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Radio Works!
Radio Works! the radio segment airing questions and stories coming out of the LIfe Stories Montreal project, airs every two weeks on CKUT 90.3 FM the Friday Morning After at 8:15 AM as well as once a month in French on Lendemain de Veille, Thursdays at 7:10 AM.
Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids Michigan about the genesis of his 9,000 piece collection of racist artifacts. He was interviewed by Monica Eileen Patterson, post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Ethnographic Research in the Aftermath of Violence. Dr. Pilgrim was recently invited by CEREV to speak in their Current Issues in Museums, Heritage and Public Cultural Work series. This interview was broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM on March 28.
Singer-songwriter AliSepu tells his story
Local Chilean-Montrealer singer/songwriter AliSepu shares excerpts from his life story interview, in which he discusses a return to his roots and the discovery that he doesn’t completely fit in. Interspersed is original music from local artists of different backgrounds (Haiti, Chile, Argentina, Algeria and France), sketches for the songs for his next album. As part of Life Stories Montreal's "Sharing Authority" collaborative ethic, Ali edited the piece broadcast himself. It was broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM on March 14.
Testimonies on the power of radio
Broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM on February 28, in this radio montage, we hear from Concordia history professor and MIGS (Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies) director, Dr. Frank Chalk, artist Shahrzad Arshadi, community organizer Marie-Francoise Sitnam, and historian Kathryn Harvey, about how radio compels them. A collection of voices and excerpts from previous Radio Works! broadcasts celebrating the power of radio.
Voices Beyond Walls: Dr. Julie Norman on Palestinian youth media workshops
Broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM on February 14, Dr. Julie Norman speaks to us about a participatory media project for Palestinian youth using photo and video, taking place every summer in the West Bank. You can find out more about this project by going to Voices Beyond Wall's website as well as their youtube channel. Dr. Julie Norman is a political science professor at Concordia University, author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: Civil Resistance, and co-editor of the forthcoming book, Nonviolence in the Second Intifada: Activism and Advocacy.
Music and Memory
As was asked at the top of the program: "What do you get when you gather a Rwandan, a Congolese, a Palestinian, a St. Lucian and a Zimbabwean?" Great, funky radio, that's what! Five radio workshop participants learnt as many aspects of radio productions as could be squeezed into four weeks and below is the excellent result, broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM on Saturday, August 21, 2010. 
Marie-Françoise, Stephanie, Rania, Bylow and Ayanda produced a two hour broadcast on music and memory, featuring 4 distinct radio pieces, ranging from story to poetry to political commentary. All this, mixed in with world music and lively discussion about the personal significance of the songs they chose. This summer project was a collaboration between Life Stories Montreal and CKUT Radio, and between the Experiences of Refugee Youth working group and Radio Works!
Special thanks to Liz Miller, Gracia Jalea, Parker Mah, Courtney Kirkby and Kaitlin Prest for their support and collaboration. For more pictures of the workshop, see the photo gallery
Life Stories now has a regular segment on CKUT 90.3 FM `s Monday Morning After, every second Monday, airing at 8:30 AM. Special thanks to CKUT and to MMA producer and host Liz Pieries for this opportunity
Family Novel
Broadcast on July 12, Audrey O'Breham interviewed Catherine Montgomery. Catherine Montgomery is a researcher at Centre de Santé et Services Sociaux de la Montagne. At the time of the interview she was working on a project called Family Novel with refugee families. Her main goal with this project is to help families communicate together and build a sense of continuation between their past and current lives, in a new country after experiencing traumatic events. What she says at the end of the interview says it all about the goal of the project "I have lost a lot, but I have not lost everything. And it's building on what I have not lost." Hear more on CitizenShift
Lamentations
“We respond to gestures with an extreme alertness and, one might almost say, in accordance with an elaborate and secret code that is written nowhere, known to none, and understood by all”. Edward Sapir
Broadcast on April 12, Kaitlin Prest speaks with Sandeep Bagwati and the performers involved in his gestural theatre project: researching the stories told through the language of gesture. How does the body experience displacement? What does the body remember? Studying the body language of four Life Stories interviews, the project put together a performance piece entitled Lamentations. Hear more on CitizenShift
Communication Tic-niques Workshop
On Sunday, April 11, Radio Works! participants took part in a workshop given my public speaking expert Paris Valaskakis. Through a series of exercises, we learnt how to rid ourselves of speaking and interviewing "ticks" like ums and ahs and other speaking mannerisms that are often the result of nervousness or poor preparation. Thank you Paris for a great learning experience! In the photo above, from left to right: Paris Valaskakis, Lorna Roth, Frank Chalk, Audrey O'Breham, Anna Birnie-Lefcovitch, Kaitlin Prest, Shahrzad Arshadi.
Broadcast on March 22, Audrey O'Breham interviews Ted Little about the Oral History as Performance Working group. Ted Little speaks about some of the questions this group's research focuses on. Hear more on CitizenShift
Playback Theatre in response to Earthquake in Haiti
Broadcast on February 22, this piece, produced by Kaitlin Prest, gives us an impression of the Playback Theatre performance and public discussion held by the Living Histories Ensemble in February 2010 about how the earthquake in Haiti has touched all of us. You will hear from Caroline Kunzle, Nisha Sajnani, as well as some of the actors and members of the public who participated in this workshop.
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Lisa Ndejuru on Rwanda Working Group
Broadcast on February 1, Lisa Ndejuru represents the Rwanda Working Group in an interview. The working group plans to collect 100 life stories of Rwandans living in Montreal. She starts out by speaking about one of their most important community partners, PAGE-Rwanda, a community group formed by parents and friends of the victims of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and which provides psychological counseling and promotes awareness.
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Ry Duong on the Cambodian Working Group
Broadcast on January 11, an interview with Ry Duong, coordinator of the Cambodian Working Group. As part of the Life Stories Montreal project, the Cambodian Working Group is composed of people from the Angkorian community, people from the Khmer Buddhist temple as well as student affiliates. Their 5-year objective is to collect approximately 120 life stories of Cambodians living in Montreal. Other plans include establishing a radio station and a documentation centre for the Cambodian community, and publishing articles about the Cambodian genocide, which took place between 1975 and 1979, under the Khmer Rouge. Ry Duong begins by speaking of the difficulty of speaking about this genocide.Hear more on CitizenShift
Toby Butler on Memoryscapes
Broadcast on December 28, Kathryn Harvey in conversation with Toby Butler, visiting sound artist at Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in the month of November. Toby Butler is the creator of Memoryscape, ‘sound walks’ that invite you to experience the hidden history of a place by listening to the memories of inhabitants, both historical and contemporary, as you walk through it. He is in the Geography Department, at Royal Holloway, University of London, and at the Museum of London. He is also a visiting fellow at the London East Research Institute.
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Stories of Iranian Montrealers about Iran's post-election uprising
Broadcast on Dec 7, Dec 14 and again on the Wednesday Morning After on Dec 16, "Stories of Iranian Montrealers about Iran's post-election uprising" was produced by Afsaneh Hojabri and Caroline Kunzle.
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Life in an Open Prison
Broadcast November 23, Audrey O'Breham tells us about a public screening of "Life in an Open Prison" at the Cinematheque Quebecoise in which St George High School students spoke about their experience researching and making this video documentary about the Camabodian genocide. We hear excerpts from the discussion.
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Oral History, New Media and the Arts
Broadcast on November 23, Audrey O'Breham tells us about the Experiences of Refugee Youth workshop she attended at the "Remembering War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations: Oral History, New Media and the Arts" conference which took place at Concordia University November 5 to 8.
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Gracia Jalea on the Refugee Youth Working Group
Broadcast on October 20: Gracia Jalea, Co-Coordinator of the Experiences of Refugee Youth working group, tells us a bit about the participants she is working with are and how they are going about ensuring that these young people have a voice in telling their stories.
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Walking Tour of Chinatown
Broadcast on October 6: Listen to Rita Yu, Associate Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, walk us through some of the history of Montreal`s Chinatown.
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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
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Life Stories airs on Radio Canada 95.1 FM on Friday June 12 at 8pm. Tune in to hear a report produced by Myriam Berthelet, featuring excerpts of interviews with Marie Josée Gicali, Frantz Voltaire, Liselotte Ivry and Geneviève Channaret Srey. If you missed it live, the report is available here.
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Listen to the archived broadcasts of La vie rêvée des gens which aired on CIBL 101,5 FM on Fridays from 1:00-2:00 PM from November 2008 to June 2009.
Emmanuelle Sonntag interview with Frantz Voltaire (photo David Ward)
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During the month of May 2009, CKUT 90.3 FM `s Monday Morning After program aired a series of interviews with artists who participated in the Untold Histories performances, a collaboration between Teesri Duniya Theatre and Life Stories Montreal. Listen here:
May 11 Moe Clark
May 18 Moe Clark (part 2)
May 18 Masoud Raouf
May 25 Shahrzad Arshadi
June 1 Meena Murugesan and Pohanna Pyne
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On December 1, 2008 participants in the workshops organized by the Life Stories project's Refugee Youth Working Group were featured on CBC Radio 1 broadcast Radio Noon.
