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Life Stories/Going Places bus tour

Life Stories/Going Places bus tour.

Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations.
When stories come to life!

MB Building, 3rd floor,
Rooms MB 3.235, 3.233, 3.231
Daily from 9:30 a.m to 6 p.m.

Armenia, the Holocaust, Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge regime or Duvalier’s dictatorship. All these events can seem far away, and yet, they are here and now. The survivors of these events are our colleagues, our neighbours, our friends. Their history is our history.

Since 2007, Montreal Life Stories has been gathering the stories of those who have witnessed mass violence and currently live in Montreal. From these interviews, we have the opportunity to connect words with voices and voices with faces.

We invite you to explore our three exhibition rooms to appreciate the work done by university and community project members. Here, you will learn about our innovative methodology, our ethics and our values. Moreover, this is a unique opportunity to listen to survivors telling their stories.

Discover the exciting aspects of new media and virtual networks for the dissemination of life stories. Finally, take a seat to view the life stories (re)presented through films, theatre and dance.

Come, listen, watch, understand and share!

 

Going Places: Memoryscapes Bus tours

Hall Building Shuttle Bus Stop
Sunday May 30, 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday June 1, 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.
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In a joint collaboration between Montreal Life Stories Project and Montreal’s YWCA, Mapping Memories, a project that seeks to collect the life stories of refugee youth living in the city, wishes to invite the public on a tour of Montréal not found on an ordinary city map. On this tour, participants will discover stories that connect the past to the present, personal memories to public spaces, and that provide insights into the refugee youth experience in Montreal.

Going Places is 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. As we move through the city you will hear their original soundscapes. This immersive storybooth on wheels will take you on a journey from a Vietnamese grocery store in Côtes-des-Neiges to the Old Port, where participants will be invited to recreate the annual Rwandan commemorative walk. In between stops the guides will provide “behind the scenes” insight into our process and how we have used oral history, digital mapping, documentary, sound-scapes, and the power of story to “Go Places” together.

No reservations required.  Seating will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. Following the tour, participants will be invited to attend a reception on the 3rd floor of the MB Building as part of the Montreal Life Stories exhibition.

www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca

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