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