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

Afro-Montreal Nightlife Pop-Up Date: Saturday, May 11, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Location: Afromusée, 533 Ontario E. Free !! As part of the 2024 Montreal History Festival, local heritage organizations CIDIHCA, Afromusée, and ARCMTL are joining forces to present Afro-Montreal Nightlife Pop-Up. This pop-up exhibit dives deep into an often-overlooked aspect of Montreal’s history. Since 2022, the three organizations have been collaborating on projects researching the history of

It was a busy Black History Month at ARCMTL! You can bear witness to the rich cultural history of diverse Afro-Montreal communities by checking out some of what we’ve added to our websites and programming in 2024. First of all, there is our collaboration with the Afromusée  for which can check out all sorts of photos, archives and transcripts of presentations held since 2022 on our new website Nights of

Expozine 2023 hosts its first small conference on Montreal’s zine archives and libraries from Nov. 28 – 30, free admission. Challenges in archiving and describing zine collections Nov. 28, 15:00 – 17:00, FARR, Fine Arts Reading Room, Concordia University EV-2.785, 1515 Sainte-Catherine O. (2nd floor). There are many challenges involved in archiving and describing collections of zines, as opposed to more traditional publications. Artists in particular can be very creative