NEW DEADLINE: November 21, 2025


Résidence Intersections 2026
Period: January 7 to April 30, 2026
Deadline: November 21, 2025
Le Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), le Centre d’art contemporain OPTICA et l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques (EAVM) de l’UQAM lancent un appel de candidatures pour les artistes issu.e.s de l’immigration (de première ou de seconde génération) qui sont membres des minorités ethniques ou visibles**. Les candidat.e.s éligibles sont diplômé.e.s de la maîtrise à l’EAVM.

**Opening November 1st, 2025, from 3 to 5 PM.
Artist Talk: December 13th, 2025, 3 pm to 4 pm

During his research-creation in the Intersections residency program, Alvaro focused on the practices of immigrant artists who used the process of their integration as creative material. Consulting the archives at OPTICA, this choice led him to incorporate another temporal framework—namely, the sixteen-year period that had elapsed since his arrival in Canada—and to engage in a dialogue between institutional and personal archives.

Opening November 8st, 2025, from 3 to 5 PM.
Public conversations at OPTICA
In collaboration with the Dark Opacities Lab

Public Education Program | Fall - Spring 2024-2025

OPTICA’s public education program proposes various creative workshops and interactive tours for audiences of all ages, from 4 and up. Daycare centres, public and private, elementary schools, high schools, colleges, universities, retirement homes and community organizations can all participate in our activities. These ones place in an atmosphere conducive to discussion and reflection, in order to learn more about current creative production.