Artists in Communities Create in Local Neighbourhoods

Kerrisdale: Artist Lisa g Nielsen and artist intern Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty will be working with the community to gather personal stories using the location of Kerrisdale as the common theme. Stories will be told using text, photography, audio and video and will be shared on a blog and in local screenings. Lisa and Ariel will share tips on short story writing, digital photography, editing and filmmaking as well as blogging and archiving.

YOUR memories matter! In this welcoming atmosphere, explore how you would like to share your personal connection to the community, whether humourous, anecdotal, historical or thoughtful. Watch for workshop listings in the spring on the project blog http://kerrisdalecollectivememory.blogspot.com/ 
Please call 604-257-8117 or email kerrisdalecollectivememory@gmail.com with your idea!

Lisa g Nielsen – Artist

Lisa g is a multidisciplinary artist who currently focuses in film/video. She is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School and her videos have won awards and traveled the globe. Lisa g has been teaching digital storytelling workshops with the National Film Board of Canada all over BC and the Yukon and in 2010 she was the artist in residence at Riley Park Community Centre.

Video Stories
Our World - NFB
Riley Park Stories

Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty - Intern Artist

Ariel is a photo-based artist and film-maker with a BA in Philosophy and Cinema Studies from U of T, and a certificate in Photography from Langara College. Her photo-based projects vary in tone from solemn to absurd, but often focus on the balance between oppositional categories such as absence and presence, or self and other. She works with a combination of digital, traditional film and alternative photographic processes.

Website: www.arielkg.viewbook.com

Kristi Douglas - Recreation Programmer

Kristi Douglas is a Recreation Programmer at Kerrisdale CC and manages the preschool, children and youth programs. She is facilitating the Artist in Communities project at Kerrisdale this year and is excited to work with the artists on this community-based project and hear local residents' stories!

kristi.douglas@vancouver.ca   www.kerrisdalecc.com