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  • Los Sabores de Hogar: The Transformation of Memory and Identity Through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Montreal

    with Hannah Pinilla English This exhibit features the collaborative MA oral history research of Hannah Pinilla and her interview partners. Her research explores how the narrations, consumption, and preparation of ‘home foods’  facilitates interactive, diasporic ‘memory work’. In fall 2023, Hannah conducted two collaborative oral history interviews with nine Colombian migrants, both voluntary and forced, […]

  • Film Screening of Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray

    LB 1042.03 (Moonroom) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Join us for a visioning and sound exploration of Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée. Please note that this film will be screened in English. In the heart of the city of Montreal and in the midst of Montreal's business district lies one of Canada's most beautiful squares: Dorchester Square. Neglected for years, its renovation was […]

  • What Travels Through Us: Exhibition Vernissage and Roundtable

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Naomi Frost, Rémy Chhem, Eva-Loan Ponton-Pham, and Marie-Ève Samson English  This vernissage event and roundtable discussion, a collaboration between the Super Boat People Collective, COHDS, and Concordia University Library, introduces and celebrates the launch of the “What Travels Through Us: Exhibition,” on display at Concordia University Library from September 12 until December 12, 2024.  The Super […]

  • Sharing Black Stories with Care, Intentionality and Authenticity

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Martha Nduwayo, Methsaïca Philippe, and Lourdenie Jean Bilingual Join us for an immersive experience that highlights the art of storytelling of black communities. Through a captivating multimedia exhibition, a panel with experts and an engaging interactive component, this workshop invites you to explore how to collect, tell and value these essential narratives. Whether you're a creator, […]

  • CANCELED: How to Say ‘Longing’

    Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

    with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina Join us on Thursday, February 20th, at 7 PM, at the ALLab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, for How to say ‘longing’, a contemplative performance by movement artist Noël Vézina and composer Jad Orphée Chami. This intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement, composition and improvisation, the […]

  • “Vivre avec le trouble” – Trouble in Oral History and Storytelling 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium (Friday, March 14)

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    How might trouble and troublemaking (re)shape our fields? How might oral history and storytelling help us survive the current moment of poly-crisis? How might we mobilize oral history and storytelling to engage in necessary troublemaking? This year’s symposium brings together twenty emerging scholars from Concordia and beyond in an interdisciplinary conversation on “Vivre avec le […]

  • Exhibit – Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories

    Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories, sites, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories is a twofold conversation taking the form of a group exhibition and a program consisting of workshops, performances, and talks. This is an experiment in transforming the Centre for Oral History […]

  • كان حتى ما كان (Once Upon a Place): What Remains of the Halqa? Performing Memory and Absence – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

    Photo Credits: Film still from Crossing the Seventh Gate (2017) by Ali Essafi Description by Bouchra Assou and Salma Chouqair Drawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different forms of oral traditions in Morocco, this lecture performance seeks to restage a halqa as both a space and a conduit for ancestral storytelling, performance […]

  • Intimate Listening – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

    Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

    Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez. In an intimate space within the exhibition space, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins, each participant will be given a token amount, which will be used to exchange stories and typical beverages of the Colombian cafés. The tokens have […]

  • Identity, Care Labor, and Matrilineal Stories– Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez. This is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin with a performance and talk by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling), followed by a presentation from Javi Fuentes Bernal and David […]

  • Artist Talk: “Little Burgundy – Evolving Montreal”

    McCord Museum 690 Sherbrooke St. W., Montréal, Quebec, Canada

    with Andrew Jackson   You are warmly invited to join us for an artist talk with Andrew Jackson at the McCord Museum, 690 Sherbrooke St. W. Jackson’s exhibition Little Burgundy – Evolving Montreal is a foray into this south-western district of the city. Over a two-year period, the photographer documented important landmarks for the Black […]

  • Book Launch: REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors

    Virtual

    The event will take place in person at the University of Michigan-Deaborn’s James C. Renick University Center, Kochoff Hall C, and online via zoom.   You are warmly invited to a special book launch celebrating REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors, the latest publication by Henry "Hank" Greenspan. The event […]

  • Book Launch: Strangely Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Karen Dubinsky You are cordially invited to join author Karen Dubinsky on Thursday October 9, 4-6 pm for a discussion of her new book: Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters. Strangely, Friends delves into the rich, often overlooked history of personal and cultural connections between Cubans and Canadians. From the early days of […]

  • Listening as Political Act

    Online

    In this interactive performance-workshop, Brett Davidson explores listening not just as a personal practice, but as a vital political act. Combining elements of storytelling, theory, dialogue, audio, and visual imagery, the session invites participants to reflect on the ways listening shapes democracy, public life, and our collective ability to imagine change.  Drawing from his extensive […]

  • Historical Walking Tour – Photographing Change: Reform and Photography in Little Burgundy

    Meeting at the Union United Church, 3007 Rue Delisle, Montréal

    Walking tour participants will meet at the Union United Church at 3007 Rue Delisle, Montréal, QC H4C 1M8 at 2:55 pm “Photographing Change: Reform and Photography in 1960s Little Burgundy” is a walking tour which invites guests to learn about and engage in discussion on the expropriation photos of Little Burgundy. Taken throughout the 1960s, these photos show the expropriated […]

  • Oral Histories of Migration and Motion: Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse

    Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

    with Nico Contreras, Sonia Bustos, and Priscilla Opazo Castillo   Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse (2025, 10min) is an audiovisual collage born out of oral histories of migration, community, and the transformative power of art. Through blending interviews and choreographic exploration with Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal-based artists Sonia Bustos and Priscilla Opazo, the film shares interlinking reflections on political […]

  • How to Say ‘Longing’ – Cancelled

    Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

    with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina Join us on Wednesday, November 19th, at 7 PM, at the ALLab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, for How to say ‘longing’, a contemplative performance by movement artist Noël Vézina and composer Jad Orphée Chami. This intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement, composition and improvisation, the […]

  • Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/Forming the WE

    Dance Studio, MB 7.265 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    With the DANC 202 Cohort: Charlotte Bisson, Nathaniel Cancela Edsell, Florence Cross, Homeyra Esmaeilzadeh, Leonardo Giraldo Rodriguez, Anaïs Girard, Elle Golfinopoulos, Sophie Groleau-Rouleau, Nasiriyah Hamilton, Joselande Josue, Adaline Kuranko, Camille Moon, Fredlyne Pierre, Pooya Ratnam, Amy Staples, Kaiya Thomas-Bynoe, and Cameron Weaver.   Join us for an afternoon of dance as students from the Department […]

  • Screening of Hommes-relais, Becoming Ruby and Red Girl Rising

    Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

    With Vladimir Chindea and HotDocs   We are pleased to present, in collaboration with HotDocs, three Citizen Minutes documentaries: Hommes-relais, Becoming Ruby, and Red Girl Rising. Each of these films runs approximately ten minutes and speaks directly to COHDS’s core values of inclusion, resilience, solidarity, and hope. Together, they are sure to captivate viewers and […]