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.
Toby Sharp Energy Dragon
Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research.
Harry Grunsky’s Humboldt
Harry Grunsky, a gay man, returns to his hometown of Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a tragic road accident devastated the local...
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.
Meeting a Unicorn
Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse Introducing Michelle La Flamme and her friend Cappy the horse. Cappy...
Folk Costume Fashion
Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...
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...
Everyone Belongs
Coco Eskotew’s powerful challenge to a bully’s “silent treatment” grows out of her ability as a painter to express metaphors.
signals
The storyteller photographed orange fencing around the trees of Mount Pleasant as she walked, documenting gentrification.
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.
Punjabi Market in Transition
Long time resident of Vancouver's Punjabi Market area, Alannah Wells, reflects on how things have changed.
The Kingsgate Mall
Time travel by following the storytellers’ animated silent vision of Mount Pleasant's Kingsgate Mall over time.
belvedere / a love story
Alice Hamilton's lyrical homage to the Belvedere, a local apartment building where residents are threatened by renoviction.
No Vacancy
No one believed her when she said that wildlife occupied her basement so this artist set up a camera, recording...
A Reno of Love
Artists renovated and beautified a heritage house with family and then lost it in Vancouver's red hot housing market.
Whispers from the Edge
Whispers from the Edge was born from a reflection and a snapshot caught in the mirrored windows of Hermes, where...
Artists’ Memories of the West End
How a group of queer performing artists lived in Vancouver's West End in the 90s and early 2000s, inspired by...
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 ALLEYS ARE GALLERIES
The Alleys are the Galleries in Vancouver's DTES in Charlene (Chuck) Heilman's hyperlapse tour.
Kamloops Art Tour
Artist Chris Bose takes us on a tour of his favourite Kamloops arts spots. He begins with murals he co-created...
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...
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.
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...
Streetcars of Mount Pleasant
Quick history of the streetcars of Mount Pleasant and how they helped early residents of Vancouver travel back and forth...
Big Blue
Built in 1889, the big blue James Black Gallery has been a live-in art collective since the early 2000s in...
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...
Baffin Caribou on The Road to Nowhere
Baffin Caribou on The Road to Nowhere documents a population which is threatened by global warming, over-hunting and industrial development....
Lulu’s Story
Moving to big town Vancouver helped Lulu to develop her fashion career and connect with other trans folks.
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...
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.
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...
Labyrinths
Imagine the 13 Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to another a form of...
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.
Silent Azaan
Zool Suleman explores the Silent Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer heard five times daily around the world but not...
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...
Vancouver’s Oldest Brewery Building
Local historian Bruce Macdonald asks: Where is Vancouver's oldest brewery building? It is in Mount Pleasant!