A series of free public programs on Thursday evenings and during the weekends will facilitate communication with contributors and enhance the public’s involvement in the ABC : MTL project. A complete list of the programs scheduled for the first phase of this project can be found below. The events will be recorded and posted on their respective pages afterwards.

Every Thursday 5.30pm
Walk through the exhibition in the company of the CCA guides (visit in English). Free.

Thursday 15 November
ISLAND
Gabor Szilasi and Hélène Samson talk about the role of photography in documenting the everyday city.

Saturday 17 November
CONDO
A workshop led by Avenue 8 and Spacing Montreal which questions the condo boom and access to housing.

Sunday 18 November
A…C…F…Z…
Envision an augmented reality of Montréal through architectural collage in this family program.

Thursday 22 November
CULTE
Audrey Wells invites Frédéric Dejean, PhD candidate in Geography of Religions, to discuss the place of sacred spaces in the collective lives of neighbourhoods.

EXILE
Eve-Lyne Cayouette Ashby speaks about collective memory through the mission of Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.

SOCCER
Gilles Saucier of Saucier + Perrotte architectes presents the firm’s most recent projects including the municipal soccer center in Saint-Michel, Montréal.

Saturday 1 December
INTERFACE
Neil Clavin tours Montréal in search of the city’s concealed digital interfaces and leads a subsequent workshop.

Sunday 2 December
A…C…F…Z…
Envision an augmented reality of Montreal through architectural collage in this family program.

Thursday 6 December
HYPERBÂTIMENT
SYN- Urban exploration atelier takes a look at the neglected, leftover and generic spaces of the city.

URGENCE
Members of the ATSA art collective speak about their artistic engagements with social, environmental and patrimonial causes.

MOBILISATION
Caroline Andrieux of Darling Foundry leads a discussion about how art and community activism inform social change, starting with the redevelopment of Batiment 7 in Pointe-Saint-Charles.

Saturday 8 December
INTERFACE
Join Neil Clavin in rethinking the use of digital interfaces to develop new ideas for the future city.

Thursday 13 December
DATA
Nicolas Baier and John Zeppetelli from DHC/ART investigate the links between scientific data and artistic creation.

PARTITION
Sound performance by Audiotopie

ELECTROSMOG
Sound performance by Jean-Pierre Aubé in collaboration with Elektra.

Thursday 10 January
HIPPODROME
Myriam Yates presents her latest photography and video projects capturing the obsolescence of large urban development projects.

TURCOT
Victor Arroyo and urban planner Pierre Gauthier talk about social and urban development issues surrounding the Turcot interchange.

INTERSTICE
Atelier Big City revisits their research on liminal and interstitial spaces.

Thursday 17 January
ORANGE
Aaron Sprecher, Martin Bressani and students from the School of Architecture at McGill University present their research on the sensory experience of Orange line metro stations.

PUBLIC
Elektra facilitates a debate about the creative city, computation arts and public space.

CONTINUITÉ
FABG architects present their most recent public infrastructure projects.

Saturday 19 January
MEET THE ARTISTS
Select contributors to ABC : MTL share their projects and thoughts about Montréal.

Sunday 20 January
B FOR BEDÉ
Join the editor and artists of Drawn and Quarterly for a comic making workshop.

Thursday 24 January
HERITAGE MONTRÉAL
Heritage Montréal hosts a forum about the city’s heritage issues.

CITOYENS
Emmanuelle Léonard reflects on her photographic images and what it means to be a citizen.

Sunday 3 February
B FOR BEDÉ
Join the editor and artists of Drawn and Quarterly for a comic making workshop.

Thursday 7 February
MENTANA
Jacinthe Robillard presents her photographic work about the residents of a housing project in Montréal.

CONDOS
Avenue 8 and Alexandre Maltais (Ph.D candidate, INRS) discuss the recent boom in condo construction in Montréal.

HABITATIONS
Open Form Architecture speak about the concept of a new housing complex for the Orthodox Jewish community in Outremont

Saturday 9 February and Sunday 10 February
THÉÂTRE
Join us at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts for a two-day workshop considering performance, architecture and spectacle with André Éric Létourneau.

Saturday 9 February
MEET THE ARTISTS
Select contributors to ABC : MTL share their projects and thoughts about Montréal.

Sunday 17 February
B FOR BEDÉ
Join the editor and artists of Drawn and Quarterly for a comic making workshop.

Thursday 21 February
ARCHICONTRE
Members of ArchiContre present their interventions during the student protests of the Printemps érable.

CONSULTATION
L’Institut des politiques alternatives de Montréal (IPAM) hosts an open forum discussion about the consultation process in the urban development of Montréal.

Saturday 23 February
FOODSCAPES
Join Rhona Richman Kenneally in an investigation of food cultures and domestic spaces in the city.

QUOTIDIEN
Join us for a series of documentary films exploring Montréal’s popular neighbourhoods and everyday life

Thursday 28 February
UNIVERSITÉS
The artist Stéphane Gilot hosts a debate about the relationship between the city and its universities.

MARQUAGES
Landscape architects NIP Paysage present recent public projects in Montréal.

RABOUTAGE
A collective of urban planners leads a discussion about DIY home improvements, informed by their research on informal residential developments in the city.

Saturday 2 March
NUIT BLANCHE À MONTRÉAL 2013
On the agenda is a series of 10 activities to celebrate the opening of the final phase of ABC : MTL.

Thursday 7 March
MANIFESTATION
École de la Montagne Rouge reviews projects made during the 2012 student protests. Bring a T-shirt or a bag and get it screen-printed.

Friday 8 March
ÉCOLE
This special activity for March Break invites children, youth and families to imagine what Montréal school architecture could look like during a model-making workshop. Reservations required.

Saturday 9 March
NON-PLACES
Urban design collective Place-in-Space Collaborative leads a guided tour and design workshop on underused spaces in Montréal. Reservations required.

FILMS
Le Festival du nouveau cinéma programs a series of documentary and fiction films related to the exhibition.

Thursday 14 March
PARKING
Pavel Pavlov presents his photography and cartography projects on suburban Montréal spaces.

Thursday 21 March
VOIDS
Saia Barbarese Topouzanov’s architects present their most recent projects redefining Montréal’s public spaces.

GARDEN
Vikram Bhatt, professor of architecture at McGill University, leads a round-table on urban agriculture, meals-on-wheels and the local economy with organization Santropol Roulant.

Saturday 23 March
ÉCHANGE
Public workshop with the founders of E-180, a Montréal skillshare initiative. Reservations required.

DISLOCATION
DARE-DARE introduces the issues encountered during the five iterations of the Dis/location project, accompanied by artists, members of the collective and a City representative.

Sunday 24 March
LAND USE
Workshop inspired by the imaginative landscape architecture of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, whose archive is housed at the CCA. Reservations required.

Thursday 28 March
INDÉPENDANT
Catherine Gingras, PhD candidate in Urban Studies at l’INRS-UCS, leads a discussion with musicians from Montreal’s music scene.

SORTIR
Aude Moreau discusses with Caroline Andrieux, director of the Darling Foundry, about her recent projects and the relationships between artistic practice and urban space.

PLACES
Artist Vincent Chevalier reflects upon the representation of the city’s queer spaces in discussion with Ryan Conrad, PhD candidate in Humanities at Concordia University’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

Saturday 30 March
SENSORIEL
A colloquium, followed by guided tours, invites participants to discover the city through their senses. Led by David Howes, Martha Radice and David Szanto from Concordia University’s Centre for Sensory Studies.