The Thunder Bay Museum and Age BIG, along with several volunteer coaches, hosted a digital storytelling workshop in December 2022, made possible through support from a Seniors Community Grant from the Government of Ontario.
Together, eight older adult storytellers gathered to share their stories about the places that helped them foster a sense of connection and belonging to their community.
The Places & Faces storytelling project inspired peers & educated younger people about how older adults in Thunder Bay actively created & negotiated their sense of place during COVID-19.
The storytellers hope that these 3-minute videos will inspire the viewers to explore their own communities. Get out and revisit inspiring places and discover new ones. You just might meet some new faces along the way!
During the workshop, Nancy discussed the project with the Thunder Bay news. Use the link below to view the interview!
Meet the Faces + Places Team
Click on a member of the Faces & Places team to view their digital video. Return here to choose the next video, or use the arrows + names at the bottom of each page to view the next video.
Download the Faces & Places educational toolkit. It contains the scripts from each digital story, as well as discussion questions to help spark dialogue.
In March 2023, the Thunder Bay Museum hosted an official opening of the Places & Faces exhibit.
We were able to honour our storytellers and share their stories in front of one of the Museum’s largest crowds to date.
Apple Wagon Films filmed a beautiful, short video at the opening.
This slideshow of behind the scenes photos was part of the presentation. Music by Steve Dafoe.
The Thunder Bay Museum hosts free public lectures, and in April 2023, they invited Nancy to speak about the Places & Faces project.
TBNewswatch covered the grand opening on the evening news.
The project lives on the Museum’s website. View using the link below.
The PLACES & FACES team is grateful to the people who were brave enough to throw themselves into a process of a 2-day workshop in December where we sat in a circle in the museum, with our team of story coaches and digital filmmakers to create these little gems that you’ll see today. The filmmakers wrote their scripts, voiced their scripts and put in photos to accentuate their stories – all in TWO days!
Since that time our behind-the-scenes team has set up photography shoots with our “stars”, polished off the film editing and you will see the results today for the FIRST TIME! The stories are little works of art. They don’t hang on the wall but they are digitally available for folks around the world and now are “living” on the Thunder Bay Museum website!
This is remarkable.
- Nancy Angus, at the Museum’s opening event