Community Story Strategies

Community Story Strategies offers media and storytelling services and workshops to enhance community-building efforts. They collaborate with non-profits, museums, schools, and health centres to design and deliver customized projects. Integrating media arts and community organizing, they help groups through workshops make and share personal stories that send a powerful message. The organization displays digital stories on the following categories; community, elders, envrionment, family, immigration, Indigenous, youth and health. Community Engagement Projects have developed a model of digital storytelling as a community-building tool that integrates self-representation, education, advocacy and collective engagement. Responsibilities include project development and management, fundraising, workshop design and facilitation, post-production, and evaluation. An arts residency may use digital storytelling with other arts to create a larger-themed project. Artist residencies have the potential as single- or multi-year projects.