Montreal Media Capsules
Created in intimate intergenerational clusters in Montreal in 2016, these short videos showcase passionate, bold, and thoughtful activists of different ages, backgrounds, genders, and abilities telling their stories in their own words.
Media Capsules
Supported by Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) and the Trent Centre for Aging & Society, our goal was to co-create a series of media capsules that record our individual histories with activism. In groups of three, we became interviewers, interviewees and photographers, as we shared our stories with each other.
Ownership of the stories shares rests with the storytellers, media capsules were created as a collaboration between
storytellers and Aging Activisms, and these are not to be reproduced, altered, or used for commercial purposes
Acknowledgement of the Land
We would like to acknowledge that these capsules were created on the traditional territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka people. The Kanien'kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island we call Montreal, called Tiotia:ke in the language of the Kanien'kehá:ka, has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations, including the Algonquin peoples.To learn more about this traditional territory, see QPIRG Concordia's "Acknowledgement & Call to Anti-Colonial Resistance" in this document.
Interviewer: Sharon Swanson
Photographer: Kendra Besanger
Editor: Eugenia Ochoa
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Grandmothers Advocacy Network (GRAN)
Interviewer: Melissa Baldwin
Photographer: Barbara Ratzenböck and Kendra Besanger
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Sharon Swanson
Photographer: Christina Haralanova & Kendra Besanger
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Patricia Winston
Photographer: Melissa Baldwin and Kendra Besanger
Editor: Dave Madden
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Trent University
Interviewer: Peggy Edwards
Photographer: Marietta Haas-Lubelsky
Editor: Jesse Whattam
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Peggy Edwards
Photographer: Joanne Sherwin and Kendra Besanger
Editor: Melissa Baldwin, Peggy Edwards, Elizabeth Vezina, and Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Montreal Raging Grannies
Interviewer: Marietta Lubelsky
Photographer: Emma Langley
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Trent University
Interviewer: Patricia Winston
Photographer: Barbara Ratzenböck
Editor: Jesse Whattam
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Sharon Swanson
Photographer: Joanne Sherwin
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Grandmothers Advocacy Network (GRAN)
Interviewer: Eugenia Ochoa
Photographer: Elizabeth Vezina & Kendra Besanger
Editorial Team: Maddy Macnab, Sharon Swanson, and Rose Marie Whalley
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Trent University
Interviewer: Sharon Swanson
Photographer: Anne Caines & Kendra Besanger
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Sajida Imam
Photographer: Rose Marie Whalley
Editor: Dave Madden
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Joanne Sherwin
Photographers: Kate Viscardis and Kendra Besanger
Editor: Dave Madden
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Sadeqa Siddiqi
Photographer: Sajida Imam
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Nadine Changfoot
Photographer: Maddy Macnab
Editor: Emma Langley & Anne Caines
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Rose Marie Whalley
Photographer: Jesse Whattam and Kendra Besanger
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Emma Langley
Photographers: Elizabeth Vezina and Kendra Besanger
Editors: Emma Langley and Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Kate Viscardis
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Photographers: Barbara Ratzenböck and Kendra Besanger
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
Interviewer: Peggy Edwards
Photographer: Marietta Haas-Lubelsky
Editor: Maddy Macnab
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
ACT Concordia
Interviewer: Sadeqa Siddiqi
Photographer: Rose Marie Whalley and Kendra Besanger
Editor: Dave Madden
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden
ACT Concordia
Interviewer: Peggy Edwards
Photographer: Kate Viscardis
Editor: Dave Madden
Project Leadership: May Chazan & Dave Madden