• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, October 30, 2014

To draw a younger crowd to its production of Stickboy, the Vancouver Opera created an awareness campaign that profiles the work of four Vancouver artists: Nick Gregson, Carson Ting, Ben Tour and Ola Volo. Stickboy explores the inner life of a young boy transformed by bullying. The artists were tasked to create murals that interpret their own inner bullies as monstrous graffiti shadows, placed at various sections of the city. Each mural is tagged, "There's a monster in all of us," and encourages people to visit www.stickboyopera.ca to learn more about each monster and Stickboy. Once on the site, people can explore sketches from each piece, read the artist's statements and purchase tickets through Nov. 7. Users can also share their own stories about bullying and contribute their own monster interpretations to the gallery. Watch a making of the murals here, created by DDB Canada.