Montreal Social Justice Activism in Print (2000–2025) - Exhibition of the Stefan Christoff Collection

The Stefan Christoff Collection is now available at Concordia Librairies and part of the archives is featured in an exhibition at the Webster Library from January 19 to March 25, 2026.

This exhibition showcases print material created in the context of different community organizing campaigns and grassroots collective struggles in Montréal. The works on public display include zines, posters and photographs.

Curated by community organizer, artist and Concordia graduate student in the History Department, Stefan Christoff, all the selected materials are a part of a recently acquired special collection, the Stefan Christoff Collection (CO47), housed in Concordia’s Special Collections and Archives.

This display is an opportunity for students and community members to engage with a living archive of print material that speaks to recent collective, non-governmental organizing efforts in the city. The works show the organic intersections between local struggles for justice and the arts, examples of collaboration between cultural workers and community organizers.

There are three particular focus points in this exhibition embodied within the print material: struggles for climate justice as interlinked with Indigenous land rights, grassroots organizing work to lift up the rights of immigrant and refugee communities as part of broader struggles against racism, and the movement to support Palestinian freedom.

Activism in Print builds on research that Christoff has been doing to create routes for archiving the often ephemeral papers and materials of grassroots community organizing efforts. Importantly, this exhibition is a tool through which to find pathways to activate and mobilize such archives into a context of public popular education on campus and beyond.

Join us for the public launch of the Activism in Print exhibition on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation. Let us know you will join us (free): register here.

Activism In Print takes place in collaboration with the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, CKUT 90.3 FM and Raah Media Research Lab.