Hannah Beach

ABCompost is a student-led initiative born out of Concordia’s Zero Waste program that works to reuse waste in a hands-on way and extend this practice to community members who want to learn about vermicomposting.

At the corner of Beaubien Avenue West and Durocher Street in Montreal's Mile-Ex neighbourhood sits an unassuming industrial red brick building. But 435 Beaubien Ave. W. is anything but ordinary for the many artists who have operated out of studios there for years.

When Montreal artist Stina Baudin looked at the roof of a 19th-century barn in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, she saw a potential canvas that could reflect the region's nearly forgotten Black history.

'We have people we can't live without now all of a sudden,' says resident who helped launch initiative