Montreal Cultural Calendar

As strikes rates have risen in recent years across Québec and Canada, so too have government efforts to restrict them. These efforts are part of a long Canadian tradition of state repression of strikes, although they have evolved over time.

What is behind these efforts to suppress strikes? How and why have they changed over time? How do they affect collective bargaining? Why isn’t arbitration a suitable alternative? And why do governments keep doing this? Join a panel of labour experts and legal practitioners for a round-table discussion of these and other important questions related to efforts to suppress workers’ right to strike.

Panelists will include:

Sibel Ataogul (Melançon Marceau Grenier Cohen)
David Doorey (York University)
Barry Eidlin (McGill University)
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau (Université de Montréal)

The moderator will be Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University Faculty of Law)

Sponsored by GRIPP (Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la philosophie politique) and CRIMT (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail.

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First night is sold out second night added!
On sale August 26 at 10 AM

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En vente le 26 aot 10h



Billets | Tickets (11 Novembre): https://goodshows.ca/event/cindy-lee-montreal-tickets-rialto-theatre-billets-nuit-2



Cindy Lee Live @ The Rialto Theatre
10 & 11 Novembre 2025

5723 ave du Parc
7PM Portes
8PM Spectacles

Venue Info: https://www.theatrerialto.ca/halls

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Pixels & Poutine indie game showcase at Le Central! Come play indie games while enjoying poutine.

Games Featured:
- Camille and Laura
- Hard Chip
- SZ2000
- scopecreep
- Capy Castaway
- Hiboka
- North Shore
- Dramatour

Event Series Info: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmyEA2Kj6C5sRJUbss_nsdsMfAVMaovto4jlFn7mv9G2e-Og/viewform
Event Type: Public Indie Game Showcase
Audience: General Public

Exposition de vitrine dhiver

Appel de dossiers 2025 INVERSE
Date limite : 25 novembre 2025 23h59

Pour notre Exposition de vitrine d'hiver, qui se tiendrade la mi-dcembre 2025 au dbutjanvier 2026, nous invitons les candidates, qu'il s'agisse d'artistes ou de collectifs, proposer des uvres autour du thme : INVERSE. Nous recherchons des propositions qui jouent et explorent les notions d'intrieur et d'extrieur, qui jouent avec le fait de rvler ce qui est habituellement cach et de dissimuler ce qui est normalement expos. De l'intrieur l'extrieur, du haut l'envers, le thme invite aux inversions et aux interventions qui remettent en question la manire dont les choses sont habituellementprsentes, redfinissent la relation entre des opposs supposs.

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Winter Window Exhibition

Call forProposals 2025 INVERSE
Deadline: November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM

For our Winter Window Exhibition, mid-December 2025 to early January2026, we are inviting applicants,both individual artists and collectives, to propose works around the theme: INVERSE. We want proposals that play and explore notions ofinside and outside, that play with revealing what is usually hiddenand concealing what is normally on display. We want to see the inside out and the upside down, inversions and interventions that question how things are normally presented, that redefine the relationshipbetween supposed opposites.

+ https://www.articule.org/en/events/winter-window-2025

Guy LHeureux, 2025


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La troisime confrence Architecture comme sujet dintrt public appuie le Rseau de recherche du CCA, une entit qui rassemble les anciens participants prs de quatre dcennies de programmes de recherche au CCA. Cette confrence annuelle explore le thme de la bourse Architecture comme sujet dintrt public 2025, en posant la question suivante : comment construire des relations?

Cette troisime confrence consisteen un dialogue entre Nishat Awan,Shahana Rajani et Dima Srouji, chacune apportant son point de vue unique sur la manire dont les relations peuvent tre cres et entretenues grce des pratiquesde contre-cartographie, des mdias qui les rendent visible et des tactiques de mise au jour. Leur conversation soulignera la manire dont larchitecture dtient le pouvoir et la responsabilit de crer des modalits relationnelles uniques : entre des groupes de personnes, entre les personnes et les mondes non humains, entrelarchitecture et les cologies, et entre plusieurs localits relies par des rseaux dabondance et de collectivit.

La confrence se droule en ligne et estouverte au public. Prire de senregistrer pour assister lvnement en ligne: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-architecture-as-public-concern-lecture-how-can-we-build-relation-tickets-1854143486079?aff=oddtdtcreator

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The third Architecture as Public Concern Lecture supports the CCA Research Network, an entity bringing together alumni from almost four decadesof research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture explores the theme of the 2025 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, how can we build relation?

This third lecture is a dialogue between Nishat Awan, Shahana Rajani,and Dima Srouji, with each bringing their unique perspectives on how relation can be created and maintained through practices of counter-mapping, media that render visible, and tactics of unearthing. Together, they foreground how architecture holds the power and responsibility to create unique modalitiesof relation: between groups of people, between human and nonhuman worlds, between built forms and ecologies, and between multiple localities that are connected through networks of abundance and collectivity.

The annual Architecture as Public Concern Lecture takes place online, please register to attend online: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-architecture-as-public-concern-lecture-how-can-we-build-relation-tickets-1854143486079?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Pixels & Poutine indie game showcase at Le Central! Come play indie games while enjoying poutine.

Games Featured:
- Everywhere
- CTRL-U: Testing Facility
- Elfie: A Sand Plan
- Adaptory
- émile et moi

Event Series Info: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmyEA2Kj6C5sRJUbss_nsdsMfAVMaovto4jlFn7mv9G2e-Og/viewform
Event Type: Public Indie Game Showcase
Audience: General Public

Vernissage: Gather
November 13th (5-7pm)
Location: Pangée | 1305, avenue des Pins Ouest, Montreal

Gather is a group exhibition that instigates a dialogue between the drawing practices of Russell Banx and Catherine Desroches with the sculptural work of Jennifer Rose Sciarrino.

Website: https://pangeepangee.com/
Instagram: @pangee.pangee

Vernissage: Dreamachine
November 13th (5-7pm)
Location: Pangée | 1305, avenue des Pins Ouest, Montreal

Dreamachine features work by Alli Melanson and Jackson Slattery. More info to come!

Website: https://pangeepangee.com/
Instagram: @pangee.pangee

Vernissage: City of Habits by Alexa Hawksworth
November 13th (5-8pm)
Location: Bradley Ertaskiran | 3550 Rue Saint-Antoine Ouest, Montreal

Vivid and turbulent, Hawksworth's cacophony of paintings charts an exhilarating collapse, where chaos and order are inseparably entwined.

Showcasing the artist's characteristic accelerated style and exceptional technique, City of Habits also features Hawksworth's recent experiments in manipulating letterform as a formal rather than communicative device. Overlapping forms draw from découpage, stamping, and printmaking, but, in their simultaneous acknowledgement and refusal of an imposed flatness and order, they turn Dada-esque, nonsensical, and disruptive. Here, typological conventions are pulled and stretched into illegible ends, exposing language as a fragile architecture—one that brilliantly unravels into gesture and noise.

Website: https://bradleyertaskiran.com/en/
Phone: +1 514-989-1056

Vernissage: Antecedent Conditions For A Landslide by Timothy Yanick Hunter
November 13th (5-8pm)
Location: Bradley Ertaskiran | 3550 Rue Saint-Antoine Ouest, Montreal

Presented in partnership with Cooper Cole, Antecedent Conditions For A Landslide draws on the structural relationships between land, body, and technology, considering how these entanglements shape migratory movement and the transfer of knowledge across time and space.

Taking inspiration from the writings of academics such as Édouard Glissant, Katherine McKittrick, and Clyde Woods, the exhibition reflects on notions of relation, geography, and collective memory as they inform diasporic experience. The exhibition will take place in two galleries in two different cities, with one iteration in Toronto and another in Montreal, a dual presentation that expands the project's conceptual scope by highlighting movement, circulation, and translation, all key concerns in Hunter's practice.

Website: https://bradleyertaskiran.com/en/
Phone: +1 514-989-1056

Les pratiques de placekeeping vont au-del de la simple prservation des espaces physiques. Elles sancrent dans des liens ininterrompus au territoire, transmis par des cultures vivantes, la prsence autochtone et les relations des communauts la terre.

Rejoignez-nous le 13 novembre 18h en compagnie des artistes et praticiennes autochtones Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs et Amanda Lickers pour une rencontre autour duplacekeeping. Par des gestes de rciprocit et de transmission de savoirs lis la terre, leur travail rsiste leffacement en honorant les cycles naturels et en assurant une continuit entre pass, prsent et futur. travers le tannage de peaux, le jardinage communautaire, la souverainet alimentaire et semencire, elles affirment que le lieu ne se dfinit pas seulement par lendroito lon se trouve, mais aussi par la mmoire, les relations et le soin quon lui porte.

L'vnement se droulera en anglais et est gratuit. Le nombre de placestant limit, linscription est obligatoire : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/placekeeping-with-brooke-rice-autumn-godwin-marnie-jacobs-amanda-lickers-tickets-1830397390869?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Placekeeping practices extend beyond the preservation of physical spaces. They centre instead on unbroken tiesto territory that stretch out through living cultural transmission,Indigenous presence, and community relationships to land.

Join us on 13 November at 6pm with Indigenous artists and practitioners Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers to engage with placekeeping. Rooted in acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings, their work resists erasure by honouring natural cycles and fostering continuity between past, present, and future. Through hide tanning, community gardening, food and seed sovereignty, they affirm that place is not only where we are, but how we remember, relate, and care.

This event willbe held in English and is free ofcharge. As space is limited, registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/placekeeping-with-brooke-rice-autumn-godwin-marnie-jacobs-amanda-lickers-tickets-1830397390869?aff=oddtdtcreator


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V/Sync #01
Ubisoft Montréal, 5480 St-Dominique, Salle Bernard Landry (RDC - Ground Floor), Montréal, QC
H3C 2L7, Canada

DevteamDrink X IndieCheers
3 Brasseurs - Saint-Paul, 105 Rue Saint-Paul East, Montréal, QC H2Y 1G7, Canada

Confirmation number: 13710618033

Vernissage: Calisse de Goblet
November 13th (6-9pm)
Location: Galerie Entretemps | 4307 rue Ste-Catherine E, Montreal

No matter comment tu dis ça, the goblet perseveres à travers le temps and space: jamais left behind. Goths, kings and plebs, tous pognent le mighty chalice with reverence or normality, ritual or pomp. Verser ton potion, wine ou gatorade and behold Calisse de Goblet!

Calisse de Goblet brings together invited artists from all over North America in a plethora of disciplines to worship the goblet in their own voice. Venez nous joindre for a franglais célébration of le magnifique goblet!

Website: https://entretemps.ca/
Instagram: @entretemps.meanwhile

Location: Dépanneur Le Pick Up | 7032 Rue Waverly, MontrealEnd Time: Not specifiedPistil is a new zine about queer sex, relationships, and identity. For its first edition, 15 local artists have contributed comics, recipes, essays and art about their experiences. The event will include food, such as desserts from homeloaf.Website: https://lepickupmtl.com/en/homePhone: 514-271-8011Instagram: @deplepickup

DevTeamDrinks and IndieCheers are two popular gamedev meetups in the vibrant city of Montreal. They bring together the dynamic local game development community — from the biggest AAA studios to the amazing indie devs!

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/devteamdrink-x-indiecheers-tickets-1811578623429
Event Type: Social Networking
Audience: Game Developers (AAA & Indie)
Format: Casual drinks and networking

Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH is launching a new series of events, V/Sync, for professionals in the Video Game industry, with the generous support of Ubisoft Montreal! Come hear talks and connect with other game devs!

Host: Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH
Sponsor: Ubisoft Montreal
Event Type: Professional Networking & Talks
Audience: Video Game Industry Professionals

Vernissage: We Saw The Sun by Megan Wade-Darragh
November 14th (6-9pm)
Location: MFA Gallery, Concordia University
Visual Arts Building VA-102, 1395 René-Lévesque Blvd W, Montreal

We Saw The Sun is an interdisciplinary project combining drawing, printmaking, and painting. It centers on light and movement as both subject matter and material. The project investigates image instability, media decay, and recollection, emphasizing that memory is both recalled and constructed. The works trace how these dynamics unfold through processes of erosion, intervention, and transformation, while examining the interplay between spontaneous occurrence and conscious construction.

Website: https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/about/galleries-venues.html

The Montreal Scientific Game Jam will be present at the Researchers' Night! We'll be showcasing two of the video games produced: Super Flower Conservationist Turbo, a game about how plants adapt to their environment, and Metromotions, a game about the impact of plants on emotions.

Registration: https://calendrier.espacepourlavie.ca/la-nuit-des-chercheuses-et-des-chercheurs
Event: Researchers' Night
Games Featured: Super Flower Conservationist Turbo & Metromotions
Focus: Science-based games

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Pop-Up: The Opium Den
November 15-16th (10am-6pm)
Location: Espace Transmission | 5435 Av. des Érables, Montreal

The Opium Den is a curated research project made for the physical world. With this new pop-up, they are making their largest leap in scale and transforming the two floors of Espace Transmission for a single November weekend. Head over to shop a selection of clothing, books, furniture, home goods and art.

Website: https://espacetransmission.ca/
Email: transmission.espace@gmail.com

Fair: Expozine Montreal
November 15-16th (11:30am-7pm)
Location: Église Saint Arsène | 1015 Rue Bélanger, Montreal

Expozine, the international independent publishing festival, returns to Montreal this weekend with their beloved fair featuring over 240 exhibitors.

Website: https://expozine.ca/en/
Instagram: @expozinemtl
Free admission

Play with glowing orbs at dusk

Join us for an evening of ritual and play at Frdric Back Park.

Frdric Back Park sits on 40 million tonnes of material. On the surface, you'll find mysterious orbs, venting ports for an active process happening beneath our feet. Asthe sun sets, we'll paint with light on the orbs.

*What to expect*
Experimental play at dusk, exploring trash, territory, and transformation. Bring a flashlight or bikelight and dress warm.

We'll begin with a mediative ritual as the sun sets, and shift into faster-paced play in the late dusk.

*When:*Saturday, November 15, 2025, arrive for 3:45pm. We start at 4pm, the sunset is unstoppable.
*Where:* Frdric Back Park
*Who:* Marie LeBlanc Flanagan and some other curious and playful people, with Montreal Games Week
*How:* Sign up below to reserve your spot

Info andtickets: https://marieflanagan.com/orb-sunset-night-light/index.html


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Pop-Up: The Opium Den
November 15-16th (10am-6pm)
Location: Espace Transmission | 5435 Av. des Érables, Montreal

The Opium Den is a curated research project made for the physical world. With this new pop-up, they are making their largest leap in scale and transforming the two floors of Espace Transmission for a single November weekend. Head over to shop a selection of clothing, books, furniture, home goods and art.

Website: https://espacetransmission.ca/
Email: transmission.espace@gmail.com

Fair: Expozine Montreal
November 15-16th (11:30am-7pm)
Location: Église Saint Arsène | 1015 Rue Bélanger, Montreal

Expozine, the international independent publishing festival, returns to Montreal this weekend with their beloved fair featuring over 240 exhibitors.

Website: https://expozine.ca/en/
Instagram: @expozinemtl
Free admission

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Admission gnrale: 43$

Dimanche 16 novembre 2025
Portes: 15h | Musique: 15h
407, rue Saint-Pierre, Espace 1