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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
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SUMMARY:Best Recording Practices for Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers – Part Two
DESCRIPTION:with Andrés Torres  \nThis 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. Participants will gain the skills to effectively capture and edit high-quality material\, preparing it for dissemination or archiving. \nPart 2: Editing and Disseminating – Bringing It All Together \nIn Part 2\, the focus shifts to editing the images and sounds captured in Part 1. You will learn basic editing techniques to refine your recordings\, integrating the process of exporting your final product for archiving and dissemination. You will explore how to make intentional choices in your editing and how these choices enhance the effectiveness of your work as it goes to preservation and/or dissemination. By the end of this session\, you will have the basic skills to edit your audiovisual materials to present to an audience and ready for dissemination in research or creative contexts. \nWho Should Attend: \nThis workshop is ideal for Oral Historians\, Digital Storytellers\, Scholars\, and anyone involved in creative or research projects who wishes to enhance their skills in audiovisual production\, from recording to editing. No prior experience is necessary\, but an interest in exploring both the technical and conceptual aspects of media creation is encouraged. \nEquipment: \nAll equipment\, including cameras\, microphones\, and editing software\, will be available for current COHDS affiliates\, ensuring an immersive and practical learning experience. \nAndrés F. Torres is a filmmaker and screenwriter with extensive experience in fiction and non-fiction\, digital storytelling\, audiovisual archives\, and oral history. He holds an M.F.A. in Film and Media from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently engaged in various projects across his native Colombia\, the United States\, and Canada. Andrés joins COHDS as the Technical Coordinator after serving for five years as the Head Videographer and Digital Archivist at the Voces Oral History Center in Austin.  \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\, Computer Research Lab\, Moonroom)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/best-recording-practices-part-two/
LOCATION:LB 1042.03 (Moonroom)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T140000
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SUMMARY:Casual COHDS
DESCRIPTION:With Lea Kabiljo \nJoin 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 simply take a moment to pause\, recharge\, and connect with other oral history practitioners and enthusiasts\, “Casual COHDS” is an opportunity to foster these exchanges. Held in the afternoon\, each monthly meeting will be loosely designed around a theme\, to get the conversation started. For our gathering in March\, participants are invited to bring a favourite story around an interview encounter or a photograph that they would like to share — or to simply bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday\, March 25th\, anytime between 14:00 and 16:30 p.m. in the Sunroom (LB- 1019). \nLea Kabiljo\, assistant professor at Université Laval\, is a multidisciplinary researcher whose expertise spans the fields of the arts\, education\, and oral history. She has a particular interest in integrating photography and oral history into her research-creation process. Holding a PhD in Art Education from Concordia University\, Lea’s research highlights her multidisciplinary approach by exploring the educational potential of oral history and photography in art education. Having taught in school\, community\, and university settings\, Lea is actively engaged in teacher training\, with a special focus on the development of socio-emotional skills. She is also recognized for her expertise in oral history and has led numerous research projects in Canada and internationally. \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/casual-cohds-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (sunroom)\, COHDS
CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - A Reflection Moment: Writing a Land Recognition for COHDS
DESCRIPTION:“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 [Plantain]\, generous and healing\, grows with is leaves so close to the ground that each step is a greeting to Mother Earth.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Braiding Sweetgrass \nEnglish \nWith Fran Beauvais\, Catherine Richardson and Mélissa-Anne Ménard \nWe invite you to a moment of connection and deep reflection as we work together to write a land recognition that vibrates with COHDS’ essence and intention of reciprocity\, respect and care. A time to explore the relationship we have to the land that kisses our feet every day and to honor it\, this Reflection Moment will approach the collective writing moment as an ongoing process to be reflected on in the years to come. It is meant as an opportunity to connect to love and commit to the land that houses us\, shapes us and offer deep gratitude to its guardians; it is a commitment to self. \nAs members of the COHDS community\, you will be invited to meditate on your own relationship to the land and the relationship that COHDS\, as the sum of its parts\, also has to it. In small groups\, you will be asked to come up with a land recognition which we will then “braid” together as a whole to act as a heartfelt ode to the land for COHDS to use moving forward. \nWhy are doing this? \nMembers of our team and community have felt the need to write a deeply personalized land recognition and acknowledgement\, gratitude for the Kanien’kehá:ka nation\, people and lands upon which we live and work.  \nOur aim is that this process would also allow us to reflect on COHDS’ positionality and involvement in decolonization. \nPlease note that participating members will ask to read and listen to excerpts beforehand so as to arrive with a common mindset. We will communicate with participants 1 week prior to the event to do so. \nWe look forward to sharing this moment with you. \n  \nREGISTRATION   \nPlease note that this event has been cancelled. \nPlease note that registration for this event will close on April 4. If you wish to attend after this date\, please write to cohdscoordinator@concordia.ca. \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\, Computer Research Lab\, Moonroom)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/a-reflection-moment-writing-a-land-recognition-for-cohds/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:workshops
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T140000
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SUMMARY:Casual COHDS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another 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 simply take a moment to pause\, recharge\, and connect with other oral history practitioners and enthusiasts\, “Casual COHDS” is an opportunity to foster these exchanges. Held in the afternoon\, each monthly meeting will be loosely designed around a theme\, to get the conversation started. For our gathering in March\, participants are invited to bring a favourite story around an interview encounter or a photograph that they would like to share — or to simply bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday\, April 29th\, anytime between 14:00 and 16:30 p.m. in the Sunroom (LB- 1019). \nKelann Currie-Williams (they/she) is a writer\, visual artist\, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Kelann is a PhD student at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture\, working at the intersections of Visual Culture\, History\, Black Studies\, and Cultural Studies. Their research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries\, and the scenes of migration\, homemaking\, community-building\, and political mobilization that those photographs depict. Kelann is a long-time student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling\, an affiliate of the Access in the Making lab\, and a member of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology’s Post Image cluster. Her critical work has appeared in academic journals such as Urban History Review\, the Canadian Journal of History\, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies\, and Philosophy of Photography. \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/casual-cohds-3/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T190000
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SUMMARY:Vernissage and Durational performance\, "I Insist" - Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:I insist is a long-duration performance piece that unfolds over the course of several hours. In it\, the artist slowly wraps their body in red sewing thread. With minor\, ritualistic\, almost inconsequential movements\, the piece itself is mostly understood in fragments. The scale of this piece does not encourage you to sit with it in its entirety\, though one may choose to\, but rather to understand it as it unfolds in the space. The slow disappearance of the body from its surroundings enhances a distinction between the person and the outside; the other. I insist is an exploration of what it means for a body to be woven (or not) into networks of community\, lineage\, and environments. \nSol Worsnip is an emergent interdisciplinary artist whose work primarily lies at the intersection of sound\, video\, and performance art. They are currently completing a B.A. in Communication Studies at Concordia with a focus on sound and audio art. Through their work\, they seek to ask the simplest questions. How can one inhabit a body and move it through the world—and get everything else done as well? And what does it mean to witness? \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/i-insist/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T170000
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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/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations,workshops
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SUMMARY:Corps\, émotions et recherches: une exploration par cartographie corporelle - Bodies Carrying Exhibition Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description écrite par Naomie Léonard et Stéphane Guimont Marceau.\nLa cartographie corporelle offre une manière unique et créative d’explorer son identité\, ses expériences de vie ou une thématique particulière en centrant le corps et les émotions dans le processus de réflexion. Utilisant l’idée de la carte topographique\, la cartographie corporelle propose d’imaginer le corps comme un territoire qu’il est possible de représenter de manière symbolique. Abordant les thématiques du corps\, des émotions et de la recherche\, cet atelier invitera les participant-es à se pencher sur les manières dont le corps et les émotions affectent la recherche et inversement\, comment la recherche affecte le corps et les émotions ?  \nDurant l’atelier\, les participant-es créent une représentation en taille réelle de leur corps. Après avoir personnalisé leur carte pour l’imprégner de leur personnalité et caractéristiques\, les participant-es explorent les thématiques proposées à l’aide d’images\, de couleurs\, de textures\, de mots et de symboles produits via différents médiums d’art plastique (peinture\, dessin\, collage\, etc.). Cela leur permet d’exprimer et documenter leur perspective de certaines expériences à partir de sensations vécues  dans leur corps-territoire.  \nL’atelier se termine par un cercle de partage afin que chaque participant-e puisse raconter sa carte. Ces récits laissent ensuite place à une discussion collective sur les thématiques abordées pour mettre en relief les convergences et les contrastes entre les cartes. Nous invitons chaque participant-e à s’investir dans la création d’un espace bienveillant et sans jugement. Nous cherchons à établir un climat ludique\, marqué par le partage\, l’écoute et le respect mutuel.  \nInstructions: \n\nPlusieurs médiums artistiques\, dont de la peinture\, seront disponibles. N’hésitez pas à vous apporter un tablier.\nN’hésitez pas à amener des collations\nVeuillez arriver quelques minutes à l’avance si possible\n\nNaomie Léonard (elle/she) est doctorante en études urbaines à l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Adoptant une posture écoféministe décoloniale\, ses intérêts de recherche touchent les relations entre corps\, émotions et espaces en contexte de résistance au colonialisme et dans les luttes socio-écologiques. Sa thèse porte sur les relations à la ville et les espaces de care créés et maintenus par des femmes Ilnuatsh et Atikamekws de Mashteuiatsh. Elle a mobilisé la cartographie corporelle comme méthode de recherche afin d’inviter les femmes à explorer de manière créative leurs relations aux espaces et à leurs trajectoires de vie.  \nStéphane Guimont Marceau est professeure au centre Urbanisation Culture Société de l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Elle codirige le programme conjoint INRS-UQAT de maîtrise et de doctorat en études autochtones. Elle est aussi codirectrice du Collaboratoire Villes Voix Visions (c3v.inrs.ca). À partir d’approches critiques\, féministes\, antiracistes et décoloniales\, elle travaille au sein de projets collaboratifs et partenariaux qui priorisent des épistémologies autochtones et des méthodes participatives basées sur les récits. \nINSCRIPTION  \nInscrivez-vous ici. \nVeuillez noter que tous nos événements sont gratuits et ouverts à toutes et à tous. Cependant\, vous devez réserver votre place. Pour participer à l’événement en présentiel évrivez à: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca  \nLIEU \n Le CHORN/ALLAB sont situés sur le territoire non-cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/corps-emotions-et-recherches-une-exploration-par-cartographie-corporelle-bodies-carrying-exhibition-programming/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:Attuning to Spectralities: Senses\, Whispers\, and Other Connective Membranes - Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Milena Rodriguez\nDescription by Esteban Donoso and Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan\nThis workshop offers an immersive\, collaborative space for scholars\, performers\, visual artists\, and curators to engage with embodied practices that attune to spectral presences. By experimenting with spectrality as a connective tissue that links us to ancestral pasts\, we will explore expanded modes of perception that allow us to sense beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. \nParticipants will experiment with “tuning-in” to spectral traces—those unseen presences and memories that linger in bodies\, objects\, and environments. Through guided exercises\, ritual\, open discussions\, and collaborative writing\, we will examine how these traces  are always already part of our embodied experience\, inhabiting material objects\, spatial environments\, and our physical and emotional tissues.  \nThe session includes grounding and attuning exercises\, brief presentations by Esteban and Shalon on their methodologies\, and a generative group writing activity to create a shared “score” reflecting our collective experience of the spectral. \nEsteban Donoso is a researcher-artist from Quito\, Ecuador currently living in Montreal. He recently completed his PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University in Toronto. His work focuses on dance and performance archiving and transmissions\, oral histories\, and practice-based methodologies. His artistic work has been shown in Ecuador\, Colombia\, Chile\, Belgium\, Switzerland\, France\, the U.S.\, and Canada. \nShalon T. Webber-Heffernan is a Toronto based writer and curator. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and is a core member of the Toronto Performance Art Collective (7a11d International Festival of Performance Art). Some of her recent writing has been published in Theatre Research in Canada\, Performance Research\, Comparative Media Arts Journal\, C Magazine\, Peripheral Review\, Performance Matters\, and several other publications. \n*Please wear comfortable clothing \nNote: this event will take place in English\, with the possibility of French translation \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/attuning-to-spectralities-senses-whispers-and-other-connective-membranes-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T163000
DTSTAMP:20260517T073601
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SUMMARY:كان حتى ما كان (Once Upon a Place): What Remains of the Halqa? Performing Memory and Absence - Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credits: Film still from Crossing the Seventh Gate (2017) by Ali Essafi\nDescription by Bouchra Assou and Salma Chouqair\nDrawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different forms of oral traditions in Morocco\, this lecture performance seeks to restage a halqa as both a space and a conduit for ancestral storytelling\, performance and communion. \nThe halqa\, both evoking a space and a practice\, serves as the epitome of narratology and the subversive oral histories of Moroccan heritage. Exploring the intersections between space\, body and practice and treating the memories they hold as a form of resistance to authoritarian/colonial power\, this lecture performance will centre the role of the halqa and its role in preserving and transmitting traditions in their visual and auditory manifestations such as theatre\, storytelling\, carnivalesque practices\, music (tagnawit)\, etc. Furthermore\, we will explore the cinematic and literary languages that seek to disrupt\, challenge\, and dismantle hegemonic historical narratives using alternative modes of knowledge production\, such as the ancient North African practices that encompass a form of storytelling beyond text-image relationships \nBouchra Assou is an independent researcher\, film curator\, programmer\, writer\, and archivist of Moroccan origin based in Montreal\, Canada. She is the founder and curator of Dhakira Collective (2020): an independent research\, archival and curatorial platform that foregrounds art\, cinema\, and music outside the western canon with a focus on cinema from the SWANA region (South West Asia & North Africa) and the co-founder and director of programming of the North African Queer Film Festival (2021) : a community-driven platform dedicated to celebrating and supporting films by\, about\, and for North African queers\, powered by Dhakira Collective. She was invited to deliver lectures on North African cinema and archives by Concordia University\, McGill University and The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Press features about her work have appeared in publications such as Mille World\, Journal de Métro\, Also Cool Mag\, The Link Newspaper etc.  \nSalma Chouqair is a freelance writer and an independent researcher of Moroccan Amazigh origin. She is currently pursuing a BFA Art History and Theology at Concordia University. In 2023\, Salma launched Bayt Zuhal\, an independent cultural platform dedicated to recollecting and preserving the traditions\, arts and archives of Tamazgha & the post-colonial Maghreb with a focus on ancestral futurism. Since its inception\, the project has amassed a global online community. Press features about Salma’s work and research were published in Dune Magazine\, The Road to Nowhere and more recently The Link Newspaper and Dazed MENA.  \nEvent language(s) English\, French\, Arabic & Darija \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/%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%ad%d8%aa%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%a7-%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%86-once-upon-a-place-what-remains-of-the-halqa-performing-memory-and-absence-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T130000
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SUMMARY:The Metabolism of Silence- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description by Eve Garnier and Jacynthe Desjardins\nIn a movement-based workshop\, we propose an exploration of relational possibilities and their bodily expression\, anchored in silence(s). Here\, silence is not a rupture but a dynamic space of exchange between individuals sharing the same space-time. \nThe connection between narrator and audience is a key part of any narrative formed during an interview or performance. Beyond words\, what do we\, as receivers\, perceive? Building trust and sharing authority requires thoughtful attention to how we receive stories. The body is not just a passive receiver but an active participant with its own agency. \nThe workshop will develop two distinct approaches: one in pairs and the other in groups. \nIn the first part\, participants will engage in storytelling through movement in pairs\, examining how narration emerges when bodies remain in constant motion. Can movement generate alternative cognitive pathways? We will seek to identify forms of silence that extend beyond the mere absence of words. We will explore the role of the receivers when also in motion; how they interact with the narrator’s entanglement with spatial relationship\, the unfolding story\, and gesture. What\, then\, is the nature of silence in this context? \nThe second part will focus on a group conversation without words\, engaging with the often-unconscious dimensions of interaction. Participants will observe\, sense otherness\, and be perceived by others. What do we see\, project\, or have projected onto us? How do we perceive “the other” within a group\, within space\, and within time? What is the nature of this silence? \nEve Garnier is a Franco-Polish dance artist and researcher\, born and trained in France\, it was\, however\, in Scandinavia and Canada that Eve built a career in dance as a performer\, assistant to creation and teacher. Centered around the relational and experimental potential of the living body in movement\, her artistic and pedagogical reflections are nourished by artists from varied generations and aesthetics. Eve is a Part-time professor at UQAM\, where she teaches technique and interpretation classes. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in the INDI program at Concordia University. \nJacynthe Desjardins est une artiste en danse établie à Tiohtià :ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal\, Jacynthe Desjardins complète un baccalauréat en danse contemporaine à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM\, 2021) où elle aura eu l’occasion de travailler avec de nombreux chorégraphes et artistes de la scène\, dont Frédérick Gravel\, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage\, Danièle Desnoyers et poursuit depuis un parcours en tant qu’interprète et chercheuse. Aussi titulaire d’un diplôme en lutherie de l’école-atelier Bruand\, Jacynthe s’intéresse au lien entre la musique et la matière. Ses interrogations se tournent vers ce dialogue liminal entre corps sonore et corps matière. À travers sa pratique du mouvement\, elle navigue cet échange constant entre physicalité\, sons et vibrations. S’ajoute aussi un intérêt grandissant pour les arts martiaux ainsi qu’envers l’importance de notre héritage culturel en danse. \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-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/the-metabolism-of-silence-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:Intimate Listening - Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez.\nIn an intimate space within the exhibition space\, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins\, each participant will be given a token amount\, which will be used to exchange stories and typical beverages of the Colombian cafés. The tokens have different values\, and will determine the type of story\, drink and interaction the visitor may have with the copera. After those tokens are consumed\, the next participant is invited to visit the spot. This immersive theatre game delves into the notions of intimate labor\, embodied listening\, and care. \nEvent Requirements: \nThis piece requires one person at a time in the exhibition space. Each person will have around 10 minutes of interaction. For the quality of the piece\, it is requested that participants interact individually as personal stories arise during the conversation\, and those who wish to participate are invited to wait outside the room. \nCristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (she/they) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and educator developing her PhD studies in the INDI program. She is interested in creative\, transformative and communal experiences that address critical intersectional concerns. Based in Tiohtià:ke – Mooniyang – Montreal since 2019. CA is affiliated with Hexagram\, Milieux-LeParc\, COHDS\, ALLab\, and SenseLab-3e at Concordia University. Editor and workshop facilitator at Kodama Cartonera\, an independent publishing house born in Tijuana\, Mexico\, in 2010. CA’s research-creation approach is performative\, feminist\, and (an)archival. Her perspectives stem from embodied practices as a source of knowledge\, intertwining processes of doing-feeling-thinking. Due to their experience in different theatre troupes\, CA learned about diverse techniques focused on developing research and creative methods for\, in\, and within public spaces and non-conventional stages. Currently\, they are a board member of Teesri Duniya Theatre\, where she has developed two community engagement projects. \n\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 at COHDS Exhibition (LB-1042) \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/intimate-listening-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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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
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SUMMARY:Identity\, Care Labor\, and Matrilineal Stories– Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez\, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez.\nThis is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin with a performance and talk by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling)\, followed by a presentation from Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez on their collaborative project (Démarches décoloniales de fabulation critique et de reconnection: Hypergraphie\, performance et futurismes andins dans la création de la Revue d’études Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinaires). \n(1) Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling (Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez): \nCristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez’s event includes a solo performance (resonant roots) and a performative talk: (mise en corps/puesta-en-cuerpo) which zooms in on the role of coperas (women who worked at cafés\, combining traditional waitressing with some escorting services without necessarily being sex workers) in Colombia. \nResonant Roots encompasses Alba’s story (the artist’s great-grandmother) narrated through the voices of her daughter and granddaughter. While a video is projected\, the performer enacts physical movements and interacts with objects around the space. Within this maternal lineage\, some stories want to be told\, others are hidden or denied. Are those stories somehow imprinted in the performer’s body\, although unknown? What are the resonances of her body with the audio archives of her distant lineage? \nmise en corps/puesta-en-cuerpo expands the inquiry; It is a performative talk which outlines the research process on the concept of public women\, focusing on the role of coperas. Also\, it draws on the dramaturgical guidelines\, the exploration of storytelling\, and the creative questions raised to develop these pieces. \nCristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (she/they) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and educator developing her PhD studies in the INDI program. She is interested in creative\, transformative and communal experiences that address critical intersectional concerns. Based in Tiohtià:ke – Mooniyang – Montreal since 2019. CA is affiliated with Hexagram\, Milieux-LeParc\, COHDS\, ALLab\, and SenseLab-3e at Concordia University. Editor and workshop facilitator at Kodama Cartonera\, an independent publishing house born in Tijuana\, Mexico\, in 2010. CA’s research-creation approach is performative\, feminist\, and (an)archival. Her perspectives stem from embodied practices as a source of knowledge\, intertwining processes of doing-feeling-thinking. Due to their experience in different theatre troupes\, CA learned about diverse techniques focused on developing research and creative methods for\, in\, and within public spaces and non-conventional stages. Currently\, they are a board member of Teesri Duniya Theatre\, where she has developed two community engagement projects. \nEvent language(s) \n\nThe performance includes audio in Spanish with video subtitles in English.\nThe performative talk is held in English. \n\n(2)  Démarches décoloniales de fabulation critique et de reconnection: Hypergraphie\, performance et futurismes andins dans la création de la Revue d’études Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinaires (Javi Fuentes Bernal & David Diaz Méndez) \nDecolonial approaches of critical fabulation and reconnection: Hypergraphy\, performance\, and Andean futurisms in the creation of the Journal of Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinaires Studies. \n​​Interweaving critical fabulation\, hypergraphy\, and Pastos symbolism\, this presentation delves into the creative process behind the Journal of Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinary Studies. This journal challenges the linear narratives of colonialism by reactivating indigenous imaginaries through their hybridization with experimental graphic practices. Grounded in Travesti and diasporic studies\, the journal’s critical fabulation—developed in collaboration with David Mendez for graphic design and enriched by the performances of Javi Fuentes Bernal and their mother\, Yadila Bernal—becomes a tool for inventing alternative narratives that unsettle the boundaries of the so-called fixed truths of colonial historiography. Through a hypergraphy that intertwines writing\, drawing\, ancestral symbols\, and contemporary visual languages\, the project explores forms of storytelling that are vibrant\, multifaceted\, and polysemic. This hybridity serves as a lever for reconfiguring Latinx Cholas aesthetics and imagining new visual forms in resonance with Andean futurism. By mobilizing performance as a space for the reactivation of long memories and other sensory repertoires\, the project fosters living connections between intergenerational transmission\, critical fabulation\, and humor. In this presentation\, we explore our research and creative process from sensitive perspectives aimed at rethinking and inhabiting our identities beyond the frameworks imposed by colonialism and whiteness. \nJavi Fuentes Bernal est un·e artiste transdisciplinaire\, chercheur·e et intervenant·e colombien·ne basé·e à Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Son travail s’inspire des fabulations critiques et des pratiques archivistiques\, à l’intersection des pensées trans*travesti\, migrantes et autochtones. À travers la performance\, la vidéo\, l’installation et l’écriture\, Javi explore les affects liés à la mobilité\, ainsi que les relations entre mémoire\, territoire et culture populaire. Javi a récemment contribué à des expositions telles que Unique en son genre (Musée de la Civilisation\, 2023)\, Awera en Bakatá (Museo Nacional de Colombia\, 2024)\, et Le Québec\, autrement dit (Musée de la Civilisation\, 2024) et Minga Suprabinaire (PHI\, 2025). Ses recherches ont bénéficié du soutien d’institutions telles que le Centre de recherche en santé publique CReSP\, le Fonds de recherche du Québec\, et une bourse Vanier pour ses études doctorales en travail social à l’Université de Montréal. \nDavid Díaz Méndez est étudiant en design graphique à l’École de design de l’UQAM. Il s’intéresse au langage polysémique caractéristique des contextes d’hybridité culturelle et à la manière dont celui-ci peut enrichir les différentes sphères du design graphique. Il a rejoint l’équipe d’Hypercodex en 2023\, où il participe à la conception de l’identité visuelle de l’exposition ALCUIN (2023-2024)\, à l’événement FORUM (2024)\, ainsi qu’à la recherche et à la conception graphique des projets d’Amandine Alessandra Ephemeral Typography: Writing the impermanent et FLUX/Mémoires Photophobes. II sest illustré aux ADCC Student Awards 2024 en remportant le bronze dans la catégorie design graphique. \nEvent language(s): French \n\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-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/identity-care-labor-and-matrilineal-stories-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Summer Institute: Oral History & Creative Practice (for credit)
DESCRIPTION:May 12-26\, 2025\nOpen to university students (for credit course) and community members \nCall for applications COHDS Summer Institute 2025 \nStorytelling\, as both an art and a practice\, occupies a central role in many cultures. The evocative power of oral history has made a major impact in the worlds of public history\, museum/curatorial practice\, and the arts. Our inaugural Summer Institute in “Oral History & Creative Practice” – hosted by Concordia’s “Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling” (COHDS) – offers you an opportunity to develop an oral history project that aspires to the kind of public-facing research that has become synonymous with COHDS\, including digital storytelling\, podcasts\, creative writing\, visual arts media\, and the performing arts. \nThis Summer Institute brings together graduate and senior undergraduate students\, activists\, artists\, oral historians\, and community members in a shared exploration of the intersection of oral history and creative practice. It will provide you with a strong grounding in the theory\, methodology\, and ethics of oral history while offering a space to “translate” your oral history research into works of research-creation. Participants will work with leading experts in the field; collaborate in workshops on oral history\, storytelling\, and research creation; and forge connections within an interdisciplinary group of peers. \nAs a field of inquiry\, oral history has grown up on the margins. Oral history interviewing has been undertaken for many reasons: artistic; community-building; truth and reconciliation; political action; storytelling\, preservation\, and research. Common to these projects is a commitment to lending an ear to marginalized voices. This year’s institute is a blend of a traditional seminar that revolves around deep engagement with assigned readings and a workshop that affords us a space to reflect on interview dynamics\, learn about best recording practices\, and explore innovative and creative ways of interpreting life stories. \nFor more information\, and for instructions to apply\, please see the call for applications. \nREGISTRATION\nPlease note that registration is open to university students and community members alike. University students may take this Summer Institute for credit.\nWe welcome all levels of experience. To submit an application for the Summer Institute\, please consult the call for applications above.\nPlease note that the application deadline is Sunday\, March 23\, 23:59 EST. For any academic inquiries please reach out to the Director of the Summer Institute\, Dr. Barbara.Lorenzkowski@concordia.ca
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/summerinstitute2025/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T150000
DTSTAMP:20260517T073601
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SUMMARY:Come Walk With Us: Walkathon Fundraiser for “Award of Distinction in Oral History”
DESCRIPTION:This year\, “Team COHDS” will be joining the Concordia Shuffle – an annual fundraiser for student scholarships and bursaries – to help raise funds for our annual “Award of Distinction in Oral History.” \nWe are warmly inviting all members of our community to come and walk with us from Concordia’s downtown campus to Loyola on Friday\, September 26. The shuffle will start at 12:30 pm at the EV Atrium on Sir George Williams Campus. A member of our team will be holding up a sign “Team COHDS”. \nJoin our team: If you liked to “shuffle” with us\, we invite you to join our team (click on “Join Team”). COHDS-affiliated faculty will be donating $ 10 for each COHDS affiliate who will join us at the shuffle. \nSupport from afar: For those members of our community who are not based in Montreal or have prior obligations on September 26\, if you were interested in making a small donation to our campaign\, you could do so at “Donate Now”. Rest assured that 100 per cent of your donation will go towards our annual student thesis prize. \nWe look forward to walking with you!
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/come-walk-with-us-walkathon-fundraiser-for-award-of-distinction-in-oral-history/
LOCATION:EV Atrium\, 1515 Sainte-Catherine St. W.\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H3G 1S6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T170000
DTSTAMP:20260517T073601
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SUMMARY:Annual General Assembly - Assemblée générale annuelle
DESCRIPTION:This event will happen in-person and online \n  \nKeynote speaker: Dr. Steven High \n“Reflecting Back on Twenty Years of Oral History at COHDS” \nOur Annual General Assembly is fast approaching. This year\, we are delighted to welcome as our keynote speaker oral historian Steven High\, who co-founded COHDS almost twenty years ago. \nDr. Steven High is an award-winning 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. “ Currently\, he is leading the transnational SSHRC-funded partnership project “Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time.” He has been awarded a Governor General’s History Award in the Popular Media category and\, more recently so\, the J.B. Tyrrell Medal for his outstanding contributions to Canadian history. As many of you know\, Steven is a constant presence at COHDS\, regularly offering workshops on oral history and the art of deep listening\, taking groups of students and community members on oral history walking tours in Montreal’s South-West\, and generously mentoring generations of oral historians. \n\nSCHEDULE: \n2 – 3 p.m. \nKeynote Speaker – Conférencier invité \n3:00 – 3:45 p.m. \nAfternoon Tea – Rafraîchissements et encas \n3:45 – 5:00 p.m. \nAnnual General Assembly – Assemblée générale annuelle \n\n-Reporting – Rapport\n-Electing – Élections\n-Q&A\n\nSee last year’s AGA meeting minutes (2024) \nREGISTRATION\n \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 regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLB 1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/aga2025/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:assembly,keynote speech
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T143000
DTSTAMP:20260517T073601
CREATED:20250910T184234Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T120000
DTSTAMP:20260517T073601
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SUMMARY:Radio Elsewheres at COHDS
DESCRIPTION:Join the Radio Elsewheres collective for a two-hour event introducing our ongoing radio art project and offering a preview of its upcoming third edition. The next iteration\, [re.03]\, will take place from October 16 to November 5\, 2025\, at Art Windsor-Essex\, presented within Elsewhere\, on Record — a solo exhibition by Velibor Božović curated by Emily McKibbon. \nSince its inception in 2023\, Radio Elsewheres has activated temporary transmission hubs in Bihać\, Sarajevo\, and now Windsor\, gathering field recordings\, radio essays\, sonic compositions\, and conversations that engage with memory\, belonging\, displacement\, and resistance. Drawing from an open call and commissioned works from 18 countries\, [re.03] will feature transmissions from borderlands visible and invisible — from river corridors to airport halls\, from refugee routes to garden edges. \nThis event will include audio excerpts\, curatorial reflections\, and an open conversation with the collective\, offering a glimpse into how radio can become a space of shared listening\, imagination\, and solidarity beyond the map. \nCome listen\, come ask\, come tune in. \n  \nSteve Bates is an artist\, musician and curator. In addition to his own work\, he operates The Dim Coast\, a small-scale curatorial\, sound art and music label. His work has been exhibited and performed in Canada\, the United States of America\, Europe\, Chile and Senegal. He works in the field\, on the air\, in museological/gallery and performance contexts. These shifting territories reflect the content of his practice. \nDr. Claudia Zini is an art historian\, curator\, and educator. She is also the founder and CEO of Kuma International\, a center dedicated to researching and promoting understanding of visual arts from post-conflict societies. Originally from Italy\, she moved to Sarajevo\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, in 2015\, exploring the intersections of art\, memory\, and healing in post-war contexts. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and has extensive experience in curating\, teaching\, and writing on contemporary art. Through Kuma she has led exhibitions\, publications\, and eight editions of its international summer school. \nVelibor Božović\, originally from Sarajevo\, Bosnia-Herzegovina\, earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University where he now teaches. His work explores how images and sound shape memory and how they operate in the space where the historical\, the fictional and the personal interrelate. His projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ). In 2015 he was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. His work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is an online event. \nTo attend\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/radio-elsewheres-at-cohds/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260517T073601
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T073601
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SUMMARY:Listening as Political Act
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive performance-workshop\, Brett Davidson explores listening not just as a personal practice\, but as a vital political act. Combining elements of storytelling\, theory\, dialogue\, audio\, and visual imagery\, the session invites participants to reflect on the ways listening shapes democracy\, public life\, and our collective ability to imagine change.  \nDrawing from his extensive experience in narrative strategy\, media\, and social justice\, Davidson frames listening as a tool for transformation—one that can challenge dominant narratives\, create space for marginalized voices\, and foster deeper connections across difference. Participants will be invited to engage actively\, considering how listening can become an ethical and creative practice in their own work\, studies\, and communities.  \nAs a work in progress\, the session opens a space for experimentation and exchange\, encouraging those present to co-create meaning around the political and artistic potential of listening.  \n  \nBrett Davidson is founder and principal at Wingseed LLC\, where he supports social justice changemakers around the world to amplify their impact. Brett also serves as Lead of Narrative Field-Building with IRIS\, the International Resource for Impact and Storytelling. Previously he was director of Media and Narratives at the Open Society Public Health Program\, where he led an international team focused on changing long-held social narratives impacting health equity. Prior to joining Open Society in 2010\, Davidson was a media consultant to civil society organizations in Southern and Eastern Africa. He previously served as program manager at the South African democracy institute Idasa\, where he helped community radio stations develop participatory news and current affairs programming. Before that\, he worked as a presenter and producer in radio current affairs at the South African Broadcasting Corporation\, and in collaboration with the BBC. Brett has an MA in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University and an MA in Individualized Study from NYU’s Gallatin School.  \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is an online event. \nTo attend\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/listening-as-political-act/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,workshops
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