The results are in…. swipe to the end to find out how satisfied you all were with the cleanliness of our town 🗣️ A big thank you to everyone who helped grow the Maintenance Worker from seed to disgruntled janitor: @emmadalmonte for the embodied brainstorms @ooopze for creating the feedback button app @djbash514 for trusting us with the iPad @mango_sunset & @dry_gingerale for documenting And thank you again to @art.dresse_ for creating such a whacky world to play in Photos by @dry_gingerale

This Thursday! Join us for “I REMEMBER”—a writing workshop by @rodaisun for the 2026 @bleumetblue Literary Festival. ✦ 7pm @_parquette ✦ Music by @kevin.lafleur_ @aaron.dolman @zachbachand ✦ A special curation of poetry books for sale by @pomesbooks ABOUT JOE BRAINARD (1942-1994) Joe Brainard was a collagist, painter, illustrator and writer a part of the New York School of poets and artists. His work reminds us to get real, as in, be real people. And maybe (hopefully) laugh along the way. His book-length memoir “I Remember” revolutionized what memoir writing could look and feel like. A collection of over 1000 disjointed memories on his life, the body, sex, religion, movie stars and more, all delivered with his disarming sense of clarity and humility. We will explore this text and carry on the torch of using the words “I remember” as a time-machine for our own lives. He is also a Pisces. ✦ $10 (ticket link in bio) Photo #1 by @dry_gingerale

English will follow // Merci à toustes d'être venu.e.s en si grand nombre lors du vernissage mercredi 08 avril dernier à @espacetransmission ! Nous éprouvons une grande gratitude envers toutes les personnes ayant participé au projet et sommes encore émues de la réception du public lors de l'évènement. L'exposition est en cours jusqu'au 18 avril prochain de 12h à 18h. Bravo aux artistes pour leur performance lors du vernissage : Catherine Machado @some_____chick Lilian Guiran @lilianguiran Mila Figuet @_milamour Merci à @bunzboulange pour la gestion du bar et à @c.aglot pour la création de des cocktails spéciaux, ainsi qu'à toute notre équipe du bar sportif : @raphammm @bheu @eugenie_nothomb @milesskyenorton @mathilderrie Les murs ont été réalisés par l'incroyable équipe de @gaufab_inc Le bar a été approvisionné et décoré par la meilleure brasserie @boldwin_bio et @northstarpinballbar pour le pinball. Merci à @lecalq et au @canada.council pour leur soutien et merci à @telecinemontreal et @ecosceno ! Merci à notre photographe @elisa.adele pour avoir capturé ces moments ! ❤️ // Thanks to everyone for coming out in such great numbers to the opening on Wednesday, April 8 at @espacetransmission ! We feel deeply grateful to everyone who took part in the project, and we are still moved by the audience’s reception during the event. The exhibition runs until April 18, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Congratulations to the artists for their performances at the opening: Catherine Machado @some_____chick Lilian Guiran @lilianguiran Mila Figuet @_milamour Thanks to @bunzboulange for running the bar, and to @c.aglot for creating the special cocktails, as well as to our entire sports bar team: @raphammm @bheu @eugenie_nothomb @milesskyenorton @mathilderrie The walls were created by the incredible team at @gaufab_inc . The bar was stocked and decorated by the amazing brewery @boldwin_bio , and thanks to @northstarpinballbar for the pinball machines. Thank you to @lecalq and @canada.council for their support, and also to @telecinemontreal and @ecosceno ! Huge thank you to our photographer @elisa.adele for the beautiful memories ! ❤️

I will be performing my piece, The Maintenance Worker as part of the Lèche-vitrine exhibition on Wednesday, April 8 at 7pm til late, at Espace Transmission. The Maintenance Worker positions aesthetic upkeep as a generative force within the engine of class. Through looping gestures of cleaning, resting, and observing, the work renders visible the often obscured labour that sustains social order, as well as the subtle systems that shape presence, behaviour, consumerism, and belonging. Here, maintenance is reframed as performance: bodies, spaces, and identities are continuously upheld, rehearsed, and sold off as an idea.  What are we maintaining when we maintain anything at all? Lèche-vitrine unfolds as an urban mise-en-scène—a constructed cityscape that invites viewers to reconsider their everyday surroundings through a critical lens. The exhibition interrogates consumer culture and its economies of visibility, reflecting a world structured by accumulation, display, and desire: to be seen in order to exist, and to see in order to want. Curated by Chiara Fossati and Margaux Barret aka @art.dresse_ 𓀧 5435 av. des Érables @espacetransmission 𓀧 Free entry

Poems by Lenore that have felt like conversations

Time moving weirdly fast for winter …… Reading this Sunday w @rodaisun at 10 ave des pins #116 for a special event in collaboration w @favouritelibrary There’s going to be two musical performances @oliviakhoury & @lucasmelo.enzolordmariano and a poetry open mic to close the night. Dm if u wanna get on the reading list :) Doors 7pm Show 8pm Tix link in RDS bio 🐎

FOCUS ARTISTE Catherine Machado / @some_____chick @rodaisun Catherine Machado is an artist, theatre creator, and award-winning archive producer based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). She is a performer and events organizer with RODAISUN, a poetry project and triadic print journal. Her play The Womb is a Room in Another Person premiered at the 2025 Montréal Fringe, where it was nominated for Most Promising Emerging English Producer. Her work engages mysticism, social narratives, and embodied memory, transmuting the absurd through an intimate, psychic lens. Her experimental practice spans performance, literature, sculpture and film, and her visual research has received national recognition, including a Canadian Screen Award (2024). Catherine will give a performance at the opening at Lèche-Vitrine on April 8. 🧹🧽 Catherine Machado est une artiste, créatrice de théâtre et productrice d’archives primée, basée à Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Elle est performeuse et organisatrice d’événements avec RODAISUN, un projet de poésie et un journal imprimé triadique. Sa pièce The Womb is a Room in Another Person a été présentée en première au Festival Fringe de Montréal en 2025, où elle a été nominée dans la catégorie «Producteur.trice anglophone ayant une carrière émergente et prometteuse». Son travail explore le mysticisme, les récits sociaux et la mémoire incarnée, transmutant l’absurde à travers un prisme intime et psychique. Sa pratique expérimentale englobe la performance, la littérature, la sculpture et le cinéma, et ses recherches visuelles ont été reconnues à l’échelle nationale, notamment par Les prix Écrans canadiens (2024). Catherine fera une performance au vernissage de Lèche-Vitrine le 08 avril. 🧹🧽 Graphisme : @juliette.moal Photos : Japhy Saretsky @dry_gingerale / Iva Čelebić @postcard2suzy

What is SMUT? And can it be apolitical? Thank you to @victorianboyghost @saint.henri.books for inviting me & hosting a special night of dirty talk w NYRSmut editor @joff_doodlebocki Their talk got me reminiscing on why we write about sex at all. I started the CAT CRUSH series to unpack the messiness and embarrassment of desire during a pandemic. Being single and horny during lockdown was at its best hot in a naughty way and at its worst sad and gauche. The dilemma of fucking outside your bubble or getting home before curfew. Intimacy felt fried and transgressive. Sparse but all consuming. Flashback to January 2020 I’m on a beach in Santa Teresa fucking the guy pedalling empanadas and mushroom chocolate up and down the strip. The next week I go back to his place and what I wrote when I got back home sparked the series. Swipe to end to read poem. What are we stripped down to when we desire? And who cares? Shout out to @postcard2suzy for shaking perfect martinis all night. And to the other readers @femalesportsannouncer for making tech decks sexy and @nicky___9___doors for bringing god into it Happy vday day xx

Come be unblocked & uncorked for a final time on this special winter eve. . . Feb 17th is the lunar new year, commencing the year of the horse & a solar eclipse. . . 𝓦𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓑𝓵𝓸𝓬𝓴 𝓝𝓸. 10 . . . ‧₊˚♪𝄞࿐₊˚⊹ Music by Ivy Boxall Readings by RODAISUN This series was conceived to carve out a space for writers to engage in their solitary practice together. The music is an anchor that ritualizes and charges the space, inspiring a stream of consciousness as a live collaboration with sound. It’s a chance to open the hatch Bring your notebook & come early to get a seat. This is your last chance to submit work for the group publication “Sacred Heart” painting by @laurarbenson , many thanks for her permission

‘Bull’ (papier-mâché) A very special trade custom made for sweet @chloemajenta !

November & December

𝒫𝑜𝑒𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝒫𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 Shop Babette—then come visit us at @expozinemtl next weekend. We’re so excited to be back for a third year ೃ༄ film photos by the talented @mucho.gustavo ೃ༄ clothing from @babettevintage ೃ༄ styling by @altered___state ೃ༄ rosettes handmade by @elerimillsap