Introducing stories from our BIPOC collaborators, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops and our artist-led research.
artificial sun
Frederick Cummings' powerful visual statement on the depth and nature of reality. The clouds are all vibrating in tune to...
Still Life/Still
A pictorial timeline expressed with the food scraps leftover from meal preparation and caregiving served to family during the illness...
Everyone Belongs
Coco Eskotew’s powerful challenge to a bully’s “silent treatment” grows out of her ability as a painter to express metaphors.
The Other Side
The Other Side combines motion pictures, stop motion and images to reflect each human going through their memories, solitude, metamorphosis.
Brenda Prince…joke teller
Brenda took part in the grunt gallery Digital Story Workshop in February, 2023. She created a vignette of her comedy...
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...
City We Live In
Roll through Vancouver's Olympic Village with Roberto Molino (retired Paralympian athlete) as he experiences the physical barriers that are an...
Meeting a Unicorn
Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse Introducing Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse. Cappy...
The Artist’s Way
In The Artist’s Way, Toronto-based freelance writer and visual artist Angela Walcott talks about her journey as an artist.
Talking Poles
A collaboration between Lorna Boschman, Victoria Moulder, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and local community members who shared their voices and drumming.
Solitary Dining
Creative photographer Cherry Archer documented her meals during 2020, enjoying solitary dining at its finest!
Untitled
Coco documents her process and techniques as an artist while she creates a painting encouraging people to accept and respect...
5 Pearls
These small audio pearls reflect a yearning and a discovery of the area around where I now live in Vancouver’s...
Kamloops Art Tour
Artist Chris Bose takes us on a tour of his favourite Kamloops arts spots. He begins with murals he co-created...
A grandma with unbound feet
Cynthia Lam and Rita Chen Zeng talk about their grandmothers’ influence in showing them how to live in a more...
Artists’ Memories of Mount Pleasant
Michelle La Flamme began this sound walk about Vancouver’s creative hub Mount Pleasant in August 2021. Walk through the area...
Bullying
Grace Chan shines a light on the situation of Asian seniors in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES). Her message is...
Lulu’s Story
Moving to big town Vancouver helped Lulu to develop her fashion career and connect with other trans folks.
Malpractice
An Indigenous healthcare worker in Vancouver encounters systemic racism firsthand and tells us about her experience in Malpractice.
But where are you from from?
My short story focuses on a walk towards China Creek North Park which was once a critical point of convergence...
Vee Jump!! & Nature Nurtures
Stretching and expanding her body in nature as it nurtures, while still aware of approaching gentrification.
soy chicken qingming
How Instagram and honouring ancestors through qingming come together over a plate of soy chicken in a cafe.
Breakfast with H
Aubin Kwon's watercolours tell the story of going out for a meal with his mother, stimulating a flow of hometown...
Three Little Birds
Walker shares the Cree names of her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather Cheepoostatin, three gentle men with a powerful influence.
Burnt Orange
An international student tries to follow her dreams as an artist but has a rude welcome: "This is a reminder...
Kelly Roulette’s Small Dog
Kelly Roulette's family dog was named Small by her daughter when he joined their household. His job is to be...
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.
Silent Azaan
Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...
Caveman Cafe: In Serving the Community
Mark Elwin's profile of family owned businesses as they survive and thrive today in Vancouver, featuring Caveman Cafe's food donations...
Grapes and Soda: On Supporting the Local Community
Mark Elwin was interested in how family owned businesses survive and thrive today in Vancouver so he profiled Grapes and...
April’s First Story
Following a DNA test in Australia, April learns that her bio dad was a Canadian sailor. She and her Canadian...
A Chilean Refugee in Canada
This summer, our #1 collaborator, Lorna Boschman, traveled to Sarnia with Leanne (her sis), the cinematographer for our story. We...