Montreal Cultural Calendar

Le MC Challenge End Of The Weak / La fin des faibles a été lancé en 2000 à New York. Il célèbre cette année ses 15 ans de présence au Québec. Présent dans plusieurs pays sur 5 continents, il s’impose comme une référence internationale.
À la différence des battles traditionnels, le MC Challenge se veut un anti-battle : ici, pas d’insultes ni d’attaques personnelles, mais une mise en valeur du talent, du respect et de la créativité des artistes.
Chaque année, une finale internationale couronne une championne ou un champion du monde. Le concept a également été adapté pour la télévision avec La fin des faibles, diffusée sur Télé-Québec.
La compétition se décline en 5 épreuves qui mettent en lumière toutes les facettes de l’art du rap :
• Le texte libre
• L’a cappella
• L’improvisation
• Le MC vs DJ
• Le cercle
Les performances sont évaluées selon 5 critères objectifs :
• Les paroles et la qualité du texte
• La créativité et l’originalité
• La présence scénique et le charisme
• Le flow et le débit
• L’interaction avec l’environnement
Qui saura se démarquer et décrocher sa place en finale nationale?

CISM 89.3 FM, University of Montreal’s college radio station, is coming down from its mountain perch for one evening only! Host Léonie Cabrol (L’échooo des luttes) will be live from l’Esplanade tranquille for the occasion, welcoming some of her favorite feminine artists from the 2026 programming.

Jellicle Cats come one come all, Jellicles return to the Jellicle Ball! 2026 is the year Cats: The Jellicle Ball goes to Broadway, and all good things come in threes; we are excited and proud to present the the 3rd installment of the Jellicle Kiki Ball: Now & Forever! With newfound inspiration and new categories yet to be explored in Montreal, you're in for a cat-tastic time.
Will you be the Jellicle Choice this year, and be reborn in the Heaviside Layer?
(…fine. If we must address the 2019 movie, we're doing so with a twist!)
Walkers Registration:
https://forms.gle/oZZMxQwghjEzfhwt8
Lip Sync Registration:
https://forms.gle/EbmyBWqXUzRZfSw89
Trans community discount registration:
https://forms.gle/GLvsCkDQUdvcCQgu6
CATEGORIES
Beginners Performance
(🏆)
Bring it in a country Western look.
Beginners Runway
(🏆)
Bring it in a 1970s look.
500$ GP Designers Delight
(🏆)
Bring a design based on any Hanna-Barbara feline character (with a reference).
Face
(🏆🏆🏆)
Bring it as Luna (FF), Artemis (MF) or Diana (GNC) from
Sailor Moon
, with a crescent moon accessory.
Realness
(🏆🏆)
Bring it as a
Cats (2019)
cast member (with a non-
Cats
reference).
Runway
(🏆🏆🏆)
Bring it in a look inspired by
Josie & the Pussycats (2001)
with a reference.
Comm vs Comm
(🏆) For your 10s,
bring a chant incorporating a quote from
The Lion King
movie or stage musical.
Hands Performance vs. Arms Control
(🏆🏆) Inspired by the 90s cartoon
CatDog
,
Arms Control: Bring it as Cat; Hands Performance: Bring it as Dog.
Lip Sync
(🏆)
Bring it in a cat-themed lip sync performance (for your 10s, you may choose a song from any BROADWAY musical, or any cat-related song (be it by title or artist).
Performance
(🏆)
Bring it as a nekomimi.
Old Way vs. New Way
(🏆🏆)
OW: Cat in the Hat; NW: Thing 1 & Thing 2
Bazaar
(🏆)
Bring it as a feline sidekick, with a reference.
Body
(🏆🏆)
Choose a sports team whose mascot is feline, and bring it in the team’s colors, with a reference.
Sex Siren
(🏆🏆)
Bring it in a nude illusion with leather accessories, in honour of the Canadian Sphynx.
MC -
Silk
Pinklady
,
The GNC voice of the Canadian Ballroom scene since their 2022 debut, Silk Pinklady has commentated over 30 balls all across Canada, hosted workshops, and has mentored many commentators to their own grand prizes and OTY Awards
DJ Pleasure (Legendary Canadian Father Pleasure Juicy Couture)
DJ Pleasure is one of this generation’s phenomenal DJs. He is multi-talented and versatile with more than meets the eye. Pleasure grew up in Scarborough, Ontario. His love for the arts started at a very young age where Pleasure nurtured a sincere passion for music.
In the Ballroom scene, Legendary Canadian Father Pleasure Juicy Couture is recognized as the first Canadian Legend of European Runway in Canadian ballroom culture. As a respected leader and Father of the Canadian chapter of the Iconic Kiki House of Juicy Couture and integral member of the Toronto Kiki Ballroom Alliance, he shaped the elegant, expressive runway style that defines the category today.

Présenté par

Sunken Cages
is the solo-project of Indian-born drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin. Inspired by Mumbai’s Street drumming ensembles and global rhythms, he creates tracks using live-looped percussion arrangements and pre-composed melodies. Get your dancing shoes laced!
Bilingual, Montreal-based experimental synth duo,
Jardin botanique
(Kate Bundy and Jean-Guillaume Bastien) blends organic and synthetic sound worlds with an exploratory approach, playful improvisation, and intuitive collaboration. Treating music as a living ecosystem shaped by growth, decay and care, this project is a feast for your ears.
In Hajia Maa’s current artistic universe, what is tantamount is the exploration of music, wellness and fashion, a space where meditative chant, experimental soul, and ambient soundscapes offer a perspective on rituals of care for the body and spirit. Her project
Secondsight
invites deep listening, rest, and embodied spiritual intimacy. Expect aural-visual delight!
Cyclepunk Warrior Bard
Abdul Lateef aka The Distractor
is a versatile artist blurring the lines between beatboxing, progressive metal, hip hop, funk and drum n bass and beyond. His signature instrument is the Lethelium a 24-string 2-octave instrument played with sticks, fingers and violin bows. Other bike-based instruments include the coolerdrum and rim drum and Miscellaneum Studios’ Distraction Machine, a music-based cyclepunk video game and musical sequencer.

With
IFO Productions
True self-destruction.
Cicada
is dark, left-of-center hardcore howling from beneath the weight of the empire. Based in Richmond, VA.
THE NOT
are aural assault - fuzz washes over everything like a rainstorm, tying the songs together with the sounds of broken glass and sirens. The lyrics are blunt, political and vicious, and the rhythm section is locked to the churn. Their final showing. Noise not music.
Uzu
is a Montreal-based band that blends elements of post-punk with dark, melodic, mid-tempo punk, infused with an incisive energy reminiscent of Siekiera. Their lyrics, sung in Arabic, are poetic and personal, while also conveying political messages about exile, colonization, and self-management.
Muscle Memory
: FASTCORE.

Copresented with LOL (Lots of Love) Festival
June 20 (June 21 in case of rain) Mile End.
Meeting Point and time upcoming, keep your eyes peeled here!
Conjuring FM: Feminist Migrant Frequencies
This radio walk occupies an open frequency on the FM spectrum to create a collective listening experience that weaves together the voices, memories, and experiences of a migrant feminist collective in Montreal. Through sound, the project explores migration as a process of resilience, adaptation, and the search for new ways of coexisting within urban space.
Throughout the walk, participants will tune into an FM transmission featuring personal stories, reflections, and sonic conjurations from members of Colectiva Tribu and activist Tania Gómez. Their voices form the narrative thread of the experience, guiding the audience through stories of migration, care, resistance, and belonging.
The walk takes place within Les Champs des Possibles, a wild ecosystem that persists in the heart of Mile End and serves as a living symbol of ecological resilience within the city. This territory is not merely a setting, but an active interlocutor: its vegetation, sounds, and history enter into dialogue with the participants’ narratives. Throughout the journey, echoes of their voices and conjurations will resonate across the landscape, creating a relationship between migrant memory and territorial resistance.
Broadcast through FM waves, this walk proposes an intimate, collective, and political form of listening that connects migrant experiences with urban ecosystems that are also struggling to endure.
The walk will take place in Spanish, English, and French.
Conjuro FM: Frecuencias Feministas Migrantes
Esta caminata radial interviene en una frecuencia libre del espectro FM para crear una experiencia de escucha colectiva que entrelaza las voces, memorias y experiencias de una colectividad feminista migrante en la ciudad de Montreal. A través del sonido, el proyecto explora la migración como un proceso de resiliencia, adaptación y búsqueda de nuevas formas de coexistencia en el espacio urbano.
Durante el recorrido, las personas participantes sintonizarán una transmisión FM en la que se escucharán los relatos personales, reflexiones y conjuros sonoros de les integrantes de
Colectiva Tribu
y de la activista Tania Gómez. Sus voces construirán el eje narrativo de la caminata, guiando al público a través de experiencias de migración, cuidado, resistencia y pertenencia.
La caminata se desarrolla en Les Champs des Possibles, un ecosistema silvestre que persiste en medio de Mile End y funciona como un símbolo vivo de resiliencia ecológica en la ciudad. Este territorio no actúa únicamente como escenario, sino también como interlocutor activo: su vegetación, sus sonidos y su historia dialogan con las narrativas de las participantes. A lo largo del recorrido, los ecos de sus voces y conjuros resonarán en el paisaje, creando una relación entre la memoria migrante y la resistencia territorial.
Transmitida a través de ondas FM, esta caminata propone una escucha íntima, colectiva y política que conecta las experiencias de migración con los ecosistemas urbanos que también luchan por persistir.
Amanda Gutiérrez
examines the intersection of political listening and gender studies through the lens of soundwalking and radio practices. Gutiérrez holds a Ph.D. in the Arts and Humanities (HUMA) at Concordia University. Her artistic experience has been showcased internationally through art residencies at FACT in Liverpool, UK; ZKM in Germany; TAV in Taiwan; and the Bolit Art Center in Spain. Additionally, her sound artwork has been exhibited at various international venues, including The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Harvestworks in NYC, SBC Gallery, Undefined Radio in Montreal, Errant Bodies Studio Press in Berlin, POP Montreal, the City of Women Festival, and the To)POT Festival in Ljubljana, as well as the ENSEMS Music Festival in Valencia, Sur Aural in Bolivia, and the Tsonami Sound Festival in Chile.

Free - All day - Multiple spots around Mile-End and the Plateau - Schedule is upcoming, keep your eyes posted here!
Performances in public spaces (on 21 June in case of rain)
Amanda Gutiérrez with Brujas Collective + ambre j. + Laura Jeffery + anana anonyme + Emma-Kate Guimond + Esteban Donoso and Peng Hsu + Florencia Sosa Rey + Kìzis + Lilia Mestre and Marcos Simões + Louise Michel Jackson with Lara Oundjian + Mithra “Myth” Rabel with Chanda T. Holmes + Santiago Lopez Alzate
The Lots of Love (LOL) Festival is an outdoor contemporary performance event rooted in a DIY, anti-institutional ethos. Created as a community-driven alternative to large festivals, it has been curated since 2021 by Sasha Kleinplatz, Liliane Moussa, Emile Pineault, and Sarah Williams. The festival features a series of performances in unconventional spaces such as backyards, garages, parks, or basketball courts. It brings together artists from diverse backgrounds and generations. Its curatorial approach emphasizes relinquishing control, fostering radical trust, and amplifying community voices, creating an inclusive and collaborative environment that prioritizes experimentation and accessibility. Suoni is excited to partner with LOL this year!
OFFICIAL SCHEDULE:

REAPER for Noise Artists
A workshop led by noise artist
Anju Singh
(The Nausea, Deliriant Fracture) to get artists working with noise, experimental music, and sound art sound sources to produce with REAPER to better record and document their sounds. REAPER is an affordable yet powerful software.
In this 90-minute workshop, participants will:
- set up your interface
- record 2-3 sounds
- mix to form a 60 second track
- export the track
- learn how to configure for multi-channel output
The workshop moves fast, so to get the most out of the workshop, please arrive on time and prepared with:
- laptop with REAPER already installed and ready to go (you can use the free 60-day trial for this session)
- interface for your computer (if you have one)
- headphones
Pre-registration is required.
If you don't have or can't bring a laptop to the session, no problem - you'll just pair with another participant with a laptop.
No filming, photos, or audio recording of the session please.

Students from the studio of
Dina Cindrić
present their end-of-year piano and voice recital, performing classical, jazz, and folk repertoire.

Interactions Créatives

Forward Movements propose des ateliers de médiation de street dance axés sur la créativité et l’authenticité. Ces deux événements invitent le public à voyager dans l'univers de la compagnie en leur proposant des performances interactives ainsi qu'une initiation au street dance où danseurs·es de haut calibre mettent en avant tout leur talent ! 
DJ
: Nina Fondop
MC
: Killian "Kiki" Eouani
JUGE
: Alliowe "Alli-Ola" Olanrewaju
Danseur.euses:
"Monica" Jane François
Tetuh Asi Richline "Badgyal Riri" Pascale
"Leah" Dangaa
"Byga" Fintsougaby
Serginho "Gknow" Maxius
James "Shvbba" Belony

Co-presented with
NOW society
and
Jahsun
BLK D'OR
, an exploration of free black expression that seeks new sounds, harmony, dissonance & authentic cultural exchanges. Curated by none other than Kalmunity initiator
Jahsun
, the evening will feature a series of spectacular combos that will have us travelling. This intimate session blends freeform cosmic soul, jazz, and wordsmiths with special Suoni guests rounding out the experience. Get a load of this:
Part of the Un Echange: Trading Places: Trueque tri-city residency
Soulsonic bath:
Sam I Am Montolla
(MTL)
Star Dust:
Fred Bazil
(sax) (MTL)
Jahsun
(drums) (MTL)
Constellation 1:
Adrian Avendaño
(drums) (VAN)
Markus Floats (
bass) (MTL)
Fahmid Nibesh
(guitar) (MTL)
Skin Tone
(saxophone / mbira) (MTL)
Aleida Perez
(violin) (CDMX)
Jason Selman
(cornet / poetry) (MTL)
The Opening:
D-na
(poetry) (MTL)
Christelle Saint Julien
(harp) (MTL)
Constellation 2:
Anju Singh
(violin) (VAN)
Julie Richard
(tuba) (MTL)
Aaron Leaney
(saxophone) (MTL)
Ravish Momin
(drums) (MTL)
Stella Adjokê
(poetry) (MTL)
Twilight:
Zibz Blackurrent
(dubpoetry) (MTL)
Zach Frampton
(piano) (MTL)
Constellation 3:
Engone Endong
(sound design) (MTL)
Zach Frampton
(piano/keys) (MTL)
Cabral Jacobs
(saxophone) (MTL)
Jahsun
(drums) (MTL)
Tanya Tawhida Evanson
(poetry) (MTL)

After last year’s megawatt showcase,
Watch That Ends The Night
records are back for round 2 with a lineup of artists with new releases. It promises to be a doozy. We’ve got post-classical/prog-metal composer
Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo
with his classical guitar & live electronics setup. We’ve got the choral pop/math punk frenzy of
pinksnail
, exuding expressions of fast-food/sex-sads, and a “greatfulness” to be alive. Then there’s experimental pop siren
aniqa dear
whose synth-infused textures and polyrhythms craft danceable music interlaced with stark vulnerability.
Cloud Circuit
is poet Deanna Radford & sound artist Jeremy Young. Live, they blend iterative text, sine waves, 1/4" magnetic tape, and radio transmission, composing, dissecting, and refracting all the while. Rounding out the night are longtime collaborators
Michael Cloud Duguay & Andrew Mackelvie
, both contemporary creative musicians and co-creative directors of the co-hosting label; their performance at Suoni will, somehow, be their first time performing as a duo.
Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo
is a post-classical guitarist and composer exploring what the guitar can become in the 21st century. His work blends classical guitar with live electronics, progressive metal, improvised music, and post-rock, creating immersive sound worlds that move fluidly across genres. Recognized as one of CBC’s 2023 “30 Under 30 Classical Musicians,” Lacopo often performs with multi-instrument setups and real-time electronic processing, approaching the guitar as a modular and expandable instrument. His 2023 album Eastman (People Places Records) reimagines the music of Julius Eastman for guitar and electronics and was named a CBC “must-hear” recording. His upcoming album, Dreamscapes and Our Modern Contradictions (Watch That Ends the Night Records), will be his first full release of original music.
pinksnail
is a funeral with birthday cake. An ode to birth death as choral punk frenzy. Perfectly accessible Singsongs ruined by downtuned acoustic guitar, bombastic math metal drumming and a choir in 3 part harmony; spewing hooks about grief, sex-sads, fast-food and a gratefulness to be alive. Between the syncopated riff raff and dissonant harmonic moves, the closest comparison is either Converge subbing as Fionna Apple's backing band, or Meshuggah cosplaying as Bare Naked Ladies for their Halloween bands as bands. A hodgepodge of Pop Song form, Heavy Drum breaks, Creamy Choral chords and Mathed out riffs you might as well toss out yr calculator to fully enjoy; pinksnail is the Chorale Pop/Math Punk mashup no one asked for, but if you chug yr triple triple from timmies fast enough, you might actually appreciate the effort.
aniqa dear
is a Toronto-based experimental art pop project rooted in queerness, diasporic identity, grief, and the eternal interplay between belonging and isolation. aniqa dear weaves her intricate melodic sensibilities with ever-shifting synth-infused textures and polyrhythms, resulting in danceable music interlaced with stark vulnerability. She is currently crafting her second, intimate, genre-bending full-length album, to be released in early 2027. She asks intently if you have ever danced into your own abyss, and she invites you in.
Poetry-sound project
Cloud Circuit
draws inspiration from communication glitches and lost connections. Poet Deanna Radford channels her iterative text reams into deconstructed “words of mouth,” while sound artist Jeremy Young employs sine waves in flux, 1/4" magnetic tape, and captured radio airs. In performance, Cloud Circuit’s approach is collaborative and improvisational, with their sound being composed, dissected, and refracted. The duo has shared the stage with artists including Phew, Sam Prekop, Lea Bertucci, David Grubbs, Vito Ricci, Ora Clementi (crys cole & James Rushford), Jessica Pavone, skintone, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Paul Dutton, Ron Whitehead, Sarah Pagé, Greg Davis, Khaleefa "Apollo the Child" Hamdan, Alessandra Eramo, Jessica Ackerley, and others.
Cloud Circuit’s début LP will be released in June 2026 with Watch That Ends The Night Records.
Michael Cloud Duguay + Andrew Mackelvie
are a multidisciplinary creative duo and central animators of contemporary creative music in Canada, based in Peterborough ON and Halifax NS respectively. Throughout five years of intense and prolific collaboration, the two have contributed to dozens of internationally recognized creative performance and projects, including MacKelvie’s widely celebrated debut album with his spiritual jazz ensemble, Many Worlds, and Duguay’s critically-acclaimed electroacoustic chamber-drone ensemble, Scions. The two are co-creative directors of Watch That Ends The Night Records, an independent label platforming innovative music produced across Canada. Their performance at Suoni will, somehow, be their first time performing as a duo.

A feminist, inclusive punk rock night in collaboration with
La Fédération des femmes du QC (FFQ)
,
Les Insoumises
,
La Libraire féministe L'Euguélionne
,
and
LowLife Mtl Skate Shop
Rough Spells
is a four‑piece witch ’n roll band from Tkaronto, often described as Heart meets Black Sabbath. As settlers, immigrants, Jews and queers, the band supports meaningful acts of reconciliation and decolonization, and endorses the Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.
Part of a queer, female‑fronted doom music movement, Rough Spells released their self‑produced EP Modern Kicks for the Solitary Witch, which debuted at #10 on the Doom Charts in 2018. Their releases include the Syster 7" and the full‑length album Ruins at Midday (Fuzzed and Buzzed / Dark Hedonistic Union).
Fueled by bluegrass and swing, the songs of
Margaret Tracteur
et les Faucheuses fauchées, a project by Gabrielle Noël Bégin, demonstrate a solid mastery of American folklore combined with great freedom. With keen observation skills, a healthy dose of humor, and surprising vocal techniques, the artist invites the audience on a personal and colorful journey between tradition and modernity that will delight troublemakers and yodel enthusiasts alike.
Presented as a female trio brought together for the cause, with Valéry St-Gelais (double bass) and Sandra Boulanger (violin), the group develops an organic, artisanal sound to convey lyrics that make you smile, bring people together, and set them free. The sun follows the trio on the roads of the countryside and cities, their contagious melodies, full of common sense and joyful rage, will follow you home. You have been warned!
Poolgirl
is a five‑piece alt‑rock band based in Montréal. Blending riot grrrl and punk influences with melodic indie rock, their sound has drawn comparisons to Bratmobile and Wednesday.
Since releasing their demo Is This It??? in January 2024, Poolgirl has been relentlessly active on the live circuit, performing across Canada at DIY basements, outdoor shows, festivals, and cultural events. Their latest single, Triple A (May 2025), highlights what they do best: fun, high‑energy rock that never takes itself too seriously. Poolgirl shows consistently bring together crowds ready to dance, mosh, sing/scream along.
Repurposing the anger, shock and alienation that stem from the ongoing disaster that is life in the 21st Century,
Bianca Supercell
aims to drown out the crap with their maximalist dreamy-noisy songs, in an attempt to get to the heart of the matter. Telling the stories as they see them unfold like some kind of overemotional reporter, they provide a musical response to the relentless affront on our basic humanity.

Yodel Workshop with Margaret Tracteur (Gabrielle N. Bégin)
A friendly introduction to yodeling with
Gabrielle N. Bégin
, the voice behind Margaret Tracteur.
Drawing from American folk traditions, Gabrielle learned to yodel by listening to and imitating artists like Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, the DeZurich Sisters, and Jean Shepard, as well as local yodelers such as Manon Bédard and Guylaine Tanguay.
She shares her surprising vocal techniques through a playful, accessible approach. A workshop to explore your voice, play with vocal registers, and experience a living tradition, whether you're curious, a singer, or already a yodel enthusiast.

The tree-lined backyard of Casa del Popolo serves as a bucolic alternative to CKUT's studios for two live broadcasts featuring festival artists, independent journalists from the Unrigged family and members of the CKUT news collective. Join us in person or at 90.3 FM on Sunday June 21rst & Saturday June 27th from 1-4pm.

Suoni per il Popolo &
UJPO
present:
Son et Solidarité: Sounds for Palestine
A night of Sound and Solidarity to benefit the
Edward Said Music Conservatory
and the
Elham Fund
Intro & Short Film:
The Memory
(al-Zakira)
- Mohamad Malas (13 mins)
I see my family, I meet people. I meet them in my sleep, see them in my dreams. I know they are dead, I see them in my dreams, says the elderly woman. She lives on her own in the small town of Quneitra. She talks to her many cats and chicken, to the film team and to herself. She listens to the stories in the radio. She walks through the rubble.
In World War I she was in Beirut, in World War II as well, also during the wars of 1948 and 1956 she was out of town, stuck elsewhere. In 1967, when the Israeli army occupied the Golan Heights she was in her hometown, Quneitra, the governorates capital. And so was she in the war 1973. When the occupation forces withdrew they destroyed the city to make it inhabitable. Only few individuals returned. The woman says she used to write down things, not about herself, about many things that happened. All is gone, what is left is only the memory.
short film, Mohamad Malas, Syria 1975, 13 min, 35 mm (available in digital format only), Arabic
Director and Author Mohamad Malas | Photography Mohammad al-Qaj | Editor Tala'at al-Maghrebi | Production Mohammad Abu Abdallah
Mohamad Malas
was born in 1945 in Quneitra on the Golan Heights. He is a prominent Syrian filmmaker whose films garnered him international recognition. Malas is among the first auteur filmmakers in Syrian cinema.
Emna Mâaref
is a Tunisian Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist primarily known as an Oud player, live performer, electronic music producer, and DJ. Her practice spans a wide range of experimental music projects and sound design for visual and cinematic works, with her cinema projects selected at major festivals such as TIFF (Canada) and the Carthage Film Festival (Tunisia)
Never Temple
spans the Atlantic: Jaclyn Blumas, and Jessica Deutsch based in Toronto, known for their work with projects E-Prime, Doomsquad, Hush, Ghosttown Studio. Alexandra Duvekot in Amsterdam, a member of Blue Crime and art collective Meduse MagiQ. Within this ever-evolving collaboration, the interconnections of sound, performance, and ritual are constantly explored. Debuting with a series of performances at Amsterdam’s Dok Zaal, Never Temple was then approached to join New York’s 24hr Drone Festival at Basilica Hudson in 2019. This performance showcased their signature midnight ritual—a fusion of ethereal cello and violin, otherworldly vocals, and haunting synths, all adorned in attire suited to the characters present in the world they create. This live performance was featured and recorded at the festival then released via Manchester's Golden Ratio Frequencies label. Incorporating the energy of oceans and rivers, Never Temple seeks to transport listeners into deep sonic landscapes that resonate within the body. With multiple EPs on the horizon, Never Temple’s latest work, Automatic Pilot, released worldwide in May 2025 through Canadian label Halocline Trance and the UK’s DUPE, a subsidiary label of Bella Union. As the project grows, it continues to redefine the limits of experimental music,creating a truly immersive, multidimensional sonic experience.
Jessica Moss
is a violinist, composer, and solo performer based in Montréal. With over two decades of work in experimental music, she first came to prominence as a member of
Thee Silver Mt. Zion
and co-founder of
Black Ox Orkestar
. Since 2015, she has focused primarily on solo composition and performance, creating music shaped by live improvisation, deep listening, and a belief in the concert as a space for reflection and shared experience.
Fifteen Months and Countless
is composed of a rapidly advancing sequence of film photos taken from protests on 8th October 2023 to 16th January 2025 in Montreal and London. Music by Anarchist Mountains, featuring a drone sample of an organ played by Stefan Christoff with sound processing by Jordan Christoff.
The photos mark events from Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to the very broken ceasefire declaration fifteen months and countless lives, and demonstrations of support and direct actions later.
Prints of some of the photos in the film will be available in the art market taking place downstairs during the event, all proceeds to the evening’s fundraisers.
Gambletron
(Tiohtià:ke mtl) is a non-binary sound artist/ musician known for their improvisational noise and work with radio transmission- e.g. Radio "field trips," experimental karaoke, "multi-tonal AM Radio Theremin" and noise performances through large piles of radios. They explore the use of reconfigured radios and live transmission as a sculptural platform for the purpose of performance and environmental exploration. Gambletron's music and artworks almost always function as pirate radio, evocative of subtle methods of resistance to corporate and state control of communications technology.
Performing with an old mic strapped over their mouth and an array of tiny synths and self-built electronics-The music is loud and aggressive. The result is a hyper-kinetic wall of saturated electronic noise among heavy beats… kind of jungle-y these days.
Gambletron is a multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Orkestar Kriminal, with past projects on Constellation Records including Carla Bozulich's Evangelista, Hrsta, Clues, and Matana Roberts' Coin Coin. They also work extensively in sound design for film, dance, and theatre.
Moose Terrific
is an experimental electronics and synth duo composed of Montreal based Sam Shalabi and Tamara Filyavich. The pair focuses on classic synth sounds but with a lot of polyrythmic, symphonic, post-punk, North African and Ukrainian influences and other mayhem. They have released a debut album called 'The Drinks' on the Irish label, FortEvilFruit . Their second album ' Nude Beginning ' was released in 2024 on the Beirut label Ruptured. They are currently mixing material for a 4 and 5(!) release. Tamara Filyavich has been a sound art producer living in Montreal since 2002, in the last seven years, she began performing as an experimental electronic musician focusing one lectroacoustic, sound art and noise music, both as a solo artist and in collaborative projects. Her practice features work that is both composed and improvised and over the years I've come to draw inspiration from early synthesizer music, easter european folklore, Post Punk and more to name just a few influences.

Before the Son et Solidarité: Sounds for Palestine show come support artists and activists at our Art and Action Solidarity Market. All funds raised will go to benefit the Edward Said Music Conservatory and the Elham Fund who directly support Palestinians in Palestine.
With Artists and Activists:
Seif Hajem · Asma Bari · Amine Masmoudi · Fermons le bureau de la honte · Lelelines · Stefan Christoff · Regards Palestiniens · Popolo Press · Rickie Leach · Sletate • Musicians for Palestine Montréal · UJPO · Levantina Shop · Kufiya Souk and more!

Co-presented with
NOW society
and codes d'access.
An Laurence
安媛
is a Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal-based musician and composer active in the contemporary/experimental music scene, and performance/multimedia artist.
Her eclectic debut album "Almost Touching" (2022), distributed by people | places | records, has been described as displaying "a graceful vulnerability that transforms [the] compositions into a powerful suite of emotive manifestations" (Foxy Digitalis), "a demanding listen ... never less than engaging" (The Whole Note), where An Laurence "displays her willingness to dive headfirst along each pathway she chooses to explore" (Musicworks magazine).
Her work has been presented by the Quartier des spectacles, Accès Asie, Théâtre La Chapelle, Groupe Le Vivier, the Music Gallery, Phenomena, No Hay Banda, Oh! my ears, Lucky Penny Opera/re:Naissance opera, Chinatown Biennial, Montreal’s maison de la culture, Athens Digital Arts, Tranås at the Fringe, Codes d'accès, among others.
Ianna Book
is a Montreal-based artist with an interdisciplinary background, whose work unfolds at the crossroads of visual arts, performance, and experimental music. Through a decidedly cross-disciplinary practice, she interrogates constructions of identity and processes of emancipation, offering a sensitive reflection on the ways in which one can reclaim one’s personal and collective narrative.
Camille Rosset-Balcer
is a sound artist and clarinettist based in Tiohtiá:ke/ Mooniyang/Montréal. Her practice questions the relation between the perceptible and the invisible, at the edge of imagination and sensitive experience. Inspired by nature, her compositions are influenced by myths, symbols and occult practices. Her work has been presented at numerous festivals and events such as POP Montréal, Nuit Blanche à l’ONF, Montréal Complètement Cirque, le ROSEQ, CAM en tournée and Mise-En Festival (USA).
Antoine Gaudin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montreal. His work takes us on a spontaneous pictorial journey at the boundaries between the real and the unreal. Blending mystical icons, symbolic rituals, macabre solitude, and distorted photographic archives, his drawings and paintings sketch a dark and absurd world where a mind in search of meaning collides with belief systems, the devastating force of memory, and the incoherence of a world in delirium. Active on the cultural and community scene, his work has been presented in various venues such as Casa Obscura, Cheval Blanc, Espace Public, and Mai/son Montréal.
Anju Singh
is a composer, sound artist, and multiinstrumentalist who experiments with dynamics, texture, and pure sound in her composed and improvised work. As a musician, she is interested in extended and experimental techniques as well as re-application of traditional instruments in new contexts, sometimes leading to the development and build of new self-made instruments based on loose concepts of existing instruments. Her source materials include musical instruments, synthesizers, voice, electronics, custom-made/found objects, samples, and field recordings. Anju has presented her work across Canada and internationally including in the US, Brazil, Mexico, Europe, and Japan. In addition to her sound and music practice in areas of improv, experimental music and sound art, Anju also performs under the moniker The Nausea, and is also a metal drummer and guitarist in various projects. Anju is the Curator and Director of Vancouver Noise Fest, a self-funded and independently-run festival committed to noise music that has run for 11 editions.
Alejandro Motta
is a classically trained double bassist with a focus on contemporary music, sound experimentation, and stage performance. He is the co-founder of the free improvisation ensemble Algo Cruje and has collaborated with various national orchestras, including the OFUNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra). He recently participated in the performance of Memor I.A. as part of the UNAM Composition Workshop and is currently a member of the CEPROMUSIC Ensemble. His work ranges from traditional repertoire to more free-flowing creation, integrating sound and presence.