Exhibit – Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories
Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories, sites, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories is a twofold conversation taking the […]
Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories, sites, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories is a twofold conversation taking the […]
Photo: Milena Rodriguez Description by Esteban Donoso and Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan This workshop offers an immersive, collaborative space for scholars, performers, visual artists, and curators to engage with embodied practices […]
Photo Credits: Film still from Crossing the Seventh Gate (2017) by Ali Essafi Description by Bouchra Assou and Salma Chouqair Drawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different […]
Description by Eve Garnier and Jacynthe Desjardins In a movement-based workshop, we propose an exploration of relational possibilities and their bodily expression, anchored in silence(s). Here, silence is not a […]
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez. In an intimate space within the exhibition space, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins, […]
Description by speaker Sunjay Mathuria. "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 […]
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez. This is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin […]
May 12-26, 2025 Open to university students (for credit course) and community members Call for applications COHDS Summer Institute 2025 Storytelling, as both an art and a practice, occupies a […]
COHDS is partnering with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and the Cummings Centre to present the following event, The Generations After: “Olga, Erika, and Me” Podcast at the Montreal Holocaust Museum on Tuesday, September 9, […]
with Andrew Jackson You 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 […]
With Constanza Ramírez Molano and Luis C. Sotelo Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. This event will take the form of a conversation in which […]
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 […]
This event will happen in-person and online Keynote speaker: Dr. Steven High "Reflecting Back on Twenty Years of Oral History at COHDS" Our Annual General Assembly is fast approaching. […]
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. You are warmly invited to […]
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, , will take […]
with Karen Dubinsky You 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 […]
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, […]
Walking tour participants will meet at the Union United Church at 3007 Rue Delisle, Montréal, QC H4C 1M8 at 2:55 pm “Photographing Change: Reform and Photography in 1960s Little Burgundy” is a walking tour which […]
With Lea Kabiljo English This workshop will provide you with some of the fundamentals in the interdisciplinary field of oral history. Participants will learn about an oral history approach to […]
This workshop with artist and researcher Lucia Farinatti invites participants to explore the interview as both a method of research and a form of artistic and critical practice. Through collective […]