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Université de Montréal's Quartier Libre newspaper has published an article about Ally Ntumba and his play, CongoDrama.

Life Stories Montreal and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (MHMC) are pleased to announce that close to 500 Holocaust survivor interviews have recently been digitized.

Since the 1990s, the MHMC has recorded, mostly via VHS support, the life stories of hundreds of Holocaust survivors, as many in English as in French, as in Hebrew and Yiddish. Thanks to collaboration with the Life Stories Montreal project, these interviews have been transferred to a digital format, ensuring their long term conservation as well as a greater accessibility and new possibilities for dissemination.

I know that I speak for everyone in the Life Stories project when I say
that our thoughts are with the Haitian people during this very difficult
time. Haiti has endured so much already. More than anyone should have to.
The City of Montreal has a deep connection to Haiti, as does our project.
The project’s Haitian Working Group is recording the stories of resistance
and loss from the years of the Duvalier dictatorship. In 2009, the project
organized a film festival and exhibit on that paid tribute to those who
paid for their resistance with their freedom or their lives. Each film was

JOB OFFER: GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT (PART TIME)

Working under the supervision of Associate Professor Tim Schwab of the Oral History and Performance working group.
Salary is $18 per hour to a maximum of $1500 (approximately 80 hours) January 2010 to April 2010.
Working hours and schedule are flexible.

TASKS:

Full Exposure 2009 is a participatory photography project for high school students from differing socio-economic backgrounds. It was developped by Gracia Jalea, a graduate student at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec as part of her Master's thesis project.

This project will seek to examine the ways in which the class cultural values of society's ruling elite are consistently privileged in the secondary school system which often encourages students from less-privileged socio-econimic backgrounds to supress their class identities and experiences.

If you miss the live broadcast of the documentary, it will be available a few days later
on both the Citizenshift website at
http://citizenshift.org/displaced-violence-life-stories
and the Life Stories website at
http://www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/en/radio-work.

We are no longer accepting applications for internships which will take place in the winter of 2010. Will we accept applications for summer internship in April.

On October 31, Dr Steven High, was interviewed on Radio Canada International's Masala Canada program about the "Remembering War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations: Oral History, New Media and the Arts" conference happening at Concordia Nov 5 to 8. Click on the link below to access Masala Canada and listen to the program. Steven High's interview begins at 40:00 minutes into the October 31 show. Masala Canada October 31 edition

The objective of Montreal Life Stories is to collect and spread the stories of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide or other types of Human Rights violations. Once recorded on video, these intense, rich and powerful stories must be heard. The performing arts represent exceptional tools for spreading information as they can transmit all the power of emotions and allow the public to live through these difficult personal stories.

As Ahmadinejad took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on SepT 23, speaking of compassion, justice and peace, thousands of Iranians gathered outside the UN and demanded the “coup President” to be held accountable for the crackdown, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of Iranians back home, while holding pictures of those who were bloodied, bruised and killed following the contested presidential election in June.