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Photo-Interviewing: Bridging Oral History and Photography

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

(photo credit: Kelann Currie-Williams) with Kelann Currie-Williams and Lea Kabiljo This event brings together Lea Kabiljo and Kelann Currie-Williams, oral historians and photographers, who rely on the multi-faceted technique of "photo-interviewing" in their respective work. We will invite attendees to reflect on the relationship that exists between images and storytelling in the context of the […]

How to Storyboard: A Hands-On Workshop in Digital Storytelling and Interactive Exhibit Design

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

with Hannah Pinilla English  Join us in the COHDS Computer Lab for an engaging 2 to 2.5-hour workshop designed to enhance your skills in digital storytelling and interactive exhibit creation. Participants will be asked to develop a mini exhibit concept incorporating edited digital content gathered from a brief exercise in conversational interviewing.    In pairs, participants […]

Saathis: A Conversation about Queer Brown History in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal

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

with the Saathi Montreal Archive Project English  A conversation between some of the members of the 1990s Tiohtia:ke/Montreal-based, South Asian-focused LGBTQ+ group the Saathis. As many of the Saathis are artists, performers and activists, they are also invited to reflect on their creative journeys as racialized queer people in Montreal.       The Saathi Montreal […]

Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/ Forming the WE

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

* Please note this event has been moved to the Dance Studio at MB 7.265, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest English Join 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 […]

Community Choral Music in Reperforming Oral Histories

Online

With Sara Lucas and Luis Sotelo Dr. Luis Sotelo Castro and PhD candidate Sara Lucas from the Acts of Listening Lab and The Listening Choir will discuss how musical interventions, particularly community choral music, can catalyze dialogue in communities that have experienced collective trauma. We will explore how this form of participatory art, whether used in reperformances of […]

Deep Listening to Life Stories

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

* Please note this event has been rescheduled to 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. with Steven High  The 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 […]

Book Launch: The Left in Power

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

with Steven High  English  You are cordially invited to the launch of Steven High’s The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class. At the end of the 20th century, as social democratic parties around the world struggled to produce a coherent response to the end of the post-war boom, many pivoted towards […]

Sharing Black Stories with Care, Intentionality and Authenticity

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

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

Casual COHDS

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

With Kelly Norah Drukker Join us for the inaugural session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community, […]

Introduction à l’histoire orale

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

avec Mélissa-Anne Ménard  Français  Cet atelier vous permettra d’explorer certains des éléments fondamentaux dans le domaine interdisciplinaire de l’histoire orale. Les participants découvriront une approche aux entretiens spécifique à l’histoire orale, l’éthique de la recherche et les nombreuses façons dont les histoires orales sont partagées avec le public. Cet atelier est fortement recommandé à tous […]

CANCELED: How to Say ‘Longing’

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

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

Best Recording Practices for Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers – Part One (Registration Closed)

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

with Andrés Torres  Please note registration is full, email cohds.chorn@concordia.ca for more information if needed. This two-part, hands-on workshop offers Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers a practical introduction to audiovisual recording and editing. Participants will learn to use recording devices like cameras and microphones while exploring the foundational principles of audiovisual practice. The workshop emphasizes […]

Walking as a Way of Knowing: Amy Starecheski in Conversation with Luis C. Sotelo

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

with Dr. Amy Starecheski, Director, Columbia University’s Oral History MA program and Dr. Luis C. Sotelo, Director, Concordia’s Acts of Listening Lab What 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 […]

Best Recording Practices for Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers – Part Two

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

with Andrés Torres  This two-part, hands-on workshop offers Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers a practical introduction to audiovisual recording and editing. Participants will learn to use recording devices like cameras and microphones while exploring the foundational principles of audiovisual practice. The workshop emphasizes how technical choices in production—shaped by audiovisual theory—can enhance storytelling and research. […]

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

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

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

Casual COHDS

LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS

With Lea Kabiljo Join us for our second session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community, or […]

Kids on the Street: Queer Oral History, Performative Storytelling

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

with Joseph Plaster Joseph 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 […]

Looking at the World from Inside Mosques: Questioning Prejudice Through Art Photography

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

with Marwan Bassiouni. Hosted by Chedly Belkhodja (Concordia) and Paul May (UQAM) Islam 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 […]

WIBCA’s Legacy: Carrying the Torch from Elders to Youth in Montreal’s Black Community

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

with Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Joan Lee (President), and Ray Resvick MC by CBC's Dionne Codrington.  In 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 […]

Cancelled – A Reflection Moment: Writing a Land Recognition for COHDS

"Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, to heal wounds White Man's Footstep , generous and healing, grows […]