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Our events and projects invite people of all backgrounds, experience levels, cultures, and identities to create with and inspire each other.
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Organising events and projects around the idea that art has the power to heal, build community, have important and constructive conversations, and shift culture for the better 🌱 Collective 4891 is a group of people with different skills that organises around the idea that art has the power to heal, build community, have important and constructive conversations, and ultimately, shift culture for th

e better. One of our first big projects was a zine project that collected artwork of different mediums themed around community care, which invited over $1100 to be donated towards local organisations that value anti-oppression and specifically, anti-Black racism work. With our recent expansion of the team, we are looking forward to planning events that cover a wider variety of art mediums and themes that resonate with more people.

29/05/2024

🎉MARKET OPPORTUNITY FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS🎉

We are inviting makers & artists to apply to our community market table at the We Are More Art Festival.

👉 About the community table concept: Collective 4891 offers you the opportunity to apply to have a couple of your artworks/crafts to sell on our table.
This is a FREE tabling opportunity: the artists/makers will not have to pay anything (either to the Refugee Center or to the Collective).

👉 More about the event:
At 'We Are More,' we’re all about embracing diversity, sharing stories, and celebrating the rich tapestry of talent within our community. This festival is a platform for newcomer, refugee and BIPOC artists and makers to shine, showcasing their incredible products and artworks.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
🗓️ Date: Saturday, June 8, 2024
📍 Location: 2107 Saint-Catherine St Ouest #100
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3H 1M6

👉 LINK TO APPLY:
https://forms.gle/8Ntv4cUhEWGHxwCK9

22/03/2024

Tomorrow, it's 1st birthday (🥳) and Collective 4891 would like to congratulate them on such a successful first year!

Anne and Amandine have cultivated an inviting, inclusive, and creative spot (with fantastic drinks and food!) and we're incredibly grateful for the support they have provided over the past year by warmly welcoming us and our community into their space.

On March 23rd, will be hosting a celebration event at the café from 9am to 11pm with live music, snacks, drinks, and surprises - be sure to come by to check it out!
Event details can be found on the last slide.
See you there! 🌟☕️🎉

21/03/2024

Anti-tuition hike button-making workshop! ❤️‍🔥
~ hosted on March 14th as a part of FASA's week-long strike at Concordia

A big THANK YOU to everyone who attented the event and to for organizing, as well as to all those who came out to picket. Using art to unify and engage our community is a powerful tool of activism, and as Concordia students and alumni, Collective 4891 stands for accessible education for everyone!
For more anti-tuition action information and resources, be sure to follow 🌟

23/01/2024

WE MADE A ZINE, celebrating community and art in tiohtià:ke/mtl! ✨️
Come and celebrate its launch with us at
's amazing and cozy community space on Feb 2nd 2024, from 7 to 9:30pm!

This is a free event: food, drinks, printed copies of the zine and pin-making materials will be provided. No registration required. Bring your favorite mug/glass for drinks:)

See you there! 🧡

Accessibility note: a flight of stairs (with outdoor ramp) to access the space, masks and gel available at the event. Please contact us if you need more accessibility information.

A huge thanks to for collabrating with us on such a cool - and useful! - zine 🔥
This project has been partly financed by 🌱

ALT TEXT: A white post with back line drawings (mulitple faces and simple lines doodles). The text reads: "mai/son, with collectice 4891, volume 1 issue 1, the zine, celebrating community & art in montréal, launch party / 02-02-24 / 19:00-21:30"

05/12/2023

✨️ Tool spotlight: our new weaving loom! ✨️

When you rent out this tool, an online "introduction to weaving" workshop can be organized with one of our facilitators! 🧡

Rent out our weaving loom now!
👉 Check out our website nomad-library.com to register as a member and to start renting out tools!

NOMAD is our newest service and offers three art tools: a printing press, a button maker and a weaving loom.

05/12/2023

✨️ Tool spotlight: our new weaving loom! ✨️

When you rent out this tool, an online "introduction to weaving" workshop can be organized with one of our facilitators! 🧡

Rent our weaving loom now!
👉 Check out our website nomad-library.com to register as a member and to start renting out our tools!

NOMAD is our newest service and offers three art tools: a printing press, a button maker and a weaving loom.

24/11/2023

✨️ Tool spotlight: our trusted button maker! ✨️

Rent our button maker now!
👉 Check out our website nomad-library.com to register as a member and to start renting out our tools!

NOMAD is our newest service and offers three art tools: a printing press, a button maker and a weaving loom.

20/09/2023

NOMAD has a website! 🎉

Thank you SO MUCH for all of your love and support for our new tool library, and for your amazing feedback on our first couple of months! 💗

NOMAD is our newest service and offers three art tools: a printing press, a button maker and a weaving loom.

👉 Check out our website nomad-library.com to register as a member and to start renting out our tools!

11/12/2022

This month’s featured artist is .peabrain! 🌟 Marie-Anne Beaini is a Lebanese artist studying Religions at Concordia University. Her art explores mental illness, exile, and existential dread in an often colourful and playful way, drawing on literature as a source of inspiration for her work. Be sure to take a look at Marie-Anne's work over on .peabrain and subscribe to our newsletter through the link in our bio to hear about a new featured artist every month! ✨

01/12/2022

We’re donating all proceeds from In Movement, our latest collaborative zine project, to until December 1st! If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, consider placing your order before midnight tonight to support the work they do in serving the needs of Indigenous artists through exhibitions, workshops, and other art initiatives 🌟 Link in bio!

29/11/2022

Catch us at ’s Pop Up & Wrapping Party this weekend at Le Frigo Vert! 💜🎁 We’ll be selling our zines and stickers, alongside other talented Montreal makers. Come say hi!

15/11/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: 🌟
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"My name is Charly (they/them/y/iel), i’m a q***r non binary brown artist from Mauritius island who immigrated to Montreal in 2017. I make and create digital art and physical art, as well as film, photography and texts. My art is usually focused on intersectional feminism, anti-capistalism, critiques of the white supremacist and systemically racist society we live in. I adovocate for the equality/justice and rights of the 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC community. I own a small business on instagram where you can find some of my art prints and apparel."⁠
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The trailer for Charly’s upcoming film can be found at: https://vimeo.com/765797921⁠
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You'll be able to find Charly's work “A Seed" in our zine, In Movement 🌟

11/11/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟
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"My work mostly experiments with themes of sexuality and sensuality, the politics of body and gender, and ideas of the self as a private and social being. My work is based around thoughts of identity and belonging and as such, brownness and q***rness play significant roles in my explorations. I strive towards feeling, understanding, and expressing these various intersections to fulfill desires for a deeper intra- and inter-personality."⁠
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You'll be able to find amaaya's work "alien here" in In Movement, which is available to order through the link in our bio 🌟

10/11/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟
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"I'm Sarah Elise (she/her), a Jewish Irish-American writer and student. My work serves as a cathartic outlet to explore themes of healing, mental illness, and existence. I have a degree in Philosophy, and am working towards a certificate in French with the goal of making Montreal my permanent home and working in community development. Besides writing I enjoy drinking coffee, being with friends, and exploring Montreal."⁠
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You'll be able to find Sarah's work "What Was Given to Me” in In Movement, which is available to order through the link in our bio 🌟

07/11/2022

With the support of so many people, the zine artists, the zine team and Collective 4891 members, and sponsors, our 2nd annual zine is finally out in the world! 🌟 We're so grateful for the 8-month journey we've been on, and for it to be wrapped up with such a heartwarming event at . More photos to come soon 💘

We still have zine copies waiting to find a home so order your copy through the link in our bio!

04/11/2022

We made STICKERS!! 🌟 These babies will be sold on a PWYC basis starting at $3 at our zine launch event tomorrow! Every purchase supports Collective 4891 and our art events 💘

Alongside these stickers, we will also have copies of our zines available, including our previous Community Care-themed zine! All proceeds from our newest zine, In Movement, go towards daphne art centre 🌟 If you can’t make it tomorrow but still want to grab a copy, you can enjoy it virtually for free or purchase a physical copy through the link in our bio!

04/11/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: Nadia Mariyan ⁠ 🌟
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"My work examines ecology and place as an active participant of being. Through a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to artmaking, I aim to reimagine intersections of art, technology, and the natural environment. I wish to blur the lines around what is traditionally constituted as artmaking (as an extension of “study”). I am interested in the complexities of individuation and single-beingness (Fred Moten) and I often refer to collectivity by citing the influences that impact my thought processes and inform my work, for example. ⁠
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“We are committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice. . .The point of calling it “study” is to mark that the incessant and irreversible intellectuality of these activities is already present.” - Fred Moten & Stefano Harney""⁠
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You'll be able to find Nadia's work "I want the future back" in our zine, In Movement 🌟

01/11/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟
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"I’m from Orillia, Ontario but moved to Montreal to start university in 2018. I’m going into my 5th year at Concordia in the studio arts program with a specialization in painting and drawing. Some of the areas I’m interested in include topics such as : q***rness and representation, art and society, and the concept and construction of time and how we navigate the world. I also work in an art gallery which has been great for pushing me to think about my own art career. ⁠"⁠
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You'll be able to find Spencer's work “Poems and Scores for Departure" in our zine, In Movement, which is available for order now 🌟

27/10/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟
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Oldin AKA Little Cashew (كاجو الصغير) is a Syrian trans multimedia artist located in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal.) His art ranges from painting, poetry, photography, videography to music and beat-making. This pisces moon b uses abstract art, shapes, textures and colors as a means of expressing himself when words seem indecipherable. Throughout the many hurdles in his life he always leaned on his creative side to deal with life’s challenges. ⁠
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You'll be able to find Oldin's work “You are such an intentional being" in In Movement, which is now available for order!

25/10/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟
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Quang Hai Nguyen is a Vietnamese photographer born and based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/ Montreal who explores the notion of home and grief within diasporic communities. Through the contemplation of everyday life and the people that surround them, photography is a tool for introspection, a mirror that reflects the ephemerality and loneliness of our being while also revealing universal feelings. They obtained a college diploma in photography at Cégep du Vieux Montréal and are currently pursuing this degree at Concordia University. ⁠
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You'll be able to find Hai's work "in these eyes lie an endless ocean" in our zine, which is now available for order! 🌟

23/10/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠🌟
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Kyla Yin James is an illustrator and designer whose work is inspired by mythology, the unconscious, subcultures, speculative fiction, and sociopolitical systems. Their work is filled with symbolism that creates surreal and speculative scenes questioning the status quo. Through their work, Kyla dissects and reassembles how they approach the different thought worlds they grew up in. They describe their practice as thinking and feeling out loud, sorting through the symbols and ideas they’ve encountered.⁠
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Don't miss Kyla's work “Passage" in our upcoming zine, In Movement 🌟

19/10/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟
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Deann Louise C. Nardo is a maker, connector, and enthusiastic collaborator. They love to dream in the spaces between and take pleasure in the daily graces of life. Their practice thrives on the thin line where questions live and curiosity blossoms.⁠
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Deann's work “Pivot" is featured in our upcoming zine, In Movement.

18/10/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟
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Dan Yang is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary Chinese Canadian artist who has graduated from Specialization Film Studies and continued her second degree in Studio Art at Concordia University. During her study in Montreal, she has developed great interests in painting, photography, and other media and materials. The pandemic is marked as a turning point of her art practices: isolation, anxiety, as well as the emptiness inside us became one of the themes explored in her paintings. Since the pandemic, she has also started to work on film photography. Dan captures the nuances of everyday life. She locates her photographic practice as one that engages with our sensitivity and subjectivity, as well as the transitions and interactions between our lives and the ultimate environments we live in.⁠
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You'll be able to find Dan's work “Between Us, Somewhere" in our zine, In Movement, which will be available for order soon!

17/10/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: ⁠ 🌟

"Hi, I am Ayonti. I am a q***r Bangladeshi artist currently based in Toronto. My art fluidly explores my experiences and inspirations in juxtaposition to my culture and q***r identity."⁠
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Ayonti's work “My transitional rebirth(s)” is featured in our upcoming zine! They also designed the stunning front and back covers, which we are excited to share soon 🌟

14/10/2022

MEET THE ZINE ARTIST: .gal⁠ 🌟

"I received a BA in Art History from Concordia University. I focus on the overlapping of textiles and literature in different contexts. My essays, published in Yiara, CUJAH, and other publications, speak mainly on identity and needlework. I recently animated a workshop on Jewish embroidery at the Jewish Museum. I draw upon Jewish folk culture, Yiddish music, q***rness, womanhood, and Fashion History, academically and personally."⁠
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You’ll find Claire’s poems “Guo Pei” and "Salt" in our upcoming zine, In Movement 🌟

13/10/2022

Starting tomorrow, we’re going to be introducing the talented artists featured in our upcoming zine! This project would not have been possible without them so be sure to join us in showing them some love 🌟

23/09/2022

This month's featured artist is Jax Stendel ()! Jax is an artist, educator, and community organizer with an environmental and ecological focus. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter through the link in our bio to read more about Jax and their various projects and passions (such as foraging and pigment-making!) 🌱🐌🌤

26/08/2022

This month's featured artist is Juliette Carpi ()! Juliette works primarily in black & white photography and explores themes surrounding melancholia. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to see more of Juliette's work and to read about her influences and passions within her photography practice 💌🎞🌟

22/08/2022

This weekend, we met up with some of our featured zine artists in the park and enjoyed an afternoon of doodling and donut-eating! The collective is hard at work on the final draft of the zine before we send it off to print. We’re so excited to release it into the world! 🌟🎨🍩

26/07/2022

This month's featured artist is Blue Azaria ()! They work in various mediums including felting, painting, drawing, film photography, and zine making, as well as drag. 🌟💛

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to read Blue’s full feature and learn more about the inspirations behind their art practice! Link in bio 💌

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The talented Melissa Mathieu talks about the concepts, themes, and characters within Collective 4891's zine cover page, a soft, warm illustration of a forest and friendly creatures. "Collective 4891 Zine: Community Care Edition" is out now and we are SO close to reaching our $800 fundraising goal. Get your copy now at bit.ly/Collective4891Zine, the link is also in our bio! Thank you again Melissa for your brilliant work and for being in this video! *This video is close-captioned!*

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Collective 4891 hosts monthly open mic + art nights (or any other art-related events) in a cozy apartment space, and invites people of all backgrounds, cultures, and identities to create with and inspire each other. Be it spoken word poetry, paintings, music, short films, photography, or sketches, this is a space created for you.

Curated by Shin Ling, Hannah, and Alfonso.

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We are hoping to create a positive space especially for people who want to start performing or display their artwork in events and/or are starting out as artists to get some experience and support by other art lovers!

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