Bookfair

If, for a fleeting moment, we were to pry our attention away from the glow of our screens, we could set out on a path, eyes wide open, through the city—a path that would shatter any illusion of social cohesion. Every day, the powerful lock us up a bit more into their world of concrete, borders, mono-cultures, monitors, and algorithms. To the fate they have in store for us, we oppose a dangerous dream of limitless freedom. We want to fight against this prison-city and the techno-industrial dystopia it belongs to, here and now! ...

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is back with two days of programming! October 10 and 11, 2026 From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. At CÉDA (2515 Delisle Street) Book sale Youth space Grief and Rememberance space BANNER Display Chill room Events (workshops, presentations, shows, etc.) ART & ANARCHY - international online exhibitition (details to come) The theme of the 2026 bookfair is Popping the Bubble To apply for tables: https://www.cognitoforms.com/MontrealAnarchistBookfairCollective/_2026MontrealAnarchistBookfairTableApplication For events (workshops, panels, etc): https://www.cognitoforms.com/MontrealAnarchistBookfairCollective/_2026MontrealAnarchistBookfairEventApplication ...

Saturday September 12th {rain date September 13th} Location TBA In every corner of the globe, in every culture, in every language, across time and place, there have been freedom-seeking peoples. They have been labelled fugitives, rebels, revolutionaries, abolitionists and anarchists. Like them, we seek to build social and political projects that speak to the needs of our communities, that weave our joy, grief and resistance into a basket that can hold enough for all to share. History does not remember well people like us, because we build homes and communities that feed each other, care for the land and are a threat to power. Those who seek to rule us build pyramids, cathedrals, skyscrapers, prisons and AI data centers in their vain quests for immortality & domination. ...

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. We are expected to look away as the CEOs and politicians who walk our streets are willing partners in genocide, or are beaten and locked up if we act. Borders harden, and fascism creeps forward. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Announcing the 8th Annual Halifax/K’jipuktuk Anarchist Bookfair September 6th, 2025 (rain date September 7th) Workshop & Table Applications now Open With each passing day, our lives are further controlled by power structures that subjugate our bodies and land in service of profit. Our social lives have become confined by tech billionaires who horde our data and manipulate our behaviour to train AI. Our alienation from the natural world has become normalized as it crumbles beneath our feet. As the rearing heads of fascism strobe across the doomscroll, we are reminded that now, as always, is the time for anarchism. ...

PDF for printing (bilingual, 8.5 x 11) This response to the statement by the Bookfair Collective was posted by @cedar on Kolektiva.social. Well, this is quite the dishonest and self-serving post. I’m pretty surprised and disappointed, and there’s a lot that deserves a response, but I’m just going to focus on a few things. You use incredibly vague and yet loaded language to talk about the conflict in the bookfair collective, and this is deliberately deceptive. You want to have us believe that some serious harm occurred, and not something that makes you look silly, like, for instance, members of your collective being unable to handle disagreement about your decision to ban tarot cards at the 2023 bookfair. To hide this basic fact - that some people melted down when others didn’t simply accept their assertion that tarot is cultural appropriation - you are talking about “behaviours rooted in the logic of white supremacy.” Yes, issues of identity can be hard and disagreement around ideas can be stressful, but dressing up your attempts at shutting down criticism as anti-racism is truly a depressing comment on the anarchist space. ...

Anarchist Bookfair Saturday, May 17 Anarchist Skill Faire Sunday, May 18 CÉDA – 2515 rue Delisle, Montreal Constellation will be back in 2025, but things are going to look a bit different this year! Instead of one weekend, the festival will span an entire week, from May 15th to the 21st. Like last year, we encourage everyone to submit events to the online calendar (to be relaunched soon). We’ll also be organizing two large events on Saturday and Sunday. Keep reading for more info! ...

After 18 years of incredible anarchist theatre, the Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival collective has decided to stop producing the festival. We want to thank all the artists, volunteers, former collective members and the public who attended, for their generous contributions and support. This was an all-volunteer festival with no government or corporate sponsorship. We will gladly assist other anarchists who would like to mount another festival. ...

CONSTELLATION is seeking event proposals. On Saturday, May 25th, during the tabling event at CÉDA and CCGV, there will be space for both pre-planned and spontaneous activities – order and chaos in equal measure. We aspire not to curate a singular experience but rather to create a space for anarchists to gather, conspire, and share in a multitude of experiences. We’ll provide the space but we need you to fill it! ...

We’re happy to announce the launch of our online calendar platform, where anyone can publish events as part of Constellation. Simply go to https://constellation.nublogs.org/events and follow the link to add an event. One of our goals for this festival is to decentralize the organizing process. We want all anarchists in the region to feel empowered to make the last weekend of May their own. We strongly believe that more people doing more things will create a more interesting and rebellious weekend. ...