2026 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair

From Montreal Anarchist Bookfair

POPPING THE BUBBLE

Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2026

A lot has changed in the 27 years since the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair began. As the scale and scope of our collective struggle has shifted, so too have our global practices of resistance, care, and collective survival.

This year’s theme, Popping the Bubble, is about breaking with the insularity of anarchist subculture and the political isolation that keeps movements small, fragmented, and disconnected from one another, and which end up reproducing the very exclusions we seek to challenge.

We ask:

• What becomes possible when we begin from connection rather than separation?
• What are we building that people would want to belong to?
• Who is missing from our spaces and why?

There are far more people already practising solidarity than traditional political spaces often recognize: through care work and mutual aid, art, teaching, basic survival, and everyday acts of interdependence. These practices are what this year’s bookfair seeks to connect with and learn from. 

Popping the Bubble is an invitation to look honestly at how we organize as anarchists, to strengthen our accountability, and to build spaces grounded in care. It is a call to orient ourselves toward a shared struggle across borders, migrations, and histories of colonization, and to value the caregivers, workers, migrants, disabled people, elders, neighbours, organizers, and activists who sustain our movements in visible and invisible ways. Let us keep finding each other beyond all the bubbles we inherit and the ones we learn to unmake.

Check our site for more info soon!

Want to volunteer at the bookfair? If you want to lend a helping hand before or during the event, we would be stoked to have you! Send us an email at info(AT)anarchistbookfair.ca

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is back with two days of programming!

October 10 and 11, 2026
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
At CÉDA (2515 Delisle Street)
 
-  Book sale 
-  Youth space
-  Grief and Rememberance space
-  BANNER Display
-  Chill room
-  Events (workshops, presentations, shows, etc.)
-  ART & ANARCHY - international online exhibitition (details to come)

The theme of the 2026 bookfair is Popping the Bubble
 
To apply for tables: https://www.cognitoforms.com/MontrealAnarchistBookfairCollective/_2026M…
For events (workshops, panels, etc): https://www.cognitoforms.com/MontrealAnarchistBookfairCollective/_2026M…
 
The deadline for submissions is August 10, 2026. 
We will get back to all applicants with our final decision by September 5, 2026.    
 
Our Community Care Protocol:
All attendees must wear a mask indoors (N95/KN95 recommended) No mask? No problem! Masks will be provided on-site.
 
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair organizing collective acknowledges that we are on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. The Kanien’kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island called “Montreal” is known as Tiotia:ke in the language of the Kanien’kehá:ka, and it has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations, including the Algonquin peoples. The Anarchist Bookfair collective believes it’s not enough just to acknowledge the keepers of this land. We encourage everyone participating in the Bookfair to get informed and educated, and to actively resist colonialism and neo-colonialism in the many forms it takes, and in the diversity of forms that resistance can take too.

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