LIVING HISTORY
The Black Community Resource Centre presents “Living History: 100 Years of Black History, Culture and Heritage“, an oral history project seeks to preserve and share the history of Montreal’s English-speaking Black Community.
What is a Memoryscape?
Memoryscapes are sound walks that invite you to experience hidden history of a place by listening to the memories of inhabitants, both historical and contemporary, as you walk through it. With the support of Heritage Canada, the Black Studies Center, Concordia’s ICED, the U.N.I.A, the Round Table on Black History Month, Youth In Motion, and other local organizations, the BCRC’s project has give 15 Black Youth the opportunity to create Memoryscapes of sites, organizations, and landmarks of cultural and historical significance to the English-speaking Black community of Montreal. The youth became the projects Research Interns and use cultural geography, documentation, and audio history approaches to observing, recording, and videotaping this history.
