Local Stories
Introducing stories about climate change, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops and our artist-led research.
Kamloops Art Tour
Artist Chris Bose takes us on a tour of his favourite Kamloops arts spots. He begins with murals he co-created...
Harry Grunsky’s Humboldt
Harry Grunsky, a gay man, returns to his hometown of Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a tragic road accident devastated the local...
Silent Azaan
Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...
Toby Sharp Energy Dragon
Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research.
No Vacancy
No one believed her when she said that wildlife occupied her basement so this artist set up a camera, recording...
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 Mount Pleasant
Michelle La Flamme began this sound walk about Vancouver’s creative hub Mount Pleasant in August 2021. Walk through the area...
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...
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...
Big Blue
Built in 1889, the big blue James Black Gallery has been a live-in art collective since the early 2000s in...
Bill Morrow
A tribute to Bill Morrow, gay man from an older generation who built community with other LGBT+ and Buddhist folks...
Folk Costume Fashion
Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...
Everyone Belongs
Coco Eskotew’s powerful challenge to a bully’s “silent treatment” grows out of her ability as a painter to express metaphors.
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....
A Reno of Love
Artists renovated and beautified a heritage house with family and then lost it in Vancouver's red hot housing market.
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.
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...
QUANTUM SMACK!
High tide and sunrise coincide on a chilly winter's day at the edge of the North West Pacific Ocean 0717hrs...
signals
The storyteller photographed orange fencing around the trees of Mount Pleasant as she walked, documenting gentrification.
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.
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.
Lulu’s Story
Moving to big town Vancouver helped Lulu to develop her fashion career and connect with other trans folks.
Vancouver’s Oldest Brewery Building
Local historian Bruce Macdonald asks: Where is Vancouver's oldest brewery building? It is in Mount Pleasant!