Local Stories
Introducing stories about climate change, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops and our artist-led research.
Baffin Caribou on The Road to Nowhere
Baffin Caribou on The Road to Nowhere documents a population which is threatened by global warming, over-hunting and industrial development....
Kamloops Art Tour
Artist Chris Bose takes us on a tour of his favourite Kamloops arts spots. He begins with murals he co-created...
Here We Come Mount Pleasant
Don Martin's delightful tour of Mount Pleasant breweries with an old friend includes a musical tribute to classic television.
Donut Holes on the Playa
Vicki Moulder and her husband Todd attended Burning Man for years, making donuts in the desert with a group of...
2018 Mural Festival – People/Places collage
Thanks for sharing your portrait with us! Created for the grunt gallery’s Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen during the 2018...
Whispers from the Edge
Whispers from the Edge was born from a reflection and a snapshot caught in the mirrored windows of Hermes, where...
Folk Costume Fashion
Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...
Harry Grunsky’s Humboldt
Harry Grunsky, a gay man, returns to his hometown of Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a tragic road accident devastated the local...
The Unique Mount Pleasant Triangle Building
The Triangle Building has been an independent business and arts hub for decades. Its shops, and especially its restaurants, experienced...
signals
The storyteller photographed orange fencing around the trees of Mount Pleasant as she walked, documenting gentrification.
Theatre of the Unemployed
Theatre of the Unemployed’s style varied but our philosophy was to involve people directly affected by an issue in writing...
JD Phone Home
James Diamond's personal tour of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, sharing his personal experiences of housing and reflecting on the meaning of...
Silent Azaan
Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...
Searching for my sister’s eyes
The storyteller remembers her sister as she walks through Mount Pleasant and sees brown faces painted in the street murals.
Bonnie Says
Jackie Dives’ brilliant homage to living under the initial pandemic lock-down. In April 2020, many of us looked forward to...
A Reno of Love
Artists renovated and beautified a heritage house with family and then lost it in Vancouver's red hot housing market.
Labyrinths
Imagine the 13 Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to another a form of...
Echoes of Movement
A soundscape inspired by the comings and goings of people, creatures, and things over time. From the historic train-stopping Militant...
Toby Sharp Energy Dragon
Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research.
Watson Street – a history in 9 blocks
Explore Watson Street, part of the historic Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, in photos as you travel along the narrow street.
Artists’ Memories of the West End
How a group of queer performing artists lived in Vancouver's West End in the 90s and early 2000s, inspired by...
The Kingsgate Mall
Time travel by following the storytellers’ animated silent vision of Mount Pleasant's Kingsgate Mall over time.
The People’s Garden Project
Noel at the Farm, watercolour by Angela Walcott Toronto artist Angela Walcott presents her second geolocation project with Digital Stories...