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Exhibitions & Festivals

Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre

Making Sense

August 23–30

10am-6pm weekdays, 12-5pm weekends

Free

FIVARS 2019

September 13–15

12-9pm

$30 til Aug. 12, then $40 ($50 at the door)

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Events & Workshops

BUMP Television

BUMP TV Fund Run Spectacular

2019-08-25T13:00:00.000-04:00 2019-08-25T19:00:00.000-04:00 **CALL IN OR JOIN THE LIVE AUDIENCE AT BUMP TV'S FIRST EVER TELETHON** 3 teams of Toronto art-world Mega Celebrities compete in an elite green screen marathon, LIVE LIVE LIVE on BUMP TV DONATE to BUMP and give your favourite runner a boost, like, say a glass of water ($1), or words of affirmation ($2), or a cheetah (paper mâché) piggyback ($50), and watch them ADVANCE in the race!!! we will be TAKING YOUR CALLS at 416 480 2677 on the RED TEAM: Brandon Ash-Mohammed Mohammad Rezaei Jon Pham McCurley on the BLUE TEAM: TEABASE!! * Hannia Cheng - the low ban * Chris - the executive intern * Ollie - the archivist on the YELLOW TEAM: * Dusty Le E * Dorothea Paas * Zakiyya Thurston featuring APPEARANCES from: * XPACE Cultural Centre - Philip Leonard Ocampo, Natalie King, Emily Gove * Max Mohenu * Just Eggs TV * Marisa Rosa Grant * DJ NOMAD NALA * and more more MORE BROADCASTING LIVE LIVE LIVE FROM THE Toronto Media Arts Centre SUNDAY AUGUST 25 FROM 1PM - 7PM :) FREE ENTRY :) CALL CALL CALL 416 480 2677 THE LINES WILL bE OpEn https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1565643063-6854650313617132406475047556760104205287424o.jpg CONFIRMED
August 25, 1:00 PM
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON
Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre + SKETCH Working Arts

Making Sense Opening Reception

2019-08-22T18:00:00.000-04:00 2019-08-22T21:00:00.000-04:00 Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) and SKETCH Working Arts wish to invite you to our opening of an exhibition of experimental works focused on game design, VR, and video works integrating media arts! This exhibition is thematically underscored by the idea that artists know by doing and feeling, learn by doing, and attempting to make sense of their senses. The works for this exhibition were made during a 10 week intensive and exploratory workshop series focusing on digital sensors, glitch art, mxp, VR and creating with DIY materials. Join us for our opening on August 22nd, 6pm ~ FREE refreshments and food are provided! ### Featured Artists * Alice Chen * Annemarie Silano * Sara Prisma Williston * Zoe Bu * Lucia Linares * Selina McCallum https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1565642665-6783097623702253098854784163805969807048704o.jpg CONFIRMED
August 22, 6:00 PM
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON
Dames Making Games + ImagineNATIVE

On-Screen Protocols & Pathways

2019-09-07T09:00:00.000-04:00 2019-09-07T16:00:00.000-04:00 In the Spring of 2019, imagineNATIVE launched On-Screen Protocols and Pathways: A Media Production Guide to Working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities, Cultures, Concepts and Stories. The Guide is for screen storytellers and production companies wishing to feature First Nations, Métis or Inuit people, content or concepts (traditional or contemporary cultures, knowledge or intellectual property) in their films, television programs and digital media content. This all-day workshop has been specially designed to help companies in the digital and interactive field utilize the Guide in a meaningful way. Learn with imagineNATIVE staff why Indigenous protocols are vitally important, and how the incorporation of the protocols can lead your company to greater creative and artistic heights. All participants will receive a print copy of the guide to take home. Those who register before Friday, August 23rd will receive a complimentary Industry pass to the 20th anniversary imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Oct. 21-27, 2019). **Schedule** * 9am – Coffee and Breakfast/Registration Opens * 9:30am – Indigenous Representation in Games * 10am – Using the Guide Lecture * 11am – Workshop: Developing Your Protocols * 1pm – Lunch * 2pm – Workshop: Case Studies * 4pm – Final Thoughts and Questions https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1564080653-pathways-and-protocols-768x320.jpg CONFIRMED
September 7, 9:00 AM
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON
Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre + FADO Performance Art

International Visiting Artists: Liina Kuittinen (Finland)

2019-09-20T19:30:00.000-04:00 2019-09-20T23:00:00.000-04:00 *I am on my four. I am next to the ground. I see the surface from very close distance, the small particles and the space between them. I have to move my whole body closer to the object if I want to see it more clearly. I can not take the object in my hand and bring it closer to my eye. As an artist I am on my four and my hands are not swinging freely.* *I am eating ice-cream while writing this text. I am eating ice-cream for real, not just writing about it. I am eating it and it gives me great pleasure. Ice-cream goes through my digestion and my body knows how to turn the sugar into energy and to use the proteins and to get rid of the leftovers. Digestion is process that involves the body with other processes, one point in the circle of matter. Performance operates on the same plain with digestion. Performance and process of digesting are equally real. They are meeting points for material flows, actual events transforming material into other.* A new performance by Liina Kuittinen will be presented. ### ABOUT VIVA! ART ACTION www.vivamontreal.org _Image credit: Helene. Liina Kuittinen. 2018. Photo by Peter Rosvik._ https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1562628308-liina-kuittinen.jpg CONFIRMED
September 20, 7:30 PM
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON
Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre + FADO Performance Art

Liina Kuittinen & Marita Bullmann

2019-09-21T13:00:00.000-04:00 2019-09-21T15:00:00.000-04:00 Artists: Marita Bullmann, Liina Kuittinen FADO is pleased to welcome Liina Kuittinen (Finland) and Marita Bullman (Germany) to the International Visiting Artists series. This series seeks to bring exceptional artists from the global performance art scene to Toronto, to present a new work (September 20) and give an artist talk (September 21) about their own practices and the contemporary performance art ecologies of their home cities/countries. Liina Kuittinen and Marita Bullman's appearance in Toronto is in collaboration with VIVA! Art Action, one of FADO's enduring partners. FADO and VIVA! have partnered several times (2013: Tomasz Szrama / Poland, Macarena Perich Rosas / Chile; 2015: Victoria Gray / UK, Dorothea Rust / Switzerland) over the years to share the presentation of international artists to both platforms in order to bring exceptional artists and their work to audiences in both cities; in addition to giving visiting artists the unique opportunity of engaging with performance communities in both Toronto and Montreal. _Image credit: untitled (another small matter). Marita Bullman. 2017. Photo by Rebekah Dahlia._ https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1562627890-marita-bullmantalks-pic.jpg CONFIRMED
September 21, 1:00 PM
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON
Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre + FADO Performance Art

International Visiting Artists: Marita Bullmann (Germany)

2019-09-20T19:30:00.000-04:00 2019-09-20T23:00:00.000-04:00 Marita Bullmann's works are engagements with everyday objects: familiar materials, actions, spaces and places. In her performances, she seeks a direct encounter between body and space. Her working method can be understood as a temporally ephemeral, site- and situation-specific process. With her actions she creates her own realities and scenarios, which strengthen the awareness for object, material, body and space. Visual, temporal, haptic or acoustic elements determine the effect and perception of her performance. The way she creates abstract interpretations allows us to perceive and observe the things around us in a new way. The interpretation takes place through experience. The objects and materials she uses are by no means neutral, but connect with our sensual and emotional world of experience. Bullmann's intention is to influence the usual mechanisms of seeing and perceiving far away from cultural imprints and to create a new 'space' that lets us become aware of the act of seeing. She combines the constructed experiences with a search for images and actions that make the phenomena of curiosity and peculiarity visible. ### ABOUT VIVA! ART ACTION www.vivamontreal.org _Image Credit: untitled. Marita Bullmann. Photo by Svetlana Lopato._ https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1562627403-marita-bullmann.jpg CONFIRMED
September 20, 7:30 PM
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON
BoardAgain Games

Queers & More Queers Game Night

2019-09-03T18:00:00.000-04:00 2019-09-03T21:00:00.000-04:00 A bi-monthly game night that welcomes trans, non-binary, femmes, women and any queer-identified folk. https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1552340487-5319236422273006641767504856804350380474368o.jpg CONFIRMED
September 3, 6:00 PM
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON
Gamma Space Collaborative Studio + Our Networks

RE: Infrastructures

2019-09-20T10:00:00.000-04:00 2019-09-22T18:00:00.000-04:00 Our Networks 2019 explores the collective care and maintenance of alternative networking practices—new protocols, peer-to-peer connections, offline-first computing, or community-based governance and ownership. Building on last year, where we asked how to move beyond solitary practices of do it yourself (DIY), in 2019 we explore what critical and creative practices offer RE: Infrastructures of alternatives. How can these emerging Infrastructures of Reproduction provide spaces to imagine radically different futures, resist easy co-option by the forces of late-stage capitalism, and work in solidarity as plural networks seeking emancipatory change? To answer this we draw on insights from organizers, technologists, artists, and scholars to ensure the focus is not only on the technical aspects of infrastructure, but also the social and cultural. Their diverse perspectives suggest ways we can make space for livelihoods, solidarity, and survival; draw on history and place to bring our fullest imaginations to this moment; and open ways to think these questions together as we build transitional forms. https://www.datocms-assets.com/5128/1531104908-2018-07-0822-54-43.png CONFIRMED
September 20–22
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar Street
Toronto
ON

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