Process: Digital Storytelling
A digital story is a two to five minute multi-media narrative that uses photos, video clips, art, and sound to share a personal life story. A digital story workshop takes 24-32 hours, usually over 3 to 5 days. The digital storytelling workshop begins with an oral storytelling circle. Up to 10 participants may share their stories […]
Dibajimowin: Urban Indigenous Languages Revitalization Project
This project is a collaboration between the Kingston Indigenous Languages Nest and Community Story Strategies artists, Emmanuelle Pantin and Jennifer LaFontaine. The centerpiece of this project is a website with over thirty digital stories about culture and language made by adults, youth and children. Indigenous knowledge connects digital stories are to the domain of Dbajimowin, […]
‘Social Work Journeys: Reflections on Caring & Professional Identity’
The Social Work program at Women’s College Hospital ran a multi-year digital storytelling project for field educators and interns using the ‘One Day / One Photo / One Story’ process. The purpose of the project was to carve out space in the clinical setting for reflection on ‘caring’ in professional practice using personal narrative and […]
Events: Upcoming Workshops at Fairview Library
We are excited to be artists in residence at Toronto Public Library – Fairview Branch from September to December! Please sign up for our upcoming workshops starting September 14. Check out our offerings: One photo story workshop for seniors weekly from September 14 to October 12 from 10 am to 12 pm One photo story […]
Project: Rivers Rising
Underneath Toronto lies a network of rivers and streams. Buried rivers leave traces; streets bend and turn in ways that counteract the logical grid system of urban design; retaining walls weep during rainstorms; ravines and parks flood in springtime. These glimpses capture our imagination and give us hints at the water flowing below… as it […]
Project: HS Aware
HS Aware is an advocacy group that represents people coping with a rare illness called Hidradenitis Suppurativa. HS is an auto-immune disorder that causes painful abscesses, and can be accompanied by pus and unpleasant odor. Because of the incredible pain and embarrassment, it can lead to social isolation for people living with it. The disease […]
Project: Honouring Our Stories
Honouring our Stories is a two-year digital storytelling and community arts-based project for women survivors of sexual violence funded by the Ontario Arts Council and Ontario Women’s Directorate Creative Engagement Fund to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment in Ontario. Honouring Our Stories is coordinated by the Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre in partnership with Community Story […]
Project: Community Engaged Work
Digital Storytelling was integrated into three long-term community engagement projects. The Beyond Borders project is a collaboration between Central Neighbourhood House and Springtide Resources that is working with immigrant women to raise awareness in their cultural communities about violence against women. The first screening of the Philipina women’s digital stories took place on December 6th, […]
Project: Health Stories
Using digital storytelling to enhance patient care and medical/health professional education was the overarching theme of three projects in the health care sector this year. Women’s College Hospital invited family practice doctors, medical residents and patients to create one-photo digital stories. As we worked together, we explored how storytelling can help bridge divides between doctors […]
Project: Regent Park Storymap
In January 2015, the Grade 7s and 8s in Sherri’s class at Nelson Mandela Park Public School teamed up with long-time Regent Park residents to create the Regent Park Storymap. On it, youth and adults share stories of the places that matter to them in the neighbourhood. The youth learned how to make their own […]