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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 \n\n\n\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.\n\n\n\n\nWatch the Promotional Video.\n\n\n\n\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.\n\n\n\n\n\nJamilah Dei-Sharpeis 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: https://www.facebook.com/thedpphub & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedpphub/?hl=en\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  \n\nLOCATION\nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom\, Computer Research Lab\, Moonroom)\, COHDS COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.\n\n 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/wibcaxcohds/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Présentations
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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.  \n  \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-Sharpeis 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.  \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/fr/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:Présentations
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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/fr/event/memory-art-and-violence/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T140000
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SUMMARY:Casual COHDS
DESCRIPTION:With Kelly Norah Drukker \nJoin 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/fr/event/casual-cohds/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde
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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/fr/event/i-insist/
CATEGORIES:performances et expositions
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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/fr/event/exhibit-bodies-carrying-traces-stories/
CATEGORIES:Ateliers,performances et expositions,Présentations
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