notice
Music Therapy professor moderated roundtable on racial and social profiling
On July 26, 2019, the eve of the 10th edition of Heavy Montréal, the celebrated rock and metal festival, Concordia researcher and musician Vivek Venakatesh helped to host an event about how underground cultures like the metal community negotiate difficult public topics. The roundtable was moderated by Concordia Music Therapy professor Annabelle Brault and featured J.R. Hayes, lead singer of Pig Destroyer, Elsa F. Mondésir Villefort, youth educator and member of the Group of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and Will Prosper, a civil rights activist, documentary filmmaker and former RCMP officer.