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The truth about stories is that that’s all we are.
- Thomas King
- Thomas King
This digital story collection was created in 2009-2010 as a part of a community-driven storytelling project led by the Rigolet Inuit Community Government in Nunatsiavut. In the project, community members used digital media to create place-based narratives, documenting the impacts of climate change on human health and well-being, and sharing adaptation strategies. Individually, these stories represent poignant personal narratives and observations; collectively, they weave together a rich tapestry of experiences and wisdom that attempt to redefine the borders between science and stories, humans and landscapes. Through our many voices, we invite the viewer on a personal journey through the terrain of Northern Labrabor, guided by the stories of Inuit residents from Rigolet. Welcome to our world.
These digital stories were made as part of the Changing Climate, Changing Health, Changing Stories project, funded by Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. For more information about the Changing Climate, Changing Health, Changing Stories project, contact project co-directors Ashlee Cunsolo Willox and Sherilee Harper or project lead Sarah Blake.
Each year, the Centre for Community Learning & Development brings together immigrant women to participate in a community leadership development program called the Immigrant Women’s Integration Project. The women come from different cultural and geographic communities, some having just immigrated within the last 3 months, others settled for years in Toronto. While there are similarities between their neighbourhoods, the communities have different needs, cultural identities, histories, and geographies. Through Neighbourhoods Story Project, CDS and audio artist Reena Katz worked with IWIP participants to create an interactive storymap of Toronto using digital storytelling, audio art and photography as tools for immigrant women from across Toronto to explore community and identity.
This project was funded by the Toronto Arts Council and The Ontario Arts Council.
Have a look around the Neighbourhoods Storymap; the red place markers are photographs, the green place markers are audio portraits, and the blue place markers are digital stories.
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We are pleased to announce that our collaborative video with Dan Yashinsky, “Future Folklore” won the First Video Short Story Contest in oral narratives (Concurso Internacional “Cuento en Corto” de narraciones orales) in Madrid! The prize is 500 euros and a free three month online course in the School of Writers of Madrid. To watch the Future Folklore video, see the post below.
