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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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Screening + Party
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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'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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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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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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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:
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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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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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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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