Webster Library Exhibitions
We present temporary exhibitions of art and cultural experiences in the Library to enrich student learning and to foster a welcoming environment to Concordia students, faculty, staff and the general public.
Image (above): A print by Jean-Paul Lemieux (part of the Camlot Collection) which was a study created for the book La petite poule d'eau by Gabrielle Roy, with illustrations by Jean-Paul Lemieux (1971).
Current 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.
Owning Our Histories Zine Exhibit: Celebrating DIY Archives from Queer & BIPOC MTL
February 13 – March 17, 2026
LB-2 wooden display cases and Discovery Counter
This exhibition showcases radical English-language zines from Montreal's queer and BIPOC communities.
The exhibit will feature dozens of rare and important zines from the 1980s to today from Montreal and elsewhere, from riot grrl zines to beautifully produced queer and BIPOC expressions. Zines have always been how communities document themselves. For generations, Montreal's queer and BIPOC artists have used this accessible, DIY format to capture the full spectrum of their lives: handmade artists' books, community magazines, organizing manuals that hold political work, creative experiments, humor, rage, and joy.
These are grassroots archives, not institutional collections. They're built by the communities they document. Started without permission. Made with whatever resources were available. Preserved because people recognized that what they created mattered, even if mainstream institutions didn't.
Zines are cheap to produce, easy to distribute, and impossible to censor. This fluidity has made them the perfect medium for documenting what gets left out of official records. These collections represent what communities chose to make, share, and save. They're proof of continuous DIY cultural production spanning decades.
The zines in this exhibit are drawn from the collections of ARCMTL/ Expozine, the Concordia Fine Arts Reading Room, Les Archives gaies du Québec, QPIRG Concordia, and QPIRG McGill.
This exhibit is part of "Owning Our Histories: Celebrating Queer BIPOC DIY Archives", a series of ten free public events (February 13 – March 29) exploring how communities create, share, and preserve their own histories. This project is made possible in part thanks to funding from the Government of Canada.
Owning Our Histories was curated by ARCMTL, whose Mile Ex documentation centre holds the last 24 years of Expozine (North America's largest bilingual zine fair), Distroboto (a network of art vending-machines), and the ephemera of the city’s DIY publishing scene. In addition, the exhibit features zines from the collections of the Concordia Fine Arts Reading Room, Les Archives gaies du Québec, QPIRG Concordia; QPIRG McGill, selected by their archivists.
Vernissage; Curator Talk: February 13, 4–6 p.m., LB-361 (Friends of the Library Room)
For more information – arcmtl.org
Browse past exhibitions by year
Location and contact information
Webster Library, LB-2 (main floor of Library)
Sir George Williams (Downtown) Campus
Contact us
Library Exhibitions Committee
John Latour, Chair
Hélène Brousseau
Natalia Diaz
Aeron MacHattie
Sandra Margolian
Dereje Taye
lib-exhibitions@lists.concordia.ca
Potential exhibitors are asked to consult our Library Exhibition Policy & Procedures before completing and submitting a proposal form.