PLEASE JOIN SOMETHING COLLECTIVE (Maggie Winston, Laura Barron, Juliana Bedoya, Natalie Gan and Flick Harrison) ON SATURDAY, MAY 18TH, FROM 1-3 PM, AT THE SUNSET COMMUNITY CENTRE TO CELEBRATE Something...

PLEASE JOIN
SOMETHING COLLECTIVE

(Maggie Winston, Laura Barron, Juliana Bedoya, Natalie Gan and Flick Harrison)

ON SATURDAY, MAY 18TH, FROM 1-3 PM,

AT THE SUNSET COMMUNITY CENTRE
TO CELEBRATE

Something Collective, the Artists-in-Residence team at SCC, has worked and played over the last few months engaging community members in a variety of arts activities that map the sounds, people, growth, play spaces, and movements of the Sunset Neighbourhood.

We Are Here has allowed community members to explore their neighborhood through dance, sound, video, green graffiti, puppets and photography.

Now, together, with your friends and neighbours, we’ll get to walk through a giant interactive map as we celebrate all the finished components of the project. Come and experience an interactive, living picture of the Sunset neighbourhood.

JOIN US FOR DANCE AND PUPPET PERFORMANCES, FILM AND
SOUNDSCAPE INSTALLATIONS, AS WELL AS FREE REFRESHMENTS!

This project is supported in partnership by

Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre
Sunset Community Centre
Vancouver Parks & Rec
City of Vancouver

I wrote several articles for this book and compiled an amazing reel of scenes shot in Vancouver for the event tonight.  Come down for a free discussion and screening! Join...

I wrote several articles for this book and compiled an amazing reel of scenes shot in Vancouver for the event tonight.  Come down for a free discussion and screening!

Join us as U.K.-based publisher Intellect Books launches the new book World Film Locations: Vancouver (Bristol, U.K.: Intellect, 2013) and we celebrate Vancouver films and filmmakers by discussing the past, present, and future of the local industry. Attendees will hear a few words from Professor Colin Browne (School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University), watch a show reel (edited by Vancouver filmmaker Flick Harrison) of film scenes analysed in the new book, and join a discussion about Vancouver film led by a panel of film professionals hosted by Diane Burgess (Instructor in Film Studies, UBC) and including Loretta Sarah Todd (director, writer, producer at Nehiyawetan Productions) and Sharon McGowan (filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film Production, UBC). The evening will end with drinks and conversation and another chance to see Vancouver writer and critic Michael Turner’s On Location 2: Four Double Bills, in which eight well-known Vancouver-made films are edited to remove everything from them but their Vancouver locales.

Edited by Rachel Walls, World Film Locations: Vancouver features the work of Vancouver writers, artists, film-makers, and curators including Colin Browne, Diane Burgess, Elvy Del Bianco, Flick Harrison, David Hauka, Peter Lester, Amy Kazymerchyk, Kamala Todd, and Michael Turner. Through this writing, and images from the films and of the locations used, the book traces the history and diversity of Vancouver location filming. The book consists of 38 “scene reviews” of Canadian and Hollywood movies from 1927 to present, and seven “spotlight essays” on key filmmakers and film moments.

World Film Locations: Vancouver is part of Intellect Books’ “World Film Locations” series. Buy it at AMAZON.CA: World Film Locations: Vancouver

http://www.thecinematheque.ca/book-launch-world-film-locations-vancouver

The film I made with Rob Kitsos, A Moving, is showing at Vancity today at 2pm with some other dance shorts! I believe it's free... Dance on Film: Sunday April...

The film I made with Rob Kitsos, A Moving, is showing at Vancity today at 2pm with some other dance shorts!

I believe it's free...

Check out this mail art show by Penelope Hetherington, a facebook-resisting artist whom I've known since her days in the Hot Toddy Girls avante-garde burlesque troupe, writing for Discorder and...

Check out this mail art show by Penelope Hetherington, a facebook-resisting artist whom I've known since her days in the Hot Toddy Girls avante-garde burlesque troupe, writing for Discorder and performing in the cabaret duo Psychotic Butler. She produced this latest show by mailing out a bunch of coupons from very old magazines and collecting the responses.

Penelope Hetherington

April 4 - 30, 2013

Mail Art Gallery

8165 Main Street Vancouver (MAP)

Filling out a coupon clipped from a 1964 edition of a magazine and then 
mailing it in a envelope with a dime taped to a piece of cardboard requires 
a kind of optimism--an innocence not so much feigned as permitted. The 
process of undertaking this slightly goofy task produces affect that wants 
examining. Anticipation, excitement and a pleasant feeling of destabilization 
suggest an underlying reluctance to accept that the past has completely 
disappeared. The slowness of the post spares us the anticlimactic flatness 
of assuming that something is over and gone. Instead, we get suspense.

Untimely Missives uses the materiality of the postal system to look for lapsed
time in geographical space, and the Mail Art Gallery as a place to document 
the search. This project investigates the possibility that playing puckish 
games with time is one way of remaining limber in relation to temporality. 
It has nothing to do with nostalgia.

Visitors are encouraged to send their own untimely mail. Envelopes, scissors,
coin cardboard, copies of advertisements from old publications, and a working
post office are provided.

Penelope Hetherington is a Vancouver-based performer and installation artist.

Intro to Premiere | vivomediaarts.com Tuesday, April 16, 7-10 PM Adobe Premiere is fast, easy to use, and powerful. This class introduces the Adobe edit system to new editors. Learn...

Intro to Premiere | vivomediaarts.com

Tuesday, April 16, 7-10 PM

Adobe Premiere is fast, easy to use, and powerful. This class introduces the Adobe edit system to new editors. Learn how to ingest footage into the system, cut your video, add soundtrack, titles and effects, and output to various formats. Most importantly, you'll learn how to solve problems and find help easily. This workshop contains a mixture of instructor demonstration and hands on practice.

This is a Pay What You Can workshop with the suggested minimum payment of $50

To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337/ext.1
Instructor: Flick Harrison

Flick Harrison is a self-made nobody, a renegade artist, an underpreneur, a premiere Vancouver poorfessional, and now a member of the Sunset Community artists-in-residence "Something Collective." His film, theatre, video, acting, writing and camera work has been seen by millions, been nominated and won awards internationally, and slipped into, under and through almost every Canadian funding niche. Chretien's chief strategist Warren Kinsella called Flick "offensive" and "unfair," the Globe and Mail called him "hilarious," and the Georgia Straight called his work "gorgeously sophisticated." His work includes teaching media art to kids, engaging community through art, designing projections for theatre and dance, and international journalism and criticism. http://www.flickharrison.com/

Watch my public chat with Tara Cheyenne-Friedenberg and Kristina Lemieux at Rhizome Cafe about public engagement in the arts.  #artsandpublic SANKASET is a series of dialogues on arts organizations, audience...

Watch my public chat with Tara Cheyenne-Friedenberg and Kristina Lemieux at Rhizome Cafe about public engagement in the arts.  #artsandpublic

SANKASET is a series of dialogues on arts organizations, audience engagement & citizenship.  The series kicked off with a dialogue about the Canada Council for the Arts‘ recent publication Public Engagement in the Arts, between Sankaset creator Kristina Lemieux and two arts leaders: Read the rest of this entry »

Learn on-camera reporting, off-camera interview skills, documentary shooting techniques, polished journalistic writing skills, and documentary editing. February 23, 2013 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm February 24, 2013 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm...

Learn on-camera reporting, off-camera interview skills, documentary shooting techniques, polished journalistic writing skills, and documentary editing.

February 23, 2013 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm

February 24, 2013 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Intro to Adobe Premiere CS6 Monday, February 11, 2013 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver I'm teaching this video editing workshop on Adobe Premiere, the video editing...

Intro to Adobe Premiere CS6

Monday, February 11, 2013 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver

I'm teaching this video editing workshop on Adobe Premiere, the video editing software that some people are calling the true Final Cut Pro 8.  If you hate Final Cut X, or want to try a more pro-editor option, this could be your baby... Call VIVO and sign youself up!

Intro to Adobe Premiere CS6.

Premiere is fast, easy to use, and powerful.  This class introduces the Adobe edit system to new editors.  Learn how to ingest footage into the system, cut your video, add soundtrack, titles and effects, and output to various formats.  Most importantly, you'll learn how to solve problems and find help easily. This workshop contains a mixture of instructor demonstration and hands on practice.

To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337/ext.1

Originally published in Terminal City Weekly in Vancouver, in November of 2001. "Today, despite all the broadcast hardware, the studios with their cameras, the control rooms with their millions and...

Originally published in Terminal City Weekly in Vancouver, in November of 2001.

"Today, despite all the broadcast hardware, the studios with their cameras, the control rooms with their millions and millions of dollars of snazzy equipment, despite the satellites in the sky, the armies of TV and film crews stretched out from coast to coast, the glitzy award shows, the weekend conferences of entertainment lawyers, accountants and network development officers, despite all the investment from federal and provincial governments and all the tax benefits which yearly flow to private corporations I find our Canadian broadcast system in English Canada has three dominant features: censorship, racism and an appalling lack of innovation."

You can find the rest of what Daryl Duke, chair of BC Film, a guy with a star on Granville Street, said in a Spry lecture a couple years back in Montreal, but the central point is clear (the lecture is pasted below, since it's currently offline).

Last week's panicky headline in the Vancouver Sun, "BC risks losing half its film business, insiders say," is more than just a random attack on the Feds, a symptom of the absence of an NDP tax-and-spend target for the local right-wing rags. It's one of those surface-level inquiries into our economy that characterize the converted-to-globalization discourse that our whole society seems mired in, despite breakthroughs in Seattle and Quebec City.

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Catherine Falkner and I made an avant-garde propaganda film in Newfoundland with the Tordon Players during our residency at Black Bag Media Collective... The first public screening will be this...

Catherine Falkner and I made an avant-garde propaganda film in Newfoundland with the Tordon Players during our residency at Black Bag Media Collective... The first public screening will be this Friday! Check it out:

IN MEDIAS RES

A short film festival featuring artists living and working in Mount Pleasant.

Graciously supported by the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Small Grants Project, the Vancouver Foundation and VIVO Media Arts.

// DOORS AT 8:30PM | SCREENING BEGINS AT 9PM //

We are excited to be featuring the following artists:

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