Local Stories
Introducing stories about climate change, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops and our artist-led research.
Streetcars of Mount Pleasant
Quick history of the streetcars of Mount Pleasant and how they helped early residents of Vancouver travel back and forth...
Crawling Around
It was never my intention to create a video about Stink Bugs. Rather, I caught the bugs in glass jars...
Mother Daughter Bake-Off
Our episodic cooking show, Jill and Lorna’s Kitchen, travels to exotic Finn Slough (outside Vancouver BC), home of Lady Justice...
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...
Vancouver’s Oldest Brewery Building
Local historian Bruce Macdonald asks: Where is Vancouver's oldest brewery building? It is in Mount Pleasant!
Lulu’s Story
Moving to big town Vancouver helped Lulu to develop her fashion career and connect with other trans folks.
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...
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.
Bonnie Says
Jackie Dives’ brilliant homage to living under the initial pandemic lock-down. In April 2020, many of us looked forward to...
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...
signals
The storyteller photographed orange fencing around the trees of Mount Pleasant as she walked, documenting gentrification.
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...
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 Kingsgate Mall
Time travel by following the storytellers’ animated silent vision of Mount Pleasant's Kingsgate Mall over time.
Meeting a Unicorn
Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse Introducing Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse. Cappy...
Big Blue
Built in 1889, the big blue James Black Gallery has been a live-in art collective since the early 2000s in...
QUANTUM SMACK!
High tide and sunrise coincide on a chilly winter's day at the edge of the North West Pacific Ocean 0717hrs...
No Vacancy
No one believed her when she said that wildlife occupied her basement so this artist set up a camera, recording...
Labyrinths
Imagine the 13 Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to another a form of...
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.
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....
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...
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.