Introducing stories about health and healthcare, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops.
QUANTUM SMACK!
High tide and sunrise coincide on a chilly winter's day at the edge of the North West Pacific Ocean 0717hrs...
The Incident
Maki and Lavender introduce us to their puppet-verse in The Incident.
Malpractice
An Indigenous healthcare worker in Vancouver encounters systemic racism firsthand and tells us about her experience in Malpractice.
My Global Warming
Living with Multiple Sclerosis has been a process of adapting to a changing environment in which some of my physical...
Sh*t is bananas
A fast paced knock knock joke leads to deeper thoughts about the nature of our being. Or is it just...
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...
Erosion
Visceral visual meditation and reflection on how we perceive change over time.
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...
Bonnie Says
Jackie Dives’ brilliant homage to living under the initial pandemic lock-down. In April 2020, many of us looked forward to...
Built in the Breaking
Cancer taught me that some of the most important growth happens where no one can see it. In the months...
Dr. Water
My great-grandfather, Dr. Charles Sheard, fought water-borne illness and smallpox in early Toronto.
soy chicken qingming
How Instagram and honouring ancestors through qingming come together over a plate of soy chicken in a cafe.
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...
Still Life/Still
A pictorial timeline expressed with the food scraps leftover from meal preparation and caregiving served to family during the illness...
…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...
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...
Self-isolation Blancmange
What happens when your power goes out in a windstorm? You’re running out of ingredients, the pandemic strikes, yet you...
The wounded healer
Christine's digital story expresses her own journey, transforming intergenerational trauma to a powerful healing presence in her community.
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...
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...
Caveman Cafe: In Serving the Community
Mark Elwin's profile of family owned businesses as they survive and thrive today in Vancouver, featuring Caveman Cafe's food donations...
Bullying
Grace Chan shines a light on the situation of Asian seniors in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES). Her message is...
Solitary Dining
Creative photographer Cherry Archer documented her meals during 2020, enjoying solitary dining at its finest!