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CSV events are usually free and include screenings, artist talks, and parties! Come check us out and meet other independent media artists at our upcoming events.
With oyster shucking and media art screenings, Video Chucks are hosted by CSV once every quarter. They're opportunities to bring our community together, socialize, network, and highlight our members' work. If you would like to showcase your work at one of our upcoming Video Chucks, please email: greg@charlesstreetvideo.com |
Current & Future Exhibitions |
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Exhibition + Artist Talk
After The Flood: Panel Discussion
Thu 28 November 2024 6 - 9 pmJoin us for a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring three speakers as they share their unique perspectives on the critical issues surrounding water, its preservation, and the ways in which human activity impacts this precious resource. |
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The Future of The Body
Thu 14 November 2024 6 - 10 pmCharles Street Video's Maker Space, presents the premier of “THE FUTURE OF THE BODY,” a guerrilla video trilogy written/directed by Istvan Kantor and captured on video by cinematographer Jake Chirico. |
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A Sexual History of the Internet
Thu 7 November 2024 7 - 10 pmA Sexual History of the Internet,is a participatory lecture performance by Mindy Seu, part of the series of the public programs of Bad Timekeepers in partnership with InterAccess and Charles Street Video. |
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Closing Ceremony: Raqqa ware 2.0 Museum
Thu 31 October 2024 6 - 9 pmJoin artist, researcher, and technologist Jawa El Khash's discussion on her process creating the Raqqa ware 2.0 Museum exhibition.
With their Artist Talk and Closing ceremony running at Charles Street Video, October 31st from 6pm - 9pm, this 21st century exhibition revives the ancient art movement from Raqqa and looks to the future of museology and digital archaeology.
To RSVP to this event CLICK HERE
Event agenda will be as follows:
Artist Talk // 6pm - 8pm 🏺
Closing Ceremony // 8pm - 9pm 🎊
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jawa El Khash’s practice as an artist, researcher and technologist celebrates the technological revival of ancient culture. She adopts holography, web-based simulation, 3D modelling, and virtual reality to archive, re-imagine, and resurrect cultural artifacts. Her creative research dissects the role of technology in archiving art history and the artistic influence of cultural heritage, botanical life, and architectural identity.
El Khash was the recipient of a 2024 Charles Street Video Maker Space Residency.
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Share Tech - DJ 101
Fri 4 October 2024 6 - 8 pmFacilitated by Adj (999adj) and Dillon (Vyl3t B3ach), this 'Share Tech' event will cover finding high-quality music & samples, as well as demonstrating how to use Pioneer DJ equipment through hands-on instruction, followed by a lesson oncreating a DJ set in both Rekordbox and Serato.
This session will wrap up with a brief performance, showcasing how to effectively apply thetechniques covered, in this 2 hour event, while mixing tracks on Pioneer DJ equipment.
This event is open all and free to attend.
CSV's 'Share Tech', themed evening focuses on sharing knowledge and offering a brief overview of some of the most relevant gear and craft used in contemporary media art production.
We encourage participants to bring anything from among their own gear or experience that they might like to share with the group.
Please join us for some snacks, conversation and shared learning!
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Thu 8 August 2024 12:14 - 1:14 pm
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Share Tech - CSV Alexa 35 Demonstration!
Tue 20 February 2024 7 - 9 pmJoin at Charles Street Video us as Arri Canada representative, Francois Gauthier demonstrates our new CSV Alexa 35, including its features, workflow, textures, look profiles, sensitivity, dynamic range, and transition between ALEXA models. We'll also explore the new Colour Engine, LogC4 curve, and Log to Log conversion. Ideal for DPs, ACs, DITs, Colorists, Prep Techs, Educators, and anyone involved in production.
About Francois:
With close to 30 years in the production industry, François was fortunate to work in most areas of the production ecosystem, including content creation, production, post production, product planning, design, training, marketing, and strategic planning. After a fruitful career in Quebec's production community, he joined SONY, holding various positions in North America.
In 2017 he joined Arnold and Richter (ARRI) where he is in charge of camera sales for the Canadian market; François also support ARRI's solution's business in the Americas which include remote production and mixed reality production systems.
Our Alexa 35 camera was purchased with the support of
The Trillium Foundation and the Government of Ontario
Thanks to Keslow Camera for providing equipment to support this event
Sign up here!
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This Machine Exhibition/Event
Thu 1 February 2024 7 - 9 pmThis Machine is an interactive exhibition that explores how we can personify a machine through projections, lighting, and sound. Using your body, you can engage with the machine, exploring how your movements elicit changes to the space, and how the space influences your movements. It’s as if you’re having a conversation with the machine, creating a dialogue with it, an engagement that is unique to it, and to you. Is the machine living? Does it feel anything humanlike?Over the course of three weekly activations, This Machine will evolve from the prior installation. Based upon its engagement with people in the space, the machine will learn how to be more human, and grow beyond the bounds of its digital constraints.
Installation Activations
Feb 1 7pm to 9pm
Feb 8 7pm to 9pm
Feb 21 7pm to 9pm
BIO
Nathan Bruce is a projection designer and video artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Some of his recent credits include projection design for Flight with the GGS, Assistant Lighting Design for Comedy Is Art at the Theatre Centre, and projection design for The Walk-Up with the Soulpepper Academy. Beyond the theatre, Nathan’s projects largely focus on interactive New Media design. His work explores how the body is used to inform design, how design influences the body, and how these two aspects of his work can be used to create visceral experiences with interactive technologies.
In the Spring, Nathan will be working at the Shaw Festival as an Assistant Lighting Designer for their upcoming festival season.
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Holiday Video Chuck
Thu 14 December 2023 7 - 10 pm CSV members are invited to bring along short film, video and interactive work to showcase. Video Chuck is a chance to bring together our community, socialize, network, and highlight the work of our members. It will be an indoor/outdoor event at our fab facility on Geary with ways to keep warm outside (heaters, hot toddies, apple cider, sound blankets). fill out the form on our website if you want to screen your work.
Fill out this form if you want attend. You can also submit media artwork to be presented!
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Bubble Life
Sat 23 - Sun 24 September 2023Bubble Life coalesces in a participatory performance installation September 23 & 24 mixing song, movement, bubble play, video, sound collage and live music. . Guest artists include: vocalist Andrea Kuzmich and dancer Meryem Alaoui. |
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Summer Video Chuck
Thu 7 September 2023 6 - 7 pm Members and member curious are invited to our end of summer open screening!
We want to see what you've been working on! Show up and share your work with a community of media artists and filmmakers for some fresh eyes and friendly feedback. Whether it's something old, new, complete or unfinished, it's welcome here! Bring your harddrive, usb, vimeo link, etc. or fill out this form if you want to screen your work.
Come for Greg's delicious BBQ pizza, stay for the screening. Let's celebrate the end of summer with the spirit of Chuck! BYOM (bring your own media)
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5.Fulless
Thu 24 - Fri 25 August 20235.Fulless co created by Jasmine Liaw and Caroline Mccaul August 24 & 25th at 7pm at Charles Street Video. |
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A Very Human Screening | Vector Festival 2023
Sat 15 July 2023 9 - 10:30 pmLocation: Outside CSV at 76 Geary!
Time/Date: 9pm, Saturday, July 15th!
Go outside! Touch Grass!
Snarky internet commenters throw these instructions at each other every single day, and frankly, they do so with good reason. Sometimes we all need to be reminded to take a half hour away from that bodybuilding message board. Still, we have to admit that logging off has become harder and harder to do. Our jobs, our social lives and our societal infrastructures have all moved online. Our identities, our bodies even, are shaped by the internet. So what now? Do we fight harder for our three-dimensional lives, or do we submit to the digital one we have?
To be honest, we don’t have the answer. But we do have 6 gorgeous, funny and thought provoking films to ponder these questions with us. So please join Vector and Insomniac for A Very Human Screening in the genuine, outdoor, real life world. Have some food, watch a film, and touch some grass.
CSV is thrilled to be partnering with Interaccess and the Vector Festival on this screening!
Get more info about the Vector Festival here!
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bringing to light what came from inside
Wed 19 April 2023 6 - 8 pmCharles Street Video (CSV) is hosting a talk featuring artists in its upcoming exhibition, bringing to light what came from inside ( open April 13 to 15 - April 20 to 22 - Wednesday - 12noon to 5pm, Thursday - 6pm to 8pm, Friday- 6pm to 8pm, Saturday - 12noon to 5pm) . This talk and exhibition form part of the Lo-Fi Sci-Fi program at Images 2023, including a re-screening of works originally commissioned by CSV in 2001. Becca Redden, Sheri Osden Nault, and Taina Da Silva together with curator, Samay Arcentales Cajas will discuss their work and reflect on notions of the past, present and future from within an Indigenous framework.
Please join us on Wednesday, April 19th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at our 76 Geary Ave. location.
Top Image: "The Ceremony" by Becca Redden, Taina Da Silva
Second Image: "maachi kashkihtow" by Sheri Osden Nault
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Calling Tidal - Exhibition
Wed 22 - Tue 28 March 2023We are thrilled to be hosting Jasmine Liaw in a residency with our long time partner F-O-R-M! This residency is part of F-O-R-M'sTechnology and Interaction Artist-in-Residence. Jasmine will be a resident at CSV in the second half of March. Her work will be exhibited in our Gallery on:
Wedesday, March 22 - 10am to 5pm
Thursday, March 23 - 6pm to 8pm
Friday, March 24 - 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, March 25 - 12noon to 5pm
Sunday, March 26 - 12noon to 5pm
Check out this interview with Jasmine on the F-O-R-M website
Bio:
Jasmine Liaw is a queer emerging Chinese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist in dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Bicoastal, she is based in so-called Toronto and Vancouver. Her practice focuses on the interconnections of conceptual realms of dance and digital/new media landscapes. As an emerging artist, she is compelled to explore her contemporary views of Asian diaspora, queerness, and environmental anxiety. She is the Artistic Associate of Chimerik 似不像 Collective, working in interdisciplinary research and creation, and a member of Shoes Off Collective, an emerging artist community in Toronto. In 2020, she graduated with Distinction at the Conteur Academy under the artistic direction of Eryn Waltman. Her recent collaborations and presentations include RT Collective Commission Film Program in partnership with Toronto Dance Theatre, in conjunction with Chimerik's project "Ritual Spective,” Frog in Hand's touring Full Body Exhibit, adelheid dance projects, Chimerik/Theatre Passe Muraille: Digital Creators Lab, Gallery TPW's The Parkettes Projects with Ronnie Clarke, Rumble Theatre, Dawson City International Film Festival, Florence Contemporary Art Gallery, and Quarantine Qapsule partnered with Emily Carr University Library, Lonely Artists Productions, and Myseum of Toronto. She is a 2022 Artworkx Toronto Spotlight Artist. Jasmine is grateful to be F-O-R-M Recorded Movement Society’s Artist-in-Residence within their Technology and Interaction Program in partnership with Charles Street Video, exploring her latest installation work.
Description of Project:
calling tidal is a work-in-progress exhibition, formally known as SONIC COLOUR
This residency investigates paralinguistic communication with water and landforms, addressing environmental stress and climate anxiety issued from capitalist customs of power and territory. By interactively exploring lower registers of volume and gesture, the installation utilizes technology to focus on reflective perceptions of water bodies allowing viewers to become a part of the work and meditate on human insensitivities towards the natural world. Thinking about the holding of and supply of water, calling tidal interconnects widespread political spheres that challenge human presence with the power of the natural world. As a multisensory presentation system combining real-time interaction and visual sensitivity, calling tidal is a responding space questioning the balance and navigation of “self” and “site” – through the viewer’s presence, movement and availability to sit with nature-inspired technology.
Experimenting with cybernetic spaces where movement becomes communicative through audio-visual responses, viewers will be able to experience from March 22-26th!
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Kim Ninkuru - Artist Talk
Wed 8 February 2023 7 - 9 pmJoin us in an exploration of Kim Ninkuru’s extensive multisite exhibition with the artist. An overview of her work with CSV over the past year and a half, all the team members involved, Kim's sources of inspiration, Honey's story, and more.
Wednesday, Feb. 8th
76 Geary Ave. (CSV)
7pm - 9pm
*4 steps with railing lead up to the entrance
Exhibition is open to the public until February 11, 2023.
View the digital exhibition at: www.thesearemyreparations.com
Conceptualized by Kim Ninkuru, These Are My Reparations is a sci-fi*, multi-media installation that directly addresses the way in which Black feminine people are taken, used and distorted for mass consumption. This work uses a hybrid of film, sculpture, sound, and online interactive media to tell the story of Honey, a Black woman, who is abducted by “The Company”, a corporate entity built to reproduce sound and visual content for the purposes of social control. Taking place in a future where live entertainment doesn't exist, Honey is forced to sell her image and music to be used by an AI robot named RadioHead, which is accessed by the rich elite.
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These Are My Reparations Opening Event
Sat 14 January 2023 7 - 10 pmJoin us for the opening event of These Are My Reparations by Kim Ninkuru.
When: Saturday, Jan 14th at 7pm
Where: CSV Gallery (76 Geary Ave.)
CSV Gallery is the location for "episode 2: werk" of the multisite project.
Conceptualized by Kim Ninkuru, These Are My Reparations is a sci-fi*, multi-media installation that directly addresses the way in which Black feminine people are taken, used and distorted for mass consumption. This work uses a hybrid of film, sculpture, sound, and online interactive media to tell the story of Honey, a Black woman, who is abducted by “The Company”, a corporate entity built to reproduce sound and visual content for the purposes of social control. Taking place in a future where live entertainment doesn't exist, Honey is forced to sell her image and music to be used by an AI robot named RadioHead, which is accessed by the rich elite.
Enter Honey's World: www.thesearemyreparations.com
In-Person Exhibition Dates: January 13 - February 11
Visit here for more info
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These Are My Reparations Exhibition
Fri 6 January - Sun 5 February 2023Conceptualized by Kim Ninkuru, These Are My Reparations is a sci-fi*, multi-media installation that directly addresses the way in which Black feminine people are taken, used and distorted for mass consumption. This work uses a hybrid of film, sculpture, sound, and online interactive media to tell the story of Honey, a Black woman, who is abducted by “The Company”, a corporate entity built to reproduce sound and visual content for the purposes of social control. Taking place in a future where live entertainment doesn't exist, Honey is forced to sell her image and music to be used by an AI robot named RadioHead, which is accessed by the rich elite.
Enter Honey's World: www.thesearemyreparations.com
In-Person Exhibition Dates: January 13 - February 11
Visit our in-person exhibitions:
Episode 1: Xpace Cultural Center (303 Lansdowne Ave Unit 2, Toronto, ON)
HOURS:
Viewable from Window Space from Wednesday to Saturday from sundown
Episode 2: Charles Street Video (76 Geary Ave, Toronto, ON)
4 steps with railing lead up to the entrance.
HOURS:
Wednesday 12 - 5pm
Thurs - Fri 5pm - 8pm
Saturday 12 - 5pm
Episode 3: Wild Center for Art and Activism (24 Cecil St, Toronto, ON)
Street level back entrance. Please enter through the back entrance on Ross Street. Front door will be closed due to construction.
HOURS:
Wednesday 5 - 8pm
Thurs- Fri 6 - 9pm
Saturday 1 - 4pm
Episode 4: InterAccess (950 Dupont St Unit 1, Toronto, ON)
5 steps without railing lead up to the entrance
HOURS:
Everyday at sundown.
*for questions about accessing in-person exhibits, please contact programming@charlesstreetvideo.com
Kim Ninkuru
Lead Artist
Kim Ninkuru is a multimedia artist born in Bujumbura, Burundi. In Canada since 2009, she has been living and working in Montreal and Toronto.
Using video and sound performance, story-telling and installation work, she creates pieces that give her the chance to explore and express rage, love, desire, beauty, or pain in relation to her own body, mind and soul. Although her art is very personal, she is committed to speaking out about the liberation of black women and femmes everywhere.
Her work heavily questions our preconceived notions of gender, race, sexuality and class. It is grounded in the firm belief that blackness is past, present and future at any given moment.
Kim Ninkuru’s work has been shown in numerous galleries and exhibitions including the Museum Gardiner for Hashtag Solidarity, Trinity Square Video, Xpace Cultural Centre, Studio 303 amongst others. Her work appears in the anthology Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada by Deanna Bowen.
In 2019, Ninkuru first showcased her piece “These Are My Reparations (Part II)” at SKETCH Working Arts as part of the first Toronto Biennial Art Festival.
Produced by Charles Street Video
Funded by Canada Council for the Arts
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Halalalalula: The Schmeki Noamson Project
Sat 24 September - Sat 8 October 2022Halalalalula: The Schmeki Noamson Project
Presented at CSV for Geary Art Crawl 2022
Live Performances September 24 and 25
Gallery Dates: September 24 - Oct. 7
Hours: Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday/Friday 6pm - 9pm
Schmeki Noamson is a Canadian artist working in video, music, and performance art. He calls his work secular prayers for a broken and beautiful world, satirical psalms, and loving celebrations of our cultural dreams about how we got here. Schmeki is the great grandson of four institutional religious men: a Buddhist monk, a Jewish rabbi, a Christian priest, a Muslim imam.
Four of the videos (Oh Oh Canada, USA Make My Day, Calice Tabernak, My Prayer) in this show are rough drafts of songs and performance videos Schmeki created, playing all the characters in the band, and all the instruments. The song Messiah Blues was recorded and produced with Dexter Nash; video production assistance from Annette Mangaard. The entire project is online at schmeki.com and features 25 videos and 9 songs.
Schmeki Noamson is a fictional character created by media artist Gary Popovich.
The Geary Art Crawl live performances feature Schmeki on vocals and guitar, Felix Beauchamp on percussion, Michael Kaler on bass, Daniel Mathisen on lead guitar, Eliza Mcfarlane on guitar and vocals.
Artist Bio
Popovich’s work has screened at numerous international festivals such as Sydney, Nyon, Oberhausen, art galleries such as the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo, San Francisco Cinematheque, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Millennium Film Theatre in NY, on CBC Television, retrospectives at cinematheques and artist run centres across Canada. In Toronto where he lives and works he has premiered two films at Images Film and Video festival and six films at the Toronto International Film Festival. He has helped to promote independent and experimental film production through years of work at The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). He is a founding member of Pleasure Dome Exhibition Collective, and has sat on boards and juries in support of independent film production and exhibition.
“My family left Africa about 60,000 years ago. At some point, some major mass of my DNA was clustered in the Balkans, along either side of imperial faultlines and violent engagements. Both of those sides emigrated separately to Canada and found each other in the snowy land of promise. I was raised on the top floor of an r&b hotel in Niagara Falls where I played with tape recorders and projectors.” Gary Popovich
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It’s a Party: CSV 41st Anniversary
Fri 16 September 2022 7 - 10 pmCharles Street Video is proud to present a screening of works from over the last 41 years, and created by artists with the support of CSV. Join us in celebration of the multiplicity of directors and works that have come through this artist-run center.
This is an outdoor event, taking place outside our newest location!
September 16, 2022, 7:00 - 10:00
76 Geary Ave.
Screened works:
Subway Loop: Single Channel Mix (1975 - 2022) by Paul Wong
This three-channel installation, from the Modern Television Loop Series, utilizes the qualities of real and edited time. “Three views of Toronto’s underground action; trains pull in, pause, doors open, crowds exchange places, whirl off into oblivion. It is mesmerizing, this subsurface world. You could sit and watch for hours as the hypnotic qualities of TV sets and passing trains act together”.
-Peggy Gale, 1977, Only Paper Today.
This work has been restored and newly mixed for this screening
Fragments (1989) by Paula Fairfield
Fragments explores the episodic nature of storytelling by addressing the film trailer as cultural form.
With a lattice work of televangel broadcast segments, romance novel phrases, and an aria from Verdi's "La Forza del Destino," Fragments shuttles us through the walls of two adjacent studios; between the lives of two women dangling from a single mediated thread. Three lives. Two visions. One story.
Pig and Bear Go To Market (1993) by Rodney Werden
Pig and Bear... is a fable /allegory about two animals whose desire for independence leads them to start a business. Although business is good, with lots of donuts and hot potatoes changing hands, profit eludes them. To their amazement, they are left with only the five cents they began with. Pig and Bear... was adapted from an old Czech folk tale that has survived as an axiom of human nature
Supposed To (2006) by Aleesa Cohene
Supposed To examines how work in a capitalist system divides people from themselves. Work often succeeds at limiting our individual agency while paradoxically promoting individual freedom. Lack of agency breeds apathy and despondency: we feel guilty for things we didn't do, and shirk responsibility for things we made happen. Reediting sampled footage and dialogue from science fiction films, psychological thrillers and corporate training videos, Supposed To builds a hybrid narrative of characters exhausted by work, acting out, escaping conflict and misdirected blame, and ultimately returning to an inevitable deep wordless knowledge that shapes our shared reality. Supposed To questions our ontological vocation, reminding us that our destiny is still unknown.
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Bernice - Passenger Plane (2018) by Ayo Tsalithaba
1996 - (2021) by Dorjee D
What happens when a child and a mother stays apart for as long as 24 years? This is a very common story among Tibetans but rarely discussed and treated as trauma. A lot of Tibetans are in Tibet and a lot of Tibetans are in exile.
This son makes an attempt to reconnect with his mother. He is in another country that is not his country; but is his only country. He is lost.
Fresh Meat (2022) by Lu Asfaha
A young idealistic writer is excited to start her first staff writing job at a major media company until she discovers a terrifying secret: they’re eating people.
Stay afterwards for drinks, refreshments, and a DJ set by Stefana Fratila.
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part of the whole
Thu 15 - Fri 16 September 2022At the CSV Gallery, 76 Geary Avenue
During our Anniversary celebrations!
September 15th and 16th from 6pm to 9pm |
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Tales from the Edit Suites
Thu 15 September 2022 5 - 8 pmIn celebration of CSV's 41st Anniversary, join us for a conversation (followed by a screening) with panelists Dennis Day, Vera Frenkel, Richard Fung and Su Rynard who were key figures at Charles Street Video and in the Toronto video art scene in the 80s and beyond. Accompany us through memory lane of when CSV was the go-to editing facility for Toronto’s arts community.
The discussion will be moderated by Samay Arcentales Cajas, a Kichwa digital media artist, filmmaker and Program Coordinator at Charles Street Video.
Their ranging conversations will discuss Charles Street’s informal histories: how it started and where we are now. All films screened where made with the equipment, staff, and/or facility support at CSV over the decades.
September 15, 2022, 7:00 - 9:00
76 Geary Ave.
Panel at 7:00pm
Screening at 8:30pm
Screened works:
Signal (1993) by Su Rynard
Heaven or Montreal (1993-1997) by Dennis Day
Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008) by Vera Frenkel
Sea in the Blood (2003) by Richard Fung
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Courage in Crazy Exhibition
Tue 24 May - Wed 8 June 2022 In Arabic, the gorgeously wild Bougainvillea is known as مَجْنُونَة (Majnūna). The word مَجْنُونَة (Majnūna) means Crazy. Aiming to reclaim the word ‘Crazy’ and practice self-care in the midst of a bout of depression, Tara Hakim turns to the Bougainvillea for guidance. Her gentle and visceral self-portraits illustrate her efforts of practicing self-care and self-love through an engagement with the plant and its system of care. Tara interacts with and at times embodies the plant. What results is an emotive relationship of mutual care and exploration of self through plant, and plant through self. An intuitive and embodied take on a system of care that aims to delve into issues of mental health and assist her in embracing the ‘crazy’ and practicing self-love.
Exhibition part of Contact Festival 2022
Tara Hakim is a mad multidisciplinary artist who creates as a way of healing, self-care and discovery. Tara holds a BA (Hons.) in Media & Cultural Studies and an MFA degree in Documentary Media. Originally Palestinian, raised in Jordan with an Austrian grandmother, Tara creates public displays of vulnerability that invite the viewer to meditate on notions of self, multi-cultural identities, and spaces in between. Working with video, photography, and performance, she weaves the complexities of cultural history and her own personal psychology through an experimental, playful and meditative approach.
Opening Night:
Thursday, May 26
7-10 pm
May 24-June 7
Charles Street Video
76 Geary Ave, Toronto, ON
Gallery hours:
Monday-Friday
5-9 pm
Wednesday
12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday
10-5pm
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360° Saturdays!
Sat 7 May - Sat 9 July 2022Share Techs are themed events that focus on sharing knowledge and offering a brief overview of some of the most relevant gear and processes to contemporary media
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The Grand Hacker: Live Cinema Workshop
Wed 9 March 2022 7 - 8 pmJoin award-winning media artist and filmmaker Maziar Ghaderi for an introduction on “live cinema” – an emergent storytelling platform that allows for a film to be shot and screened simultaneously. This event will be hosted on March 9th over zoom.
After an overview of the software, we will screen “The Grand Hacker” a 15-minute, proof of concept live cinema story of a sadistic hacker that peers into the lives of his unsuspecting neighbours. This production was the result of a Canadian Stage residency with performance artists Star Nahwegahbo, Banafsheh Taherian and Derek Kwan.
Afterwards, you’ll have the chance to pitch back a live cinema project of your own, with the potential for future collaboration.
To attend please register here: http://tiny.cc/LiveCinemaCSV
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Infinite Distance Exhibition
Fri 19 November - Sun 19 December 2021INFINITE DISTANCE
an online exhibition presented in conjunction with transmediale festival 2021-2022
infinitedistance.site.
Featuring
ANDY SLATER (Chicago)
BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM / Rasheedah Phillips + Camae Ayewa (Philadelphia)
JOHANNA HEDVA (Berlin/LA)
JUSTIN BARTON + MARK FISHER (London, UK)
MIDI ONODERA (Toronto),
SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE / Christina Battle (Edmonton) + Serena Lee (Vienna/Toronto), SIMON M BENEDICT (Toronto)
THE OTOLITH GROUP (London, UK)
VERA FRENKEL (Toronto)
Curated by
SHANI K PARSONS (Toronto)
INFINITE DISTANCE is an online exhibition of fifteen text-based works by ten artist-writers and collectives from across seven cities. Designed to be accessible by default, the exhibition foregrounds experimentation with web-based presentation of artworks in ways that prioritize care in communication — whether through language, interaction, access, collaboration, or reception. Thus embracing the im/possibilities inherent to humanity’s use of language — ever the imprecise tool — to commune across the unfathomable divide between our individual lives, INFINITE DISTANCE assembles and amplifies a multiplicity of voices that refuse to foreclose on communication — with care — as the only way forward toward a more human future.
Access the website here: infinitedistance.site
Two important notes:
Access by default simply means that all media-based artworks will autoplay with audio description and open captions ON. This is a decision that is intended to prioritize care by shifting the burden of navigating access in a meaningful way.
The exhibition is optimized for desktop/laptop environments and is not compatible with mobile devices. We made this decision to prioritize experimentation, rich interaction, and creative access strategies over portability and convenience. Thank you for understanding.
Also please note the following limited viewing windows for two of the artworks (i.e., don’t miss!):
I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another by The Otolith Group is available for streaming for one month only, from November 19–December 19, 2021.
Now available for the first time with audio description, captions, and sound description.
On Vanishing Land by Justin Barton + Mark Fisher is available for streaming every Saturday from 1–4pm and 8pm–midnight.
Originally intended for collective listening, the work may be experienced aurally, but is also experimentally captioned with sound description for anyone who wishes to access the work visually/textually as well.
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Curator’s introduction
I see infinite distance between any point and another. That’s why time has to be eternal. We went to the moon once under a propitious weather and loved each other in ways we couldn’t achieve on our terrestrial habitat. Once in a while, we laughed.
— Etel Adnan, from Sea And Fog, 2012
from The Otolith Group, I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another, 2012
INFINITE DISTANCE makes direct reference to The Otolith Group’s hypnotic and exquisitely observed video, but draws equally upon Etel Adnan’s quietly astounding and unsettling poetry. Examining the relationship between these two formidable artworks — video and poem — and the forms of media they encompass — namely moving image, sound, speech — I am interested in how various interwoven and overlapping kinds of communication can and do function, in and through art and its curation, in ways that foster (or, more problematically, foreclose) greater and more nuanced connection between people, places, things, actions, and ideas.
Thus embracing the im/possibilities that inhere in humanity’s use of language to convey one’s subjective experience to another, INFINITE DISTANCE exemplifies a wide range of artistic approaches to ‘the word’ — that unruly unit we humans use to construct this storied castle we (perhaps wishfully) call “communication.” Through strategies such as fictioning, humour, transgression, citation, research, confabulation, and collaboration, the artists (and their avatars) verbalize and materialize an extraordinarily diverse array of artworks and writing in the exhibition. This heterogeneity of method (e.g., narrativizing, satirizing, theorizing) and message is an intentional outcome of a curatorial process that desires difference, and seeks to speculatively respond to the artworks with respect to the ways in which they may be witnessed to communicate, each on their own terms, in the hope of some kind of eventual reception.
There are overlaps, intersections, and collisions, of course. Based, as they are, in explorations of language, many of the artworks are grounds for a rich intertextuality seeded by communications from across the span of human existence, from the ruins of prehistory to the future of AI alike. Indeed, artificial intelligence, and the increasing technologization of the body are other aspects of the ever-shifting “I, I, I” that the artworks embody, undo, or exceed. There is always the voice — astonishing in its sheer variety — from the nine year old explaining the universe in Johanna Hedva’s album to then-87 year old Etel Adnan reading from Sea and Fog in 2012. But it is not only the relatively unprocessed recordings that possess this exuberant aurality; between artworks where the voice has been modulated or simulated there is also surprising nuance and complexity, and close listening is rewarded in these cases as well — as it always is when we are talking about communication between humans.
Whether assuming the form of monologue (e.g., Beckett’s character, Mouth, in Simon M Benedict’s video), dialogue (e.g., between Midi and FauxMidi in Onodera’s videos), dissemination (e.g., Black Quantum Futurism’s performance lecture), or polyphony (e.g., SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE’s collaborative soundtrack) — or somewhere in between (that space which all of the artworks actually occupy) — the common denominator is communication, and how it comes into play within the proliferating worlds we co-construct today, including worlds beyond the human, beyond body, and beyond time. Manifesting within images and conceptions of inner and outer space, gravity and flight — and planets and oceans as well as everyday objects and actions that recur across these works — worlds are what we collectively build through language and living, even if too often unthinkingly.
At a time when media technologies far exceed human capacities to keep pace — and the kinds of distancing that have become normalized are as much political as physical, language remains ever the imprecise tool. And yet — perhaps in acts of speech alone we fabricate our collective reality. What can we do but communicate anyway? There is no definitive answer or ending to this line of inquiry, only continuing questions, observations, and ongoing attempts to converse on these and other emerging questions and observations. Such is the nature of communication itself, as I have come to understand it.
To embrace this infinite distance between us is to accept that an unbridgeable chasm separates the self from any other, and that despite this, the only way forward is to refuse to foreclose on communication with care. Such a stance would see the current
burgeoning of social acts of silencing, denial, neglect, or nonresponse for what they are: the grievous negation of our constituent humanity. Against such anti-human endgames of shutdown and shunning, depoliticization and withdrawal, INFINITE DISTANCE assembles and amplifies a multiplicity of voices that speak, sing, gesture, whisper, sample, cite, invite, cajole, converse, warn, wonder, and rail — anything but refuse — to sound a collective call for more human futures.
How might we (gently, consensually, care-fully) occupy each other in the current moment and beyond? Can we enact a politics of mutual affection and regard between us, even across the infinite distance between our individual subjectivities, in ways that materially enact care (transcending even love, in all its abstraction) — despite, or more desiringly, because — of difference? Where the infinite becomes intimate, and vice versa?
Shani K Parsons, Curator
Toronto 2021
This exhibition is dedicated to Etel Adnan (February 24, 1925 — November 14, 2021), whose words will always live on.
INFINITE DISTANCE is made possible through the generous funding of the Ontario Arts Council. Thanks also to my local organizational partner, Charles Street Video. For more credits and acknowledgments, please see the exhibition website at infinitedistance.site.
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Sagatay: New Beginnings Exhibition
Fri 12 November - Fri 17 December 2021- Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.
Thomas King
Renee Linklater, member of Rainy River First Nations in Northwestern Ontario, wrote on King’s words that we must locate ourselves within what we do. That “wellness is directly related to how one is able to be in Creation.” That we locate ourselves in our stories to connect the disconnected. This is the essence of Sagatay (New Beginnings), a coming together to create wonderful moments powerful enough to transform even space and time. The magic flows in our gifts to work in peace with the energies of the world. The Anishinaabe meaning of ‘Sagatay’ roughly translates to “a new beginning”, which is what we strive for in this show that marks a new moment for us as artists who are still grappling with trauma and loss but looking forward to a new horizon with hope.
Indigenous nations from across the globe have been at the forefront for the protection of our environment, our giver of life. With the wonders of our environment and the ability we carry to reshape our future with our own hands fully on display, Sagatay (New Beginnings) calls us to action to protect and fight for the future of our planet’s well being: to come back to our base teachings of love and respect, paying respect to the land and the place we call home. Especially critical at this time due to the urgency in our climate crisis, these installations are altars of reverence for their respective elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water.
Jaene F. Castrillon (Mixed race Indigenous Colombian/Hong Kong Chinese), Danielle Hyde (Mixed Anishinaabe Ojibwe Garden River First Nation, Italian and Ukrainian mix) and Kate Meawasige (Anishnaabe artist from Genaabajing – Serpent River First Nations), each work on Turtle Island, the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Working in the framework of disability, we ‘wonder-work’ to gather in ceremony in a good way here, activating the sacred space for feeling and healing. Through these living tableaus, we are invited into a different and sacred realm, transported to the delicate space of where 4 elements come together in a balanced harmony.
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In My Toolkit Workshops
Thu 21 October 2021 6 - 8 pm IN MY TOOLKIT is a free virtual event series for scripted 2SQTBIPOC filmmakers and film creatives to share practical skills and resources with each other. The program will cover a range of topics including everything from writing and directing to production design, analog filmmaking, and acting. Workshop participants will also be able to learn producing skills to help bring their works to life including branding and pitching their stories.
- Thursdays Oct - Nov 2021
- Open to all experience levels
- Open to non-Charles Street Video members
- Only open to 2SQTBIPOC (you are racialized and 2SLGBTQ+)
- Location: Zoom
- Live transcriptions (AI-generated)
For info on each workshop and registration please visit: https://linktr.ee/charlesstreetvideo
IN MY TOOLKIT came out of a need for spaces dedicated to prioritizing the sharing of skills and resources in scripted filmmaking for 2SQTBIPOC. This program will focus on all of those nitty gritty tips and tricks that we learn on-the-go in practicing our craft.
Spreadsheets, breakdowns, shot lists and art kits!
Networking strategies and self-branding for filmmakers!
Breaking scripts for writers rooms and idea-generating routines!
Writing scripts you know you can execute as a director!
Whether you have an untapped, passive interest in scripted film or have a few projects under your belt already, come learn from fellow 2SQTBIPOC on how we found solutions to all of the unpredictable obstacles that always seem to keep coming our way! Our aim is to make sure you'll be able to walk away with tangible hard and soft skills to apply to your practice, and to empower fellow creators to never stop taking up space and telling our stories.
In partnership with Toronto Arts Council and Charles Street Video
Run by Kourtney Jackson at Charles Street Video and Carolyn (Jay) Wu
Email programming@charlesstreetvideo.com if you have any Q's!
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Here. Within.
Sat 2 - Mon 4 October 2021Here. Within. - Window Projection with Geary Art Crawl and Uma Nota Culture
October 2 - 3 from 8pm - 10pm - 76 Geary Ave.
A two day, rain or shine celebration of art and culture on Geary Avenue from Ossington to west of Dufferin.
Watch the neighbourhood come alive with music, visual art installations, pop-ups, food and more in a creative emergence from the pandemic that celebrates the arts while putting local businesses at the forefront.
Join us for our first ever event at our new space!
CSV is screening:
Skite’kmujuawti - Amanda Amour Lynx (Mi’kmaw) @amour.lynx
This work captures ‘holding ceremony with myself’. The project illustrates the process of readying oneself for initiation into cultural practices highlighting longing and desire for community connection and cultural teachings within the constraints of isolation. Landscapes traipse between physical and temporal spaces through compositing digital illustration and 3D animation with natural video footage– buoyed between spirit realms, imagination, visions and reality.
Milkteeth - Melissa Johns (Mohawk/French Canadian) @lemisma
A collaboration with a dancer and sound artist, Milkteeth's aim is to evoke intimacy, emotion, and a sense of familiarity from the viewer. Using non-traditional stereoscopic techniques and post-production data manipulation, beauty, grace, and control are highlighted and then subverted; giving way to aesthetic flaws that imply a dark complexity beneath the facade of the performative.
These video works provide an intimate window into the human psyche and spirit. Glitched; bravely breaking down facades of what it looks like to navigate a world of constant mask making, while evoking multidimensional realities. They exist unapologetically, providing an example of how we may hold ourselves in this dimension.
For more info, visit: https://www.gearyartcrawl.com/map
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Full Circle Exhibition
Thu 8 - Thu 15 April 2021Projection installation viewable outdoors from the front windows of TMAC facing Lisgar Park from 8PM - 11PM.
*Please adhere to social distancing protocols while visiting*
The culmination of a 4 week workshop program presents an installation of hybrid film creations contemplating the "anniversary" of the lockdowns of March 2020. The results are a myriad of 16mm frames of found-footage images, collages, scratches, freely painted and assembled in collaborative production. The sound incorporates experimental edits reflecting the passage of our solitude drifting through these times.
Participants were guided in workshop series and mentored by Madi Piller and Alexandra Gelis from PIX FILM Collective
Artists:
Andrea Holstein
Amanda Ann-Min Wong
Cindy Tibizarwa
Freia de Waal
Jacklyn Osadebamwen
Lucia Linares
Seungwoo Baek
To access sound for the exhibition:
1. Prior to visiting the exhibit download the app Listen Everywhere from your app store on your phone.
2. Scan the QR code with the Wifi symbol on the window beside the projection
2. Open app close proximity to installation.
3. The app will scan the venue and you can now listen!
ACCESSIBILITY NOTE:
Video projections contain flashing lights. It may not be safe to be in close proximity for those with photo sensitivities and other visual sensitivities.
Please email programming@charlesstreetvideo.com for any questions.
Project FULL CIRCLE presented by
The Toronto Media Arts Centre, Charles Street Video and PIX FILM
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Holiday Video Chuck: Digital Edition
Fri 18 December 2020 6 - 9 pmWelcome to CSV's Holiday Video Chuck! The Digital Edition!
In CSV tradition, we are hosting our annual Holiday Video Chuck, this time through the magical world of ZOOM (that we are all too familiar with). We have been missing our members walking through the halls, hauling gear in and out, visiting our exhibitions, and simply just catching up!
This is a chance to bring our community together, socialize, network, and highlight our members’ work, accompanied by a live oyster shucking demonstration!
Everyone who screens will enter a chance to win an Oyster Boy gift certificate, and be mailed a Christmas Oyster Thank You Card!
Date: December 18
Time: 6pm
Location: Zoom. Please RSVP to gain access to the event.
RSVP HERE
If you would like to showcase your work please email samay@charlesstreetvideo.com
You do not need to be a CSV member to join in this oyster holiday celebration.
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but i can create the future
Thu 17 December 2020 - Tue 2 March 2021Created during mandated lockdowns, heightening racial tensions, and a worsening climate crisis, “But I Can Create the Future” is about urgency. Culminating MANY for 2020, the show presents the work of nine youth from Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the Bahamas, and the United Arab Emirates. As told from the perspectives of the newcomer youth, this exhibit communicates a call to action for a better tomorrow.
MANY is a free summer media arts creation program of @acctyouth and @csvtoronto that teaches youth photography and animation from culturally affiliated artists. It is supported through @torontoartscouncil Strategic Funding. #poweredbytac
Email Kasia at kasia@acctonline.ca to register for the event.
Created during mandated lockdowns, heightening racial tensions, and a worsening climate crisis, “But I Can Create the Future” is about urgency. Culminating MANY for 2020, the show presents the work of nine youth from Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the Bahamas, and the United Arab Emirates. As told from the perspectives of the newcomer youth, this exhibit communicates a call to action for a better tomorrow.
MANY is a free summer media arts creation program of @acctyouth and @csvtoronto that teaches youth photography and animation from culturally affiliated artists. It is supported through @torontoartscouncil Strategic Funding. #poweredbytac
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Adeva (version000_01) By Debashis Sinha
Sat 24 October 2020 7 - 9 pmSinha’s explorations of how his Bengali heritage can manifest through the toolset of contemporary electronic music continues with this livestream performance. “Adeva (version000_01)” is a project started in 2019 at the MUTEK JP AI Music Lab, where Sinha began exploring machine learning and AI and their applications in sound, and where he realized their use as a dramaturgical tool in the story-based explorations and re-imaginings of Hindu myth Sinha has been creating for nearly 2 decades. The text and sound world of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures) is subjected to machine learning algorithms and processes to create content that lies just beyond the reach of human comprehension - a piecing together of half-understood and half-perceived bits of wisdom that is reconstructed by Sinha, and the listener in the moment of performance.
The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. It is a co-presentation of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Charles Street Video and and Toronto Media Arts Centre.
Link to Video of Performance
Online Location issued after Advance Registration.
General $10, Students FREE, Optional Admission Fee
Purchase tickets here: https://naisa.ca/purchase-tickets/
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Endosymbiosis By Robert Fantinatto
Sat 17 October 2020 7 - 9 pmEndosymbiosis is a video and improvised electronic music performance by Robert Fantinatto and co-presented by Charles Street Video, New Adventures in Sound Art and Toronto Media Arts Centre. Endosymbiosis utilizes a variation on the technique of Liquid Light by replacing the overhead projector with a 4K video camera. The improvised music performed by Fantinatto uses a customized modular synthesizer along with slowed down water sounds. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform.
"Endosymbiosis” evokes the transitional time when, 2 billion years ago, early simple bacterial life forms began to evolve into complex cells with internal organs. This came about when a simple cell engulfed another, the engulfed cell becoming a nucleus for the host cell and the eventual location of the first DNA molecules. This key event marks the beginnings of complex life that would eventually lead to the diverse biology known today.
“Endosymbiosis” seeks to help viewers disengage with the information overload of today and transport the viewer back to the primal sensory landscape of our cellular origins. Much like the effect of gazing up at the night sky and contemplating the vastness of the cosmos can help one gain valuable perspective and help offset the manufactured stresses we as a species seem to burden ourselves with, “Endosymbiosis” invites the viewer to engage with the micro perspective of our primal cellular landscape.
The visual component utilizes the technique of “Liquid Light”, a popular component of live concerts during the psychedelic era of the late 1960’s, where different dyes are added to a bath of water and mineral oil which is illuminated from below. Whereas traditional Liquid Light compositions would be projected using an old fashioned “overhead projector”, Fantinatto uses a 4K video camera with a macro lens to reveal very tiny movements of bubbles merging and dyes moving that create an ever changing sea of activity.
Fantinatto will perform improvised music during the performance using a customized modular synthesizer that does not employ any computer control. This will be augmented by an aural soundscape of slowed down water sounds and white noise that will remind viewers of the experience of hearing when underwater.
Online Location issued after Advance Registration.
Link to video of Performance
General $10, Students FREE, Optional Admission Fee
Purchase tickets here: https://naisa.ca/purchase-tickets/
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NATALIE WOOD, PERFORMING CHANGE exhibition
Thu 1 - Sat 31 October 2020The exhibition will be open to the public at the John B, Aird gallery Wednesday to Friday 2 to 6 pm by appointment. Please email director@airdgallery.org to make arrangements.
There is also a Projection entitled 'Time will Come" by Natalie Wood that can be viewed outside front entrance of The Toronto Media Arts Centre, 32 Lisgar St, from Oct 5 to Oct 31st from 6pm to 9pm. Look in the window, it's above the cafe!
Performing Change is presented by John B. Aird Gallery in partnership with Charles Street Video. Special thanks to presenting partners: Toronto Media Arts Centre and Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. More detail may be found on the festival site .
Originally planned for the annual Festival in May, this exhibition has been rescheduled due to COVID-19. Due to the pandemic the gallery will not be offering public engagement events but will produce an online PDF publication, comprising a foreword by Jowenne Herrera, intro-essay by exhibit curator, Carla Garnet, and interviews with the artist, Natalie Wood, conducted by Pamela Edmonds and Yaniya Lee, accompanied by images of the new photographs in the exhibit (as well as everyone’s bios).
The Aird is working with CSV to live stream the artist’s spectral performance, Bakergram.
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The Places We Must Stay: A Response to C_____
Wed 5 August 2020 6 - 7:30 pm“We will learn to kiss and hold each other through the waves of the web. We will feed each other, re-distribute wealth, strike. We will understand our own importance from the places we must stay”.
Moved by the call of writer Mimi Zhu, CSV invites media artists and curators across Canada for a “mid-pandemic check in”, responding to the ongoing transformation (or stagnation) of our communities confronting a worldwide pandemic.
As artists, it is important to not only embrace but challenge the role of media as a form of change making, collective organizing and networking on both broader and individual scales.
Now that most major cities are in the stages of “re-opening”, has this statement rung true? How much have we adapted and learned from our physical and energetic environments? In retrospect, what has been abandoned in the push to “go back to business”? In the same breath, how has digital media become an intrinsic source of human socialization and creative ingenuity? Has our world truly become more accessible? Have we truly “learn(ed) to hold each other through the waves of the web - from the places we must stay”?
Join us on this panel with Jess Murwin, Melannie Monoceros, and Belinda Kwan, moderated by Samay Arcentales Cajas as they speak to lessons llearned and unlearned throughout this time.
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Accessibility: This event will be live captioned on Facebook and Youtube.
For any questions please contact programming@charlesstreetvideo.com
Check back here for a link to the YouTube Live
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Artist Bios
melannie monoceros is a poet and interdisciplinary artist exploring polysensory production and somatic grief through text/ile. A Black, Taino-Arak, queer and chronically ill creator, they live in Treaty 1/Winnipeg, MB; home fo the Metis First Nation and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Dene, Cree, Dakota, and Oji-Cree Nations. In 2019, melannie was awarded the JRG Emerging Artist Award for their continued pursuit, integrating technology and accessibility through film via their series “ancestoradio”. In 2020, melannie’s work can be found at Gallery 1C03 (University of Winnipeg) and Window Gallery (Winnipeg) and the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon, MB).
Jess Murwin is a mixed nonbinary queer Mi'kmaw artist and curator currently based Montreal, Quebec. They received formal artistic training from Notre Dame de la Tilloye (France) and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Canada), as well as informal training on various sets, at artist centres and in workshops in Canada, Europe and India. Their work is largely community based, combining futurism and social engagement through a variety of mediums.
As a programmer, they have worked for the Atlantic International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, among others. Their focus in presenting films and media art works has always been to champion stories by female, LGBTQIA + and Indigenous filmmakers. They see this work as a critical way of reclaiming narrative spaces and as an important political and artistic act.
They are currently directing a new media documentary as part of the National Film Board's “Who is Otherly?”and working with Indigenous youth.
Belinda Kwan is a Chinese-Canadian settler curator interested in exhibitionary forms of critique, pedagogy, and advocacy. Her research-based practice explores how processes of knowledge translation and legitimization produce or influence transgenerational trauma. She has curated the work of locally and internationally-known artists for the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts (US/Canada); Varley Art Gallery (Markham); Art Gallery of York University (Toronto); and Myseum of Toronto. Her projects have been featured in Canadian Art and CBC Arts.
Currently, Kwan is a Co-Director at Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container and an executive board member of Trinity Square Video (Toronto).
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Thirza Cuthand: Artist Talk and DIY Workshop
Thu 30 July 2020 6 - 7:30 pmVideo artist Thirza Cuthand gives an artist talk about her career spanning 25 years beginning with her DIY queer youth videos, experimental videos, and her adventures navigating the film industry the last few years. Her work often features Indigenous and Queer and 2 Spirit/Indigiqueer subject matter. More recently her work has been about political issues like artwashing, colonial resource extraction, and climate change. She will also discuss how her early DIY techniques can be applied to creating videos during COVID19, and introducing some contemporary means of DIY video creation.
Bio:
Born 1978, Regina, Canada. Since 1995 she has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, Queer identity and love, and Indigeneity, which have screened in festivals and galleries internationally. She completed her BFA majoring in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005, and her Masters of Arts in Media Production at Ryerson University in 2015. She has also written three feature screenplays and has performed at Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver, Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium in Regina, and 7a*11d in Toronto. In 2017 she won the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award. She is a Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. She is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.
From Thirza (Filmmaker/Artist/Writer)
Pronouns: She/Her
I live on the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. I come from Little Pine First Nation which is a signatory to Treaty Six. Treaty Six territory is the home of the Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Blackfoot, Dene, Saulteaux, Dakota, Ojibwe and Métis people.
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Thaumaturgy: 4 Elements
Fri 17 April 2020 4 - 5:30 amCharles Street Video in partnership with Tangled Arts + Disability, and Images Festival:
Join us in for an online screening of newly commissioned films by the artists in this exhibition, followed by Q&A with Jaene F. Castrillon moderated by Sean Lee on April 17th at 4pm.
Through the art and science of “wonder-working”, Thaumaturgy generates an immersive and participatory call to action to fight for the future of our planet’s well being. Animated through the respective art forms of 4 Indigenous Disabled artists; the 4 Elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water meet at a juncture of ceremony and sacred spaces for feeling and healing. Tobacco, Sage, Cedar, and Sweetgrass work to resist the formalities of a gallery, giving way to living tableaus that tie together the four elemental installations. In paying homage to the land and the place we call home, we come back to our base teachings of love and respect to show the “wonders” of our environment and the ability each of us has to reshape our future with our own hands. —Jaene F. Castrillon
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Date: Friday, April 17th, 2020
Time: Screening at 4pm, Q + A at 5pm
Join in through this link: https://imagesfestival.com/programs/live
Event Link
The screening will be close captioned and audio described.
Danielle Hyde is a multi-disciplinary Indigenous artist whose work mingles traditional and non-traditional mediums, photography, and performance art. A storyteller, Danielle creates stories in different forms to acknowledge we are four-dimensional beings, connecting through our hearts, minds, bodies, and spirit operating in chorus with the seen and unseen
Jaene F. Castrillon is a two spirit film-based multi-disciplinary artist who explores her relationship to the world through various spiritual teachings and the wisdom of the land. As first-generation settler to Turtle Island, she is a mixed race (indigenous Colombian/Hong Kong Chinese) queer woman of colour living with disabilities (psychiatric/physical/cognitive).
Kate Meawasige is a self-taught Anishinaabe artist from Genaabajing (Serpent River First Nations), specializing in beadwork and quillwork. Kate mixes traditional Indigenous art forms with traditional ideas around trauma, healing, and harm reduction to create unique spaces for youth to heal.
Louis Esmé practices traditional tattooing, writing, beading, drawing, pottery, and curation. They are a co-founding member of Titiesg Wîcinímintôwak // Bluejays Dancing Together, currently working on Kindling, an Indigenous LGBTQ2S arts research project. Louis is a Mi’kmaq, Acadian, and Irish non-binary person with multiple disabilities.
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CSV is Closing Due to COVID-19
Mon 16 March 2020 9 - 9 pmCSV Community and Supporters,
In the wake of the on-going developments regarding the COVID 19 pandemic, Charles Street Video and the TMAC facility as a whole will remain closed until further notice.
We hope that all our members and those in the community-at-large remain safe. At CSV, we are working on adapting our programs to the current needs.
We wish you all well and look forward to welcoming you back to the facility as soon as we are able to. Please adhere to the recommendations for helping to diminish the possibility of spreading the Covid-19 virus. If you have any questions, concerns, or even ideas/suggestions as to how we can support and/or activate our programming as an artist run centre, please let us know! If you have questions feel free to contact us at csv@charlesstreetvideo.com
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Dying to Learn
Fri 28 February 2020 7 - 10:30 pmA Mad Students Panel is presented as event programming for Love My Dysfunctions — an immersive exhibition by Rebecca Sweets. |
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Love My Dysfunctions Opening and Exhibition!
Thu 13 - Sat 29 February 2020 LOVE MY DYSFUNCTIONS by Rebecca Sweets is an immersive installation which explores her mad, neurodivergent + disabled identity through the lens of executive dysfunction, a dominant symptom of ADHD. The exhibition is concerned with social constructs of dysfunction, within the context of “higher education” that normalizes neurotypicality by reinforcing systemic ableist, sanist, and capitalist modes of existence.
'LOVE MY DYSFUNCTIONS' by Rebecca Sweets is presented by the Margin of Eras Gallery, in collaboration with Charles Street Video.
Opening Reception | February 13th, 2019 from 7-9pm
Exhibition Dates | February 14th – February 29th
Gallery Hours | Monday to Friday from 10-6pm, Saturdays from 12-5pm
Location | Charles Street Video, located in Toronto Media Arts Centre (32 Lisgar Street, 2nd Floor).
Review of Exhibition!
ABOUT REBECCA SWEETS
Rebecca Sweets is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, troublemaker, and doll collector. Through vulnerable, exploratory and immersive techniques, her mediums combine tangible, performative, and interactive storytelling. Her work involves themes of mixed race identity, digital intimacy, and radical empathy at the intersection of disability justice, mad pride and neurodiversity.
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Poster design by Rabeea Syed.
Accessibility Information: Toronto Media Arts Centre is a fully accessible venue. Learn more about the building's accessibility features at: https://policies.tomediaarts.org/procedure-manual/policies/accessibility
We intend for all MOEG-produced events to be a safe space for people of all races, genders, abilities, ages, cultures, and sexualities. Any form of discrimination including, but not limited to racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist language or behaviour will not be tolerated. If at any time you are made to feel uncomfortable or unsafe, please let one of our team members know, or email marginoferasgallery@gmail.com
CUE is a radical arts initiative dedicated to providing funding and support for new-generation artists who live and work on the margins in Toronto. Since 2008, the initiative has provided almost $300,000 in high-access grants to support the creation of more than 290 art projects.
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The Margin of Eras Gallery is a project of CUE: a multidisciplinary arts space dedicated to showcasing the work of new generation artists aged 15-29 who live and work on the margins. Some of the most important artwork is being created by artists who experience social, cultural, and economic marginalization, and systemic barriers can preclude many relevant artists from contributing to our cultural narrative. The MOEG is a space to engage with these artists and their work
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CSV Holiday Video Chuck
Thu 12 December 2019 6:30 - 10 pmCSV members are invited to bring along short film, video and interactive work to showcase. Video Chuck is a chance to bring together our community, socialize, network, and highlight the work of our members. |
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Moment Variations Exhibition
Mon 2 - Fri 20 December 2019Opening Dec 12, 7pm-10pm
Mon–Fri 10am–5pm
Sat 7 and 14 Dec 1pm-5pm
In physics, one definition of a moment is the rotation of an object being acted on by an external force. In this exhibition, we present a set of abstract visual music pieces that together make up a set of moment variations—a series of problems exploring what would happen if different forces were to act on the target object.
In our case, the object is a camera.
Each piece here, no matter what the camera, technique, or medium (in a collection of two artists’ work that in total spans 26 years, from VHS to 4K) was shot with a camera in some kind of continuous motion. Usually the camera is handheld (Dumb Abstraction No. 1), but sometimes it’s inside a vehicle (Traffic Flow I), recording in timelapse (Elegy), using a virtual camera in a game world (Arachnye), or all three at once (Traffic Flow III). Sometimes the technical process being explored is allowed to continuously feed outputs back into inputs (Traffic Flow II), and sometimes it’s deliberately interrupted in order to break the output (Demolition 1). And in all of these, we didn’t know what the end result would be when we began the experiment.
Artist Bios:
Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and developer based in Toronto. Most recently, he’s been working on XR projects at NYT T Brand Studio, the University of Waterloo, Google Creative Lab, and Framestore; his awards include a 2017 Engadget Alternate Realities grant, Eyebeam and Fulbright Fellowships, and the jury prize for Best Animated Short at SXSW 2010. His work has also been shown at the Ottawa, Rotterdam, and TIFF film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou, and on CBC TV; his practice has been supported by grants from Bravo!FACT, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the arts councils of Ontario, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and West Virginia. Fox-Gieg holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dumb Abstraction is an ongoing video and photography project by Meagan Williams, a self-taught video artist based in Toronto. Meagan holds a BA (Hons) in Political Studies from Queen’s University, an MA in Political Studies from the University of Saskatchewan, and an LLB from Western Law. She was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2013, and practices civil litigation at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. She shares her video and photography experiments on Instagram and Twitter @dumbabstraction.
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I Can Better Explain This Way
Sat 26 October 2019 5 - 7 pmOpenning Reception:
Saturday October 26, 5pm to 7pm
Exibition Times:
Monday to Friday October 28 to November 3rd, 10am to 5pm
The vulnerability we need to find our voice is powerfully articulated in I can better explain this way. Concluding MANY for 2019, the exhibit presents the work of ten youth from Syria, Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, and Egypt. Demonstrating criticality, cautious optimism, and an activist spirit, the young artists explore how and why they are settling in Toronto as well as the challenges they are working through.
In its second year, MANY is a media art creation program of ACCT and Charles Street Video that ran from July to October 2019. It reduces barriers to media art creation, supports youth with tailored workshops and one-on-one mentorship by culturally affiliated artists, and works towards promoting the capabilities that youth value. This project is supported through Toronto Arts Council Strategic Funding.
Youth
Adnan Saffaf
Alma Hourani
Emmanuella Ewuruigwe
Eniola Joy Adeoye
Fowzia Suleman
Hager Nanaa
Mohamed Abdu
Omar Ahmed
Philip Otuije
Precious Fikayomi
Artist Mentors
Daniel Ousta Jabbour
Ebti Nabag
Program Coordinator
Kasia Knap
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Missing You
Fri 25 October 2019 7 - 9 amA Charles Street Video Exhibition
Oct. 25 - Nov. 16 in the Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar St. Toronto, ON M6J 0C9
Opening Reception: Oct. 25, 6-9 PM (hors d'oeuvres and drinks)
Presenting Partner: The Toronto Media Arts Centre (www.tomediaarts.org)
Missing You exhibition hours: Monday-Friday 10 AM - 5 PM and Saturdays: November 2 and 16 1-5 PM
Accessibility Info
Robin Pacific photographed 70 people, each in a special place that has meaning for them, and then asked them a series of questions about their own death. Visual artist and editor Dennis Day made a video of all 70 people, their thoughts about their demise, their images, the music they would like played at their funeral, and their world without them in it. No two people had the same vision of the afterlife – or lack of an afterlife. Each idea for a memorial and for a legacy was unique. Their words are funny and sad, honest and thought-provoking.
About Robin:
Robin Pacific‘s work has spanned thirty years and a wide variety of media. In addition to writing personal and critical essays, she has produced artworks in a variety of media encompassing painting, drawing, video, installation, performance, and numerous community based collaborations. In 2012 Robin completed a Diploma in Spiritual Direction at Regis College in the Toronto School of Theology, and now practices Spiritual Direction one day a week. She holds a PhD in English Literature from York University and a Masters in Theological Studies from Regis College. She is currently enrolled in the University of Kings College MFA in Creative Nonfiction.
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The Hair Scarf Project
Thu 19 September 2019 5 - 8 pmJoin us for the opening of Hair Scarf Project at Charles Street Video.
Monica Mak (documentary filmmaker) and Shiva Shoeybi (mixed media artist) have joined forces to create The Hair Project. This collaborative mixed media work combines fabric-based art with documentary video installation. Through the fusion of these media forms, we reflect on the internal versus external constructions of female appearance, the lived experiences of three Muslim women of different ages and backgrounds, who choose to wear.
Shiva has designed two head scarves, each with a highly stylized hair design print. Both have been made entirely from artificial hair, intricately woven. Monica has documented each of the women’s experiences in short documentary segments. Together these disparate media forms will inhabit the CSV exhibit space, functioning as the threshold between the public and private spheres. On the one hand, the intimacy of the space and the quiet viewing experience will enhance the women’s personal stories told through documentary media; on the
other hand, the room’s function as a space for the viewing public will relate to our fascination with the public gaze on the female body.
September 19 - October 12
Opening:
Thursday, Sept 19, 5pm to 8pm
Regular Gallery Hours:
Monday to Friday - 10am to 5pm
Weekend Viewings with the Artist(s) present:
Saturday, September 21st **by appointment only
Saturday, September 28th **by appointment only.
Saturday, October 5 **by appointment only.
Saturday, October 12 **by appointment only.
The artist will meet you outside the entrance of the Toronto Media Arts centre. Please request a view by emailing greg@charlesstreetvideo.com and call 416-603-6564 when you arrive:
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Arts Intersections
Fri 16 August 2019 6 - 9 pmSOUND, MEDIA, AND DISABILITY
Charles Street Video is proud to present a night with media artists lwrds and Stefana Fratila. Please join us, as they lead participants through an artist talk followed by a workshop.
Participants of the workshop are encouraged to bring ideas they are developing for a media-based work so that, as a group, they can discuss how to create work and installations that are more accessible to different bodies.
This event is free and everyone is welcome to participate in the workshop.
Schedule:
Artist Talk: 6pm - 7pm
Workshop: 7:30pm - 9pm
Art Intersections Meetup is a meeting place for artists, moving image-makers, gamers and technologists who are experimenting with art-related digital content and how the moving image is presented in a connected world. Digital culture, social media and networks encourage new ways of storytelling, image making, idea sharing and collaboration. This Meetup celebrates artists and innovators who are embracing change leading the next wave of creativity.
lwrds:
lwrds (pronounced ‘lords’) is an interdisciplinary artist developing critically-engaged work that celebrates and centers the liberation of 2-Spirit, non-binary, queer, trans, intersex, Black, Indigenous, racialized, and invisibilized peoples everywhere. lwrds’ work responds to their personal journey of healing sexual trauma at the intersections of gender variance, blackness and indigeneity (complicated by an imposed latinidad they reject due to its colonial underpinnings), and disability for reasons of neurodivergence and chronic illness. A born storyteller with a deep commitment to healing personal and collective traumas, their material approach is an intuitive process of learning with other non-human beings, valuing energetic exchanges with all that exists.
Stefana Fratila:
Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born, Toronto-based artist, DJ and writer. Her work examines the act of bearing witness through public interventions, performances, sound and video installations. Interested in interrogating the relationship between memory and the body, she often incorporates her own experiences with disability and chronic illness. Her current work focuses on how sound waves might be perceived by human ears as they travel through the different atmospheres of our solar system and will culminate in eight open-source VST plug-ins created for digital audio workstations (DAWs).
ACCESSIBILITY
*At TMAC all events and offices are located on the second and third floors, accessible via an elevator just inside the entrance. Interior galleries and event spaces are barrier-free. Visit the TMAC website for additional policies on accessibility.
*ASL available upon request.
*If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact us at workshops@charlesstreetvideo.com, or 416-603-6564, for further information about support.
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WATER FALL ARTIST TALK
Thu 30 May 2019 6:20 - 8:20 pmThe Aird Gallery and Charles Street Video invites you to the final talk for: Annette Mangaard's "Water Fall: A Cinematic Installation"
With an introduction by exhibition curator Carla Garnet.
Holding a masters in interdisciplinary media, art and design, Annette Mangaard’s current research focuses on the interconnectedness between our health and our stewardship of the world’s natural resources with an emphasis on water.
Carla Garnet is the director and curator of the John B. Aird Gallery and the JOUEZ curator for the annual BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture in Toronto. She has worked as the curator at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (2010-2013), as a guest curator at Gallery Stratford (2009-2010), as an independent curator (1997-2010), and was the founder and director of Garnet Press Gallery (1984-97). Garnet holds an associate diploma from the Ontario College of Art and Design and a masters degree in art history from York University.
Presented by John B. Aird Gallery in partnership with Charles Street Video.
ARTIST BIO
Annette Mangaard is a Danish-born Canadian artist, photographer and filmmaker whose work has been shown internationally at art galleries, cinematheques and film festivals. Installations include: Armoury Gallery, Olympic Site Sydney, Australia; Pearson International Airport, Toronto; South-on Sea, Liverpool and Manchester, UK; Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina; and Whitefish Lake, First Nations.
Mangaard, has had retrospectives in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Vancouver. International screenings include: The Experimental Film Coalition, Chicago, The Collective for Living Cinema, NewYork, the SESC de Pompeia, Sao Paolo, B, Ozfun Australian Tour, Ann Arbour, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, National Gallery of Canada, Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy, DOCSDF Mexico City, Hot Doc’s, and Millenium, New York.
A recipient of numerous arts awards including Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council, Mangaard has participated as a juror for the Governor Generals Awards in Visual Art and sat on many boards including as Chair of Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival.
CURATOR BIO
Carla Garnet is the Director and Curator of the John B. Aird Gallery and the JOUEZ curator for the annual BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture in Toronto. She has worked as the curator at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (2010-2013), as a guest curator at Gallery Stratford (2009-2010), as an independent curator (1997-2010), and was the founder and director of Garnet Press Gallery (1984-97). Garnet holds an Associate Diploma from the Ontario College of Art and Design and a Master’s Degree in Art History from York University. Garnet is interested in the politics of the art exhibition and its potential to function as a common—a public space for dialogue. Her curatorial area of interest engages with an exploration of work that presents the possibility of existing simultaneously in many tenses or occupying more than one subject position at once, or both as way to open up a space for greater empathy. For Garnet, an artwork’s significance is tied up with an ability to say what otherwise might be unsayable.
CONTACT 2019 showcases an outstanding selection of Canadian and international lens-based artists. The Festival’s Core Exhibitions are comprised of collaborations with major museums, galleries, and artist-run centres as well as site-specific public art projects. These are cultivated through partnerships and commissions, and frame the cultural, social, and political events of our times. The Featured and Open Call Exhibitions present a range of works by local and international artists at leading galleries and alternative spaces across the city. The Festival also includes a wide range of Programs including a book fair, a symposium, lectures, talks, panels, and workshops. CONTACT exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public, with some exceptions at major museums.
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Mayworks Festival of Working Peoples
Fri 24 May 2019 3 pm - 3 amAbout Mayworks:
Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts strives to incite the creation and production of art that engages diverse artists and workers at the intersection of culture, economics and social justice. Mayworks showcases working people’s art, and promotes artists-as-workers and workers-as-artists. They operate within an anti-oppressive framework that prioritizes the representation and participation of artists and audiences from equity-seeking groups.
About All-or-none:
The act of sitting, pausing is a central fixture in the navigation of the fatigued body in spaces of capitalism; the body that must wait for energy to return before moving again, amidst an affluent and sterile re-sculpting of downtown public space that echos violent community displacement, where one must pay to sit, pay to transit, pay to pee, pay to pause. Named for Henry Bowditch’s cardiological phenomenon, all-or-none is a triptych of found & furnished space, reflecting that a heart beat is a set of three: beat-beat, pause, chair, chair, chess table. Every placed object has the potential to be re/moved; a reflection on the timed disappearance expected of bodies themselves. Come make up space with us.
Often found marrying poetry with large-scale sculptural forms, Parkdale resident jes sasche addresses the negotiations of bodies moving in public/private space and the work of their care. Their large-scale video loop will play alongside all-or-none, a site specific installation of furniture found in Parkdale parking lots.
CSV is providing technical support and presentation gear.
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WATER FALL: A CINEMATIC INSTALLATION PANEL #2
Thu 23 May 2019 6 - 8 pmAnnette Mangaard, Netami Stuart, Walter Kehm
Moderated by: Jane Weninger
The Aird Gallery and Charles Street Video invites you to the second of three panels for: Annette Mangaard's "Water Fall: A Cinematic Installation"
A panel discussion concerning: water, flood-plains, wetlands and the future of our city. ‘Can art initiate discussion and bring about change in public policy?’, with artist Annette Mangaard and Waterfront Toronto Senior Project Manager, Parks, Netami Stuart and founding member of the Landscape Research Group at the University of Guelph AND expert in sustainable community development, parks and recreational design, waterfront regeneration, Walter Kehm, moderated by senior planner with the City of Toronto Planning Division responsible for natural heritage system planning and policy development, Jane Weninger.
Curated by Carla Garnet, Annette Mangaard’s Water Fall: A Cinematic Installation is an exploration of water as both an environmental and a conceptual issue. Using footage sourced from several geological locations — a glacier in Patagonia, a melting iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, and tidal pools off the East and West coasts of Canada — Mangaard disrupts the conventions of nature movies to reflect on environmental stewardship from an affective standpoint. The result is a space where viewers might reflect on escalating climate change and the emotional states it provokes at a time when water — its presence and its lack — is ever more visible and charged within ecological and conceptual environments.
CONTACT 2019 showcases an outstanding selection of Canadian and international lens-based artists. The Festival’s Core Exhibitions are comprised of collaborations with major museums, galleries, and artist-run centres as well as site-specific public art projects. These are cultivated through partnerships and commissions, and frame the cultural, social, and political events of our times. The Featured and Open Call Exhibitions present a range of works by local and international artists at leading galleries and alternative spaces across the city. The Festival also includes a wide range of Programs including a book fair, a symposium, lectures, talks, panels, and workshops. CONTACT exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public, with some exceptions at major museums.
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MY STILL LIFE OPENING w Tess Payne
Tue 21 May 2019 7 - 10 pm After a little hiatus, (video artist) Tess Payne is back with a new video - "My Still Life: A Tableau" (10 min.) - a "reflection on aging, infrastructure and erasure." It's a visual, poetic (and even funny) look at 30 years of living and renting in Toronto's inner city.
VIDEO
MY STILL LIFE is a visual and poetic reflection on aging, infrastructure and erasure. Heading into
retirement - or "colours of nothingness" - Tess Payne playfully confronts life in Toronto's inner city as a renter and a single woman.
Presented as an ever changing tableau, her day-to-day activities are framed within the relentless transformation - into "real estate" - of what she tenuously refers to as home. (10 min. HD)
PHOTOS & VERSE
A collection of 10 photo-based images with a poetic text printed on each surface. The images are culled from lived experiences, and the poetic texts speak to personal reflections, from owning a pet, to aging, to everyday rituals in an old, downtown Toronto apartment. (10 mounted & framed Chromira prints)
The exbibition runs from May 21-26 from 10am to 6pm.
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WATER FALL: A CINEMATIC INSTALLATION PANEL #1
Thu 16 May 2019 6 - 8 pmThe Aird Gallery and Charles Street Video invites you to the first of three panels for: Annette Mangaard's "Water Fall: A Cinematic Installation"
RSVP here!
The first panel takes place this Thursday May 16, 6 to 8 p.m. at Charles Street Video, Toronto Media Arts Centre, 32 Lisgar St on the 2nd Floor.
This three-way conversation asks, ‘How do artists take scientific knowledge and use/transform it within their artistic endeavours in order to create real meaning and impact?’, featuring renowned Toronto multi-disciplinary artist Annette Mangaard, prize-winning Canadian author, Christopher Dewdney, whose latest book is: "18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather" and multidisciplinary artist and OCAD-U professor Simone Jones who works with film, video, sculpture and electronics.
Christopher Dewdney is the author of five books of non-fiction as well as eleven books of poetry. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award he won first-prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry and was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize, given in recognition of his contribution to Canadian literature. His non-fiction book, Acquainted With The Night; Excursions into the World After Dark, was nominated for both a Governor General's Award and The Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction, and was published in six countries. Dewdney appeared in the critically acclaimed film, Poetry in Motion, and an adaptation of his book, Acquainted With the Night, was released as a feature documentary by Markham Street Films in 2010. The movie garnered a Gemini award in 2011. His most recent non-fiction title, 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of our Atmosphere and its Weather, was published by ECW in 2018. Dewdney teaches creative writing and poetics at York University in Toronto.
Simone Jones is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Toronto. Jones' recent video work entitled "Intercept-Call-Response" is a portrait of her father set against the backdrop of his memory loss and the history of digital computing. Jones' work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with exhibitions at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts (NYC), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Annette Mangaard is a Danish-born Canadian artist, photographer and filmmaker whose work has been shown internationally at art galleries, cinematheques and film festivals. Installations include: Armoury Gallery, Olympic Site Sydney, Australia; Pearson International Airport, Toronto; South-on Sea, Liverpool and Manchester, UK; Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina; and Whitefish Lake, First Nations. Mangaard, has had retrospectives in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Vancouver. International screenings include: The Experimental Film Coalition, Chicago, The Collective for Living Cinema, NewYork, the SESC de Pompeia, Sao Paolo, B, Ozfun Australian Tour, Ann Arbour, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, National Gallery of Canada, Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy, DOCSDF Mexico City, Hot Doc’s, and Millenium, New York. A recipient of numerous arts awards including Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council, Mangaard has participated as a juror for the Governor Generals Awards in Visual Art and sat on many boards including as Chair of Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival.
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CSV Annual General Meeting
Tue 7 May 2019 6:30 - 8:30 pm NOTICE OF ANNUAL CHARLES STREET VIDEO MEETING OF MEMBERS!
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of Charles St. Video and Performing Arts Society (hereinafter called “CSV”) will be held at 32 Lisgar (at the Toronto Media Arts Centre - second floor), Toronto, Ontario on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 at the hour of 6:30 p.m. (local time) for the following purposes:
AGENDA:
1. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm with or without amendment, the AGM agenda.
2. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm, with or without amendment, the minutes of the previous annual general meeting of members of CSV
3. To consider the report from the President of the board of directors.
4. To consider the report from the Treasurer of the board of directors and to review the financial statements of the Society as at July 31, 2018.
5. To consider the reports from the Managers.
6. To elect directors.
7. To confirm and appoint the auditor.
8. To transact such further and other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or adjournments thereof.
The Minutes and Financial Statements referred to in Agenda items 2 and 3 above are available upon request during office hours, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. A copy will also be sent to any member who requests it.
DATED at Toronto, Ontario the 2nd of May, 2019.
charlesstreetvideo.com 416.603.6564
The Toronto Media Arts Centre (2nd floor)
32 Lisgar Street, Toronto, Ontario M6J 0C9 Canada
Charles Street Video acknowledges the generous support from our public funders. The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
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The Smiling Room Spring Exhibition
Thu 2 May 2019 5 - 10 pm Join us for a two week exhibition of The Smiling Room - an immersive multimedia installation where 100+ LGBTQ2S explore & deconstruct Queer & Trans happiness within struggle via multi-channel video and audio installation, screening stations with interactive single channel interviews, and artifacts from our community filming events.
Opening Night reception: May 2nd, 5:00-10:00pm.
Accessibility:
Transit to TMAC via the southbound Ossington kneeling bus & 5 min walking/wheeling along the Queen street sidewalk which has curb ramps. The space is accessible by ramp and elevator. The installation includes video, audio & video-interviews with closed captions as well as areas for standing and sitting. We invite everyone to help us keep this a scent-free event.
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“i am happy here, now”:
Sat 15 December 2018 5 - 7 pmExhibition Times - 10am to 5pm Monday to Friday from December 4 to December 14
Closing Party - 5pm to 7pm on Saturday, December 15.
Resilience, strength, and the determination to make things better mark the stories of “i am happy here, now”. As a culmination of Media Art for Newcomer Youth (MANY), the exhibition presents the independent works of nine newcomer youth from Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, and Iraq. In these projects, youth explore how they negotiate their sense of self during a time of rapid change, adolescence and (re)settlement.
MANY is a five-month pilot program of the Arab Community Centre of Toronto and Charles Street Video. It reduced barriers to media art creation, supported youth through tailored workshops and one-on-one mentoring by culturally affiliated artists, and worked towards promoting the capabilities that youth value. This project is supported through Toronto Arts Council Strategic Funding.
Youth
Bayan Abdelkarim
Chioma Okogbue
Jesse West
Majd Alsheblaq
Mary Osuiwu
Pelumi Kehinde
Reem Zeyada
Temy Ibikunle
Zahraa Wohaib
Artist Mentors
Ebti Nabag
Jawa El Khash
Daniel Ousta Jabbour
Program Coordinator: Kasia Knap
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Holiday Video Chuck!
Wed 12 December 2018 6:30 - 10 pm'Tis the season for CSV's HOLIDAY VIDEO CHUCK ('n shuck)! Bring your friends, family, or cat and enjoy an evening of snacks, drinks and good hearted frivolity. Members are invited to bring along short film, video and interactive work to showcase. Video Chuck is a chance to bring together our community, socialize, network, and highlight CSV members' work. |
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'Art Thieves' Installation
Fri 10 August 2018 12 - 6 pmCharles Street Video presents Art Thieves
Video Installation by CSV member
Gunilla Josephson
TMAC Toronto Media Arts Centre, 32 Lisgar Street, 2d floor [Dovercourt and Queen], along side the SummerWorks Performance Festival 2018.
Gallery Hours:
Friday Aug 10th 12pm-6 pm
Saturday Aug 11th 12-6pm
Sunday Aug 12th 12-6pm
Monday Aug 13th 12-9pm
Tuesday Aug 14th 12-9pm
Wedn Aug 15th 12-9pm
Thursday Aug 16th 12-6pm
Friday Aug 17th 12-6pm
Saturday Aug 18th 12-6pm
Monday Aug 21st 12-5pm
Tuesday Aug 22nd 12-5pm
Wedn Aug 23rd 12-5pm
Thursday Aug 24th 12-5pm
Friday Aug 25th 12-5 pm
Saturday Aug 27th 12-6pm
Art Thieves
18 minutes. Stereo mix
Concept, production Gunilla Josephson
Performers Anna-Lena Johansson,
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Camera Lewis DeSoto
Gunilla Josephson casts a critical eye on the orthodox consensus that looking at art is good for you but that only some people know what art is and is not.
A couple of art specialists arrive in the late baroque melancholy of a semi-abandoned art museum somewhere in France. They set up camp in the museum, catch fish from the windows, have dinner with a bird and proceed to examine the collection. Using a variety of peculiar instruments they measure, dissect, excavate and interfere with the art. Amongst the gilded frames and forlorn second-rate art collection a small museum guard with a very large dog wanders by, somebody cycles through the galleries, a voyeur stalks and peeps, an employee sweeps, while floors creak, doors open and close, somebody sings and the art transforms. Who are the Art Thieves? What is their task? Were they sent? By whom? What are they doing with such determination? Are they there to expose the hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and to unsettle/sabotage the apparent significance and unity of an art institution? Are they saboteurs? Art specialists? Artists, or curators?
A Case of Life Imitating Art.
Shortly after Art Thieves was filmed with permission February 3-5. 2007 at an art museum (anonymous) in Normandy, France, I got the news that the Director of the gallery had been fired and charged with art theft. Consequently I was asked to withdraw the video scheduled for a solo exhibition of the video for Festival les Boréales in Caen, Normandy, opening November 21, 2008.
As a result the show features instead a printed series of a Wanted Poster for the lost Art Thieves (video), designed by PARK STUDIO in London, UK, http://www.park-studio.com
Artist Statement
My approach to moving image incorporates the aesthetics of painting/sculpture and the conventions of film style, while pushing the boundaries of both. I am interested in the intersection between structure and chaos within the realm of video as a form of media art. Juxtapositions such as: order and disorder, the planned versus the improvised, as well as the relationship between the performer and the amateur. My work within and outside of these intersections transcends the boundaries and rules governing how moving images are meant to be viewed. This subversion behaves as a visual language that further enhances the meaning of the work for the viewer, once it is decoded. From the actions of the performers, through my own use of the video camera, as well as the editing process, I am working to disrupt norms. My aim is to challenge systems, actively resist the tyranny of orthodoxy and have my work serve as a commentary on this process. In the production and post-production process, I work in a way that exploits unbridled emotion and marries it to abstraction. I challenge the accepted conventions of art as an entertainment that is well-behaved.
Artist Biography
Gunilla Josephson is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Toronto since 1993. She has a BA in Social Science from Stockholm University and a MFA in 1986 from The University of Fine Arts and Design.
Josephson’s videos have been featured in MEETINGS - Video and Performance Festival 2017, Jutland, Denmark; in VOICES: Artists on Art, Harbourfront Galleries, Toronto; at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art [solo]; Rodman Hall art Centre [solo] in Saint Catherines, Ontario, at Ryerson Centre, Toronto, at SAW Video in Ottawa,; at The Winnipeg Art Gallery, at MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia; in the video screening series ‘Canadian Experimental Films & Videos of the 1990’s’; highlighted in The UK/Canada Video Exchange at South London Art Gallery, London, UK; at the Hull Centre for Time-Based Art; at LUX Cinema, London, UK, at The Stuttgarter Winterfest; The Kassel Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, Germany, 2001; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen [Awarded the Festival Prize]; at Toronto Images Festival, Toronto in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009; in Canadian Currents at the Goethe Institute, Toronto; The Independents, Cinematheque Ontario; at Video Inn, Vancouver; Cinematographe Montreal; Video Archaeology Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, Moderna and Femmedia-International Film and Video Festival, both in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Ambisonics for Facebook and YouTube
Thu 26 July 2018 7 - 9 pmDescription
This workshop explores how we can create soundscapes for headphones that give the impression of space, or what we typically understand to be surround sound. However we will go one step further and learn how to generate these soundscapes for use on Facebook and YouTube, both of which support this with the intention of being used in virtual reality.
Why Attend
You are looking to learn more about ambisonics but don’t know where to begin
You have researched this topic in the past but never found any information in the English language, readable by humans.
You understand ambisonics but know nothing about how they fit in with Facebook and YouTube
Who Should Attend
Artists in the areas of sound and video. Field recording enthusiasts. People who enjoy acquiring new skills and have no attachment to where these new ideas will take them in life.
What’s Going to Happen
Soundhacker Elliott will be dividing the session up into two sections. The first half will deal with the Ambisonics, specifically in the audio editor Reaper, which is available for free. The second half of the session will then move over to the Facebook Spatial Workstation, as well as a look at YouTube’s support for this technology.
This workshop will cover:
Working with 360 degree sources of audio
Synthesizing your own 360 degree soundscapes using mono sounds
Encoding and Decoding
Facebook Spatial Workstation and YouTube’s support for Ambisonics
It is recommended attendees bring their laptops to work along. Installing Reaper ahead of time is a good idea, and more specific instructions will be sent the week of the workshop.
Bonus: Attendees of this workshop will receive a concise eBook summarizing all the information after the event. This will be available to non-attendees for the price of $10.
About the presenter: Elliott Fienberg is a sound artist and composer who has been organizing the Soundhackers meetup for over four years. His most recent project was producing the music and sound design for Orphan Black: The Game.
Price of the workshop: $12 early bird (goes up to $15 on July 1st)
Limited to 20 attendees
Tickets available here!
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Share Tech: 360 Cameras
Wed 27 June 2018 6:30 - 9:30 pmShare Tech events are themed evenings that focus on sharing knowledge and offering a brief overview of some of the most relevant gear to contemporary media art production. |
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RE:COLLECTIONS
Sat 28 April 2018 10 am - 5 pmHow do we take the idea of an archive, and its difficult, racist, exclusionary history, and turn it around? How can it become an opportunity where our personal and political histories shine in all their complexities?
Re:collections brings Indigenous artists and artists of colour to share how their work engages, re-frames and re-defines the archive. Whether the archive is a collection in a formal memory institution or a recently dusted off basement find.
Re:collecitons is made in partnership with Charles Street Video and Toronto Media Arts Centre. Join us at Re:collections for discussions on archiving and counter-archiving.
Saturday April 28th, 2018 at the Toronto Media Arts Centre (32 Lisgar Street)
FREE ADMISSION, CHILDCARE and LUNCH provided
Register Here
This more about the Home Made Visible (HMV) Project here
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CSV Annual General Meeting!
Wed 11 April 2018 6:30 - 8:30 pm NOTICE OF ANNUAL CHARLES STREET VIDEO MEETING OF MEMBERS
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of Charles St. Video and Performing Arts Society (hereinafter called “CSV”) will be held at the Toronto Media Arts Centre, 36 Lisgar Street (near Queen and Dovercourt), Toronto, Ontario on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at the hour of 6:30pm (local time) for the following purposes:
AGENDA:
1. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm with or without amendment, the AGM agenda.
2. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm, with or without amendment, the minutes of the previous annual general meeting of members of CSV
3. To consider the report from the President of the board of directors.
4. To consider the report from the Treasurer of the board of directors and to review the financial statements of the Society as at July 31, 2017.
5. To consider the reports from the Managers.
6. To elect directors.
7. To confirm and appoint the auditor.
8. To transact such further and other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or adjournments thereof.
The Minutes and Financial Statements referred to in Agenda items 2 and 4 above are available upon request during office hours, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. A copy will also be sent to any member who requests it.
DATED at Toronto, Ontario the March 16, 2018.
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SPRING VIDEO CHUCK
Wed 21 March 2018 6:30 - 9:30 pmJoin us in welcoming Spring and celebrating World Storytelling Day (technically on March 20)! Bring your friends, family, or cat and enjoy an evening of snacks, drinks and good hearted frivolity. Members are invited to bring along short film, video and interactive work to present. Video Chuck is a chance to bring together our community, socialize, network, and highlight CSV members' work.
After the screenings, we chat, mingle, and share some snacks. All are welcome, and it’s always free!
If you would like to showcase your work at one of our upcoming Video Chucks, please email: jennifer@charlesstreetvideo.com.
RSVP on Eventbrite so we know how many oysters to fetch!
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Art Intersections: Digital Curation
Tue 6 February 2018 6:30 - 9 pmThe Commons
Suite 440, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
** Note new venue! **
Presented by Akimbo OCAD U and Charles Street Video. Supported by Beau’s Brewing Company.
Access: This is a free event located in a wheelchair accessible venue. If you wish to have ASL interpretation provided, please let us know by January 30 by emailing info@akimbo.ca.
6:30pm - Doors Open
7pm - Guest presenters Golboo Amani and Lindsay LeBlanc, plus Q&A, moderated by Matthew Kyba
8pm - Networking, Food & Beverages
How do you curate art with digital technologies in mind? For our first Art Intersections event of 2018, we will be considering the subject of Digital Curation. This month’s speakers will address both curating digital art in physical spaces as well as the curation of artworks for digital platforms, and what this means for the artists, curatorial process and the visitor experience.
In the tradition of past Art Intersections Meetups, we have invited three arts professionals who are working at the intersections of curatorial practice and digital art. Multi-disciplinary artist Golboo Amani is best known for her performance and social practice works, and recently co-curated the 7a*md8 Live-Stream Performance series. As the curator of Equitable Bank’s Emerging Digital Artists Award, Lindsay LeBlanc is interested in the circulation of contemporary digital and web-based artwork. Moderated by Matthew Kyba, an independent curator and writer, this conversation will bring to light how curators can produce unique exhibitions specifically for the digital age.
Art Intersections is a meeting event for artists, moving image-makers, gamers and technologists who are experimenting with art-related digital content and how the moving image is presented in a connected world. Digital culture, social media and networks encourage new ways of storytelling, image making, idea sharing and collaboration. This event celebrates artists and innovators who are embracing change leading the next wave of creativity.
Free! Please RSVP via the Facebook event.
About Golboo Amani:
Multi-disciplinary artist Golboo Amani is best known for her performance and social practice works. Amani often relies on familiar social engagements as a point of entry into her practice. Critical of systemic social patterns, the artist views social situations as ready-made sites for aesthetic intervention. Amani’s work often addresses the conditions of knowledge production that render epistemic violence as invisible, insignificant and benign. Much of her work focuses on interventions or alternatives to formal sites of pedagogy to include forms, contexts and content normally excluded from institutionalized knowledge production. Amani’s work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues including the Creative Time Summit, Art Gallery of Ontario, Articule, XPACE Artist-Run Centre, Encuentro: Hemispheric Institute, Union Gallery, Blackwood Gallery, Rats9 Gallery, Rhubarb Festival, FADO Emerging Artist Series, TRANSMUTED International Festival of Performance Art (Mexico City), 221A Artist-Run Centre, and the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art.
golbooamani.com
About Lindsay LeBlanc:
Lindsay LeBlanc is a student, writer, and curator working out of Toronto and Montreal. She is currently the art curator for Equitable Bank, and in 2015 launched the company’s Emerging Digital Artists Award program, which aims to support early-career practitioners of screen-based media. In addition to her corporate work, she is completing her master’s in Art History at Concordia University with a research focus on historiographies of machine art since the 1950s. LeBlanc received her BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University in 2016. Her writing has been published in Prefix Photo, On Site Review, and Existere Journal, among others, and she has served as an editor for multiple projects, including her permanent post at digital publication KAPSULA.
edaa.equitablebank.ca
kapsula.ca
Twitter: @edaa_eqb
About Matthew Kyba:
Matthew Kyba is an independent curator and writer. He received his Master's degree in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University in 2015. Currently, he is the Director of Forest City Gallery Artist-Run Centre, and co-founder of Bunker 2 in Toronto, ON. Recent curatorial projects include Ritualia at Modern Fuel and Don't Worry, its just another White Exhibition at Bunker 2. He has a small dog named Rico.
Instagram: @thejewishryangosling
forestcitygallery.com / @forestcitygallery
bunker2.ca | @bunker2
For more information about the Art Intersections event series please contact info@akimbo.ca
To watch past presentations by Adrienne Crossman, Thirza Cuthand, Deirdre Logue, Jonathan Carroll, Jacob Niedzwieki, Nicole Del Medico, Jeremy Bailey and Midi Onodera please click here.
Presented by Akimbo in collaboration with OCAD U and Charles Street Video. Supported by Beau’s Brewing Company.
Akimbo Art Promotions
info@akimbo.ca
akimbo.ca
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HOLIDAY VIDEO CHUCK!
Thu 14 December 2017 7 - 10 pm'Tis the season for CSV's HOLIDAY VIDEO CHUCK ('n shuck)! Bring your friends, family, or cat and enjoy an evening of snacks, drinks and good hearted frivolity. Members are invited to bring along short film, video and interactive work to showcase. Video Chuck is a chance to bring together our community, socialize, network, and highlight CSV members' work.
After the screenings, we chat, mingle, and share some snacks. All are welcome, and it’s always free!
Location: 568 Richmond Street West
Time: Thursday, December 14, 2017 6:00pm to 9:00pm
If you've got work you'd like to share at the HOLIDAY VIDEO CHUCK please email:
jennifer@charlesstreetvideo.com.
Get a free ticket here so we know how many oysters to fetch!
Special thanks goes out to Jennifer Hazel for catering the event.
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Roots (Raíces) Workshop Series #4: Blender3D
Mon 11 December 2017 5:30 - 9:30 pm***This workshop is one in a series of six workshops that form part of the exhibition programming for Roots (Raíces).
***For full exhibition + workshop programming please visit:
http://bit.ly/2B0GCLc
::: BLENDER3D WORKSHOP FOR LATINX ARTISTS :::
Date: Monday, December 11th
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Address: 586 Richmond St West
***This is a FREE WORKSHOP. There is a limited capacity of 10 people. Priority will be given to Latinx-identifying individuals.
***Please RSVP to abreard@spanishservices.org to reserve your spot with subject title "Blender3D Workshop RSVP"
Be introduced to Blender3D which is a powerful open source software for 3D modeling and animation. This workshop will provide an overview of how to create and import models, animate them within a scene, apply textures and materials, and render for distribution. By the end of the workshop, participants will have created a short animation to share online as a video or GIF. Personal laptops + a mouse are recommended, however, participants will not be turned away due to lack of hardware. Snacks, TTC tokens and USB flash drives filled with 3D assets will be provided. This workshop will be beneficial to any Latinx youth who is interested in exploring experimental and expanded practices in animation, new media and digital painting.
::: ABOUT THE ARTIST & FACILITATOR :::
Born in Bogotá, Colombia.
Alisson is a transmedia artist + art worker living and operating in Toronto, Canada. Their work explores the internal drives and external influences that shape identity as a Colombian first-generation immigrant in North America. They are interested in subversive strategies of laughter and femininity as a linguistic and visual medium: play upon codes already in place and the degree to which we are shaped by consumer capitalist culture and mass media.
Through their work, they attempt to engage and interact with the public by creating, facilitating or collaborating in shared experiences. They are a part of the digital art collective Tough Guy Mountain and runs The Brandscape. They hold a BFA with an honorable mention from the Ontario College of Art and Design University.
::: ABOUT TAKING ROOTS :::
This workshop is one in a series of six workshops that form part of the exhibition programming for Roots (Raíces). The programming forms part of Taking Roots - My Canada, Our Canada: a youth civic engagement project for emerging Latinx youth artists based in Tkaronto organized by the Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples in partnership with the Hispanic Canadian Heritage Council and Story Centre Canada. Funded by ON150
::: ABOUT THE VENUE :::
Charles Street Video is a not-for-profit facility that focuses on media and film production and post-production.
We acknowledge the ancestral and traditional unceded territory on which we stand: of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca and most recently Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy of the Ojibwe and Allied Nations to Peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.
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Art Intersections Meetup - November 21, 2017
Tue 21 November 2017 6:30 - 9 pmIn the tradition of past Art Intersections meetups, we have invited two interdisciplinary artists who are imagining and imaging futures. Game and narrative designer Sophia Park deconstructs the relationships formed between humans and increasingly-sentient technologies, while filmmaker Cara Mumford re-orients human relationships to the land in exploring the future of Indigenous sovereignty. Moderated by Karl Schroeder, a science-fiction writer and professional futurist, this conversation will bring to light how representations of the future work to alter the present. |
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Storytelling with 360 Video
Thu 30 March 2017 6 - 9 pmSpecial guest Karen Vanderborght shares her knowledge of 360 story-telling techniques. Karen will talk about a wide range of VR/360 productions in which she was involved, covering all the steps from preparation up until delivery. Her latest projects include Les Pays d'en Haut VR for Radio Canada, now available in the App and Google play store, and an educational platform on Ocean Science for the NFB.
Bio
Karen studied at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and never lost that typical Belgian, imaginative touch. Her cross-platform career stretches from curating the Brussels underground media art scene to creating documentary content for Canadian broadcasters. She picked up a wide range of technical skills, capturing the story alive as a DP, letting the tale testify as an editor, and boldly running with it as a producer/director. Not afraid to code and play with interactive tools, she embraces new technologies to take your content to spaces where it has never gone before (if you so wish to, because your production demands remain her directions). Et elle sait le faire en français aussi.
Discover some of Karen's past work featured at the links below. Mix and match as you wish. Hop to her other web spaces by clicking on their icons. For rates and availability, please contact Karen directly.
For tickets, click here!
More information on our speaker, Karen Vanderborght can be found:
http://www.tekaren.com/
http://imagefatale.tumblr.com/
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CSV Annual General Meeting
Mon 27 March 2017 6:30 - 8:30 pmNOTICE OF ANNUAL CHARLES STREET VIDEO MEETING OF MEMBERS
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of Charles St. Video and Performing Arts Society (hereinafter called “CSV”) will be held at 568 Richmond Street (at the North East corner of Portland and Queen), Toronto, Ontario on Monday, March 27th, 2017 at the hour of 6:30pm (local time) for the following purposes:
AGENDA:
1. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm with or without amendment, the AGM agenda.
2. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm, with or without amendment, the minutes of the previous annual general meeting of members of CSV
3. To consider the report from the President of the board of directors.
4. To consider the report from the Treasurer of the board of directors and to review the financial statements of the Society as at July 31, 2016.
5. To consider the reports from the Managers.
6. To elect directors.
7. To confirm and appoint the auditor.
8. To transact such further and other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or adjournments thereof.
The Minutes and Financial Statements referred to in Agenda items 2 and 4 above are available upon request during office hours, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. A copy will also be sent to any member who requests it.
DATED at Toronto, Ontario the March 10, 2017.
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Video Chuck!
Thu 23 March 2017 6 - 9 pmJoin us for our early spring Video Chuck! Bring your friends, family, or cat and enjoy an evening of snacks, drinks and good hearted frivolity. Members are invited to bring along short film, video and interactive work to present. |
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Art Intersections Meetup
Tue 14 March 2017 6:30 - 9:30 pmArt Intersections Meetup is a meeting place for artists, moving image-makers, gamers and technologists who are experimenting with art-related digital content and how the moving image is presented in a connected world. |
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Delink
Sat 4 March 2017 7 - 10 pmCharles Street Video is proud to partner with Bunker 2 in this new exciting media arts series called Delink. |
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Playformance
Thu 2 March 2017 6 - 9 pmPlayformance: get excited for wearables, motion capture, projection mapping, generative art and cultural intangibles. There will also be a projection mapping demo! |
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Insurance for Filmmakers
Wed 15 February 2017 6 - 9 pmJudi Heron joined Unionville Insurance Brokers in 1985 and for over 30 years, has specialized in insurance coverages for the visual arts. She was instrumental in designing policies to address the needs of film and video producers, cinematographers, free-lance camerapersons, still photographers, sound and lighting technicians, sound and post-production studios. These policies were specifically created to provide a low-cost alternative for the smaller, independent producers and as such, Unionville Insurance Brokers, now Arthur J Gallagher Canada Ltd, has become the industry leader in insurance packages for the visual arts and media community. By understanding the requirements of filmmakers and their related industries, Judi has developed a large client base across Canada.
In her free talk insurance talk Judi will review coverage options available for media artists and answer any insurance questions you might have.
Insurance for Filmmakers with Judi Heron
Wednesday, Feb 15, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
For tickets, click here!
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CSV Holiday Video Chuck!
Thu 15 December 2016 6 - 9 pmVideo Chuck is a chance to bring together our community, socialize, network, and highlight CSV member work. |
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'So You think You Can Pitch' Awards Ceremony
Sun 13 November 2016 12:30 - 2:30 pmCSV staff member Greg Woodbury presented the "So You Think You Can Pitch' awards at the Reel Asian 2016 awards ceremony. All the pitches were amazing and the jury had a tough time choosing. Here is a list of the finalists:
Emerging category:
- 3550, by Kristina Wong
- Distant Cousins, by Winnifred Jong
- Driving With Mom, by Gayle Ye & Michelle Koerssen
- Forbidden Tikka Masala, by Rahul Chaturvedi
- The Words of Thien Ly, by Tram-Anh Ngo
Established category:
- 180, by Vivian Lin & Jennifer Millington
- A Stranger Request, by Gloria Kim, Rodey Gozum & Richard Young
- The Table, by Melanie Chung & Hubert Tran
and the winners are:
- for the Emerging category: Rahul Chaturvedi for Forbidden Tikka Masala
- for the Established category: Vivian Lin and Jennifer Millington for 180
We are so looking forward to helping the artists produce their work!
EMERGING CATEGORY AWARD
This award has a $3,000 value ($10,000 equivalent value at Industry rental rates):
• Business affairs & legal consultation with Behind The Scenes Services.
• Acting support (if applicable) from ACTRA Toronto including consultation, coaching, and more.
• Opportunity to premiere work at the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (subject to review), with full festival accreditation.
• $2000 Cash
• Digital film and festival consultation with CineSend including 1 DCP and festival strategy consultation and inclusion in CineSend’s next beta registration.
A production workflow consultation with Charles Street Video, including:
• $1,400 in edit station access and/or production equipment rentals (including Red Epic camera).
• $250 artist fee.
• 2 sessions with Charles Street Video’s in-house editor.
• One-year membership with Charles Street Video.
ESTABLISHED CATEGORY AWARD
This award has a $7,000 value ($20,000 equivalent value at Industry rental rates):
• Business affairs & legal consultation with Behind The Scenes Services
• Acting support (if applicable) from ACTRA Toronto including consultation, coaching, and more
• Opportunity to premiere work at the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (subject to review), with full festival accreditation
• $4000 Cash
• Digital film and festival consultation with CineSend including 1 DCP and festival strategy consultation and inclusion in CineSend’s next beta registration
A production workflow consultation with Charles Street Video that including:
• $2,700 in edit station access and/or production equipment rentals (including Red Epic camera)
• $400 artist fee
• 2 sessions with Charles Street Video’s in-house editor
• One-year membership with Charles Street Video
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Iftology
Wed 5 October 2016 6 - 9 pmHow can you earn a living making films? You feel overwhelmed with a hundred things to do, so where do you find the time to make the films you love, for a change? From getting funded to getting sold, Curt Jaimungal of indiefilmTO takes you through the entire production and promotion process, step-by-step, with exact action takeaways so you can finally create the films you want, within weeks.
Hailed as The Filmmaker's Filmmaker, Curt Jaimungal is the founder and director of indiefilmTO, a non-profit organization assisting indie filmmakers all across Toronto. A director himself, Curt understands the challenges of filmmaking all too well; his ambition and generosity have led him to inspire over 1,700 filmmakers to turn their struggles into success.
Get tickets here!
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CSV Annual General Meeting
Thu 18 February 2016 7 - 9 pm NOTICE OF ANNUAL CHARLES STREET VIDEO MEETING OF MEMBERS
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of Charles St. Video and Performing Arts Society (hereinafter called “CSV”) will be held at Bento Miso, located at 862 Richmond Street West., Toronto, Ontario on Thursday, February 18th at the hour of 7:00 p.m. (local time) for the following purposes:
AGENDA:
1. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm with or without amendment, the AGM agenda.
2. To consider and, if thought fit, to confirm, with or without amendment, the minutes of the previous annual general meeting of members of CSV
3. To consider the report from the President of the board of directors.
4. To consider the report from the Treasurer of the board of directors and to review the financial statements of the Society as at July 31, 2015.
5. To consider the reports from the Managers.
6. To elect directors.
7. To confirm and appoint the auditor.
8. To transact such further and other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or adjournments thereof.
The Minutes and Financial Statements referred to in Agenda items 2 and 3 above are available upon request during office hours, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. A copy will also be sent to any member who requests it.
DATED at Toronto, Ontario the 4th of February, 2015.
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Media Arts Info night from the TAC
Wed 30 September 2015 6 - 8 pmHosted in collaboration with Le LABO.
Peter Kingstone is a Toronto-based visual artist and curator, working primarily in video and photography. As an independent artist, Peter’s installation pieces have been shown across Canada and internationally, and he was awarded the Untitled Artist Award in 2005 for his installation The Strange Case of peter K. (1974-2004). Peter holds a degree in Philosophy/Cultural Studies from Trent University in Peterborough and a Masters of Fine Art focussing on video and new media from York University in Toronto. Peter has presented at many conferences on the ideas around storytelling and social engagement. Peter started in September 2012 as the Acting Visual/Media Arts Officer at Toronto Arts Council.
FREE - Priority registration for
members of Le Labo and Charles Street Video
Registrations at info@lelabo.ca
http://lelabo.ca/en/2015/08/25/tac/
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Seeking a stand-up fellow...
Fri 14 August 2015 7 - 9 pmToronto mixed-media artist/ graphic designer Xenia Vakova documents results of her Craigslist w4m posting experiment through text-based video, sound, and illustration, to discuss heteronormative gender roles on the internet. The tongue-in-cheek installation also includes an interactive component which encourages viewers to enter into the male identity narrative. Join us on August 14th to launch this week long installation project as part of our maker space program.
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Goodbye 65 Bellwoods!
Wed 24 June 2015 7 - 10 pmAfter 30 years on Bellwoods Ave. we are moving!!! Come help us celebrate all of the amazing memories this building holds for CSV and our members. This will be our last gathering at this location. We are sad to say goodbye to the park, but glad that the new place doesn't have stairs!!
With oyster shucking and media art screenings, Video Chucks are hosted by CSV once every quarter; they're opportunities to bring our community together, socialize, network, and highlight our members' work. If you would like to showcase your work at one of our upcoming Video Chucks, please email: pam@charlesstreetvideo.com.
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Artist Talk: Creative Process
Wed 22 April 2015 7:10 - 9:10 pmJoin us at CSV as CSV/NAISA resident Ellen Moffat discusses her creative process. Ellen will talk about her current projects, media art, and how they move from an idea or vision to a fully realized (and funded) project. She will also screen some of her past work. Sign up at the link below:
Sign up here!
Bio
Ellen Moffat is an independent media artist whose work spans solo, collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. Rooted in the language of sculpture - the body, space and materials – her primary media is sound. Using deconstructed spoken word, field recordings and experimental soundmaking, her projects range from multi-channel installations, to interactive electroacoustic instruments, to performance, to live actions in gallery and off-site venues. Her work is a poetic and conceptual inquiry into sound and space, language, composition and social relations. Born in Toronto, she lives in Saskatoon.
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Video Chuck
Wed 25 March 2015 7 - 10 pmWith oyster shucking and media art screenings, Video Chucks are hosted by CSV once every quarter; they're opportunities to bring our community together, socialize, network, and highlight our members' work. If you would like to showcase your work at one of our upcoming Video Chucks, please email: pam@charlesstreetvideo.com
Get your free tickets here!
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Artist Talk: Creative Process
Wed 25 February 2015 7 - 9 pmJoin us at CSV on Wednesday, Feb 25th as a CSV residents Keesic Douglas, Celeste Koon discuss their creative process. Keesic and Celeste will talk about their current projects, media art, and how they move from an idea or vision to a fully realized (and funded) project. They will also screen some of their past work.
To RSVP for this event click here
Participating Artists:
Celeste Koon
Working in children's media and entertainment has always been Celeste's dream. She has a vivid imagination and a creative outlook on the world, which she brings to her work. Celeste has written, directed and designed two independently produced children's shorts: Paper Princes, Gypsies, and the Boy With No Return Address (2009) and The Intergalactic Space Adventures of Cleo and Anouk (2012). Both films played at numerous international film festivals across the globe. In 2013, Celeste wrote, directed and designed two segments for Season 44 of PBS's Sesame Street: 'A' is for Adventure and 'O' is for Ocean. Celeste also has five years of experience working on various industry television and film productions in the art department and recently worked with Radical Sheep Productions developing children and youth properties, while at the same time writing 44 scripts for their preschool show Can You Imagine That. Currently she is the Reel Asian Film Festival/Charles Street Video Artist is Resident.
Keesic Douglas
Keesic is an Ojibway artist from the Mnjikaning First Nation in central Ontario. He specializes in the mediums of photography and video. His work has been exhibited across Canada and the US. Keesic focuses on issues surround his Native heritage in his photo and video work. His video The Vanishing Trace recently won Best Short Documentary at the 2007 imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto. His video War Pony showed at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2009 in Germany. Some of his photographic works are currently in a group show in Prague, Czech Republic. The 2013 CSV/imagineNATIVE Artist in Resident.
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CSV and the Film Mercenaries Party
Thu 29 January 2015 7 - 10 pm Charles Street Video and the Film Mercenaries are inviting you to join us for refreshing drinks, lots of friendly laughs, endless discussions and great prizes !
If you are not working like crazy on thursday nights, please join us to enjoy a great evening of networking and relaxing at the URBAN HOUSE CAFE at Yonge and Wellesley. They have an amazing choice of cheap drinks and food : $13 for a pitcher of beer, $7.95 for a nice Pad Thai, and wonderful specials everyday. (Pint+dinner entrée for 10.95 on thursdays)
SUN, Rain or Shine, even SNOW, we will be there! :)
No loud music, no bouncer, no lineup, no cover, no STRESS, just good'ole fun and likeminded people!
Bring friends, colleagues, your boss, your assistant, everyone in the Film/TV industry is welcome to come introduce themselves, chat, share war stories, talk shop and have a few drinks.
As usual, no cover to attend the event, it's FREE !
(But please don't forget to buy at least one item from the menu to show the café appreciation for giving us the space for free :) ).
And please remember, this place accepts CA$H ONLY ! No Credit or Debit cards. They have an ATM available though.
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As usual we will have a draw around 8:30PM to give away fantastic prizes from our awesome sponsors.
Our regular sponsor, Focal Press Books, will give away two filmmaking books.
For the beginning of 2015, our first super special sponsor of the year is the renowned torontonian video coop that's been supporting independent filmmakers for more than 30 years : CHARLES STREET VIDEO !
They're offering to the happy winner of our monthly draw a FREE one year membership ($150) and $350 in equipment rental!
PLUS, they're also offering a special 50% discount for all our members to become CSV members if you sign up in the two weeks after the event (so...until February the 14th). A special secret password will be revealed to you that night, to allow you to sign up with the discount!
Amazing, right ?
Hope to see you there !
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Zefred - The Film Mercenaries / Les Mercenaires du Cinéma
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Video Chuck
Thu 18 December 2014 7 - 10 pmOur annual Holiday Video Chuck is back. Come celebrate another year with CSV staff and members, oyster shucking and screenings. |
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Ed Barreveld
Thu 11 December 2014 7 - 10 pmEmmy Award winning producer Ed Barreveld candidly talks about the state of documentary in Canada and the challenges facing documentary filmmakers in the 21st century. |
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Prairie Tales 16 Screening
Mon 3 November 2014 7 - 9 pmPrairie Tales is a feature-length movie composed of short films and videos made by artists based in Alberta. A new edition of Prairie Tales comes out each year, curated by a jury that selects works out of dozens of new shorts submitted by Albertan film and video makers during the winter months.
http://amaas.ca/prairie-tales/prairie-tales-16-works/
Director Adam Bentley in attendance!
Book your seat here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prairie-tales-16-screening-tickets-13931023065
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Spooky Video Chuck
Wed 29 October 2014 7 - 10 pmThrough oyster shucking and screenings Video Chucks are a quarterly event hosted by CSV where we bring our community together, socialize, network, and highlight our members' work. If you would like to showcase your work at one of our upcoming Video Chucks please email: pam@charlesstreetvideo.com
Featuring the work of Melanie Chung & Behzad Sedghi
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Artist Talk: Creative Process
Thu 16 October 2014 7 - 9 pmJoin us on October 16th as a panel of CSV resident artists discuss creative process. Susan Blight, Jennifer Dysart, Gloria Kim, and Betty Xie will talk about their current projects, media art, and how they move from an idea or vision to a fully realized (and funded) project.
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Susan Blight:
Susan Blight is Anishinaabe from Couchiching First Nation. A visual artist, filmmaker, and arts educator, Susan’s films and video work have been screened nationally and internationally at such venues as Media City International Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, and the ImagineNative Festival. In addition, Susan has exhibited across North America, most notably at Gallery 44, The Print Studio, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Susan is co-founder of The Ogimaa Miikana Project, an artist/activist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads, streets, and landmarks of Toronto with Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) and in July 2013, she became the fourth member of the Indigenous Routes artist collective which works to provide new media training for indigenous youth. Susan Blight received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Integrated Media, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba. She is the host of Indigenous Waves radio show.
Jennifer Dysart:
Jennifer Dysart is a filmmaker who loves experimenting between the genres. Her most recent film, called Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood won one of three master's thesis prizes at York University and will be screened at ImagineNative Film and Media Festival in 2014. Her previous film called Moss Origins (2011) was an ImagineNATIVE and CSV commissioned short and dialogue-free narrative film that was purchased by RTP2 television in Portugal, screened at Fastnet Film Festival in Ireland, The Native Cinema Showcase at the Santa Fe Art Market 2012 and Asinabka Film Festival in Ottawa. Past films include Grip (2008), Hooked Up: NDNs Online 2007 (NFB First Stories) and I'll Sing To You (2006). Jennifer has an MFA in Film Production from York University in Toronto (2014). She is a seasoned production coordinator, field producer, and is now learning the trade of Assistant Directing.
Gloria Kim:
Born in Seoul, Korea, Gloria Ui Young Kim comes from a long line of media makers. With a degree in English Lit at U of T, she worked as a journalist at Maclean’s. She attended Ryerson: Image Arts and the 2008 Canadian Film Centre’s Director’s Lab. Her short film, ROCK GARDEN: A LOVE STORY, described by Atom Egoyan as “absolutely beautiful”, has won numerous prizes including the CBC Canadian Reflections Award. Her CBC film, THE AUCTION, premiered at the 2010 Sprockets TIFF, and wonBest Short Film, the Audience Choice Award: 2012 WIFT Short Film Showcase and Children’s Jury Prize: Seattle Film Festival for Children, and is now part of the John VanDuzer Film Collection at TIFF BellLightbox. Her other works have won numerousGolds, at the Bessies, the Marketing Awards, One Club; her OAC-commissioned work, Why Do I Dance… has had over 800,000 views on Youtube since April, 2012; she was in the 2009 TIFF Talent Lab; is a mentor for youth (Female Eye Film Festival , Reel Asian Film Festival, Hot Docs). She has recently directed the Ontario Arts Council’s 50th Anniversary film, Live, Love Art…which won Best Interview Film at PR Daily Video Awards. Her script, Debra and Mona won the 2013 Telefilm New Voices Award.
Betty Xie:
As an emerging filmmaker, Betty believes that extraordinary stories are embedded in the everyday life of ordinary people, and she is on a life-long search for extraordinary/ordinary narratives. Specifically, she is interested in themes of diaspora, migration and identity. Betty has written and directed the fiction short Girlfriends, which was screened at the 2013 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and 2014 Reel World Film Festival. Currently, she is directing and co-producing the documentary The Home Promised, the winning project from the 2013 "So You Think You Pitch Competition" (emerging category) at Reel Asian Film Festival.
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