Expozine programming will take place online from December 2 – 6 this year, with a hybrid fair planned to take place online on December 5 and 6 (see the Facebook event here.)

Wednesday December 3, 7:00 pm: A discussion (link HERE at 7 pm) between poet Erin Mouré and author Michael Nardone about Moure’s decades of practice, with a look back at her participation in the mid 1980s Dial-A-Poem Montreal project.

Thursday December 4, 7:00 pm: Comics / BD : Pow Pow and Conundrum Press (link HERE at 7 pm) on bilingual publishing in Canada, moderated by artist Kate Lavut.

Friday, December 5, 8 pm : Literary Soirée + Allo-Poèmes – Dial-A-Poem MTL launch: poets and authors will read recent works in English and French, and Expozine will unveil its new project for the pandemic: the relaunch of Fortner Anderson’s Dial-A-Poem MTL (Allo-Poèmes), a new service whereby the public could hear new poems every week in English and French by dialing a special phone number!

Our first festival and conference of this new COVID-19 era, Expozine’s sister fair Volume 3 MTL : Art and the Book, our third annual celebration of artists’ books and art publishing, began online from October 1 to 4 and continued through the first annual Art Book Month in October. Check out all the artists’ presentations, discussions, visits to artists’ studios on our Youtube playlist here.

Recent Articles

Postcards from Montreal mid 20th century

27.05.2020

ARCMTL is well-known for its collections of so-called “ephemeral” material, ie, publications, leaflets, posters or other material with a short useful life. The following selection of postcards from Montreal were produced around the middle of the 20th century, up to the 1970s. The captions for each are the same as those that were printed on the back of the postcards. Note that there are no credits for photography or artists

Distroboto 16 years of music

20.09.2017

In March 2017, we celebrated Distroboto’s Sweet Sixteen with a concert at Casa del Popolo, where the project was born in January 2001. L’expérience Distroboto est étroitement liée à la culture indépendante montréalaise et a été un succès dès ses débuts. Seize ans plus tard, les machines ont vendu plus de 100 000 œuvres réalisées par plus de 1200 artistes locaux et internationaux ! Pour souligner cet important anniversaire, durant

Volume 2 MTL Art and the Book 2019

01.10.2020

Volume 2 : L’art et le livre Volume 2 s’est tenu du 1 au 6 octobre, 2019 à Montréal. Conférences – présentations – ateliers – colloques – performances L’événement le plus attendu de Volume est sa foire du livre d’art, tenu au SAT (Société des arts technologiques), les 5 et 6 octobre en 2019. Cet édition a regroupé plus de 75 exposants, mettant en valeur les talents et les légendes