Happy new year 2025 to everyone from ARCMTL! Revisit our incredible 2024 on our blog here. Thanks to everyone who came out to our events and to our many collaborators!

Photo of ARCMTL team – Louis Rastelli, Orane Thibaud, Chloe Martin, Frank Lab, Rosemary Kemp.

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ARCMTL has made a growing number of rare Montreal publications available in this collection on the Internet Archive, with recently added titles such as Voice of Montreal, Images, Virus and Pop Rock Jeunesse. More archival material can be found on our Youtube channel, including our playlist of ephemeral films and home movies; and the Montreal Sound Ark radio show on CKUT 90.3FM on Tuesdays from 9 – 11 p.m.

If you’d like to consult the collections at our archive centre, please contact us by email to make an appointment.

Recent Articles

ARCMTL – a year in review 2024!

20.12.2024

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

Cassettes on the Ark!

07.03.2024

Montreal Sound Ark presented several shows featuring cassette digitized from ARCMTL collections. Many of the tapes are demos or limited releases that have never been re-released. Check out the links for those shows below! Cassette special March 17, 2023: Artist, Album, Track Tracy Howe & Kevin Komoda, Affection, Green trenchcoat Tiger wang, The last teen anthem , Talking employee of the month Quite Ridiculous Nonsense, CKUT just listen comp, Damaged

Volume 7 MTL 2024

15.10.2024

Volume 7 MTL : Art and the Book, October 2-6, 2024 Volume 7 MTL took place from October 2 to 4, 2024 for a week of activities on Art and the Book, closing with an art book fair on Saturday, October 5 and Sunday, October 6 from noon to 6pm at Casa Italia, 505 Jean-Talon E.. Volume 7 MTL featured activities to showcase the work of artists and publishers, including