The first week van Muijlwijk taught them interviewing skills and during the second week of the project he taught them to set up a storyboard...
The student’s next weekend assignment was to elicit the help of their elders to begin drawing the pictures to illustrate their stories...
During the third and final week, the students brought in their completed storyboards and learned drawing techniques…
"They are historians, they are journalists, they are writers, sometimes they are poets in their works and they are artists in visualizing their work. It adds to their identity. You know who you are when you know where you come from" [said van Muijlwijk].
Excerpted from "Stories of the past put in modern form" by Marcel Tetrault
Comox Valley Echo, Friday, March 6, 2009
Funding for A Portrait of Stories provided by:
- Art Starts – Artists in Education grant.
Also supported by:
- Vancouver Foundation
- BC Arts Council
- Columbia Basin Trust via the
- Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance
Some of the Comox Valley’s youngest writers have produced a unique and insightful peek into the history of local families.