"Cuerpo y Esprit brings together reflections that began when I was diagnosed with cancer at twenty-nine, just as I was finishing my studies and eager to reconnect professionally with the visual arts."
Programming
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To Embody: Joyful Militancy and Irresistible Activism
2026-2027 programRead moreRaquel Cruz Crespo
Cuerpo y EspritRead moreCall for Proposals
Residency
CONFLUENCES ResidencyRead moreThis residency program runs continuously for 8 weeks. DARE-DARE seeks to foster a deeper, close-knit relationship between a professional artist (who does not reside in the metropolitan area) and the Saint-Henri and Petite-Bourgogne neighbourhoods, and provides dedicated support throughout the residency.
Call for proposals 2026
Residency
research micro-residency at La HALTERead moreThis summer, DARE-DARE invites you to experience a research blitz in the public space. The micro-residencies aim to question and (re)animate our relationship to reading, archives and exchange.
Guillaume Dufour Morin
FAAS8Read moreDARE-DARE has invited Guillaume Dufour-Morin to present a performance at the eighth edition of the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair (FAAS).
Caroline Gagné
Peupleraie - Corps social et corps sonoreRead morePeupleraie invites us to explore the soundscape of a community of trees, poplars, in the urban fabric of the Petite-Bourgogne neighborhood and the Lachine Canal, as a metaphor for the “living environment” and the social body. Anyone passing through the South-West neighborhood with an internet-connected device and a pair of headphones can experience the project. Various connectors are available at the HALTE or at the DARE-DARE offices.
Job offer
Projects and Special Events CoordinatorRead moreDARE-DARE is looking for a dynamic, autonomous individual to fill the position of Projects and Special Events Coordinator.
Job Offer
Cultural Mediator and Programming Assistant (Funded by: Canada Summer Jobs)Read moreDARE-DARE is seeking a dynamic, creative, and self-directed individual to fill the position of Cultural Mediator and Programming Assistant
Elsy Zavarce and Denise A. Olivares
Echoes of Burgundy: Exploring Urban Presence Through Multisensory ArchivesRead moreThe duo of Elsy Zavarce and Denise A. Olivares, who were in residence for an independent research project during the 2025–2026 programming year, will present the results of their work at La HALTE in late May.
Archives
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DARE-DARE dépôt 2004
Fundraising activityRead moreAfter the success of the 2003 edition of this found-raising event, DARE-DARE come back with its store and sells multiple, mass-produced art objects. The profits will go to found the center activities.
Vidéo Paradiso
Read moreInspired by Pops caravan that nourishes the heart as well as the body, Video Paradiso wants to feed the spirit of the street youth of the big cities as well as the young people of the native communities.
Douglas Scholes
(This is) What happens when a thing is maintained (?)Read moreDouglas Scholes will open a construction site and erect a structure. This structure is however unusual because, from the beginning of its erection, it starts to collapse.
Atelier avec María Teresa Hincapié
Exploration of temporalityRead moreExploration of temporality: internalizing the "divided" secular time of the here-and-now into a continuous and unified time. Giving a sacred sense to the use of time through performative action. A physical work on slowness, repetition, immobility and forced displacement.
La Chute : Corps poétique / corps politique
SATELLITE
Exchange and cooperation project: Bogota / MontrealRead moreLa Chute curators proposed to DARE-DARE a project in two parts where ten Quebec artists go to Bogota and where DARE-DARE welcomes four Colombian artists.
Book launch
Mémoire vive + L'algèbre d'ArianeRead moreA look back at two recent events undertaken by DARE-DARE: L'algèbre d'Ariane (2000, with Les Brasseurs Art Contemporain, Liège) and Mémoire vive (2002, with the Centre d'histoire de Montréal).
Michel Laforest
Amoureux flousRead moreAmoureux flous is interested in the gaze of the other, a gaze constantly immersed in a work of definition. What defines us, if not the gaze of the other?
Alexandra Ranner
CorridorRead moreA container. A structure that at first glance appears to be a closed box. However, through an opening, the box reveals a reduced model of a corridor.
Art dans la communauté / Communauté dans l'art
Forum, Launch and video projectionRead moreThis forum explores the idea of community in the context of recent developments in art practices.
Constanza Silva
Iguana/Iguana confirmedRead moreConstanza Silva examines the dynamics of flow, transformation and data exchange at the heart of machines as a system.
Boule de neige
12e poste mixte - Scouts Notre-Dame-de-GrâceRead moreThe Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Scouts will install several life-size figures (silhouettes) in different public places in the city. On each of them will be painted a target.
Bamboula
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Ève Dorais and Edouard Pretty
Voyage stationnaireRead moreIs reality in facts or in beliefs? If reality exists, it is constantly contaminated by human vision and understanding. The Pretty-Dorais duo proposes a fictional journey in two parts.