Montreal Cultural Calendar

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."

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

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

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.

A light spring reading to welcome in the warmer weather. Featuring words by Pamela Beyer, Maya Stewart Pathak, Jake Valente, Chloe Latour, Savannah Dalcourt, and Marie Ségolène C Brault.