Montreal Cultural Calendar

CIRMMT Workshop. Guest: Rebecca Fiebrink. Biases, taxonomies, and participatory machine learning in music information research. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT). Accessible venue. [workshop]

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1436799134618800/
Event by: ELEKTRA Montréal and Réseau Hexagram


ELEKTRA Montréal
Duration: 4 hr

Lors d’une soirée conviviale, découvrez l’exposition de Pierre-Olivier Déry
Cette installation met en lumière l’emprise culturelle de l’automobile et de sa place dans les espaces naturels. L’environnement recréé est celui d’un bord d’autoroute où git une carcasse de voiture maintenue en vie par un système de pompes. À cette mécanique répond la présence du roseau commun, une espèce exotique envahissante dont la propagation a été favorisée par les fossés humides et les vents le long de la Transcanadienne.
Jeudi 12 mars, de 17h à 21h

Galerie ELEKTRA, entrée libre

Service de bar
À propos de l'exposition → https://www.elektramontreal.ca/carcasse-xr?lang=fr
En partenariat avec Hexagram (UQAM)
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Enjoy a friendly evening and discover Pierre-Olivier Déry's exhibition
This installation highlights the cultural impact of the automobile and its place in natural spaces. It recreates the environment of a highway shoulder where a car wreck is kept alive by a system of pumps. This mechanical setup is mirrored by the presence of common reed, an invasive exotic species whose spread has been favored by the wet ditches and winds along the Trans-Canada Highway.
Thursday, March 12, from 5 pm to 9 pm

ELEKTRA Gallery, free admission

Bar service
About the exhibition → https://www.elektramontreal.ca/carcasse-xr
In partnership with Hexagram (UQAM) See less
Visual arts
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ELEKTRA Montréal

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3903992816566468/
Event by: QAHN / RPAQ and Arcmtl
Venue: Facebook Live


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Over the past few years, ARCMTL, an arts and heritage organization in Montreal, conducted research projects exploring the little-known history of Montreal's diverse Black musical culture. ARCMTL hosted many activities with local community partners to engage the public in this quest to fill in the blanks of this history.
This presentation will discuss some of these activities such as zine workshops, radio broadcasts and an online map website, Nights of Montreal, that tell the stories of the places and people that made this culture thrive.
Register here to join us on Zoom for this free QAHN Heritage Talk or join us on Facebook Live or YouTube:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../register/goa1baTMT_CJlFCXdHwTLw
Louis Rastelli has been the Director of ARCMTL since 2013, a cultural historian, writer and DJ since the 1990s, involved in many heritage and arts projects in Quebec and Canada.
Delilah Edouard Williams is an art and cultural curator dedicated to elevating contemporary emerging BIPOC artists and fostering inclusive, community-engaged arts programming. Through her experience in creative workshop programming, she actively works to amplify collective narratives and ensure that underrepresented voices have the space to shape and tell their own stories.
Chloe Martin is a music educator, with a background in music history, and event programmer with ARCMTL. They are the organizer of “Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Queer & BIPOC MTL” an ongoing ARCMTL series.
ARCMTL is a non-profit arts and heritage organization in Montreal that has a dual mandate to both promote and preserve the city's independent arts and culture. For over 20 years, they have grown their collections of Montreal indie arts culture which are accessible through their archive centre and through exhibitions and public programming. ARTMTL's Louis Rastelli and Chloe Martin both worked on the project Nights of Montreal and will be joining us to tell us about their work mapping Black musical culture in Montreal.
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Au cours des dernières années, ARCMTL, un organisme artistique et patrimonial montréalais, a mené des projets de recherche pour explorer l'histoire méconnue de la musique et de la culture noires de Montréal. Dans ce cadre, ARCMTL a organisé de nombreuses activités avec des partenaires communautaires locaux afin de mieux impliquer le public dans cette quête visant à combler les lacunes de cette histoire.
Venez assister à une présentation de Louis Rastelli et Chloe Martin d'ARCMTL qui aborderont certaines des activités, comme des ateliers de fanzines, des émissions de radio et le site Web cartographique « Nuits de Montréal », qui contribuent à raconter l'histoire des lieux et des personnes qui ont fait rayonner cette culture.
Inscrivez-vous ici pour vous joindre à nous sur Zoom pour cette conférence gratuite sur le patrimoine de la QAHN, ou suivez-nous en direct sur Facebook ou YouTube :
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../register/goa1baTMT_CJlFCXdHwTLw
Louis Rastelli est directeur d'ARCMTL depuis 2013, historien de la culture, écrivain et DJ depuis les années 1990, impliqué dans de nombreux projets patrimoniaux et artistiques au Québec et au Canada.
ARCMTL est un organisme sans but lucratif de Montréal œuvrant dans le domaine des arts et du patrimoine, dont le double mandat est de promouvoir et de préserver les arts et la culture indépendants de la ville.
Cette conférence se déroulera en anglais avec un séance de questions-réponses bilingue. See less
Online
Live Video
Sherbrooke, Quebec
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QAHN / RPAQ

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3839269572872692/3839269576206025/
Event by: ‎Ayelet Rose Gottlieb איילת רוז גוטליב‎


5540 Casgrain Ave, Montreal, QC
www.naada.ca


March 12 | Online
April 17-19 | In Person (Montreal, Naada Yoga)
For this New Moon Deep Listening Weekend, three certified Deep Listening facilitators - Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Kathy Kennedy, and Katie Down - offer a rich series of experiences inspired by the work of feminist composer Pauline Oliveros.
This two-day, in-person workshop, preceded by an online introduction and a concert, invites participants to reconnect with their voices, bodies, and listening awareness through Deep Listening practices, vocal improvisation, sound walks, guided meditations, and free writing. No prior experience with Deep Listening or music is required—only curiosity and openness.
What Is Deep Listening?
Deep Listening is a practice developed by feminist composer Pauline Oliveros that cultivates heightened awareness of sound, self, and environment. Through simple, often playful practices, including text scores (short written instructions that invite collective attention and sound-making), participants are encouraged to listen deeply to themselves, others, and the world.
Schedule of Events
Free Online Introduction
Thursday, March 12 | 7:30–8:30 pm (Zoom)
A free online gathering offering a taste of what’s to come and an introduction to the facilitators and practices.
Concert
Friday, April 17 | 7:30–9:00 pm
(New Moon in Aries)
An evening concert featuring text scores by Kathy Kennedy and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb from A Year of Deep Listening, alongside selected compositions by Pauline Oliveros.
In-Person Workshop
Saturday, April 18 & Sunday, April 19 | 1:00–6:00 pm
Location: Naada Yoga Studio, Montreal
Over two afternoons, participants will engage in:
* Sound walks
* Vocal improvisation
* Deep Listening practices
* Guided meditations
* Free writing
Participants may attend any or all events.
This weekend is open to all genders.
Registration & Fees
Online Session (March 12): FREE
Concert (April 17): $15
Workshop (Saturday): $75 / $60 early bird (ends March 18)
Workshop (Sunday): $75 / $60 early bird (ends March 18)
Maximum participants: 30
Registration: Please contact Naada Yoga
https://www.naada.ca/
Your Facilitators:
Katie Down is a New York–based sound artist, flutist, composer, music psychotherapist, and certified Deep Listening facilitator. Her work spans sound art, free improvisation, folk, jazz, and experimental music, using both traditional and found-object instruments. Katie has created sound scores for theatre, dance, and film, earning Drama Desk nominations and a Connecticut Critics Circle Award. She has taught music therapy at SUNY and is a frequent guest lecturer at NYU, Vassar, and the School of Visual Arts.
https://www.katiedown.com/
Kathy Kennedy is a Montreal-based sound artist with training in visual art and classical voice. Her practice explores voice, technology, and public space through telephony, radio, and large-scale participatory works. She is a founder of Studio XX (now Ada-X) and the women’s choral ensemble Choeur Maha. Kathy teaches music at Concordia University and regularly leads workshops on listening, acoustic ecology, and vocal improvisation.
https://kathykennedy.ca/


“Gottlieb is one of those singers…whose voice can convey great power and soul, even when singing in a language unfamiliar to listeners.” — Jazziz Magazine
Jerusalem-born, Montreal-based vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb is an international performer and composer whose work blends jazz, Middle Eastern and Jewish music, contemporary composition, and conceptual improvisation. Her collaborations include John Zorn, ETHEL, IONE, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Her recent recording with Dream Keepers - DUST - is currently a finalist for the Opus Prize for “Album of the Year” in the World Music category.
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Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1348982413391140/
Event by: Heavy Trip, Tamayugé and POP Montreal
Venue: La Sala Rossa


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Heavy Trip et POP Montréal présentent fièrement:
BRAHJA avec invités - Devin Brahja Waldman, Sam Shalabi, Daniel Gélinas, Damon Hankoff, Georgia Wartel Collins, Adam Kinner)
https://brahjawaldman.bandcamp.com/album/brahja
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TAMAYUGÉ
https://tamayuge.bandcamp.com/album/baba-yaga
Sala Rossa (4848 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, PQ)
12 mars 2026
Billets: 20$ + frais de service
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Music & audio
Meet your hosts
Heavy Trip

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1966820867573332/
Event by: Small Scale Music, Ben Grossman and 6 others


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Temporary Ensembles Night / Soirée Ensembles temporaires:
Norman Adams . cello / violoncelle
Raphaël Foisy-Couture . guitar.e
Meghan Gilhespy . voice / voix
Ben Grossman . hurdy gurdy
Mili Hong . percussions
Terri Hron . recorder / flûtes
Daniel Kruger . guitar.e
Liberté-Anne Lymberiou . piano
Naomi McCarroll-Butler . woodwinds / instruments à anches
Julie Richard . tuba
Joe Sorbara . percussions
13 Mars / March 13th
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15-20$ NOTAFLOF
20h / 8 PM
Temporary Ensembles are born, live short and potentially magical musical lives, and then sublimate into thin air. Their births involve a balanced merging of black arts as strange dice are rolled and initiates are invited to make random selections with life-altering consequences from a deck of sacred cards. The lives of temporary ensembles are intense, contingent, dripping with joyous risk and ugly beauty. They conclude with a sudden intake of breath that always already tastes of the moment after an end that already was. And then there is another.
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Joe Sorbara began organising Temporary Ensembles Nights in Toronto in 2015. Since, they have been shared with communities of improvisers at Presentation House in Vancouver, Silence in Guelph, Into the Abyss in Hamilton, and at the Halifax Public Library.
Soirée d'Ensembles Temporaires
Les ensembles temporaires naissent, vivent des vies musicales brèves et parfois magiques, puis se dispersent dans l'air. Leur naissance tient d'une alchimie particulière : on lance des dés, on invite les participants à piocher dans un jeu de cartes sacrées: des gestes simples aux conséquences imprévisibles. La vie de ces ensembles est intense et contingente, traversée de risque joyeux et de beauté brute. Elle se termine sur une inspiration soudaine, qui a déjà le goût de l'après; d'un après qui, en un sens, avait déjà commencé. Et puis un autre ensemble naît.
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Joe Sorbara a commencé à organiser les soirées d'Ensembles Temporaires à Toronto en 2015. Depuis, elles ont été partagées avec des communautés d'improvisateurices au Presentation House à Vancouver, à Silence à Guelph, à Into the Abyss à Hamilton, et à la Bibliothèque publique de Halifax. See less
Music & audio
Apopka, Florida
Meet your hosts
Small Scale Music

You are invited to celebrate 10 years of Rave Ethics zine. On Saturday March 14, 2026 we will be celebrating the 10 year anniversary since the publication of Rave Ethics. We would love to see you at Parquette in Montreal, where we'll be reflecting on 10 years of ethical (?) raving from 4 pm - 8 pm. There will be music, readings, performances, and cake! Thank you so much for the last 10 years of dancing, making out, criticizing, calling in, taking a little break, k-holing, drinking water, etc. With love, Rave Ethics collective [dance]