Family Stories

The storyteller remembers her sister as she walks through Mount Pleasant and sees brown faces painted in the street murals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kelly Roulette's family dog was named Small by her daughter when he joined their household. His job is to be...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our episodic cooking show, Jill and Lorna’s Kitchen, travels to exotic Finn Slough (outside Vancouver BC), home of Lady Justice...

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

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

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

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