Introducing local stories, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops and our artist-led research. These are people’s stories about where they live.
Artists’ Memories of Mount Pleasant
Michelle La Flamme began this sound walk about Vancouver’s creative hub Mount Pleasant in August 2021. Walk through the area...
2018 Mural Festival – People/Places collage
Thanks for sharing your portrait with us! Created for the grunt gallery’s Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen during the 2018...
Labyrinths
Imagine the 13 Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to another a form of...
THE ALLEYS ARE GALLERIES
The Alleys are the Galleries in Vancouver's DTES in Charlene (Chuck) Heilman's hyperlapse tour.
Silent Azaan
Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...
Everyone Belongs
Coco Eskotew’s powerful challenge to a bully’s “silent treatment” grows out of her ability as a painter to express metaphors.
JD Phone Home
James Diamond's personal tour of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, sharing his personal experiences of housing and reflecting on the meaning of...
Bonnie Says
Jackie Dives’ brilliant homage to living under the initial pandemic lock-down. In April 2020, many of us looked forward to...
A Reno of Love
Artists renovated and beautified a heritage house with family and then lost it in Vancouver's red hot housing market.
Big Blue
Built in 1889, the big blue James Black Gallery has been a live-in art collective since the early 2000s in...
signals
The storyteller photographed orange fencing around the trees of Mount Pleasant as she walked, documenting gentrification.
Vancouver’s Oldest Brewery Building
Local historian Bruce Macdonald asks: Where is Vancouver's oldest brewery building? It is in Mount Pleasant!
The Kingsgate Mall
Time travel by following the storytellers’ animated silent vision of Mount Pleasant's Kingsgate Mall over time.
Talking Poles
A collaboration between Lorna Boschman, Victoria Moulder, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and local community members who shared their voices and drumming.
Vancouver’s Treasured (And Threatened) Old Mount Pleasant Village
A look at the historic (and threatened by gentrification) Mount Pleasant, site of Vancouver's first neighbourhood outside the downtown core.
Toby Sharp Energy Dragon
Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research.
Punjabi Market in Transition
Long time resident of Vancouver's Punjabi Market area, Alannah Wells, reflects on how things have changed.
Lulu’s Story
Moving to big town Vancouver helped Lulu to develop her fashion career and connect with other trans folks.
Harry Grunsky’s Humboldt
Harry Grunsky, a gay man, returns to his hometown of Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a tragic road accident devastated the local...
No Vacancy
No one believed her when she said that wildlife occupied her basement so this artist set up a camera, recording...
Folk Costume Fashion
Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...
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...
Theatre of the Unemployed
Theatre of the Unemployed’s style varied but our philosophy was to involve people directly affected by an issue in writing...
Donut Holes on the Playa
Vicki Moulder and her husband Todd attended Burning Man for years, making donuts in the desert with a group of...
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...
Streetcars of Mount Pleasant
Quick history of the streetcars of Mount Pleasant and how they helped early residents of Vancouver travel back and forth...
But where are you from from?
My short story focuses on a walk towards China Creek North Park which was once a critical point of convergence...
Echoes of Movement
A soundscape inspired by the comings and goings of people, creatures, and things over time. From the historic train-stopping Militant...
Watson Street – a history in 9 blocks
Explore Watson Street, part of the historic Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, in photos as you travel along the narrow street.
Crawling Around
It was never my intention to create a video about Stink Bugs. Rather, I caught the bugs in glass jars...
Searching for my sister’s eyes
The storyteller remembers her sister as she walks through Mount Pleasant and sees brown faces painted in the street murals.
Here We Come Mount Pleasant
Don Martin's delightful tour of Mount Pleasant breweries with an old friend includes a musical tribute to classic television.
Grapes and Soda: On Supporting the Local Community
Mark Elwin was interested in how family owned businesses survive and thrive today in Vancouver so he profiled Grapes and...
City We Live In
Roll through Vancouver's Olympic Village with Roberto Molino (retired Paralympian athlete) as he experiences the physical barriers that are an...
The Unique Mount Pleasant Triangle Building
The Triangle Building has been an independent business and arts hub for decades. Its shops, and especially its restaurants, experienced...