Art Matters
The Art Matters Festival returns Feb 23–Apr 3, 2026, inviting students and communities to explore Unstable Grounds—art as a radical act of care, collaboration, and world-building amid shifting landscapes.
SPRING SHOWS
2026
Art and design exhibitions, film festivals, vernissages, concerts, theatre shows, and dance performances — this year, students in Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts will showcase their end-of-year work in a variety of forms. We’ll update this page as new events are announced, so be sure to check back often to catch all the creative work being produced by our fine arts students.
Exhibitions
Design
Watch out for the 2026 Design & Computation Arts Annual End of Year Exhibition which takes place in April.
Lectures & Special Events
Creative Arts Therapies
Le cirque en mouvement : corps, jeu et réflexion. Le Collectif 4237, compagnie de cirque professionnelle Montréalaise, sera de passage au Centre de développement humain par les arts. Venez bouger et vous échauffer avec les artistes, et venez découvrire l'univers des arts du cirque et de l'art vivant.
Studio Arts
Meet the Co-Creator of Montreal's Leonard Cohen Mural, Gene Pendon (BFA, 94), a visual-artist, a lecturer and educator - based in Montreal. March 19.
Performances
Contemporary Dance: Collaboration in Choreographic Process
The dancers' prompts, impulses, and movements have been cut up, shuffled, and woven together, forming an architecture of the in-between: between self and group, pattern and impulse, falling and becoming. March 11-12.
Contemporary Dance: Third Year Cohort Show
"BLOOMS of…" are six works from the third year Contemporary Dance Cohort. They bring together themes of sweat, structure, rage, community, disgust, and freedom. March 20-21.
Contemporary Dance: Four choreographic proposals
What kind of worlds are we helping to imagine and enact? This second-year, studio and seminar course addressed dramaturgy as a collective, project-based practice in contemporary dance and related fields. March 27-28.
Theatre: Short Works
Experience five brand-new, student-created theatrical works exploring Discoveries, Unexpectedness, and Interruptions at the capstone festival, March 19–21, facilitated by Jessica Carmichael!
Theatre: Staged Readings
Join us for imaginative staged readings of experimental works by Alice Birch and Cole Hayley, directed by Emma Tibaldo, Feb 17–Apr 11, inviting you to see the world differently and take action.
Theatre: Resistance and Censorship
Directed by Sophie Gee, Don't Cry When Constellations Beg to Burn explores youth, resistance, and the impact of censorship through physicality and puppetry, running April 8–11.
Film screenings
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
The Concordia Film Festival (CFF) is a student-run, non-profit festival that runs in collaboration with Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (MHSoC) at Concordia University. Through screenings and events, we are able to display the works produced by the diverse range of filmmakers at MHSoC, and invited works from filmmakers around the globe. Running May 7- May 10
