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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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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!

Montreal Anarchist Day of Critique Response Analysis & Provocation

DateMonday, May 18, 2026
Time1 pm – 6 pm
WhereCÉDA, 2515 rue Delisle, Montréal, QC H3J 1K8
PriceFree
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An afternoon of presentations, discussions, and anarchist theory. This year's theme is technology. Using tools and technics to extend the will is no novel concept, just ask the crow, but the tangle of a primate desire to hammer and the ever increasing number of nails is a fair bit more complicated than that of our avian fellows. Join us to dissect these desires, and discuss the various anarchist relationships to, or assessments of, technology. Give me a long enough lever and I will topple the state!... Unless it's the master's lever. Free, of course! (Donations will help cover costs) Coffee and snacks!

5@tech: Building Cyberfeminist Networks, Here, Today

DateTuesday, May 19, 2026
Time5 pm – 9 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Suite 301, Montréal, QC H2L 4H2
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Roundtable + Performance. Communautaires et des technologues à venir partager leurs réflexions sur la manière dont les infrastructures communautaires sont construites et entretenues. Nous dresserons la liste des organisations et des actrices qui ont marqué la scène cyberféministe d'hier et d'aujourd'hui et suivront un bref historique et une mise en contexte de Cyber Love, ainsi que des conseils pratiques qu'iels ont appris depuis leurs premiers mouvements populaires en 2021. Les participant-es seront invité-es à partager leurs propres idées sur le développement communautaire : ce qui a fonctionné ce qui n'a pas fonctionné, et à souligner les problèmes qu'iels ont vu réapparaître de manière cyclique. Ensemble, nous terminerons en soulignant les pistes à suivre pour une organisation collective future et une solidarité et une collaboration plus fortes. La table ronde sera suivie d'un cocktail de réseautage. Avec performances de Emily Sirota & Evgenia Mikhaylova de LeParc.

Book Launch: Layaway Child

DateWednesday, May 20, 2026
Time7 pm – 9 pm
WhereArgo Bookshop, 1841a rue sainte-catherine, Montreal QC
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Join us for the launch of Chanel Sutherland's book, Layaway Child. The author will be joined for a discussion with H. Nigel Thomas. Layaway Child is a luminous debut short story collection by award-winning writer Chanel Sutherland that explores the emotional landscapes of Caribbean families fractured by migration, especially the harrowing yet resilient journeys of Black girls and women. In lyrical, linked stories, Sutherland traces the lives of mothers working abroad as housekeepers and nannies, and the children they left behind. From lush island childhoods marked by absence and community, to the cold, alienating spaces of Canadian cities, Layaway Child captures the complexity of growing up between worlds. A mother, newly arrived in Montreal, is kept from speaking to her daughters by her own mother's misguided attempt to help her let go of home. A schoolgirl becomes a spectacle under the gaze of white classmates. Sutherland brings deep compassion and sharp insight to each moment. Chanel Sutherland is a Vincentian Canadian writer who won the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize and the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize and was named one of CBC Books 30 Writers to Watch in 2022. She was also the overall winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. H. Nigel Thomas came to Canada from St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968 and is a retired professor of U.S. literature, author of numerous essays and fifteen books, and a co-founder of Lectures Logos Readings. His fiction focuses on queer themes, parent-child relationships in Canada and the Caribbean. He has received many awards, including the 2022 Canada Council John Molson Prize for the Arts. Masks are not required, but will be provided for free at the door. For elevator access, please contact us at least a day in advance of the event.

US swapping books

DateWednesday, May 20, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
Where1050 Rue Beaubien Est, Montréal, QC H2S 1T4
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Book swapping event. Open to anyone - no need to take the pilates class to join the swap. Finish a mat pilates class feeling strong & rejuvenated, then get free new books while drinking a cold Zamalek.

Symposium—Research(-)creation, Digital Creativity, and Social Transformations

DateThursday, May 21, 2026
Time9:30 am – 5:30 pm
WhereNAD-UQAC School, Room N6-205, 1501 de Bleury Street, Montreal
PriceFree
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Explores the social transformations associated with digital creativity, in a context where immersive technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality, 360° immersive installations, etc.), video games (commercial, experimental, artistic, etc.), and special effects (animation, compositing, 3D, etc.) occupy an increasingly central place in our cultural practices, imaginaries, and ways of life. Research creation provides a privileged framework for rethinking digital creativity and its social impacts. It offers a space where creative practices become modes of analysis, where works function as critical devices, and where processes themselves reveal the socio technical dynamics shaping our digital environments. The symposium is open to the public. Hybrid. Bilingual. Organized by the Chaire de recherche en économie créative et mieux-être (CREAT), in collaboration with the Hexagram Network, and is presented as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters.

Symposium—Research(-)creation, Digital Creativity, and Social Transformations

DateFriday, May 22, 2026
Time9:30 am – 5:30 pm
WhereNAD-UQAC School, Room N6-205, 1501 de Bleury Street, Montreal
PriceFree
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Explores the social transformations associated with digital creativity, in a context where immersive technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality, 360° immersive installations, etc.), video games (commercial, experimental, artistic, etc.), and special effects (animation, compositing, 3D, etc.) occupy an increasingly central place in our cultural practices, imaginaries, and ways of life. Research creation provides a privileged framework for rethinking digital creativity and its social impacts. It offers a space where creative practices become modes of analysis, where works function as critical devices, and where processes themselves reveal the socio technical dynamics shaping our digital environments. The symposium is open to the public. Hybrid. Bilingual. Organized by the Chaire de recherche en économie créative et mieux-être (CREAT), in collaboration with the Hexagram Network, and is presented as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters.

Tiling Theory: Heesch's Problem, Isohedral Numbers, and the Einstein Problem

DateFriday, May 22, 2026
Time2:30 pm – 4:35 pm
WhereHybride - PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
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Speaker Craig Kaplan (University of Waterloo) discusses deep questions in tiling theory, including Heesch's problem (how many times a non-tiler may be surrounded by copies of itself), the isohedral number problem (how many transitivity classes a shape may force upon its periodic tilings), and the einstein problem (a single shape forced to tile non-periodically). Discussion of mathematical and computational research and generalizations to multiple shapes.

Intercultural language hike (French–Spanish group)

DateSaturday, May 23, 2026
Time12:30 pm – 4:30 pm
WhereMount Royal Park
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Join our intercultural language hikes in Mount Royal Park. Small group discussions during the walk + friendly snack at the end. Activity as part of the Plateau plant distribution — arrive early to take advantage of the kiosks!

Intercultural language hike (French–English group)

DateSaturday, May 23, 2026
Time12:30 pm – 4:30 pm
WhereMount Royal Park
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Join our intercultural language hikes in Mount Royal Park. Small group discussions during the walk + friendly snack at the end. Activity as part of the Plateau plant distribution — arrive early to take advantage of the kiosks!

Lancement du recueil J'me barre à l'aube de Claude André

DateFriday, May 29, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereChez Ernest, 6596, rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal
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Lancement du recueil J'me barre à l'aube de Claude André

Unreal Engine 5

DateSaturday, May 30, 2026
Time12 pm – 4 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Suite 201, Montréal, QC H2L 4H2
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Registration is now open for the Unreal Engine for artists workshop! Real-time 3D environments offer diverse possibilities for engaging and immersing viewers in virtual worlds. This project-driven workshop studio explores immersive practices using Unreal Engine 5, with participants developing individual projects supported by targeted demos and one-on-one guidance. Additional sessions: June 6, 12-4pm. Individual and small group coaching from June 3rd to 10th at Ada X and online.

Envisioning Archival Futures with Cyanotype and Poetry

DateSaturday, May 30, 2026
Time1 pm – 5 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Suite 201, Montréal, QC H2L 4H2
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In this workshop, we will explore the possibilities offered by cyanotype to uncover new horizons within the participants' archives. Everyone is invited to bring objects, negatives, images printed on transparent materials, fabrics, textiles, and other personal effects to create solar prints. By using the sun to produce images and texts, we resist the oppressive structures under which we collectively work and explore new possibilities in the fields of research and creation. We will recite and reclaim individual narratives within collective histories of resistance.

Rollie Pemberton: Ways of Listening Launch

DateTuesday, June 2, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
WhereLibrarie Drawn & Quarterly (176 rue Bernard O)
PriceFree
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Pemberton (AKA Albertan rapper Cadence Weapon) drops by Montreal to launch his new book on "building a deeper relationship with music in the streaming era." Rollie Pemberton, in conversation with Peggy Hogan.

COMPOSITE #46

DateWednesday, June 3, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:35 pm
Where7240 Rue Clark, Montréal, QC H2R 1Z3
PriceFree
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Quarterly networking event for Montreal's digital community. An evening to meet the community, discover projects and foster dialogue between the art, research and industry sectors. Born from an initiative of the Conseil des arts de Montréal and coordinated by MAPP_MTL, the event promotes sharing and cross-pollination between creators, artist centres, organizations, businesses and digital professionals. Eastern Bloc presents this 46th edition in collaboration with Ateliers Belleville and the Goethe-Institut. The program includes project presentations and exchanges within the community. Featured projects: Whispering of Shells — Milton Riano, PANOPTIKODE — Fanny Pimpurniaux, Electro-Acrylic — Alec Stephani, Belvedere — Olivier Basquin and Marius Cousin, Metamonument — Oli Sorenson, The Abyss 2 — Louis-Philippe Rondeau. Composite Minutes include: Unstable Ecologies in partnership with ADA X — Alizée Armet, The Swimming Pool — Théo Le Roux, FA Workshop — François Auclair, The Firemen's Ball — Hugo Mazo, REPAIRE, a Distributed Cooperative Network (DCN) project — Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Visual tracking and sound analysis solutions for interactivity — Lab148 Cooperative, Emmanuel Durand, MAS – Data Fest — MAS Media QC, Victor Galarreta, Oreo's in the Sunshine — Cassidy Lerman, Aléas: Rediscovering the universe through the distorting prism of a transdisciplinary musico-poetic narrative — Cléo Palacio-Quintin / Fiolûtröniq Productions. Free admission, registration required.

General Meeting: Format Montreal

DateWednesday, June 3, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
Where5550 Avenue de Gaspé, Montréal, QC H2T 3A5
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Open Source is now Format Montreal! And Format Montreal is a community-led, horizontal design festival amplifying talent in the Montreal design scene. They're having a second (third?) general meeting to answer everybody's questions and get the ball rolling, since the festival is set to start September 10th, which is in 4 months people! The best way to make your voice heard is to show up <3

Unveiling and Presentation

DateThursday, June 4, 2026
Time8:30 pm – 10:35 pm
WhereWorld Creation Studio, 3995 Rue Berri, Montreal, Quebec H2L 4H2, Canada
PriceFree
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Part of Things + Time Alpha Launch event