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

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

POP Symposium and ARCMTL presented : The Future of Montreal Nightlife / L’Avenir De La Vie Nocturne À Montréal September 27th, 2025 at the Rialto Clubhouse in Montreal   As part of the POP Montreal 2025 Symposium, ARCMTL hosted a round-table discussion on the topic of nightlife policies in Montreal. The discussion was hosted by ARCMTL Director Louis Rastelli, who has been part of Montreal’s music and arts scene since the

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

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

The New Penelope Café and its era! Call for memories! Open for just a few years in the late 1960s, the New Penelope Café is legendary in the history of Montreal music and nightlife. It was the first independent concert venue in Montreal to feature important names in 1960s rock, blues, folk and jazz, from Muddy Waters and Frank Zappa to Joni Mitchell and Jesse Winchester. It was also a

The Montreal Printed Arts Festival Presents: Print Augmented, a Distroboto project Friday 12th, 2:00 – 3:30pm WIP (Work in Progress) – 3487 Saint-Laurent, 1st floor, free admission Facebook event After months of research and workshops exploring the potential for integrating augmented reality with printed art, we’re very excited to share the results with you during the Montreal Printed Arts Festival at the WIP! Montreal’s internationally reknowned expert in the field,

GRANDE Print Art Fair Montreal Printed Arts Festival April 13 – 14, 12h – 18h WIP (Work In Progress), 3487 St-Laurent (accessible), free admission Facebook Event The GRANDE Print Art Fair brings together more than 50 artists and organizations selling posters and printed art in the context of the Montreal Printed Arts Festival. Silkscreen prints, posters, letterpress, engravings, every form and every new trend in printed art will be on

Le Divan Orange is a co-operative cultural space, opened in 2004 by a collective of people who had previously been involved in the co-op Café Utopique that operated in the 2000s on Ste-Catherine near Berri (now L’Escalier.) Occupying a large shoebox type ground floor that housed a few different bars since the 80s, prior to which it had been a retail location. The name was chosen from the orange divan

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