For Artists by Artists
Charles Street Video (CSV) is a non-profit production organization established in 1981 to help support media artists. We provide affordable access to equipment and post-production editing facilities for creating videos, films, installations, and other media art forms. We offer regular workshops, training sessions, and residencies.
Membership at Charles Street Video is open to professional artists working with video, film, audio, installation, Extended reality (XR), and other media art forms. “Artist” rates apply when members are working on non-commercial projects, over which the director retains creative control.
CSV also commissions artists to create new works, and sponsors a variety of youth-oriented production programs and post-secondary scholarships. CSV actively participates in local exhibitions of media art through our partnerships with arts organizations and grassroots festivals.
Charles Street Video fosters the creation of media art, encourages experimentation, and develops an artistic community, and is Toronto’s leading media arts production centre where emerging and established artists gather and achieve their artistic vision.
Accessibility
Charles Street Video is located at 76 Geary Ave. in a ground-level floor location.
It is important to us to do everything we can to create a safe and accessible space.
To enter CSV one may use the 5 sets of steps that lead into the space or, if necessary, the accessibility ramp. The doors for both entrance methods open outwards and are not powered.
There is one parking spot (which occasionally may be in use by another member) adjacent to the accessibility ramp directly in front of the CSV entrance. This is CSV’s only parking spot; DO NOT USE any of the other parking areas in front of the building. There is street parking available on the south side of Geary Ave.
The interior room is well lit with overhead lights and ventilated with fans throughout.
CSV is supported by its members, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council for operating funding, and by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts for occasional capital funding.
