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

Owning Our Histories: Celebrating DIY Archives from Queer & BIPOC MTL Self-started. Self-made. Self-kept. A series of public events celebrating how Montreal’s queer and BIPOC communities create, share, and preserve their own histories through zines, oral traditions, grassroots collections, and independent publishing. 13 Feb – 29 March 2026 Montreal, Quebec, Canada All activities are free and open to the public. PROGRAMME: (Event descriptions listed below) Feb 13 Owning Our Histories

ZAM Zine Archives Montreal November 12 – 14 2025 The ARCMTL archive centre and Expozine are happy to announce a new international conference on zine archives, Zine Archives Montreal 2025, with this year’s theme: On Our Shelves, On Our Terms. The conference takes place during Expozine 2025, when all of Montreal is abuzz with zine energy ahead of North America’s largest zine and small press fair with over 240 exhibitors.