Constellation Anarchist Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Constellation 2026: An Anarchist Festival in Montreal
May 14 - 20, 2026
CÉDA (2515 Rue Delisle) & Parc Vinet
Montreal, Canada
https://constellationmtl.net/
Announcing Constellation 2026
Constellation 2026: An Anarchist Festival in Montreal
May 14 - 20, 2026
CÉDA (2515 Rue Delisle) & Parc Vinet
Montreal, Canada
https://constellationmtl.net/
Announcing Constellation 2026
Everywhere we look, the forces of domination strain to keep our worlds within reach of the death star of authority. In a new era of competing nationalisms, the Canadian state reconditions its war on the land and those who live in relation with it by threatening new mines and pipelines from coast to coast. Plans converge toward a massive expansion of the military. AI mass surveillance technologies augment the already unchecked power of the police.
From MTL Counter-info
Tuesday night, two anarchists visited Royal West High School. One person graffitied “Suspension?? Fight BACK” while another smashed the entrance windows with a hammer. Royal West suspended one of their indigenous students who is Kanien’kehà:ka from Kahnawà:ke for posting “fuck Israel holy shit” on their personal Instagram.
From MTL Counter-info
Join for this season’s game of CamOver! In CamOver, you play a group of humans confronted with an invasion of cameras in your neighborhood. The struggle against the cameras is important, but your own survival is essential! To win you must form teams with friends in your neighborhood and destroy as many cameras as possible... Be quick and move unseen, dead circuits on pavement. The neighborhood with the most points wins the game.
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
October 18, 2025
Bâtiment 7 (1900 Rue le Ber)
Montreal, Canada
https://www.salonanarchiste.ca/
Hello all!
We’re proud to announce that the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair will return this year on October 18 for a one-day event at Bâtiment 7 in Pointe-Saint-Charles. Our theme is “Preparing for the Darkness: Taking Care of Each Other from the Times to Come.”
From Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence
Technology is a steaming pile of whatever. The salad of transistors, capacitors, and wires that we marinate in for 17.2 minutes before we drink our coffee are the first thing we see each morning, while our subversions of the droppings of surveillance capitalism are the last things burning their images into our retinas before we close our eyes each night. The AI-augmented totality that numbs our senses and optimizes our labour lumbers on, vulnerable but unhindered. Let's not say we never tried.
From Montreal Counter-Information
We heard you like reportbacks from anarchist festivals; may others from this one follow. May 15th-21st, 2025 in Montreal was the second edition of Constellation. Over seven days, there were book launches, parties, benefit shows, bike rides, a book arpentage, a squatted rave in an abandoned magic store, a barbecue, a barbecue that blocked fascists, a mesh networking day, a radical consent workshop, and more. People attended from across the country, from south of the border, and from overseas, and events consistently saw packed rooms, even when there were five happening at the same time.
This reportback was inspired by a Mastodon post by Franklin Lopez, who wrote:
"It’s just so fucking cool to be back at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair after so many years away. Gotta be real—back in the day, the Fair could feel like a stress factory. Lotta tension, lotta unresolved beefs, and way too many identity politickers turning the place into their personal UFC octagon.
From Constellation
In March 2024, when the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective (MABC) announced the cancellation of that year’s bookfair, a group of local anarchists got together to make sure it happened anyway. We launched Constellation, a weekend-long anarchist festival that would include a one-day bookfair. The initiative was well received and we decided to do it again in 2025, this time extending the festival to a week. A few days ago, the MABC released a statement declaring their return. You can find it on their Mastodon and Facebook pages. It specifically mentions Constellation (although not by name) and we thought it would be useful to offer our insight on some of the points raised within.
Hey everyone,
We're baa-aack! And we'd like to start by apologizing for our long absence. Communication is important, and we've left you hanging for a long time. When we last checked in, we had announced that we were taking a year off to regroup as a collective and rethink the bookfair. Truth is, things were a little more complicated than that. From the outside, the 2023 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair seemed like a huge success. On the inside, our collective imploded.