Local Stories

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

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

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

Long time resident of Vancouver's Punjabi Market area, Alannah Wells, reflects on how things have changed.

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

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

Alice Hamilton's lyrical homage to the Belvedere, a local apartment building where residents are threatened by renoviction.

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

Don Martin's delightful tour of Mount Pleasant breweries with an old friend includes a musical tribute to classic television.

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

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

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

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

The storyteller photographed orange fencing around the trees of Mount Pleasant as she walked, documenting gentrification.

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

Mark Elwin was interested in how family owned businesses survive and thrive today in Vancouver so he profiled Grapes and...

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

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

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

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

A soundscape inspired by the comings and goings of people, creatures, and things over time. From the historic train-stopping Militant...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moving to big town Vancouver helped Lulu to develop her fashion career and connect with other trans folks.

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

Homage to 13 local Labyrinths. Imagine the Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to...

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

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

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