Montreal Cultural Calendar

Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza. This lecture will present insights from research projects focused on improving indoor environmental quality in Northern localities. Dr. Espinoza Sanhueza is an architect, researcher, and educator dedicated to creating sustainable, carbon-neutral environments that place human well-being at their core. Her work integrates architectural design with environmental performance, using building parameters, light quality, indoor air quality, and thermal comfort, as levers for enhancing occupant health and spatial experience, specifically in Northern climates. Her research advances simulation-based methods, immersive visualization, and post-occupancy evaluation to support evidence-based design decision-making.

Join IFRC for their next Research Bites session featuring Tarcisio Cataldi! 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 is a lunchtime series hosted by the IFRC that creates a space for members to share their work in a casual, conversational setting. Bring your lunch, meet fellow researchers, and join us for inspiring exchanges across disciplines!
Tarcisio will share his research on an Afro-Brazilian visual imaginary, drawing on the concept of Quilombismo as articulated by Abdias do Nascimento. In Tarcisio’s work, he explores how flags can be a powerful medium for speculation, reimagining collective symbols and narratives. Through research-creation, he investigates how national identities are deliberately designed and how they can foster new understandings of resistance and belonging in the Brazilian context. 
 
𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶 (he/him) is an Afro-Brazilian designer and artist born in São Paulo and now based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Committed to Black-centred creation through a Quilombista lens, Tarcisio specializes in speculative design and diverse cultural manifestations across design and art. His work explores the design, symbolism, and cultural significance of flags. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Universidade Estadual Paulista (São Paulo State University) and a Master’s degree in Design from Concordia University in Montreal. He currently works as a designer for the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre. 
 
 
 
 
April 15, 2026
12:30 PM
IFRC HQ, EV 10.705

Every Part of Me Feels explores somatic memory: how green spaces, damaged or destroyed by human activity, live on in our collective bodies. The exhibition presents the practices of Mila Figuet, Oriana Confente, and Bastik (Anick Jasmin), who explore the retention of emotional memory of Boisé Steinberg.

Artefacts is a showcase of graphic, object, and multimedia design bringing together the work of Concordia's Design and Computation Arts students. The show focuses on critical perspectives and sustainable approaches to materialism, crafting meaningful experiences that challenge design's role in contemporary and future societies.

Receptacle is a foundry-focused exhibition that brings together advanced metal casting undergraduate students from Concordia. The show foregrounds the labour, process, and collective knowledge at the heart of foundry practice. The showcased cast works were developed in part from recycled aluminum and bronze. The exhibition invites viewers to find the art hidden within the everyday objects of the historical site.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1468117161638381/
Event by: Arts in the Margins
Venue: Club Español de Quebec - Club Espagnol du Québec


Club Español de Quebec - Club Espagnol du Québec
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English version follows.
Salle: Toscadura (4833 St Laurent Blvd, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1Z5 ) Date: 16 avril 2026 Portes: 19h30 Musique: 20h00
Billets: $15 plus taxes et frais en avance / $20 à l’entrée
Co-diffusé avec Mardi Spaghetti
Tatsuya Nakatani est un percussionniste d’avant-garde, un compositeur et un artiste sonore. Actif sur la scène internationale depuis les années 1990, Nakatani a publié plus de 80 enregistrements et effectué de nombreuses tournées, donnant plus de 150 concerts par an. Il donne des classes de maîtres et des conférences dans les universités et les conservatoires de musique du monde entier. Originaire du Japon, il vit dans la ville désertique de Truth or Consequences, au Nouveau-Mexique. Grâce à ses activités dans les domaines de la musique nouvelle, de l’improvisation et de la musique expérimentale, Nakatani multiplie les collaborations.
La musique de Nakatani est centrée sur un gong adapté pour être joué à l’archet, soutenu par un ensemble de tambours, de cymbales et de bols chantants. Avec ses archets Kobo qu’il sculpte à la main, il a consacré des décennies à affiner et développer son univers sonore : un agencement de vibrations qui s’enlisent dans des strates scintillantes de silence et de texture. Au cœur de cette œuvre contemporaine, on perçoit encore le rythme dramatique, l’élégance formelle et l’espace (ma) caractéristiques de la musique traditionnelle japonaise.
Cosmic Diver est un duo de performance sonore et vidéo composé de Lina Choi et Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic qui explore un monde sous-marin imaginaire où les frontières entre les profondeurs de la mer et l'espace s'estompent. À travers des paysages sonores immersifs, le duo invite le public à dériver entre les dimensions dans un état onirique.
IARA108 présente son tout premier concert avec Shota Nakamura à la guitare et au chant, Markus Floats à la basse et Kyle Hutchins à la batterie.
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Venue: Toscadura (4388 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1Z5) Date: April 16, 2026 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15.00 plus taxes and fees in advance / $20.00 at the door
Co-presented with Mardi Spaghetti
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.
Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.
Cosmic Diver is a duo sound-video performance comprised of Lina Choi and Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic fthat explores an imaginary underwater world blurring the lines between the deep sea and outer space. Through immersive soundscapes, they invite the audience to drift between these realms in a dreamlike state.
IARA108 presents their first live set ever with Shota Nakamura on guitar and vocals, Markus Floats on bass and Kyle Hutchins on drums. See less

w/ Dr. Meredith Bak, Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott, and Pat Bonner. Respondant: Dr. Haidee Wasson. As film moves to television and television to our pockets, the material conditions of everyday media consumption appear once again to have changed. But not only are past and present media practices more varied, unpredictable, and historically-rooted, they also challenge the (still dominant) visual-centricism of spectatorship studies. Indeed, our sensory experiences (of sound, touch, smell, etc.) are shaped and stimulated by diverse material forms, emotional attachments, and expressive rituals. Drawing on cultural history, media archaeology, and ordinary media stuff, this panel reconsiders the present focus on smartphones, social media and streaming by exploring transformations in material media cultures since the 1980s: toy voice devices, comfort viewing, and interactive video. Together, these talks examine the cultural politics of media consumption in recent decades. Presentations: Meredith Bak - Talking Back: Mediating the 90s Child's Voice; Caetlin Benson-Allott - The Material Culture of Comfort Viewing; Pat Bonner - Video Kids: How Home Video Transformed (Canadian) Children's Television

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3839269572872692/3839269579539358/
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.
www.ayeletrose.com See less

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3839269572872692/3839269589539357
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.
www.ayeletrose.com See less

(description en français plus bas)

Where?
Café Les Oubliettes

When?
Event starts at 1 pm and ends at 5 pm. Come anytime during that time!

Is it wheelchair accessible?
There is a ramp. However the bathrooms are not adapted.

Do they have food?
They have a full menu, including brunch, along with coffee and tea.

What can I bring?
You can bring any crafting or art project you like, just nothing messy, as this is a café and not a studio. You don't need to be an expert craftster either, we're all just there to hang out.

Do I need to bring a craft project?
You don't actually! Most people do, but you can totally stop by to just chat, draw, work, whatever you feel like.

❤️🧶🖍️🪡✂️🧶🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️🧶✂️🪡🖍️🧶❤️🎉🎊

Où?
Café les Oubliettes

Quand?
On est là à partir de 13h jusqu’à 17h. Présentez-vous n'importe quand durant cette période.

Est-ce accessible par chaise roulante?
Il y a une rampe. Toutefois, les toilettes ne sont pas adaptées.

Est-ce qu'ils ont de la bouffe?
Oui, ils ont un menu complet, en plus d'options brunch la fin de semaine, et de cafés et thé.

Qu'est-ce que je peux amener?
N'importe quel projet d'artisanat ou d'art, tant que c'est pas salissant. C'est un café, pas un studio. Pas besoin d'être un.e expert.e en artisanat non plus, on est juste là pour passer du bon temps.

Est-ce qu'il faut que j'amène un projet d'artisanat?
Non tu n'es pas obligé-e! La plupart de personnes auront un projet, mais tu peux tout à fait juste venir pour jaser, travailler, dessiner, peu importe ce que tu veux!

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1035121581906366/
Event by: evenko and Place des Arts


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Raffi sera de passage à la Place des Arts le 18 et 19 avril 2026!
Billets en vente vendredi 10h
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Raffi is coming to Place des Arts on April 18th and 19th!
Tickets on sale Friday at 10am See less
Meet your hosts
evenko

As part of the eighth edition of the Indigenous Contemporary Art Biennial, this exhibition brings together a wide breadth of Indigenous and diasporic artists whose work explores cultural survival, spiritual continuity, and embodied knowledge within their contexts shaped by colonial borders, displacement, and erasure. An ancestral tattooing performance by Megan Samms, Dion Kaszas, and Dr. Mel Lefebvre will take place as part of the reception.