Podcasts, tours and games at the Montreal History Festival



Faced with a normally rather scattered offer, the FHM presents itself as a rallying point where the 14 Montreal history museums and 36 organizations converge for a weekend.

What we offer is a kind of history buffet for all tastes. We see that the story is more and more popular in the media, but it is often difficult to have access to it during the year because it is quite dispersedexplains Jean-François Leclerc, historian, museologist and president of the festival’s programming committee.

The activities, mainly face-to-face, but also virtual, include conferences, tours to explore the city and activities separated into themes: telling, playing, witnessing, seeing, touching, dancing, singing and listening to the story.

New this year: a section entitled History in podcasts and podcasts, which presents podcasts on specific subjects concocted by museums, historical societies, historians or historians.

People can discover these podcasts in the comfort of their homes, but the FHM invites the public to listen to them by walking through the neighborhoods whose history they retrace, following a map or sound indications.

The Bronx of Montreal and the trees of Mount Royal

For example, the Société historique Cavelier-de-LaSalle offers two thirty-minute podcasts devoted to a neighborhood in the LaSalle borough known as the Bronx of Montreal. (New window)due to the purchase of several lots in this area, in 1919, by New York brokers, around Broadway Street.

Located opposite the Lachine rapids and also nicknamed the Village des Rapides, this place has witnessed, since the 18th century, the great social turning points of our time, the evolution of Montreal, Quebec and Americaexplains the company.

In the same vein, the organization Portrait sonore offers Friday, at 9:30 a.m., a sound immersion in Mount Royal entitled At the root of the treewho goes back to the origins of the park and wonders what the many trees it shelters can teach us.

The walk of about 2h30 will be done in the presence of the designer of the podcast, according to the words of those who are close to these trees: landscapers, botanists, herbalists, designers and poets. People who want to participate can register for free on the FHM website. (New window).

The Assassin’s Creed series of games under the magnifying glass of history

The section Playing with history proposes tackling the subject in a fun way, for example with an online game inspired by the books in which you are the hero and created by Maison Saint-Gabriel.

Entitled Crime in New France – La Pointe under investigation, the game puts Internet users in the shoes of the king’s prosecutor of Ville-Marie, in October 1671 in Montreal, who must elucidate the circumstances of a theft at the Pointe farm, today the Maison Saint-Gabriel . The game will be available for free from May 13 on the museum’s website (New window).

Also as part of the Playing with History component, the Pointe-à-Callière Museum will present a conference with a dozen historians who were consulted by Ubisoft during the creation of certain games in the Assassin’s Creed series. .

Hosted by education science professors Marc-André Éthier and David Lefrançois, the conference will attempt to answer questions such as can we trust historical representations in a video game?

The event will be held on May 14 at 4 p.m. in the museum’s Espace 360° COGECO. A few tickets priced at $7 are still available on the Le point de vente site. (New window).

For the complete program of the second FHM, go to the festival website (New window).

This text was written from an interview conducted by Catherine Richer, cultural columnist on the show 15-18. Comments may have been edited for clarity or conciseness.



Reference-ici.radio-canada.ca

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