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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

htmlles - Unreal Engine 5

DateSaturday, June 6, 2026
Time12 pm – 4 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Suite 201, Montréal, QC H2L 4H2
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Registration is now open for the previously postponed 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 individual and small group accompaniment from June 3-10 at Ada X and online

Unreal Engine 5

DateSaturday, June 6, 2026
Time12 pm – 4 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Suite 201, Montréal, QC H2L 4H2
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Session 2 of 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. Individual and small group coaching from June 3rd to 10th at Ada X and online.

Historical Guided Tour of Mount Royal Cemetery

DateSunday, June 7, 2026
Time1 pm – 3:05 pm
Where1297 Chemin de la Forêt
PriceFree
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A wonderful opportunity to learn more about the site's history, heritage, and the notable figures who helped shape Montreal throughout the years. Meet at the main entrance. Rain or shine. No registration required. Simply arrive at the entrance a few minutes before the tour begins.

Lecture and Performance: Unstable Ecologies: Technologies of the Living and Imaginaries of the Future

DateWednesday, June 10, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereWorld Creation Studio
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As part of the Unstable Ecologies exhibition at Ada X, this conference extends the questions raised by the installations on view. The works explore environments in which the living is no longer represented but presented in vivo, as a system. Through dispositifs combining sensors, microclimates, microbiomes, and computational environments, they question what it means today to work with the living rather than on it. At a time when contemporary landscapes bear the traces of past industrial activities while being saturated with technological promises of repair, a tension emerges. We inherit contaminated soils, fragile ecosystems, unstable systems — and simultaneously imaginaries of enhancement, automated regeneration, and computational solutions.

Artist Talk: Narrative Series: Kafé Betian

DateSunday, June 14, 2026
Time2 pm – 5 pm
WhereAtelier Bon Train
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Musician and sculpture Kafé Betian comes from a lineage of Saamaka sculptors from western French Guiana and will present his traditional sculptural practice, "Tembé," an art form originating in his native Suriname and which he now practices in French Guiana. This talk is part of a series of talks by artists and designers presented by Bois Magique and is presented in collaboration with the SKOL Center for Contemporary Arts.