Exhibits, events, and news - June 13, 2026
- elainebac1
- Jun 13
- 4 min read
Events:
Festival Bloomsday Montreal - IRISH WRITERS & A LIVING HISTORY OF THE MONTRÉAL IRISH.
40% of Québecers have some Irish ancestry — one of many cultural markers that signal the great diversity of Montréal. We are inspired by the inclusive potential of this diversity to bring history into the present and make it relevant. We spotlight the work of this remarkable modernist author and all the fine Irish writers — before and after Joyce — who seize our imaginations with their masterful narrative gifts.
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Essentrics in the park – Fundraiser:
Griffintown - Wednesday, June 17th @ 7pm
Place des Bassins | Lachine Canal, 201-251 Rue Richmond, Montréal, QC H3C 0N3
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At the McCord:
National Indigenous History Month - Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience. As part of an effort to initiate dialogue and foster understanding, the exhibition Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience offers an opportunity for a meaningful connection. Come and connect with Indigenous peoples along a three-part journey shedding light on their still unrecognized knowledge, as well as the deep wounds they carry and their incredible resilience. Discover about one hundred carefully selected cultural assets from the Museum’s Indigenous Cultures collection, highlighting their knowledge and philosophies from members of Indigenous nations in Quebec and Canada.
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Using the palette knife technique, artist Bob Venafro’s evocative works of forests and seascapes offer sculpture-like surfaces that produce an immediate response. His latest solo exhibition, About Time, runs from June 30 to July 5, the vernissage is on July 2 at Galerie ERGA. Venafro also volunteers as the curator of the gallery at the Old Brewery Mission, organizing exhibitions with an emphasis on accessibility and inclusion.
For all inquiries or if you would like to interview artist Bob Venafro- Media Contact: Bob Venafro venafror@gmail.com, 514 262-7874.
ABOUT TIME
New paintings by Bob Venafro
Tues. June 30 – Sun. July 5 at Galerie ERGA
Vernissage on Thursday, July 2.
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The story and artifacts of the historic Wing Noodles (Wing's Ltd.), which closed its Montreal factory after more than 100 years, are currently being preserved through various community-led exhibitions and heritage preservation projects.
The JIA Foundation hosts a storytelling exhibition focused on Wing's legacy. Visitors are invited to learn about the Lee family's legacy and even write down their own vision for the future of the neighborhood.
MEM (Mato events) hosts the Nouilles Wing: Le coeur du Quartier chinois programming. This includes recurring talks, such as sessions with filmmaker Karen Cho and historian Carol F. Lee focusing on the evolution of the factory.
Chinatown’s iconic Wing Noodles is reborn in exhibition on its storied history. "They’re giving us a recipe of how to build community," the curator says of the Lee family and Montreal's iconic factory.
Some of the memorabilia from the exhibition Wing Noodles: The Heart of Chinatown. Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette
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He collected hundreds of the worst album covers of all time. Now they're in a British museum. Some of Steve Goldman's collection is on display at the Mansfield Museum in England. Oh boy!
Steve Goldman, left, collects records that have particularly bad album cover art. He's pictured here with musician John Thompson, formerly of the band Peter Rabbit, and journalist Mark Brown from the Guardian. (Submitted by Steve Goldman)
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At the McGill Library:
Treasures on display: the Golden Ink exhibit in Abu Dhabi.
Two 13th-century McGill manuscripts on natural history are companions in the exhibit: (l) Farrukh-nāmah-i Jamālī from the Blacker Wood Library and the herbal of Al-Ghafiqi (B.O. 7508) from the Osler Library
Recorded lecture: Playing with Paper; Dolls in two dimensions and beyond. Join librarians and curators Allie Alvis, Winterthur Library, and Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Libraries, for “Playing with Paper,” an online lunchtime event exploring the charming world of paper dolls. We’ll look closely at 19th‑century paper dolls, 3-dimensional dolls and their trousseaux from both the Winterthur and McGill collections, tracing how these cut‑out figures helped children imagine identity, clothing, and social roles long before fast fashion and social media.
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Artists:
Collage / weaving:
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Photography:
Matt Black - In the early 1990s, Black made several trips to Latin America, making work that in 1993 gained first prize in the Daily Life category of the World Press Photo Award.[1]
Black in 2025
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If you want to appreciate something as simple as the beauty of a dandelion, give a kid a camera.
(Image credit: Future)
Photographers could be described in many ways, but I think photographers are also Noticers of Things. Painters create art from nothing; photographers seek out the beauty in the world and frame it – and sometimes turn the mundane and even ugly into a work of art.
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Music:
Musician uses moth data to create song highlighting insect’s importance. Classically trained violinist and composer Ellie Wilson turned ecological data into a musical composition to highlight the importance of moths as nocturnal pollinators. Her 12-minute piece, Moth x Human, sonifies flight paths to draw attention to steep population declines. [1, 2, 3]
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