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ANDPVA MEMBERS
ANDPVA Facebook Page
For all of you Facebook-ers out there!!
ANDPVA now has its own Facebook page and we’d like you to check it out for ANDPVA postings about our events and other events as we happen upon them.
Also, please post your own events if they are pertinent to Indigenous arts here in Canada!!
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Come visit us at 601 Christie Street-Studio 171!!!
(2 Blocks south of Christie and St Clair)
Stop by and say hello!
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NEWSLETTER LINKS
For more information on ANDPVA events, feel free to give us a call 416.535.4567 ext 104
The RED Revue takes place on the fourth Friday of every month. Feel free to stage a new work, a work in progress or old standards.
The point is to experiment, to have fun and to test your stuff on a new audience.
Lets all come together and share in this great imagining, called Indigenous arts. Come and keep dancing our revolution.
Entry by donation at the door
This Months RED Revue features: Plex and Wabs Whitebird
Venue: TBA
To sign up for the Open Arts portion of the night contact:
David DeLeary
416.535.4567 ext 105
andpvaoutreach@gmail.com
Check our website for updates: www.andpva.com
Indigenous Arts Market
COME VISIT OUR OFFICE
EVERY saturday morning from 8:00am-12pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Suite 171
Toronto, Ontario
Indigenous artists are invited to sell their work in andpva's office space at the Wychwood Barns
Saturday Market. FREE to Members!!!!!! Space is Limited!!!
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Workshops & Groups
Any artist can use andpva's space to give a workshop. Please provide us with examples of your work,
a statement about the workshop and price list. Keep checking your email and Facebook for future workshops!
Groups
Our members can pitch starting an arts groups and gain access to our space for meetings. Anyone can
participate in the arts group.
ANDPVA Community Sing-Along !!!
Starting- Tuesday, April 5th, 7-9pm. Ongoing EVERY Tuesday night!
Beginning on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 ANDPVA’s Community Outreach Coordinator (and guitarist) David DeLeary will be leading a Community Sing-Along at our office at the Artscape Wychwood Barns on Christie St. in Toronto.
This will be a fun event for all skill levels and is an opportunity for people to come out and sing popular songs (non-traditional) in a no-pressure and fun environment. Lead by veteran musician David DeLeary, participants can bring songs to sing and share with the group and you don’t have to be a musician to do so!!
Just bring a CD and typed lyrics (double-spaced) and David will learn the song so that you and the group participants can sing to it. If you do play an instrument, you are welcome to bring it and play along!!
Here’s the details:
ANDPVA Community Sing-Along
Tuesday Evenings: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
ANDPVA Office, 601 Christie St, Suite 171 (S. of St. Clair)
FREE!!
Contact:
David DeLeary
Community Outreach Coordinator
(416) 535 – 4567 ex: 105
andpvaoutreach@gmail.com
Guitar Lessons
Poster Design by: Hiro Chavez
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FOR MEMBERS
Dear Community Member,
Please consider renewing or becoming a member of andpva
The Association for Native Development inthe Performing and Visual Arts.
Purchasing your membership with ANDPVA will ensure that we provide you with the following services and resources:
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Ability to vote at ANDPVA Annual General Meeting
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Use of ANDPVA office facilities i.e.. Computer, internet, fax & copier
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E-Newsletter
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Website Listing on our Online Directory & Artist links
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Event postings, promo and marketing of artists works
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Calls for Submissions
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Invites to all ANDPVA events
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Ability to rent our in house Film Editing Suite & Camera Kit
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Admittance to Masters Classes, Workshop discounts, special rates
Membership Categories:
INDIVIDUAL MEMBER - $30 (voting)
FAMILY MEMBER - $35 (voting)
SUPPORTING MEMBER - $80 (voting)
ORGANIZATIONAL - $100 (voting)
Video Production Gear Daily Rental List
ANDPVA has high quality equipment for our members to use on a rental basis.
Camera, Video, Lighting, microphone, tripod kits, projectors and much more!!!
Please call for weekly, organizational rental prices or an equipment list
Community Events
Kiss Dust Pictures Inc. with the participation of Telefilm Canada presents:
Two Indians Talking
a humorous First Nations drama leading to a roadblock near you
a film by Sara McIntyre
Vancouver BC – “Two Indians Talking” is a humorous, uncensored conversation between two First Nation men who are about to take part in their community’s roadblock. Each man wants fiercely to do the right thing, but struggles with the question, “When you do something for the right reasons, does that make it the right thing to do?”
ADAM (Justin Rain) is a university-educated Native of the Seventh Generation, raised to believe that knowledge is the Indian’s best tool for survival. NATHAN (Nathaniel Arcand) is a high-school dropout whose dreams have been consistently crushed in his endurance of the past 20 years.
On the eve of their nation’s roadblock, the cousins prepare for the impending battle in a community centre that they paint with heartfelt conversation and humorous debate about life, culture, identity, women, literature, dreams, politics, education, poverty, and about hope for the future – if any.
- Directed by Sara McIntyre, a woman from Vancouver, BC
- Starring an all-First Nations cast: Nathaniel Arcand, Justin Rain, Carmen Moore, Denyc, Sam Bob, and Ashley Harry
- One of the least-explored film genres: the First Nations comedy
“The issues that we deal with are universal to Aboriginals: poor reserves and how living there affects Natives psychologically,” says Sto:lo/Ojibway writer Andrew Genaille.
Upcoming film festival screenings:
American Indian Heritage Week, Coeur d’Alene, ID
Wed, April 6, 3:00 pm & 6:00 pm
@ Molstead Library Todd Lecture Hall, North Idaho College
ReelWorld Film Festival, Toronto ON
Fri, April 8th, 7:00 pm / Sun, April 10th, 12:00 pm
@ Cineplex Canada Square
* Director Sara McIntyre will be in attendance
For more information on Screenings, interviews etc please visit: www.twoindianstalking.com
No One is Illegal. Toronto and R3 Collective present:
Spring up Spring Out
Kinnie Starr in Concert with guests amai Kuda, Lena Recollet, MaatDanze & Dj Nik red
This event is being held in support of the Turtle Island and African Reparations Funds and No One Is Illegal.
For More information visit:
toronto.nooneisillegal.org
www.r3artists.com
Southern Ontario Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (SOADI) ![soadi_logo_v2[1].png](https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=3f2e8e06a2&view=att&th=12efd492e10e4fee&attid=0.0.1&disp=emb&zw)
SOADI is a non profit organization dedicated to diabetes awareness and prevention. Through wholistic, culturally based programs SOADI’s goal is to prevent type 2 diabetes and its complications. SOADI provides workshops, presentations, displays, resources and more centred around wellness. SOADI also has a foot care program that includes foot care subsidies, an Education program that offers cultural workshops and front line worker training and a Youth Program, Reztore Pride. Please visit our website for further details www.soadi.ca
Or contact Amanda Lipinski for the Toronto Region 416-203-0133 toronto@soadi.ca
Check SOADI's website for events and information!
SHIFT: dialogues of migration in contemporary art
A three-day creative symposium
April 8-10, 2011, Regina, SK
Organized by the Strandline Curatorial Collective and the MacKenzie Art Gallery
Location: MacKenzie Art Gallery
3475 Albert Street, Regina, Saskatchewan
www.shiftsymposium.ca
Feature Artist: Jayce Salloum
Keynote Speaker: Esther Shalev-Gerz
Keynote Performer: Eekwol
Day 1: Finding New Directions—Participatory Practices, Galleries and Groups
Day 2: Creating Common Ground—Cultural Translation, Trust and Language Crossings
Day 3:Positioning—Local and Global Narratives, Storytelling and Making Connections
SHIFT: dialogues of migration in contemporary art investigates creative responses by artists and galleries to the shifting geographies created by indigenous and non-indigenous movements of people and ideas. Reflecting on current debates about mobility, migration, placements and displacements in contemporary art and institutions, this three-day event provides a platform to discuss progress and issues in this field. Artists, curators, theorists, storytellers, musicians, educators, writers and the audience are invited to question and rethink the role of contemporary art in its transformative function.
While the first day draws on notable arts professionals and artists who have foregrounded and validated participation and engagement with diverse communities, the second day focuses on new artist practices with talks and performances on cultural translation. The third day will be devoted to storytelling and narrative, mobility, connectivity and collaboration with communities. Theories and best practices come hand-in-hand to provide a significant and radical overview of the subject. Prior to and during the symposium, a series of events will also take place across the city, including artist talks, exhibition openings, art performances and film screenings.
On Friday April 8th, the symposium will begin with a feature presentation entitled subjective affinities: concretizing the ephemeral - a social convergence by Feature Artist Jayce Salloum (Vancouver). On Saturday April 9th, Keynote Speaker Esther Shalev-Gerz (Paris) will present Trust and the Unfolding Dialogue, followed by a Keynote Performance Revitalizing and Redesigning the Word Warrior's Weapons by Cree hip hop emcee Eekwol (Saskatoon).
Featuring presentations and performances by: Brendan Fernandes, (Artist, New York); Janna Graham (Projects Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK); 2Fik (Artist, Montreal); Syrus Marcus Ware (Program Coordinator, Teens Behind the Scenes program, AGO, Toronto); Terrance Houle (Artist, Calgary); Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Artist, Toronto); Peter Morin (Artist, Victoria); Rachelle Viader Knowles (Artist, Regina); and Shelly Bahl (Artist, founding member of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) and ZEN-MIX 2000: Pan-Asian Visual Arts Network, New York); Judy Anderson (Artist, Regina); Deanna Bowen (Artist, Toronto); Barbara Meneley (Artist, Regina); Soheila Esfahani (Artist, Waterloo); Michelle LaVallee (Artist & Assistant Curator, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina); Neal McLeod (Art Historian and artist, Trent University, Peterborough); Srimoyee Mitra (Artist. Toronto); Michele Sereda (Artist, Regina); Charles C. Smith (Poet, playwright, and essayist, Toronto); Wendy Winter (Gallery Educator, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina); and Ashok Mathur (Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops). More info: http://www.shiftsymposium.ca/
presenters.html
SHIFT: dialogues of migration in contemporary art is curated by Elizabeth Matheson and Loretta Paoli with film and video screenings curated by Wanda Nanibush and Aleyna May Morin. Performance artist Adrian Stimson will be the Master of Ceremonies.
Download the symposium schedule at: http://www.shiftsymposium.ca/conference
<http://www.shiftsymposium.ca/conference>
The MacKenzie Art Gallery and Strandline Curatorial Collective gratefully acknowledge the project support and contributions of Sâkêwêwak Artists' Collective, Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Common Weal Community Arts, Queer City Cinema, University of Regina Dept. of Visual Art and Regina Open Door Society.
SHIFT is made possible through funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the City of Regina Arts Advisory Committee, and the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan through SaskLotteries.
Registration fees:
Full Three-Day Symposium: $90/$70 for students, seniors & under-employed
Single-day Registration (April 8, 9 or 10): $40
Register online at www.shiftsymposium.ca <http://www.shiftsymposium.ca> or by calling 306.584.4292
Information: strandlinecc@gmail.com
ANDPVA presents:
N-nsidiswaamdis: I Recognize Myself
curated by Crystal Migwans
Organized and circulated by the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation
April 2, 2011 - April 26, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 7 pm - 9 pm
@ Gladstone Hotel, 3rd and 4th Floor Galleries
"This exhibition brings together the work of self-portraiture by artists from across the Anishinaabeg Nation. The works describe how Anishinaabe identity is forged, guarded and carried on by our Nation 's artists, and they demonstrate how the self-portrait in this context can become a potent statement of resilience; a reclaiming of agency of representation.
The title of this show is "N-nisidwaamdis: I Recognize Myself," a title which implies that there is a "someone" for whom this moment of recognition happens. In its [original] venue here in the gallery of the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, on M'Chigeeng First Nations on Manitoulin Island, this exhbibition is addressed firstly to the eyes of our Anishinaabeg community here on Manitoulin. It is their viewership that the greatest part of the exhibition occurs. For from that perspective, we gaze upon the artworks before us, and the artists of the wider Anishinaabeg Nation gaze back. And we recognize ourselves."
- Crystal Migwans. Curator, from the catalogue "N-nisidwaamdis: I Recognize Myself"
Artists include Daphne Odjig, Arthur Shilling, Travis Shilling, Bewabon Shilling, Nadia Myre, Barry Ace and KC Adams.
Crystal Migwans is Curatorial Research Assistant at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, where she organizes shows of Anishinaabe art, designs museum exhibitions, and assists with the research and design of the OCF’s cultural and educational materials. She has a background in New Media Art and sculpture, and is a graduate of the Intermedia/Cyberarts program at Concordia University. Crystal is an Anishinaabekwe of Wikwemikong First Nation.
Jumping Moose
Venue: Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George Street (University of Torontocampus)
Performance Run: May 12-15, 2011
Thursday, May 12th at 1:00 PMmatinee and 8:00 PM (Opening Night)
Friday, May 13th at 1:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 14th at 2 PM matinee and 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 15th at 2:30 PMmatinee
Below is a brief synopsis of the play"Jumping Mouse".
Synopsis :
In this adaptation of a traditional story, young Curious Mouse and her best friend Companion Mouse set off to follow their dreams on a brave adventure to the Sacred Mountains. Along the way, they meet a host of lively characters, and discover the true meaning of courage and friendship. Jumping Mouse was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Theatre for Young Audiences Outstanding Production in 1998. CIT's production features original songs and music by Marion de Vries and Columpa Bobb, Musical Direction by Alejandra Nunez and Choreography by Troy Emery Twigg and Amanda Chaboyer.
A poster of the show will be distributed sometime around mid-April. But for now, we are just in the process of getting the word out into the community about the matinee shows which are being directed specifically for school-age audiences. Thank youonce again for helping to promote our wonderful new show. If you have any questions and/or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact myself, Rose Stella or Brian Norton.
Professional Development
These workshops are presented by Miziwe Biik Development Corp and the Thunderbird Arts, Culture and Entrepreneur Centre with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council.
DAY ONE - Thursday, March 31, 2011
Workshop 1 = Finding a Mentor that Works for YOU
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Workshop 2 = Home Office Survival
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
DAY TWO - Thursday, April 7, 2011
Workshop 1 = National & International Connections
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Workshop 2 = Social Networking & Online Marketing
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
167 Gerrard St East - Lower Level Meeting Room
RSVP: L. Whitecrow at - marketing@miziwebiik.com
WHMIS TRAINING
Will be held on April 6th, 2011 from
9 am to 12 pm
at Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment & Training
167 Gerrard St. East
WHMIS Certificate will be awarded upon completion of the Training Session
To Register Please call Karine at
416-591-2310 ext. 2270
Tokens will be provided
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EMPLOYMENT
Check out this link for a list of opportunities:
http://www.miziwebiik.com/
Employment Partnership Coordinator -Contract:
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement a strategy for placing Aboriginal clients with employers in the GTA;
• Develop employer leads through cold calls, direct mail, personal contacts and networking;
• Develop incentives and strategies to encourage employers to hire Aboriginal people, such as the wage subsidy program, job shadowing, job placements, on the job training, volunteering, creation of subsidized training positions;
• Marketing, preparing ads for print media, radio and television;
• Participate in Project Department and Employment Department work planning, case management process and job matching for available job postings;
• Participate as Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment and Training’s representative on external committee’s relevant to position;
• Prepare written statistical and activity reporting as requested
Competencies Required:
• Minimum of two years experience in partnerships;
• Excellent marketing and negotiating skills;
• Must be a team player and self motivated;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
• Must have high proficiency computer skills with specific software applications such as data base, word, and power point;
• Strong leadership, assertiveness and self motivation skills;
Please submit your application with resume, cover letter and three references with contact information to the attention of:
Nancy Martin, Executive Director
167 Gerrard Street East
Toronto, ON M5A 2E4
FAX: 416-591-0114
DEADLINE: April 1st, 2011 4 p.m.
We thank all applicant’s, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted
Recruitment Information Session
Friday, April 8 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
@ Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment & Training
To register and/or more information please contact
Gabe Ermatinger 416-640-4686
Email: Gabe@miziwebiik.com
Cheifs of Ontario
Postition: Executive Assistant
Education/Experience:
Degree, diploma or certificate in secretarial, public administration or relevant field with a minimum of 5
years experience in senior level executive assistance.
Experience working with First Nations or organizations is essential.
Consideration will be given if the above ideal requirements are not met but applicants must clearly
possess a combination of education and experience to fulfill the requirements of the position.
Licenses:
Possession of a valid Ontario motor vehicle operator’s license and willing to use personal vehicle in the
course of employment as required.
SALARY: Negotiated based on experience & education
CLOSING DATE: Friday, April 15, 2011 by 5:00 p.m.
(Must be received by this date. Late applications will not be considered.)
SEND PACKAGE MARKED CONFIDENTIAL TO THE ATTENTION OF:
Lori Jacobs
Executive Director
Chiefs of Ontario
Suite 804, 111 Peter Street
Toronto, ON M5V 2H1
FAX: (416) 597-8365
EMAIL: opportunities@coo.org
Package requirements to include cover letter demonstrating clearly how applicant meets the
requirements of the position and current CV.
For copy of complete job description, please contact Dianne Simon at dianne@coo.org.
The Chiefs of Ontario would like to thank all those that apply but only those granted interviews will be
contacted.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Artists we need your help!!
ANDPVA, The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts will be presenting its first annual fundraising event called, The RED Masquerade and Silent Auction. This exciting event will take place April 15th through to the 17th. The Silent Auction will open on April 15th in the Gladstone Hotel 2nd floor gallery. Visitors can bid until Sunday April 17 when we close with our grand event, The RED Masquerade, in the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom. It will be a weekend filled with live music, dancing, and a silent auction.
This event will not only raise much-needed funds for our organization, but will allow us to promote and support our local and regional artists as well. We expect that many art lovers, community and andpva members will be in attendance for this exciting event! Any donations received will be greatly appreciated. All artists who donate to this event will receive a charitable tax receipt and sent a personalized invitation to The Red Masquerade.
ANDPVA is Canada's oldest Indigenous arts service organization, located in Toronto. We support Indigenous artists/creators and producers that are working in any discipline through networking, promotion, workshops, training, and partnerships. We also work for increased access to the arts sector for artists through policy development and advocacy. The knowledge of Indigenous arts and artists are increased by our publications, arts resource library, Indigenous Arts Network online, and ongoing research.
We currently have a collection of over 25 works of art that we will be auctioning and we are currently seeking new submissions! Local and regional work will be profiled and available for sale by a silent bidding process from April 15th -17th and we will be announcing the winners during the RED Masquerade on the evening of the 17th. Original works of art from established and new artists will be for sale, including: David Morrisseau, Don Chase, Michael Barber, R Mark Bruder, Mark Anthony Jacobson and many more!
We will also be featuring live music by Indigenous artists and other exciting surprises! The RED Masquerade will be playing on the themes of mystery, romance and transformation throughout. So bring your mask, your dancing shoes and get ready for an incredible time!
We ask that artists submit by email a jpeg of the artwork, a description of the work, and a short bio. Artists are encouraged to submit multiple works in any discipline. executive.andpva@gmail.com All works of art can also be sent or delivered to the address below.
Submitting artwork to andpva for The RED Masquerade is an excellent opportunity to promote your work in front of everyone in attendance and for people who like art, collect art, and support the arts.
For any further information, questions, concerns or to submit, please contact me by phone or email.
Thank you for your support.
Miigwech,
ANDPVA Staff
ANDPVA
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street Studio #171
416.535.4567 ext. 104
executive.andpva@gmail.com
www.andpva.com
James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing Award
Each year, the award program recognizes up to six Aboriginal youth for their creative writing talent, Creative writing pieces may include, but are not limited to , short stories, poems, essays, plays or songs. Submissions must be original work created by the student. All submissions will be judged by an independent selection committtee. Recipients will receive a cash award of $2, 500 each.
Submissions forms and more information are available on the Ontario Honours and Awards Secretariaat website at www.ontario.ca/bartleman, or by phone at 416 314 7526, toll free 1 877 832 8622
Nomination deadline is May 31, 2011
Canadian Aboriginal Arts Challenge
Ready for the Arts Challenge?
After six years of the Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge, The Historica-Dominion Institute
is thrilled to announce that this year we’re expanding to become the Canadian Aboriginal Writing
and Arts Challenge. Writing isn’t the only way to tell your story. Enter the Arts Challenge today. Are
you an Aboriginal Canadian between the ages of 14-29? Showcase your talent and creativity, and
have your work reviewed by the foremost Aboriginal artists! You could win cash prizes and even
have your work exhibited in a gallery!
Don’t forget, the deadline for the Challenge is March 31, 2011.
http://www.our-story.ca/ac
Call for Open Arts Performers!!!!!!
The Open Mic at the monthly RED Revue is open to Indigenous artists from all disciplines and is a regular
feature of ANDPVA's monthly event.
Poets, writers, musicians, choreographers, and filmmakers are encouraged to briefly present their work on ANDPVA's
Open Stage (please limit material to between 10 - 15 minutes of running time in total).
Here's the Details:
What: Plex and Wabs Whitebird
When: April 22, 2011, Doors open at 8:00 pm
Where: TBA
- Please note that this event is 19+
Please contact David DeLeary
416-535-4567 ext 105
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Attention Artists, Craftspeople and Designer/Makers
Weekend Exhibition Opportunities — Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011
Artscape is currently accepting submissions from visual artists, craftspeople and designer/makers who wish to participate in the Barns Art Market, taking place May 28 – October 15, 2011 at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. The submission deadline is April 15, 2011. The Call for Submissions and Application Form are available at www.barnsartmarket.ca.
The Barns Art Market will feature 25 exhibitors once a month over the course of six months. Artists, craftspeople and designer/makers have the opportunity to utilize a 10’ x 10’ booth space for which they need to supply their own booth structure. Participants in the Barns Art Market will be selected by a professional jury, with consideration to diversity of medium and quality of work being sold. Artists are welcome to participate in a maximum of three art markets.
Artscape has transformed the historic Wychwood TTC streetcar repair barns located in Toronto’s St. Clair and Christie neighbourhood into the Artscape Wychwood Barns – a 60,000 sq. ft. multifaceted community centre where arts and culture, environmental leadership, heritage preservation, urban agriculture and affordable housing are brought together to foster a strong sense of community. The Barns Art Market will coincide with The Stop's Farmers’ Market, which attracts hundreds of people to the area every Saturday.
21st Montreal First Peoples’ Festival 2011
Montreal Native Film & Video Showcase
Entry Deadline is Thursday the 11th of April, 2011
Call for Submissions
The 21st Montreal First Peoples Festival is calling on you to submit your audiovisual works for this years showcase, taking place August 2 to 9.
As always, the showcase features works by native directors and films by non-native directors about aboriginal topics.
Complete details can be found on our submission form, now on-line:
www.nativelynx.qc.ca
Ask Arty
If you have an arts question that needs to be answered, send it to executive.andpva@gmail.com
Question? How can I protect my videos and films if I'm an individual artist? How can I distribute my work safely?
Question answered by www.Vtape.org
Vtape is an international distribution, exhibition and resource centre with an emphasis on the contemporary media arts. As a centre for over 900 artists artists, V tape carries over 5,000 titles. V tape's in-office facilities include several study carrels for viewing and an extensive library of print materials available to the general public as well as to students, curators and researchers.
Answer:
Try to work with a distributor - they do a lot in terms of getting your work out to simultaneous festival dates, educators and programmers and protect it from unauthorized screenings or copying at the same time. If it is at all possible, watermark your preview dvd copies.
When entering festivals - I advise artists to compose and send an email to festivals they are interested in, with - an intro including brief bio, followed by title, year, running time and synopsis or tape description. Include a strong image (electronic still) in the body of the email - make sure it's not too large. Ask if the festival is interested in receiving a preview and if they will waive the entry fee (many international festivals, ie: anything outside of Canada are seeking international entries and will waive the fee).
Read the submissions guidelines very carefully. Currently festivals are attempting to work in all kinds of additional rights, including keeping submaster/exhibition copies (never, never agree to this!) and permission to tour and/or stream on-line.
In the case of promotion - short clips should only be used.
Avoid streaming requests and webcasts unless you have made the work expressly for this purpose (ie: a commissioned work) and you have exhausted all other screening possibilities. Streaming on-line immediately disqualifies your title for other festivals and broadcast.
You can load your titles to VIMEO - a great site where you can password protect your files and still allow on-line preview for festivals or programmers. The quality is great and you have much more control than Youtube offers.
Featured Artist
Stevie Salas
guitar/vocals
www.steviesalas.com
He was hand-picked by George Clinton as the guitarist for Clinton's albums. He's skipped cities in a private jet with Rod Stewart, playing sold out stadiums. He signed the largest deal Island Records has ever forked over a new artist. His second solo record album ousted the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith for "Best Album" in Japan. Most books name him as one of the Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. Mick Jagger tapped him to be his guitarist....
Stevie has sold over two million solo albums around the world.
As a guitar player , writer , producer Stevie has also worked with Bootsy Collins , Bill Laswell , Public Enemy , Michael Huthchence ( INXS) , Terrence Trent D’arby , Koshi Inaba and Tak Matsamoto ( BZ Japan) , Ronald Shannon Jackson, Was ( Not Was), Jeff Healy, Sass Jordan, Perry Ferrell, and in 2009 played on the #1 global hit “Dead and Gone“ with Justin Timberlake and TI.
Stevie provided the guitar music score to the cult classic film “Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure“ also aprearing as the hands of George Carlin in the movies end scene.
Stevie is a consultant/music director for 19 ent./American Idol working with Daughtry , Jordan Sparks , David Cook , Allison Ihareta , Kris Allen and Adam Lambert .
He is the Executive Producer and Host of the Canadian primtime music tv show Arbor Live and is also the Contemporary Music Advisor for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC and New York City.
Stevie received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award form The Native American Music Awards
Listen for Stevie Salas on CIUT Indigenous Waves Radio 89.5fm. Indigenous Waves Radio is live to air every Monday from 4-5pm EST
www.ciut.fm and click LISTEN LIVE!!
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