events

Share Tech - CSV Alexa 35 Demonstration!

Tue 20 February 2024 7 - 9 pm
Join 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!

Bubbles Galore Vs Parliament

Thu 18 May 2023 6 - 7 pm
S/x sells, but can it be government funded?

bringing to light what came from inside

Wed 19 April 2023 6 - 8 pm
Charles 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

Kim Ninkuru - Artist Talk

Wed 8 February 2023 7 - 9 pm
Join 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.

Tales from the Edit Suites

Thu 15 September 2022 5 - 8 pm
In 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

The Grand Hacker: Live Cinema Workshop

Wed 9 March 2022 7 - 8 pm
Join 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

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!

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. ********************* 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 ********************* 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).

Thirza Cuthand: Artist Talk and DIY Workshop

Thu 30 July 2020 6 - 7:30 pm
Video 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.

Thaumaturgy: 4 Elements

Fri 17 April 2020 4 - 5:30 am
Charles 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 • • • • • 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.

Dying to Learn

Fri 28 February 2020 7 - 10:30 pm
A Mad Students Panel is presented as event programming for Love My Dysfunctions — an immersive exhibition by Rebecca Sweets.

Arts Intersections

Fri 16 August 2019 6 - 9 pm
SOUND, 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.

WATER FALL ARTIST TALK

Thu 30 May 2019 6:20 - 8:20 pm
The 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.

WATER FALL: A CINEMATIC INSTALLATION PANEL #2

Thu 23 May 2019 6 - 8 pm
Annette 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.

WATER FALL: A CINEMATIC INSTALLATION PANEL #1

Thu 16 May 2019 6 - 8 pm
The 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.

Water Fall: A Cinematic Installation

Thu 9 May 2019 6 - 9 am
A primary exhibition for the 2019 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Presented in partnership with the John B. Aird Gallery and Charles Street Video

Ambisonics for Facebook and YouTube

Thu 26 July 2018 7 - 9 pm
Description 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!

Share Tech: 360 Cameras

Wed 27 June 2018 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Share 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.

Meeting + Artist Talk

Sound Hackers Meetup!

Wed 30 May 2018 7 - 9:30 pm
Turn ANYTHING into an Electronic Musical Instrument.

Meeting + Artist Talk

RE:COLLECTIONS

Sat 28 April 2018 10 am - 5 pm
How 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

Art Intersections: Digital Curation

Tue 6 February 2018 6:30 - 9 pm
The 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 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Art Intersections Meetup - November 21, 2017

Tue 21 November 2017 6:30 - 9 pm
In 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.

Share Tech Series

Wed 27 September 2017 6:30 - 9:30 pm
In part 4 of our Share Tech series we'll be focusing on lenses!

Art Intersection Meetup!

Tue 16 May 2017 6:30 - 9:30 pm
with Adrienne Crossman and Thirza Cuthand

Share Tech Series

Wed 3 May 2017 6 - 9 pm
In part 3 of our Share Tech series we will focus on various light and grip equipment available to rent at CSV.

Share Tech Series

Thu 6 April 2017 6 - 9 pm
Overview of the Ronan, Glidecam, Flow Line Steady Cam Support and the Cinegear Wireless Follow Focus

Storytelling with 360 Video

Thu 30 March 2017 6 - 9 pm
Special 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/

Art Intersections Meetup

Tue 14 March 2017 6:30 - 9:30 pm
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.

Share Tech Series

Wed 8 March 2017 6 - 9 pm
Comparing the Alexa Mini, RED, Canon C300 and Sony FS7 workflows and capabilities!

Delink

Sat 4 March 2017 7 - 10 pm
Charles Street Video is proud to partner with Bunker 2 in this new exciting media arts series called Delink.

Playformance

Thu 2 March 2017 6 - 9 pm
Playformance: get excited for wearables, motion capture, projection mapping, generative art and cultural intangibles. There will also be a projection mapping demo!

Important Legal Considerations for Producers

Thu 23 February 2017 6 - 9 pm
Ensure a smooth production and distribution process

Insurance for Filmmakers

Wed 15 February 2017 6 - 9 pm
Judi 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!

January Video Chuck Social with DMG

Sat 21 January 2017 6:30 - 9:30 am
Our first social of 2017! We’ll learn about immersive audio, and the artistic possibilities of glitches, mods and cheats!

Art Intersection MeetUp

Tue 17 January 2017 6 - 9 pm
A Partnership with CSV, Akimbo, Gamma Space and OCADU

Iftology

Wed 5 October 2016 6 - 9 pm
How 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!

360 Video Meetup - It's Free!

Wed 28 September 2016 7 - 9:30 pm
with Karen Vanderborght - Creative Director NFB

360-degree camera talk and demo

Thu 31 March 2016 7 - 10 pm
Two new 360 degree cameras are available to rent at CSV. Come to our demo and check them out!

Video Chuck: holiday fun at Bento Miso!

Wed 9 December 2015 7 - 10 pm
Video Chuck is a chance to bring our community together, socialize, network, and highlight our members’ work.

Video Chuck: FMV and Let's Play Screening

Thu 19 November 2015 7 - 10 pm
Video Chuck is a chance to bring our community together, socialize, network, and highlight our members’ work.

Media Arts Info night from the TAC

Wed 30 September 2015 6 - 8 pm
Hosted 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/

Artist Talk: Creative Process

Wed 22 April 2015 7:10 - 9:10 pm
Join 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.

Artist Talk: Creative Process

Wed 25 February 2015 7 - 9 pm
Join 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.

Ed Barreveld

Thu 11 December 2014 7 - 10 pm
Emmy Award winning producer Ed Barreveld candidly talks about the state of documentary in Canada and the challenges facing documentary filmmakers in the 21st century.

Vera Frenkel

Fri 14 November 2014 8 - 10 am
Vera Frenkel, CSV member and former Artist in Resident is having an opening reception at MOCCA!

CSV/RA Pitch Competition and Awards Ceremony

Sun 9 November 2014 2 - 3:30 pm
The 9th annual Pitch Competition goes live as finalists duel for incredible prize packages to finish their short films.

Prairie Tales 16 Screening

Mon 3 November 2014 7 - 9 pm
Prairie 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

Artist Talk: Creative Process

Thu 16 October 2014 7 - 9 pm
Join 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. Get your free tickets here! 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.