Local Stories

Coco Eskotew’s powerful challenge to a bully’s “silent treatment” grows out of her ability as a painter to express metaphors.

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

Artist Chris Bose takes us on a tour of his favourite Kamloops arts spots. He begins with murals he co-created...

Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse Introducing Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse. Cappy...

Time travel by following the storytellers’ animated silent vision of Mount Pleasant's Kingsgate Mall over time.

No one believed her when she said that wildlife occupied her basement so this artist set up a camera, recording...

Local historian Bruce Macdonald asks: Where is Vancouver's oldest brewery building? It is in Mount Pleasant!

A tribute to Bill Morrow, gay man from an older generation who built community with other LGBT+ and Buddhist folks...

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

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

A collaboration between Lorna Boschman, Victoria Moulder, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and local community members who shared their voices and drumming.

Theatre of the Unemployed’s style varied but our philosophy was to involve people directly affected by an issue in writing...

Roll through Vancouver's Olympic Village with Roberto Molino (retired Paralympian athlete) as he experiences the physical barriers that are an...

Thanks for sharing your portrait with us! Created for the grunt gallery’s Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen during the 2018...

Mark Elwin's profile of family owned businesses as they survive and thrive today in Vancouver, featuring Caveman Cafe's food donations...

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

Michelle La Flamme began this sound walk about Vancouver’s creative hub Mount Pleasant in August 2021. Walk through the area...

Vicki Moulder and her husband Todd attended Burning Man for years, making donuts in the desert with a group of...

A look at the historic (and threatened by gentrification) Mount Pleasant, site of Vancouver's first neighbourhood outside the downtown core.

Whispers from the Edge was born from a reflection and a snapshot caught in the mirrored windows of Hermes, where...

Quick history of the streetcars of Mount Pleasant and how they helped early residents of Vancouver travel back and forth...

Explore Watson Street, part of the historic Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, in photos as you travel along the narrow street.

My short story focuses on a walk towards China Creek North Park which was once a critical point of convergence...

Artists renovated and beautified a heritage house with family and then lost it in Vancouver's red hot housing market.

How a group of queer performing artists lived in Vancouver's West End in the 90s and early 2000s, inspired by...

Baffin Caribou on The Road to Nowhere documents a population which is threatened by global warming, over-hunting and industrial development....

It was never my intention to create a video about Stink Bugs. Rather, I caught the bugs in glass jars...

The Alleys are the Galleries in Vancouver's DTES in Charlene (Chuck) Heilman's hyperlapse tour.

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

The Triangle Building has been an independent business and arts hub for decades. Its shops, and especially its restaurants, experienced...

Noel at the Farm, watercolour by Angela Walcott Toronto artist Angela Walcott presents her second geolocation project with Digital Stories...

Built in 1889, the big blue James Black Gallery has been a live-in art collective since the early 2000s in...

Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research.

James Diamond's personal tour of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, sharing his personal experiences of housing and reflecting on the meaning of...

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