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Residencies & Commissions: In addition to our training seminars and workshops, CSV occasionally offers opportunities to work at the facility as a resident-artist or to produce commissioned work. We often link our residency and commissioning programs to local exhibitions or media art festivals.
Resident and commissioned artists are generally selected by peer assessment committees in open competitions. Further information is available on our website. We welcome new opportunities to collaborate with festivals and other exhibition/art organizations. Contact us if you are interested in discussing a partnership.
Youth & Community Programs: CSV offers a wide range of support to youth groups and community organizations interested in engaging in a media art or film production program. We specialize in curriculum development, technical support, and facilitator training/mentorship. With our expertise in professional digital cinema equipment and arts education we work with our partner organizations to create innovative community-based programming.
CSV accepts ongoing submissions from interested groups to work with us as youth and community partners. We are always eager to build new relationships and develop new programs, and we would love to work with you and support your community-based media art work.
Maker Space: CSV welcomes artists, collectives, and curators interested in promoting dialogue and experimentation about media art. Through our maker space program we are facilitating an open door opportunity to engage with our space and resources.
Applications will be considered on an ongoing basis. We are interested in supporting projects with a focus on media art (creation, discussion, and exploration), creating collective artistic spaces, and experimental/dialogical work.
We will give preference to projects that work in and animate our space such as community based media programs, exhibitions, and others. We encourage artists from traditionally marginalized groups to apply. If you have questions or would like to discuss a project idea please email greg@charlesstreetvideo.com.
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Community Project2021Full Circle Workshopsan online 4-week workshop that explores loop-making with 16mm film.Charles Street Video and Pix Film Gallery are collaborating to host Full Circle, an online 4-week workshop (1 session a week) that explores loop-making with 16mm film. Through the creative process, participants are invited to contemplate the "anniversary" of the initial lockdowns of March 2020, using analogue materials to reflect on our current era of digital gatherings and communication. The workshop will culminate in a group exhibition using projectors and monitors to display the works and their soundscapes from inside TMAC's window space out to the public. Participants will receive an honorarium for exhibiting their work.
A package of art materials will be sent to participants so they can work at home. The first two sessions will focus primarily on experimentation with the film material (including explorations of the physical structure of 16mm film, introductions on how to make simple animations with painted imagery, and working with found footage), and creating soundscapes. The last two sessions will be dedicated to curating and preparing the group exhibition at TMAC.
This workshop is an introduction to free and elementary forms of film abstraction, and is open to emerging media artists, sound artists, and filmmakers interested in experimenting on film within a collaborative experience. Basic editing skills are ideal but not required.
The Full Circle facilitators are Madi Piller and Alexandra Gelis of the Pix Film Collective.
Participants:
Andrea Holstein | Amanda Wong | Cindy Tibizarwa | Freia de Waal | Jacklyn Osadebamwen | Lucia Linares | Seungwoo Baek
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| | Community Project2019Home Made Visiblewith Regent Park Film FestivalFebruary 2018 to July 2019
Canadian archives lack home movie footage of Canadians of colour. Expanding the Archive proposes active engagement with this current gap by collecting and contextualizing home movies from the 20th century across Canada, bringing together 12 artists of colour to respond to what is found, and engaging the wider community throughout the process.
Home Made Visible celebrates the domestic histories of Indigenous and visible minority communities by digitizing and archiving their home videos and then reflecting on the stories that they have the power to bring to life. The commissioned archives reflect on how how recorded history shape our relationship to the past and how we can we re-frame them to build new histories. In what ways can this inquiry into familial and community archives connect the vast and varied histories of Indigenous people in Canada and the visible minority communities who have settled here?
Regent Park Film Festival selected six artists (Aeyliya Husain, Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Jennifer Dysart, and Maya Bastian) and commissioned them to create new works. They used CSV space, gallery and equipment resources. CSV will also be hosting a HMV exhibit in July 2019.
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| | Community Project2019The Smiling Room ProjectThe Smiling Room is an interactive and immersive community engaged media art installation exploring the interplay and politics of Queer Happiness, Resistance and Struggle within the intersections of Toronto’s dynamic LGBTQ2SIA communities.
What’s in a Queer smile? Joy, desire, anxiety, disdain, fulfillment, disappointment, resistance, insight, trickery, resilience?
This piece reflects on the smile as a symbol or stand in for happiness and its relationship to the queer experience. Though the root of the word happiness is “Hap” as in “to happen to you”, it is easy to argue that contemporary (capitalist-ruling class) directives for achieving happiness are less about “happenings” and more about what you do and what path you follow. These prescriptions are so tied to classist, sexist, heterosexist, ableist, racist and colonial ideals that achieving normativity and thus happiness by these standards may be theoretically and practically impossible for many Queer & Trans* peoples. The Queer* Other, especially racialized, poor, gender deviant, and differently abled Queers* experience great hardship navigating these scripted pathways. We also fail and/or choose to evade these pathways all together. We carve our own ways forward with conviction & self love, with creativity, courage and community support. This project locates the smile within various critical aspects of queer identity; self - regardless of external factors, performativity -how we pretend or perform while needing to walk pathways not intended for us, and community -how we draw strength and connection from our chosen Queer* families. We are very interested in learning from our community about the ways we survive and thrive both through stories and through the subtle implications and imbued meanings within a variation of coded facial expressions.
We are also very interested in the ways that this media installation can serve as a form of conceptual community archive of images, emotions, gestures, and micro-stories loaded invariably with history, symbolism and intersectionality. How are these smiles used or charged differently depending on who is smiling and why? Where does this take the viewer as they encounter each individual frame in the installation? What narratives are constructed? What is implied about self-determination, oppression, resilience and sadness? How is this complicated by Queer & Trans people “smiling” together? What guides us to deviate from the scripted path, to unbind ourselves from dominant imperial narratives and chart our own Queer, Trans & Two Spirit paths towards self-knowledge and fulfillment? Can we be Queerly happy while being social justice killjoys? What does a radical & fulfilling queer future look like and how do we get there?
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| | Community Project2019SoundtographyAn Auditory Exploration of Migration and DisplacementIn partnership with The Dabke Collective through our MakerSpace platform, Soundtography will be running from our classroom space for 12 weeks!
Soundtography is a collaborative artistic project using sound imprints to map out the migration and displacement journey of a group of Toronto based artists who self-identify as women. We will be mapping out these journeys through a series of 10 collaborative, reflective and meditative workshops.
Being displaced and/or migrating as adults carries the notion of uprootedness. Transplanting our roots into a foreign soil is a difficult process, given that we have already established them in a different soil. We find ourselves in a contradictory state; wanting to belong but fearing we will be untethered from our cultures in the process. In a sense Soundtography is not only an exploration of this journey and the transformation it brings, but also an attempt at reconciling these two concepts that seem in rivalry. Soundtography is meant to be a force of resistance against the violent imposition that our cartographic history and trajectory impose upon us.
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| | Community Project2018Consent to EnterA Charles Street Video partnership with Sistering Toronto.
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| | Community Project2017'5 Steps' Video ShootCollaboration with Sketch Working ArtsSeven community engaged artists were interviewed and invited to share their "5 steps" to address and disrupt systemic oppression through arts and community work. This content will be compiled into a zine and video series that is being produced by SKETCH and the Neighbourhood Arts Network.
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| | Community Project2017Home Made VisibleWith Regent Park Film Festival The Regent Park Film Festival in partnership with Charles Street Video (CSV) and York University Libraries launches a nationwide project addressing an important gap in our national archives.
Home movies capture important memories for families; they also provide insight into the history of communities and family relations. Currently, archives in Canada lack a repository of home movies from Indigenous people and Visible Minorities.
Today, as old film reels and videotapes threaten to fall apart with time, Home Made Visible seeks out, preserves and celebrates this important history.
“… My mother would bring out the projector and we’d watch the movies as a family. It was never a production for others. It was about seeing ourselves.” from Notes on a photograph in Sea in the Blood by Richard Fung, Project Advisory Member
The project launches with a collection phase, asking Indigenous and Visible Minority individuals to find their old tapes, and send them our way for free digitization. In return, we request them to select a short excerpt from their home movies and donate a copy of it to the York University Libraries for archiving. All rights to home movies remain with the participating individual or families.
Working with Charles Street Video, the Project will commission six media artworks. Three Indigenous and three Visible Minority filmmakers will be invited to make work that reflects on how our diverse histories converge on this land, and how can we reimagine the terms in which we shape our shared future.
“So much of the stories that are told about Indigenous and Visible Minorities are about adversity, and those are important stories to tell. What is also important is the strength, the flare, the play, the joy that makes up who we are, and home movies are a great way to remember that.” Ananya Ohri, Artistic Director, Home Made Visible and Executive Director of the Regent Park Film Festival.
The completed works by the filmmakers and selected home movie footage for which we have permission, will be toured across library systems in Canada.
“Our involvement with Home Made Visible aligns with our strategic objectives at York University, especially collaborative community engagement that result in societal benefit. Joy Kirchner, Dean of Libraries, York University Libraries
For a full summary of the project see below.
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
Ce projet est l’un des 200 projets exceptionnels soutenus par le programme Nouveau chapitre du Conseil des arts du Canada. Avec cet investissement 35 M$, le Conseil des arts appuie la création et le partage des arts au cœur de nos vies et dans l’ensemble du Canada.
PARTNERS
Charles Street Video, Technical and Commissioning Partner
York University Libraries, Archival Partner
ADVISORY
Michèle Pearson Clarke
Richard Fung
Stephen Gong
Teresa M. Ho
Ambreen Siddiqui
Ariel Smith
Deanna Wong
Wanda Vanderstoop
Indu Vashist
Home Made Visible The Canadian archives are lacking in home movie footage from families of colour. Home Made Visible works to preserve the personal history of Indigenous and Visible Minority communities and to explore how archives have the power to shape who we become and how we relate to one another.
Regent Park Film Festival Toronto’s only free community film festival. In addition to the annual film festival and Under the Stars: Movies in the park we host year-round film screenings, school programs and workshops, all at no cost.
Charles Street Video (CSV) is a non-profit production organization established in 1981 to help support media artists. They provide affordable access to equipment and post-production editing facilities for creating videos, films, installations and other media art forms. They regularly offer workshops, training sessions, and residencies. Their ethos is largely focused on encouraging an artisanal, ‘do-it-yourself’ professionalism.
York University Libraries York University Libraries is the library system of York University. The four main libraries and one archive contain more than 2,500,000 volumes. York University Libraries is the stewardship of York’s research assets, with a focus on the active selection, storage, preservation, and sharing of its collections.
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Media Contact:
Elizabeth Mudenyo, Special Projects Coordinator, Regent Park Film Festival
elizabeth@regentparkfilmfestival.com
416-599-7733
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| | Community Project2013Queer Video Mentorship Project RetrospectiveA multi-generational video mentorship program2013 marks the 15th anniversary of our Queer Video Mentorship Project (formerly known as the Queer Youth Digital Video Project). In celebration, this year we will present a commission of new short works from five past participants along with a retrospective of their first videos originally produced through the Project. We’ve hand picked previous participants who created videos through the Project that we loved and who have continued to produce film/video work. We are proud to have supported these fine Canadian artists right from the beginning of their careers. Inside Out is thrilled to bring these success stories back to our big screen and share them with you. We have teamed up once again with Charles Street Video, our technical partner from the very beginning of this important Project. We are truly excited to see what our alumnus have in store for the 23rd annual Toronto LGBT Film Festival.
VIDEO PROJECT HISTORY:
In 1998, with the support of Charles Street Video, Inside Out initiated the Queer Youth Digital Video Project to provide opportunities for youth to learn video production in a supportive atmosphere. The Youth Project provided young artists with the hands-on access to the latest video technology - which historically has been financially out of reach for most youth. As well, the Project provided one-on-one mentorship and training with professional artists. Often post-secondary programs do not offer safe, supportive, queer and anti-oppressive environments for queer youth to express themselves and be creative. The QYDVP provided this important outlet. Queer youth under the age of 25 were mentored through the process of making their first videos - from storyboarding and shooting to post-production and editing. In 2009, Inside Out switched to working with high definition camera equipment and produced HD videos, providing young artists access to the latest technologies in video production.
In 2010, Inside Out presented a special edition of the Project called the Legacy Video Project as part of the 20th Anniversary Festival. Much like queer youth, elders also often lack access to professional educational mentorships, new technologies and opportunities to engage with their peers in a supportive, LGBT-positive environment. There is often a gap between the young and older generations. With the Legacy Video Project, our goal was to have youth and elders share their experiences and stories while working together.
After completion the works are screened at the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival and many have gone on to play at festivals around the globe. Each year, the videos are compiled on DVD and distributed free to schools and community organizations. To date, over 100 new filmmakers have created work through the Project.
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| | Community Project2013Access AllianceGood Jobs CampaignTwo new evidence-based films making the connection between employment security and health.
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| | Community Project2012Queer Video Mentorship Project 2012In 1998, with the support of Charles Street Video, Inside Out initiated the Queer Youth Digital Video Project to provide opportunities for youth to learn video production in a supportive atmosphere. The Youth Project provided young artists with the hands-on access to the latest video technology - which historically has been financially out of reach for most youth. As well, the Project provided one-on-one mentorship and training with professional artists. Often post-secondary programs do not offer safe, supportive, queer and anti-oppressive environments for queer youth to express themselves and be creative. The QYDVP provided this important outlet. Queer youth under the age of 25 were mentored through the process of making their first videos - from storyboarding and shooting to post-production and editing. In 2009, Inside Out switched to working with high definition camera equipment and produced HD videos, providing young artists access to the latest technologies in video production.
In 2010, Inside Out presented a special edition of the Project called the Legacy Video Project as part of the 20th Anniversary Festival. Much like queer youth, elders also often lack access to professional educational mentorships, new technologies and opportunities to engage with their peers in a supportive, LGBT-positive environment. There is often a gap between the young and older generations. With the Legacy Video Project, our goal was to have youth and elders share their experiences and stories while working together.
After completion the works are screened at the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival and many have gone on to play at festivals around the globe. Each year, the videos are compiled on DVD and distributed free to schools and community organizations. To date, over 100 new filmmakers have created work through the Project.
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| | Community Project2011Queer Video Mentorship Project 2011 In 1998, with the support of Charles Street Video, Inside Out initiated the Queer Youth Digital Video Project to provide opportunities for youth to learn video production in a supportive atmosphere. The Youth Project provided young artists with the hands-on access to the latest video technology - which historically has been financially out of reach for most youth. As well, the Project provided one-on-one mentorship and training with professional artists. Often post-secondary programs do not offer safe, supportive, queer and anti-oppressive environments for queer youth to express themselves and be creative. The QYDVP provided this important outlet. Queer youth under the age of 25 were mentored through the process of making their first videos - from storyboarding and shooting to post-production and editing. In 2009, Inside Out switched to working with high definition camera equipment and produced HD videos, providing young artists access to the latest technologies in video production.
In 2010, Inside Out presented a special edition of the Project called the Legacy Video Project as part of the 20th Anniversary Festival. Much like queer youth, elders also often lack access to professional educational mentorships, new technologies and opportunities to engage with their peers in a supportive, LGBT-positive environment. There is often a gap between the young and older generations. With the Legacy Video Project, our goal was to have youth and elders share their experiences and stories while working together.
After completion the works are screened at the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival and many have gone on to play at festivals around the globe. Each year, the videos are compiled on DVD and distributed free to schools and community organizations. To date, over 100 new filmmakers have created work through the Project.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DXk5cjcGqEs?list=PL5C3538C640684187" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>
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| | Community Project2010The Ancestor Projectwith Sketch Working ArtsArt making is a curious way to address homelessness or poverty - growing issues in Canada, one of the wealthiest nations in the world.
Art making offers expression, self discovery and skill building. It facilitates participation in community life and in the making of culture.
Sketch creates art making opportunities for young people who live street-involved and homeless or who are considered to be at risk.
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| | Community Project2010Legacy Video Project 2010The Legacy Video Project is a special multi-generational edition of the Queer Youth Digital Video Project.
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| | | | Community Project2005Robert Lee RetrospectiveCurated by Milada KovacovaImages 2005 Canadian Spotlight focuses on Toronto video artist Robert Lee. As artist in residence at Charles Street Video, Lee has recently re-edited or remade much of his existing work, resulting in a program that is at once a retrospective and a collection of world premieres.
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| | Community Project2004Deep Wireless '05A celebration of radio art.The Deep Wireless Radio Art Festival runs from May 1st-30th every year in Toronto.
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