• Histoires orales de migration et de mouvement : Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse

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

    avec Nico Contreras, Sonia Bustos, et Priscilla Opazo Castillo   Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse (2025, 10 min) est un collage audiovisuel né d'histoires orales sur la migration, la communauté et le pouvoir transformateur de l'art. En mêlant des entretiens et des explorations chorégraphiques avec les artistes Sonia Bustos et Priscilla Opazo, basées à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, le […]

  • Intimate Maquettes: Artistic Interventions in Post-Violence Contexts

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

    With Pablo Gershanik   “At the very moment your life changes forever, what other stories are taking place—on your street, in your neighborhood, in your city, in your country, across the map of the world?... - Intimate Maquettes Lab”   The Intimate Maquettes Lab is a participatory artistic practice that explores how personal and collective […]

  • How to Say ‘Longing’

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

    with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina Join us on Wednesday, November 19th, at 7 PM, at the ALLab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, for How to say ‘longing’, a contemplative performance by movement artist Noël Vézina and composer Jad Orphée Chami. This intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement, composition and improvisation, the […]

  • Brown Bag Metting: Listening and Perspective-Taking

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

    This Brown Bag Meeting will be an informal, lunchtime conversation between Mireille Paquet (Concordia Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration; Director of IRMS) and Luis C. Sotelo Castro (Director of the Acts of Listening Lab, Department of Theatre, Concordia).  The session will explore the intersection of Perspective Taking and Active Listening, two frameworks that […]

  • CONECTADAS: la doble vía de la escucha y del habla / Connected: The Two-way Path of Listening and Speaking

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

    Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. In this event Constanza Ramírez Molano ends her residency at the ALlab by presenting two interviews carried out with the method CONNECTED. This method proposes a journey from the intimate to the collective through narration, listening, and dialogue. It begins with mutual recognition between interviewer […]

  • Immersive Oral History Capture: Setup, Recording, and Archiving

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

    With Frankie Ray   In 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 […]

  • Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/Forming the WE

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

    With the DANC 202 Cohort: Charlotte Bisson, Nathaniel Cancela Edsell, Florence Cross, Homeyra Esmaeilzadeh, Leonardo Giraldo Rodriguez, Anaïs Girard, Elle Golfinopoulos, Sophie Groleau-Rouleau, Nasiriyah Hamilton, Joselande Josue, Adaline Kuranko, Camille Moon, Fredlyne Pierre, Pooya Ratnam, Amy Staples, Kaiya Thomas-Bynoe, and Cameron Weaver.   Join us for an afternoon of dance as students from the Department […]

  • Stories Matter 2.0: Working with COHDS’ (very own) Innovative Oral History Software

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

    With Kelann Currie-Williams This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to using Stories Matter— a free, open-source oral history database software that allows for the archiving of digital video and audio materials, and enables oral historians to annotate, analyze, and evaluate audio and video recordings of interviews. First developed in 2010 at COHDS, this second […]