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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 |
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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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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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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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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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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.
2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99 (2015) by TJ Cuthand
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New to the 2 Spirit lifestyle? `Want to talk to someone in the Spirit and the Flesh instead of reading The Spirit and the Flesh? We have just the service for you! Call now and for only 19.99 a month you can get instant unlimited telephone access to traditional knowledge and support. We also provide monthly gifts for subscribers, call now and we can hook you up with this beaded whisk! Perfect for DIY spankings and pancakes the morning after your first snag! Don't hesitate, ring those phones!
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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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