Local Stories
Introducing stories about climate change, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops and our artist-led research.
Theatre of the Unemployed
https://vimeo.com/1019020200?share=copy Theatre of the Unemployed’s style varied but our philosophy was to involve people directly affected by an issue in...
Crawling Around
It was never my intention to create a video about Stink Bugs. Rather, I caught the bugs in glass jars...
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.
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...
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...
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 Reno of Love
Artists renovated and beautified a heritage house with family and then lost it in Vancouver's red hot housing market.
Echoes of Movement
A soundscape inspired by the comings and goings of people, creatures, and things over time. From the historic train-stopping Militant...
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...
Vancouver’s Treasured (And Threatened) Old Mount Pleasant Village
A look at the historic (and threatened by gentrification) Mount Pleasant, site of Vancouver's first neighbourhood outside the downtown core.
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...
No Vacancy
No one believed her when she said that wildlife occupied her basement so this artist set up a camera, recording...
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.
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...
belvedere / a love story
Alice Hamilton's lyrical homage to the Belvedere, a local apartment building where residents are threatened by renoviction.
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...
The Kingsgate Mall
Time travel by following the storytellers’ animated silent vision of Mount Pleasant's Kingsgate Mall over time.
Bill Morrow
A tribute to Bill Morrow, gay man from an older generation who built community with other LGBT+ and Buddhist folks...
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...
Lulu’s Story
Moving to big town Vancouver helped Lulu to develop her fashion career and connect with other trans folks.
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....