{"id":27556,"date":"2026-09-14T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=27556"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:44:31","slug":"storytelling-festival-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/event\/storytelling-festival-exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"COHDS Storytelling Festival Exhibits (October 6-9, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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COHDS Storytelling Festival: <\/b>Festival Exhibitions<\/b><\/h4>\n

October 6\u20139<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Explore the festival exhibitions running throughout the COHDS Storytelling Festival from October 6\u20139, 2026. Featuring film screenings, podcasts, sound, touch, and creative works, these exhibitions invite visitors to engage with stories and creative practices across the festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thresholds of Sound and Touch: Listening to Land, Labour, and Memory<\/strong>
\nWith Russell Gendron and Mart\u00edn Giraldo-Hoyos<\/em><\/p>\n

This experimental panel brings together two research-creation projects to explore oral history as a sensorial, embodied practice: Russell Gendron’s exploration of the extractive forestry economies of British Columbia, and Mart\u00edn Giraldo-Hoyos’s collaborative project with Black peasant communities in the agroforestry landscapes of Colombia. Rather than deliver conventional papers, we invite participants into an immersive listening environment staged in COHDS’s Acts of Listening Lab. Curated from field recordings of soundscapes and interview fragments that evoke a movement through temperate and tropical sylvian spaces, the installation is paired with tactile objects (quilts made from forestry workwear, and materials from the material culture of Colombian peasant communities) to open sensorial thresholds of sound and touch. The experience invites participants to sense and reflect on alternative modes of listening: how attending with the body, not only the ear, might renew our understanding of land, labour, and communities enduring within and against extractive systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Graphic Memoir: A Family\u2019s Experience with Autism<\/strong>
\nWith Mona Sharma, introduced by Shira Avni<\/em><\/p>\n

Mona Sharma, a Montreal visual artist and graduate of Concordia\u2019s MFA program, will introduce her graphic memoir concerning her family\u2019s experience with autism. As Mona notes, \u201cit was a weird irony of life that someone who talks as much as I do gave birth to two sons who are non-verbal. The experience has been incredible and I am putting the story down in the best way I know how.\u201d A selection of the drawings of this forthcoming graphic memoir will be on display in the COHDS Media Lab.<\/p>\n

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Film Screening \u2013 Living Rooms: une pi\u00e8ce partag\u00e9e\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWith Naila Kuhlmann (project lead), Naomi Silver-V\u00e9zina (filmmaker), Anna Vigeland (RA), and the Piece of Mind Collective<\/em><\/p>\n

How do the unique standpoints through which we inhabit our bodies and move through life cause barriers to connecting and relating with one another? Which of our bodily, sensory, and emotional experiences elude words\u2014and how might live arts and technologies offer entry points into those unspoken worlds? Living Rooms: une pi\u00e8ce partag\u00e9e was a participatory research-creation project that brought together circus and new media artists, people living with Parkinson\u2019s disease, caregivers, and neuroscientists to explore how interactive technologies and immersive performance might help us connect and relate across mindbody differences. Together, we co-created the fabric of an immersive theatre experience in which audiences are invited into a series of multi-sensory and multidisciplinary live arts vignettes that staged stories from circus, Parkinson’s, and their intersections. Anchored in the metaphor of the body as a house, each \u00ab\u00a0room\u00a0\u00bb of the promenade-type performance brought to life angles of our research process through performing bodies, physical objects, audio clips, written participant citations, and prototypes of technological interfaces (e.g. biosensors, motion capture, wearable tech and virtual reality), prompting reflection on the ways we inhabit the body and how we might better connect across differences. A pivotal point within this one-and-a-half-year project was the exploration enabled through two week-long residencies in the Acts of Listening Lab in Spring 2025. Facilitating the listening, sharing, and creating from often difficult stories was at the heart of this participatory research process, and was shaped both by the affordances of the physical space and the rich context of collective meaning- making at COHDS.<\/p>\n

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The project was made possible thanks to support from COHDS; Coeur des sciences UQAM; Mitacs; Inter-g\u00e9nie; HUPR: Research Centre for Human Potential; Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL); and the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM). \u2013 Naila Kuhlmann (Lead Researcher \/ Centre HUPR), Anna Vigeland (Research Assistant \/ COHDS Student Affiliate), Piece of Mind Collective Video by Naomi Silver-V\u00e9zina<\/em><\/p>\n

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Art Installation \u2013 The Soul of the Soul \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0648\u062d\u2020\u0631\u0648\u062d\u2020 Ruh Al-Ruh: Stitching as Resistance and Remembering Lives<\/strong>
\nWith Nasim Mogharab and Shahrzad Arshadi<\/em><\/p>\n

The Soul of the Soul (Ruh Al-Ruh) is our quilt making and storytelling collective, started in November 2023 in Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montreal\u2014one month after Israel\u2019s attack on Gaza\u2014by women feminists and social justice activists, all originally from the SWANA region. From the very beginning, many individuals joined the collective, and our work quickly expanded beyond Montreal, reaching Trois-Rivi\u00e8res. In the past two years, Ruh Al-Ruh not only witnessed and testified into genocide in Gaza, but war and massacre in Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Rojava and many other regions. In contrast to all the darkness imposed on people from different parts of the world, our time together was reflective, kind, permissive and full of love and respect. The soul of the soul provided an intimate space to listen and to be heard as we collectively weaved stories, memories, hopes and dreams. We travelled with our threads, needles, and fabrics to engage young and old in various communities, and collectively created more than 200 stitching pieces in red, black, green and white, each carrying a unique personal and political story, all crafted with love and care. We are at the installation phase of this large project, creating five-meter pieces of all individual pieces, that will be hanged from the ceiling from different parts of the room and coming down to the ground like a tree and connecting to each other through roots that can symbolize solidarity and unity between people and struggles in all places. Last March, we were part of a panel called \u201cCreative Strategies of Joy in Oral History,\u201d where we presented our project as part of the 2026 Emerging Scholars Symposium at COHDS. This time, however, we wish to take part in COHDS\u2019s 20th birthday celebration by presenting the actual artwork as an installation for the Storytelling Festival. In some Arabic dictionaries, the word \u201cRuh\u201d (Soul) is sometimes translated as the \u201cbreath of life.\u201d As we came together to create, to remember, to tell, and keep alive hope, love, connection and patience. With each stitch, we tried to bear witness and breathe life into an untold and unfinished story. The final presentation of all the individual pieces is our collective message of hope, unselective solidarity, love and perseverance.<\/p>\n

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Podcast \u2013 Stories of Migration\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWith Eliana Hussain<\/em><\/p>\n

Melita moved first, escaping her grief at the death of her father. Domingo followed soon after, escaping the aftermath of the April Revolution. They came together in Civil Rights era New York City. \u2013 This project recounts the narrative of Melita and Domingo\u2019s immigration to the United
\nStates in a 15 to 20-minute podcast accompanied by photographs. As a work of research-creation, this piece examines their lives in the Dominican Republic and the events that led each of them to uproot their lives. It is supported by oral history interviews and archival audio that anchor the story in time and place. This podcast reflects the conference\u2019s call to look back on twenty years of oral history and creative practice while exploring new avenues for the field. By combining a podcast structure with archival photographs, my project models the kind of innovative cross-media presentation format that makes oral history exciting. Testimony from people close to Melita and Domingo honors the field\u2019s foundational commitment to the first-person voice as historical evidence, while photographs help provide an intimate connection with the audience.
\nThroughout the podcast, story structure, sound design, and pacing will be used to shape the narrative into an engaging listening experience. Because the story is told through the memories of others, this project also grapples with questions about representation and interpretation that sit at the core of oral history: How do you honor a story when the subjects are no longer able to speak for themselves? By reconstructing a migration story after the subjects have passed, this project explores an approach that might prove suitable for researchers and others to draw on when working with family histories. It explores the potential of the podcast form as a scholarly medium, while contributing to a growing body of research-creation that treats genealogy and memory as legitimate sites of historical inquiry and opens space for future questions about how personal histories connect to larger political ruptures, and how communities pass down memory across generations and borders.<\/p>\n

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Film Screening \u2013 \u201cFatness as a Method (for Movement and Subversion)\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWith Magdalena Hutter<\/em><\/p>\n

Since 2023 I\u2019ve been recording conversations and filming movement sequences with fat performers to think about fatness as a method \u2013 both for making movement art with and about fat bodies and for how I as a fat queer documentary filmmaker portray that art in moving images. Fatness, as an Othered, queer embodiment set up in opposition to a supposed \u2018norm\u2019, can serve to highlight the constructedness of naturalized structures of normativity, particularly regarding the perception, valuation, and treatment of bodies. Using fatness as a lens can bring into focus oppressive social structures and dynamics and help to zoom in on the ways in which these structures are embedded in and \u2013 crucially \u2013 affirmed by choices regarding representation and aesthetics in cultural objects. In this way, considering fatness while looking at artworks and the processes through which they are created can provide opportunities for the development of frameworks for art-making that are not only not in the (conscious or unconscious) service of oppressive structures, but that are actively
\ninvested in dismantling them. Focusing on the work of and my conversations with fat queer artists Cindy Baker and Liz Rosenfeld, the video I propose to screen as part of the COHDS Storytelling Festival explores the particular fields of tension that emerge between some of the most prevalent narratives about fat bodies \u2013 laziness, slowness, lack of productivity \u2013, the violent regimes of body control that so fundamentally affect both fat and dancing bodies, and thinking around spectacle, virtuosity, and effort. What are fat approaches to subverting constricting dynamics and narratives and how can ideas of porousness as care and openness to failure as a form of access support them?<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, October 6 \u2013 Friday, October 9<\/b><\/h6>\n
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Time<\/th>\nCOHDS<\/th>\nThe 4th Space<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
10:00\u201316:00<\/td>\n\n

\nThreshold of Sound and Touch<\/em>
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(ALLab)<\/td>\n

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10:30\u201317:30<\/td>\n\n
A Graphic Memoir: A Family\u2019s Experience with Autism<\/em><\/h5>\n

(Media Lab)<\/td>\n

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\nLiving Room: une pi\u00e8ce partag\u00e9e<\/em>
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Film Screening<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10:00\u201316:00<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n
The Soul of the Soul<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10:30\u201317:30<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n

\nPodcast<\/em>
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Stories of Migration<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10:30\u201317:30<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n

\n\u201cFatness as Method\u201d<\/em>
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Film Screening<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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