5 à 7 des voisin·e·s !
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes
Free and open to everyone
Join us for a friendly, collaborative gathering centred around a community corn roast! L’imprimerie, Coup d’Griffe Cooperative, La Guillotine, and Maggy Flynn invite you to discover their respective projects, all rooted in alternative models of collective organization and management. Meet the artists, exchange ideas, and explore the collaborative practices that help sustain the local print arts ecosystem. It’s the perfect opportunity to discover—or reconnect with—the L’imprimerie community!
Corn will be provided free of charge, and Boldwin beers will be available for purchase. The venue is wheelchair accessible, and children are welcome.
A Few Words About Our Guests
Coup d’Griffe is an association of artists, artisans, and self-employed workers who came together to share a creative workspace, production equipment, and knowledge. Their practice centres primarily on screen printing and spans a wide range of disciplines, including illustration, collage, printmaking, visual arts, publishing, and artists’ books.
La Guillotine is an autonomous printmaking and publishing collective organized as a safer space for people of marginalized genders (excluding cisgender men). Members are brought together by a shared passion for temperamental old printing presses, handcrafted bookbinding, and literature of resistance.
Maggy Flynn’s artistic practice is grounded in the idea that art can serve as a tactic of resistance—a way of creating spaces for connection and breaking down isolation within our communities. Through site-specific interventions, the artist creates situations of exchange that blur the boundaries between art, the social sphere, and politics
Photo credit: coop Coup d’Griffe
Coup d’Griffe Cooperative
Coup d’Griffe is a cooperative of artists, craftspeople, and self-employed workers who have come together to share a creative workspace, production equipment, and technical expertise.
Our goal is to support the development and professionalization of artistic and craft practices by providing a financially sustainable alternative for accessing studio facilities, equipment, and professional knowledge. By pooling our resources and expertise, we also work to facilitate the dissemination and visibility of our members’ work.
Our practice is centred primarily on screen printing and encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including illustration, collage, printmaking, visual arts, publishing, and artists’ books.
Our activities are diverse and adaptable. We offer cultural mediation workshops and artist residencies, while also producing artistic projects both collaboratively and individually. We continually develop new screen-printing techniques and applications, including natural inks, flocked (velvet) screen printing, image transfer onto concrete, and more.
We also promote, exhibit, and distribute the work of our members, providing a platform for craftspeople and artists from a wide range of disciplines.
Photo credit: coop Coup d’Griffe
Jess Roy
Jess Roy is no stranger to wandering, unexpected tangents, and jokes with no punchline. She is one of the people behind projects such as Coup d’Griffe, l’Attaque, Hochelaga Mon Amour, Zine de zines, Espace Zines, and many others. Jess is the founder of Nœuds Éditions, an alternative, feminist, punk, and subversive micro-press dedicated to bringing into the world the stories and voices she searched too long to find. She has been making and collecting zines for over fifteen years and has worked in screen printing and illustration for just as long. Blending genres in her own distinctive way, Jess’s practice is grounded in the belief that art and literature are powerful tools for bringing people together and fostering transformation.
Photo credit: coop Coup d’Griffe
Marianne Charlebois
Marianne Charlebois’s artistic practice lies at the intersection of research and lived experience. Through a multidisciplinary approach that combines printmaking, textiles, and composite imagery, she examines and unsettles contemporary ecologies and materialities within the context of late capitalism. A graduate of Concordia University, Marianne has developed her practice with the support of grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), as well as the Denis Charland Production Grant. She has also completed residencies at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy, L’Atelier Presse-Papier in Trois-Rivières, and the Bread and Puppet Theater in the United States. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals across Montréal, Rimouski, and Calgary, and is included in the collections of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). Marianne places great importance on sharing the creative process and regularly leads art workshops for participants of all ages and backgrounds.
La Guillotine
La Guillotine is an autonomous printmaking and publishing collective organized as a safer space for people of marginalized genders (excluding cisgender men). We are brought together by a shared passion for temperamental old printing presses, handcrafted bookbinding, and works of resistance literature.
We believe that giving as much care and attention to the form of the objects we make as to their content allows us to highlight our creations while reclaiming the publishing process. Through experimentation and collaboration, we seek to develop and share knowledge and publishing techniques by building collective, autonomous, and sustainable infrastructure.
Photo credit: La Guillotine
Roxane
Roxane has been working with print media for over ten years. Through the production of zines, posters, and newspapers, her artistic practice is rooted in an activist and engaged perspective—feminist, queer, and decolonial. She specializes in photographic processes, risograph printing, screen printing, and the handling of temperamental old machines.
Emilie
Emilie is a multidisciplinary craftsperson. Her creative practice is rooted in a deep connection with materials, with wood, leather, metal, and paper serving as sources of exploration and inspiration. She enjoys learning, experimenting, and developing new skills and techniques. As a member of La Guillotine Printmaking and Publishing Collective, she has found a space for exchange and collaboration where her artistic approach is enriched by her engagement with fine papers, graphic design, printing techniques, and activism.
Mélianne
Mélianne has been involved with La Guillotine Printmaking and Publishing Collective since its beginnings. Initially drawn to the collective through her illustration work, she stayed for her passion for artisanal printing techniques. She has found in La Guillotine a space where her activist commitments, creativity, and the joy of making things by hand naturally come together. Curious and enthusiastic, she enjoys learning, experimenting, and developing new skills alongside her peers, within a spirit of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective learning.
Photo credit: La Guillotine
Photo credit: Maggy Flynn
Maggy Flynn
Maggy Flynn’s interdisciplinary practice is driven by a desire to disrupt everyday routines by creating unexpected encounters in people’s lives. Her projects encompass drawing, video, writing, performance art, participatory projects, and interventions in public space. Since 2008, her work has been presented as part of artistic events across Québec, including 3e impérial, L’imprimerie, Dare-Dare, L’Orchestre d’Hommes-orchestres, and Péristyle nomade, as well as in community-based contexts in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Centre-Sud neighbourhoods of Montréal, in Ontario, the United States, and Ireland. Her artistic journey also includes performances, collaborative projects, and group exhibitions.
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