Local Stories
Introducing stories about climate change, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops and our artist-led research.
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.
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.
Punjabi Market in Transition
Long time resident of Vancouver's Punjabi Market area, Alannah Wells, reflects on how things have changed.
THE ALLEYS ARE GALLERIES
The Alleys are the Galleries in Vancouver's DTES in Charlene (Chuck) Heilman's hyperlapse tour.
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.
Silent Azaan
Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...
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...
Labyrinths
Imagine the 13 Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to another a form of...
Meeting a Unicorn
Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse Introducing Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse. Cappy...
No Vacancy
No one believed her when she said that wildlife occupied her basement so this artist set up a camera, recording...
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...
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...
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...
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...
signals
The storyteller photographed orange fencing around the trees of Mount Pleasant as she walked, documenting gentrification.
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.
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.
belvedere / a love story
Alice Hamilton's lyrical homage to the Belvedere, a local apartment building where residents are threatened by renoviction.
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 Kingsgate Mall
Time travel by following the storytellers’ animated silent vision of Mount Pleasant's Kingsgate Mall over time.
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.