Past Events

"Artist in Residence: Life Stories On Stage" - March 21, 2012 (5:30-7:30 @ Monument-National)

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"How can oral history act as a catalyst for community dialogue?"
Second round table of this series, free and open to all!

Attend the opening reception!

This week: "Life stories in the classroom"

Siobhán McHugh will be giving a public talk and a workshop.

Help us celebrate the launch of MAPPING MEMORIES & meet the youth who will be taking their stories to schools this fall.

A Sound theatre performance based on the life of Ziba Kazemi.

Introduction to oral history and the Montreal Life Stories Project + Ethics, and Listening to Survivors

On "Saturday in Montreal" with Anne Lagacé-Dowson

During the Week-ends du Monde at Jean-Drapeau Park.

2 parts: "Introduction to Oral history and to the Montreal Life Stories Project" and "Ethics, and Listening to Survivors"

May 5 to 7, 2011, at Concordia University

Free and open to all

Une performance de théâtre sonore qui raconte l’histoire de Shahrzad Arshadi et son contact avec une femme exceptionnelle, Ziba Kazemi, après sa mort tragique au mains des autorités iraniennes pendant l'été 2003.

A Page-Rwanda event, from April 7 to 29, 2011

Teesri Duniya Theatre

"Deep Listening in the Life History Interview"

Film series hosted by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre

Learn how to edit your videos using Adobe Premiere Elements 7.

Learn how to use a video camera!

Round table series

Introduction to oral history and the Montreal Life Stories Project, interviewing techniques, interviewing survivors, and ethics.

Two of our films will be screened in London UK.

Gerard Torikian will be at the Centre for Oral History to present his work and answer your questions.
Bring your lunch!

Film screening unter the tent!

From October 13- 24, at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre

Chronology, transcription and database building

Dates and details.

Join us June 2 at 6:30 pm at the NFB Cinema for an evening of film screenings.

a bus tour led by young adults impacted by a refugee experience who will share personal stories and offer a unique perspective into “their” Montreal.

A documentary film and an art exhibit produced by students from the École internationale de Montréal.

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

MB Building, during Congress 2010

A world event offering you a full afternoon of activities dedicated to life stories!

Tune into CKUT 90.3 FM this Monday April 12 to hear Sandeep Bagwati and the performers involved in his gestural theatre project, Lamentations.

The Great Lakes of Africa working group has organized the 16th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide.

Seminar with Catherine Montgomery and Guylaine Racine

Screening and discussion

CongoDrama
Written and directed by Ally Ntumba, artist in residence 2009-2010

The Living Histories Theatre Ensemble of the Montreal Life Stories project will be holding a special Playback Theatre performance in response to the displacement created by the recent earthquake in Haiti.
Sunday, Feb.7, 2:30-4pm

Apsara Theatre Company re-stages their production of Someone Between in January.

Written and directed by Ally Ntumba, artist in residence 2009-2010

December 19th and 20th, 7pm
William Hingston Centre (419 St-Roch, metro Parc) Tickets: 10$

A three-day interdisciplinary conference bringing scholars, artists, professionals and community-based researchers together to promote deep engagement with life stories that contain or are defined by experiences of mass human rights violations.

Workshop on producing digital stories in collaboration with interviewees.

It is with pleasure that we invite you to the film screening of “Life in the Open Prison” October 26 2009, at the Cinémathèque québécoise, from 6:30 to 8pm.

This teachers’ conference for elementary and secondary level teachers will take place October 22 at the Gelber Centre. Please register before October 5th.

Learn how to film oral history interviews.

For this tour, youth guides shared stories and advice about leaving their home countries and finding support in a new city.

Discover Stories Matter, our new database software.

Montreal Life Stories general training workshops on interviewing and ethics. All are welcome!

In this conversation with guest, Zaki Malak, we will discuss some of the realities that force individuals to seek refuge in Canada, the challenges that LGBT claimants experience in the refugee process, and how successful claimants view their lives in their new land.

A play about the war in Iraq, fundamentalism, love, consciousness and aggression, produced by Teesri Duniya Theatre, runs September 9 to 19 at the Monument National.

You are warmly invited to the 10th Cambodian Festival this Sunday July 19, 2009, from 12 to 11pm at Jean-Drapeau park.

A public talk, given by Dr. Henry Greenspan.

The Life Stories Montreal Annual Project Assembly will take place at the Côte-des-Neiges community centre.

A screening of a documentary film created by a group of students at St. George's High School.

A day of conferences, films and exhibits.

An exhibit of previously unseen archive photos and documents, as well as a three-day showing of
exceptional documentary films.

New launch of the exhibit presented by Ibuka-Belgium

A public reading of a new play about a Cambodian woman's life story.

Human Above All presents a Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Prevention Campaign April 1st to 3rd at McGill University, UQAM and University of Ottawa.

From March 25th through March 28th, Teesri Duniya Theatre will present phase one of Untold Histories – a community engaged cultural project based on stories of genocide, displacement, and human rights violations.

This conference, which as as its theme "The Status of Survivors, Justice and Memory" will take place from the 19th to the 21st of March, at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

A screening of two short films and a conversation around children who are victims of social and political upheaval. Wednesday March 13 at 6:30 pm.

A roundtable discussion on oral history and human rights takes place this Friday, March 13th in LB-1014.

A seminar on how to transform research data into pedagocical tools takes place Friday, March 13.

On March 11, Paul Rombough will present his curriculum project on the Rwandan genocide, which uses Rupert Bazambanza’s graphic novel, « Smile Through the Tears. »

In honour of International Women's Day, please join us for an evening of music, crafts and inspiring speakers in support of Tubahumurize, a Rwandan women's collective based in Kigali.

The Canadian Centre for Ecumenicalism and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre invite you to a round table on "Faith and Genocide."

A general workshop, presented in English, on the history of the Holocaust and post-Holocaust periods will be held during the last week of January 2009.
 

This lecture reviews the history of health and medicine at Angkor under King Jayavarman VII (1180-1220 AD).

Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies workshop with Kjell Anderson of Shared Humanity.

For her second book «La femme aux pieds nus»  (The woman in bare feet) (Gallimard, 2008) dedicated to the memory of her mother, Scholastique Mukasonga is one of the guests of honour at Montreal's Salon du livrel.

The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, the German Consulate in Montreal and the Education Working Group of the Life Stories project  invite you to a workshop dedicated to exploring the use of a comic book in Holocaust Education.

Introductory Training Workshop for Potential Interviewers just starting training about Holocaust in Europe.

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC, in collaboration with Media@McGill, partners and stakeholders, organises the international symposium « 25th Anniversary of AMARC : Development and Empowerment through Community Radio »

A reception is being held to celebrate the launch of the Life Stories Project’s online and digital storytelling initiatives.

For the 14th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, this international conference took place at Concordia University April 3 to 5, 2008.