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SUMMARY:Interpreting Oral History: A Masterclass with Alistair Thomson
DESCRIPTION:With Alistair Thomson \n  \nHow do we make sense of the memories that we record as oral historians? How do we begin to transform stories into histories? In this workshop we’ll consider a range of ways of approaching the interpretation of memories. We’ll note the changing ways that researchers have used memory as a historical source. We’ll consider the factors that shape memory stories. We’ll try out narrative analysis with interview extracts (from Al’s interviews with migrants and war veterans) using the rich clues of sound\, gesture\, word and narrative form. We’ll think about how we might work with a set of interviews to find historical patterns and illuminate historical themes. And we’ll consider the ethical issues posed when we interpret people’s lives and stories. You’ll finish up brimming with ideas and enthusiasm for working with your own interviews (or other people’s interviews)\, armed with lists of further reading if you wish to deepen your understanding \nAlistair Thomson has been teaching oral history since he ran an adult education interviewing workshop in regional Australia in 1985\, and in 2018 received an Australian Award for University Teaching Excellence. Al is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University and a former President of Oral History Australia and the International Oral History Association. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories (1994 and 2013)\, The Oral History Reader (1998\, 2006 and 2015 with Rob Perks\, and 2026\, forthcoming with Alex Freund)\,  Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005\, with Jim Hammerton)\, Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011) Oral History and Photography (2011\, with Alexander Freund) Australian Lives: An Aural History (2017\, with Anisa Puri)\, Fathering: An Australian History (2025\, with John Murphy\, Kate Murphy and Johnny Bell)\, and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History (2026\, with Alexander Freund and Erin Jessee). Website: https://althomsonoralhistory.com.au/ \n  \n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/interpreting-oral-history-a-masterclass-with-alistair-thomson/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T100000
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SUMMARY:Complexities in Listening: A Masterclass with Martha Norkunas
DESCRIPTION:With Martha Norkunas \n  \nThis advanced oral history workshop focuses on miscommunications and complexities in listening. Participants will read a chapter from my forthcoming book\, Learning to Listen\, called “Complexities in Listening” and come to the workshop prepared to discuss the issues it raises. Based on years of listening journals written by graduate students in my oral history seminars\, the chapter reflects on why two people in a narrating-listening relationship can leave the interview with radically different experiences. Do we ever know how our narrator’s felt about the interview? Participants will be invited to share complex issues that arose in their own\, or their students’ interviews. We will look at interpreting body language\, voice inflection and pacing\, the delicate\, often nonverbal negotiations that take place about what is appropriate to talk about in an interview and what is too personal\, and\, related to that\, what is culturally appropriate and who decides. \n  \nIt is essential that all participants read Chapter Ten\, Complexities in Listening\, and take notes for reference prior to the workshop. The chapter link will be sent upon registration before the workshop. \n  \nMartha Norkunsa is an oral and public historian in Austin\, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University’s Folklore Institute. She is the author of The Politics of Public Memory (SUNY Press\, 1993)\, Monuments and Memory (Smithsonian Institution Press\, 2002) and the forthcoming Learning to Listen: Exercises to Become a More Empathic Interviewer (Palgrave\, 2026) as well as articles in national and international journals. Norkunas’s work examines how historical and cultural memory is represented in narrative and on the landscape\, and how those representations intersect with race\, gender\, class and power. She taught graduate seminars in oral history at the University of Texas at Austin and in the Public History Program at Middle Tennessee State University. She directed a twenty-year project\, the African American Oral History Project (now at the Library of Congress)\, as well as a variety of oral history projects with refugees\, refugee workers\, women in Democratic politics\, National Park Service Superintendents interpreting slavery\, and peace activists. Her own oral history project focused on women textile workers\, the meaning of work for furniture workers\, women and cancer\, women imagining safe cities\, immigrants and refugees\, and political activists in resistance movements. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/complexities-in-listening-a-master-class/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T210000
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SUMMARY:The Kitchen Table Collective : Open Plenary and Reception
DESCRIPTION:Opening Plenary and Reception: Listening in the Age of Polycrisis \nHosted at the MEM — Centre des Mémoires Montréalaises\, 1210 Saint-Laurent Boulevard (Nearest metro station: St. Laurent Metro Station) \nSponsored by the Centre de recherche interdisciplinairesur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ) \nA conversation about listening in an age of polycrisis\, as several crises (economic\, ecological\, geopolitical\, etc.) occur\, amplify\, and interact with each other on a global scale. Rooted in oral history methodologies that focus on solidarity\, decolonization\, and de-centring the human\, Crystal Mun-hye Baik\, Elder John Sawyer\, Katrina Srigley\, and Leyla Neyzi reflect on listening as a political act for community-building and a counterpoint to dynamics of violence\, polarization\, and alienation. \n  \nThe Kitchen Table Collective (KTC) is an online network\, founded by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki\, whose members include leading scholars\, artists\, activists\, and independent practitioners from around the world. Since 2023\, the group has met virtually eight times a year to discuss members’ work\, developments in the field of oral history\, and how we are collectively navigating the politics of our institutions\, communities\, and everyday lives. We are pleased to now open up this generative space to COHDS community members\, by inviting you to attend the collective’s first in-person meeting: “Listening in the Age of Polycrisis.” This symposium asks how oral historians ought to adapt to the shifting realities and crises of our current moment to not just strengthen the field\, but think through what our work may offer our troubled world. \nPlease join us for the symposium’s opening plenary at the Centre des mémoires montréalaises (MEM) on Thursday\, June 11 and a full day of talks and workshops at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling on Friday\, June 12\, all of which will focus on what it means to listen right now. \n  \nWe ask that you register at the links below if you are interested in attending; you can also find these links in the complete program. Feel free to circulate these events within your networks too! \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 \nPlease note that the symposium’s opening plenary and reception are hosted at the MEM — Centre des Mémoires Montréalaises\, 1210 Saint-Laurent Boulevard (Nearest metro station: St. Laurent Metro Station)
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/the-kitchen-table-collective-open-plenary-and-reception/
LOCATION:MEM\, 1210 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T173000
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SUMMARY:The Kitchen Table Collective : Public Day of Workshops and Talks
DESCRIPTION:The Kitchen Table Collective: Public Day of Workshops and Talks \nThe Kitchen Table Collective (KTC) is an online network\, founded by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki\, whose members include leading scholars\, artists\, activists\, and independent practitioners from around the world. Since 2023\, the group has met virtually eight times a year to discuss members’ work\, developments in the field of oral history\, and how we are collectively navigating the politics of our institutions\, communities\, and everyday lives. We are pleased to now open up this generative space to COHDS community members\, by inviting you to attend the collective’s first in-person meeting: “Listening in the Age of Polycrisis.” This symposium asks how oral historians ought to adapt to the shifting realities and crises of our current moment to not just strengthen the field\, but think through what our work may offer our troubled world. \nPlease join us for a full day of talks and workshops at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling on Friday\, June 12\, all of which will focus on what it means to listen right now. \nPublic Day of Workshops and Talks\, including the Oral History Book Launch (Limited spaces)\, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nYou can consult the full program here. \n  \nWorkshop: Push Play\, A Participatory Workshop on Oral History and Play (Limited spaces) \n16h00 – 17h30 \nPush Play is an experiential workshop that invites participants to rethink assumptions about speech\, narrative\, and memory embedded in oral history practice. Through play-based\, theatrical\, and sensory exercises\, the workshop asks: What is the most open invitation we can offer someone to share their experience of being in the world? And what conditions make that kind of sharing possible? Participants will engage in embodied memory work\, sensory exploration\, improvisation\, and collective scene-making to explore how the body listens\, remembers\, and communicates—including beyond or before spoken language. Rather than privileging stories or linear narration\, Push Play emphasizes presence\, process\, and relational attention. Designed for oral historians\, educators\, and artists\, this workshop is a shared space for experimenting with and thinking together about how to create more inclusive and expansive approaches to memory work. Participants will collectively reflect on how these practices might inform their interviews\, classrooms\, archives\, and community-based projects. \nCo-sponsored by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and Concordia University’s Department of History \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link for Public Day of Workshops and Talks\, including the Oral History Book Launch (Limited spaces) and with this link for Workshop: Push Play\, A Participatory Workshop on Oral History and Play (Limited spaces) \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 LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, LB-1042 (Media Lab) in the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, and LB-1014 (Department of History Seminar Room)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/the-kitchen-table-collective-public-days-of-workshop-and-talks/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Oral History
DESCRIPTION:With Steven High \n  \nThis workshop will provide you with some of the fundamentals in the interdisciplinary field of oral history. Participants will learn about an oral history approach to interviewing\, ethics in research\, and the many ways that oral histories are shared with the public. This workshop is strongly recommended to all new affiliates\, as it is intended to present the methodology and ethics followed by our Centre. \nSteven High is lead co-director of COHDS and has published extensively on oral history methodology\, theory and ethics. His books include Oral History at the Crossroads\, Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence\, and Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race\, Residence and Class. He led the prize-winning Montreal Life Stories project. \n  \n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/introduction-to-oral-history-5/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:Immersive Oral History Capture: Setup\, Recording\, and Archiving
DESCRIPTION:With Frankie Ray \n  \nIn this hands-on workshop\, participants will learn the essentials of setting up and recording oral history interviews with both video and audio. We will cover how to prepare a recording environment\, assemble and test a recording rig\, and troubleshoot common technical challenges. Beyond capturing the interview itself\, participants will gain practical skills in file transfer\, organization\, and archival best practices\, ensuring that valuable stories are safely preserved for long-term use. Participants will practice setting up tripods\, microphones\, and recorders\, then conduct short mock interviews to apply these skills in real time. Cameras available to participants will be Sony FX6\, Canon XA40\, Blackmagic and JVC 3CCD. The session will conclude with a focus on safe file management: offloading to a computer\, creating backups\, and preparing files for the archive. No prior technical experience is required; this workshop is designed for anyone interested in documenting\, preserving\, and safeguarding oral history materials. \nWhat we’ll do: \n§ Why technical setup matters for oral history \n§ Demonstrate a short 10-minute oral history video/audio project from our archives \n§ Equipment set up: build camera & mics \n§ File offload and management for editing \n§ Best Practices in Archiving Audio- and Videofiles \n§ Tear down gear and put it back safely \n  \nPerks: \n§ Everyone gets to touch gear \n§ Make a check list for oral history kit for everyone to take home \n  \nFrankie Ray is a Montreal-based videographer and DJ\, with professional experience across music festivals\, music videos\, and film productions\, including Netflix\, HBO\, the NFB and Crave. Trained as a certified 2nd Assistant Camera in ICG669/IATSE\, Frankiebrings both technical expertise and creative insight to their work. Outside of their personal work\, Frankiehas always put a focus on accessible\, hands-on training. At COHDS\, Frankie combines their professional background with a commitment to supporting researchers\, artists\, and storytellers in capturing and preserving stories with care and technical confidence. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1042 (Media Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/immersive-oral-history-capture-setup-recording-and-archiving-2/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T150000
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SUMMARY:Getting Personal: working with family stories
DESCRIPTION:With Anna Sheftel \n  \nOral historians are increasingly using their recorders closer to home\, to try and understand the lives and legacies of their own families. This is often in the context of violence\, migration\, and diasporic experience. We study our families not just for our own benefit\, but also because we know that the personal is political\, and that the lives of our own parents\, grandparents and ancestors can help us to make sense of broader social\, cultural and political dynamics. What does it mean to do very intimate historical work and then to share that with the world? In this workshop\, we will discuss the opportunities and challenges of documenting family histories\, including questions of silences\, interpretive authority\, intersubjectivity and who has the right to tell what stories. \nAnna Sheftel is Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. She has published extensively on oral history methodology\, ethics and pedagogy\, with a focus on collaborative and community-engaged practices and listening to difficult stories. She is internationally recognized for these publications\, most notably for Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013)\, co-edited with Stacey Zembrzycki\, which won the OHA’s 2014 Book Award\, and for her article\, “Talking and Not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People\,” which won the OHA’s 2019 Article Award. \n  \n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/getting-personal-working-with-family-stories/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270115T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270115T123000
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SUMMARY:The Roots of Digital Storytelling: A workshop in revealing meaning without defining it
DESCRIPTION:With Carolina Cambre \n  \nVisuality (and sound) has an important yet under-developed and under-theorized role to play in the relationship between learning\, knowledge production\, and transmission in the university. Tools like digital storytelling present one way to explore this dynamic. This workshop will review the roots of digital storytelling practices and provide ways for participants to explore developing digital stories either through narrative driven approaches or image driven approaches. Finally we will examine the implications for research\, and the role that digital storytelling can play at different points in the research process. \nCarolina Cambre is an award-winning artist\, writer and educator at Concordia University. Her book\, The Semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective gateways (2015)\, presents a series of encounters with the photograph\, Guerrillero Heroico (1960) by Alberto Korda\, its unique trajectory and endless renderings. Her research-creation practice has spanned the fields of visual anthropology\, sociology and education as well as across a variety of artistic media. \n  \n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/the-roots-of-digital-storytelling-a-workshop-in-revealing-meaning-without-defining-it/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270205T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270205T150000
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SUMMARY:Working with Oral History Transcripts
DESCRIPTION:With Steven High \n  \nWhat can we learn from an oral history transcript? This workshop will introduce you to ways of interpreting oral history transcripts starting with the underlying interview dynamic. We will ground our analysis in a single interview transcript that we will circulate a week in advance. You should go through it before our workshop. We will then discuss different interpretative strategies as a group. \n  \nSteven High is lead co-director of COHDS and has published extensively on oral history methodology\, theory and ethics. His books include Oral History at the Crossroads\, Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence\, and Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race\, Residence and Class. He also led the prize-winning Montreal Life Stories project. \n  \n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/working-with-oral-history-transcripts/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270212T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270212T160000
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SUMMARY:Capturing Voices: Recording Audio for History
DESCRIPTION:With Frankie Ray \n  \nThis workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the principles and practices of recording high-quality audio in a range of real-world contexts. Participants will gain practical experience setting up and working with multiple microphone types\, including lavaliers\, shotgun microphones\, podcasting microphones\, and built-in camera audio systems. Through guided demonstrations and exercises\, the workshop examines how microphone selection\, placement\, and recording environment shape the clarity\, texture\, and intelligibility of recorded sound. \nParticipants will practice recording in both indoor and outdoor settings\, rotating between the roles of recorder and speaker while capturing short audio samples across varied acoustic conditions. Emphasis is placed on critical listening as a methodological skill. The workshop also introduces basic audio workflows\, including offloading recordings\, performing foundational edits using Audacity\, and organizing audio files for long-term storage and archival preservation. \nFramed around the documentation of oral histories\, this session equips participants with practical and transferable skills for recording clear\, durable\, and ethically sound audio materials. No prior technical experience is required. \n  \nFrankie Ray (they/them) is a Montreal-based videographer and DJ\, with professional experience across music festivals\, music videos\, and film productions\, including Netflix\, HBO\, the NFB and Crave. Trained as a certified 2nd Assistant Camera in ICG669/IATSE\, Frankie brings both technical expertise and creative insight to their work. Outside of their personal work\, Frankie has always put a focus on accessible\, hands-on training. At COHDS\, Frankie combines their professional background with a commitment to supporting researchers\, artists\, and storytellers in capturing and preserving stories with care and technical confidence. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/capturing-voices-recording-audio-for-history-2/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:workshops
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