Welcome!

“Art is the literacy
of the heart.”

- Elliot Eisner

The Story Grounds is a research lab at Brandon University rooted in storytelling, film, and arts-based collaboration. We are a place where art, storytelling, knowledge, and relationships are nurtured.

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WHAT WE DO:

Storytelling
& Film

Creating collaborative films and digital stories grounded in community relationships.

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Arts-Based
Research

Exploring research as a creative, relational, and place-based practice.

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Community
Collaboration

Working ethically with Indigenous Peoples, artists, and organizations.

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Get in Touch
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Join us for upcoming events including workshops, screenings, talks, and community gatherings.

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We welcome students, artists, researchers, and community partners interested in exploring possibilities for collaboration.

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Learn more about Storygrounds.ca and our approach to collaborative, arts-based research.

All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time.

- Richard Wagamese

Highlights

Listen to Ayden Lambert, Research Assistant, talk about his experiences with using PhotoVoice to explore what Indigenous identity means on CBC Radio Noon.

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The Story Grounds is located on Treaty 2 Lands, the traditional homelands of the Dakota Oyate, the Anishinaabeg, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Today, many other Indigenous people, including the Ininew, Anisininewuk, Denesuline, and Inuit, call Brandon their home. We honour the Indigenous Peoples who have lived here long before settlers and colonizers came, who are still here, and who have a deep historical and ongoing relationship to the land. We raise awareness of Indigenous rights, ongoing presence, and sovereignty.