Dwight Storring Community, Digital Storytelling, Moments, People, Plays and Theatre, Video

Watch “Road Hockey Stories: Episode One – Paul”

https://youtu.be/QxUGUZ_ZUgo I'm having a great time talking to people in Waterloo Region about their memories of playing road hockey I volunteered  to start this series of short videos to help Lost and Found Theatre promote the world premiere of Pocket Rocket a new play by Lea Daniel and Gary Kirkham. Checkout the Lost and Found … Continue reading Watch “Road Hockey Stories: Episode One – Paul”

Neighbourhood Voices Interactive
Dwight Storring Cityscape, Community, Digital Storytelling, Video

Have Stories Will Travel

‘Neighbourhood Voices Interactive’ , a traveling digital exhibition is the culmination of may work as the City of Kitchener’s 2014 Artist in Residence. It's currently showing at Forest Heights Community Centre, 1700 Queen's Blvd., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada  and is featured on the Armodilo website. Armodilo is the a Waterloo Region company that designs and manufactures the beautiful tablet … Continue reading Have Stories Will Travel

Dwight Storring Community, Plays and Theatre

View through a cracked lens

Over the past year, I have been working on a new play with my friend and colleague Gary Kirkham, a well-known and well-respected playwright. Gary started out as my mentor when he led Writers Bloc, a playwriting collective run by Kitchener's Theatre and Company in the early 2000s. Our relationship evolved over the years and … Continue reading View through a cracked lens

Dwight Storring Cityscape, Community, Digital Storytelling, People, Technique, Video

On being funded

I know it's taboo, but I'm going to talk about money. In particular I'm going to talk about the money I received last week from the Ontario Art Council through it Exhibition Assistance program. I've tentatively arrived at the "career" of artist as I navigate my middle years – a journey partly of necessity and partly … Continue reading On being funded

interactive video installation
Dwight Storring Cityscape, Community, Digital Storytelling, People, Technique, Video

Mixing Messages in Kitchener

As part of my residency at the City of Kitchener in 2014 I developed an interactive video installation for two gallery shows that gave visitors the chance to mix together two of the video stories I created as part of the year-long project, Neighbourhood Voice. The mixing of the stories creates both resonance and dissonance … Continue reading Mixing Messages in Kitchener

Dwight Storring Community, Digital Storytelling, People

It’s time to pay it forward

It is truly wonderful when fortune smiles on you and the goddesses of fate let out a little more thread. Suddenly you can reach a little further, you are reinvigorated, reconnected – your life takes a turn for the better. A bit Pollyanna I suppose, but this seems to have happened to me more than … Continue reading It’s time to pay it forward