YSW-TV
Share a Story, Connect Our Community
How do you combat isolation?
Share a story, watch a story!
May 7
Week Four of #YSWTV and Zita Nyarady (a resident circus artist at the Weston Common, new mother, and actor-educator with SIA) shares this creative and thoughtful short documentary / meditation on playgrounds in our community.
Apr 30
In Week Three of our #YSWTV, actor Suzanne Roberts Smith (who played Titania/Theseus in our summer production of MIDSUMMER) gives a personal shout-out to each of the students she taught in our Saturday Drama Classes in the Fall and Winter.
BONUS: she opens and closes the video with a song created by one of the students in Theatre Creators class (ages 11 – 14)!
April 23
It’s a little longer than 3 minutes, but super compelling. Thanks to Weston community member Alexis Wilson for sharing a conversation with her grandmother about quarantining past and present.
April 16 2020
In this story below, Artistic Director of Shakespeare in Action David di Giovanni remembers a small moment of kindness from the folks at “God Bless Canada” in July of last year.
Share a video of you or your family telling a story in under 3 minutes with the hashtag #YSWTV. Or, send your video to Shakespeare in Action through social media or emailing info@shakespeareinaction.org and we will be posting one story every Thursday until this quarantine ends :).
Want to take part?
Have a story? Record you or your family telling it in under 3 minutes, and send to us to share with the York South – Weston community. Stories can be:
– Real or Made Up
– Folktale or Memoir
– About COVID, or not!
Share your video with Shakespeare in Action who will upload stories weekly to our website and social media under YSW-TV — an online hub where we can share our voices and stories.
Email:
yswtv@shakespeareinaction.org
with your submissions or with questions!
All videos will be screened in advance by Shakespeare in Action to ensure content is appropriate and family-friendly. Depending on the volume of submissions, all videos may not be uploaded. Shakespeare in Action will prioritize a diversity of stories (fictional, real, folktale) and from a diversity of perspectives (in age, culture, gender, and ability).
Videos can be filmed on a phone or computer. We will also consider audio submissions without video. Having something you wrote, but don’t want to read it yourself? We’d be happy to consider finding a reader for your story.
To share your story, try sharing it through Email or WeTransfer