"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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Dé-programmer
Walk with l’atelier SYN-Read moreThis urban walk takes as its working canvas the concept of de-programming: an idea at first associated, in its more pejorative dimension, with a destructuring felt for some years in this sometimes "vampirized" sector that includes Concordia University.
DARE-DARE GALA 6
Read moreThis year's DARE-DARE GALA promises to be a memorable one. Held in partnership with the RCAAQ, it will be twinned with the RES ARTIS international conference.
Karen Kraven
Firm curves behind a brick wallRead moreFor her project, Karen Kraven involves participants — local community members, artists, architects — to assist her in the ephemeral redevelopment of a commercial space in the Quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (3179 Ontario East).
GENEVIÈVE ROUSSEAU
CUBERead moreProject of the artist Geneviève Rousseau as part of the CUBE event.
ROUND TABLE
MotelisationRead moreThe "Motelization" roundtable (a coined word about the proliferation of motels) follows an exhibition of the same title recently presented at the Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University.
Montreal from Below
Openspace on actual urban practices and strugglesRead moreThis is an afternoon "open forum" that aims to share practices and instill collaborations between our ways of fighting and practicing the city.
Julie Faubert
LES MOTS (2nd part)Read moreJulie Faubert’s Les Mots offers the city as a critical space in which to reflect on words that permit (or forid) us to think.
Miquel Garcia Membrado
Residency
47 joursRead moreMiquel Garcia Membrado (Barcelona) questions the role of the artist and censorship within contemporary art practices.
KNOWLEDGE CO-CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP with Katya Montaignac
Conversation with Katya Montaignac.Read moreAt our Off-Biennale in May 2009, Katya Montaignac presented her Danses Invisibles. She invites you to come and talk to her about in situ practices. What she brings to the table? The question of power.
Jacinthe Robillard
The Mentana GardensRead moreJacinthe Robillard explores the documentary portrait by studying domestic environments of specific social groups. She is particularly interested the experience of the other and the intrinsic link that it maintains with location.
Knowledge co-construction workshop at the documentation center
With PATRICE LOUBIERRead moreConversation avec Patrice Loubier à propos des pratiques furtives en art contemporain. Venez découvrir ces pratiques, discuter des vôtres, les mettre en relations avec celles dont parlera Patrice et interagir avec l’analyse qu’il nous proposera.
Vanessa Rigaux
DriftRead moreA performance based on oral tradition. A tale revealed through action and dance. Accompanied by a video by artist Leslie Supnet.