04/21/2026
Coming soon…
We will be dropping the first two episodes on April 29. Stay tuned for more to come.
"Sharing stories across generations is the focus of a new locally-produced video 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 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 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.”
Connections through Berwick and the Society of Organized Services in Parksville helped Nellist line up interested seniors and students to discuss an array of topics.
Episodes in the series focus on topics like love, technology, history, education, and careers.
Nellist said in some episodes, the seniors drive the conversation, while in others, the students took the lead."
[read the rest of this article online at: nanaimo news now . com]