Week 13: October 21st
The second edition of Double Entendre, a show about the coming-of-age experience, and more.
Welcome to Community Service, a biweekly newsletter featuring a curated selection of art and design events in Montreal. A lot of Montreal galleries were across the ocean in Paris for Art Week these past few days, and will be across the (Quebec-Ontario) border next weekend for Art Toronto, so this edition is a little more bare than we’ve gotten used to. It covers events happening in Montreal during the end of October.
Artist Talk: cold feet talk like hands by B. Brookbank
October 23rd (5:30pm) - Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Join artist B. Brookbank for an annotated artist talk and poetry reading in conjunction with their SIGHTINGS project, cold feet talk like hands. This event marks the end of the presentation of his project in the Hall Building of Concordia University.
Finissage: pulp_work-afk.doc
October 24th (6-9pm) - Céline Bureau
An exhibition exploring weaving, sustainability, and labour by Chloë p.f. Lalonde and María Andreína Escalona De Abreu. As a continuation of the exhibition paper_work.doc presented at the FOFA Gallery this summer, the artist and curator present a space that embodies the lived tension between making artwork and working in the arts as they invite the audience to engage with slow, soft, wet, shapeless masses of material, or in other words: pulp.
Vernissage: Double Entendre
October 26th (6-11pm) - l’Usine Pacifique
Double Entendre is a group exhibition that brings together emerging designers from Montreal and Toronto. The show challenges how design principles can be applied to give intention to unexpected and unconventional elements. Instead of seeing imperfections or byproducts as flaws, the designers view them as assets to be harnessed and integrated into their creative process.
The exhibition seeks to reveal the hidden possibilities within these untraditional elements and demonstrate how they can be utilized with a new given purpose, expanding the definition of what is considered valuable in design.
Vernissage: A bell I never hear by Cindy Hill
October 31st (6pm) - Centre Clark
A bell I never hear delves into the subtleties of gendered spaces and of the coming-of-age experience. Through sculptures and videos, Cindy Hill engages with stereotypes of girlhood while reimagining environments traditionally marked by masculinity. Her material-based practice often involves the transformation of objects—a deconstructing, reconstructing, or repurposing that challenges their associations and connections to the human body. (Text by Anaïs Castro)
Vernissage: The Legend of the Palestinian Sasquatch by Amanda Boulos
October 31st (6pm) - Centre Clark
Sasquatch comes from the Sts'ailes' Halkomelem word sásq’et, meaning hairy man. Although their existence is contentious, Sasquatch has been the interest of settlers and Indigenous peoples across various countries and landscapes. [...] While fascination can exist in all approaches, the intent—sometimes subconscious and personal, at other times institutional and violent—makes all the difference. Amanda Boulos opens a parallel between the mythology of the Sasquatch, the pursuit to catch it, and the way host countries can mythologise the lives of migrants, including Palestinians. (Text by Sarah Sarofim)
Event: Scent Club by Chimie
November 2nd (10am-12pm) - 7154 Rue Saint-Urbain
Chimie seeks to foster meaningful connection and curiosity around our sense of smell. They do this by creating intimate, grounding sensory experiences, whether through our scent club, workshops, or personalized consultations. Scent Club immerses participants in a world of smells by exploring ingredients, notes, and perfumes in Chimie’s ever-growing olfactory library. For more information, and to sign up for this edition of Scent Club, head to their website.
If you have an art or design-related event you would like to include in future editions of the newsletter, you can send us a DM or email communityservmag@gmail.com
See you around.