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Cookout session #1: Recipe Methodology in AI

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

5@Tech: We organize ourselves together

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

Conversation: Jakob Kudsk Steensen and Daniel Fiset

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

5 à SAT - Inclusive Design

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
WhereESPACE SAT
PriceFree
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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.

COMIC JAM Drink 'N' Draw

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time7 pm – 11 pm
WhereStar Bar
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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

The Ghostly Image

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time1 pm – 4 pm
WhereMilieuxMake Space EV 10.825
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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'.

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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Artists talk between artist Paola Pivi and Kanika Anand, Senior Curator at Contemporary Calgary

Workshop: The Shape of Odour: Materializing and Digitizing Sensations

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time1 pm – 3:05 pm
WhereAda-x
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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.

April Translation Book Club

DateWednesday, April 29, 2026
Time7 pm – 9 pm
WhereArgo Bookshop, 1841a rue sainte-catherine, Montreal QC
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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
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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!

Altermode

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time3 pm – 6 pm
WhereCentre de Saint-André (5720 St-André)
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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.

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
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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.

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
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Registration: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/untangle-une-journee-de-technologie-demotions-et-de-resistance

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.

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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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?

MESH DAY 2

DateFriday, May 15, 2026
Time12 pm – 3 pm
Where999 Rue du Collège, Suite 33B, Montréal, QC H4C 2S3
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Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence presents a guided discussion inviting all autonomous anarchist groups planning or actively working on building mesh networks across Montreal and the world to get together to discuss strategy, technique and how we can collaborate and coordinate efforts. Bring lunch! Stick around for movie/pizza night at foulab happening afterwards.

htmlles - - Intercultural Flavours: Writing Workshop

DateFriday, May 15, 2026
Time2 pm – 5 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Suite 201, Montréal, QC H2L 4H2
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The 13th Montreal Asian International Film Festival, in collaboration with HTMlles, presents Intercultural Flavours: Writing Workshop with Jinwoo Park (Oxford Soju Club) and Veena Gokhale (Annapurna's Bounty). This engaging, interactive workshop will feature food writing exercises that draw on the senses, in line with the theme Tangibility for MAIFF 2026. Workshop Highlights include: Readings and presentations from the authors, Group discussions that encourage participants to reflect on personal experiences, Food writing exercises that spark creativity and incite the senses

Skill Faire anarchiste /// Anarchist Skill Faire

DateSunday, May 17, 2026
Time10 am – 5 pm
WhereCEDA, 2515 rue Delisle, Montreal, QC H3J 1K8
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Dans le cadre de constellation / Un festival anarchiste à Montréal / 14 au 20 mai 2026 / Skill Faire 17 mai 2026 10h - 17h / For anarchists & the anarchocurious / Horaire complet: constellation.mtl.net





Identifying Sources: Anarchism and Historical Research (CÉDA room 119, en français)

Through this workshop, participants will become familiar with research on the history of anarchist and anti-authoritarian communities in Quebec and Canada, as well as the spaces (both self-organized and institutional) where archives are housed. Using examples, participants will gain a better understanding of the different types of sources that can be found there and how to analyze them critically.


Protecting our Community from Airborne Disease and Other Pollution through Improvised Air Purifiers (CÉDA room 123)

Copies of Sars-Cov-2 RNA in wastewater is still quite high, indicating widespread infection.  Avian Flu could be even more severe. The ruling class is deliberately preventing clean air measures through propaganda and other means while they deploy them in their own spaces extensively. Airborne disease is being used as a tool of slow motion genocide.   We will discuss how to use what you have to make really good air purifiers, and then work together to build 2 good machines.




Surviving as an Undocumented Migrant in Montreal (CÉDA room 125)

Every year tens of thousands of migrants in Canada refuse deportation and become undocumented. There are easily hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants living in Montreal alone. With conflicts around the world and worsening Quebec and Canada border policies, these numbers are rising. Community members in this situation are outcast: they live under constant threat of detention and deportation, have no access to legal work, healthcare, post secondary education or any other social programmes, often don’t have valid ID, and are extremely vulnerable to exploitation. Survival is a daily struggle. This skillshare will offer concrete information useful both for daily survival and for building infrastructure to help transform Montreal into a Solidarity City.

The skillshare will be facilitated by members of Solidarity Across Borders, a network of migrants and allies who work together against detention and deportation and for status for all and a Solidarity City.



Being Loud Together: A Shape-Note Singing School with Nineteenth-Century Tunebooks ― with Songs from the Sacred Harp (1844) and the Anti-slavery Harp (1851) (CCGV 2.100)

Come sing! This participatory workshop introduces shape-note singing — a centuries-old communal tradition requiring zero musical experience — and traces some of its historical connections to abolitionist movements. We'll sing (loud!) together, learn a little history, and talk about music as a form of collective resistance.




Riot Medicine 101 (Parc Vinet)

Come learn the basics of street and riot medicine! Due to limited time constraints, this workshop will provide a brief, hands-on, general summary of topics such as protest types and risks, how to treat chemical weapons-related injuries, pre-protest planning, post-protest care practices, preliminary examinations, and protest evacuations.



1:00PM



Reticulum: Unstoppable Networks for the People (CÉDA room 119)

We deeply depend on corporate telecommunications and internet infrastructure for our everyday lives and projects. What if we could build our own autonomous, encrypted networks and break this dependency? For basic text communications, this dream is increasingly possible using mesh networking software called Reticulum on cheap radio hardware. Reticulum is not one network, it is a tool for building thousands of unstoppable networks.




Zine 101: The Radical History of Zine Making (CÉDA room 123)

Zine 101 is a beginner-friendly workshop that highlights how marginalized communities have historically used zines as tools for resistance and storytelling. Participants will learn basic techniques and design concepts to create their own zines as a way of telling their own stories.




Guerrilla Grafting - The Vision, The Project, The Practice (CCGV 2.100, then outside)

Guerrilla grafting is adding fruit-bearing tree branches onto public ornamental trees so that in the coming years, these street trees will produce amazing delicious free fruit (apples, pears, plums, etc.), slowly transforming our streets into food forests for all. Grafting season is NOW and we’re taking action every day. Unlike last year, this workshop will be light on theory and heavy on action. No experience needed.




How to learn to grapple: Jiu-jitsu and Self Defense (Parc Vinet)

A workshop on grappling, self defense, and how our brains and body actually learn it.




3:00PM



Create a Protest Banner (CÉDA room 119)

An art workshop on making your own protest patch or banner textiles.




Worm Moon (CÉDA room 123)

Learn to build a home worm composting station, capable of turning rotten plant matter and old paper into fresh new life. As the workshop unfolds, the worm composters as a metaphor open a larger conversations around how transformation occurs, what supports it, what inhibits it. How must we be transformed if we wish to transform our world? The worms know.




Intro to Somatics for Liberation (CCGV 2.100)

Through body-felt senses, we access more than what the reasoning mind  can hold. For many of us, this pathway has been blocked —and with it,  our agency and personal power. This workshop will introduce you to the  foundational concepts. No experience is required. We'll explore tools  and techniques you can take home. There will be gentle movement, as well  as time sitting on the floor. For intimacy within the group, note that  the doors will close after we begin.




D.I.Y sauerkraut, cheap healthy probiotics (CÉDA kitchen)

Come learn how to make sauerkraut,  and go away with a tasty jar to nourish you and your friends!



4:00PM



Collective Care & Personal Well-being when Facing an Impasse (CÉDA room 119)

Various long-standing struggles provide inspirations of drawing from our own collective experience in face of impasses encountered in our groups and beyond. This workshop will be a space for inspiration and empathy where we propose collective restoration to nurture ourselves and our collectives, drawing from the practice of building restorative systems that emerged from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. A caringly facilitated discussion in a co-created safer space.





Building Solidarity with Queer and Trans Prisoners (CÉDA room 123)

In this workshop, we'll explore what the specific challenges faced by queer and trans prisoners, how we handle them as an organization that communicates mainly through mail, and discuss strategies to support these folks, particularly in the broader context of policy changes for trans prisoners in the US and Canada.We will give participants an opportunity to sign-up on the spot to correspond with a


Leadership for Anarchists! (CÉDA room 125)

Leadership is a set of skills you don't have to learn the hard way through trial and error! In our circles, good leadership - shared, fluid, solid - is necessary to the success of our various grassroots projects and the vitality of our organizing communities. This workshop will demystify what "leadership" really means and highlight three (3) underrated core leadership skills with a bit of theory, discussion, and hands on practice. Bring your courage and your notebooks! All levels welcome.



Intro to Feminist Self-defense (CCGV 2.100, en français)

This workshop is not open to cis men (mixité choisie).

This introduction to feminist self-defense is a comprehensive session in itself, designed to explore issues of boundaries and aggression. It can also serve as a gateway to a longer program or a regular self-defense practice. This two-hour session focuses on verbal, psychological, and physical defenses. We learn to identify, articulate, and defend our boundaries. No special equipment is required.

Montreal Guerrilla Grafters at Constellation Festival Skill Faire

DateSunday, May 17, 2026
Time1 pm – 3:05 pm
WhereCEDA at 2515 Rue Delisle, near Lionel Groulx metro
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Grafting meetup with a short ~10 minute presentation about the project followed by a march en masse to a high-traffic local park to turn theory into action. Will likely be very well attended by people with no experience at previous events with a vibe of "Look at this! Come join us!" rather than in-depth 1-on-1 instruction. There will be way more action and opportunity for learning than last year's presentation at this same festival. For those with previous experience, encouraged to come and help split up the crowd so that one group can watch what one person is doing and another can watch another person. Fresh supplies (tools, scion, etc.) will be available for anyone looking to re-stock, with no pressure to help present if you don't want to. Please come on time!