COHDS

Indigenous Healing Knowledges Online Gathering
2021-10-22 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Québec
9:00-12:00: Learning from Indigenous Healers
13:00-16:00: Youth exploration of Indigenous Healing Knowledges
Come join us for an online gathering, as we get to hear from various Elders, Knowledge Keepers and youth on their experiences and approaches to healing.
Today, more than ever, Indigenous peoples need knowledge of ways to enhance their immune systems, avoid conditions such as diabetes and high stress, in order to prevent being vulnerable to conditions such as COVID19.
In this context, this research aims to enhance the understanding of Indigenous worldview and epistemology in relation to healing and well-being, by presenting the teachings of various healing practitioners including those of the Cree, Métis, and Haudenosaunee. These Indigenous Healers referred to as speakers engage in healing practices in the context of social work, counselling, talk therapy, energy work, and those who heal through modalities of music, rhythm, sound, and song. They will offer teachings in their epistemological and cosmological approaches to their work and will inform an audience in areas of First Peoples Studies, Counselling, Social Work, Health Professionals, Sociological and Psychological scholars, and community members.
REGISTRATION
In order to accommodate social distancing, all of COHDS/ALLab events will be held online. Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but you need to register! To register, visit the event’s Zoom page here: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-6srT8qG9DRJAWi4Kj-iGvJ-lBNS-9v?fbclid=IwAR2JkivVu2c378eqgrRZMaJrUVqB_pR30eD3OUcaoVqRuIEMVzxy7PaB_bk

(POSTPONED) From the Balso to the Cununo: A drawn conversation between Comunidad and Manuela Ochoa (ALLab)
2021-10-27 15:00 - 16:00
Montreal Time: 3h00-4h00 pm
Columbia Time: 2h00-3h00 pm
The event will be held in Spanish and there will be simultaneous English translation
Comunidad is a social leader from Tumaco, Colombia. His love for music, as well as his concern for the forced recruitment of young people, led him to create a cultural center. Comunidad was displaced and currently lives in Bogotá.
Manuela Ochoa is an artist and research assistant at the Listening Acts Lab.
We ask ourselves: How can music and culture support and transform displaced communities to strengthen their identity? What does it mean to be a social leader in a country at war? We will explore these questions through drawings, words, and music. We invite attendees to have a sheet of paper and a pencil during the conversation. No skill or artistic experience is required to participate in this space.
Registration
In order to accommodate social distancing, all of COHDS/ALLab events will be held online. Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but you need to register! To register, visit the event’s Zoom page here: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrdemupj0pG9cSJw7I6hCVcAg2yDw4mFth.

Workshop: Introduction to Audio Editing (I&II)
2021-11-01 10:00 - 12:00, 2021-11-08 10:00 - 12:00
Audio Editing (I&II)
With this two-parts Audio Editing workshop, we will look at ways to clean up and edit recorded sound. Whether the final destination is a podcast, an audio documentary or radio play, we will cover the basics of improving the overall sound of the recorded material, looking at strategies that will enhance it. The recommended software for this workshop is Adobe Audition. It is strongly recommended that you have the program installed before the start date of the workshop. In Audio Editing I (Nov1) we will cover the layout of the software and we will discuss workflows. Audio Editing II (Nov8) will focus on key effects within Audition that should be part of your strategies and approaches to improve sound. Finally, we recommend that participants partake in both sessions of the series.
Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.
REGISTRATION
In order to accommodate social distancing, most COHDS/ALLab events will be held online. Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but you need to register! To register, please send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca. You only need to register once to attend both sessions. Please note that seats are limited.

Workshop: Oral History Theory and Ethic
2021-11-08 12:00 - 14:00
This workshop will provide you with some of the fundamentals in the interdisciplinary field of oral history. Participants will learn about an oral history approach to interviewing, ethics in research, and the many ways that oral histories are shared with the public. This workshop is strongly recommended to all new affiliates, as it is intended to present the methodology and ethics followed by our Centre.
Steven High is professor of history at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He is an interdisciplinary oral and public historian with a strong interest in transnational approaches to working-class studies, forced migration, and community-engaged research. He has headed a number of major research projects, most notably the prize-winning “Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations”. He is currently finishing a book on the Montreal neighbourhoods of Point Saint-Charles and Little Burgundy.
REGISTRATION
In order to accommodate social distancing, all of COHDS/ALLab events will be held online. Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but you need to register! To register, visit the event’s Zoom page here: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudO-sqDgjGdc7BUVCw9Levcv0ohzwxVZD?fbclid=IwAR2Se2Dwn2duXhuEeCZ_zKRTeslIrSCkUEcMmfbhWkha96ItyYLDPPqWm3o

How can Music Contribute to the Listening of Testimonies? (ALLab)
2021-11-12 18:30 - 20:00
The workshop will explore the way music amplifies testimonies and accompanies us in the listening of real-life stories.
LOCATION: IN PERSON AT THE ALLAB BLACK BOX
Concordia UniversityLibrary Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.21400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada
REGISTRATION
In person at the Acts of Listening Lab Black Box. Please email acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca to secure your in-person spot. A very limited number of spots are available. Please note: if you have any Covid-19 symptoms of if you are not fully vaccinated we invite you to join the online version of this event.

Conversation: Ethics as a quest
2021-11-25 12:00 - 14:00
This is an open and non-formal conversation between Dr. Catherine Richardson and Zeina Ismail-Allouche that unsettles the concept of shared authority as a guaranteed pathway towards an ethical approach. The session will take the form of a sharing circle that invites participants to unpack their understanding of ethics while addressing representation and contextualization as proposed main constructs to ethics. We will address Indigenous Methodologies as a relational egalitarian approach that extends the concept of shared authority to include the world views, the choice of the research question, and the positionality of the researcher vis-vis the research question.
REGISTRATION

You can register via Zoom by clicking here

Prototyping a Research-Creation Project (Exhibition of Work by ALLab’s PhD Students)
2021-12-10 11:00 - 13:00
LOCATION: ONLINE OR IN PERSON AT THE ALLAB BLACK BOX
Concordia UniversityLibrary Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.21400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada
REGISTRATION
In person at the Acts of Listening Lab Black Box and streamed online. Please email acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca to secure your in-person spot. A very limited number of spots are available. Please note: if you have any Covid-19 symptoms of if you are not fully vaccinated we invite you to join the online version of this event. You can register for the online version via Zoom here: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcodeGqrz0sE9PTSdIFvfZa_KzQzxFBh0V6?fbclid=IwAR2DgMilu_UR24en4krm_j40zgGSAH_n5vH74-QhAgyi1jFAIhnUL_IpezU.

Veronica Mockler's Research-Creation Thesis Presentation (Master of Arts in Fine Arts)
2021-12-14 09:00 - 2021-12-15 21:00
DESCRIPTION
PERSONNE EN COMMUN —L’œuvre résultant du processus de recherche-création collaboratif de l’artiste et étudiante-chercheuse Veronica Mockler (candidate au Master of Arts in Fine Arts) sera dévoilée en présentiel sous la forme d’une installation vidéo au grand public, les 14 et 15 décembre prochains, entre 9h et 21h au Laboratoire des actes d’écoute de l’Université Concordia. Joignez-vous à l’artiste en personne durant ces deux journées pour discuter de son travail.
PERSON IN COMMON —The artwork resulting from the collaborative research-creation process of artist and student-researcher Veronica Mockler (Master of Arts in Fine Arts candidate) will be unveiled in person to the general public in the form of a video installation on December 14th and 15th, between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. at Concordia University’s Acts of Listening Lab. Join the artist in person during these two days to discuss her work.
EN PERSONNE À L’ALLab | IN PERSON AT THE ALLab
Concordia UniversityLibrary Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.21400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada
INSCRIPTION | REGISTRATION
Si vous comptez être plus de 5 personnes lors de votre visite, veuillez envoyer un courriel à acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca afin de pouvoir assurer les mesures sanitaires. | If you plan to be more than 5 people on your visit, please email acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca so we can ensure sanitary measures.
Veuillez noter que si vous présentez des symptômes de COVID-19 ou si vous n’êtes pas complètement vacciné, le Laboratoire des actes d’écoute pourra partager à une date ultérieure un lien privé pour le visionnement de l’œuvre en ligne. Veuillez envoyer un courriel à acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca le cas échéant. | Please note that if you have COVID-19 symptoms or are not fully vaccinated, the Acts of Listening Lab may share a private link for viewing the artwork online at a later date. Please email acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca if applicable.

Sonic Sentimentality and the Unification of the Listening Space (ALLab)
2021-12-16 18:00 - 19:00
Exploring the Intersections of Oral History and Sonic Art with Alana DeVito (installation artist, composer, researcher). A presentation and discussion of Mx. DeVito’s paper (published in Organised Sound, September 2021).
LOCATION: ONLINE OR IN PERSON AT THE ALLAB BLACK BOX
Concordia UniversityLibrary Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.21400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada
REGISTRATION
In person at the Acts of Listening Lab Black Box and streamed online. Please email acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca to secure your in-person spot. A very limited number of spots are available. Please note: if you have any Covid-19 symptoms of if you are not fully vaccinated we invite you to join the online version of this event. You can register for the online version via Zoom here: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsfu6opz8rEtaW1H_vA1S4zUW78yQaT-lP?fbclid=IwAR3kHgrJc42nI0WltyI2gx0B5h75o-iqMS3kDQ1mrJFNAIQoDGqRQGGJWao.

Workshop: Introduction to Oral History
2022-01-18 12:00 - 14:00
DESCRIPTION
This workshop will provide you with some of the fundamentals in the interdisciplinary field of oral history. Participants will learn about an oral history approach to interviewing, ethics in research, and the many ways that oral histories are shared with the public. This workshop is strongly recommended to all new affiliates, as it is intended to present the methodology and ethics followed by our Centre.
Emma Haraké is also the Coordinator and Community Facilitator of COHDS. She is an educator, visual artist, researcher and community organizer born and raised in Beirut and living in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). She holds a Master’s in art education from Concordia University and a BFA from the Lebanese University. Her research interests include autobiographical and arts-based inquiries, memory work, and oral history. Outside of COHDS, Emma has years of work experience in various cultural, academic, and community settings and locates her work within collaborative and community-based practices. Her most recent project Mumtalakat, explores the meanings embedded in personal objects belonging to Arabic-speaking immigrants. As this project grows, she continues to consider the complexities of collaborative processes, questioning conventions of the researcher/educator as main author, prioritizing participants’ perspectives, and investigating how to negotiate these relations and viewpoints around the city.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Emma Haraké
Online
REGISTRATION
This event is full, you can send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca to join the waitlist.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Ethical Loneliness: restorative listening after disaster and oppression (ALLab)
2022-01-31 16:00 - 17:30
DESCRIPTION
People who listen to stories about trauma and recovery may hear things they never wanted to hear. They may also simply fail to hear stories well due to various presuppositions about how the world works, what counts as a stable narrative, or what it is they think they’re listening for. Recovery from violence and oppression involves work on the part of those who have been harmed, of course. But it also requires that those who have not been harmed learn how to hear stories about trauma and even to listen for their own failures of hearing. This talk will take a philosophical look at the difficulties that reside on all sides of this complicated conversation, focusing equally on testimony from traumatized survivors of a wide array of harms and on the reasons why even those who have been trained to listen sometimes fail to hear well.
Jill Stauffer is Associate Professor and Director of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College (USA). She is the author of Ethics Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Jill Stauffer
Online
REGISTRATION
You can register via Zoom by clicking here.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca.

Mapping Oral History: How to Create a Free Online Story Atlas with Atlascine
2022-02-07 12:00 - 13:30
DESCRIPTION
Atlascine is a free, online and open-source software developed to map collections of stories. Through the full interaction between media and maps, Atlascine offers new ways of navigating within and between audiovisual stories. Here, the map is envisioned not only as a way to reveal places described in stories, but also to expand the possibilities of listening, visualizing and making connections between stories. During this workshop participants will learn how to create a free online atlas of stories with Atlascine. More specifically, they will learn how to connect audiovisual files with transcripts; how to tag these transcripts to generate maps and how to use these maps to visualize, connect and listen to stories. This workshop will present a live demonstration of the different steps required to set up an online atlas of stories with Atlascine. No particular material is required from the participants: the workshop is geared towards participants who might be interested in developing their own atlas based on stories/interviews they already have or that they plan to collect.
More details about the Atlascine project
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Sébastien Caquard, Emory Shaw and Sepideh Shahamati
Online
REGISTRATION
You can register via Zoom by clicking here.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Workshop: Stories of a Still
2022-02-10 17:00 - 19:00
DESCRIPTION
Zaki will take as a point of entry his experience as a journalist to explore the different ways a photograph can be reproduced in storytelling. This workshop is an invitation to reflect on the documentary implications of photographs and how the subjective is paramount in determining their evidential value.
Please bring a photograph that you feel comfortable sharing with the group.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Zaki Mahfoud
In person
REGISTRATION
Please email cohds.chorn@concordia.ca to register.
Given that the event is held in person all people wishing to join must be fully vaccinated. Please make sure you are not presenting COVID-19 symptoms, too. Note that all of our events are free and open to all, but registration is required.
LOCATION
Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) Sunroom
Concordia University
Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1019
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, QC, Canada
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Atelier: Introduction à l’histoire orale
2022-02-17 12:00 - 14:00
DESCRIPTION
Cet atelier de formation couvre les concepts fondamentaux de la méthodologie de l’histoire orale. On y aborde l’évolution de la discipline, son approche de l’entrevue, l’éthique de la recherche, et les diverses façons dont les chercheur·e·s en histoire orale diffusent leurs travaux auprès d’un vaste public. Le plus possible, le contenu sera adapté au niveau de connaissances et aux projets des participant·e·s. Cet atelier est fortement recommandé aux nouveaux et nouvelles affilié.e.s du CHORN, car il constitue une introduction à la méthodologie et aux principes développés et suivis par le Centre.
Lea Kabiljo est une candidate au doctorat dans le département d’éducation de l’art a l’université Concordia. Sa recherche s’intéresse à l’histoire orale, la photographie, les nouvelles technologies et l’empathie dans un contexte pédagogique. Sa pratique artistique combine l’histoire orale et la photographie, examinant la façon dont les interviews biographiques peuvent susciter des portraits. Elle est récipiendaire de la bourse d’étude Fond de recherche du Québec au niveau doctoral et de la bourse Concordia fellowship of Fine Arts. En 2019, elle a été nommé “Concordia’s Public Scholar’s”, une des dix candidat.e.s au doctorats les plus qualifié.e.s à travers les quatre facultés. Lea est aussi une professeur d’art au secondaire et une avide fan de voyages et de fromages.

DÉTAILS
En français
Avec Lea Kabiljo
En personne ou en ligne
INSCRIPTION
Veuillez nous écrire à l’adresse cohds.chorn@concordia.ca pour vous inscrire.
Si vous présentez des symptômes de Covid-19 ou si vous n’êtes pas complètement vacciné, nous vous invitons à joindre la version en ligne de cet événement.
Tous nos événements sont gratuits et ouverts au public, mais l’inscription est obligatoire.
PLUS D’INFORMATIONS
Si vous avez des questions, vous pouvez nous écrire à l’adresse cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Workshop: Introduction to Archiving
2022-02-22 12:00 - 14:00
DESCRIPTION
Details will be posted here shortly.
Eliot is a PhD student in History and COHDS Archives Coordinator. His dissertation topic is the impact of deindustrialization and urban renewal on Sudbury, Ontario’s Francophone community. Eliot’s doctoral thesis will examine the ways in which residents transitioned from activists to participants in Montreal’s governance both specifically from the viewpoint of the planning process, and, more generally, as ongoing mediators within public debates over urban issues. The institutionalization of activist voices represented a marked shift from an earlier confrontational style. However, while many applauded this development, there remains much criticism over the role and effectiveness of public participation within Montreal’s planning frameworks and in conjunction with the city’s, and private sector’s, contemporary developmental goals. Utilizing oral history interviews and the resources of the city’s Office de la consultation publique, Eliot will examine the perceived success of institutionalized activist voices and the history of participatory planning in the city.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Eliot Perrin
Online
REGISTRATION
This event is full, you can send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca to join the waitlist.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Performing Real People (ALLab)
2022-03-08 18:00 - 20:00
DESCRIPTION
In this talk, Dr. Cantrell will discuss how actors approach listening across a range of documentary theatre forms. He will identify ‘documentary theatre’ as an umbrella term which includes a wide range of working methods, each calling on the actor to listen in different ways. Examples drawn from British theatre will include headphone verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre and verbatim musicals.
Dr. Tom Cantrell is Reader in Theatre, Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students. Department if Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media. University of York, UK.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Dr. Tom Cantrell
REGISTRATION
Contact acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca to register.
LOCATION
Room MB 7.401, MB Building – Concordia University, 1450 Rue Guy, Montréal, QC H3H 1J5, Canada
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca.

Decolonised Witnessing in Testimonial Theatre (ALLab)
2022-03-09 14:00 - 15:00
DESCRIPTION
Dr. Amanda Stuart Fischer is Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance, and Course Leader for the Program Writing for Performance at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. She is the author of various books and articles on testimonial theatre, including Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies, and her co-edited collection Performing Care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Dr. Amanda Stuart Fischer
Online
REGISTRATION
Join the Zoom Meeting on the day of the event by clicking here.
Meeting ID: 926 541 6070Passcode: [REDACTED]
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca.

Workshop: Introduction to Audio Recording
2022-03-14 13:00 - 15:00
DESCRIPTION
Best practice and basics of working with microphones and recorders.
Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Vitalyi Bulychev
Online
REGISTRATION
Please email us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca to register.
Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but registration is required.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Ethical Encounters: 9th Emerging Scholars Symposium on Oral History, Digital Storytelling, and Creative Practice
2022-03-17 09:30 - 17:30
DESCRIPTION

The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University offers students and emerging scholars an opportunity to present their work at any stage, to exchange ideas, and to connect with other researchers and creators.
With the chosen title of Ethical Encounters, the Program Committee invited speakers to reflect on ethics within their research, and to engage with it from a range of different disciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and creative perspectives
This hybrid event offers undergraduate, graduate students and emerging scholars an opportunity to present their work at any stage, to exchange ideas, and to connect with other researchers and creators. This year’s symposium is held in collaboration with Concordia’s 4TH SPACE where oral history research-creation projects will be included in a showcase on the day of the symposium.

SCHEDULE | HORAIRE
9:30 – 9:40 Welcome | Mot de bienvenue
9:40 – 11:10 embracing vulnerability | accueillir la vulnérabilité
11:10 – 11:25 Break | Pause
11:25 – 12:40 breaking silences | briser les silences
12:40 – 13:25 Lunch | Dîner
13:25 – 14:25 keynote | Conférence
14:25 – 14:40 award for Excellence in Oral History | prix d’excellence en histoire orale
14:40 – 14:55 Break | Pause
14:55 – 16:10 (co)creative encounters | rencontres (co)créatives
16:10 – 16:25 Break | Pause
16:25 – 17:25 subversive practices | pratiques subversives
17:25 – 17:30 Closing remarks | Mot de la fin
Organising Committee | Comité organisateur
Sarah Bengle, Simona Elena Apostol, Emma Haraké, Lea Kabiljo, Houry Pilibbossian
Download the PDF of the full program
Download the PDF of the call for proposals (closed)
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
Bilingual
In collaboration with 4TH SPACE
FOFA Gallery, COHDS, ALLab, Institute for Urban Futures, and the Departments of Geography, Art Education, Communications and History at Concordia
Keynote by Amina Jalabi
In Person and Online
REGISTRATION

How can you participate? Attend the discussion in person (note, there is a maximum of 30 audience members permitted in the space) or online by registering for the Zoom meeting or watching live on 4TH SPACE YouTube channel.

LOCATION
4TH SPACEConcordia University, Library Building, Room LB-1031400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. WMontreal, QC, Canada
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Workshop: Introduction to Audio Editing with Adobe Audition (I)
2022-03-21 13:00 - 15:00
DESCRIPTION
With this two-parts Audio Editing workshop, we will look at ways to clean up and edit recorded sound. Whether the final destination is a podcast, an audio documentary or radio play, we will cover the basics of improving the overall sound of the recorded material, looking at strategies that will enhance it. The recommended software for this workshop is Adobe Audition. It is strongly recommended that you have the program installed before the start date of the workshop. In Audio Editing I (March 21) we will cover the layout of the software and we will discuss workflows. Audio Editing II (March 28) will focus on key effects within Audition that should be part of your strategies and approaches to improve sound. Finally, we recommend that participants partake in both sessions of the series.
Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Vitalyi Bulychev
Online
REGISTRATION
Please email us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca to register. You only need to register once to attend both workshops.
Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but registration is required.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Workshop: Discovering Storytelling in Comics
2022-03-23 11:00 - 13:00
DESCRIPTION
Join this workshop to discover storytelling in comic books! Through experiential learning, you will grasp the concept of narrative transportation and transmedia brands in marketing, along with storytelling methods found within comics.
Dania Kyle is a graduate student enrolled in a Master of Science in Marketing, currently working on her thesis of comic books, along with creating comic strips for the book “Tout est parfait, tout le monde le pense!”, written by Michèle Paulin. Aiming at getting a Ph.D. in marketing overseas to become a marketing teacher and, who knows, maybe a guru one day. Spokesperson in the fight against domestic violence, feminicides, and violence against women and children. Also working on creating her own graphic novel from scratch, which she intends to draw, write and translate.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Photo courtesy of Dania Kyle

DETAILS
In English
With Dania Kyle
In Person and Online
REGISTRATION
To attend in person, please send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.
To attend online, you can register on Zoom by clicking here.
Please note: if you have any Covid-19 symptoms of if you are not fully vaccinated we invite you to join the online version of this event.
All of our events are free and open to all, but registration is required.
LOCATION
Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) SunroomConcordia UniversityLibrary Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-10191400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Workshop: Introduction to Audio Editing with Adobe Audition (II)
2022-03-28 13:00 - 15:00

Ethical Relationally and Intersubjective Space
2022-04-01 10:00 - 11:30
DESCRIPTION
After an overview of the Postmarginal project on inclusive theatre practices (from its emergence within the practice of Modern Times Stage Company to its three streams of activity the theatre community), I will explore with my listeners the aspects of relationality in the theoretical research (Donald; Ermine; Glissant), show excerpts of the video creation of embodied explorations, and demonstrate how the theory and practice is unfolding in Postmarginal’s new website, The Centre Cannot Hold. The event will conclude with a 30-minute question and answer period.
THE PRESENTER
Peter Farbridge is an actor and writer working in Montreal and Toronto. As a founding member and co-artistic director of Modern Times (with Soheil Parsa), he has appeared in most of the productions of Modern Times Stage Company (MTSC), including the title characters in Hamlet, Macbeth, and Hallaj. He has also played Vladimir in Waiting for Godot and Old Man in Ionesco’s The Chairs, for which he was nominated for a Dora Award as Outstanding Performance by a Male. Farbridge has collaborated with Parsa on six translation/adaptations of Persian plays, four of which were published in an anthology by Playwrights Canada Press (2003). Two of these collaborations were recognized with Dora Awards. He has also co-authored on two original plays, Hallaj (with Parsa) and Forgiveness (with Parsa and Barbara Simonsen). Farbridge also initiated a number of socially-minded programs for the company, including the “Dialogues” Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2009), as well as symposia and laboratories on intercultural practice known the Postmarginal, for which he still serves as project director. As a Montreal-based actor, Farbridge has worked in theatre and film both in English and French. His stage credits in the city include five productions with Centaur Theatre, several seasons at Repercussion Theatre, a French-language production at Le théâtre du rideau vert, as well as “Progress” with Infinitheatre, for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the Montreal METAs. He has recently worked on “Contre la suite du monde,” a devised theatre production for La bruit / La nuit, and is directing an interdisciplinary and intercultural creation, “Avant que la dernière feuille ne tombe”. Peter teaches occasionally at Concordia University, where he is currently completing his Masters on Ethical Relationality and the Rehearsal Space.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English
With Peter Farbridge
LOCATION
Acts of Listening Lab
Concordia University
Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.02
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, QC, Canada
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If you have any questions, contact us at acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca.

In Between: Stories of home and land | ما بین بین: قصص عن الوطن والارض
2022-04-07 16:00 - 20:00
[Please note this is a two day event. It will be happening on April 7 from 16h00-20h00 and on April 8 from 10h00-20h00. You can visit the installation at any of those times.]
DESCRIPTION
Four participants and I, Palestinians living in diaspora: Lebanon, Jordan, Norway and Canada… Why and how?Each one of us has a story to tell based on: diaspora and identity… belonging and attachment… Land and belief…The starting point for this collective endeavor is our feelings of nostalgia, chaos, and a collage of images from memory, the memories of our grandparents and parents, as well as our imagined individual and collective memories. Hence the question stretching from memory to imagination: What does homeland mean to you?If there were no borders and you were able to visit Palestine for only one day, where would you go and what would you do?
This collaborative installation is the result of the research-creation process of Lucine Serhan’s work as part of her MA thesis in Art Education at Concordia University. All the videos are in the Arabic language with English subtitles.
With the participation of: Ahmed Alaydi, Fadia Khorbity, Dareen Miliji and Rahma Mughrabi.
اربع مشاركين وانا…. من فلسطين، نعيش في الشتات، في لبنان، الاردن، النروج وكندا…لماذا وكيف؟ لدى كل واحد منا حكاية يرويها حول الترحال والهوية، الانتماء والتعلق، الأرض والفكره ينطلق هذا العمل الجماعي مما نشعر به من حنين وفوضى وصور مركبة من الذاكرة، ذاكرة الاجداد والآباء وتلك المتخيلة الفردية والجماعية:فجاء السؤال يمتد من الذاكرة الي الخيالماذا يعني لك المكان او الوطن؟ولو لم تكن هناك حدود واستطعت أن تذهب الى فلسطين ليوم واحد فقط، أين ستذهب وماذا ستفعل؟
يأتي هذا المعرض الجماعي نتيجة البحث الذي تنفّذه لوسين سرحان كجزء من مشروع أطروحتها في ماجستير التعلّم من خلال الفنون في جامعة كونكورديا. كل الفيديوهات التي تُعرض خلاله هي باللغة العربية مع ترجمة بالانكليزي
المشاركين: أحمد العايدي، فاديه خربيطي، دارين ميليجي، رحمه مغربي
THE PRESENTER
Lucine Serhan ​is a Palestinian, Lebanon-born artist, reseracher and community art educator with a background in theater, film, and television production. She has collaborated on multiple creative oral history and storytelling projects with women refugees and youth. Lucine uses puppetry and storytelling as a social means of action to address identity, displacement, belonging, and memory. She is a founder of ​beit byout​, a cultural organization that integrates art with storytelling to explore the Arabic language and culture.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

DETAILS
In English and Arabic
In Person
With Lucine Serhan
LOCATION
Acts of Listening Lab
Concordia University
Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.02
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, QC, Canada
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca.

Autoriser l'écriture
2022-06-06 17:00 - 19:00
[Cet évènement fait partie d’une série de deux ateliers. En vous inscrivant, vous vous engagez à participer aux deux ateliers qui auront lieu le 6 et 7 juin de 17h00 à 19h00, 2022]
DESCRIPTION
Dans une série de deux ateliers, nous voulons tracer les contours de ce que permet l’écriture quand elle s’adosse à la mémoire puissante et faillible des récits d’autrui. En collaboration avec les artistes- chercheureuses, nous voulons explorer les difficiles enjeux de la création littéraire quand elle se propose comme stratégie pour reconstituer les liens, la scène du crime; pour proposer un parcours mémoriel, pour repriser les maillages d’un récit endommagé par les traumatismes passés et présents.
À ces fins, nous proposerons des réflexions en recherche-création s’appuyant sur les méthodes de l’histoire orale ainsi que sur des enjeux plus spécifiques concernant l’écriture, les positionnements de l’écrivaine, les subjectivités multiples, les appartenances et marginalités ainsi que les risques encourus par un tel travail.
Enfin, nous nous appuierons sur les potentialités et ressources de la poésie.
À PROPOS DES PRÉSENTATRICES
Stéphane Martelly est née à Port-au-Prince. Écrivaine, peintre et chercheure, elle poursuit une démarche réflexive sur la littérature haïtienne contemporaine, sur la création, sur les marginalités littéraires ainsi que sur les limites de l’interprétation. Elle est l’autrice d’un essai en recherche-création, Les jeux du dissemblable. Folie, marge et féminin en littérature haïtienne contemporaine (Nota bene, 2016). Ses plus récentes publications comprennent le recueil de poésie Inventaires et le livre-poème illustré L’enfant-Gazelle (Remue-ménage, 2018). Elle a fondé la collection MARTIALES aux Éditions du Remue-Ménage en 2020, consacrée à l’écriture des femmes noires. Stéphane Martelly est professeure en recherche-création et en littératures de la Caraïbe au Département des arts, langues et littératures de l’Université de Sherbrooke. Elle assume depuis 2021 la co-direction du groupe de recherche VersUS, laboratoire transculturel.
Autrice, éditrice et traductrice, Chloé Savoie-Bernard a, entre autres, publié Des femmes savantes (Triptyque, 2016), Sainte Chloé de l’amour (Hexagone, 2021) et dirigé le collectif Corps (Triptyque, 2018). À compter de l’automne 2022, elle occupera un poste de professeure de littérature à l’Université Queen’s.

DÉTAILS
En français
Avec Stephane Martelly et Chloé Savoie-Bernard
En personne
INSCRIPTION
Veuillez nous écrire à l’adresse cohds.chorn@concordia.ca pour vous inscrire. Votre inscription s’applique pour les deux ateliers.
Les participant·e·s devraient avoir une idée du sujet sur lequel elles·ils veulent écrire.
Tous nos événements sont gratuits et ouverts au public, mais l’inscription est obligatoire.
LIEU
Concordia UniversityLibrary Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1019 (COHDS Sunroom)1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada
PLUS D’INFORMATIONS
Si vous avez des questions, vous pouvez nous écrire à l’adresse cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

Care-Centred Approaches to Oral History-Informed Research Creation
2022-06-14 10:00 - 12:00
DETAILS

In English, with interpretation into Spanish

REGISTRATION

Registration here: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/…/tZMrdumtqD0jHNb7dkHOK1Ry…

LOCATION

4TH SPACE, Concordia

MORE INFORMATION

If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

DESCRIPTION

Care-Centred Approaches to Oral History-Informed Research Creation Jun 14, 10am-12pmIn English, with interpretation into Spanish

A collaborative exploration of the ethical challenges of research-creation processes informed by narratives of violence. With: Catherine Richardson, Director of First Peoples Studies Concordia; Marie Andrea Garcia, Dance Mouvement Therapist; Luis C Sotelo Director of Acts of Listening Lab.
In collaboration with 4TH SPACE Concordia University

COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Cartographie sensible des récits
2022-09-29 12:00 - 14:30
DETAILS

avec Élise Olmedo et Kevin Pinvidic. En français (avec Q&A en anglais et français).
en personne (RSVP), en ligne (zoom)

REGISTRATION

To attend in person, please send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca. To attend online, you can register on Zoom by clicking here. All of our events are free and open to all, but registration is required.

LOCATION

Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Concordia University Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1019 (Sunroom)1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada

MORE INFORMATION

If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

avec Élise Olmedo et Kevin Pinvidic
Cet atelier est le 1er de la série Cartographier les récits : Méthodes, outils et pratiques alternatives
La cartographie sensible est une approche qui s’intéresse à la dimension subjective d’un récit. Cette approche, inspirée à l’origine par les pratiques artistiques, s’étend désormais à de nombreux domaines comme les sciences sociales, l’architecture, l’aménagement, l’éducation, l’activisme ou l’histoire orale. La cartographie sensible peut en effet permettre d’identifier et de révéler des aspects importants des récits comme les émotions associées à la mémoire et aux souvenirs. Une initiation à cette méthode sera proposée dans cet atelier au cours duquel une attention particulière sera portée au processus mise en carte de manière sensible. Elle sera suivie par une discussion (en français et en anglais).
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Would it be ethical not to share your own story?
2022-10-12 17:00 - 20:00
DETAILS

In English
With Zeina Ismail-Allouche and Jad Orphée Chami
In person

REGISTRATION

To attend in person, please send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca. All of our events are free and open to all, but registration is required.

LOCATION

Acts of Listening Lab @ Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Concordia University Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.02 (moon room)1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada

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If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

DESCRIPTION

A performative participatory workshop to deconstruct the concept of shared authority in the Oral History Interview, with Zeina Ismail-Allouche and Jad Orphée Chami. In English.
This performative participatory workshop intends to unpack the tension revolving around the willingness/ readiness/preparedness of oral historians to share their own stories and the concept of shared authority within the interview space.
The workshop intends to offer a safe space to address essential questions about the deep connections tying Indigenous Methodologies and the call for self-positionality to the practice of oral history. A self-positioning performative narrative will prelude the workshop as a pathway to living the experience of telling one’s own story as a vivid introduction to the subject matter. The participants will be then invited to reflect, connect, and revisit critically shared authorities in the interview space.
Zeina Ismail-Allouche is a core member of the centre.
Jad Orphée Chami is a Lebanese-Canadian artist-researcher and composer, born in Beirut in 1998 and living in Montreal since 2015. He notably composed the original music for the film Antigone by Sophie Deraspe, which represented Canada at the 92nd Academy Awards and was nominated for best original music at the 22nd Gala Québec Cinéma. Through research-creation, he explores oral history as literal embodiment, separating the linguistic components of testimonies from the incarnated and bodily-bursting stories.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Introduction to Audio Recording
2022-10-24 13:00 - 15:00
DETAILS

In English
With Vitalyi Bulychev
In person

REGISTRATION

To attend in person, please send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca. All of our events are free and open to all, but registration is required.

LOCATION

Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Concordia University Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1019 (Sunroom)1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal, QC, Canada

MORE INFORMATION

If you have any questions, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

DESCRIPTION

with Vitalyi Bulychev
Best practice and basics of working with microphones and recorders.
Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.

COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
