articule is pleased to collaborate with SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) to present their 16th edition of its experimental film and video program that initiate dialogue around the shifting nature of politics, economies, and landscapes across the Global South and its diasporas. The 16th iteration will be collaboratively curated by Sameena Siddiqui and Vicky Moufawad-Paul.

Living Systems brings together people from different sectors of Montreal’s cultural ecosystem to explore what it means to build, maintain, and strengthen these connections. Living Systems asks the following question: What must we build together so that creative practices, narratives, and communities can not only emerge, but also endure, evolve, and support the people who make them up?

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.

very abstract and a little bit harsh: the labour process and the union is a special presentation of worker co-research with Steff Huì Cí Ling, a writer and researcher based in Vancouver (xwməθkwəy̓əm Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh Squamish, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ / Selilwitulh / Tsleil-Waututh) on the course of worker struggles in arts and cultural sector unions. The conversation will touch on art, labour, real estate speculation, Canada Council for the Arts, and notes from the rank-and-file perspective.

very abstract and a little bit harsh: a screening and reading traces the political consciousness of Lily Jue Sheng’s practice through a decade of their experience around unstable cinema economies. The program will be accompanied by a short poetry reading that draws from class struggles across various fronts and fissures, followed by a Q&A with Steff Huì Cí Ling, a writer and researcher based in Vancouver (xwməθkwəy̓əm Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh Squamish, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ / Selilwitulh / Tsleil-Waututh).

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.

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.

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.