Montreal Cultural Calendar

Developed in conjunction with Satellites! — a previous exhibition at Emporium Builder Supplies — this event is a screening of three works by Michael Snow. Snow, an artist and filmmaker working throughout the mid 20th century in Canada sought to use a medium's materiality to draw attention to the sensory experience of viewing art. This selection of his 16mm films also features a discussion with André Habib, professor and historian of art and film; writer and experimental filmmaker Clint Enns; and researcher Léa Jusseau.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1710527099920261/
Event by: CCA, Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patience is a solo presentation by Ontario-based artist Tony Romano. Carrefour is pleased to host Romano's work in Montreal, revisiting a selection of video and sculptural works produced between 2022 and 2024. This exhibition is made possible thanks to Franz Kaka.

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

Concordia Caribbean Student Union (CCSU), McGill Caribbean Students Society (CSS) and @nessafitriddim are teaming up to bring you a high energy Soca Dance Class you don’t want to miss 💃🏽🌴
All levels welcome, just come ready to move and have a good time ✨
Let’s create a space that feels like home, one wine at a time

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

As Concordia rounds out the academic year the VAV gallery is hosting a finissage for Idyll and Labour, a group show featuring works by Renée Rothe, Kelly Halseth, Gemma Else and Laure-Charlotte Côté.

Le Jeu is a photographic exhibition that explores the perceptions of day, the temporality of night. The intimacy of the body. The gazes cast upon the other that teach us about ourselves. How we look, what we feel. Lussier's work often employs experimentation, fragmentation and distortion to highlight feelings and spaces of intimacy surrounding the body. The opening reception is BYOB.

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

Six years ago a hundred people crammed into a small art space in Hochelaga, braving a typical Montreal blizzard, for the inaugural Egg The Poet, celebrating poetry and community and the birth of the city's newest literary journal. It's in this spirit that Yolk Literary has carried on over six years, amplifying the voices of writers and artists in Montreal and beyond. The event will have live music, dancing, pop-up poetry, limited edition merch, light food, beverages, and free goodies, and Yolk's first art exhibition since 2021.

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

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

Performers: * Dylan Pinette

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