Digital Stories

PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: Land & Sea Project: Community Ecosystem Reconnection

Our time together was confessional, vulnerable, uncomfortable, hopeful. Some people shared powerful stories of connecting with the land, and the healing that they received; others shared the healing that they’ve seen in the ecosystems, such as chum salmon runs returning to Vancouver’s Still Creek. Some reconnected with their ancestors from distant lands, and it brought happiness, fulfillment, and also awareness of loss.

By Rebecca Graham

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BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019

oral history rehabilitation Indigenous worlds salmon

PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: A Night for All Souls: An interview with Paula Jardine

An event like Night of All Souls gives people the opportunity to develop their own traditions. By leaving memorials for grandparents and other ancestors, we acknowledge their presence in our lives. There are young people now in Vancouver who cannot remember a time – because they were too little or weren’t born – when there wasn’t a beautiful event in their cemetery to remember the dead.

By Megan Davies

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BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019

PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: Hidden

The Memory Project: Critical Collective Memory Work with LGBTQ Seniors

I had to either jump off the bridge or don’t even go on the damn bridge. If I decided to show the pain I was going to go all the way, that is the way I had to be, and if it stood out a bit too much I would deal with it when it happened. It’s my memory now.

By Claire Elizabeth Robson

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BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 159-165

elderly LGBT[Q+]

PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: Dance, Dementia, and Social Citizenship

Intergenerational Dance in Long-Term Residential Care: Social Citizenship in Dementia Care – Shelley Canning

Seven girls from a Mission, BC elementary school were introduced to a group of elders at a local care facility. Every Tuesday for the next six months, both groups participated in an intergenerational dance programme. The goal of the project was to investigate the impact of meaningful activities on the cognitive and physiological health of the residents. It ended up as much more than that.

By Darren Blakeborough and Shelley Canning

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BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019

dance mental health citizenship elderly