Welcome to Leticia Listening Acts

Leticia is a live platform that listens for and supports transformative justice. The site focuses on listening in regards to transformative justice and its relationship with performance, culture, and art in sites of conflict and post-conflict. It encourages users world-wide to openly discuss, archive and share case studies; even to host and facilitate safe listening environments for transformative justice processes.

Meet Our Team

The Acts of Listening Lab is a hub for research-creation on the transformative power of listening in the context of oral history performance. It brings together artists- researchers, communities, and activists from across disciplines and cultures interested in exploring alternative and creative ways of making lifestories matter in the public sphere. It is part of Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. It was created in 2018 by Associate Professor Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro with support from a Canada Foundation of Innovation research-infrastructure Grant. This website is supported by the same grant.

Luis C. Sotelo Castro
Luis C. Sotelo Castro
is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University, Montreal (Quebec, Canada). He is also the second co-director of Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. His latest publications explore listening in the context of post-conflict performances of memory. For instance, see ‘Facilitating voicing and listening in the context of post-conflict performances of memory. The Colombian scenario.’ In: De Nardi, S., Orange, H., et al. Routledge Handbook of Memoryscapes. Routledge: London. (2019), and his article ‘Not being able to speak is torture: performing listening to painful narratives’. International Journal of Transitional Justice, Special Issue Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice: Contributions of Arts and Culture. (March, 2020)
Manuela Ochoa
Manuela Ochoa
is an artist and a Humanities PhD student at Concordia University. She is the co-founder of the digital projects Oropéndola, arte y conflicto (now part of the Museum of Memory of Colombia) and Mirlo Podcast. Manuela was co-curator for the exhibit Feliza Bursztyn, Elogio de la chatarra at the Museo Nacional de Colombia and producer for BBC Radio’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul (In the studio). Her research explores the participatory potential of oral history and artistic methods in the Colombian post-conflict scenario so that the listening experience is not passive and unilateral but rather transformative and empowering.

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