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Past Events
Join us June 2 at 6:30 pm at the NFB Cinema for an evening of film screenings.
June 2, 2010 6:30pm – 11:00pma bus tour led by young adults impacted by a refugee experience who will share personal stories and offer a unique perspective into “their” Montreal.
May 31, 2010 1:00pm – June 1, 2010 4:30pmA documentary film and an art exhibit produced by students from the École internationale de Montréal.
May 28, 2010 3:00pm – May 30, 2010 4:00pmCanadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
May 28, 2010 9:00am – June 4, 2010 8:00pmMB Building, during Congress 2010
May 28, 2010 9:00am – June 4, 2010 8:00pmA world event offering you a full afternoon of activities dedicated to life stories!
May 16, 2010 9:00am – 11:55pmTune into CKUT 90.3 FM this Monday April 12 to hear Sandeep Bagwati and the performers involved in his gestural theatre project, Lamentations.
April 12, 2010 8:40am – 9:00amThe Great Lakes of Africa working group has organized the 16th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide.
April 7, 2010 5:00pm – April 17, 2010 8:00pmSeminar with Catherine Montgomery and Guylaine Racine
April 1, 2010 12:00pm – 2:00pmScreening and discussion
March 15, 2010 7:00pm – 9:00pmCongoDrama
Written and directed by Ally Ntumba, artist in residence 2009-2010February 27, 2010 7:00pm – February 28, 2010 9:00pmThe 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, 2:30-4pmFebruary 7, 2010 2:30pm – 4:00pmApsara Theatre Company re-stages their production of Someone Between in January.
January 6, 2010 7:00pm – January 17, 2010 3:00pmWritten 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$December 19, 2009 7:00pm – December 20, 2009 7:00pmA 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.
November 5, 2009 5:30pm – November 8, 2009 3:30amWorkshop on producing digital stories in collaboration with interviewees.
October 28, 2009 6:00pm – 8:00pmIt 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.
October 26, 2009 6:30pm – 8:00pmThis teachers’ conference for elementary and secondary level teachers will take place October 22 at the Gelber Centre. Please register before October 5th.
October 22, 2009 9:00am – 11:00pmLearn how to film oral history interviews.
October 14, 2009 6:00pm – 8:00pmFor this tour, youth guides shared stories and advice about leaving their home countries and finding support in a new city.
October 3, 2009 1:30pm – 2:45pmDiscover Stories Matter, our new database software.
September 30, 2009 2:00pm – 4:00pmMontreal Life Stories general training workshops on interviewing and ethics. All are welcome!
September 29, 2009 6:00pm – October 8, 2009 9:00pmIn 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.
September 23, 2009 7:00pm – 9:00pmA 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.
September 9, 2009 8:30pm – September 19, 2009 11:00pmYou are warmly invited to the 10th Cambodian Festival this Sunday July 19, 2009, from 12 to 11pm at Jean-Drapeau park.
July 19, 2009 12:00pm – 11:00pmA public talk, given by Dr. Henry Greenspan.
June 18, 2009 6:00pm – 8:00pmThe Life Stories Montreal Annual Project Assembly will take place at the Côte-des-Neiges community centre.
June 13, 2009 11:30am – 5:00pmA screening of a documentary film created by a group of students at St. George's High School.
May 28, 2009 6:00pm – 9:00pmA day of conferences, films and exhibits.
May 16, 2009 9:30am – 11:00pmAn exhibit of previously unseen archive photos and documents, as well as a three-day showing of
exceptional documentary films.April 27, 2009 12:00pm – May 10, 2009 11:00pmNew launch of the exhibit presented by Ibuka-Belgium
April 23, 2009 6:00pmA public reading of a new play about a Cambodian woman's life story.
April 23, 2009 2:00amHuman Above All presents a Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Prevention Campaign April 1st to 3rd at McGill University, UQAM and University of Ottawa.
April 1, 2009 12:00pm – April 3, 2009 11:00pmFrom 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.
March 27, 2009 7:00pm – March 28, 2009 11:00pmThis 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.
March 20, 2009 7:00pm – March 21, 2009 11:00pmA 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.
March 18, 2009 6:30pm – 11:00pmA roundtable discussion on oral history and human rights takes place this Friday, March 13th in LB-1014.
March 13, 2009 5:00pm – 8:00pmA seminar on how to transform research data into pedagocical tools takes place Friday, March 13.
March 13, 2009 8:45am – 5:00pmOn March 11, Paul Rombough will present his curriculum project on the Rwandan genocide, which uses Rupert Bazambanza’s graphic novel, « Smile Through the Tears. »
March 11, 2009 6:00pm – 8:00pmIn 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.
March 4, 2009 5:30pm – 7:30pmThe Canadian Centre for Ecumenicalism and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre invite you to a round table on "Faith and Genocide."
February 17, 2009 7:00pmA 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.
January 26, 2009 (All day)This lecture reviews the history of health and medicine at Angkor under King Jayavarman VII (1180-1220 AD).
December 4, 2008 6:30pmMontreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies workshop with Kjell Anderson of Shared Humanity.
December 3, 2008 12:00pmFor 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.
November 21, 2008 6:30pm – November 23, 2008 1:00pmThe 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.
November 13, 2008 3:00pm – 5:00pmIntroductory Training Workshop for Potential Interviewers just starting training about Holocaust in Europe.
November 9, 2008 10:00am – 1:00pmThe 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 »
November 7, 2008 7:00pmA reception is being held to celebrate the launch of the Life Stories Project’s online and digital storytelling initiatives.
November 7, 2008 5:30pmFor the 14th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, this international conference took place at Concordia University April 3 to 5, 2008.
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