MONTREAL UNDERGROUND ORIGINS, Round table discussion : The early days of Montreal’s independent press : exploring the 1970s small press scene With the founding members of Véhicule Press, Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli, and the founder of Montreal’s long-running independent bookstore The Word, Adrian King-Edwards. — Sunday November 16 from 3pm to 4pm, in Expozine‘s reading room, 5035 Saint-Dominique, . Archive Montreal, the non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving
Continue Reading >The Computer Riots were a seminal event in Montreal’s development and stand as one of the important racial protests of the era. A brand-new NFB documentary, Ninth Floor, looks at the event in part by showing unseen footage of the dramatic events themselves, recently found in the University’s archives. Here from Black History Canada is an overview to introduce the Sir George University student newspaper The Georgian from January 31,
Continue Reading >Before the mid-1960s era of rapid change, the early 1960s in Montreal were in many ways a late phase in an era that began with WWII. Nightlife remained rife with questionable characters to this day, but the experiences related here were from a whole other world. This anonymous interview with a lifelong Montrealer was first published in Montreal’s Fish Piss Magazine, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2000. R: So this was
Continue Reading >As we begin this journey into the past, why not dig some sights and sounds from this town’s 60s underground! Here’s a link to Archive Montreal‘s weekly radio show’s blog, Montreal Sound Ark, where you can listen to past shows including some special ones related to this project! We’ve been finding more and more interesting publications and ephemera in Archive Montreal’s archives as this project gets rolling. Here’s a smattering
Continue Reading >Montreal Underground Origins, 1965-1975 Round-Table Discussion: Origins of the Montreal Music Scene With Nick Catalano, Johnnny Monk, Alex Taylor, Louis Rastelli Pop Montreal Symposium, September 21 Archive Montreal hosts a round-table discussion on the early days of Montreal’s underground music scene. Local longtime 1960s scene chronicler Alex Taylor and cultural historian Louis Rastelli moderate a panel of local music-scene veterans to talk about this formative era. Discover Montreal’s first real
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