Thank you to all the artists who applied for our
Programming workshop we will be responding to applicants next
week.
Happy International Women’s Day March 8th!
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>> Call
for Spring Residency applications
>> Call
for participants – Information Poetics and Politics: The
Work of the Local in the Age of Globalization
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Women, Migrations, and Borders – International
womens day discussion with Zahra Kazemi
>>Call
for participants - Animation workshops at the NFB
>> REEL
Diversity film competition
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Spring 2004
Studio XX is re-opening its call for submissions
for its residency program. The possibility of making it a virtual
residency has been confirmed and the dates have been adjusted.
Deadline: March 16th, 2004
Residency Dates: Spring 2004
The Studio favors interdisciplinary approaches and
welcomes projects created by collectives composed of artists working
in collaboration with other professionals. This replies to the
growing number of transdisciplinary projects and their inherent
technological challenges and complexities.
Residencies do not include travel costs and perdiem, and the artist
is reponsible for her living arrangements while in Montreal. However,
in response to a growing demand by women artists working outside
of the Montreal region, and who also wish to explore the different
possibilities of on-line and/or networked collaborations, Studio
XX is open to experiment with the dynamics of a long-distance,
residence, i.e. 'virtual'.
For accepted proposals, Studio XX offers:
- $500 artist's fee
- 30 hours of technical support (value of $750)
- Access to the Studio's equipment (rental value of $2500)
- Possibility to participate in certain group workshops (value
of $200-$300)
- Distinct working space for the artist and her instructor
All submissions are reviewed by a selection committee.
Residencies are six weeks in length. Studio XX disseminates the
artist's project on its Web site, with an artist's presentation
given within its Femmes br@nchées Salon series in the year
following completion of the project. For remote participants,
the presentation takes place on-line via streaming or a chat.
Contact: programmation@studioxx.org + 514.845.7934
1. Artist's Name
2. Postal Address, Telephone, E-mail
3. URL
4. Project Description --- Virtual residence option ?
5. Letter of Intent
6. Technical Specifications
7. Artist's Biography
8. Curriculum vitae
9. Image (jpeg or gif)
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Call for Participation Summer Institute:
August 3-11/ 2004
Queen's University will host a summer institute to explore the
effects of new technologies on the production, exhibition and
distribution of artistic and new media work in the context of
globalization. We are particularly interested in the ways in which
corporate control is met by a range of localized practices, such
as basement music recording, or web movies and news. Our goal
is to bring together researchers from different fields (social
sciences, humanities, and the arts) with software developers,
and artists who work in digital media.
We are looking for proposals from interested artists, researchers
and software developers who would like to participate in this
meeting. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply.
Work in progress will be discussed and advanced through a series
of workshops, presentations, and lectures. Possible topics may
include (but are no limited to): pirate radio, basement recording,
nomadic media production, geographic digital landscapes, web information
and aesthetics, digital media policies and practices, censorship,
war reporting and information, inter-medial practices, corporate
policies, and other effects on digital media practices and policies
in the context of globalization.
Please send a one-page proposal, a short biographical
note, and one sample of previous work by April 1, 2004 to:
Organizing Committee
Information Poetics and Politics
Department of Film Studies
Queen's University
160 Stuart St.
Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
For more information please email: naamand@post.queensu.ca
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International Women’s Day 2004A Day of Discussion, Strategizing
and Song Dedicated to ZAHRA KAZEMI
Where: UQAM - Hubert Aquin, RM AM050
When: Saturday, March 6th , noon - 6:30
For the third year the 8th MARCH COORDINATION
& ACTION COMMITTEE OF WOMEN OF DIVERSE ORIGINS* will be celebrating
and commemorating International Women’s Day. The theme Women,
Migrations and Borders has been chosen to reflect the shared concerns,
interests and origins of the women and groups who have come together
for this event.
Heroines are central to this year’s theme. The event is
dedicated to the memory of Zahra Kazemi, the Montreal photo-journalist
who died on July 10, 2003 after being beaten while under interrogation
and arrest for having taken pictures of student-led protests outside
Evin prison in Tehran. A slide presentation of Kazemi’s
work will highlight the commitment she had for social justice,
especially regarding women’s conditions.
Five workshops will take place concurrently from 2:30 to 4:00
p.m. addressing the following themes: trafficking of women; women
fighting deportation; women as spoils of war - race, religion
and borders; sweatshops in Montreal; and alternative visions of
borders.
At 4:00 p.m. Montreal women’s choir Choeur Maha will lift
their voices in songs of solidarity and celebration of women and
SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Community Centre will perform
Remembering Gujarat.
The closing presentation, from 4:30 – 6:30, includes Elizabeth
Corrie, the cousin of Rachel Corrie, who was killed on March 16,
2003 by an Israeli bulldozer driver while protesting the demolition
of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip. Since Rachel's death,
Elizabeth has been active in education, lobbying and nonviolent
action to raise awareness about the injustice of Rachel's death
as well as the injustices of the Israeli Occupation in general.
The 8th MARCH COORDINATION & ACTION COMMITTEE OF WOMEN OF
DIVERSE ORIGINS* is made up of feminists born in other countries,
mainly in the southern hemisphere, or Canadian-born. Anti-war
and anti-imperialist, we have a continuing strong connection to
our countries of origin, and to issues of the Third World.
As we gather together to mark International Women’s Day
2004, we make visible the connections between the global political
and economic situation and local invisibilities and marginalization
issues that affect ourselves as women of diverse origins, as well
as our families and our communities. We are refugees, immigrants,
citizens, visible minorities, workers who contend with Migrations
and Borders. We invite you to join us on Saturday 6 March in solidarity
and common cause with women around the world, to explore, understand
and find ways to challenge and improve our lives and those of
our families and communities, locally and internationally.
On Sunday, March 7 everyone is invited at participate in ACTION
DU 8 MARS 2004
a march that starts at 13 :00 at Dominion Square (corner Peel
and René-Lévesque) and ends up in front of Premier
Charest’s office, where spokespeople from Collectif 8 mars
(FFQ, FTQ, CSN, Intersyndicale - CSQ, CSD, FIIQ, FNEEQ, SPGQ,
SFPQ, etc.) will denounce the losses women have suffered since
the Liberal Government came to power April 14, 2003
For more information or interviews please contact:
Julie or Tess at 342-2111
*Founding members: Immigrant Workers’ Centre, Association
des aides familiales, Groupe de travail contre la discrimination,
Comité de solidarité avec les femmes afghanes, Chinese
Family Services, Femmes sans Frontières, FIRE, Iranian
Women’s Association in Montreal, PINAY (Filipino Women’s
Association), SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Community Centre)
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Susan Gourley
and Pierre Landry
"O n M o v e m e n t"
Is movement a craft? A tool? A concept? A perception? Can it be
collaborative? Does it have a future?
Come and find out as Susan Gourley and Pierre Landry present their
thoughts on movement. Join the National Film Board of Canada as
it celebrates two of its most distinguished animation and cinematography
experts, Susan Gourley and Pierre Landry. Share in the filmmaking
lessons learned from their combined experience on several hundred
of the films that have passed through the NFB.In this two-hour
presentation, Gourley and Landry will explore several of the dozens
of facets of movement--and stillness--that transform film from
illustration to art. While the focus of the presentation is on
animation film, their insights and experiences touch on every
form of the cinematic arts.
Sue Gourley has been an imaging specialist
and technical advisor on at least 300 films in her career at the
NFB, including Léolo and Flux. Pierre Landry has been animation
cameraman for acclaimed filmmakers such as Ishu Patel, Craig Welch
and Don McWilliams in over 25 years of making still pictures come
to life.
Please reserve your place by
contacting Justyna Latek,
NFB Outreach, at 514-283-3936.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
11am to 1pm
ONF Montreal Theatre
Corner of St-Denis and de Maisonneuve
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NFB Seeks New
Filmmakers, New Ideas
With $1 Million REEL DIVERSITY Competition
Got an idea for a bold, distinctive documentary?
If you’re an emerging filmmaker
of colour and you’d like to direct your own documentary
at the world-famous National Film Board of Canada — then
enter the 2004 REEL DIVERSITY competition.
With a budget of $1 million, REEL DIVERSITY will offer five emerging
directors from visible minority groups the chance to direct their
own English-language, 40-minute NFB documentary, to be broadcast
nationally on CBC Newsworld.
“There are new voices out there, bypassing the cultural
mainstream, creating the works that are defining the Canada of
tomorrow. We want to tap into the enormous creative vitality of
our diverse communities,” says Tom Perlmutter, Director
General of the NFB’s English Program.
REEL DIVERSITY winners will be announced June 14, 2004, at the
Banff Television Festival. Competition winners will be Banff Television
Festival Fellows, allowing them to participate in this prestigious
event in the Canadian Rockies.
One winner will be selected from each of Canada’s five regions.
Winners will work on a contract basis at the NFB, with supportive,
experienced colleagues and mentors. The maximum budget per project
is $200,000, including all costs from research to delivery of
completed production.
The REEL DIVERSITY competition is a National Film Board of Canada
initiative in partnership with CBC and CBC Newsworld.
The NFB is Canada’s public film producer and distributor,
and a world-renowned film organization. Initiatives like REEL
DIVERSITY are vital to the NFB, which is committed to working
with new and talented filmmakers who reflect Canada’s diversity.
Does that sound like you? Then apply by March 31, 2004.
To apply for REEL DIVERSITY contact the NFB studio in your region.
For more information or an application form, visit www.nfb.ca/reeldiversity
or call 1-800-267-7710.
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