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Come explore how stories of past, present, and future—intertwined through architecture, landscape, and film—can spark reflections on the fragile preservation of places in the face of shifting climate conditions and land overuse. We invite you to meet us, discover our exhibitions, and take part in our activities, with free admission throughout the day.
Journées de la culture
28 September 2025, 11am to 4pm
Journées de la culture at the CCA
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Come explore how stories of past, present, and future—intertwined through architecture, landscape, and film—can spark reflections on the fragile preservation of places in the face of shifting climate conditions and land overuse. We invite you to meet us, discover our exhibitions, and take part in our activities, with free admission throughout the day.
Journées de la culture
Glaciers tell us of the past and the present, archiving histories of climate and revealing our impending climate futures. Join us on 9 October for a talk by Cymene Howe, presented in the context of the exhibition Oscillating Spaces, in which she describes how we can recognize the work that glaciers do to mark time and history. She will discuss a handful of her(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 October 2025, 6pm
The Life and Death of Ice with Cymene Howe
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Glaciers tell us of the past and the present, archiving histories of climate and revealing our impending climate futures. Join us on 9 October for a talk by Cymene Howe, presented in the context of the exhibition Oscillating Spaces, in which she describes how we can recognize the work that glaciers do to mark time and history. She will discuss a handful of her(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Opening: Everlasting
Join us on Thursday 25 September for the premiere of Everlasting (2025), an experimental short documentary film and installation by Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Amanda Lickers, sovereignty, Indigenous
25 September 2025, 6pm to 9pm
Opening: Everlasting
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Join us on Thursday 25 September for the premiere of Everlasting (2025), an experimental short documentary film and installation by Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Amanda Lickers, sovereignty, Indigenous
Please join us on 30 September for a conversation around the The Museum Is Not Enough, No.10–14 with the publication’s editors and graphic designer, Jonathan Hares.
30 September 2025, 6pm
Book Presentation: The Museum Is Not Enough, No. 10–14
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Please join us on 30 September for a conversation around the The Museum Is Not Enough, No.10–14 with the publication’s editors and graphic designer, Jonathan Hares.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
11 September 2025, 6pm
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
With an Acre
With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
19 June 2025 to 12 October 2025
With an Acre
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With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
Everlasting
A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
25 September 2025 to 23 August 2026
Everlasting
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A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
The CCA Youth Collective is a ten-week program for young people to explore and understand architecture and the city through a critical lens, culminating in the making of a publication. Beginning on 25 September and concluding on 27 November 2025, the sessions will take place every Thursday.
September 2025 to November 2025, 5pm to 6:30pm
The Urban Unknown—CCA Youth Collective
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The CCA Youth Collective is a ten-week program for young people to explore and understand architecture and the city through a critical lens, culminating in the making of a publication. Beginning on 25 September and concluding on 27 November 2025, the sessions will take place every Thursday.