Webster Library Exhibitions

Media event for a bisexual Guinean asylum seeker. Photographer: Philippe Teixeira St-Cyr. Concordia Special Collections and Archives. Stefan Christoff collection (C047), C047-02-06. 2019.

Montreal social justice activism in print 2000–2025

January 19 – March 25, 2026

LB-2 vitrines and Audio Stairwell

This exhibition showcases print material created in the context of different community organizing campaigns and grassroots collective struggles in Montréal. The works on public display include zines, posters and photographs.

Curated by community organizer, artist and Concordia graduate student in the History Department, Stefan Christoff, all the selected materials are a part of a recently acquired special collection, the Stefan Christoff Collection (CO47), housed in Concordia’s Special Collections and Archives.

This display is an opportunity for students and community members to engage with a living archive of print material that speaks to recent collective, non-governmental organizing efforts in the city. The works show the organic intersections between local struggles for justice and the arts, examples of collaboration between cultural workers and community organizers.

There are three particular focus points in this exhibition embodied within the print material: struggles for climate justice as interlinked with Indigenous land rights, grassroots organizing work to lift up the rights of immigrant and refugee communities as part of broader struggles against racism, and the movement to support Palestinian freedom.

The three focus points in this exhibition emerge from the actual content that is being presented which was all, without exception, created in contexts of active collaboration alongside groups and individuals from the directly impacted communities touched on a daily basis by the key contemporary issues outlined.

Activism in Print builds on research that Christoff has been doing to create routes for archiving the often ephemeral papers and materials of grassroots community organizing efforts. Importantly, this exhibition is a tool through which to find pathways to activate and mobilize such archives into a context of public popular education on campus and beyond.

Activism In Print takes place in collaboration with the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, CKUT 90.3 FM and Raah Media Research Lab.