Introducing performances by independent artists, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops.
Labyrinths
Homage to 13 local Labyrinths. Imagine the Labyrinths are portals to one another, making travel from one Vancouver neighbourhood to...
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...
Folk Costume Fashion
Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...
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...
Self-isolation Blancmange
What happens when your power goes out in a windstorm? You’re running out of ingredients, the pandemic strikes, yet you...
Self-isolation Spirits
The demolition of Lord Nelson School, an edifice familiar to this east Vancouver neighbourhood since 1911 has awakened angry spirits.
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...
Joanne Arnott and Wil To Write at the 2017 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Awards
Joanne Arnott and Wil To Write at the 2017 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Awards
belvedere / a love story
Alice Hamilton's lyrical homage to the Belvedere, a local apartment building where residents are threatened by renoviction.
Toby Sharp Energy Dragon
Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research.
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...
The Truths I Tell My Friends
For an artist who communicates with her plants, the world grows greener by the day. Her plant friends become her...
Jill Mandrake’s Waitin’ Till the Cows Come Home
My idea of a digital story took the form of a music video. “Waitin’ Till the Cows Come Home” was...