Programming

For her project at DARE-DARE, Sarah Naomi Zakaib produced replicas of her grandmother's ring, with the aim of passing them on to others in the form of individual performance-meetings.

A reporter with polymorphous powers investigates the day-to-day reality of sexual and gender minorities at Polytechnique Montréal. Eyebrows raised.

For the second edition of the CONFLUENCES residency, DARE-DARE welcomes Annabelle Brazeau for 8 weeks. Her project Histoire de famille - récits dessinés is a comic strip micro-edition produced in collaboration with a literacy group.

The artist presents a first screening of Canterel, a performance film that anchors itself in the landscapes of Montreal's Sud-Ouest district through short tableaux that dialogue with the area's physical and social spaces.

The artist has created an audio landscape based on sound snippets collected by participants in the Soundwalk along the Water workshop held on the banks of the Lachine Canal in June 2023.

Mutual futures invokes the multiple forms and modalities of being communities.

Songs to my Ancestors, a collective musical compilation produced following a call for participation, is an audio piece that explores how radio broadcasts connect - through sound waves - members of the diaspora to family, friends and others, now separated by land and water.

For over a year, Maria Ezcurra has been working on a series of masks that explore and reveal the conflict between our need for protection and the ability to convey our own identity, deeply affected by this recent pandemic.

From a daily and rigorous collection of her dreams and observation of everyday life circumstances, Camila Vásquez develops research processes surrounding the dream space.

This 3 parts project (desktop documentary, pair of fabric banners & community workshop) is an offering of hope and joy to the Sud-Ouest Montreal community.

The project "Common signs/Znaki Wspólne" aims to highlight the sign language, which is often overlooked when talking about cultural diversity and minorities.

MEAREWE, which is implemented over 100 days, is intended to be a participatory experience between the artist duo and the public.

A group walk, led by the artist, takes citizens, friends and passers-by through several geographic, linguistic and symbolic detours in the neighborhood surrounding DARE-DARE.

Throughout the fall and winter, the artist sets in motion a triad of interventions where citizen spontaneity, the desire to contribute, transmission and learning are activated and revived.

Opening doors to a virtual studio space, Jennifer and Raphaëlle invite us to a pool. What would you share about yourself? An object? A letter? A tool? A question?

One of the artist is in New York and the other in a small village in Quebec. They exchanged objects by mail activating an intergenerational dialogue.