As part of the Festival d’Histoire de Montréal 2024, CIDIHCA, Afromusée and ARCMTL are joining forces to present Pop-Up Vie Nocturne Afro-Montréal on May 11, 2-5pm at Afromusée.

Members of the ARCMTL, Afromusée and CIDIHCA teams will be on hand to present documentary and audio-visual material. There will also be Afromontréal music presented by DJs and Haitian music specialists.

Lastly, ARCMTL has been busy working alongside the CIDIHCA to digitize many Montreal magazines and periodicals that can now be accessed in the ARCMTL collection on the Internet Archive here.

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Don’t forget to check out our Youtube channel including our playlist of ephemeral films and home movies; and the Montreal Sound Ark archive show on CKUT 90.3FM every Friday, 3-5 p.m.

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

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Afro-Montreal Archives Collaboration

03.05.2024

Since 2022, three independent non-profit heritage organizations in Montreal have been collaborating on the digitization and presentation of rare and important Afro-Montreal archives. The CIDIHCA (Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne et afro-canadienne) has been dedicated to preserving and promoting the history and cultural heritage of Haiti and of the Haitian diaspora in Canada and around the world since the early 1980s. ARCMTL has a similar dual mandate

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 6 MTL 2023

03.11.2023

Volume 6 MTL : Art and the Book, October 10-15 Oct, 2023 Volume 6 MTL was the sixth edition of ARCMTL’s newest project: a week dedicated to art publishing and artists’ books. Workshops, conferences, discussions, presentations and a fair bringing together more than 50 publishers and creators were held in Montreal in October 2023. Here’s an overview of the various activities that made Volume 6 MTL a great success!