Montreal Cultural Calendar

Event by Suoni Per Il Popolo

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Suoni per il Popolo est fier de présenter Alex Harding @alex.harding.75054 et Lucian Ban pour une soirée intime. Avec DARK BLUE (sorti chez Sunnyside Records), les deux musiciens célèbrent leur fraternité musicale avec un mélange unique de morceaux originaux et d’improvisations inspirées des traditions du jazz, du blues et de la musique de chambre européenne. De l’avant-blues aux improvisations spontanées, des morceaux originaux aux ballades inspirées de Sun Ra (Alex collabore fréquemment avec le célèbre Arkestra), DARK BLUE est un document saisissant sur deux artistes à maturité, deux vieux amis qui conversent dans le langage du jazz moderne. Accompagnés par le trio local composé de superstars Allison Burik à la clarinette basse, François Zaïdan au buzuq et ben grossman à la vielle à roue ! À ne manquer sous aucun prétexte !
Suoni per il Popolo is proud to present Alex Harding and Lucian Ban for an intimate evening at Casa. With DARK BLUE (out on Sunnyside Records) the two musicians are celebrating their musical brotherhood with a unique amalgamation of original pieces and improvisations informed by traditions of jazz, blues, and European chamber music.…

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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."

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.

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

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.

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.

Ways of Hiding, Nicky Band (HEX), Vitamin Pink

Join us for a special performance by celestial music pioneer Laraaji, presenting an expansive live set drawn from across his radiant, decades-spanning body of work. Emerging from the downtown New York loft scene of the 1970s and known for transforming the zither into an instrument of ecstatic resonance, Laraaji's music bridges devotional practice, deep listening, and spontaneous improvisation. His performances weave crystalline tones, gentle rhythms, and meditative atmospheres into an unfolding journey that evolves in real time. Inside this historic sanctuary, immersive architecturally-mapped projections will bathe the space in shifting light, shaping a fully enveloping audio-visual experience.

you already know what this is about - starts right after the low - dance music only

Event by Espace pour la vie

calendrier.espacepourlavie.ca/printemps-citoyen
Et si vos fins de semaine devenaient une source d’inspiration… gratuite et accessible à toutes et à tous?
Chaque fin de semaine d’avril, la série d’événements gratuits Printemps citoyen vous invite à explorer la transition socioécologique.
Une programmation pour tous les goûts
11 et 12 avril — Consommer différemment
Fabriquer et réparer
Emballages alimentaires en cire d’abeille
Cartes de souhaits recyclées et ensemencées
Éponges tawashi
Fabrication d’un lombricomposteur
Initiation à la vannerie
Réparation de vêtements et d’objets du quotidien
Écoconsommer
Découverte de la monnaie locale de Montréal (îlot)
Conférence sur le cycle de vie des objets
Démonstration de vélo cargo
Bouger en nature
Chorégraphie avec la nature
Randonnée guidée parmi les arbres de l’Arboretum
En famille ou entres ami.e.s, découvrez des ateliers, activités et rencontres inspirantes, en collaboration avec plus de 40 organismes engagés dans le rapprochement avec la nature.
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What if your weekends became a source of inspiration… free and accessible to everyone?
Every weekend in April, the free Citizen Spring series of events invites you to explore the socio-ecological transition.
A program for everyone
April 11 & 12 — Consume Differently
Make…

Event by Plural Foire d'art contemporain - Plural Contemporary Art Fair, Centre Skol and McBride Contemporain

En parallèle de la foire Plural, les galeries, centres d’artistes et ateliers du Belgo vous ouvrent leurs portes pour un moment convivial en présence de certains artistes. Pour un café ou une boisson, dirigez-vous vers le Centre des arts actuels SKOL, qui inaugure son nouvel espace café.
11 avril, dès 11 h
Édifice Belgo : 372 rue Saint-Catherine O.
→ La majorité des espaces ici-bas sont ouverts jusqu'à 17 h le samedi.
4e étage
✦ Galerie B-312 (#403)
L'équilibre des vrilles : Jacynthe Carrier, Hannah Claus, Andrée Levesque Sioui, Karine Locatelli et Kristel Tremblay
✦ Galerie Wishbone (#406)
Germinal : Mona Sugata, Nathan Bartley, Magdalena Rantica, Charlotte Caron, Amielle Clouâtre
✦ Atelier d'art photographique (#413)
Coups de cœurs photographiques : Jean-Claude Lussier
✦ McBride Contemporain (#414)
Holding Still : Michelle Bui & Kuh Del Rosario
✦ Chiger Art Contemporain (416)
American Scenery et autres vues d'ensemble : François Simard
✦ Espace DÈS_ (#418)
Lieux de passage : Jean-Francois Brière
✦ Louis-Bernard St-Jean Art contemporain (#423)
Exposition permanente et nouvelles œuvres : Louis-Bernard St-Jean…

Vernissage for A Taste of Queer Montreal: A Multi-lingual Exhibition of 2SLGBTQ+ Food and Drink History. See the new exhibition, hear talks from the curators, and enjoy the newly composed Exhibition House Mix Track interweaving oral histories, Montreal's historical house music, and new compositions. Talk/speeches will start at 2:30 pm. Free coffee, sparkling wine, and sparkling water provided. The physical exhibition includes materials from the Archives gaies du Québec, the Archives lesbiennes du Québec, and private collections. This digital exhibition available at cafequeermontreal.com compliments the physical exhibition. A free walking tour related to the exhibition is available at: https://www.cafequeermontreal.com/p/walking-tour-visite-guidee.html A database with 2SLGBTQ+ food and drink spaces in Montreal over time is available at: https://www.cafequeermontreal.com/p/directory-of-montreals-2slgbtq-food-and.html Exhibition curators and creators of the walking tour are Alex D. Ketchum, Al Dervisevic, and Kerrilee Commier.

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Contra dance is a high energy American folk dance accompanied by driving live music and taught by a caller. No partner or experience required! This dance will be called using the role names "Larks and Robins."

Music by McKinley James, Maia Dagher and François-Félix Roy
Called by Jonathan Werk

Patro Villeray, room 1.02-1.03 (double room!)
2:30 pm - 3 pm: Introductory session. Recommended for new dancers.
3 pm - 5:30 pm: Dance
There will be a snack table at the break, if you want to contribute and help ContraMontreal, bring some food to share!

Health and Safety
- Masks are welcome at our events and recommended during flu season
- Please stay home if you have cold or flu-like symptoms

Sliding Scale
Minimum: $8 (No minimum for children under 13)
Suggested: $15
Sponsor: $20 - $25
* You can buy your ticket in advance by sending an Interac transfer to info@contramontreal.org

To keep our floor clean, bring indoor shoes to change into. Also please bring your water bottle!
Please be aware that participants often take videos and pictures during the event, and those images may be used by ContraMontreal for promotion.

For more info, other dances, etc.: www.contramontreal.org
Write to us if you have any questions at info@contramontreal.org.
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La contredanse est une danse folklorique énergique de la Nouvelle-Angleterre qui est accompagnée de musique à cordes live et qui est enseignée par un calleur. Il n'est pas nécessaire d'avoir un partenaire ni d'expérience en danse! Cette soirée sera callée avec les noms de roles "Larks et Robins"

Musique par McKinley James, Maia Dagher and François-Félix Roy
Callé par Jonathan Werk

Patro Villeray, salle 1.02-1.03 (salle double!)
14h30 à 15h : Session d'initiation Conseillée pour les débutant(e)s
15h à 17h30 : Danse

Il y aura une table de collations à la pause, si vous voulez contribuer et ainsi aider ContraMontreal, amener une collation à partager!

Santé et Sécurité
- Les masques sont toujours les bienvenus à nos événements et sont recommandés lors de la saison de grippe
- Si vous avez des symptômes de rhume ou grippe, s'il vous plaît restez à la maison

Paiement flexible
Minimum: 8$ (Pas de minimum pour les enfants de moins de 13 ans)
Suggéré: 15$
Parrain/marraine: 20$ - 25$
*Vous pouvez payer votre billet en avance en envoyant un transfert Interac à info@contramontreal.org

Apportez votre bouteille d'eau et, pour que nous puissions garder nos planchers propres, vos souliers d'intérieur.
Soyez avisés que les participant.e.s prennent souvent des photos et vidéos pendant la soirée et que ces images peuvent être utilisées par ContraMontréal pour de la promotion.

Calendrier complet, info, autres danses, etc. : www.contramontreal.org
Si vous avez des questions, écrivez-nous à info@contramontreal.org

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