2024 has been a busy year of exciting events for ARCMTL and our programming partners. We’ve had events close to home in Montreal with the Afromuseum, POP Reads, Blue Metropolis Festival, and The Emile Berliner Musée des Ondes; and we’ve travelled nationally and internationally to participate in the Vancouver Art Book Fair, and the MissRead Berlin, Germany Art Book Fair. ARCMTL’s two largest fairs Volume MTL and Expozine were a

Founded in 2021 by Claire Lamarre-Niemi, Bootlegger Magazine was created to provide a space for emerging artists in Montreal to showcase their work without restrictions. Bootlegger Magazine is an effort to value creative youth beyond the confines of traditional art institutions. Guided by a playful, eclectic and contemporary vision, the magazine works to present a dynamic body of work. Bootlegger encompasses a variety of styles and mediums, focusing on those

Frantz Voltaire is currently president of the International Centre for Haitian, Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information (“Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne et afro-canadienne” (CIDIHCA)), which he founded in 1983. Throughout his career, he has made documentaries and published books and articles on Haitian and Afro-Canadian history. He is currently director of the Revue académique d’histoire haïtienne. The following is an edited transcript (translated from the original

In honour of the launch of Michel Campeau’s book The Lilliputian Presence of the Photographer in the Four-Colour World of the Postcard, which was published on October 4th, a discussion was held between the publishers and the artist. Volume 7 guests of honour, NoRoutine Books is a Lithuanian independent publishing initiative dedicated to the design and printing of unique art books. Their publications are limited to 99 copies, making them

  Filling Gaps is a speculative typeface that consists of reimagined Chinese ideograms which all have diverse visual forms, unique sounds, and tell a story of their creation. As a trans Teochew artist / activist / designer, Le Lin explores different ways in which typography can illustrate certain aspects of our lives, either through unlearning or relearning it. What are the origin stories of the words we use daily? How

Remarkable poet Mark Nowak and Montreal-based poet and editor Michael Nardone discuss the contours of Nowak’s singular literary production over these last two decades. The conversation will focus on Nowak’s ongoing body of worker poetry – represented in his groundbreaking books such as Shut Up Shut Down and Coal Mountain Elementary – to open up a dialogue on Nowak’s most recent essay, Social Poetics. This work documents the imaginative militancy

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

Art book fairs in Canada in 2024 and beyond The following is an edited transcript of a discussion held as part of the Volume 6 MTL art book fair and conference, on October 15, 2023 in Montreal. In 2023, only Volume 6 MTL was held in Canada, after a hiatus from the Vancouver Art Book Fair and the fairs that had taken place in Toronto and elsewhere before the pandemic.

HOME MOVIE DAY MONTREAL 2023 October 21, 2023 from 16:00-21:00 At the Cinémathèque Québecoise, 335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montréal, QC H2X 1K1 Free entry Home Movie Days are organized around the world to promote the cultural and historical legacy of amateur films from the past century. This year, Home Movie Day is a partnership between the Fragments Fugaces project, ARCMTL and the Cinémathèque Québecoise. The event will present a

As part of the Festival d’histoire de Montréal 2023, ARCMTL and Afromusée present: Montreal Nightlife from the 1950s to the 1980s Invited guest: Charles Burke, Black Bottom Club Free, Saturday May 13 13h – 17h Afromusée, 533 Ontario E. métro Berri For the Montreal History Festival, come and discover the history of Montreal’s nightlife from the 1950s to the 1980s with the legendary manager of the Black Bottom nightclub, Charles

ANNOUNCING the Montreal Printed Arts Festival – Festival des Arts Imprimés du Québec GRANDE Printed Art Fair Saturday May 21, free, noon – 7 pm WIP, 3487 Saint-Laurent – over 30 artists selling their prints directly to the public (See Facebook event here) – workshops and activiites for children, youth and the not-so-young interested in trying out artisanal printing – exhibits of amazing art prints running through to the end

ARCMTL, a non-profit organization which preserves artifacts from Montreal’s independent arts scene in various disciplines and in both official languages, wishes to hire an archival assistant. ARCMTL is currently undertaking a major upgrade to the storage and organization of its special collections and archives. One of the archival assistant’s tasks will be to assist with this project, which will involve moving, labelling, re-shelving and arranging items. The archival assistant will

Introduction Augmented reality is the effect of superimposing content over reality by viewing it through a mobile device, or special glasses or other screen. The effect only works if the viewing device knows how to identify a “target” and has an app installed which can then generate the related augmented reality content. Creating an augmented reality artwork is as simple as downloading an app that can relate an image of

Volume 1 MTL Art and the Book ARCMTL is proud to unveil the programme for its newest project, Volume 1 MTL : an Art Book Fair prefaced with a week full of presentations, workshops and discussions about artists’ books and books on art. This programme invites the curious to discover places and people that are at the core of artists’ book production in Montreal, and take in presentations of recent

GRANDE Print Art Fair 2017 ARCMTL/ Expozine is proud to present the GRANDE Print Art Fair, gathering more than 60 artists and organizations selling posters and printed art, meet and mingle with the public and showcase the incredible vitality of this artistic community in Montreal. Silkscreen prints, letterpress, engravings, every form and every new trend in printed art will be on display! It’s your only chance each year to discover

Expo 67 : Avant Garde! at theCinémathèque québécoise, 335 de Maisonneuve E. (corner St-Denis), Montreal Vernissage and projections, May 19, 17h – 22h. Free ! Exhibit : May 19 – 31. Click here to see the Facebook Event. 50 years ago this month, Montreal hosted the largest gathering of avant-garde art and design ever seen! Expo 67 was the 20th century’s most successful World’s Fair, taking place during a time

Expo 67: Avant Garde! Vernissage, June 1, 17h – 21h; exhibit runs June 1 – 30 2017, Free admission. Casa del Popolo, 4873 St-Laurent. The event is part of the Suoni per il Popolo festival. Join the Facebook event! 50 years ago this month, Montreal hosted the largest gathering of avant-garde art and design ever seen! Expo 67 was the 20th century’s most successful World’s Fair, taking place during a

Montreal literary DIALOGUES Featuring Catherine Kidd, Fortner Anderson, Kelly Nora Drukker, Jean-Luc Bonspiel and Natalie Thibault. In partnership with the Blue Metropolis Festival. $8.00 at the door, Le Divan Orange, 4234 St-Laurent, Tuesday, May 2 2017, 21h-00h. On Facebook. A literary dialogue between Montreal’s past and present, English and French. Poets read literary excerpts set in Montreal itself, from the 1800s to the present day, by a wide range of

POSSIBLES merges art and civic engagement in the perspective of sustainable community development. Once a month throughout the year 2017, POSSIBLES will present the works of 12 artists from various art disciplines in collaboration with 12 creative partnerships in 12 unusual Montreal venues. Possibles 04 will present a new work by Shawn Cotton and Maude Nepveu-Villeneuve, printed by Les Créations de L’Abricot. Featuring readings and live printing! Free ! Thursday

Moving? Want to free up some space at home? ARCHIVE MONTREAL will gladly take your old zines, books, magazines, posters, photos, cassettes, films, vinyl etc. for conservation in our huge archive of Montreal culture! If you publish your own books or zines or print posters, we could also add copies of your work to our collection. But who are we? Good question! Our collection includes thousands of independent publications and

Archive Montreal has been gathering up and archiving local concert posters and flyers since it was founded in late 1998. For the most part, posters and flyers are acquired not long after they have served their main purpose of promoting a specific event, exhibit, demonstration or social cause. Staff and friends of ARCMTL regularly take down such posters from the walls of cafés, record stores, store entrances—or even from the