Wednesday Night Tours
Every Wednesday evening from 2 July to 10 September, we invite you to discover our exhibitions Oscillating Spaces, With an Acre, and Records of Protest, with a tour of our galleries organized by our public program assistants at 5pm.
2 July 2025 to 10 September 2025, 5pm
Wednesday Night Tours
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Every Wednesday evening from 2 July to 10 September, we invite you to discover our exhibitions Oscillating Spaces, With an Acre, and Records of Protest, with a tour of our galleries organized by our public program assistants at 5pm.
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)
Living Land: Kids’ Day at the CCA
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)
Scouting Skateboard Sites
Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
11 April 2009
Scouting Skateboard Sites
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Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
Mapping Rural Montréal
On a tour of downtown Montréal, San Francisco-based artist Amy Franceschini shows participants ‘rural’ sites and activities and questions the dichotomy of country and city. Franceschini founded Futurefarmers, a collaborative and experimental studio that addresses ecological issues, as well as the online magazine, Atlas. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do(...)
4 April 2009
Mapping Rural Montréal
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On a tour of downtown Montréal, San Francisco-based artist Amy Franceschini shows participants ‘rural’ sites and activities and questions the dichotomy of country and city. Franceschini founded Futurefarmers, a collaborative and experimental studio that addresses ecological issues, as well as the online magazine, Atlas. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do(...)
Foraging in Montréal
Chicago-based artist and forager Nance Klehm leads a foraging and tea-making expedition. Foraging is the practice of collecting plants that grow wild in urban and rural areas. Participants identify and collect edible plants growing in Montreal and then make tea from the foraged ingredients. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA(...)
18 April 2009
Foraging in Montréal
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Chicago-based artist and forager Nance Klehm leads a foraging and tea-making expedition. Foraging is the practice of collecting plants that grow wild in urban and rural areas. Participants identify and collect edible plants growing in Montreal and then make tea from the foraged ingredients. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA(...)
Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
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17 March 1993 to 1 August 1993
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
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The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
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Travel Records
AP032.S1.SS4.D3
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Files ARCH219035-ARCH219042 are documents from travels in Europe from 1962-1963, and combined business and family travels in Europe, Japan, Central America and the United States between 1968 and 1980. Papers include a travel journal, invoices and receipts, postcards, travel guides and brochures, maps, itineraries, correspondence, and documents on Danish architecture. FIles ARCH21945-ARCH219061 are documents mostly concerning Goldsmith's vacation trips in the United States. Material includes travel brochures, guide books, maps, postcards and various ephemera. Travel journals from visits to Fripp Island, Harvard, Newport R.I., New York and Washington in 1982 include sketches and calculations of bridges. Some files include colour photographs - a trip to Washington D.C. has large prints of SOM buildings, and a file on the artist Christo includes information and photos of his Umbrella Project in Bakersfield, California. Other destinations include Vermont, Delaware, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. Two files document a 1993 trip to Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland and include correspondence and itineraries.
1962-1993
Travel Records
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AP032.S1.SS4.D3
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Files ARCH219035-ARCH219042 are documents from travels in Europe from 1962-1963, and combined business and family travels in Europe, Japan, Central America and the United States between 1968 and 1980. Papers include a travel journal, invoices and receipts, postcards, travel guides and brochures, maps, itineraries, correspondence, and documents on Danish architecture. FIles ARCH21945-ARCH219061 are documents mostly concerning Goldsmith's vacation trips in the United States. Material includes travel brochures, guide books, maps, postcards and various ephemera. Travel journals from visits to Fripp Island, Harvard, Newport R.I., New York and Washington in 1982 include sketches and calculations of bridges. Some files include colour photographs - a trip to Washington D.C. has large prints of SOM buildings, and a file on the artist Christo includes information and photos of his Umbrella Project in Bakersfield, California. Other destinations include Vermont, Delaware, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. Two files document a 1993 trip to Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland and include correspondence and itineraries.
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1962-1993