Health Stories

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

Bonnie Says

Bonnie Says

Jackie Dives’ brilliant homage to living under the initial pandemic lock-down. In April 2020, many of us looked forward to...

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Erosion

Visceral visual meditation and reflection on how we perceive change over time.

Tomato salad arranged on a blue plate

Solitary Dining

Creative photographer Cherry Archer documented her meals during 2020, enjoying solitary dining at its finest!

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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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Verena Stefan’s just being

All night, Antouka had been thinking about death and dying. Fourteen years into cancer and some years into writing about...

Three women in aprons. Daughter measures ingredients

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...

An ocean wave is painted in blue and green colours, overlaid with the image of the artist in a bathing suit. A black title reads QUANTUM SMACK!

QUANTUM SMACK!

High tide and sunrise coincide on a chilly winter's day at the edge of the North West Pacific Ocean 0717hrs...

A man checks water samples in 1911.

Dr. Water

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

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Want to Be (New Again)

In the past 4 years I have been through a process of unmasking, layer after layer, so many parts of...

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Malpractice

An Indigenous healthcare worker in Vancouver encounters systemic racism firsthand and tells us about her experience in Malpractice.

Noel at the Farm (detail) by artist Angela Walcott

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...

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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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Still Life/Still

A pictorial timeline expressed with the food scraps leftover from meal preparation and caregiving served to family during the illness...

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…one garden at a time

A special thanks to all of those who have walked the garden path with me. A grand nod to all...

My Global Warming

Living with Multiple Sclerosis has been a process of adapting to a changing environment in which some of my physical...

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Self-isolation Blancmange

What happens when your power goes out in a windstorm? You’re running out of ingredients, the pandemic strikes, yet you...

Til the Fat Lady Dances

This evocative dance was choreographed and performed by barbara findlay for All Bodies Dance during their HomeBodies covid series in...

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Labyrinths

Imagine the 13 Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to another a form of...

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Bullying

Grace Chan shines a light on the situation of Asian seniors in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES). Her message is...

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