Expozine 2026, the 25th annual edition of Montreal’s international independent publishing festival, will take place from November 7 – 15 2026. The Expozine fair will take place on November 14 and 15, free admission, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., location to be announced shortly. Expozine presents a stellar line-up of independent small presses, writers, artists and collectives presenting new books and zines. To submit a table request for Expozine, please

The following is an edited transcript of a presentation by Amanda Stevens, of the Halifax Anchor Archive Zine Library, on their Zine Subject Thesaurus. This talk, delivered on November 12, 2025, was part of the Zine Archives Montreal conference (ZAM), organized by ARCMTL during the week of Expozine. The Zine Subject Thesaurus is a set of subject terms for cataloguing zines that provides zine libraries, archives, and collections with an

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