Lorna Boschman (workshop co-facilitator)
For the past four years, Lorna has worked with Sebnem Ozpeta to co-facilitate digital storytelling workshops sponsored by Vancouver’s grunt gallery. Our workshops have move from the gallery to online, in the process connecting with more artists nationally.
Lorna has also co-led research into community storytelling and how artists work with geolocation audio. We share what we’ve learned through blog posts on this site.
From 2012-16, Lorna Boschman worked closely with Dr. Mary Bryson on Cancer’s Margins, an arts- and community-based research study. The national research team looked at how LBGT2Q people who have been diagnosed with breast or gynecological cancer have accessed care, are supported while in treatment, and communicated health knowledge.
In October 2016, Lorna Boschman was chosen by a jury of her peers as the Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Awards 2016 honouree in Film & New Media. She has a long history of community media arts production.
Sebnem Ozpeta (workshop co-facilitator)
Sebnem Ozpeta is a Vancouver-based visual artist, video editor, and videographer. She studied graphic design in Turkey, where she was born and raised. She also completed the digital film program at The Art Institute of Vancouver. She has produced short films and video installations that have been screened and exhibited in festivals in Europe, Canada and Turkey.
For more than 10 years, she has collaborated with artists, performers, storytellers, dancers and filmmakers. More recently she has applied her video skills and her experience in storytelling by mentoring youth as part of the Digital Story Telling project (in collaboration with Lisa G. Nielsen).
Sebnem curated Dinka Pignon’s retrospective exhibition “You are Invited” at VIVO Media Arts Centre and co-curated the Digital Carnival and Margaret Dragu’s M. DRAGU’s MUSEUM for the Your Kontinent Media Arts Festival.
“I believe that everybody has a story and we all want to share our stories. Visual storytelling is only one of them. My projects focus on different aspects of ‘loss’, ‘isolation’, and ‘adaptation’ in cultural diversity.” Sebnem co-facilitates digital storytelling workshops with Lorna Boschman.