Introducing stories about families, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops.
Still Life/Still
A pictorial timeline expressed with the food scraps leftover from meal preparation and caregiving served to family during the illness...
April’s First Story
Following a DNA test in Australia, April learns that her bio dad was a Canadian sailor. She and her Canadian...
Uncle Carmel’s Home Movie
I found an 8mm home movie, filmed in 1965, which belonged to our great uncle Carmel. He was a professional...
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...
Folk Costume Fashion
Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...
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.
soy chicken qingming
How Instagram and honouring ancestors through qingming come together over a plate of soy chicken in a cafe.
w/here
"How do you say soul in your language?" asks storyteller Jaz Papadopoulos as they explore legacy and identity.
Over The Rainbow
Josephine Watson's poetic and evocative story about raising children as a single mother features her vibrant paintings.
Apt.#411
Snapshots of life in Apt.#411 document the daily life of Kate Barry (the storyteller) and her trans partner.
Migration
Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen Digital Storytelling workshops with Mount Pleasant residents.
Three Little Birds
Walker shares the Cree names of her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather Cheepoostatin, three gentle men with a powerful influence.
Niche: Outsider
Leah Murray asks what it means to consecutively or concurrently belong to multiple communities across two continents and six countries...
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.
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...
Breakfast with H
Aubin Kwon's watercolours tell the story of going out for a meal with his mother, stimulating a flow of hometown...
5 Pearls
These small audio pearls reflect a yearning and a discovery of the area around where I now live in Vancouver’s...
Brenda Prince…joke teller
Brenda took part in the grunt gallery Digital Story Workshop in February, 2023. She created a vignette of her comedy...
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...
The Beverley Project
Actor David Fox met his father, Beverley, for the first time when he was five years old, living in Northern...
Harry Grunsky’s Humboldt
Harry Grunsky, a gay man, returns to his hometown of Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a tragic road accident devastated the local...
Dr. Water
My great-grandfather, Dr. Charles Sheard, fought water-borne illness and smallpox in early Toronto.
Silent Azaan
Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...
A grandma with unbound feet
Cynthia Lam and Rita Chen Zeng talk about their grandmothers’ influence in showing them how to live in a more...
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...