Social Installations: The Road Trip
Vancouver, Canada | Film Feature
Experimental, Documentary
Women who have spent decades in service to others deserve to tell their stories. And underneath the logistics & laughter is something that deeply matters: creativity aimed deliberately at joy, connection, transformation, & leaving every person encountered a little better off than they were before.
Social Installations: The Road Trip
Vancouver, Canada | Film Feature
Experimental, Documentary
1 Campaigns | British Columbia, Canada
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C$8,610
Goal: C$19,150 for production
Women who have spent decades in service to others deserve to tell their stories. And underneath the logistics & laughter is something that deeply matters: creativity aimed deliberately at joy, connection, transformation, & leaving every person encountered a little better off than they were before.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Social Installations: Transforming Ideas into Action
We are building a thing that can only exist if the audience decides it should.
This is a story about breathing life into an experience in a way that is audacious, unexpected, and endearing. Social Installations is a real-time experiment, where podcast meets documentary film. Each season, four female collaborators dream up a "something," plan it together, bring it into fruition, and document the journey.
Season One: The Road Trip.
Why This Project? Why Now?
This is a demonstration of what's possible when women claim their own creative agency.
The idea grew from a PhD project rabbit hole, a crossing from the academic into a living experiment in transcreativity: the idea that we are transformed by the journey from idea to thing. We at Social Installations aim to inspire the use of creativity for good. Because creativity aimed at joy and connection has a profound rippling effect on the world.
Most podcasts talk about things that have already happened or speculate on future happenings. Social Installations documents something as it happens — the planning, the uncertainty, the creative disagreements, and the messy middle where many people give up, and where transformation lives.
Season One: The Road Trip
Four middle-aged women who have spent their careers in service to other people's stories planned a five-day road trip through scenic British Columbia — live, on the podcast, without having spoken to each other about the trip beforehand. Each woman chose one destination and one public "social installation" — their "thing" — to execute there.
The planning has already happened. You can hear the whole glorious, unscripted process at socialinstallations.com.
The documentary, however, only happens if you fund it.
Introducing the Road Trippers
Social Installations creator Danika Dinsmore is a PhD student in Saybrook University's Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership program. She's been a performance artist, screenwriter, children’s book author, showrunner, educator, activist, and idealist. When she asked three women to join her for the ride, they immediately said yes—with no guarantees and no idea what they were getting themselves into. This leap of faith sparked their first conversation.
Mauri Bernstein began her creative life as a performer, including eleven years as a comedy improviser and seven seasons as the puppeteer behind Salem the cat on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She also puppeteered dozens of characters in Team America: World Police, and now works as a full-time film editor. Lori Watt is a queer actor, producer, writer, and director whose award-winning short film Henderson has screened around the world, and whose first produced feature, the sci-fi film Time Helmet, entered the festival circuit in 2025. Scarlet Chen is an award-winning screenwriter, comedian, and performer originally from China, with a series produced by HBO Asia. She performs at comedy and fringe festivals around the globe.
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Cameraperson + Equip
Costs C$2,800
Because someone's gotta document this thing. $400/day x 7 days (crew + equipment)
Sound Person & Equipment
Costs C$2,800
Talking is our superpower. $400/day x 7 days (crew + equipment)
Transportation
Costs C$2,500
Otherwise it will be a walk trip. (vehicle rentals and gas) 2 Vehicle Rentals $1800 + Gas $450, Ferries - $250, Parking,
Production Manager
Costs C$750
Because we can't navigate this craziness and keep our eyes on the road at the same time. $1000/stipend
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About This Team
Danika Dinsmore has never stayed in one lane — which makes her the perfect person to plan a road trip. Over the course of her creative life she has been a performance poet, screenwriter, children's book author, TV showrunner, educator, and story editor. As a current PhD student in Saybrook University's Humanistic Psychology Program, she studies transcreativity — the harnessing of creativity as a vehicle for personal transformation. She holds an MFA from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and studied screenwriting under Academy Award-winning writer Stewart Stern. She's taught at Vancouver Film School in British Columbia, co-produced the inaugural Women in Film and Television Vancouver film festival, wrote and directed thirteen episodes of a US broadcast documentary-style TV series, and authored a six-book middle-grade fantasy series. Her feature screenplay Limbs is in development with Triqele Productions. The Road Trip is her latest experimental foray into the unknown.
Lori Watt is an award-winning actor, writer, director, and producer of films that have screened internationally.
With a background in theatre, Lori honed her craft through studies in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and New York and is an alumna of the Gastown Actors Studio, and the National Voice Intensive. Lori has received theatre nominations and awards for her work as Lil, in Particular Class of Women, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and Usherette in Rocky Horror Show. Film credits include Rorschach’s Mother in Watchmen, Sam in Embedded and Prudence in Hope is Lost. In 2009, she co-founded Frolicking Divas and produced and acted in several women-driven theatre productions, including Rabbit Hole, Lascivious Something, and the Jessie Award-nominated Canadian premiere of Heathers: The Musical. Lori’s award-winning writer/director debut film Henderson continues to screen globally and she recently produced the sci-fi feature Time Helmet, which won Best Comedy Feature at GEN CON, and Best Screenplay and a Best Chrononaut award at Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival. In 2022 Lori founded Triqele Productions Inc., and has a robust slate of projects in development, including Danika Dinsmore’s screenplay LIMBS (a WFF Women in Focus selection).
Mauri Bernstein is a Vancouver-based motion picture editor and creative problem-solver. Raised on the sets of hundreds television commercials, she was defending aesthetic choices in the editing room at age seven. For reals. Her early career is distinguished as a performer in television, film, and theatre, spanning from a supporting role on Doogie Howser, MD to eleven years as a principal performer with ComedySportz Los Angeles to seven seasons under Salem the cat on ABC's Sabrina the Teenage Witch to dozens of puppets in Team America, World Police. After emigrating to Canada, her work shifted behind the camera as she applied her diverse storytelling prowess to editing. Principally, she edits MOW's airing for Hallmark, UPtv, Lifetime Television, OUTtv and more. She also edited a narrative feature in Chinese, Fatal Visit, and collaborated on two works with Multi-Media Artist, Althea Thauberger. Mauri’s own independent shorts have screened internationally at numerous festivals. She is a graduate of New York University, attended both Tisch School of the Arts and SEHNAP, and worked on a Master’s Degree in Consciousness Studies from the Holmes Institute.
Scarlet Chen is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and stand-up comic with a diverse and accomplished portfolio. She has worked as a bilingual filmmaker in China on major films including Kill Bill, The Kite Runner, and The Karate Kid (2010). After serving as a showrunner for Chinese TV series, she sold her Sci-Fi thriller Dream Raider to HBO Asia. Her feature script Fortune Springs won first place in the 2018 UCLAx Feature Screenplay Competition. After immigrating to Canada, Scarlet expanded her career into stand-up comedy, opening for Maria Bamford and performing at LA’s Burbank Comedy Festival and BC’s South Rock Comedy Festival. She has produced comedy shows across BC, promoting women, LGBTQ, and immigrant comics, and organized / hosted the first-ever Asian Heritage Month comedy show on Gabriola Island. In addition to her comedy work, Scarlet consulted on the play On The Head, which won Outstanding Original Screenplay at the 2024 Victoria One Act Play Festival. She is also involved in Forum Theatre workshops and was a creator / performer in the play Where Do We Belong, featured at the 2024 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.
Praxie Osong has built her career at the intersection of human development, creative production, and systems thinking. A former dancer with a lifelong relationship to music, she produced, co-hosted, and grew her own podcast from the ground up, first as Lil Black Witch, later rebranded as About that Life, developing her voice as both a host and independent media producer. Years living and teaching abroad shaped a deep appreciation for the diversity of the human experience, which runs through her advocacy and her work as a neurodivergent operations consultant and astrologer. Driven by a belief that art connects us all, she is passionate about communication and amplifying intersectional stories. She is currently pursuing advanced studies in neurodiversity and positive psychology, with a research focus on mental health, spirituality, and ecology. On Social Installations: The Road Trip, she serves as co-producer and on-camera witness, the person in the room asking the questions everyone else is thinking.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Social Installations: Transforming Ideas into Action
We are building a thing that can only exist if the audience decides it should.
This is a story about breathing life into an experience in a way that is audacious, unexpected, and endearing. Social Installations is a real-time experiment, where podcast meets documentary film. Each season, four female collaborators dream up a "something," plan it together, bring it into fruition, and document the journey.
Season One: The Road Trip.
Why This Project? Why Now?
This is a demonstration of what's possible when women claim their own creative agency.
The idea grew from a PhD project rabbit hole, a crossing from the academic into a living experiment in transcreativity: the idea that we are transformed by the journey from idea to thing. We at Social Installations aim to inspire the use of creativity for good. Because creativity aimed at joy and connection has a profound rippling effect on the world.
Most podcasts talk about things that have already happened or speculate on future happenings. Social Installations documents something as it happens — the planning, the uncertainty, the creative disagreements, and the messy middle where many people give up, and where transformation lives.
Season One: The Road Trip
Four middle-aged women who have spent their careers in service to other people's stories planned a five-day road trip through scenic British Columbia — live, on the podcast, without having spoken to each other about the trip beforehand. Each woman chose one destination and one public "social installation" — their "thing" — to execute there.
The planning has already happened. You can hear the whole glorious, unscripted process at socialinstallations.com.
The documentary, however, only happens if you fund it.
Introducing the Road Trippers
Social Installations creator Danika Dinsmore is a PhD student in Saybrook University's Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership program. She's been a performance artist, screenwriter, children’s book author, showrunner, educator, activist, and idealist. When she asked three women to join her for the ride, they immediately said yes—with no guarantees and no idea what they were getting themselves into. This leap of faith sparked their first conversation.
Mauri Bernstein began her creative life as a performer, including eleven years as a comedy improviser and seven seasons as the puppeteer behind Salem the cat on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She also puppeteered dozens of characters in Team America: World Police, and now works as a full-time film editor. Lori Watt is a queer actor, producer, writer, and director whose award-winning short film Henderson has screened around the world, and whose first produced feature, the sci-fi film Time Helmet, entered the festival circuit in 2025. Scarlet Chen is an award-winning screenwriter, comedian, and performer originally from China, with a series produced by HBO Asia. She performs at comedy and fringe festivals around the globe.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cameraperson + Equip
Costs C$2,800
Because someone's gotta document this thing. $400/day x 7 days (crew + equipment)
Sound Person & Equipment
Costs C$2,800
Talking is our superpower. $400/day x 7 days (crew + equipment)
Transportation
Costs C$2,500
Otherwise it will be a walk trip. (vehicle rentals and gas) 2 Vehicle Rentals $1800 + Gas $450, Ferries - $250, Parking,
Production Manager
Costs C$750
Because we can't navigate this craziness and keep our eyes on the road at the same time. $1000/stipend
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Danika Dinsmore has never stayed in one lane — which makes her the perfect person to plan a road trip. Over the course of her creative life she has been a performance poet, screenwriter, children's book author, TV showrunner, educator, and story editor. As a current PhD student in Saybrook University's Humanistic Psychology Program, she studies transcreativity — the harnessing of creativity as a vehicle for personal transformation. She holds an MFA from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and studied screenwriting under Academy Award-winning writer Stewart Stern. She's taught at Vancouver Film School in British Columbia, co-produced the inaugural Women in Film and Television Vancouver film festival, wrote and directed thirteen episodes of a US broadcast documentary-style TV series, and authored a six-book middle-grade fantasy series. Her feature screenplay Limbs is in development with Triqele Productions. The Road Trip is her latest experimental foray into the unknown.
Lori Watt is an award-winning actor, writer, director, and producer of films that have screened internationally.
With a background in theatre, Lori honed her craft through studies in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and New York and is an alumna of the Gastown Actors Studio, and the National Voice Intensive. Lori has received theatre nominations and awards for her work as Lil, in Particular Class of Women, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and Usherette in Rocky Horror Show. Film credits include Rorschach’s Mother in Watchmen, Sam in Embedded and Prudence in Hope is Lost. In 2009, she co-founded Frolicking Divas and produced and acted in several women-driven theatre productions, including Rabbit Hole, Lascivious Something, and the Jessie Award-nominated Canadian premiere of Heathers: The Musical. Lori’s award-winning writer/director debut film Henderson continues to screen globally and she recently produced the sci-fi feature Time Helmet, which won Best Comedy Feature at GEN CON, and Best Screenplay and a Best Chrononaut award at Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival. In 2022 Lori founded Triqele Productions Inc., and has a robust slate of projects in development, including Danika Dinsmore’s screenplay LIMBS (a WFF Women in Focus selection).
Mauri Bernstein is a Vancouver-based motion picture editor and creative problem-solver. Raised on the sets of hundreds television commercials, she was defending aesthetic choices in the editing room at age seven. For reals. Her early career is distinguished as a performer in television, film, and theatre, spanning from a supporting role on Doogie Howser, MD to eleven years as a principal performer with ComedySportz Los Angeles to seven seasons under Salem the cat on ABC's Sabrina the Teenage Witch to dozens of puppets in Team America, World Police. After emigrating to Canada, her work shifted behind the camera as she applied her diverse storytelling prowess to editing. Principally, she edits MOW's airing for Hallmark, UPtv, Lifetime Television, OUTtv and more. She also edited a narrative feature in Chinese, Fatal Visit, and collaborated on two works with Multi-Media Artist, Althea Thauberger. Mauri’s own independent shorts have screened internationally at numerous festivals. She is a graduate of New York University, attended both Tisch School of the Arts and SEHNAP, and worked on a Master’s Degree in Consciousness Studies from the Holmes Institute.
Scarlet Chen is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and stand-up comic with a diverse and accomplished portfolio. She has worked as a bilingual filmmaker in China on major films including Kill Bill, The Kite Runner, and The Karate Kid (2010). After serving as a showrunner for Chinese TV series, she sold her Sci-Fi thriller Dream Raider to HBO Asia. Her feature script Fortune Springs won first place in the 2018 UCLAx Feature Screenplay Competition. After immigrating to Canada, Scarlet expanded her career into stand-up comedy, opening for Maria Bamford and performing at LA’s Burbank Comedy Festival and BC’s South Rock Comedy Festival. She has produced comedy shows across BC, promoting women, LGBTQ, and immigrant comics, and organized / hosted the first-ever Asian Heritage Month comedy show on Gabriola Island. In addition to her comedy work, Scarlet consulted on the play On The Head, which won Outstanding Original Screenplay at the 2024 Victoria One Act Play Festival. She is also involved in Forum Theatre workshops and was a creator / performer in the play Where Do We Belong, featured at the 2024 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.
Praxie Osong has built her career at the intersection of human development, creative production, and systems thinking. A former dancer with a lifelong relationship to music, she produced, co-hosted, and grew her own podcast from the ground up, first as Lil Black Witch, later rebranded as About that Life, developing her voice as both a host and independent media producer. Years living and teaching abroad shaped a deep appreciation for the diversity of the human experience, which runs through her advocacy and her work as a neurodivergent operations consultant and astrologer. Driven by a belief that art connects us all, she is passionate about communication and amplifying intersectional stories. She is currently pursuing advanced studies in neurodiversity and positive psychology, with a research focus on mental health, spirituality, and ecology. On Social Installations: The Road Trip, she serves as co-producer and on-camera witness, the person in the room asking the questions everyone else is thinking.