MOMENTA Calendar 2023


Workshop for all.
September 30, 2023
Join us for a collage workshop, offered in collaboration with author and artist Sara Hébert. Come and create anti-advertising posters inspired by the surrealist, punk, and kitsch aesthetic of Naomi Rincón Gallardo’s artwork.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Le pouvoir de l’imaginaire, creative and reflective workshop in collaboration with Never Was Average and Fonderie Darling during MOMENTA 2021. Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro.

Workshop for all.
October 5, 2023
Join us for a discussion workshop around Michèle Pearson Clarke’s artwork Quantum Choir. Participants will get the opportunity to reflect on the notion of vulnerability linked to the expression of their identity, and to transform this feeling into a space for encounter. You will then have a chance to explore the liberating, self-affirming potential of singing by taking part in a karaoke session.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Michèle Pearson Clarke, Quantum Choir, 2022


Workshop for all.
October 11, 2023
In this listening workshop led by Rémi Belliveau, a trans non-binary Acadian artist, you will be invited to participate in a discussion nourished by music. Inspired by Belliveau’s work L’Empremier live at Beaubassin (1970), you will travel back in time as you listen to songs imbued with nostalgia.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Rémi Belliveau, L’Empremier jam, février 1969 [2022], radio Panasonic RF-7270, demo tape.

Workshop for all.
October 12, 2023
Immerse yourself in a reflection on the notion of the gaze, in dialogue with Chris Curreri’s Self Portrait with Luis Jacob. During a session of speed drawing and crossed portraits, explore the limits and links between seeing and being seen, being and seeming.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Chris Curreri, Self Portrait with Luis Jacob, 2022 (detail).

Through contemporary art, we can project any manner of future worlds, be they hopeful or frightening. In connection with the exhibition The Pop of Life! and the video work Logic Paralyzes the Heart by Lynn Hershman Leeson, presented in collaboration with the MMFA, we invite you to attend a discussion on a time to come. In it, we will look at how artists across the ages have helped us imagine the future.
Credit: Bridget Donahue

Guided tour hosted by Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, artist and student, participating in the biennial’s 18th edition.
Tour open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit: Richmond Lam

Drawing on their research in the Museum’s archives, Séamus Gallagher will discuss the creative process behind their installation Mother Memory Cellophane. They will discuss how this latest creation fits into their larger body of work. The talk will be moderated by Morris Fox, whose artistic practice overlaps with Gallagher’s on several levels: queer aesthetics, identity, gender performativity and hauntology, to name but a few.
Activity in English. The discussion will be held on Zoom and livestreamed on the Museum’s Facebook page.
Credit: Séamus Gallagher