Storyteller Gilbert Sewell
Created by Phyllis Grant
What is Nitap?
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Nitap is an app that is being created under the Ni'gweg Collective banner. Tara Audibert, Phyllis Grant and Kirsten Tomilson came up with the idea to tell aboriginal stories that have been told orally for decades, moving them to a technical space where they can be shared freely. "We wanted to create something that utilized all of our skills and bring it alive to the world of technology," says founding member Kirsten Tomilson. "It is a place where artists and storytellers can come together and share their collective experience." When we started this project in 2017 we were very much focused on the provinces that we are familiar with but as this grows and gains momentum we are hoping to collect and tell stories form all the Canadian provinces. Right now our app has collected stories from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. There is such a vast amount of knowledge that is at risk of fading into history if we don't m...
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