Experiences of Refugee Youth in Montreal

Experiences of Refugee Youth in Montreal is a collaborative multi-media project which aims to integrate documentary video, mapping, new media and oral histories to raise awareness around the situation of refugee youth in Montreal. Using participatory methodologies we train and involve youth participants in the process. This project is the initiative of historians, education experts, filmmakers, students and professors at Concordia University alongside individuals and groups working with the Canadian Council for Refugees.

For an archive of all of our work to date:
See http://storytelling.concordia.ca/refugeeyouth/

We were recently featured on Concordia University Televison. To see the televison footage, click here..

To see our most recent campaign:
http://coms.concordia.ca/video2/

This video shows the Going Places bus tour which was open to the public, May 30 and June 1.

We lead one-day workshops, weekend trainings and longer sessions (up to eight weeks) in new media, video and interview techniques. To date we have collaborated with groups such as Project Refuge and La Maison des Jeunes de la Côte-des-Neiges.

Our objective is to produce creative work that will have an impact on policy, education and the lives of the youth involved.

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Interviewing
Refugee youth experiences will be documented and explored through peer-to-peer life story interviewing. Interview methodology and materials have been developed and the youth will be trained in peer interviewing as well as taking a writing workshop.

Collective Storytelling
The youth will be trained in new media, video and interviewing techniques. Videos will be broadcast on a web portal as well as shown at public screenings. Results may also be broadcast on television and in radio podcasts. A short, 20 minute documentary on the interviews will also be produced. In the final year of the project, the youth will visit schools and screen their film(s) as well as distribute research and curriculum materials. Documenting youth experiences and making them accessible on the internet will strengthen initiatives like the Canadian Council for Refugee`s Youth Network, which connects youth refugees in Montreal, and throughout Canada.