Welcome!

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.

What We Do:

  1. Storytelling & Film
    Creating collaborative films and digital stories grounded in community relationships.

  2. Arts-Based Research
    Exploring research as a creative, relational, and place-based practice.

  3. Community Collaboration
    Working ethically with Indigenous Peoples, artists, and organizations.

“Art is the literacy of the heart.” - Elliot Eisner

Highlights


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

Upcoming Events


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