For the fifth edition of the Confluences residency, DARE-DARE is welcoming artist Massy Emond to the Southwest for 8 weeks.
Programming
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To Embody: Joyful Militancy and Irresistible Activism
2026-2027 programRead moreMassy Emond
Residency
Confluences residency: This train_Saint-HenriRead moreJob offer
Cultural Mediation Coordinator and Programming AssistantRead moreJob offer
Co-Director of Artistic ProgrammingRead moreMarianne Rouche
Residency
Micro-residency at La HALTE: Mais où est partie la ville ?Read moreMarianne Rouche will be participating in a two-day micro-residency at La HALTE to draw inspiration from the DARE-DARE library.
PASSEPORT 2026
PASSEPORT
+ festive eveningRead moreAs part of the Journées de la culture, Passeport returns for its 9th edition in the Southwest. This cultural event consists of a walking tour during which participants are invited to collect works of art and prints by about ten artists.
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.
Andréanne Martin
Les seins ballants, je m'en vais au ventRead moreLes seins ballants, je m’en vais au vent is a micro-edition of nomadic artist books that explore the idea of wandering from a feminist and decolonial perspective, and are designed to evolve over the course of a year.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky
Finishing HoldsRead moreFinal Holds draws on the world of professional wrestling as a metaphor for care, absence, and grief, where the final move of a match echoes the last gesture of holding a loved one.
Tricia Enns
Ventology Training and SensingRead moreWhat does the air above your neighbourhood actually smell like? What sounds are escaping through the vents on your block? Ventology Training and Sensing invites you into a world full of blowing hot—and sometimes pulpy—air.
ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2026Read moreDear DARE-DARE community, it's finally time for the Annual General Meeting! As every year, the AGM invites its active members to review the year 2025-2026 and imagine the years to come.
Andi Vincente
Altars for Becoming / Mga Altar ng PagigingRead moreOver the course of a month, an altar will transform Sainte-Cunégonde Park. This altar will serve as a living portal, not a monument or a static shrine, but a co-created structure that invites curiosity and reimagination.
Archives
2015 two thousand and fifteen
ALICE FELDT
WINDSWEPTRead more"Windswept" is an ongoing writing project, which explores a young pioneer woman’s transcendentalist journey into the American West.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2016-2017
RENDEZ-VOUS SOCIETY IRead moreDARE-DARE invites you to propose in socius interventions, in order to generate situations and aggregations that are anchored in a diversity of places and in extra-artistic spheres of activity.
SYLVIE LAPLANTE
CARTELSRead moreI stood in front of the space that contains the yellow luminous board. Questions arose like queries, challenges or games proposals. It looked like the beginning of dialogues.
VIVA! ART ACTION
Read moreDARE-DARE's programming for this fifth edition of VIVA! promoted multidisciplinary practices and reflected on the different contexts of art dissemination in the public space.
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Massecar • d'Orion duoRead moreThis secret work was inspired by spy films to develop strategies for disseminating excerpts from Roland Barthes' Fragments d'un discours amoureux.
LA DIS/LOCATION DE DARE-DARE
ExhibitionRead moreDARE-DARE'S “LA DIS/LOCATION DE DARE-DARE” exhibition proposes a retrospective glance on the first decade of the urban articulation project, lead by the centre since 2004.
Book launch
3 DIS/LOCATIONsRead moreThis book looks at the last three locations where the DARE-DARE mobile shelter was moored, namely Cabot Square, Walter-Stewart Park and the Quartier des spectacles, and offers the reflections of five authors on various realities of artistic practices in public space.
ODYSSÉE (2004-2014)
An historical sightseeing tourRead more"ODYSSÉE" celebrated the first 10 years of the projet d'articulation urbaine : Dis/location of DARE-DARE (2004 to 2014) and the continued presence of the Centre in the public space.
Josée Yvon
Danseuses-mameloukRead moreJosée Yvon (1950-1994) is considered by many as the most dangerous writer of Quebec. Danseuses-mamelouk, published in 1982 by VLB editor, resume her first two books by adding a unique section.
Steve Giasson
Performances invisibles (1 - 130)Read moreThis extensive and very ambitious project will take place over a full year. In total,130 performances are reenacted!
Janie Julien-Fort
Sites under SurveillanceRead moreFor the project, the artist makes use of a technique called solargraphy—a photographic process requiring exposure times that often span several months.
Marie-Line Laplante
Grammar BookRead moreI draw sentences from grammar books. Each time I open a grammar book I am stuck by the italic and bold type sentences used as grammatical illustrations. I often set aside the rules of the book and become obsessed by the lost sense of the sentences so sacrificed for grammatical purposes.
Chloé Beaulac
Destination : NowhereRead moreI want DARE-DARE’s trailer to be perceived as a pit stop on a journey to nowhere. I chose excerpts from my personal travels on the roads and highways of Quebec, captured moments that seemed to me to be capable of reinventing the trailer’s function.
Marie-Andrée Poulin
YOU ARE ON A MOHAWK LANDRead moreThe idea was inspired by past collaboration with the Kahnawake community. For the project, my desire is to create a symbolic dialogue between colonist and Iroquois communities.