articule is introducing a deprogramming approach for Fall 2026. The center is at a pivotal moment in its history, as we will be moving in October after five years at the Plaza Saint-Hubert gallery space. At this crossroads, and in anticipation of major disruptions to the schedule and logistics of our programming, the articule team issued a call for proposals last fall to gather ideas that would treat this uncertainty as an opportunity to unveil a brand-new formula.
Montréal Monochrome is an annual conference series for Indigenous, Black, and artists and cultural workers of color, organized by articule's Fabulous Committe. This 11th edition, which will take place from September 2-5, 2026, will expand to welcome guests from across Canada to explore our theme: TRANSIENT.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
Join us for this third edition of Flux Festival, which offers an afternoon of listening, discussion, and performances. The day begins with the launch of the book A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros, edited by Stephanie Loveless. We’ll follow that with a special session featuring our distinguished guests, Ras Burnett and Ben Young from the New York jazz archive Crossing Tones, who will lead a jazz listening session in the presence of legendary jazz tuba player Bob Stewart.
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.
We are thrilled to invite you to Dick’s Reading Room and Collective Library, running Monday, August 17th until Sunday, August 30, at articule. All are invited to donate or lend printed materials that address trans lives, desires, fantasies, politics, advocacy, erotics, and other facets of trans experience. Dick’s entire collection will also be available for browsing, including our non-circulating (more rare and precious) titles.
Danse To Go created the first pieces for the Corpocalyptique project in 2021 to explore the connection between overconsumption and the obsession with perfection. Using a vitrine window allows us to explore how to replace what is for sale with what is to be experienced. Can we stop in front of a storefront to feel rather than just see? What if it led us back to a connection with ourselves and others, rather than to disconnection and the fleeting desire to consume?
In collaboration with articule and Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Super Boat People is presenting the works of a cohort of fourteen participants of Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian origin reappropriating their family past through oral history and art. The Summer Window Exhibition exhibition brings together personal reflections, archives, artworks and objects created during this process.
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.
articule is inviting our membership to turn the gallery space into a living room with all that that entails - a space for socializing, a space to collect our things, a space where life happens!
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.
On Friday, May 8, 2026, at 5:00 p.m., Sciences, Lettres et Arts graduating class cordially invites you to their event, Multus: Le VernisSLAge, at the Articule artist-run centre. As part of their Integration and Creation course, each of the eight teams has produced a multidisciplinary project incorporating knowledge acquired throughout their college program.
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.
articule is inviting our membership to turn the gallery space into a living room with all that that entails - a space for socializing, a space to collect our things, a space where life happens! We want the gallery space to become a container for activities, a place filled with the traces of our engagement.
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.
This project traces a queer and decolonial genealogy through sensory narratives rooted in the landscapes between Martinique and Quebec. Through an immersive and evolving installation blending sound, text, bioplastics, organic objects, and images, the work proposes a living laboratory where speculative fiction, guided meditation, and aquatic stories intertwine.
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.
Montréal Monochrome is an annual conference series for Indigenous, Black, and artists and cultural workers of color, organized by articule's Fabulous Committe. This 11th edition, which will take place from May 20 to 24, 2026, will expand to welcome guests from across Canada to explore our theme: TRANSIENT. Based on this theme, we are seeking proposals for lectures as well as artists to enrich the space where the activities will take place.
The closing of the RED INK/ENCRE ROUGE exhibition will feature a guided tour in the presence of the artist and the official launch of L-DR/N-É 2000*, a conceptual artwork that explores the phenomenon of pretendians who believe themselves to be shamans.
Convivial and open to the public, articule’s general assemblies are perfect opportunities to take part in discussions that will affect the centre, get to know member opportunities, and renew or complete the membership process. Your participation is essential in order to approve the auditor for the following year.
Led by artists Abi Hodson and Yuki Kéké Tam, Cut-Up Letters is a 1.5-hour participatory writing and collage workshop that uses epistolary practices as tools for intimacy, care, and relational exchange. Drawing from traditions of letter-writing, cut-up poetry, and collaborative authorship, the workshop invites participants to reflect on what it means to write to and with others.
Maison Palestine invites you to the launch of Emmanuel Dror's “La fierté de Gaza” (The Pride of Gaza) on February 20, 2026, at articule, from 5 to 7 PM. The author, researcher, and activist will be present. With this book, he responds to the call of Gazans to break through the wall of silence and the fog of propaganda, to support the Palestinians of Gaza in their struggle for freedom, and thus to “save Gaza or what remains of it” “by speaking out and spreading the truth.”
Convivial and open to the public, articule’s general assemblies are perfect opportunities to take part in discussions that will affect the centre, get to know member opportunities, and renew or complete the membership process. Your participation is essential in order to approve the auditor for the following year.
ENCRE ROUGE/RED INK is a multimedia installation that exposes the phenomenon of the Pretendian—non-Indigenous individuals who falsely present themselves as Indigenous.
articule is pleased to present our public programming for the 2026 Spring season. All of our events are free and open to the public. Follow our social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, and Mastodon) for the latest details.
Invasive Palette is an immersive installation and an ongoing mono material-based research that investigates the colours through pigments and dyes extracted from different parts of common buckthorn—an invasive exotic shrub. This work examines material memory, identity, and immigrant diasporas and opens up a new perspective of waste economies in the city and encourages the public to slow down and imagine the potential colours of our surrounding waste—not just as a product, but as living entities.
Join us for the return of our holiday market Bazar Bazaar at articule, from December 12th to December 14th. We are proud to present a lovely selection of local vendors who will be selling their handmade goods including zines, prints, ceramics, jewelry, food, and more.
Taking cues from Stuart Hall’s reflections on the Living Archive, the term archive here is approached not only as evidence or recount of the past, but also as a testimony to the voids in time and history. It is approached as a holistic and dynamic body that offers, in its incompleteness, the possibility to inhabit and continuously reassess the past, in search of that which was omitted. In this vein, the exhibition brings together Ethel-Ruth Tawe and Mallory Lowe Mpoka, two artists whose practices are deeply rooted within intergenerational transmission and archival custodianship.
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!