On February 20th, 2026, ARCMTL hosted an event at Chinatown House, a community space run by the JIA Foundation, showcasing two youth-led projects documenting and transmitting community history and heritage. This event was part of the series Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Queer and BIPOC Montreal–ten free events exploring community-based archiving. The first project was a six-episode podcast from the Black Community Resource Center called “Trains of Thought,”

On March 17, 2026, ARCMTL hosted a panel at QPIRG Concordia called Student Activism Archives: The Challenges and Urgency of Preserving Student Organizing. This event was part of the series Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Queer and BIPOC MTL, which consisted of ten free events exploring how marginalized communities document themselves. From the Sir George Williams Computer Riots of the 1960s to the 2012 strikes against tuition hikes to

On March 7, 2026, at l’Euguelionne bookstore, poets, writers, and organisers, Faith Paré and Christopher DiRaddo (Violet Hour Book Club) discussed independent queer publishing and literature as a form of community archiving. How do book clubs, small presses, and poetry readings document queer lives and preserve stories that mainstream publishing overlooks? The conversation explored creating spaces for queer anglophone voices in Montreal, navigating the city’s language divide, finding and prioritising

On February 26th, 2026, ARCMTL organized a panel on Queer and BIPOC Community Archiving as part of the series Owning Our Histories, hosted at Concordia’s 4th Space. Moderated by Taïna Mueth, this panel brought together archivists, researchers, and cultural educators from Gay, Lesbian, Chinese, and Caribbean communities to discuss recent projects documenting and preserving their own histories. When mainstream institutions don’t document your community, you document it yourself. This panel explores what