This event will be an opportunity to hear from graphic designer, artist, and cultural worker Josh MacPhee. Drawing on his research for the book Strike While the Needle is Hot: A discography of Worker’s Revolt this conversation will be focused on the intersections of art and activism–specifically the role music and songs have played in labour movements.

Get introduced to the world of painting with Sandra Tomb, an internationally renowned artist; known for her energy and kindness. This workshop will use the paintings The Garden & Tree of Patience, part of The Lost Paintings project, as inspiration for exploring creativity and working with non-toxic paints. Open to children 5 and up, this workshop will cover basic painting techniques but also ways to find inspiration, creativity and expression in the world. Materials will be provided. This workshop is part of our Les journées de la cutlure special programming.

articule is once again inviting improvising musicians to respond to our current exhibition for Les journées de la cutlure. This year the multi-instrumentalist Radwan Ghazi Mouhmneh will perform alongside Florence Blain Mbaye (english horn & voice). The duo will respond to The Lost Paintings project an exhibition that gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders.

This joint exhibition between the MAI and articule gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders to reimagine the missing works of Maroun Tomb, a Palestinian-Lebanese artist, whose 1947 exhibition in Haifa was lost amid the mass displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians during the Nakba. The works resurrect a moment that was nearly erased until it was discovered in archival documents. Curated by Joëlle Tomb, Haidi Motola, and Rula Khoury.

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 thirteen 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.

Come alone on a slow walk* with Tricia Enns, Articule member and artist behind the audio piece Walked Traces: An Invitation,currently on exhibit as part of articule’s Member's Show— reworlding. Join us on June 17th, 5:30 - 7 PM, for a slow walk* around Little Italy. 

In the face of intersecting ecological, social, and political crises, the Members’ Show explores the theme reworlding—a call to reimagine how we live, relate, and create. Inspired by rewilding practices, reworlding proposes a radical untaming of thought, memory, and matter. Through ceramics, sound, textile, drawing, painting and audiovisual mediums each work becomes a fragment of a shared map toward survivable futures. This exhibition does not propose fixed answers but rather opens a space to dream alternative paths, informed by embodied knowledge, ecological sensitivity, and queer, feminist, and diasporic perspectives.

articule would like to extend it’s most cordial invitation to an Artist Talk with Diyar Mayil in conversation with curator Mojeanne Behzadi. We will be discussing Mayil’s solo exhibition: Still Air. The closing reception will start at 4:30 PM with the talk starting at 5 PM.

 reworlding, came about from a discussion around what we need, individually, collectively, environmentally and socially, right now. During uncertain and turbulent times, art helps us (re)imagine, hope, and dream about alternative (possible) worlds that may be hard to imagine otherwise.

To help articule celebrate its 45th year, Diyar Mayil is generously donating her beans! Each copper bean was individually hand-cut and assembled, created specifically for her installation, Still Air. Half of the proceeds will support articule’s 45th anniversary fundraiser, and half will be donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. 

Evoking feelings of anticipation, marked both by waiting for something to happen and waiting for something not to happen, Still Air entangles hope and fear together. Inspired physically by water infrastructure and spatially by architectural enclosures such as courtyards, this installation offers a slowing of time and room for contemplation. The precariousness of everyday life is present in materials that can melt, seep away, or evaporate into thin air.

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 Financial Statements for the year 2023-2024 and the auditor for the following year.

articule would like to extend it’s most cordial invitation to an Artist Talk with Kevin Park Jung-Hoo in conversation with Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim. We will be discussing Park’s first solo A Part of Me, Apart from Me. The opening reception will start at 4:30 PM with the talk starting at 5 PM.

A Part of Me, Apart from Me presents selected works from Park’s long-term project, the Aejang Project, which began with his father’s oldest memory: accompanying the artist’s grandfather to bury his one-year-old sister. Her body was buried in the form of “aejang,” a Korean practice intended to forget the child, avoid bad luck, and ease its passage into the next life. The exhibition explores dimensions of melancholia as an ontological inquiry into belonging and memory.

Do you have work accumulating in your workspace but need help to photograph it? We have the event for you! Celine Bureau and articule are joining forces to offer our members the opportunity to have professional still photographic documentation of their work in a white wall gallery space for a small registration fee of 10$.

The staff at articule, with the help of members of the Writers Club, wants to bring back our magazine, Discussion, for a 45th Anniversary edition. To get us started on this endeavor, Articule will be opening its archives for 2 days to all its members, both those currently active and those active in the past. Help us dig into our past, to search for inspiration as we look ahead to a new Discussion.

A dervish embraces death before death, sheds selfhood, and bows to the mystic's immortality. A freedom fighter, too, dies before death. Relinquishing the ego to be subsumed by the vast and nebulous unity of resistance, forsaking personal desire to dedicate the soul entirely to humanity. They surrender to the collective and its symbols, weaving their souls into the existence of all peoples, and patiently reflecting the moral sovereignty of the soul.

Join us for the return of our holiday market 𝐁𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐫 𝑩𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒂𝒓 at articule on December 20th and December 21st. 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. Sip some mulled wine, enjoy the warmth, and meet some neighbours, while supporting your local artists!

articule would like to extend it’s most cordial invitation to an Artist Talk and Lemon Party! On November 23rd at 4 PM dress in your finest yellow duds to explore Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s exhibition 𝐼 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑊ℎ𝑦. There will be music, meringue and merriment! Yellow or green apparel and wigs are strongly encouraged.