What I want you to know about my voice

A pop-up exhibition presented by SPACE
📍 Café Robin des Bois, Montréal
🗓️ November 8, 2025 | 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public

What I want you to know about my voice is a one-night-only pop-up exhibition taking place on November 8, from 6 to 10 p.m., at Café Robin des Bois, as part of the closing evening of the Voice and Media Festival. Presented by SPACE, this collective installation will be on view throughout the night, alongside live performances by artists Luke Wyland and JJJJJerome Ellis.

People across the Dysfluency spectrum often face deep stigma and societal shame around the way that they speak. At SPACE, we believe that this stigma stems most directly from a lack of exposure to Dysfluent Voices. For too long, those who speak differently have been pushed to the margins, their narratives shaped by the outside world.

What I want you to know about my voice puts the pen back into the hands of the Dysfluent community. The exhibition provides an opportunity for those with speech disabilities and differences to share their own stories, taking back the agency over the ways that their voices are perceived. It moves the conversation from a model of acceptance to one of transformative belonging (St. Pierre and Jorgensen Skakum, 2025), in which those who have been pushed to the margins become the ones writing the narratives. It welcomes those outside of the community to think differently about communication, and to consider the ways that all our experiences are ultimately linked.

What I want you to know about my voice explores the many facets of the Dysfluent voice across a number of artistic mediums, including poetry, print and paint. This exhibition builds on the work first debuted in the landmark SPACE to stutter… SPACE to create at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in partnership with JJJJJerome Ellis. It includes a first-of-its-kind community-centered installation featuring the contributions of Dysfluent people across North America and Europe.

Ref: St Pierre, J., & Jorgensen Skakum, D. (2025, March). Towards a World that Stutters: Dysfluency in Three Modes of Belonging. In Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue Canadienne de Philosophie Continentale (Vol. 29, No. 1).

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