Where—and how—do we want to live as we grow older? Will our neighborhoods, our buildings, our cities be able to meet our needs? The evening begins with a screening of the documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min), which explores how architecture and urban planning can respond to the challenges of an aging population. The screening will be followed by a(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 February 2026, 6pm
Film and conversation: Where Will We Grow Older?
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Where—and how—do we want to live as we grow older? Will our neighborhoods, our buildings, our cities be able to meet our needs? The evening begins with a screening of the documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min), which explores how architecture and urban planning can respond to the challenges of an aging population. The screening will be followed by a(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Maurice Cox and Mio Tsuneyama draw on diverse experiences and concrete realities of vacancy across borders and urban contexts.
What places get to define vacancy?
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Maurice Cox and Mio Tsuneyama draw on diverse experiences and concrete realities of vacancy across borders and urban contexts.
We invite primary and secondary school teachers to a friendly after-work gathering at the CCA on Wednesday, 12 January, to discover our educational activities and programs.
Main Galleries and Shaughnessy House
21 January 2026, 4pm to 6pm
4 à 6 for Primary and High School Teachers
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We invite primary and secondary school teachers to a friendly after-work gathering at the CCA on Wednesday, 12 January, to discover our educational activities and programs.
Main Galleries and Shaughnessy House
First Sunday of the month's family activity: Architecture playshop
Family and young public activity
Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
1 February 2026, 11am to 12pm
First Sunday of the month's family activity: Architecture playshop
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Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
Join us every first Sunday of each month for a guided tour of our current exhibitions. Entry to the CCA and its exhibitions is on a pay-what-you-can basis.
1 February 2026, 1pm to 3:30pm
Exhibition tours on the first Sunday of the month
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Join us every first Sunday of each month for a guided tour of our current exhibitions. Entry to the CCA and its exhibitions is on a pay-what-you-can basis.
Main Galleries
21 May 2026 to 3 January 2027
Main Galleries
American Remediation
This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to U.S. American values.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
1 October 2026 to 3 January 2027
American Remediation
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This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to U.S. American values.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
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5 January 2026 to 27 February 2026
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Screening of film excerpts and live annotation: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2013, 6pm - 8pm
In conversation: Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller
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CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre