THUNDER BAY — A partnership between the Thunder Bay Museum and Age BIG is highlighting local history straight from the memories of long-time Thunder Bay residents.
Places and Faces is a project which invited seven Thunder Bay residents over the age of 60 who wanted to share a story about a favourite place they sought out during the pandemic or a meaningful place that they enjoy today, to a three-day workshop at the Thunder Bay Museum from Thursday through Saturday.
From each story teller, a two to four minute multimedia video, called a digital story, will be produced.
Age BIG founder Nancy Angus said there is a wealth of stories and histories in Thunder Bay.
“We have eight storytellers and with an incredible range of different types of stories,” she said. “We'll be able to launch them in March, so this is the creative process where we bring people together for a couple of intensive days.”
Angus said that a variety of coaches of different ages are working with the storytellers to help them hone those stories together.
“For some people, they're writers by nature, other people are visual [story tellers],” she said.
“We're helping people hone their story down to 300 words, which a lot of us want to talk a lot, and through the editing process we help people kind of bring their script down a little bit and then help to punctuate with pictures and different types of things in a digital form.”
The stories will be launched for the public in March on the museum’s website. Angus said she’s looking forward to more opportunities to bring long-time Thunder Bay residents’ stories to life.
“There's just so many more ways we're looking for all sorts of opportunities,” she said.
“But again, because of this opportunity with the museum, this is an incredible experience to be to be here in a historic building, a place that means so much to so many people and creating something here brand-new pieces of information for the museum.”
