Why are we interested in these types of stories? what are we going to do with them?

Arlin McFarlane – well loved Yukon theatre artist for those outside – stopped by to visit.

Jacob ended up talking about some of the ideas behind the story collecting and 99 Stories Not About Gold. And then he made a video of it.

Transcript:

Arlin:
So is there a purpose to these? Are you, you’re recording them for…?

Jacob:
Uh… [Laugh] We’re recording them for a few possible potentialities.

One is making audio clips and putting them online and having a semi-regular - sort of - three, three days a week. We post a few stories that people have told us, um, they, and that that is on the, on the website.

And then also with this potentially like augmented reality app that we could start using, place them around town. So that you could go with your phone, um, to a location with that app and like even see a picture of you and hear your audio would tell the story.

And then also potentially that like they could get adapted into some of the parts of the show. With the way we were working. There were a couple of sections that would be very kind of quick montage of us telling – very short stories, but that those stories can come from other people.

Um, part of the premise of the show is that there’s not – it’s impossible to have all the stories. “99 stories” becomes a sort of impossible large number. Not only are there the, you know, whatever, the stories, we tell for 90 minutes in the show,

but that there’s also this collection of all these other stories that – again – aren’t the big moments in life but happened and are truth and actually make up life.

And then we’re trying to figure out and adapt about how to do it in COVID times.