WhereOverpass Van Horne/Rosemont
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/pop-up-rave-rebloom/1671159013877595/
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Salut les amis 👽_/
Rendez-vous sous le pont le 2 mai.

On a gelé toute l’hiver, caliss.
Mais là, le pringtemps est venu.

C’est le temps de se dégeler le corp et l'esprit avec d'la BASSS.
Viens célébrer ça avec nous !

Apporte une fleur, une plante, des amis, une tortue...
ou juste toi <3

Un gros merci à nos beaux DJs pour le voyage sonore !

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🔥 🔥 🔥 L I N E - U P 🔥 🔥 🔥


🟢 Robin Hood
UK Garage
https://www.instagram.com/robinhood_sound/


🟡 Ju de Pomme
Tribal Techno
https://soundcloud.com/juliannefortin


🟠 FVN3VV
Hard Bounce Techno
evangelion.io


🔴 Elixar
Hard Trance
https://soundcloud.com/elixarmusic


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⭐ MENTIONS SPÉCIALES ⭐


🎥 ARTS VISUELS

Skeletron va partager sa magie visuel avec nous encore une fois !
Des projections VJ sur les murs et plafond du viaduc.
Prépare-toi à entrer dans un portail 🔮

https://www.instagram.com/skeletron/


🌿 VIBE PATROL

Merci à l’équipe Vibe Patrol qui veille sur l’ambiance et prend soin de l’espace toute la soirée. Si tu as besoin de quoi que ce soit, n’hésite pas à aller vers eux. Tu peux les reconnaître grâce à leurs bandoulières orange.


⭕ HOOPS & FLOW

Saturna sera là avec ses hoops pour faire circuler le flow dans l'espace et les partager avec celles et ceux qui ont envie d'explorer. Un mélange de danse, de jeu, et de mouvement pour amplifier la vibe 🌀

https://www.instagram.com/saturna_circles_/


Plus de foleries à venir...


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🌆 INFORMATIONS ÉVÉNEMENT 🌆


🗓️ Samedi, 2 mai

🕕 18h - 23h

💸 Entrée gratuite

📍 Sous le viaduc Van-Horne :
(https://maps.app.goo.gl/8wKojtKiGbnc7fWa9)



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Hello friends 👽_/
Rendez-vous under the bridge on May 2.

Yes, we froze all winter.
But now… spring has come.

It's time to thaw our body and soul with some juicy BASSS.
Come celebrate with us!

Bring a flower, a plant, some friends, a turtle...
or just yourself <3

A massive thanks to our beautiful DJs for the sound journey!

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🔥 🔥 🔥 L I N E - U P 🔥 🔥 🔥


🟢 Robin Hood
UK Garage
https://www.instagram.com/robinhood_sound/


🟡 Ju de Pomme
Tribal Techno
https://soundcloud.com/juliannefortin


🟠 FVN3VV
Hard Bounce Techno
evangelion.io


🔴 Elixar
Hard Trance
https://soundcloud.com/elixarmusic


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⭐ SPECIAL MENTIONS ⭐


🎥 VISUAL ARTS

Skeletron will be sharing his visual magic with us once again.
VJ projections on the walls and ceiling of the viaduct.
Get ready to enter a portal 🔮

https://www.instagram.com/skeletron/


🌿 VIBE PATROL

Thanks to the Vibe Patrol team who will be watching over the atmosphere and taking care of the space all night. If you need anything, don’t hesitate to ask them. You can recognize them by their orange bandoliers.


⭕ HOOPS & FLOW

Saturna will be there with her hoops to circulate flow in the space and share them with those who feel like exploring. A mix of dance, play, and movement to amplify the vibe 🌀

https://www.instagram.com/saturna_circles_/


More craziness to come…


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🌆 EVENT INFORMATION 🌆


🗓️ Saturday, Mai 2

🕕 6-11 pm

💸 Free entry

📍 Beneath the Van-Horne overpass
(https://maps.app.goo.gl/8wKojtKiGbnc7fWa9)

Alchemist Studios Open House Event! Évènement Portes Ouvertes Studio Alchimiste!

DateSunday, May 3, 2026
Time1:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Where3275 Rue Prieur E, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H1H 2K4
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/alchemist-studios-open-house-e/2745847555753771/
Version française à suivre

It has been a long time that we’ve wanted to open up our facility to the public, and give you all a chance to come see our facility and talk to us in person!
So here it is! This is our first open house!

Come by and check out our facility!
Visit our three different studios, each specializing in a specific style of music and sound production. Take a look and see which best can help you with your projects!
Get a feel for the church hall! I promise it is nicer than any pictures we’ve posted!

Meet our team
We will all be on-site and looking forward to meeting you! We will all be happy to show how we operate, and answer any questions you might have about projects you have in mind!

Try out our instruments in the hall!
All three of our pianos, including our new Steinway Model D will be tuned and ready for you to try!
Our Hammond B3 organ and Leslie are also in top shape and ready to test!

Studio A will have their team ready to talk anything music composition, arranging, and preproduction.
Studio B will be showing off our Dolby Atmos System and high precision setup
Studio C will showcase an incredible collection of vintage gear, including an original Neve console, and 24 track tape machine!

May 3rd 2026 – 1:30pm-6:30pm
3275 Prieur Est, Montréal, H1H 2K4
– Main entrance to the right of the driveway
See you there!
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Ça faisait longtemps qu’on voulait ouvrir nos portes au public, et vous donner la chance de venir découvrir nos installations et jaser avec nous en personne !
Donc voici enfin notre toute première évènement portes ouvertes!

Passez nous voir et venez découvrir le studio!
Visitez nos trois studios, chacun avec leur propre style de production musical et sonore. Venez voir lequel correspond le mieux à vos projets!
Venez ressentir l’ambiance de la salle d’église! C’est encore plus beau en vrai que sur les photos !

Rencontrez notre équipe :
On sera tous sur place et hâte de vous rencontrer! Ça va nous faire plaisir de vous montrer comment on travaille et de répondre à toutes vos questions sur vos projets à venir !

Essayez nos instruments dans la salle :
Nos trois pianos, incluant notre nouveau Steinway Model D, seront accordés et prêts à être essayés !
Notre orgue Hammond B3 et sa Leslie sont aussi en pleine forme et prêts à être testés !

Studio A aura son équipe sur place pour jaser de composition musicale, d’arrangement et de préproduction.
Studio B fera un démonstration de notre système Dolby Atmos et de notre installation de haute précision.
Studio C présentera une collection impressionnante d’équipement vintage, incluant une console Neve originale et un enregistreur à bande Studer 24 pistes !
3 mai 2026 – 13 h 30 à 18 h 30
3275, rue Prieur Est, Montréal (QC) H1H 2K4
– Entrée principale à droite de l’entrée de stationnement

Au plaisir de vous voir !

Malcolm Goldstein : une célébration pour ses 90 ans

DateSunday, May 3, 2026
Time1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
WhereLa Sala Rossa
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/malcolm-goldstein-une-celebrat/3871654616470696/
Malcolm Goldstein : une célébration pour ses 90 ans

Jeux de Cartes (2014)
Scuttling a space of time, Slowly (2014)
Configurations in Darkness (1995)
Qerneraq; Our breath as bones (1986)
Two Silences (2003)

Malcolm Goldstein : violon, voix
Lori Freedman : clarinette basse
Jean Derome : saxophone, flûte, objets
Jean René : alto
Nicolas Caloia : contrebasse
Audréanne Filion : violoncelle
Pablo Jimenez : contrebasse
Adrianne Munden-Dixon : violon
Pierre-Yves Martel : harmonium
Cléo Palacio-Quintin : flûtes
Joane Hétu : saxophone
Émilie Fortin : trompette
Scott Thomson : trombone
Susanna Hood : voix

15$ advance
20$ at the door
https://casadelpopolo.com/en/events/2026-05-03-malcolm-goldstein-une-celebration-pour-ses-90-ans

Une coproduction avec Suoni per il Popolo et Productions SuperMusique

Sunday Afternoon Contradance / Contra de dimanche après-midi

DateSunday, May 3, 2026
Time2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Where7355 Ave Christophe-Colomb, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2R 2S5
Linkhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1891345731768353/
(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 Kaw Creek
Called by Drew Delaware

Patro Villeray, room 1.01 (upstairs)
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 Kaw Creek
Callé par Drew Delaware

Patro Villeray, salle 1.01 (à l'étage)
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/1891345731768353/

Architek Percussion - Object Project III : La Musique Secrète des Objets

DateSunday, May 3, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
WhereEdifice Wilder - Espace danse
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/architek-percussion-object-pro/1615154273097809/
Architek présente La musique secrète des objets, troisième volet de sa série Object Project, qui présente des œuvres mettant en musique des objets du quotidien. Au programme : des œuvres de Mark Applebaum, Alexandre Babel, John Cage et Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad.

Architek interprète Quartet de John Cage en utilisant des objets de maison pour frapper, gratter et tapoter dans cette pièce envoûtante.

La pièce Storytable de Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad demande aux interprètes de créer un paysage sonore à l'aide de boîtes en bois fabriquées sur mesure, amplifiées par un microphone de contact soigneusement placé à l'intérieur de chaque boîte.

Dans The Brown Gardener d’Alexandre Babel, les quatre musiciens ont à disposition une collection de différents matériaux aux attributs acoustiques à priori peu complexes, qu’ils devront travailler délicatement pour en extraire un potentiel expressif.

Enfin, dans Straightjacket de Mark Applebaum, Architek est rejoint par Sandra Joseph pour cette exploration en quatre mouvements du son, de l’image et du geste.

➜ Infos & Billets:
https://levivier.ca/fr/concert/saison-2025-26/architek-percussion-object-project-iii-la-musique-secrete-des-objets

Vernissage: On a Human Scale

DateWednesday, May 6, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:30 pm
Where4001 201 Rue Berri Montréal, QC, Canada
Linkhttps://htmlles.net/en/calendar/a-echelle-humaine/
Dounia Bouzidi
Hailey Guzik
Lee Wilkins
Marion Schneider
Nada El-Omari
Fili 周 Gibbons

From May 6 to 30, 2026, Ada X is transforming its spaces into an art gallery. The exhibition On a Human Scale brings together five artistic proposals that explore interstitial zones – meeting points where memory, technology, ecology, and the body intersect. The works shift the focus of the gaze to defuse the supposed neutrality of technology. Attentive to non-hegemonic narratives, the artists reject any abstract universality and affirm situated and vulnerable practices. By subverting the promises of AI, de-hierarchising forms of intelligence and placing sensory experiences at the centre of the discourse, the project questions the regimes of perception, transmission and accessibility that structure our present. These orientations run through the entire project and form a methodology, originating from and passing through bodies and experiences historically excluded from regimes of visibility, legitimacy, and power.

Resolutely feminist and socially engaged, this exhibition gives space to experimental practices that are dear to Ada X’s mission. On a Human Scale invites us to take a stand: to slow down in the face of the pressure to be productive. To inhabit the cracks rather than ready-made solutions, to imagine ways of perceiving and transmitting that are relational rather than extractivist, and plural rather than normative. The exhibition is thus conceived as a device of resistance, where art becomes a critical tool for thinking about and practising other forms of coexistence in the era of algorithmic capitalism.

mesh night

DateWednesday, May 6, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:30 pm
WhereFOULAB Hackerspace, 999 Rue du Collège Suite 33B, Montréal, QC H4C 2S2, Canada

Le temps s’était chargé de l’animer en secret Samuel Graveline

DateThursday, May 7, 2026
Time5 pm – 9 pm
WhereELEKTRA Montréal — Galerie, Biennale internationale d'art numérique, Festival, 5445 Av. de Gaspé #104, Montréal, QC H2T 3B2, Canada
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Les Trois Accords at MTELUS (08 May 26)

DatesMay 8, 2026
WhereMTELUS, 59 Ste-Catherine St E, H2X 1K5, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Alva Noto at Society for Arts & Technology (08 May 26)

DatesMay 8, 2026
WhereSociety for Arts & Technology, 1201, boul. Saint-Laurent, H2X 2S6, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Éc(h)os des Milieux - Arts du Mouvement et Écologie

DatesMay 8, 2026 – May 9, 2026
Where840 Rue Cherrier, Montréal, QC H2L 1H4, Canada
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À PROPOS

Éc(h)os des Milieux : journées d'études performatives - arts du mouvement et écologie.

Les journées d’étude performatives Éc(h)os des milieux offriront un espace de rencontre, de réflexion et de pratiques, fondé sur le dialogue entre des approches diversifiées en danse et en performance. En mobilisant les savoirs du corps, elles inviteront à interroger les enjeux écologiques, sociaux et politiques qui traversent aujourd’hui les pratiques artistiques du mouvement, à travers des thématiques telles que les milieux envisagés comme co-créateurs, les dimensions poétiques et politiques de la rencontre, ainsi que la co-responsabilité et le soin envers le vivant.

Au programme :
1.Temps d'échange entre artistes
2.Ateliers pratiques ouverts à toutes et tous
3.Performances, exposition immersive et discussions
4.Projection de films
5.Synthèse performative collective

Programmation détaillée à venir!

DATE ET LIEU:
8 au 9 mai, 2026
Au Pavillon de Danse de l'UQAM
840 Rue Cherrier, Montréal, QC H2L 1H4

INFO ET RESERVATION: echosdesmilieux@gmail.com

Les journées sont gratuites et ouvertes au public, sur réservation.

Untangle: Une journée de technologie, d'émotions et de résistance

DateFriday, May 8, 2026
Time12:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where7240 Rue Clark, Montréal, QC H2R 1Z3
PriceFree
Tags
Community
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Une journée de réflexion alliant discussions et démonstrations autour d'enjeux féministes liés au soin, à la technologie éthique et à l'autonomie numérique. La rencontre s'ouvrira sur un moment d'échange collectif permettant d'explorer les liens entre les projets qui seront présentés et les enjeux portés par le festival. Présentation de Cursors of Care, un projet mené par l'artiste Tricia Enns, qui explore comment de petits gestes créatifs peuvent insuffler du soin et du sens dans nos espaces numériques quotidiens, à travers la création de curseurs et d'icônes pixelisées personnalisés. Atelier animé par Techtechtech sur leur projet To Weave a Web : the Poetics of Opting Out, réunissant les artistes et chercheuses Liane Decary-Chen, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, Sarah Choukah et Chanel Robin. Elles inviteront à réfléchir aux moyens de se désengager des géants de la technologie et d'imaginer des outils éthiques, durables et centrés sur la communauté. Cet événement est présenté en anglais. Bar sur place lors de la soirée (comptant et carte). Horaire: 12:30 PM – Arrivée des participant·e·s en présentiel; 1:00 – 5:30 PM – Visioconférence (format hybride); 1:00 – 1:30 PM – Cercle de discussion avec les artistes participant·e·s; 1:30 – 2:30 PM – Présentation-démonstration de « Cursors of Care » par Tricia Enns; 2:30 – 5:30 PM – Atelier par Techtechtech; 5:30 – 8:00 PM – Rassemblement: Rencontre avec les artistes (en présentiel seulement); 6:00 – 6:30 PM – Micro-atelier « Construire son propre mini serveur » par Techtechtech.

Untangle: A Day of Technology, Feelings, and Resistance

DateFriday, May 8, 2026
Time1 pm – 4 pm
Where55 Rue de Louvain O #53, Montréal, QC H2N 1A4
Dans le cadre du festival HTMlles, Eastern Bloc en collaboration avec Ada X vous invite à une journée de réflexion alliant discussions et démonstrations autour d'enjeux féministes liés au soin, à la technologie éthique et à l'autonomie numérique.

La rencontre, dont la partie principale sera offerte en format hybride, s'ouvrira sur un moment d'échange collectif, animé par Tyra Maria Trono, coordonnatrice à la programmation chez Ada X, permettant d'explorer les liens entre les projets qui seront présentés et les enjeux portés par le festival.

Suivra une présentation de Cursors of Care, un projet mené par l'artiste Tricia Enns, qui explore comment de petits gestes créatifs peuvent insuffler du soin et du sens dans nos espaces numériques quotidiens à travers la création de curseurs et d'icônes pixelisés personnalisés. S'ensuivra un atelier animé par Techtechtech sur leur projet To Weave a Web: the Poetics of Opting Out, réunissant les artistes et chercheuses Liane Decary-Chen, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, Sarah Choukah et Chanel Robin. Elles nous inviteront à réfléchir aux moyens de se désengager des géants de la technologie et d'imaginer des outils éthiques, durables et centrés sur la communauté.

La journée se conclura par un moment de convivialité pour celles et ceux qui pourront se joindre à nous sur place, avec la possibilité de construire son propre mini serveur lors d'un micro-atelier.

12h30 - Accueil en présentiel
12h45 - Ouverture de la salle virtuelle
13h00 - 13h30 - Cercle de discussion animé par Tyra Maria Trono
13h30 - 14h30 - « Cursors of Care » par Tricia Enns
14h30 - 17h30 - « To Weave a Web » par Techtechtech

17h30 - 20h00 - 5 à 8 (présentiel, ouvert à tou·te·s)
18h00 - 18h30 - Micro-atelier « Construire son propre mini serveur (présentiel seulement)

Entrée gratuite, inscription requise.
La programmation se déroulera principalement en anglais.

Rendez-vous au 55 rue de Louvain Ouest #53 ou en ligne.
Bar sur place lors de la soirée (comptant et carte).

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As part of the HTMlles festival, Eastern Bloc in collaboration with Ada X invites you to a day of reflection bringing together discussions and demonstrations around feminist approaches to care, ethical technology, and digital autonomy.

The day, with its main programming offered in hybrid format, will open with a collective discussion facilitated by Tyra Maria Trono, Programming Coordinator at Ada X. The conversation will explore the connections between the projects being presented and the festival's themes.

This will be followed by a presentation of Cursors of Care, a project led by artist Tricia Enns, exploring how small creative gestures can infuse care and meaning into our everyday digital spaces through the creation of personalized pixelated cursors and icons. Following this will be a workshop led by Techtechtech on their project To Weave a Web: the Poetics of Opting Out, featuring artists and researchers Liane Decary-Chen, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, Sarah Choukah, and Chanel Robin. They will invite us to reflect on ways to divest from tech giants and imagine ethical, sustainable, and community-centered tools.

The day will close with an in-person gathering for those who can join us on-site, with the opportunity to build your own mini server in a micro-workshop.

12:30 PM - In-person welcome
12:45 PM - Virtual room opens
1:00 - 1:30 PM - Discussion circle facilitated by Tyra Maria Trono
1:30 - 2:30 PM - "Cursors of Care" by Tricia Enns
2:30 - 5:30 PM - "To Weave a Web" by Techtechtech

5:30 - 8:00 PM - Social gathering (in-person, open to all)
6:00 - 6:30 PM - "Build Your Own Mini Server" micro-workshop (in-person only)

Free admission, RSVP required.
Programming will be held primarily in English.

Join us at 55 rue de Louvain Ouest #53 or online.
Bar on site during the evening (cash and card).


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Puces POP – Marché artisanal du printemps

DatesMay 8, 2026 – May 10, 2026
Where5075 rue Rivard, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/puces-pop-marche-artisanal-du-/761766303535944/
Puces POP – Édition du printemps
Weekend de la fête des mères 💐💐
8, 9, 10 mai 2026
Église Saint-Denis (5075 rue Rivard), Montréal, QC
Ⓜ️ Métro Laurier

Le printemps approche à grands pas et Puces POP sera de retour avec une sélection tout en fleurs et en couleurs pour le changement de saison! Venez nous rejoindre le 8, 9 et 10 mai 2026 à l'église Saint-Denis, juste en face du métro Laurier, pour y découvrir des artisans locaux qui feront fondre votre cœur, juste à temps pour la fête des mères. Des produits pour le corps aux bijoux, en passant par la céramique et les produits pour la maison, vous y trouverez plein de douceurs pour embellir votre quotidien et ceux de vos proches! À très vite!


vendredi 8 mai 2026: 15h à 19h
samedi 9 mai 2026: 10h à 17h
dimanche 10 mai 2026: 11h à 17h


LISTE D'ARTISANS

🎀 ACCESSOIRES // ACCESSORIES

Artesana intricata
Au Fil d'Emilie
Batiscan
Bertal Bougie
Cosmos crochet QC
Freaky Bros
Gharze O Darze
Jin studio
Lemyre
les Rêveries de Nyko
Melanink
Mino maroquinerie
Nozag. Les essentiels pour le bien-être
One by Shoks
Sploot Factory
The Souk Factory
Vitrail Decoverre


🖼️ ART ET IMPRESSIONS // ART & PRINTS

Agaboum
Alice Demée
Anna Frangipani Studio
Art is a Verb.
ATELIER REFLEXION
C. Campo T.
Carambole 76
Corbo
El buen Rub
GabyYaga
Ian MacLeod Art
Island Maps
Ivna Lins
Louise Montpetit
M.Roboto
Oh Mon Doux
riverJune
Sip Cozy Art by Simon Ip
SRH Collage
Yuna Yoon


💍 BIJOUX // JEWELRY

Ai Li Jewelry
Awaska Art
bijoux carmelle
bijoux urbains lalouve
Ça l'fait
Frede studio
Glass Garden Jewels
Lau Wrap the world
LiliandTrotro Jewelry
Minh Huê Designs
Mon petit caillou
Sérotonine Design
Statique
Vintage Glory 22
Yinat Jewellery


🫖 CÉRAMIQUE // CERAMICS

Arcana Clay
Audrey Levasseur-Ruel
Bpoterie
Creations Li
Eiki Ceramics
Fabrica Ateleia
Jolies Poteries
Laume
Miel Ceramics
Minipott
Océane Carbou
Studio NO
Victor Chose


😋🍽️ GOURMANDISES // FOOD

Amango cacao
Apiculture Apis Lacris
Biscuiterie Milarôm
COOKINE
Dolce Sweets Chocolatier and Tea Therapy Shop
Le Port de l'Inde
Le Rizen
Les Ah de Line
Mauve bonbon
Mihku, chocolats et gourmandises
Positivithé (Positivitea)
Praline-toi Inc.


🧴 POUR LE CORPS // BODYCARE

Bless Soins corporels naturels
Daughters of Asclepius
La Fée Mélisse
Les Soins Miboty Inc
Luxe by Celly
luvo
Savonnerie Pastel
Sauvage-s
SOULutions Apothicaire / Apothecary
Tallow kings & queens
Yanél Cosmétique Nutritive


🐥 POUR LES ENFANTS // BABIES & KIDS

Aird.erien
Bébé Vert
L’atelier de Nicole


🧵 VÊTEMENTS // CLOTHING

Atelier No Fiction Projects
Bad Wrld
BROUILLONS SAM'19
Citron Pressé
Mars and Moi
Nada Eco Atelier
One love One nation
Rubis pastel
Teadum

Festival formes · ondes 2026

DatesMay 8, 2026 – May 10, 2026
WhereEISODE 9632A Rue Lajeunesse, Montréal, QC H3L 2C6
Event: fb://event/24471357762561755

Le Festival formes · ondes propose trois journées consacrées à la recherche-création en musique et en arts sonores. Porté par le Laboratoire formes · ondes (LFO), l’événement rassemble concerts, tables rondes et installations, offrant un espace de diffusion et d’expérimentation pour les pratiques contemporaines en composition, performance et technologies numériques.

Au programme : œuvres acousmatiques et multicanales, performances instrumentales augmentées, dispositifs interactifs et créations audiovisuelles, accompagnés de présentations qui mettent en lumière les enjeux de recherche sous-jacents. Les installations en galerie invitent quant à elles à une exploration immersive du son et de l’interaction.

Pensé comme un lieu de rencontre entre artistes, chercheur·euse·s et public, le festival favorise les échanges, la médiation et le partage de connaissances autour des pratiques émergentes en musique et en art sonore.

Pour les concerts, veuillez réserver votre place (gratuit ou contribution volontaire) en ligne au lien au bas de la description. Les installations seront accessibles en tout temps de 12h-18h le samedi et dimanche, donc sans réservation. Les tables rondes ne nécessite pas de réservation, mais les places sont limitées!

Informations -->
Date : 8 au 10 mai 2026
Lieu : EISODE, 9632A Rue Lajeunesse, Montréal (QC) H3L 2C6
Transport : 4 min à pied du métro Sauvé

N.B. La salle de concert est accessible aux personnes à mobilité réduite, mais la galerie n’offre pas de mesure d’accessibilité.

Programmation -->
Installations sonores
8 mai, 18h : Vernissage en galerie

Installations de Thomas Augustin, Zak Colello, Jacob Desjardins, Gilles Grenon

Tables rondes -->
Corporéité, agencements et savoirs distribués
9 mai 15h

Animée par Erin Gee (UdeM), cette table ronde interroge la manière dont le corporel — dans ses extensions, médiations et inscriptions — se constitue et se distribue au sein des pratiques de recherche-création. La corporéité y est envisagée non comme un site fixe, mais comme un processus dynamique de co-constitution : un champ de perception, d'émergence et de production du savoir, qui se déploie à travers des agencements incarnés, relationnels, computationnels et hybrides. Cette rencontre ouvre un espace de dialogue entre les pratiques artistiques, les méthodologies de recherche-création et les questionnements théoriques des artistes-chercheur·e·s invité·e·s, dont les travaux traversent le geste, la transduction, l'assemblage, l'archive corporelle, le corps-donnée et la biotechnologie.

Panelistes: Mimi Allard, Jacqueline Beaumont, Simon Chioini.

Mille lieux techniques (im)possibles
10 mai 15h

Animée par Lou Manuel Arsenault (INRS), cette table ronde propose d’interroger la technique non pas comme un ensemble de moyens, mais plutôt comme le milieu actif de la création sonore. Les choix technologiques y apparaissent comme des vecteurs capables à la fois d’élargir notre potentiel d’action que d’opérer une forme de dépossession de nos processus créatifs. En ouvrant de nouvelles possibilités d'expression, chaque dispositif reconfigure les modes d’intervention, les hiérarchies décisionnelles et les trajectoires de nos voix. Il s’agit ainsi d’examiner comment s'y redéfinissent les conditions d’énonciation, les régimes d’écoute et les contours de l’autorat.

Panelistes: Myriam Bleau, Nicolas Bourgeois, Jacob Desjardins.

Concerts -->
9 mai 19h

Simon Chioini, Nic Bourgeois, Samuel Gendron, Gaël Moriceau, David Piazza, Camille Rosset-Balcer

10 mai 19h

Mimi Allard, Seulement et Jordan Torres Bussière, David Caulet et Alexandre Sasset-Blouin, Antonin Gougeon-Moisan, Mikael Meunier-Bisson

Informations supplémentaires -->
Ce projet a bénéficié du soutien financier du Regroupement interuniversitaire de recherche et création • musiques et sociétés (RCMS)

Collaborations RCMS :

Myriam Boucher (UdeM, codirectrice du LFO) – Membre RCMS Axe 1

Irina Kirchberg (Artenso) – Membre RCMS Axes 2 & 3 Collaboration en médiation

Contact et billetterie
Billetterie : https://www.zeffy.com/fr-CA/ticketing/festival-formes-ondes--2026
Instagram : @ffo.festival

Homegrown presents Wall of Sound

DateFriday, May 8, 2026
Time10 pm – 12 am
Homegrown presents Wall of Sound w/ Ben Sims, dileta, Esther côté, Honeydrip & newfriend
May
8
May 8

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Alva Noto + Myriam Bleau | SAT Montréal

DateFriday, May 8, 2026
Time10 pm – 0:45 am
Where1201 boulevard Saint Laurent , Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2X 2S6
Alva Noto, figure marquante de la techno minimale et de l'IDM, présente HYBR:ID UNI PARA, une performance explorant les interactions entre lumière, son et perception.

L’artiste montréalaise Myriam Bleau ouvre la soirée avec Hypermobility, une œuvre qui examine les dynamiques du déplacement et leurs implications environnementales.

Deux performances audio-visuelles à vivre le 8 mai 2026 à la Société des arts technologiques dans l’Espace SAT. Billets en vente dès maintenant.

Une coproduction MUTEK et la Société des arts technologiques [SAT], présentée dans le cadre du 30e anniversaire de la SAT.

Avertissement : Cet événement contient du contenu audiovisuel, notamment des lumières stroboscopiques et des motifs visuels susceptibles d’affecter certaines personnes. Spectacle debout.

Informations accessibilité: https://sat.qc.ca/fr/accessibilite/
Pour toutes demandes, écrivez à access@mutek.org
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Alva Noto, a seminal figure in minimal techno and IDM, presents HYBR:ID UNI PARA, a performance exploring the interplay between light, sound, and perception.

Montréal-based artist Myriam Bleau opens the evening with Hypermobility, a work examining the dynamics of travel and its environmental implications.

Two audiovisual performances to experience on May 8, 2026 at the Society for Arts and Technology in the Espace SAT. Tickets on sale now.

A co-production by MUTEK and the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), presented as part of the SAT’s 30th anniversary.

TW: This event contains audiovisual content, including flashing lights and patterns, which may be triggering for some attendees. Standing event.

Accessibility information: https://sat.qc.ca/en/accessibilite/
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KONTRAVOID + BELLY HATCHER + BAD FAITH ACTOR

DateFriday, May 8, 2026
Time10 pm – 1 am
Where137 Avenue du President Kennedy
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/kontravoid-belly-hatcher-bad-f/1478484750386611/
Nights of Worship Presents KONTRAVOID

With
BELLY HATCHER
BAD FAITH ACTOR

and DJ sets by
MAX MIRA
DIMITRI

Sound by SSG
Lights by Mykolit

MAY 8th

10PM-3AM

137 Av. du Président-Kennedy Montréal / Red Roof Church

Andy Stott and The Corporation at Society for Arts & Technology (09 May 26)

DatesMay 9, 2026
WhereSociety for Arts & Technology, 1201, boul. Saint-Laurent, H2X 2S6, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Distribution gratuite de compost au Complexe environnemental Saint-Michel

DateSaturday, May 9, 2026
Time8 am – 6 pm
Where2235, Michel-Jurdant, Montréal, QC, CA, H1Z4N1
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Bazar Vintage Mtl - 9 MAI

DateSaturday, May 9, 2026
Time10 am – 5 pm
Where5940, rue Chabot Montréal
Event: fb://event/933076432468046

Bazar Vintage Mtl sera de retour dans Rosemont, le samedi 9 Mai de 10h à 17h
🎈Entrée gratuite
📍Église st-Jean Berchmans
Nouvelle entrée : 5940, rue Chabot
Montréal
Au coin de Rosemont et à 2 rue de Papineau
Venez nous voir! 🤩

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Bazar Vintage Montréal is Back in Rosemont!
🌼Free admission
🌼On Saturday 9 of May from 10AM to 5PM
🌼St-Jean Berchmans Church
New Entrance ➡️ 5940, Chabot Street
Montreal-Rosemont Corner
Ⓜ️ Rosemont station 🧡 OR Papineau station 💚

See you soon 🤩

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Grande Foire d'Art Imprimé Printed Art Fair MTL 2026

DateSaturday, May 9, 2026
Time11 am – 6 pm
Where1345 Rue de Bellechasse, Montréal, QC H2G 1N8, Canada
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/grande-foire-dart-imprime-prin/1647181912984891/
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Grande 2026 - Café Parquette, gratuit - free

La GRANDE foire d’art imprimé, c’est un rassemblement de plus de 50 artistes et organismes dans le cadre du Festival des arts imprimés de Montréal. C’est une occasion unique pour le public montréalais d’acquérir de l’art imprimé et d’échanger avec leurs créateur·ices : Sérigraphie, presse à lettre, estampes : toutes les formes et toutes les tendances de la pratique de l’art imprimé seront au rendez-vous !

Liste des exposants : https://grandemtl.art/exposants/year-2026/

Ce printemps, le Festival propose des activités en collaboration avec plusieurs centres d’artistes et acteur·ices du milieu, notamment, des vernissages d’expositions, rencontres d’artistes et des ateliers créatifs du 16 avril au 9 mai.

Vous pouvez consulter les informations sur le programme complet du Festival des Arts Imprimés de Montréal au faimtl.ca .
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The GRANDE Printed Art Fair brings together more than 50 artists and organizations selling posters and printed art during the Montreal Printed Arts Festival. Silkscreen prints, risography, posters, letterpress, engravings, every form and every new trend in printed art will be on display! It’s your only chance each year to discover the incredible talent present in Montreal’s printed art scene and to buy some of the best art prints around!

Exhibitor list: https://grandemtl.art/exposants/year-2026/

Meet and mingle with artists themselves at their table, and find out about the many collectives and organizations that serve the local printed art milieu.

Check out the full programme of the 2026 Montreal Printed Arts Festival at faimtl.ca .

Grande 2026 design graphique : Isadora-Ayesha Lima.

Grande est une production d'ARCMTL en collaboration avec Café Parquette pour le Festival des Arts Imprimés de Montréal. Le FAIMTL est rendu possible grâce en partie au soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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Art Show

DateSunday, May 10, 2026
Time10 am – 1 pm
WhereThe Venue, 123 Main St

BRUNCH des sans-taverne

DateSunday, May 10, 2026
Time10 am – 2 pm
WhereBâtiment 7, 1900 rue Le Ber, Pointe-st-Charles, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3K2A4
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/brunch-des-sans-taverne/1564443488355081/
𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐳𝐲 𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟎 𝐦𝐚𝐢! Venez vous régaler autour d'un bon repas et d'un verre de mimosa en ce matin de fête des mères🍾😋

On vous propose une formule classique avec un choix d'accompagnements pour créer votre assiette parfaite. Options véganes disponibles 🌱

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- Pain
- Patates
- Fèves à l’érable
- Œufs ou tofu brouillé
- Fruits ou crudités
- Café filtre ou verre de jus

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- Saucisses (porc ou végane)
- Légumes sautés (champignons, poivrons, oignons)
- Crêpes véganes (avec sirop d’érable ou sucre + citron)


📍 les sans-taverne (1900 Rue Le Ber)

Radio Snack Craft & Café

DateSunday, May 10, 2026
Time1 pm – 6 pm
WhereRadio Snack, 916 Ontario St E #130, Montreal, QC H2L 1P4, Canada
Drop by Radio Snack Sunday afternoon for coffee and snacks while you craft (or just hang out). We’ll have a barista making espressos and lattes!

Atelier vélo en mixité choisie - La Remise

DateSunday, May 10, 2026
Time3 pm – 6 pm
Where1050 rue beaubien est, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2S1T4
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/atelier-velo-en-mixite-choisie/26677137695248052/
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Venez travailler sur votre vélo dans un espace bienveillant et inclusif

Venez quand vous voulez entre 15h et 18h à l'atelier vélo de La Remise au 1050 rue Beaubien Est.
Un panneau La Remise ainsi qu'une sonnette vous attendent à l'entrée! Nous viendrons vous ouvrir.

Des bénévoles sont sur place pour vous aider

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L’atelier vélo de la Remise, comme plusieurs autres ateliers de mécanique de vélo, ne peut que faire ce constat: notre milieu est très homogène et masculin, tant chez nos bénévoles que nos membres. Dans une visée inclusive et féministe, nous ouvrons des plages horaires spécialement réservée aux personnes sous-représentées dans la mécanique de vélo.

Nous aimerions aussi accueillir une plus grande diversité de bénévoles.
Nous souhaitons que cette plage horaire permette à de nouvelles personnes de se familiariser avec l’atelier, de s’y sentir confortable et de pouvoir s’y impliquer!

Une fois par mois, une plage horaire est réservée aux femmes, personnes non-binaires, et autres minorités de genre, d’orientation sexuelle ou de couleur.

Le créneau se veut un moment de mécanique de vélo, mais aussi de partage de savoir et de discussions féministes.

Aucune compétence mécanique n’est nécessaire pour utiliser l’atelier. Des bénévoles se feront un plaisir de vous accompagner dans vos apprentissages et réparations !

FIMAV @ Vitoriaville

DatesMay 11, 2026 – May 17, 2026
https://www.fimav.qc.ca/planifier-votre-festival/

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htmlles - Black Pudding: Collaborative Speculation Workshop

DateMonday, May 11, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
WhereMoving Image Research Lab, 853 Sherbrooke St W, room B55, McCall McBain Building, McGill University
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Community
Black Pudding: Collaborative Speculation Workshop is a hands-on, in-person workshop series designed to offer an accessible and collaborative entry point into the creative re-use of AI. As a point of departure, we use Black Pudding, a research-driven, AI-based project that revisits the lost pornographic animation film Black Pudding (1969) by Nancy Edell. This workshop series now invites participants to collaborate on an AI-based short animation by contributing to a custom dataset of collages inspired by surviving textual materials (film reviews, critics, etc.) written about the film. The workshop series introduces participants to different forms of AI filmmaking tools in a low-pressure and ecologically mindful setting, and asks: what might AI look like if we slowed it down, made it smaller, and used it to make art together?

Latin Jazz Quartet

DateMonday, May 11, 2026
Time7:30 pm – 11 pm
WhereDièse Onze
Linkhttps://facebook.com/events/s/latin-jazz-quartet/2327427891037614/
LATIN JAZZ QUARTET
Le contrebassiste Alex Bellegarde fusionne le jazz latin contemporain, les rythmes afro-cubains et l’ improvisation libre.
Un concert électrisant mettant en vedette d’excellents musiciens: Nestor Rodriguez Vilardell (sax), Willy Javier Soto Barreto (piano), Diomer Gonzalez Gonzalez (percussions).

2 spectacles/shows : 7pm / 9.30pm
Entrée/Cover: $12

Experience the unique and exciting fusion of contemporary Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and free improvisation with bassist Alex Bellegarde, who skillfully blends diverse musical styles. And he's not alone - he's got an incredible group of musicians with him, including the talented Nestor Rodriguez Vilardell on sax, Willy Javier Soto Barreto on piano, and Diomer Gonzalez Gonzalez on percussion, who'll blow you away with their electrifying performances. A dynamic and unforgettable musical experience not to be missed.

In My Lane Queer Bowling

DateTuesday, May 12, 2026
Time7 pm – 10 pm
WhereQuilles G plus Le Forum, 920 rue St-Zotique Est, Montréal (angle Boyer)
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Other
Join us on Tuesday May 12th at In My Lane Queer Bowling at Bowling G Plus for an evening of bowling with fellow queers. Doors at 6:30pm, bowling starts at 7pm until 10pm. We are starting at 7pm sharp so we have enough time to play 3 games. The first game is a practice round and game 1 and 2 is a friendly competition among your peers. Prizes will be given out at the end of the night. Sign up sheet in the bio.