This hands-on workshop addresses sustainability and material equity in ceramics by exploring reclaimed clay and waste reduction. Participants will learn foundational clay techniques while discussing who gets access to heavily mined ceramic resources. Reserved exclusively for BIPOC creators, this workshop honors ancestral traditions of clay work in community. Together, we will transform discarded materials into functional art while building a collaborative, supportive space that pushes back against studio marginalization and material waste.

Collective Collective invites cultural workers and artists to collaboratively write the Terms of Engagement that we would like to insist upon when working with institutions as BIPOC workers, radical organizers, and artist-parents. As a tool to negotiate for what we need, this drop-in workshop is an opportunity to share our experiences within institutions, and to propose what terms of engagement might be helpful to build better ways of working in our sector.

This performance-workshop explores the spaces between appearance and disappearance, self and environment. Participants are invited to record short gestures using a green screen, which are then projected and refracted through handheld mirrors. By redirecting and fragmenting these projected bodies, the work creates "in-between" spaces to inhabit. The mirrors function as tools for agency, allowing participants to choose what is revealed or withheld in a collective act of witnessing the ephemeral transformations of the self. 

Collective pottery patchwork is an ongoing evolution of the collective clay tile workshop first mounted at Montréal monochrome IX, 2024, a conference that explores atypical and collaborative ways of making art. Each participant in the workshop is given a wet clay tile that they sculpt, carve and texture to represent who and where they are, on their journey. 

Trespassing the Timeline is a playful take on how violence is packaged through toys and games marketed toward children and younger audiences. Toy guns, ammunition, and playsets that reproduce the imagery of institutions of authority become the primary objects of interaction between performer and audience. Which comes first? The war story, the propaganda, the heroic saviour, the terrorist, the hunt? By placing the apparent innocence of play alongside gun violence, state authority, and the mass deportation of immigrants, the performance asks how these narratives become familiar before they are understood. 

In this conversation, Daniela Andrade and Fern revisit the role of p(B)ajubá in shaping LGBTQIAPN+ identities in Brazil while reflecting on the importance of preserving and protecting its travesti legacy. Centering trans and travesti knowledge, they discuss the ethics of collaboration, cultural transmission, and inclusion. As an Afro-trans linguistic heritage, p(B)ajubá offers a perspective that challenges colonial ways of producing meaning, inviting audiences to consider what forms of knowledge emerge from communities historically pushed to the margins.

SWIRL/SADDLE is a performance-reading that uses found text—historical court proceedings; Pornhub video descriptions; scholarly articles about displacement, insects, nightmares, and online “hate raids”—to comment on the dehumanization, fetishization, and mytholigization of Black women and femmes.

Following up on the performance Le jardin des phrases-semailles, "Garden of Sentences-Sowings", presented in Longueuil, Amanda Préval unravels the intertwining strands of a long braid in order to reconnect the participatory dimension to the initial action. Through the metaphor of the body-tree, they offer us “what remains when we forget everything” and when “there is nothing left.”

As part of Montreal Monochrome eleventh edition, this long table conversation brings together cultural workers from Gallery 44, Hamilton Artists Inc., South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), and OCAD University who have been collaborating as part of Threading Frequencies—a three-year partnership project that responded to EDIA (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility) practices within artist-run centres alongside public discourse regarding institutional mistreatment of marginalized arts workers.

To kick off this eleventh edition of Montréal Monochrome, we’ll begin with an opening announcement followed by a BLK D'OR concert featuring Jahsun, Cabral Jacobs & Endong Egone and refreshments. BLK D'OR is an exploration of free black expression that seeks new sounds, harmony, dissonance & authentic cultural exchanges.

Join us Friday, August 28th for a community screening of Satluj (2026), directed by Honey Trehan and starring Diljit Dosanjh, Arjun Rampal and Geetika Vidya Olyan. The biopic film follows the journey of Punjabi human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. This screening will be a place to gather and discuss the film.

This eco-responsible cyanotype workshop introduces beginners to the magical process of cyanotype printing. Participants will explore how sunlight and natural elements can be used to create unique artworks on cotton tote bags.

Join us to launch ‘The Erasure of Palestine,’ (2025) the outcome of a three-year journey by independent journalist and photographer Ahmad Al-Bazz, who set out to document what remains of the hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns depopulated and destroyed during the creation and expansion of Israel from 1948 to the present.

We will be welcome several artists members of articule for a series of artistic performances on Wednesday, June 17. Centered around the theme of our members’ exhibition, the living Room, these individual performances by Joliz Dela Peña, José Dupuis, Tricia Enns, FERN, and Vincent Lacasse invite you to explore the surroundings of the artists-run center and to explore the gallery space inside and out.

Help us elect future candidates to our Board of Directors! Friendly and open to the public, articule's general assembly meetings are ideal opportunities to participate in discussions that will impact the center, discover opportunities for members, and obtain or renew your membership!

Sineh-be-Sineh: Reimagining Oral Traditions is a hands-on, bilingual workshop in which Naghmeh Sharifi invites participants to explore how memory, oral storytelling, and cultural heritage can be preserved and reimagined through accessible digital tools.

An immersive workshop where participants are invited to engage with the sounds, textures, and scents of the exhibition. Through listening, touch, and movement, each person uses their body as a tool of perception to co-create a collective, sensory, and ephemeral performance.

Inspired by the ancient art of wax divination, this workshop invites participants to melt, pour, and observe. The random shapes that emerge become tools for interpretation, opening up an intuitive space to imagine, envision, and narrate a dream future.

A cooking and tasting workshop focused on seaweed, where participants explore a variety of textures, flavors, and techniques. Through preparation and tasting, the goal is to connect with these marine ingredients, discover their sensory potential, and rethink our relationship with food.

S.C.R.A.P.S. is a 1.5 hour scrapbooking and co-working session led by Yuki Kéké Tam. Participants will be invited to sift through extra articule archival material and create collages and images free-form. Folks can choose to work independently or on a collaborative substrate and are invited to also bring in their own archival material. This activity centres memory, play, and meaning-making. Snacks and tea will be provided. 

Archiving the Sensory: Workshop participants will be invited to create sensory artifacts—archives of their experience of a place—using bioplastics and organic elements collected by the artist.

Potato Print Soup is a 2-hour print and food making workshop led by Melanie Garcia and Yuki Kéké Tam. Participants begin with carving small icons into slices of potato. The potatoes will be the matrixes in the production of small relief works using soy-based edible ink. The potato matrixes will then be cut-up and used in the production of a leek and potato soup. The workshop centres nourishment, play, and community collaboration, ending with optional eating and reflection.