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MONTREAL SHOWS 1965 – 1975, Concert Posters, Photos and Ephemera Exhibit, September 16 – 20 2015, ART POP, 3450 St-Urbain. Vernissage: Wednesday Sept. 16. Hours: Sept. 16, 17-20h; Sept. 17-18, 11–20h; Sept. 19-20, 11-18h. SPECIAL GATHERING after exhibit Friday Sept. 18, 8 p.m., and Saturday September 19, 6:30 p.m. at site of former New Penelope Café on the block at 350 Sherbrooke, west corner of Bleury. Click here for the

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This summer, the team at Archive Montreal has been catching up on a backlog of audio cassettes to preserve and digitize. As in many smaller archives operating with limited budget and staff, Archive Montreal has to prioritize the material to be preserved and catalogued. Audio cassettes, particularly those from the 1970s-1980s, are a priority because of how they degrade over time. As with any magnetic media such as hard drives,

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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

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JOB OFFER: Administrative and archival management assistant, Arcmtl DESCRIPTION Candidate must be eligible for Emploi Québec job programs. The employee will assist in the administrative management of a non-profit organization (arcmtl.org) and its arts promotion projects (distroboto.com, expozine.ca). The employee will also assist in the the management of the organization’s archives, which include collections of thousands of publications, artistic works, recordings and related materials. The candidate has a university degree

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Arcmtl is a finalist for the 30th annual Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts de Montréal! From the press release: “Arcmtl’s Expozine became known across North America, offering the public a whole other way of seeing words and images. In addition to its archive centre and exhibits, the organization invents new ways of promoting culture, such as Distroboto: old cigarette machines that have since 2001 distributed tens of thousands of

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