"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 decodes
Fundraising EventRead moreThis is not a benefit activity at Divan Orange.
karen elaine spencer
Dream listenerRead moreFor a year, karen elaine spencer took to the streets with cardboard signs on which her dreams were written. Follows a dialogue with the people of the street, offering the opportunity to enter the dream world of others.
Sophie Fougy et Simon Girault-Têtevide
Kif-kif bourricotRead moreThe "Kif-kif bourricot" project takes the form of a polyform beast, in constant metamorphosis, vacant at its daily occupations to which the public is invited.
Viva! Art d'Exécution
Viva! Art ActionRead moreIn the course of an evening on Friday, September 29th, and an afternoon on Saturday, September 30th, at the park with no name, DARE-DARE will be the host of performance art presentations as well as related interdisciplinary art forms of today.
SPURSE
Sensing Place: across zones of MontréalRead moreSPURSE is a hybrid collective with international ramifications that touches on art and architecture. SPURSE is interested in the reconstruction of the common places, by an examination of the urbanity with a psycho-geographical approach.
Karen Trask
Lit de Proust: en attente d'un baiserRead moreKaren Trask began reading Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Inspired by the conditions that led to the creation of this work, Trask decided to reinterpret and build, in a shed, the context, the room and the bed of Proust.
Autour de l'Agora
Forum EventRead moreDARE-DARE intends to continue its reflection and experience during the meetings Around the Agora, where artists, sociologists, architects and activists will present approaches, visions, modes of intervention aimed at rethinking the conceptualization, planning, development and organization of the urban landscape.
Collectif Au travail / At work
Projet d’emploi et de détournementRead moreAT WORK / AT WORK is a call for open and free collaboration. This experimental project proposes to artists and workers to consider their workplaces as an artistic place of residency.
DARE-DARE GALA 2
Fundraising eventRead more2nd edition of the DARE-DARE Gala! Benefit party for the activities of DARE-DARE which brings together about thirty artists during a festive evening where performances, videos and musical performances are presented.
Book launch
Petite enveloppe urbaine - 13th editionRead moreThe participants in this edition, whose theme is Accident: Randall Anderson, Catherine Carmichael, Philippe Hugues, Harold Klunder, Patric Lacasse, Caroline Lavoie, Douglas Scholes and Myriam Yates.
Stéphanie Pelletier
Char brunRead moreInspired by an outdoor parking lot in the Lower Town, Stéphanie Pelletier decided to intervene there. A mound of dirty snow occupied a parking space and offered itself as exploitable material.