Keyword: Chatterbox

Making chatterbmatter (Winnipeg Free Press)

Monday, September 21, 2026 @ 8:00 AM

Last Sunday, David Balzer parked his vintage 1978 Triple E Surfside camper trailer on a church lot in town and, like an itinerant priest with a mobile confessional, prepared to hear people's stories.

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CMU student's involvement in Chatterbox research project leads to deeper understanding of storytelling

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 @ 4:22 PM

Amanda Dueck may have a background in filmmaking, but her experience at CMU in an audio recording studio has given her a whole new perspective on storytelling.

Dueck, who entered CMU's Communications and Media program to follow her passion for filmmaking, has, for the past two months, been helping run a special mobile audio-recording studio retrofitted out of a 1978 camping trailer called 'the Chatterbox'.

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Stories of neighbourly love: David Balzer interviewed by Matt Galloway on The Current (CBC)

Monday, June 8, 2026 @ 2:50 PM

The Current with Matt Galloway:

"David Balzer of Winnipeg is spending his summer recording people's stories of gratitude. Since 2023, the associate professor of Communications and Media at Canadian Mennonite University has set up a mobile recording studio at community events and invites people to share a story of a kind neighbour. He records in hopes they will share it with the neighbour to generate appreciation and community connection."

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How a camper-turned-recording studio became a gratitude mission on wheels (CBC)

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 @ 10:15 AM

Inside a golden yellow circa 1978 camping trailer, strangers are sharing moments of gratitude.

And armed with a microphone and a few prompting words of encouragement, David Balzer is capturing their stories.

Chatterbox — a mobile recording studio — is Balzer's antidote to social isolation and bad vibes.

Balzer, an associate professor of communications and media at Canadian Mennonite University, parks the camper-recording studio at community events and block parties and invites people to share a story of gratitude about a neighbour.

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