The Kiosque — MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises

Submit an existing project to the MEM Kiosque

Are you a community organization, a non-profit, a volunteer group or a volunteer association? Do you have an existing project you’d like to see included in the MEM Kiosque’s 2026 programming? You have until March 28, 2025 to submit it!

Your project could be an exhibition, a web project, a brochure, a book, etc. The MEM’s Community Engagement Committee will select three (3) projects that match the Kiosque’s objectives. The MEM team will help you adapt your project.

What is the Kiosque?

The Kiosque is a modular exhibition structure dedicated to presenting existing citizen and community projects. It is located in the MEM’s public spaces.

What are its objectives?

• Highlight existing citizen or community projects by giving them new visibility.
• Showcase the history, memories, and experiences of Montréal groups, communities, and citizens in their own words.
• Spark dialogue about the diversity of stories and identities that make up Montréal, so that Montrealers can better understand, appreciate, and engage with one another.
• Reach out to people who are unfamiliar with or have not visited the MEM, making them feel welcome and building a relationship of trust with the museum.
• Inspire and nourish a strong and lasting sense of belonging to Montréal as a place to live and thrive.

How are projects selected?

Projects are selected by the MEM’s Community Engagement Committee, which is composed of fourteen people: eight Montrealers from diverse backgrounds and six members of the MEM team.

The committee reviews all submitted projects and annually selects three or four projects that correspond to the Kiosque objectives listed above. The committee meets once or twice a year, as needed.

Important

Kiosque programming is already in place for 2025. The committee will meet in the spring of 2025 to select projects for 2026.

Deadline for submitting a project for 2026 programming: March 28, 2025.

What are the criteria for submitting a project?

• To qualify, a project must be an existing project created by a community organization or a group of any kind, and it must align with the Kiosque’s objectives.
• The project must have been presented elsewhere, but on a smaller or more local scale or for only a brief period of time.
• The project must be anchored in the territory of Montréal.
• There are no restrictions on form: formats such as exhibitions, podcasts, online projects, videos, books, photographs, and oral histories are all welcome. The MEM will work with the project’s creators to adapt it for the Kiosque.

What happens after a project has been accepted?

The MEM will contact the group or organization to notify it of the project’s selection and organize the project’s presentation in the Kiosque. The MEM and project lead will sign an agreement defining their respective roles and responsibilities.

The MEM team will assist the organization at every stage of adapting the exhibition, from interpretive planning and content selection to installation.

The MEM is not a funding agency. It does not provide organizations with financial support for project development. However, for Kiosque projects, the MEM does cover certain costs such as graphic design, printing of graphic panels, revision, translation, a small launch, and the organization of two or three cultural activities.

Components

The Kiosque consists of display cases that can be configured in a variety of ways to showcase exhibition content:

• 2 tall modules (42” x 84”)
• 10 square modules (42” x 42”)
• 4 small rectangular modules (42” x 28”)
• 2 display case modules (42” x 42”)
• 2 screen/audio modules (42” x 42”)
• 2 display case tables

Current exhibition

• Still Here! Indigenous Peoples’ Voices in Montréal
  October 15, 2024, to February 23, 2025. An exhibition created with members of Montréal/Tiohtiá:ke’s Indigenous community and a team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), with the MEM’s assistance.

Past exhibitions

• Celebrating Le Chaînon: 90 Years of Dedication to Women
  September 20, 2023, to January 28, 2024. An exhibition developed by the MEM and Le Chaînon Foundation
• Milton Parc: Over a Century of Community Building
  May 14 to October 6, 2024. An exhibition created by the MEM and current and former Milton Parc residents
• Between Past and Present: Forgotten Histories of Montréal
  February 20 to April 28, 2024. An exhibition created by the collective Je suis Montréal, with the MEM’s assistance