Stories are the most important aspect of being human. Stories are how we understand our history, our culture, ourselves and each other. Folk Stories, fairy tales, legends, myths and fables all have their roots somewhere, and that ‘where’ was originally in a community; beginning with a single storyteller and then morphing and shifting with each telling and with each storyteller who tells it.
Stories are alive.
For Bowen Fables we selected several stories from the Bowen Island Museum and Archives and used them as a - once upon a time - for our short films. All of the stories in the Bowen Fables collection have a kernel of truth in them; they are all based on events that happened, right here on Bowen Island. But, like fairy tales and myths, over the course of the workshops and with the various community members who dropped in to contribute time, ideas and expertise they have spun off into the fantastic.