Event description
L’Autre Montréal and the MEM are delighted to invite the general public to the opening of the travelling exhibition Nos appartenances, created as part of a cultural mediation project (Participation culturelle dans les quartiers program, City of Montréal), and developed in partnership with three immigration organizations and a francization centre (Alliance pour L'Accueil et l'Intégration des Immigrants-es, Cari St-Laurent, Centre William-Hingston and La Maisonnée).
During the fall of 2025, reflection and writing workshops were offered to immigrants to discover their relationship with the city and sense of belonging. The participants identified 17 locations or elements in Montréal as significant in their migratory process — witnesses to their journey and associated with touching memories. These places and elements, documented by L’Autre Montréal, along with the participants’ first-hand accounts, are presented here as a photo/video exhibition created in collaboration with the artist Maxime Pelletier-Huot. It is a great opportunity to better understand the personal side of immigration . . . and to learn more about the city and the places to which people become attached.
Video screening and short speeches at 2 p.m., open visit until 7 p.m.
Coffee and snacks. Places limited.
About L’Autre Montréal
L’Autre Montréal is a community organization founded in 1984. For more than 40 years, the organization has invited people to discover the city and its many realities through themed or place-based tours combining popular history, urban development, cultural diversity, social justice, and tangible and intangible heritage.
With its passionate and well-informed researchers and guides (with backgrounds ranging from urban planning to social sciences), L'Autre Montréal invites people to explore urban issues at their core from both a historical and contemporary perspective, highlighting the citizen struggles of all magnitudes that have shaped our city’s DNA. Through this immersive educational experience in the heart of the city — on foot or on a tour bus — the team offers lessons in history and citizen engagement.
L’Autre Montréal’s activities and services are offered year-round to community groups, educational institutions and associations, and occasionally to the general public. The organization also offer customized tours and research services.
This project was made possible thanks to support from the Québec government and the Ville de Montréal as part of the Entente de développement culturel de Montréal.