Introducing performances by independent artists, created inside and outside community digital storytelling workshops.
belvedere / a love story
Alice Hamilton's lyrical homage to the Belvedere, a local apartment building where residents are threatened by renoviction.
Folk Costume Fashion
Folk Costume Fashion traces the story of my mother’s folk costume and her journey to meet family in Finland and...
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...
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
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...
QUANTUM SMACK!
High tide and sunrise coincide on a chilly winter's day at the edge of the North West Pacific Ocean 0717hrs...
Tick and Talk of Common Time
a 32:25 min video with 15 Vancouver dancers, many TikTok performers, 5 Canadian composers, 2 vocal transcribers, 1 AV designer...
Toby Sharp Energy Dragon
Heather McLean reflects on the gendered dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research.
Self-isolation Spirits
The demolition of Lord Nelson School, an edifice familiar to this east Vancouver neighbourhood since 1911 has awakened angry spirits.
Brenda Prince…joke teller
Brenda took part in the grunt gallery Digital Story Workshop in February, 2023. She created a vignette of her comedy...
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
Self-isolation Blancmange
What happens when your power goes out in a windstorm? You’re running out of ingredients, the pandemic strikes, yet you...
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...
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...
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...
Want to Be (New Again)
In the past 4 years I have been through a process of unmasking, layer after layer, so many parts of...