Volume 8 MTL / Expozine 2025

Volume 8 MTL, Montreal’s international art publishing festival and fair, is returning for its eighth edition. The fair will take place on October 4 and 5 2025, free admission at Casa d’Italia, 505 Jean-Talon E. The festival will include programming from September 30 to October 5, 2025 in various locations in Montreal.

Expozine 2025 takes place from November 8 – 16, with the Expozine fair set for November 15 and 16. Applications for tables can be submitted here! Deadline October 14, 2025. Full programming will be announced in October. You can sign up for the mailing list here.

ARCMTL has made a growing number of rare Montreal publications available in this collection on the Internet Archive, with recently added titles. More archival material can be found on our Youtube channel, including our playlist of ephemeral films and home movies; and the Montreal Sound Ark radio show on CKUT 90.3 FM on Tuesdays from 9 – 11 p.m.

If you’d like to consult the collections at our archive centre, please contact us by email to make an appointment.

Recent Articles

ARCMTL – a year in review 2024!

20.12.2024

2024 has been a busy year of exciting events for ARCMTL and our programming partners. We’ve had events close to home in Montreal with the Afromuseum, POP Reads, Blue Metropolis Festival, and The Emile Berliner Musée des Ondes; and we’ve travelled nationally and internationally to participate in the Vancouver Art Book Fair, and the MissRead Berlin, Germany Art Book Fair. ARCMTL’s two largest fairs Volume MTL and Expozine were a

Cassettes on the Ark!

07.03.2024

Montreal Sound Ark presented several shows featuring cassette digitized from ARCMTL collections. Many of the tapes are demos or limited releases that have never been re-released. Check out the links for those shows below! Cassette special March 17, 2023: Artist, Album, Track Tracy Howe & Kevin Komoda, Affection, Green trenchcoat Tiger wang, The last teen anthem , Talking employee of the month Quite Ridiculous Nonsense, CKUT just listen comp, Damaged

MPAF Montreal Printed Arts Festival 2025

17.06.2025

ARCMTL was excited to bring back the Montreal Printed Arts Festival (FAIMTL), which took place from April 29 to May 10, 2025! In collaboration with Arprim, Atelier Circulaire, L’imprimerie, Daphne, Zocalo, Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir, and other key players in the field, the festival made a strong comeback with a full programme of exhibits, artist talks, workshops and a closing printed arts fair. On Saturday, May 10, the Afromusée (533 Ontario