Arcmtl

04/28/2026

Demain pour le Festival des arts imprimés de Montréal, les portes sont ouvertes au centre d'archives ARCMTL pour une présentation sur les façons d'archiver et numériser des affiches,

Le centre d’archives d’ARCMTL comprend de nombreuses collections d’affiches. Celles-ci vont d’affiches faisant la promotion de mouvements radicaux et sociaux à des concerts et festivals locaux, en passant par des lancements de livres et des conférences, couvrant la période des années 196...

03/16/2026

Les demandes sont ouvertes pour les kiosks de la Grande Foire d'Art Imprimé 2026 ! Foire : 9 mai, date limite pour soumettre une demande - 30 avril. The applications for tables at the Grande Printed Art Fair are open! Fair : May 9, deadline to apply: April 30!

GRANDE FOIRE 2026: INSCRIPTION GRANDE Foire du Festival des arts imprimés de Montréal 2026 La GRANDE Foire aura lieu le samedi 9 mai 2026 de 11 à 18h au café Parquette, au 1345 Bellechasse (métro Beaubien) . L’entrée est gratuite pour le public. Veuillez remplir le formulaire ci-dessous avan...

03/12/2026

A little recap of our events from the last month! We are halfway through “Owning Our Histories,” our series on DIY Archiving. It has been so inspiring and energizing to connect with so many of you and talk about grassroots effort to preserve and document q***r & BIPOC history. A huge thank you to all you beautiful people who have shown up, taken part, or collaborated with us. You’ve made these events so special!

We still have 5 more events to go over the next two weeks. Be sure to check out the programme in our bio for all the details.
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Petit retour sur les événements du mois dernier ! Nous sommes à mi-parcours de notre série « Owning Our Histories » (S’approprier notre histoire) consacrée à l’archivage DIY. C’est tellement inspirant et stimulant de pouvoir échanger avec vous tous et de discuter des initiatives communautaires visant à préserver et à documenter l’histoire des personnes q***r et BIPOC. Un immense merci à vous tous qui avez participé, collaboré ou simplement été présents. Vous avez rendu ces événements si spéciaux !

Il nous reste encore 5 événements à venir au cours des deux prochaines semaines ! N’hésitez pas à consulter le programme dans notre bio pour plus de détails.

03/09/2026

How can textiles preserve history? What are the scraps of connection that make us who we are? This workshop investigates piecework and appliqué as means of expression and conceptual platform for 2SLGBTQIA+ expression. Starting with a scrap exchange of meaningful cloth, participants will work with collective material as a nod to the tradition of a quilting bee. We will focus on ‘crazy quilt’ patchwork and ‘fancywork’ embroidery, where participants can embellish a small patchwork quilt block (12″ x 12″) with markers of their identity and contemporary times, such as names, dates, sites, and souvenirs.

🗓️March 29, 2-5 pm
📍Les Affûtés (Village), 1385 Ontario E.
👉REGISTRATION REQUIRED (free & limited spots! See the full programme in our bio for sign up)

Aaron McIntosh is a cross-disciplinary artist and fourth-generation quiltmaker whose work mines the intersections of material culture, family tradition, sexual desire and identity politics. His exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently Hot House/Maison chaude at FOFA Gallery, The Gloaming at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Entanglements at Northeastern University, and Radical Tradition: Quilts and Social Change at the Toledo Museum of Art. Since 2015, McIntosh has managed Invasive Q***r Kudzu, a community storytelling and archive project across the 2SLGBTQ+ Southern United States.

Part of Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Q***r & BIPOC MTL

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03/05/2026

From the Sir George Williams Computer Riots of the 1960s to the 2012 strikes against tuition hikes to recent encampments in Palestinian solidarity, Montreal students have organized against universities that systematically prioritize profits over human rights and accessible education. These movements produce posters, flyers, journals, banners, zones, and other ephemera. But who gets to preserve this crucial history?

Archivists from QPIRG Concordia, QPIRG McGill, and the Student News and Protest Archive (SNAP) discuss the challenges and opportunities of archiving student-led struggles for liberation. Moderated by Éloïse Desjardins, archivist and Master’s student in Library Sciences at Université de Montréal with a research focus on activist community archives. 

🗓️ March 17, 4-6 pm 
📍 QPIRG Concordia, 2100 rue Guy, #205

Part of Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Q***r & BIPOC MTL (full programme in bio)

Free and open to all.

03/04/2026

How do q***r people write their own history? Join us for two presentations on archiving q***r joy and resistance through creative projects.

🗓️March 17, 1:30-3:30 pm
📍QPIRG Concordia, 2100 Guy, #205

Q***r/trans writer and architect Elio (Élo) Choquette presents Here We Will Be, an ongoing research and creative writing project archiving q***r joy(s). Through field research, visual documentation, crowdsourcing, and creative writing, the project creates an incomplete, subjective database about q***r communities, spaces, and the power of q***r joy and love in all their forms.

Followed by an artist talk from Brazilian-Canadian artist and zinester Eloisa Aquino on her series The Life & Times of Butch D***s. The series features portraits of women throughout history who have defied society’s expectations of feminine behaviour and appearance to live more authentic lives. These short vignettes combine biographical sketches with evocative illustrations. Eloisa has been making zines since the 90s and runs the q***r micro-press B&D Press with Jenny Lin.

Part of Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Q***r & BIPOC MTL - full programme of events in our bio.

Free and open to all.

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03/03/2026

ARCMTL’s Louis Rastelli, Chloe Martin, and Delilah Edouard Williams present grassroots research projects documenting under-represented Black Montreal music history as part of the Heritage Talks 2026 from the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network. For over a decade, ARCMTL has worked with local community partners to explore and share little-known history of Black Montreal music and culture through zine workshops, radio broadcasts, and Nights of Montreal, an online interactive map that tells the stories of the places and people who made this culture thrive.

🗓️March 12, 7-8 pm
🖥️ Virtual, registration link in the “Owning Our Histories” programme (in our bio)

Louis Rastelli has been the Director of ARCMTL since 2013, a cultural historian, writer and DJ since the 1990s, and involved in many heritage and arts projects in Quebec and Canada.

Chloe Martin is a music educator, with a background in music history, and project coordinator with ARCMTL. Since 2024, they have been involved in ARCMTL’s Nights of Montreal mapping project and the “Our Places, Our Stories” zine-making workshops. They are the organizer of “Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Q***r & BIPOC MTL” an ongoing ARCMTL series.

Delilah Edouard Williams is an art and cultural curator dedicated to elevating contemporary emerging BIPOC artists and fostering inclusive, community-engaged arts programming. Delilah has collaborated with ARCMTL as a workshop facilitator for the “Our Places, Our Stories” zine-making series chronicling Black Montreal music history.

Free and open to all.

02/19/2026

Learn new tools for archiving our fast-moving cultures.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of 3D scanning, a technology that quickly creates replicas of physical objects and spaces. No prior experience needed. Leave with the skills to produce basic 3D scans at home.

📍Cyber Love Garden, 10 ave des Pins, #114
👾March 11, 6-8 pm

Hosted by Things+Time (T+T), a Montreal-based digital archival platform dedicated to preserving ephemeral histories rooted in objects, spaces and lived experiences. Their platform enables users to create multimedia storytelling environments by adding annotations (texts, audio, video, images, map points, and links) to 3D objects. The T+T team will remain available to discuss potential collaborations.

📲 Before attending: Download the free app Polycam on your phone (iOS 17.0 or later, Android 10.0 or later).

Part of Owning Our Histories: Celebrating Q***r & BIPOC DIY Archives. 10 public events celebrating how communities document themselves.

Free and open to all.

02/18/2026

Join us for a guided tour of Les Archives gaies du Québec and explore their collection documenting over 40 years of Quebec’s q***r history. Built and maintained by the community since 1983, this is one of Montreal’s vital specialized archives.

🗓️March 7, 3-4 pm
📍1000 Atateken, Suite 201-A

Free and open to all.

(Stick around the neighbourhood for our “Q***r Voices in Print” event happening later the same day! 😉)

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