Summer 2018

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

Josephine Watson's poetic and evocative story about raising children as a single mother features her vibrant paintings.

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

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

Created during grunt gallery’s 2018 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen Digital Storytelling workshops with Mount Pleasant residents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Artist Gordon Waselnuk explores Mount Pleasant fashion by dressing in numerous styles he's seen around the neighbourhood.