In 2015, my parents died and I inherited my great-great...
Community Digital Stories, Insights & Tutorials
Digital Stories Canada is dedicated to the art of short community digital stories with a Canadian connection. Many of these stories were created during workshops sponsored by the grunt gallery in Vancouver, collaborations with Lorna Boschman and Sebnem Ozpeta. The BC-based Community Digital Storytelling Initiative shares research and tutorials on the site.
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Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial...
Community Digital Storytelling Initiative
After the Community Digital Storytelling (CDS) workshop ends, the stories that have been co-created need...
How has the workshop design has changed over time for Our World Language, Indigenous-led programs,...
Community Digital Storytelling grows out of our experiences in the world, shared as stories. Our...
Doing this work in community (when safer spaces are created and held) tends to accelerate...
In one way or another, all of the Community Storytelling practitioners interviewed referenced the healing...
Brave stories require safe and supportive spaces for them to emerge into. In one on...
Community Digital Storytelling doesn’t have a straightforward lineage that can be traced back to a...
How did our Digital Storytelling Initiative begin? Lorna Boschman and Venay Felton met accidentally and...
Recent Videos
Fall 2019 Community Digital Stories
Project Statement: The Truths I Tell My Friends investigates the...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2019 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Spring 2019 Community Digital Stories
Created during grunt gallery’s 2019 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
How Instagram and honouring ancestors through qingming come together over...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2019 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Summer 2018 Community Digital Stories
Thanks for sharing your portrait with us! Created for the...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Special Thanks to Local Historian Bruce Macdonald Created during grunt...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Explore Watson Street, part of the historic Mount Pleasant neighbourhood,...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen...