Our Community Story: the video
Our Community Story is a community public art project that engages youth and elders in Vancouver Hastings Sunrise through oral history, using art processes to recover and document some of the area's living history remembered by residents.
Fourteen youth and six mentoring artists collaborated to create films, photos, animation and soundscapes, exhibited in local cafes and shops.
"The project is a community history project.
Basically, we just want to know more
about this area and its history
'cause, I mean, it's been around so long
and we haven't."
- one of the youth artist mentees of Our Community Story
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The short video profile here was produced by youth and their mentors at Projections on behalf of GetOut!
Projections is a Vancouver organization that facilitates a supported transition opportunity for street-involved youth through a 9 month training and mentorship program that builds mutually-beneficial, long term relationships between film industry professionals, social services and street-involved youth.