{"id":73472,"date":"2021-11-19T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=73472"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:13:03","slug":"storytelling-as-a-healing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/storytelling-as-a-healing-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart of the City Festival: Shadow play on Canada’s prison system offers healing through storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the highlights of this year\u2019s Heart of the City Festival<\/a> was the shadow play, 'Incarcerated: Truth in Shadows<\/a>\u2014three personal stories about Canada\u2019s prison system.<\/p>\n

The stories came from a writing and storytelling workshop organized and facilitated by Megaphone Magazine\u2019s Speakers Bureau<\/a>. Among the facilitators of the eight-week workshop was Kelsey Timler, a PhD candidate at the UBC School of Nursing\u2019s Critical Research In Health and Healthcare Inequities.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a few years, [the] speaker's bureau has been offering writing workshops for folks in the Downtown Eastside, specific to drug use and related stigma, and has this really beautiful format of peer-led writing workshops that are trauma-informed. There's a lot of time spent making sure that people feel safe, that they know that they have control over what part of their many stories they want to share,\" Timler says.<\/p>\n

The selected stories were then handed to David Mendes and his theatre group, Illicit Productions.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid and his team did a very wonderful job of taking...the already written words of these three people and then amplifying them and creating a bit of a world to escape into visually.\u201d<\/p>\n

A video<\/a> of Incarcerated: Truth In Shadows has been archived on the Heart of the City Festival website.<\/p>\n

Listen to CFRO's interview with Kelsey below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Among the highlights of this year\u2019s Heart of the City Festival was the shadow play, ‘Incarcerated: Truth in Shadows\u2014three personal stories about Canada\u2019s prison system. The stories came from a writing and storytelling workshop organized and facilitated by Megaphone Magazine\u2019s Speakers Bureau. Among the facilitators of the eight-week workshop was Kelsey Timler, a PhD candidate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":73476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,3265],"tags":[5732,9101,11326,11325,11327,11329,11328],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73472"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=73472"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=73472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}