Parksville seniors & students paired for new video podcast series
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PARKSVILLE — Sharing stories across generations is the focus of a new locally-produced video podcast series.
Boosted by a $12,000 grant from the TELUS Storyhive program, local freelancer Clinton Nellist and his team went to work creating Branches Between Generations, an eight-episode series connecting Parksville seniors with local high school students.
Nellist told NanaimoNewsNOW the idea came from local studio owner Mark Beuerman’s regular trips past the Berwick retirement community and a feeling of “there’s gotta be stories in there.”
“Why don’t we find an opportunity where we have the seniors in Berwick get connected with local high school students to have intergenerational conversations? We were just trying to take two different people from two different generations who had never met each other, these are all strangers, and we sat them down with microphones and cameras and kind of facilitated the dialogue.”
