InterGen Studio™ is an online platform that empowers youth, seniors, and mentors to collaborate and share stories, in video format, at a broadcast-quality level.
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InterGen Studio™ is about building connections across generations through storytelling. We mentor youth and seniors to produce broadcast-quality video stories inspired by true life experiences.
Whether you are a youth exercising your creativity, a senior preserving your treasured knowledge, or a mentor paying it forward with your experience, we look forward to working with you!
What we do
We invite youth and seniors to collaborate on video projects that share their generational stories.
InterGen Studio™ is an online, video storytelling platform that brings together teams of youth, seniors and mentors. These teams work together to create videos that tell generational stories.
From the initial research and idea generation to screen-writing, video production and editing, the youth and senior teams are mentored by professionals. The final product is then posted online and becomes part of a valuable archive for future generations.
Our goals are to empower youth through creative engagement, give a voice to seniors, and create lasting friendships across generations.
Building enduring and meaningful relationships between Canadian youth and seniors.
Testimonials
“InterGen Video Project is an important initiative for WIN and the Seniors and Youth. We are excited about this program. WIN supports this initiative and will be available for any potential collaboration with the InterGen Project and in association with this project.”
Tracie Swim
Extra Miles Senior visiting program at MWUC
Program director
West-End Intergenerational Network
“Your project [InterGen Studio] would see intercultural collaboration, as well as intergenerational mentorship and engagement. I look forward to mutual collaboration and sharing of resources, in winning the fight for common human decency and creative artistry, and of course, great Canadian entertainment.”
Fabienne Colas
President and CEO
Fondation Fabienne Colas
“Intergenerational practice such as the InterGen Project contributes to more inclusive, cohesive communities and the breakdown of barriers and stereotypes, which contribute to the public good. As evidenced in an InterGenerational Video Project, they build bridges and understanding.”
“The community response to this project has been overwhelmingly positive. It has highlighted the ongoing community need for further such activities that engage, energise and intertwine the skills, desires and experiences of today’s youth and older adults.”
Vaughan Roche
CEO
Collective Community Services
“Our collaboration with InterGen Studio revealed significant insights about the desire for youth, adults and seniors to stay connected across generations. CanAge is proud to endorse intergenerational initiatives like this that seek to reduce social isolation, elder abuse, ageism and other barriers preventing older Canadians from living vibrant and connected lives.”
Lawrence Ly
Specialist, Knowledge Mobilization and Design
CanAge