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Meetings and committees
P128/A2 · Subseries · 1974-2014
Part of La Centrale fonds

The subseries provides information about committees involved in the administration of the La Centrale.

The subseries includes meeting minutes of the general assembly, the board of directors, and various permanent and ad hoc committees. It also includes documents consulted during the meetings and recordings of meetings.

P128/A1 · Subseries · 1973-2010
Part of La Centrale fonds

The subseries provides information on the establishment of La Centrale in 1973. It also contains documentation related to its development.

The subseries includes by-laws, organizational charts, mandates, audio and video recordings, and other documents related to the functioning of the gallery.

P128/E1 · Subseries · 1973-2015
Part of La Centrale fonds

The subseries provides information on events organized by the gallery, as well as on participating artists. Events are not limited to exhibitions and performances, but also include conferences, workshops and fundraising activities like street sales and auctions. Artist files document not only the artist’s participation at La Centrale, but also include biographical information and documentation about projects that occurred outside the Gallery.

The subseries contains correspondence, brochures, CVs, flyers, résumés, exhibition contracts, artist’s statements, photographs, newspaper articles, posters, invitation cards, publications, moving images, sound recordings, objects, and other documents.

Information about membership
P128/J1 · Subseries · 1983-2003
Part of La Centrale fonds

The subseries provides information on the membership and member recruitment at La Centrale.

The subseries contains flyers, membership bylaws, lists, drafts, notes, and meeting minutes.

Members
P128/J2 · Subseries · 1995-2014
Part of La Centrale fonds

The subseries provides information about the members of La Centrale throughout the years.

The subseries contains membership forms, membership applications, lists of members, correspondence, and a CV.

Members’ documents
P128/J3 · Subseries · 1973-1999
Part of La Centrale fonds

The subseries reflects the role of the gallery’s members as active part of the organization. It presents documents collected by various members, including founding members, from the gallery’s beginnings in 1973 to 1999.
The subseries includes documents donated by :

Celine Boucher
Gail Bourgeois
Sheena Gourlay
Margaret Griffin
Suzanne Harwood
Gail Lauzzana
Pauline Morier
Joanna Nash
Ann Pearson
Petronella (Nell) Tenhaaf

The subseries includes newsletters, posters, correspondence, meeting minutes, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs (mostly contact sheets), publications, a drawing, and an artist book.

Event files
F036/E2 · Subseries · 1977-2018
Part of articule fonds

The subseries documents events organized by Articule, such as exhibitions, performances, conferences, workshops, video screenings, poetry readings, and fundraising activities, from the gallery’s beginnings in 1977 to 2018.

The subseries contains agreements, artist books, artworks, biographies, brochures, buttons, catalogs, contracts, correspondence, CVs, financial records, flyers, a guest book, invitations, newspaper articles, notes, leaflets, photographs, plans, greeting cards, information cards, postcards, posters, printing plates, templates, press releases, project descriptions, programs, publications, statements, T-shirts, visitor logs, and other material.

Guest books
F036/E3 · Subseries · 1979-2010
Part of articule fonds

The subseries provides information about the events held at articule from 1979 to 2010 by means of guestbook entries written by gallery visitors.

The subseries contains 18 guest books, including invitation cards, posters, press releases, and flyers.

Artist files
F036/E1 · Subseries · 1973-2015, 2020
Part of articule fonds

The subseries provides information on artists who are members of articule or who participated in events organized by the gallery. Artist files document not only the artist’s participation at articule, but also projects not related to the gallery. They also include biographical information about the artists.

The subseries contains agreements, artist books, art works, 2 calendars, correspondence, brochures, CVs, exhibition contracts, financial records, flyers, booklets, exhibition catalogs, photographs, newspaper articles, notebooks, posters, collector’s cards, invitation cards, portfolios, postcards, project descriptions, publications, and other documents

Funding
F036/B3 · Subseries · 1982-2017
Part of articule fonds

The subseries provides information on Articule’s funding, including grants, and the organization of fundraising events, from 1982 to 2017. The subseries also provides information on funding programs offered by various organi¬zations.

The subseries includes grant applications, contact lists, CVs, budgets, reference documentation, communiqués, correspondence, drafts, notes, lists of artists and sold works, promotional material, a publication, questionnaires, over 300 photographs, a strategic plan, and reports.

Financial Reports
F036/B2 · Subseries · [1980], 1984-2014
Part of articule fonds

The subseries provides an insight in articule’s financial situation by the means of financial reports.

The subseries contains financial statements, budgets, annual financial forms submitted to the Quebec and Canada government, ledger pages, statistics, and audit reports.

Accounting
F036/B1 · Subseries · 1985-2014
Part of articule fonds

The sub-series provides an overview of Articule’s financial situation from the mid 1980s to 2014.

The sub-series contains bank statements, invoices, general ledgers, financial reports, journals, tax forms, and other financial documents, as well as correspondence.

Human Resources
F036/A5 · Subseries · 1982-2016
Part of articule fonds

The subseries provides information on the management of personnel at Articule from 1982 to 2016. It informs about different job positions, recruitment, and internships as well as working conditions at the gallery, but also about staff members themselves.

The subseries contains a notice of assessment, a greeting card, salary declarations, job descriptions, contracts, job postings, correspondence, subvention requests, a photograph, and other documents.

Membership
F036/A4 · Subseries · 1983-2002
Part of articule fonds

The subseries gives an insight into the galleries life and functioning by providing information on membership, member recruitment, daily communication among members, and subscriptions to articule from 1983 to 2002.

The subseries contains leaflets, subscriptions, member lists, four notebooks, general correspondence send to members by articule, and biographical information of some artists.

Facilities Management
F036/A3 · Subseries · 1979-2015
Part of articule fonds

The sub-series provides information on various locations of Articule’s gallery space from its beginnings in 1979 to 2015. In 1979, Articule first rented a space at 1012, de la Montagne Street, Montreal. Since then, the organization moved several times. In 1982, the gallery moved to 4060, boulevard St-Laurent, where it stayed many years. From 1988 to 1991, it shared the building with six other artistic enterprises, forming together the “Société du 5 avril” in 1990. In 1992, the gallery moved to 15, Mont-Royal West. Since 2006, articule is situated in the Mile End neighbourhood.

The sub-series contains floorplans, meeting notes, photographs of exhibition spaces, correspondence, lease agreements, drafts, and insurance policies.

Meetings and committees
F036/A2 · Subseries · 1979-2015
Part of articule fonds

The subseries provides information about committees involved in the administration of Articule, from the gallery’s beginnings in 1979 to 2015.

The subseries includes meeting minutes of the General Assembly, the Board of Directors, and various committees, as well as documents discussed during these meetings (calendars, contracts, forms, press releases, reports, budgets), notes, a strategic plan, photographs taken during a General Assembly, and a proposal.

F036/A1 · Subseries · 1980-2014
Part of articule fonds

The subseries provides information on the establishment and administrative development of articule from 1980 to 2014.

The subseries includes by-laws, copies of letters patent, annual reports, registered charity forms, mandates, drafts, historical overviews, policies, and other documents related to the functioning of the gallery.

Editorial Work
P182/B4 · Subseries · 1999-2012
Part of Mark Abley fonds

The sub-series provides information on Ableys work as editor from 1999 to 2012. During this time, he edited several books, starting with "Stories From the Ice Storm" in 1999.
He was faculty editor at the Banff Centre for Arts in 2000, and contributing editor for the 75th anniversary issue of Canadian Geographic, “Canada : Global Citizen”, in 2004.
As literary executor of poet Anne Szumigalski, Abley assembled and edited three posthumous books of her work from 2006 to 2012.
Within his writer’s residency at the Point-Claire Public Library in 2011, Abley edited a collection of writings by local residents, "The City We Share = La Ville que nous partageons".
In 2007 Abley was 'guest creative editor’ of a special Canadian issue of "Review".
The sub-series contains biographies, a contract, correspondence, drafts, essays, newspaper articles, magazines, poems, and reviews.

Young Audiences
P182/B3 · Subseries · 2000-2004, 2008-[2011?]
Part of Mark Abley fonds

The sub-series provides information on children's books written by Mark Abley between 2000 and 2011, as there is Ghost Cat and Camp Fossil Eyes. It also includes an unpublished novel, Time’s Necklace. The Ghost Cat, for which Abley received the Torgi Literary Award, was presented by Abley during reading at schools in Montreal and surroundings.

The sub-series contains, without limitations, an awards program, a contract, comments, correspondence, a draft, notes, an outline, proposals, proof prints, reviews, a newspaper article, a style guide, and a critique.

Non-fiction
P182/B2 · Subseries · 1922, 1940, 1984-1997, 2000-2015
Part of Mark Abley fonds

The sub-series provides information on non fiction books written by Mark Abley from 1986 to 2014, starting with Abley’s first book, Beyond Forget : Rediscovering the Prairies, which was published in 1986. Other books are Spoken Here : Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003), The Prodigal Tongue, published in 2008, and Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott (2013). The sub-series also includes material related to essays published in anthologies and draft proposals of unpublished books.

The sub-series includes a biography, book excerpts, business cards, agreements, mock-up covers, comments, a directory, drafts, essays, an invitation, publicity material, newspaper articles, notes, correspondence, periodicals, permissions, a poem, proposals, research material, reviews, sales reports, a score, a speech, and a work plan.

Poetry
P182/B1 · Subseries · 1979-2015
Part of Mark Abley fonds

The sub-series provides information on Abley’s poetry writings from his early days as a student in Oxford, to 2015. It includes unpublished works by Mark Abley, material about or by other Canadian poets, as well as material related to Abley’s published poetry collections, Blue Sand, Blue Moon, Glasburyon, The Silver Palace Restaurant, and The Tongues of Earth. The series also covers the poetry workshop groups that Abley was part of.

The sub-series contains a class paper, drafts, comments, contracts, correspondence, a grant application, magazines, manuscripts, newspapers, notes, poems, research material, reviews, and a report.

Articles
P182/A2 · Subseries · 1978-2010, 2014, 2015
Part of Mark Abley fonds

The sub-series provides information on a variety of subjects, such as racism, bilingualism, poverty, and English literature and writers, illustrating his career as journalist, especially for The Gazette, where he wrote, among others, the Watchword column.

The sub-series contains, but is not limited to, newspaper articles by Mark Abley and other writers, book reviews, drafts, and various publications.

Work at La Gazette
P182/A3 · Subseries · [1924], 1990-2004
Part of Mark Abley fonds

The sub-series provides information on Ableys work at The Gazette, including documentation on a trip to Hong Kong.

The sub-series contains ID-cards, articles, correspondence, a magazine, photographs, a proposal, a schedule, a staff policy manual, a style guide, and a memorandum of Agreement.

Research material
P182/A1 · Subseries · [1909?], 1916, [1948, 1965], 1976-2005
Part of Mark Abley fonds

The sub-series provides information on a variety of subjects researched by Mark Abley during his work as a journalist. Recurring research topic are humanitarian and economical issues in developing countries, Human rights, minorities, animal protection, and English-Canadian Writers. The sub-series contains several documents related to the Armenian genocide and interviews that Abley conducted with writers, politicians, and other personalities such as Jane Goodall, Henry Kissinger, and more.

The sub-series contains, but s not limited to, business cards, essays, notes, newspaper articles, correspondence, publications, photographs, a press kit, reports, archival material (photocopies), sound recordings, and a seed package.

Human resources
F034/A3 · Subseries · 1983-2000, 2009-2012
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

This sub-series documents the management of human resources, including the rights and duties of staff working at the Black Theatre Workshop (BTW) in the 1980s and 1990s. It also provides insight into summer employment programs in which the BTW participated, including the Work Orientation Workshop, organized by the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Black Community Association.

This sub-series contains, among other documents, contracts, agreements, and correspondence.

Funding
F034/B2 · Subseries · 1974-2014
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

This sub-series provides insight into the financial support received by the Black Theatre Workshop (BTW) from the 1970s to 2013. It documents the BTW's two major sources of income: government support received by way of various grants and fundraising campaigns.

The sub-series contains, among other documents, agreements, grant applications, reports, correspondence, photographs, publicity, invitations, program descriptions, and financial records.

Youthworks
F034/D3 · Subseries · 1984, 2000-2014
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

The sub-series provides insight into the Black Theatre Workshop’s (BTW) many initiatives to support young performing artists. A first attempt to install a program to support young artists was the Beginners’ Workshop, which took place in January and February 1984, followed by an 11-week project known as the Summer Theatre, which took place during summer of the same year. The idea was revived with the installation of the Young Performers Initiative, later called Youthworks Program, which existed from 2000 to 2013. This workshop series offered free specialized theatre training for Montreal teenagers from 12 to 25 years old, who envisioned a career in the performing arts. Each spring the workshop series finished with the presentation of a play, as there were, among others, Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery ; Death of the Bourgeois Dream ; What If?, and Urban Legends / The Procrastin8r.

The sub-series contains play scripts, brochures, meeting notes, reports, program outlines, communications, interviews, photographs, schedules, zines, moving images, and sound recordings, among other documents.

F034/D2 · Subseries · 1985-2014
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

This sub-series provides insight into The Black Theatre Workshop’s (BTW) contribution to education at the primary and secondary levels and contains documentation pertaining to The Theater for Young Audiences Program, which was first implemented in 1983. A number of plays were produced exclusively for this program and were shown to both elementary and secondary school audiences. These were generally presented in schools in the Greater Montreal area, but also shown in Nova Scotia and the United States among other locations. The sub-series contains documents pertaining to school tours, which took place from 1986 to 2011. Many of these tours took place during Black History Month. Materials document the plays that were part of the series, necessary preparatory work, the schools that hosted the performances, and finances, along with feedback from teachers, students and actors.

The sub-series contains correspondence, photographs, drawings, promotional material, educational material (teachers’ guides), play scripts, project outlines, reports, financial records, contracts, booking sheets, schedules, performance evaluations, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, and sheet music, among other documents.

General audience
F034/D1 · Subseries · 1968-2014
Part of Black Theater Workshop fonds

The sub-series documents various plays produced by the Black Theatre Workshop from the 1970’s to 2013. It also illustrates other events organized by the Black Theatre Workshop, as, for example, festivals, workshops, conferences, poetry jams, and especially the workshop’s most important fundraiser, the annual Vision Celebration (or Vision Gala), which takes place since 1987 every year in January. At this event, each year an important member of the community is honoured with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. The first of these awards was given to musician Oscar Peterson, followed by Oliver Jones, Daisy Peterson-Sweeney, Dorothy Wills, and others. The sub-series contains biographical information of all award recipients from 1987 to 2008. It also covers the nomination of the Victor A. Phillips Award and the Gloria Mitchell-Aleong Award, as part of the Vision Gala.
Furthermore, the sub-series documents the professional career of several actors involved with the Black Theatre Workshop

This sub-series contains photographs, programs, press releases, newspapers and newspaper clippings, drawings, floor plans, collages, flyers, mailing lists, project proposals, reports, invitations, entrance tickets, play scripts, meeting notes, box office records, correspondence, schedules, moving images, sound recordings, budgets, drafts, goboes, and the first issue of the Black Theatre Workshop News, among other documents.

P112/G6 · Subseries · 1944, 1950, 1956, 1963-2018
Part of Brian McKenna fonds

The subseries provides information on documentaries Brian McKenna worked on or produced as an independent producer.

The subseries contains interviews, research material, monographs, notes, publications, photographs, scripts, drafts of documentaries, correspondence, court records, financial records, posters, sound recordings, videos and other documents.

The subseries relates to the following documentaries :

  • Addiction for Sale
  • Battlefield Quebec (Plains of Abraham)
  • Big Sugar
    Documentary on the political history of the sugar industry
  • The Bribe or the Bullet
    Documentary on the impact of narcotics trafficking on Mexico
  • Chiefs
  • Famine and Shipwreck
  • La fin de la Nouvelle-France
  • Fire and Ice: The Rocket Richard Riot
  • Jean Drapeau
  • Korea : The Unfinished War
  • Little Viper
  • Migraine
  • Newfoundland at Armageddon
  • Nuclear War
  • Secret World of Gold
  • Theatre Schmeatre
  • Tycoon
  • The Valour and the Horror
    Directed and co-written with his brother Terence McKenna, The Valour and the Horror summarizes a three- year inquiry into three
    Second World War battles. The films were honoured with five Gemini Awards.
  • War of 1812
  • The War Reporters
    A Lauron Productions (Toronto) documentary on abuses suffered by journalists in Argentina, among them Jacobo Timmerman, as
    well as the danger and distress they face while covering war and revolution.
  • A Web of War
    A series of documentary films on the Second World War : The War at Sea (2 hours), a critical examination of Canadian naval
    leadership, A Web of War (1 h), an emotional tribute to the women of the Warsaw uprising, and the Polish division fighting under
    Canadian command,
  • A Battle Lost, story of how Nazi U-Boats blockaded the St. Lawrence River during WWII.