Family Stories

Introducing stories about families, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops.

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soy chicken qingming

How Instagram and honouring ancestors through qingming come together over a plate of soy chicken in a cafe.

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w/here

"How do you say soul in your language?" asks storyteller Jaz Papadopoulos as they explore legacy and identity.

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Apt.#411

Snapshots of life in Apt.#411 document the daily life of Kate Barry (the storyteller) and her trans partner.

Brenda Prince…joke teller

Brenda took part in the grunt gallery Digital Story Workshop in February, 2023. She created a vignette of her comedy...

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Harry Grunsky’s Humboldt

Harry Grunsky, a gay man, returns to his hometown of Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a tragic road accident devastated the local...

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Silent Azaan

Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...

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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...

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Over The Rainbow

Josephine Watson's poetic and evocative story about raising children as a single mother features her vibrant paintings.

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Three Little Birds

Walker shares the Cree names of her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather Cheepoostatin, three gentle men with a powerful influence.

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Folk Costume Fashion

Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...

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Migration

Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen Digital Storytelling workshops with Mount Pleasant residents.

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April’s First Story

Following a DNA test in Australia, April learns that her bio dad was a Canadian sailor. She and her Canadian...

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5 Pearls

These small audio pearls reflect a yearning and a discovery of the area around where I now live in Vancouver’s...

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Breakfast with H

Aubin Kwon's watercolours tell the story of going out for a meal with his mother, stimulating a flow of hometown...

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Harris Taylor’s Agawa Canyon

Harris' mother worked on the Agawa Canyon Railway. Artists from Canada's Group of Seven frequently visited and interacted with her...

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The Bed

In 2015, my parents died and I inherited my great-great grandfather's mahogany four-poster bed. I began sleeping in it, dreaming...

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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...

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When Mommy Was Your Age

A woman narrates her daughter's unique childhood for her grandchildren so they can view their mother in a new light.

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Cynthia Lam and Rita Chen Zeng talk about their grandmothers’ influence in showing them how to live in a more...

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Dr. Water

My great-grandfather, Dr. Charles Sheard, fought water-borne illness and smallpox in early Toronto.

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The Beverley Project

Actor David Fox met his father, Beverley, for the first time when he was five years old, living in Northern...

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