BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//COHDS - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:COHDS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for COHDS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T160000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20251218T205055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T151644Z UID:24818-1777640400-1777651200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Cooking With COHDS: Palacsintá – Sharing Stories and Pancakes from the Hungarian Montreal Community DESCRIPTION:With Sonya Di Sclafani \n  \nIn Montreal’s Hungarian community\, food is not only a reflection of stability\, tradition\, and assimilation\, but also carries meanings of family\, nostalgia\, and joy. Palacsintá\, a sweet or savory Hungarian crêpe\, is a well-loved and easy dish that can be filled with jam\, ground walnut purée\, farmer’s cheese\, cabbage\, and meats. In this workshop we will learn to make palacsintá and create both a sweet and a savory filling. To accompany us\, a member of the Hungarian diaspora in Montreal will be invited to share their recollections of palacsintá and other food practices of the community. \nThis workshop on foodways in the Hungarian diaspora forms part of my larger research project on the history of Hungarian-Canadian refugees and their descendants who made Montreal home in the mid-twentieth century. In my oral history fieldwork\, I turn to women’s memories of foodways as a way of tracing the intergenerational\, interethnic\, and gendered dynamics of forced migration and homemaking by Hungarian Canadian women in the second half of the twentieth century. I hope that you can join us! \n  \nSonya Di Sclafani is a MA student (History) at Concordia University\, where she previously completed both a BFA in Photography and Art History and a BA Honours in History\, with a minor in English Literature. She is interested in exploring experiences of migration\, cross-cultural contact\, East European history\, and Jewish history. Her MA thesis examines the history of Montreal’s Hungarian diaspora\, with a particular eye to gendered foodways and food as a means of cultural continuity and disruption. Drawing on newspaper and archival research\, she has begun to map the culinary landscape of Hungarian restaurants and food speciality stores in Montreal that provided spaces for inter-ethnic encounters\, fondly remembered in some of the oral history interviews she conducted to date. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nAs part of our exploration of Hungarian foodways and oral histories\, we will be preparing and eating a small meal together. Given space constraints\, we need to limit the number of participants to fifteen. We will purchase food items based on the number of registered attendees. Should you be unable to attend\, may we ask that you let us know at least one week in advance? We’d then be able to calibrate our food purchases accordingly and/or offer your spot to a participant on the waiting list. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person at “The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation\,” LB-145\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/cooking-with-cohds-palacsinta-sharing-stories-and-pancakes-from-the-hungarian-montreal-community/ LOCATION:Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145)\, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montréal CATEGORIES:presentations,workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026_02_20_Cooking-with-COHDS_Gyongyis-dish.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T160000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20251218T215621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T163248Z UID:24851-1776434400-1776441600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Ethics in Research: How to Apply for Ethics Certification DESCRIPTION:With Barbara Lorenzkowski\, Tesfa Peterson\, Franklin Bonivento Van Grieken and Derek Xavier Garcia \nTo obtain the informed consent of our research participants is both an ethical and institutional obligation for oral historians working at Canadian universities. This workshop seeks to demystify the process of applying for ethics certification. Three emerging scholars will reflect on their experiences in navigating this process and discuss how they have translated the ethos of “sharing authority” into the formal language of their ethics applications. Meanwhile\, Lead Co-Director Barbara Lorenzkowski will provide hands-on guidance on how to prepare an ethics application for your own thesis research at Concordia. Registered participants will be provided with examples of successful ethics applications\, including consent forms. \nBarbara Lorenzkowski is an oral historian of childhood and youth whose work explores the ways in which global processes of migration\, displacement\, and violence have shaped small people’s lives in outsized ways. She recently published the co-edited anthology Small Stories of War: Children\, Youth\, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (with Kristine Alexander and Andrew Burt\, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2023) and is currently completing a FQRSC-funded book project The Children’s War\, a large-scale oral history project on children’s sensuous and emotional life-worlds in Atlantic Canada during the Second World War. Dr. Lorenzkowski is the Lead Co-Director of COHDS. \nTesfa Aki Peterson is a public humanities researcher and community-based scholar whose work centers Caribbean history\, feminist postcolonial thought\, and participatory storytelling. As a student in the PhD Humanities program at Concordia University\, her current project traces the life and legacy of Helen Louise Langdon Norton Little\, a woman born in LaDigue\, Grenada in the late nineteenth century\, whose life connected Grenada\, Montreal\, and the American Midwest. Helen Little was active in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Montreal and was the mother of eight children\, including civil rights leader Malcolm X. Grounded in community knowledge and Caribbean feminist and postcolonial perspectives\, her work asks how public humanities can preserve and honor lives that have been marginalized by colonial archives\, while creating inclusive\, intergenerational spaces for learning in both Grenada and the diaspora. Since 2020\, she has collaborated with the Institute for People’s Enlightenment in the Grenadian village of LaDigue to organize lectures\, storytelling sessions\, and public conversations that center local voices and oral histories. Additionally\, the project also extends to Montreal through an oral history and ritual storytelling podcast documenting Grenadian women’s community organizing. Across storybooks\, podcasts\, workshops\, and public events\, Tesfa’s work models a decolonial public humanities rooted in care\, collaboration\, and community memory. \nFranklin Bonivento Van Grieken  studied Anthropology (honor degree\, 2019) and has a master’s degree in History (Cum Laude thesis\, 2022) at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá\, Colombia. As a son\, and grandson\, of indigenous Wayuu women\, and as a son of a Jewish man\, his academic life has been focused on comprehending his own roots and finding ways to communicate them\, as well as on Caribbean history\, Wayuu people cosmovision\, oralities\, migrations\, frontiers\, and musicology. In that respect\, he has explored different formats such as essays\, creative narratives\, and since 2015 he has been engaged in radio broadcasting and podcasting. This experience of creation has served as a form to make and show research: exploring the sound-essays\, radio-documentaries\, podcasting\, among others. He has worked\, too\, in museography\, writing books\, fieldwork\, and has always considered interdisciplinary work more of a conviction than an option\, jumping between the boundaries of disciplines to have big conversations and to find methods and techniques to apprehend our reality\, therefore finding new questions\, new responses\, and new audiences. \nDerek Xavier Garcia is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Concordia University\, Montréal\, and a 2025–2026 Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He was previously a 2023–2024 Mellon Foundation Resident Scholar in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. His research falls at the intersections of the culture\, memory\, and history of Mexican American activist movements\, particularly at the first Mexican American college in the United States\, Colegio Jacinto Treviño (1969-1976). He has published in American Quarterly and Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/ethics-in-research-how-to-apply-for-ethics-certification-2/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/c1f65b37971484eb00310287b1a777291db1c397ddcdc30f59de2419406eae03.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T150000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20251218T213844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T211459Z UID:24844-1775826000-1775833200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Montreal Book Launch of Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare DESCRIPTION:With Julie Norman \n  \nIn this urgent and compelling book\, Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward tell the story of Gaza from its early foundations\, across decades of occupation\, to the devastation of the ongoing war. Rather than focusing on elites or abstract politics\, at the book’s heart are ordinary Gazans – students\, aid workers\, journalists\, and teachers – whose first-hand testimonies vividly illuminate the realities behind the headlines. \nRefusing to sensationalize or oversimplify\, the book reckons with the legal\, moral\, and humanitarian debates surrounding Gaza\, from war crimes investigations to the contested meaning of resistance and the politicization of aid. Combining a nuanced narrative with hard-hitting reflections from everyday Gazans\, the book serves as a timely and necessary disruption of media cliches and political binaries\, and from the perspectives of its own people. \n  \nJulie Norman is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at University College London and Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at the Royal United Services Institute. Previously she taught in the Political Science Department at \nConcordia University and served as Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/montreal-book-launch-of-gaza-the-dream-and-the-nightmare/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2026-03-25-at-5.13.30-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T150000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20251218T213140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T210813Z UID:24839-1775048400-1775055600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Faire parler les sons de la ville. Réflexions sur les ambiances et les paysages sonores en tant que récits géographiques DESCRIPTION:With Violaine Jolivet \n  \nWhat story (city) sounds tell us? Reflections on ambiances and soundscapes as geographical narratives \nThis research presentation aims to show how the sounds produced and perceived by individuals and groups can be understood as possible narratives about the places we inhabit and study. Based on interviews conducted as part of my research in urban geography\, I consider ambiences or soundscapes as narratives about territories\, allowing for a descriptive and analytical approach to the neighborhoods and cities I study. Whether produced\, designed\, or experienced\, sounds depend on our architectural\, social\, aesthetic\, political\, and technical environments\, but above all on our sensory experience of space. \n  \nViolaine Jolivet has been a professor of geography at the University of Montreal since 2012\, after obtaining a PhD from Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne 1 and completing postdoctoral studies in New York (CUNY). Her expertise lies at the intersection of urban and migration studies\, using comparative methods. Her research focuses on transnational mobility\, gentrification\, and resistance to displacement in Havana and Montreal. \nDocumentaries – video and audio\, sound maps\, narrative cartography\, and hybrid methodologies strongly influence her research.Looking on several of my past and ongoing research projects\, she would like to discuss how sounds have influenced her practice and methods\, particularly field recording and sound maps\, and present some more general reflections on sounds as narratives. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/faire-parler-les-sons-de-la-ville-reflexions-sur-les-ambiances-et-les-paysages-sonores-en-tant-que-recits-geographiques/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/SoundMap-TO-1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T160000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20260312T192301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T163051Z UID:25626-1774620000-1774627200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Symposium Channels of Testimony: Artistic Mediations of Listening DESCRIPTION:How does art channel and reshape the way we listen to lived experience? \nJoin Amy Starecheski\, Director of Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts\, and Luis C. Sotelo\, Director of Concordia University’s Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab)\, for a conversation with three artist–scholar teams funded by ALLab to explore bold new pathways for mediating testimony through creative practice. This symposium brings together innovative practitioners working at the intersection of oral history\, performance\, sound\, and socially engaged art. Together\, we’ll delve into the practical and theoretical challenges of transforming real-life stories into artistic forms \n\n\nSpeakers and Projects \nT Braun and Franklin van Grieken \nSentir la Luz/Sense the Light  \nA research-creation project that investigates how digital mediation and virtual reality\, sound\, and light reshapes perception and listening in a group of people with visual impairment. This project is carried out in collaboration with Kim Sawchuk\, Kara Paul\, and Teatro Ciego. \n\nVanessa Terán and María Fernanda del Real  \nSucúa Haven \nMigrant Stories: Embodied Listening Lab \nInspired by Sucúa Haven\, a collection of migration stories created with Ecuadorian in Connecticut (United States)\, a group of Latin diaspora participants in Montreal (Canada)\, as well as Ecuadorians and other Latin American immigrants in Quito (Ecuador)\, will reflect on their own migratory experiences and create performances of embodied testimonies that places Sucúa Haven stories in dialogue with their own. \n  \nPeng Hsu \nCucumbers\, The Melancholy of a Turtle and a Girl’s Otaku’s Romance \nA novel/play creative project that explores BBR. BBR\, short for Broke Broke Recitation\, is my translation of the Mandarin term 碎碎唸 (siu siu nian)\, a phrase commonly used in Taiwan and China to describe how women chatter incessantly about daily and seemingly banal trivialities. Theorized here as a technique of queer narration\, BBR functions as a dramaturgical writing style through which the project examines housing justice\, an endangered turtle\, and the inarticulable experiences of constipation and yearning of romance. \n\nModerator \nLuis C. Sotelo Castro \nDirector\, Acts of Listening Lab (Concordia University) \nDiscussant \nAmy Starecheski \nDirector\, Oral History Master of Arts Program (Columbia University) \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION \n\nThis is a hybrid event.\nRegister in person with this link\n\nRegister for zoom with this link \n\nLOCATION \nIn-person at the 4TH SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/symposium-channels-of-testimony-artistic-mediations-of-listening/ CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations,Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/07567f04-97a6-4417-9f21-eb316d3c43c3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T200000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20251218T200637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T192506Z UID:24778-1769623200-1769630400@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Screening of Hommes-relais\, Becoming Ruby and Red Girl Rising DESCRIPTION:With Vladimir Chindea and HotDocs \n  \nWe 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 evoke powerful emotional engagement. \nHommes-relais explores experiences of grief and adaptation within the Quebec immigration process\, following a group of men who meet regularly to share their stories and develop tools to navigate life in a new home. \nBecoming Ruby follows Ruby Chopstix\, Canada’s first drag artist-in-residence\, as they confront the challenges of underrepresentation and create a showcase that opens space for other queer BIPOC performers. \nFinally\, Red Girl Rising highlights the work of Mohawk matriarch\, retired teacher\, activist\, and humanitarian Joyce Jonathan Crone\, whose compassionate efforts in her Huntsville\, Ontario community help bridge divides and strengthen Indigenous education. \nFollowing the screening\, we are honoured to host a roundtable discussion with Vladimir Chindea\, director of Hommes-relais. \n  \nVladimir Chindea is a Romanian-Canadian filmmaker currently completing the MFA in Cinematic Arts at Concordia University. His work explores themes of migration\, memory\, and existential inquiry. He directed/produced the short film Remember (2022) and regularly collaborates on both narrative and non-fiction projects as an assistant director. Vladimir holds a BA (Honours) in Philosophy and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. Trained as an ‘Homme-relais’ himself\, it was the light of the CRIC community and the felt inspiration from Juan Manuel that guided him to direct this documentary debut. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1042 (Acts of Listening Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/screening-of-hommes-relais-becoming-rubi-and-red-girl-rising/ LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-18-at-3.00.08-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T120000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20251218T201335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T191944Z UID:24787-1769076000-1769083200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Deep Listening to Life Stories DESCRIPTION:With Steven High \nThe workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview of a Rwandan genocide survivor recorded as part of the Montreal Life Stories project. We will explore different ways of interpreting an interview recording and transcription including narrative analysis\, life course visualization\, analysis of emotion\, etc.  We will send the interview link to those registered ten days before the workshop. It is essential that everyone attending listen to the interview and take some notes for reference. \nSteven High is Professor of History and has published extensively in oral history. He co-founded Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and led the prize-winning Montreal Life Stories project from 2005 until 2012\, where he worked in close partnership with survivor groups\, which recorded the life stories of 500 survivors of mass violence\, as well as the Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n  \nPlease note: All those registered will need to be provided with the following link upon registration for this workshop and no later than Monday\, January 12: \nInterview with Valerie Fernandez \nREFUGEE YOUTH WORKING GROUP \n\nPassword: RYWG2024 URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/deep-listening-to-life-stories-2/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations,workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Untitled-Design-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T123000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250918T193817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T204600Z UID:24055-1763722800-1763728200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:CONECTADAS: la doble vía de la escucha y del habla / Connected: The Two-way Path of Listening and Speaking DESCRIPTION:Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. \nIn this event Constanza Ramírez Molano ends her residency at the ALlab by presenting two interviews carried out with the method CONNECTED. This method proposes a journey from the intimate to the collective through narration\, listening\, and dialogue. It begins with mutual recognition between interviewer and interviewee\, giving value to personal stories of care and attachment to life. Listening is understood as an act of hospitality and ethical responsibility\, welcoming the other’s words without imposing prejudice. The testimonies\, recorded in audio or video\, become shared memory when brought into collective reflection\, where the personal acquires common meaning and transformative power. Finally\, the social circulation of these voices opens possibilities for new forms of citizenship and the construction of peace.  \nCreators of the method: Luz Marina Monzón\, Hugo Andrés Rincón\, and Constanza Ramírez.  \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo attend in person\, please register here. \nTo attend online\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the ALLAB (LB-1042). You will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/conectadas-la-doble-via-de-la-escucha-y-del-habla-connected-the-two-way-path-of-listening-and-speaking/ LOCATION:Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/5.-CONECTADAS-la-doble-via-de-la-escucha-y-del-habla.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250924T192941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T211948Z UID:24098-1763578800-1763586000@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:How to Say ‘Longing’ - Cancelled DESCRIPTION:with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina \n\n\nJoin 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. \nThis intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement\, composition and improvisation\, the said and the unsaid—delves into the boundaries of closeness\, vulnerability\, and technology. Using a MIDI controller\, a chain of touch-sensitive sensors\, the performers weave a digital soundscape that shifts with their physical interactions\, crafting a dialogue of embodied listening. \n  \nJad Orphée Chami  is a Lebanese-Canadian artist-researcher\, composer and performer born in Beirut and living in Montreal. He notably composed the original music for the feature film Antigone by Sophie Deraspe\, which represented Canada at the 92nd Academy Awards. He was nominated at the age of 21 for the Iris prize for best original music at the 22nd Gala Québec Cinéma\, notably alongside Jean-Michel Blais and Howard Shore. After having provided the soundtracks for more than fifteen short films and three web series\, he composed his second film score in 2023 in collaboration with director Eli Jean Tahchi for the documentary Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray\, produced by Jonah Mallak (Nemesis Films). \nIn addition to his music work for the image\, he composes and designs works for the contemporary scene\, notably for the École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal and for the Acts of Listening Lab in collaboration with the Center for Restorative Justice. He explores through research-creation the dialogue between music and oral history. In 2022\, he is part of a trio of artists commissioned by the MAI for the realization of the work Justement (en)raciner on the theme of Justice\, among others alongside Kimura Byol-Lemoine\, Angelina Guo and Moe Clark. The same year\, he presented with Noël Vézina the performance How to say ‘longing’\, mixing dance-theatre\, music and new technologies\, at the RIPA performance evening. The testimonies of the disappeared from Lebanon are central to his approach. He is affiliated with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and is developing his oral history performance Rhapsody for the disappeared. \nHe is also interested in contemporary issues of art and presents conferences on themes such as the question of the author\, the ethics of research-creation and gender and sexuality in music history. \n  \n Noël Vezina is a queer\, interdisciplinary\, dance and movement artist based in Montreal (Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang). Largely self-taught\, her process is highly intuitive and organic. Approaching performance as a tool to connect deeply\, to herself and to others\, her work often takes on ephemeral and intimate forms. \nNoël’s latest accomplishments include: presenting Stardust and Parallax with Festival Quartiers Danses (2021)\, sharing a first version of a cloud\, a distance (September 2020)\, creating We live together now – a video performance presented by Sanskar Festival (August 2020) and Festival Bouge D’ici (March 2021)\, performing 05062020live via Zoom for National AccessAbility Week with the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (June 2020)\, and her ongoing collaboration with A Safe Space\, initiated by Nicholas Bellefleur in 2019. In February 2020 she hosted the first of many editions of 5×8/6 – a free-from experimental performance evening that takes place in her kitchen – where she premiered Soft Warm Light (an autobiographical solo piece in progress). \nNoël is one sixth of the winning team of the 2021 Dansathon in Liège\, recognized for their imagining of ‘the future of dance’ through a new interactive performance experience The \nLiving Room. They will continue questioning the place of technology in promoting embodiment soon\, with the support of the Maison de la Danse de Lyon\, Sadler’s Wells and the Théâtre de Liège. \nNoël strives to be radically soft\, honest and vulnerable. She values not-knowing and never perfecting. To be kind and loving is essential. \n  \nREGISTRATION   \nRegister now  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca    \nLOCATION  \nIn-person in LB-1042 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/how-to-say-longing-2/ LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Jad-Orphee-Chami-Noel-Vezina-06-1-845x321-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250924T195000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T195000Z UID:24107-1762959600-1762966800@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Oral Histories of Migration and Motion: Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse DESCRIPTION:with Nico Contreras\, Sonia Bustos\, and Priscilla Opazo Castillo \n  \nRábanos 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 consciousness\, navigating shifting identities across countries of origin and settlement\, and engagement in processes of change. Glimpses of Chile\, Mexico and Canada coexist in a shared space and time\, in a moment of exchange between creative voices. \nThe film screening will be followed by a discussion with the creators. \n  \nPriscilla Opazo Castillo\, an artist and educator from Chile\, has lived in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal since 2017. A self-taught dancer currently training at the Nyata Nyata Centre\, she weaves her path between popular education and artistic research. Her creative experience\, collective and multidisciplinary\, is rooted in an identity fragmented by colonization\, exile\, and violence\, yet rises in resonance with other marginalized voices. A committed feminist\, she envisions art as a living territory of resistance\, healing\, and memory\, where movement frees bodies\, rekindles their connection to the earth\, and nurtures a shared collective consciousness. \n  \nChoreographer and performer born in Mexico and now based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal)\, Sonia Bustos is interested in socio-political engagement and the recognition of performers’ creative work. Her artistic research focuses on feminist perspectives\, the Tercera Raíz in Latin America\, memory\, theatricality\, and the relationship with the audience. Pillars of her artistic process include varied bodily states\, the use of voice/text\, the presence of memory-bearing objects\, and non-danced body approaches. Sonia is the interpreter-creator of stage works Intérieur brut\, Je ne vais pas inonder la mer\, Luz : Dentelle\, Luz : Terre and Luz : Écho (in progress). She holds a Master’s degree in dance (UQÀM) and a Bachelor’s degree in theatre (UNAM). \n  \nNico Contreras is an Ecuadorian Canadian interdisciplinary artist\, social worker\, and current doctoral student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. A facilitator of reflection and dialogue through creative practice\, he believes in the power of art to transform our conceptions of self and society. His most recent film SAN HEN\, a love letter to Montréal’s Latinx community\, premieres at the Toronto Latin American Film Festival 2025. \n  \nREGISTRATION   \nRegister now  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca    \nLOCATION  \nIn-person in LB-1042 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/oral-histories-of-migration-and-motion-rabanos-olas-jacarandas-aleonarse/ LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Event-photo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T181500 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20251016T205819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T191118Z UID:24394-1762358400-1762366500@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:My Dear Theo DESCRIPTION:With Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan \n  \nThe Chair in European Intellectual History of the Munk School\, Marci Shore\, is pleased to collaborate with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling of Concordia to invite you to the first screening of My Dear Theo (2025) with Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan who will share their unique personal experiences from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. \n  \nAlisa Kovalenko is a Ukrainian award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films are internationally acclaimed. In the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022\, she joined the ranks and fought in the Ukrainian Volunteer Army alongside the Ukrainian army. Eight years earlier\, at the beginning of the Russian war in Donbass\, Alisa had been taken captive by a Russian separatist unit. Her personal story\, one of courage and resilience\, provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary Ukrainian history in a more intimate way. \n  \nStéphane Siohan\, Alisa Kovalenko’s partner\, is a senior French reporter specializing in Central and Eastern Europe\, based in Kyiv since 2013. He is the correspondent in Ukraine for the French newspaper Libération\, one of the most experienced international reporters on Ukraine and the author of the first biographical essay in French on President Volodymyr Zelensky. In 2014\, Alisa Kovalenko\, who was documenting the early days of the war in the Donbas\, was taken captive by Russian-backed separatists and Stéphane Siohan headed to the occupied territories to rescue her. Since then\, Stéphane and Alisa have been living together and working together on documentary film projects that chronicle a decade of history in Donbass and Ukraine at war. What Alisa survived during those days in captivity made her promise herself that if the war were to come to all of Ukraine\, she would pick up a gun herself and fight. Eight years later\, the war did come to all of Ukraine. And Alisa parted from Stephane and their four-year son\, Theo\, and joined a Ukrainian battalion. There on the front lines she filmed a video diary for her son. She wanted to show him the landscape “of beauty and death”—and to leave something for him if she were not to return : My Dear Theo. \n  \nStéphane and Alisa worked for ten years\, together or alternately\, in Donbas and on the front lines of Ukraine at war. This screening\, followed by a panel\, will provide a rare opportunity to engage directly with individuals whose lives have been shaped by the full-scale invasion in deeply personal ways. Their willingness to speak candidly will provide invaluable insight into the lived realities of Ukraine behind the headlines. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nRegister here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the COHDS Sunroom (LB-1019). \nYou will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/my-dear-theo/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/mydeartheo-e1760648142801.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250911T174933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T215035Z UID:23891-1761318000-1761325200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Historical Walking Tour – Photographing Change: Reform and Photography in Little Burgundy DESCRIPTION:Walking tour participants will meet at the Union United Church at 3007 Rue Delisle\, Montréal\, QC H4C 1M8 at 2:55 pm \n“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 homes which were destroyed in the building of the Ville-Marie Expressway and the development of the neighbourhood. Haunting and in some ways violent\, the photos depict the homes of Little Burgundy residents of the 1960s\, depicting the intrusion of city workers in their private domestic lives. Engaging with the story of the historically black neighbourhood and theories of photography\, participants will be invited to discuss the photos and critically examine the role of photography in the expropriation process. Oral history interviews from the COHDS archives are used to expand the image of the neighbourhood depicted in these photographs. We’ll hear the words of community members as we walk through the Little Burgundy today. \nSerafina Swandel is an undergraduate student in Art History at Concordia University. As a student affiliate with COHDS\, her research interests center around the intersections of oral history and craft and the way in which oral history can illuminate craft practices and relationships forged by craft. She is interested in a study of visual and material cultures that is socially and historically informed. \n  \nPhoto description: Man sitting at kitchen table caught in photo. Expropriation photo on St. Martin Street\, May 5\, 1967. Archives Montreal Dossier D1015: VM94-C1015-101. \n  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/photographing-change-reform-and-photography-in-1960s-little-burgundy/ LOCATION:Meeting at the Union United Church\,\, 3007 Rue Delisle\, Montréal\, H4C 1M8 CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Little-Burgundy-Photo-COHDS-Fall-2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T180000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250910T173657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T214743Z UID:23861-1760025600-1760032800@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Book Launch: Strangely Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters DESCRIPTION:with Karen Dubinsky \nYou 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. \nStrangely\, Friends delves into the rich\, often overlooked history of personal and cultural connections between Cubans and Canadians. From the early days of the Cuban Revolution to the present\, this book uncovers the stories of Canadians who were drawn to Cuba—teachers\, artists\, development aid workers\, filmmakers\, and activists—who left a mark on the island\, and Cubans\, especially the musicians\, who found a home in Canada. Through intimate portraits and serendipitous encounters\, Karen Dubinsky explores how these relationships transcended political ideologies and state policies\, revealing a shared humanity that defies borders. \nWe’ll also hear comments on the book from David Austin (John Abbott College) and Zaira Zarza (University of Montreal). The launch will take place on Thursday\, October 9\, 4-6 pm in the Sunroom at COHDS (LB-1019). \nKaren Dubinsky is an Emeritus Professor at Queen’s University. For many years she co-ordinated and co-taught in a Queen’s exchange program with University of Havana. \nShe has published and edited books on a wide variety of topics\, including the history of gender and sexuality in Canada\, the global 1960s\, adoption and child migration in Canada\, Cuba and Guatemala\, and the politics of music in Cuba. She is a recipient of two teaching awards: the Queen’s University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and the Queen’s Award for International Educational Innovation. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-strangely-friends-a-history-of-cuban-canadian-encounters/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Book-launch-1-e1757017682800.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T143000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250910T184234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T165045Z UID:23869-1759669200-1759674600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Book Launch: REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nYou 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 will take place in person and online on Sunday\, October 5\, 2025\, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. and it will be hosted by Dr. Jamie L. Wraight\, Director of the Voice/Vision Archive. \nThis powerful volume traces the personal and creative journey of Henry “Hank” Greenspan\, shaped by five decades of deepening relationships with Holocaust survivors. At its heart is the first-ever print publication of REMNANTS\, Greenspan’s haunting and widely performed play that brings to life poignant\, often heart-wrenching moments of survival and memory. Performed on more than 300 stages around the world\, REMNANTS captures the raw essence of what survivors endured—and how they continue to live with those experiences. \nIn the companion piece\, What Remains\, Greenspan reflects on the origins of the play\, the profound connections he forged with survivors\, and the shared grief over the loss of a world—and of those who once told its stories. Written in a lyrical\, spoken-word style\, this memoir offers a compelling new lens into Greenspan’s pioneering contributions to Holocaust studies\, oral history\, and the transformative power of theater. The book is dedicated to Sid Bolkosky\, founder of The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at UM-Dearborn \n  \nThe program will feature reflections from three of Greenspan’s distinguished colleagues and collaborators—renowned Holocaust scholars and educators: \n· Professor John K. Roth\, Emeritus Professor\, Claremont McKenna College \n· Professor Malin Thor Tureby\, Professor of History\, Malmö University\, Sweden \n· Dr. Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director\, The Wiener Library\, London\, and former student of Professor Bolkosky \n  \nHenry Greenspan will present a short performance and recitation from the book. In keeping with the spirit of his and Professor Bolkosky’s relationships with survivors\, there will be ample time for conversation and audience engagement. \n  \nHenry (Hank) Greenspan is a psychologist\, oral historian\, and playwright based at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Since the 1970s\, he has conducted in-depth\, ongoing interviews with Holocaust survivors—an approach that reveals the evolving nature of memory and testimony over time. His work departs from one-time testimonies\, instead drawing on sustained relationships and layered conversations spanning months\, years\, and even decades. \nAn accomplished performer\, Greenspan was a finalist for the 2022 Alvin Epstein Memorial Prize for Solo Performance. He has performed REMNANTS across North America\, as well as in Europe and Israel. He currently leads online seminars and workshops focused on survivor narratives and the complexities of interpreting oral history. \n  \nRegistration: \nFor in-person attendance please RSVP to jwraight@umich.edu \nFor online attendance registration is required through this link URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-remnants-and-what-remains-moments-from-a-life-among-holocaust-survivors/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/whatremainsas-scaled-e1757529653857.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T120000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250917T172134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T175059Z UID:23880-1758884400-1758888000@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Does Listening Heal? DESCRIPTION:With Constanza Ramírez Molano and Luis C. Sotelo \nHeld in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. \n  \nThis event will take the form of a conversation in which Colombian artist and researcher Constanza Ramírez Molano presents three of her recent works. The dialogue will be moderated by Luis C. Sotelo\, director of the Acts of Listening Lab at Concordia University. \nThe conversation will feature: \n• VIVIFICAR (2015) — a performance that asks What is enforced disappearance? Presented as an orchestra in a shopping mall in Bogotá\, the piece makes visible the crime of enforced disappearance in Colombia through the contrast between everyday public space and collective artistic expression. \n• Volver a pasar por el corazón (2018) — a project that invites participants to identify with those who have been disappeared by engaging with their musical tastes\, transforming memory into an intimate and shared listening experience. \n• Subversiones (2020) — an exhibition hosted in the Virtual Memory Gallery presenting fourteen stories of enforced disappearance in Colombia. “Fourteen stories of courage\, Colombians who inhabit the world deprived of a body but not of a soul.” These narratives\, told by family members of the disappeared who were forced into exile for seeking their loved ones\, explore what it means to continue the search from afar. \n\nConstanza Ramírez Molano is a Colombian artist\, researcher\, and producer whose work explores the intersections of art\, psychoanalysis\, and memory. She develops artistic and audiovisual projects that give symbolic form to experiences of violence\, with a particular focus on enforced disappearance in Colombia. She holds a degree in Community Social Pedagogy from the Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogotá. She is a founding member of the “Otras Voces” association. Through her collaborations with organizations of families of victims of enforced disappearance\, she has supported communication and outreach strategies that use art to make this crime visible and to reflect on its impact on society as a whole. Her artistic practice includes works such as the video installation “Doble Oficio por la Entrega Digna\,” (Bogotá\, 2012) the performance “Vivificar\,” (Bogotá\, 2015) and the acts of memory “Volver a pasar por el corazón: la banda sonora de los desaparecidos en Colombia.” (Bogotá\, 2018). She has also co-created the campaign “Aquí falta alguien” with the International Committee of the Red Cross\, developed the digital memory space “Historia de Memorias\,” directed the exhibition “Voces desde la otra orilla” (2021) at the Virtual Art Gallery\, and produced the documentary “a-bordando la memoria” (Bogotá\, 2023). She is currently responsible for the communications area of the “Otras Voces” \n\n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now or online. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1042 (ALLab)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-with-constanza-ramirez-molano/ LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Congreso-de-Colombia-e1757532452169.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250903T204310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T220553Z UID:23748-1758130200-1758135600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Artist Talk: “Little Burgundy – Evolving Montreal” DESCRIPTION:with Andrew Jackson \n  \nYou 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 community and met people who grew up there\, live there or still have ties to the area. The result is an exhibition featuring 61 photographs of the individuals and sites that bear witness to the urban and social transformations that have impacted Little Burgundy. Three hard-hitting yet touching short films capture local residents’ lived experiences. \n  \nAndrew Jackson’s talk will take place from 6:00-6:30 pm\, leaving time both beforehand and afterwards to immerse yourself into this beautiful exhibit that moved some of us to tears earlier this summer. Please note that the McCord Museum offers free admission to selected exhibitions\, including “Little Burgundy\,” on Wednesday evenings after 5 pm. \nThe exhibition also features some twenty objects and images selected by Andrew Jackson from the Museum’s collection. These artefacts\, juxtaposed with contemporary objects loaned by residents\, create a dialogue between the past and the present. \nThrough this project\, Andrew Jackson exposes the duality involved in designating a place or neighbourhood as a “Black space.” For Black people\, it invokes a sense of security\, freedom and belonging\, while for non-Black persons it conveys a negative image. As Jackson reflects: “When city spaces\, such as Little Burgundy\, are designated as Black spaces\, there are profound implications for Black occupants. This is especially true in North America\, where historically\, in non-Black minds at least\, Black spaces have not existed as places of acceptance or celebration of difference. Rather\, they have been linked to notions of failure – notions that become catalysts for urban renewal\, gentrification and the ensuing erasure of Black communities.” \n  \nAndrew Jackson is a British-Canadian photographer based in Montreal since 2019. His practice is developed at the intersection of photography and text and\, most recently\, focuses on notions of family\, transnational migration\, displacement\, trauma and collective memory. He recently published the monograph From a Small Island\, the first chapter of his ongoing series Across the Sea Is a Shore\, a collection of works that explore the intergenerational legacies of migration from the Caribbean to the UK. \nAndrew Jackson has a history of developing platforms that provide opportunities for traditionally excluded groups to engage with photography. In 2021 he created a public engagement project in collaboration with the DESTA Black Youth Network\, located in Little Burgundy\, which resulted in a group exhibition shown at the PHI Foundation. His works are held in public collections that include the United Kingdom’s Government Art Collection\, the Permanent Collection of the New Art Gallery Walsall and the Autograph ABP and Light Work collections. His photographs have also appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, the Financial Times and The New Statesman. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person\, McCord Museum\, 690 Sherbrooke St. West. Please note that the artist talk will take place in the gallery space of “Little Burgundy – Evolving Montreal” in the McCord Museum. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/artist-talk-little-burgundy-evolving-montreal/ LOCATION:McCord Museum\, 690 Sherbrooke St. W.\, Montréal\, Quebec\, Canada CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Anyssa-Ranetkins-Youth-In-Motion-Rue-Saint-Martin-e1756931708692.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250903T195739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T151233Z UID:23738-1757444400-1757451600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Olga\, Erika\, & Me DESCRIPTION:COHDS is partnering with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and the Cummings\nCentre to present the following event\, The Generations After: “Olga\, Erika\, and Me” Podcast at the Montreal Holocaust Museum on Tuesday\, September 9\, 7 pm. \nThe creator of the podcast\, Ilanit-Michele\, and her mother\, Erika Eriksson\, will be in attendance to discuss their experiences as second and third generation descendants of their mother and grandmother\, Olga. Through the podcast\, “Olga\, Erika\, and Me\,” they retrace Olga’s steps based on her writings left to them describing her experience of being part of a loving Jewish family who was torn apart during the Shoah and her life afterwards when she tried to rebuild without them followed by displacement due to the Communist repression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Ilanit-Michele and her mother Erika discuss why this project is of importance: \nIlanit-Michele: “I think originally\, I wanted to do it so that it wasn’t just for you and me. I felt that I had a responsibility to expose Grand-mamma’s story. And I think it’s important.” \nErika: “Holocaust survivor is speaking through you now.” \nIlanit-Michele: “Through her daughter and grand-daughter. And actually walking in her footsteps…” (“Olga\, Erika\, and Me” podcast\, Part 3: Dominoes\, 0:39:50.) \nAs Ilanit-Michel and Erika travel to Hungary\, Poland\, and Israel to better understand Olga’s experience and gather further oral testimony from family and people they meet\, we not only better understand Olga through her words but through the eyes of her descendants. This event will allow us to hear directly from Ilanit-Michele and Erika and will be moderated by CBC Daybreak’s Sarah Dehaies. \nREGISTRATION\nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION\nIn-person at the Montreal Holocaust Museum\, 5151 Chem. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine\, Montréal\, QC H3W 3E8 URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/olga-erika-me/ LOCATION:Montreal Holocaust Museum\, 5151 Chem. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H3W 3E8\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Olga-Erika-Me-e1756929334962.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250416T163501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T163501Z UID:22968-1746712800-1746716400@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Walking Interludes- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming DESCRIPTION:Description by speaker Sunjay Mathuria.\n“Walking Interludes is a reflective reading about walking\, place\, race\, identity\, and memory. In this reading\, I share short excerpts from my field journal that I kept during my research visits to Belfast and Lahore. In an autoethnographic style\, these vignettes focus on movement (walking) through the cities and consider the affective and embodied surges and textures of place. I reflect on the ways I am visibly marked as a racialized body in Belfast\, a city still grappling with division. In Lahore\, I draw on themes of intergenerational memory and belonging in a city from which my great-grandparents were displaced during Partition. \n  As an urban researcher\, it is important to foreground walking as a self-reflexive\, embodied practice and acknowledge the ways in which walking narratives are articulated through footsteps\, sketching out our own entanglements with space\, as we become enmeshed in the textured spatial networks of the places in which we walk. \nThus\, this reading invites researchers to consider the ways they are situated within their research\, and in particular\, the relationship between body\, movement\, and place. \nI will begin with some context: what are walking methods and why are they important? I will then read excerpts from my field journal for around 10 minutes\, with an accompanying slideshow of photos I took projected behind me. At the end\, I invite audience members to reflect on and share their own walking experiences. This reflection period should be around 30 minutes.  \nPlease note:\nThis event may be of interest for those who use walking methods in place-based research. You can bring a notebook or your field journal to jot down some thoughts. \nSunjay Mathuria (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in Geography at Concordia University and a former urban planner. In his doctoral research\, he uses walking methods and narrative analysis to examine the dynamics of memory-making in cities that have experienced spatial trauma. He is also generally interested in the representations of place\, race\, and class in literature\, television and film. \nEvent language(s): English \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/walking-interludes-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/walking.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250410T153957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T170837Z UID:22827-1746032400-1747414800@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Exhibit - Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories DESCRIPTION:Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories\, sites\, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. \nBodies 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 and Digital Storytelling into a dialogue space that brings together artists and researchers who engage with or reflect on oral history in their work\, from the curatorial process to the mise en œuvre. \nThe exhibition and program explore the traces we carry—the traces of what was willingly or unwillingly passed on\, those that were inflicted\, and the lingering ghosts of what was left behind.  \nThese imprints can be things we hold onto or want to make more visible\, carried through acts of care\, (re)connection\, and resistance. Yet\, these traces also represent the weight of what bodies have borne and still bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories asks: How do we hold space for both the tenderness and heaviness of what it means to carry? \nExhibition Location \nCOHDS\, 10th Floor – LB-1042; 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \nExhibition Hours \nMay 1 – May 16\nOpen daily | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM \nDates \nMay 5 – May 8\nPlease register for individual events. \nVernissage \nApril 30\, 5 à 7\, Sunroom (LB-1019)\nWith durational performance “I Insist” by Sol Worsnip \nProgram \nMay 5\, 10h-13h\nCorps\, émotions et recherches: une exploration par cartographie corporelle – Atelier \nMay 6\, 12h-14h\nAttuning to Spectralities: Senses\, Whispers\, and Other Connective Membranes – Workshop \nMay 6\, 15h-16h30\nكان حتى ما كان (Once Upon a Place): What Remains of the Halqa? Performing Memory and Absence – Lecture Performance \nMay 7\, 10h-13h\nThe Metabolism of Silence – Workshop \nMay 7\, 16h-17h30\nIntimate Listening- Immersive Theatre \nMay 8\, 14h-15h\nWalking Interludes – Reading and dialogue  \nMay 8\, 16h-18h\nIdentity\, Care\, Labour\, and Matrilineal Stories – Performance and Artist Talks  \nREGISTRATION \nRegistration forms are linked on each event page. \nCurated/facilitated by: Annie Thao Vy Nguyen \nAnnie Thao Vy Nguyen (they/she) is a Master’s student in Geography and Urban Studies at Concordia University\, exploring queer futurity and political imagination through dialogic processes. Their thesis uses oral history to trace the evolution of queer Asian activism in Montreal across generations\, using Chinatown as a case study. Annie holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Université de Montréal\, with a thesis at the Technical University of Munich on inquiry-based exhibition pedagogy\, where they co-developed and co-taught a course on pedagogy in architecture exhibitions. Trained and soon-to-be certified in Philocreation dialogue facilitation\, Annie used these tools to facilitate this exhibition and program through a curatorial dialogue with all contributors. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/exhibit-bodies-carrying-traces-stories/ CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations,workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cohds_webbanner-export-web-scaled-e1744908189751.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250226T193707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T210324Z UID:22407-1745506800-1745514000@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Ethics in Research: How to Apply for Ethics Certification DESCRIPTION:With Liam Devitt\, Gabryelle Iaconetti\, Barbara Lorenzkowski\, and Sonya Di Sclafani \nTo obtain the informed consent of our research participants is both an ethical and institutional obligation for oral historians working at Canadian universities. This workshop seeks to demystify the process of applying for ethics certification. Three emerging scholars will reflect on their experiences in navigating this process and discuss how they have translated the ethos of “sharing authority” into the formal language of their ethics applications. Meanwhile\, Lead Co-Director Barbara Lorenzkowski will provide hands-on guidance on how to prepare an ethics application for your own thesis research at Concordia. Registered participants will be provided with examples of successful ethics applications\, including consent forms. \nLiam Devitt is a labour historian\, writer\, and research worker based in Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Their MA thesis “Gay Steel Mill” (Concordia University\, 2024) examined how deindustrialization affected queer communities in Cape Breton. Currently\, they are the Associate Director of “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time” (deindustrialization.org)\, a SSHRC Partnership grant project examining histories and contemporary lived experiences of deindustrialization. They are also Vice-President\, Sir George Williams Campus for their union\, CARE (PSAC 12501). They are in charge of grievances at this campus\, and work with union members to fight for justice in the workplace. \nGabryelle Iaconetti (she/they) is a second-year PhD student at Concordia University in Montréal\, Québec under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Berger. She holds a BA and MA in History from Concordia University and a MISt (Master of Information Studies) from McGill University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of bisexual history\, oral history\, queer space\, queer theory and archives. \nBarbara Lorenzkowski is an oral historian of childhood and youth whose work explores the ways in which global processes of migration\, displacement\, and violence have shaped small people’s lives in outsized ways. She recently published the co-edited anthology Small Stories of War: Children\, Youth\, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (with Kristine Alexander and Andrew Burt\, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2023) and is currently completing a FQRSC-funded book project The Children’s War\, a large-scale oral history project on children’s sensuous and emotional life-worlds in Atlantic Canada during the Second World War. Dr. Lorenzkowski is the Lead Co-Director of COHDS\, while also serving as the Associate Chair at the Department of History (Concordia University). \nSonya Di Sclafani is a first-year MA student in History at Concordia University. Her research centres on women’s experiences in the Hungarian-Canadian diaspora in Montreal\, with a focus on foodways and intergenerational storytelling. She holds a BA History (Honours)\, with a minor in English Literature\, from Concordia University; a BFA in Photography and Art History (Concordia); and a diploma in Interior Design at Dawson College\, Montreal. \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! To register\, contact us at: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/ethics-in-research-how-to-apply-for-ethics-certification/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Voices-from-the-field-visual-845x321-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T120000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250402T171026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T160332Z UID:22744-1745316000-1745323200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Memory\, Art\, and Violence: Listening to Difficult Stories DESCRIPTION:with Manuela Ochoa\, Luana Sampaio\, and Patricia Branco Cornish.  \n\nConflict and dictatorship are challenging topics to discuss and engage new audiences. However\, scholars have tasked themselves with finding creative ways to revisit narratives of these difficult pasts to foster public awareness and prevent socio-political violence from happening in the future. Art has been a long-standing medium through which our society registers our lives\, from pre-historic cave paintings to contemporary cartoons\, films and exhibitions. \nOral history is ubiquitous in recounting stories of survivors’ experiences of traumatic pasts involving state violence\, civil conflicts and abuse of power around the world. Still\, merging oral history with different forms of art practices remains an underutilized approach to retelling the recent violent pasts in Latin America. A new wave of scholars are working to promote more engaging and immersive ways of showing the broader public complex narratives of people who experienced or survived dictatorships and armed conflicts. \nThis panel brings together three doctoral researchers who examine the interconnections between listening\, memory\, and art in Brazil and Colombia. Through three case studies\, researchers discuss how oral history methodology and art practices offer alternative ways to engage audiences with complex narratives about past socio-political violence. \nManuela Ochoa has developed Can You Hear the Trees Talking?\, an arts-based methodology for conducting dialogical interviews and actively listening to survivors\, collaborating with Comunidad\, a displaced human rights defender and musician. \nThrough the question “How can memory be filmed?”\, Luana Sampaio explores a series of Brazilian documentaries that depict the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil\, which lasted from 1964 to 1985. The films focus on listening and filming the testimonies of survivors and their peers. By examining this creative work\, she uncovers how cinema can offer a new understanding of memory by engaging an artistic expression with the past\, present\, and future. \nPatricia Branco Cornish researches the experiences of women artists during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985)\, merging oral history and visual art within a decolonial framework. She uses the artworks as memory prompts so women artists can retell their past from daily struggles to groundbreaking creative practices despite censorship and normative gender roles. Patricia seeks to understand the pervasive and subtle ways dictatorship erases women’s stories\, and manipulates how we understand past state violence in the present. \nManuela Ochoa’s is an artist and PhD candidate in Humanities at Concordia University. In Colombia\, she was part of the team at the Museum of Memory\, where she explored the relationship between art and memory in violent contexts. Her research centers on how to listen—effectively and with care—to survivors of violence while collaborating on creative works based on their life stories. \nLuana Sampaio is a documentary filmmaker and a PhD student in Communication Studies at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil. Her research and creative practice focus on exploring the relationship between memory and history in documentaries that use cinematic narrative tools to tell stories about the past. Luana has co-directed over five documentaries\, including short films\, feature films\, and series\, and is dedicated to discovering new ways to listen to and capture memories through cinema. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and a Graduate Certificate in Creative Arts from Deakin University. \nPatricia Branco Cornish is a PhD candidate in the Communications Department at Concordia University. Her research focuses on women artists living under the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-85) and their contributions to the country’s avant-garde art scene of the 1960s–70s. In Brazil\, Patricia worked as an art curator and gallery owner. She earned her MA in Art History from the University of São Paulo\, where she investigated how women artists carved out space for themselves in the local avant-garde movement despite censorship and conservative gender norms. \nATTEND THIS EVENT \nJoin us on Zoom.  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/memory-art-and-violence/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_panel-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250307T203014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T173904Z UID:22574-1744304400-1744311600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:WIBCA’s Legacy: Carrying the Torch from Elders to Youth in Montreal’s Black Community DESCRIPTION:with Jamilah Dei-Sharpe\, Joan Lee (President)\, and Ray Resvick\nMC by CBC’s Dionne Codrington.  \nIn 1982\, the West Island Black Community Association (WIBCA) was founded as one of Montreal’s first Black Anglophone associations. The film is guided by the oral histories of WIBCA’s founding elders\, who recount their grassroots efforts to support Black communities in Montreal for over forty years. Despite challenges like school bus drivers refusing to transport Black youth and increased policing\, WIBCA engaged with politicians\, educators\, and law enforcement to develop essential programs. Through intergenerational dialogue\, the film showcases how WIBCA youth continue to champion justice and unity amid the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement\, highlighting WIBCA’s vital role in Black Canadian history and its commitment to celebrating and supporting diverse communities in Montreal. The film was produced by the Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub (DPPH) and was funded by the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation. Directed by Jamilah Dei-Sharpe\, with Ray Resvick as Director of Photography\, Rania Salawdeh as Videographer and Rebeccah Redden as the Video Editor. \nWatch the Promotional Video. \nThe Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub (DPPH)\,  is a nonprofit organization based in Montreal. It creates spaces for collaboration between faculty\, students\, and community organizations to address the systemic challenges marginalized groups face in academia. The DPPH makes higher education more equitable and inclusive by incorporating decolonial approaches into curricula and the learning environment\, including integrating oral histories\, community knowledge\, antiracism education\, and promoting student leadership. The DPPH engages in various initiatives to transform teaching and learning\, such as syllabus deconstruction events\, enhancing collaboration between students and faculty\, an online library of antiracism educational videos\, and offering a credit-based experiential student internship program. This program connects Concordia University students with community organizations involved in social justice projects. Notably\, the WIBCA short film was produced as part of this internship program\, linking Concordia film studies students with the West Island Black Community Association.and oral history into her research-creation process.  \nJamilah Dei-Sharpe is\, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Concordia University\, specializing in Black Canadian studies\, gender studies\, and decolonizing higher education. As an undergraduate instructor and community organizer\, she is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of students and scholars. Some of Jamilah’s work for community advancement includes serving as co-chair of the Race and Ethnicity Research Cluster at the Canadian Sociological Association\, founding the Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub\, and co-founding the National Black Graduate Association. \nFacebook & Instagram \nDionne Codrington is an award-winning journalist. In addition to her role as the producer of the CBC Black Changemakers series for CBC Quebec\, she’s the host of the spin-off podcast\, Changemakers. Dionne is a regular guest TV and radio host. When she’s not in front of the camera or on the mic\, she also works as a TV and radio producer. \nRay Resvick\, is a filmmaker\, comedian & community organizer based in Tiohtià:je / “Montréal.” Their work is focused on marginalized perspectives and subverting mainstream understanding of identity. They graduated from Concordia University in 2023 with a major in Communications and a minor in Creative Writing. They are currently participating in the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s screenwriting mentorship. Ray’s short film Extremely Small Claims Court was screen at the 2025 Canadian Film Fest.  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/wibcas-legacy-carrying-the-torch-from-elders-to-youth-in-montreals-black-community/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/wibca-e1741037064384-845x321-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T180000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250228T162238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T203254Z UID:22453-1743696000-1743703200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Looking at the World from Inside Mosques: Questioning Prejudice Through Art Photography DESCRIPTION:with Marwan Bassiouni. Hosted by Chedly Belkhodja (Concordia) and Paul May (UQAM) \nIslam comes in all shapes and colours. It is now Western and a part of the national identity and landscape of many countries. Since January 2018\, Marwan Bassiouni has visited mosques in various countries in order to document their presence in the landscape from the inside. He was led into the hearts of cities\, suburbs\, villages\, industrial zones and remote areas\, alongside rivers\, lakes and mountains. Mosques were able to become a part of the Western landscape by adapting to the shapes and colors of the local architecture – by building minarets and prayer rooms out of bricks\, wood and various other materials. Through this journey\, Marwan Bassiouni not only witnessed the diversity of locations in which Muslims are living today\, but also the diversity within the Muslim community itself. \nUnfortunately\, Muslims are the most targeted minority when it comes to hate crimes\, and recent terrorist attacks have contributed to an increase in islamophobia\, racism and xenophobia towards Muslims. Many Western medias are biased in their representation of Muslim peoples and contribute towards negative and unwelcoming sentiments towards this multi-ethnic and multi-cultural minority demography. The mosques contained in this project were therefore left unidentified to respect the wishes of mosque representatives who feared for their safety. All photographs in this series document views of actual mosques within their original surroundings. \nMarwan Bassioni’s images\, often presented large-scale\, lie at the intersection of documentary practice\, fine art\, and intercultural mediation. In his photographs\, he explores the poetics and aesthetics of documentary photography while focusing on the Western landscape and themes related to identity\, spirituality\, culture\, and the politics of representation. \nHis work is held in private and public art collections such as Kunsthaus Zürich\, Kunstmusem Bern\, Kunstmusem Den Haag\, The Nederlands Fotomuseum\, and many other arts centres. Marwan Bassioni is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant\, the Harry Pennings Prize\, the Prix Circulation(s)-Fujufilm and several other awards and nominations. His book New Dutch Views was a finalist for the Aperture First Book Award at Paris Photo. \nChedly Belkhodja is Professor and former Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. He holds a BA (1988) in Political Science from l’Université de Moncton and an MSc (1990) in Political Science from l’Université de Montréal. He completed his Diplôme d’études approfondies (1991) and his PhD (1996) in Political Science at l’Université de Montesquieu (Bordeaux\, France). His research focuses on immigration policies and mobility of migrants in the case of less common destinations. He is also interested in the processes of integration and inclusion. \nPaul May is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montreal. He holds a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and UQAM. His research focuses on the consequences of immigration for Western societies\, with a particular focus on debates on multiculturalism\, public controversies related to identity politics in the public sphere\, and the agency of migrants during their migratory journey. Before joining UQAM\, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Queen’s University (Canada) and Harvard (United States). Dr. May was awarded the Vincent Lemieux Prize for the best thesis in political science in Canada as well as two awards for teaching excellence at Harvard University. He regularly writes articles and op-eds\, notably including the Los Angeles Times\, Huffington Post US\, Le Monde\, Le Figaro\, and Liberation. \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/looking-at-the-world-from-inside-mosques-questioning-prejudice/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025_04_03_Looking-at-the-World-from-Inside-Mosques.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250226T184227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T185454Z UID:22383-1743001200-1743008400@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Kids on the Street: Queer Oral History\, Performative Storytelling DESCRIPTION:with Joseph Plaster \nJoseph Plaster’s prize-winning Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (Duke University Press\, February 2023) explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway “kids on the street” to survive in central city tenderloin districts across the United States\, and San Francisco’s Tenderloin in particular\, over the past century. Centering the experiences of street kids enabled him to articulate—indeed excavate—a history of queer sociality that has been overshadowed by major narratives of gay progress and pride. He ultimately represents a politics where the marginal position of street youth—the self-defined “kids on the street\,” hair fairies\, hustlers\, queens\, and “undesirables”—is the basis for a moral economy of reciprocity and mutual aid. \nJoseph Plaster is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in queer studies and public humanities\, with teaching and research fields at the intersection of American 20th-century urban history\, oral history\, performance studies\, public history\, and LGBTQ studies of religion. He is a Lecturer in the Program in Museum and Society and Director of the Winston Tabb Special Collection Research Center at Johns Hopkins University\, where he develops cross-departmental\, community-based research initiative in collaboration with Baltimore’s ballroom and voguing scene\, grassroots trans and non-binary activities\, and local artists of colour. \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/kids-on-the-street/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Copy-of-Employment-opportunity-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250226T211605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T194622Z UID:22430-1741941900-1741971600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:“Vivre avec le trouble” – Trouble in Oral History and Storytelling 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium (Friday\, March 14) DESCRIPTION: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 trouble” and the transformative potential of oral history in troubled times. \nOver the course of our day-long conversations\, panelists and conference attendees will explore ways of knowing\, interrogate the politics of the archive\, listen to oral histories on the ground\, and examine how oral history and storytelling might be used in creating a more just society. We will delve into intergenerational conversations and contemplate ways of feeling memory. There will be “ghost stories” too. The program will culminate in a series of four brief performances\, followed by a conversation with the researchers-artists. \nOur keynote speaker\, Dr. Lea Kabiljo (Université Laval)\, the 2024 recipient of the Award of Distinction in Oral History\, will reflect on the complex ethical and relational dynamics of sharing authority in works of research-creation. Her keynote – “Oral History x Photography: Negotiating Authority in Participatory Research-Creation” – brings oral history and photography into a single analytical frame to explore the tensions between researcher subjectivity and participant agency. \nThe Emerging Scholars Symposium is one of the highlights of our COHDS year. We’d be delighted if you could join us! \, \nSee the program at a glance. \nSee the full program (including panel description and biographies of panelists) \n  \nThe Program Committee | Le comité organisateur \nSamia Dumais is a PhD student in history at Concordia University. A transdisciplinary researcher\, she is interested in Afro-descendant and Black transnational discourses and their materialization in Quebec and Canadian educational structures. Member of the editorial board of HistoireEngagée.ca\, Samia is the archivist for the afro-feminist community organization Harambec and a Scholar-in-Residence (2024-25) at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS). \nVarda Nisar is a mother\, daughter\, and sister. She is also a PhD Candidate in Concordia’s Department of Art History and a Concordia Public Scholar (2022-23). She is currently a Fellow at the Social Justice Center and a COHDS Scholar-in-Residence (2024-25). Varda is the co-founder of the Art History Decolonial Action Group (AHDAG)\, which actively challenges the silence around Palestine in academia. Her doctoral research draws attention to cultural production under military regimes in Pakistan\, mainly focusing on museums and archives. She currently sits on the executive committee of the South Asian Women’s Cultural Centre as the Vice-President of the Board and on Concordia University’s Graduate Student Association Council as the Director of the Faculty of Fine Arts. \nAnna Vigeland is a PhD student in Concordia’s INDI program and a COHDS Scholar-in-Residence (2024-25). Her research is driven by overlapping interests in oral history\, performance histories\, translation\, memory\, and interdisciplinary forms of creation. Her approach also draws on over 15 years working in circus and on a translation practice that is increasingly interwoven with her research and artistic practices. \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom) and LB-1042 (Moonroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/vivre-avec-le-trouble/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:keynote speech,performances and exhibitions,presentations,symposium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-Emerging-Scholars-Symposium-Copy-of-ESS-2024-Poster-11x17-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250226T182217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T175846Z UID:22363-1741275000-1741280400@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Walking as a Way of Knowing: Amy Starecheski in Conversation with Luis C. Sotelo DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Amy Starecheski\, Director\, Columbia University’s Oral History MA program and Dr. Luis C. Sotelo\, Director\, Concordia’s Acts of Listening Lab \nWhat and how do we learn about the past when we use our bodies as research instruments? Dr. Starecheski will open this conversation by sharing a paired soundwalk she created as a way of “walking other people’s memories into our bodies” and building enduring relationships grounded in history sharing in her South Bronx neighborhood. \nIn her current research about how people decide what is true about the past\, Dr. Starecheski is doing participant observation and archival research in communities of history practitioners in the Bronx\, from journalists and historians to genealogists and history buffs. While most say that they are carefully weighing textual evidence to find out what happened in the past\, in practice many rely as much or more on affective and embodied ways of knowing – including walking – when trying to make sense of all the messy traces of the past they encounter. Dr. Starecheski will share some of these preliminary findings and invite you to think with her about walking\, and embodied practice more broadly\, as a way of knowing about the past. Dr. Sotelo Castro will respond remotely from the United College at the University of Waterloo\, where he is currently acting as a visiting associate professor in the humanities. \nDr. Amy Starecheski consults and lectures widely on oral history education and methods\, is co-author of the Telling Lives Oral History Curriculum Guide\, and co-founded the Pedagogy of Listening Lab. She was lead interviewer on Columbia’s September 11\, 201 Narrative and Memory Project\, for which she interviewed Afghans\, Muslims\, Sikhs\, activists\, low-income people\, and people who lost work. From 2020-2023 she was Co-Director of the NYC Covid-19 Oral History\, Narrative and Memory Project. \nLuis C. Sotelo Castro is an Associate Visiting Professor in the Humanities at United College (University of Waterloo) and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University\, Montreal (Québec\, Canada). Between 2016 and 2021 he held the position of Canada Research Chair in Oral History Performance at Concordia. With funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation\, he established in 2018 the Acts of Listening Lab\, a hub for research-creation on the transformative power of listening. \nREGISTRATION \nRegister to attend (in person only)  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1042 (Acts of Listening Lab)\, COHDS / Online: You will be sent the Zoom link upon registration (see above). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/walking-as-a-way-of-knowing/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025_03_06_Walking-as-a-Way-of-Knowing-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250206T171432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T214317Z UID:22047-1740078000-1740085200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:CANCELED: How to Say 'Longing' DESCRIPTION:with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina \nJoin 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. \nThis intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement\, composition and improvisation\, the said and the unsaid—delves into the boundaries of closeness\, vulnerability\, and technology. Using a MIDI controller\, a chain of touch-sensitive sensors\, the performers weave a digital soundscape that shifts with their physical interactions\, crafting a dialogue of embodied listening. \nJad Orphée Chami  is a Lebanese-Canadian artist-researcher\, composer and performer born in Beirut and living in Montreal. He notably composed the original music for the feature film Antigone by Sophie Deraspe\, which represented Canada at the 92nd Academy Awards. He was nominated at the age of 21 for the Iris prize for best original music at the 22nd Gala Québec Cinéma\, notably alongside Jean-Michel Blais and Howard Shore. After having provided the soundtracks for more than fifteen short films and three web series\, he composed his second film score in 2023 in collaboration with director Eli Jean Tahchi for the documentary Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray\, produced by Jonah Mallak (Nemesis Films). \nIn addition to his music work for the image\, he composes and designs works for the contemporary scene\, notably for the École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal and for the Acts of Listening Lab in collaboration with the Center for Restorative Justice. He explores through research-creation the dialogue between music and oral history. In 2022\, he is part of a trio of artists commissioned by the MAI for the realization of the work Justement (en)raciner on the theme of Justice\, among others alongside Kimura Byol-Lemoine\, Angelina Guo and Moe Clark. The same year\, he presented with Noël Vézina the performance How to say ‘longing’\, mixing dance-theatre\, music and new technologies\, at the RIPA performance evening. The testimonies of the disappeared from Lebanon are central to his approach. He is affiliated with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and is developing his oral history performance Rhapsody for the disappeared. \nHe is also interested in contemporary issues of art and presents conferences on themes such as the question of the author\, the ethics of research-creation and gender and sexuality in music history. \n Noël Vezina is a queer\, interdisciplinary\, dance and movement artist based in Montreal (Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang). Largely self-taught\, her process is highly intuitive and organic. Approaching performance as a tool to connect deeply\, to herself and to others\, her work often takes on ephemeral and intimate forms. \nNoël’s latest accomplishments include: presenting Stardust and Parallax with Festival Quartiers Danses (2021)\, sharing a first version of a cloud\, a distance (September 2020)\, creating We live together now – a video performance presented by Sanskar Festival (August 2020) and Festival Bouge D’ici (March 2021)\, performing 05062020live via Zoom for National AccessAbility Week with the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (June 2020)\, and her ongoing collaboration with A Safe Space\, initiated by Nicholas Bellefleur in 2019. In February 2020 she hosted the first of many editions of 5×8/6 – a free-from experimental performance evening that takes place in her kitchen – where she premiered Soft Warm Light (an autobiographical solo piece in progress). \nNoël is one sixth of the winning team of the 2021 Dansathon in Liège\, recognized for their imagining of ‘the future of dance’ through a new interactive performance experience The \nLiving Room. They will continue questioning the place of technology in promoting embodiment soon\, with the support of the Maison de la Danse de Lyon\, Sadler’s Wells and the Théâtre de Liège. \nNoël strives to be radically soft\, honest and vulnerable. She values not-knowing and never perfecting. To be kind and loving is essential. \nREGISTRATION   \nRegister now  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca    \nLOCATION  \nIn-person in LB-1040.02 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  \n   URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/how-to-say-longing/ LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Jad-Orphee-Chami-Noel-Vezina-06-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T200000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20250122T205719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T212612Z UID:21997-1739383200-1739390400@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Sharing Black Stories with Care\, Intentionality and Authenticity DESCRIPTION:with Martha Nduwayo\, Methsaïca Philippe\, and Lourdenie Jean \nBilingual \nJoin 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. \nWhether you’re a creator\, researcher\, entrepreneur\, oral history enthusiast or simply a human willing to share with intention\, this event is an opportunity to rethink how we bring the stories of the black community to life. Leave inspired\, better equipped and ready to become agents of change through ethical\, empathetic and transformative storytelling. \nArt and activism \nLourdenie Jean: is deeply is passionate about the humanities\, particularly sociology\, psychology and anthropology. Beneath this passion for justice lies an unconditional love of the arts\, as well as a childlike heart. As an author\, visual artist\, actress and singer in her spare time\, she uses art as the main emancipatory tool in her daily life.\nToday\, she marries her experiences to express herself through a variety of mediums in the breadth of her personal practices. Today\, she marries all of her experiences to express herself through a variety of mediums in the breadth of her personal practices. \nHer achievements include:\n \n\nFounding of the platform L’Environnement\, c’est intersectionnel – ECI (2019)\n\nPublication of her short story Car Tu es avec moi in the book Il y a des joies dont on ignore l’existence (2022)\n\nAppearance on On est rendu là (2023)\n\nPublication of her Afrofeminist essay L’amour\, l’élément manquant de la justice climatique in the book 11 brefs essais sur la justice climatique (2024).\n\nMartha Nduwayo is deeply committed to amplifying Black voices and fostering mental health and wellness within her community. She co-founded the Black Healing Fund and served as Operations Director at the Black Healing Centre\, roles that reflect her dedication to creating spaces for healing and empowerment.\n \nCurrently\, Martha is the Quebec Regional Coordinator for the Black Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (Q-BEKH)\, where she bridges academic research and community needs. She is also a co-founder of the Community Capacity Building Initiative (CCBI)\, a tax and finance clinic providing programming for Two-Spirit\, trans\, non-binary\, and gender-diverse communities. \nMartha recently collaborated with the Black Inc Podcast team to produce a series highlighting Black entrepreneurship and community innovation. Her passion for storytelling continues with this upcoming workshop\, where she invites participants to explore the transformative power of Black narratives and their impact on community\, identity\, and resilience. \nMethsaïca Philippe is an independent and creative marketing strategist whose mission is to create a positive and lasting impact within the environments in which she operates by amplifying meaningful voices and fostering innovative creation. Dedicated to empowering creators\, entrepreneurs\, and small businesses through an authentic and impactful online presence\, she specializes in brand strategies\, content creation\, and social media management. As the co-producer of the Black Inc. Podcast\, a platform that highlights the experiences\, expertise\, and excellence of entrepreneurs and business leaders from Black communities\, Methsaïca stands out for her thoughtful and intentional narrative approach. By combining strategy\, creativity\, and storytelling\, she helps build memorable brands and share impactful stories\, all while staying true to her mission of inspiring\, uplifting\, and connecting communities. \nEn collaboration avec / In collaboration with: \nBlack Inc. Podcast \nQ-BEKH \nOffice of Community Engagement \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/partager-les-histoires/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Untitled-design.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20240916T144239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T154337Z UID:20790-1732892400-1732899600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/ Forming the WE DESCRIPTION:* Please note this event has been moved to the Dance Studio at MB 7.265\, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest \nEnglish \nJoin us for an evening of dance as students from the Department of Contemporary Dance bring embodied (auto-)biographical narratives to the Acts of Listening Lab. Such storytelling in motion – based on life history interviews that students conducted with one of their peers – constitutes what Christine Thurner once called “emphatically fragile\, deliberately contingent narrative acts.” These gestural narratives break free of the frame of linear\, literary (auto)biography. Seen in relation to one another they form a complex and rich society.  \nThis event is based on students’ coursework in the Department of Contemporary Dance\, who\, under the guidance of Professor Lília Mestre\, are exploring the possibilities of danced life narration\, this time in a collective improvisation setting.  \n   \nWith the DANC 202 Cohort: Angel Buell\, E.V. Cloix\, Valeria Cortes Pardo\, Karlanne Dusablon Girard\, Gabrielle Forget\, Magdalen Fortin\, Marina Gris\, Isabelle Grondin Hernandez\, Lauriane Houle\, Isabella Jenkin\, Kathy Jin\, Meryam Joober\, Sabrina Konstas\, Berdelia Loemba Tchiss\, Thaïna Louis-Jeune\, Ruben Macas\, Maria Marsli\, Arezoo Mohadjeri\, Ro Paloma\, Valentina del Mar Rojas Baquero.  \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! Register here. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nIn person\, LB 1042.03 (Moonroom)\, ALLab  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/dancing-life-stories/ LOCATION:Dance Studio\, MB 7.265\, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3H 1J5\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Visuals-for-Fall-Event-Pages-8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T150000 DTSTAMP:20260509T164454 CREATED:20241004T165435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T165454Z UID:21045-1729170000-1729177200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Crafting the (de)Industrialised Culture of the City of Elefsina\, Greece: The Openeleusis Oral History Research Project DESCRIPTION:with Regina Mantanika \nThe Openeleusis research project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in anthropology\, history and visual arts for community-based research in Eleusina\, a city where Greek industrial history is heavily imprinted on people’s memories and everyday life. Eleusina is situated in Western Attika and has undergone various phases of (de)industrialisation since the late 19th century. The Openeleusis team has worked on the industrial culture of Eleusina through participant observation\, workshops\, individual biographical interviews\, focus groups and ethnographic filmmaking. One of the results is an open digital archive\, https://openeleusis.eu/?lang=en. It is a digital space\, a living library and memory bank of the city\, which presents in an inventive way the material resulting from the historical and ethnographic research in order to ‘return it back’ to the community. \nThe OPENELEUSIS archive includes texts\, videos and documents such as photographs\, videos\, maps\, testimonies\, interviews\, etc. To have an intergenerational approach in the field\, our team organised docu-animation workshops for children aged 8-12 in Elefsina. Three different teams (schools) were trained in oral history and stop-motion animation techniques for one week each. Finally\, the team organised oral history seminars for the local community\, leading to the creation of the Oral History Group of Eleusina (OPIEL)\, which will have its own space on openeleusis.eu. \n  \n\nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! Register here. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nIn person\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/openeleusis/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-09-30-at-1.37.56-PM.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR