ARCMTL is proud to announce a new project about the history of The New Penelope, the legendary Montreal café that in the 1960s hosted intimate performances by the likes of Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Robert Charlebois, Frank Zappa and many more ! This mulitmedia online exhibit is available online here.

The Volume 7 MTL art book festival, organized by ARCMTL, will be held from October 2 to 6 in Montreal, with an art book fair on October 5 and 6, 2024.

In the meantime, check out the growing number of Montreal publications in this collection, with recently added titles such as Voice of Montreal, Virus and Pop Rock Jeunesse.

Don’t forget to check out our Youtube channel including our playlist of ephemeral films and home movies; and the Montreal Sound Ark archive show on CKUT 90.3FM .

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

Recent Articles

Afro-Montreal Archives Collaboration

03.05.2024

Since 2022, three independent non-profit heritage organizations in Montreal have been collaborating on the digitization and presentation of rare and important Afro-Montreal archives. The CIDIHCA (Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne et afro-canadienne) has been dedicated to preserving and promoting the history and cultural heritage of Haiti and of the Haitian diaspora in Canada and around the world since the early 1980s. ARCMTL has a similar dual mandate

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

Volume 6 MTL 2023

03.11.2023

Volume 6 MTL : Art and the Book, October 10-15 Oct, 2023 Volume 6 MTL was the sixth edition of ARCMTL’s newest project: a week dedicated to art publishing and artists’ books. Workshops, conferences, discussions, presentations and a fair bringing together more than 50 publishers and creators were held in Montreal in October 2023. Here’s an overview of the various activities that made Volume 6 MTL a great success!