Special Events - Niagara Artists Centre

Bring Your Own Home Movie Day | Sat 22 May

Bring Your Own Home Movie Day
Saturday 22 May 2010

Home movie clinic: 12-2 pm
Home movie screening: 2-5 pm

A FREE EVENT

Home movies are more fun than you think!

Watching home movies together allows us to see and learn about our past. From the 1920s to the 1980s, countless families shot home movie footage - at home and on vacation, getting married and goofing around. These forgotten films contain scenes from our personal, local and global histories that can't be seen anywhere else.

HOME MOVIE CLINIC - This is your opportunity to view, organize and repair your old 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm home movies (Note: film only - no video) at personal viewing stations. Technical assistants will help you to work the machines and offer information about film storage and preservation.

HOME MOVIE SCREENING - after the clinic, please join us for an intimate afternoon screening. You are welcome to bring in your own home movies to share. Share a bit of your own history and learn about everybody else's. (Again, this event is film only - no videos please.)

The screening will begin with images from the collection of Vineland's Edra Thompson. Edra used super 8 film extensively in her educational work during the 1960s and 1970s. Her forty-year-old films feature stunning color images of the community and the environment, including steam engines, extreme closeups of feeding hummingbirds, and time lapse photography of butterflies emerging from their chrysalis!

The screening will be hosted by Jonathan Culp, who has spent many years working with 16mm and Super 8 film. He recently shot five rolls of home movie footage on the Galapagos Islands, and will be sharing that film at this event, as well as items from his large 'orphan' home movie collection, with footage dating back to the 1939 royal visit!

For more information, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call 905-562-7267.

In the Soil

In the Soil

Niagara's Homegrown Arts Festival
70 events - 11 venues - 10 days!
Thursday April 15 - Saturday April 24 2010

In the Soil, the Niagara Region's first multidisciplinary arts festival, is back for its second year to celebrate the original homegrown talent of Niagara. This year 70 acts featuring over 200 artists were chosen by a jury of local veteran and professional artists, proving once again that Niagara's creative soil is fertile.

Musicians, video, media, theatre, dance and performance artists will be showcased from April 15 to April 24 in a variety of venues throughout the downtown core of St. Catharines. Plus Niagara's own Juno nominated Great Lakes Swimmers will headline a stellar showcase at Centre for the Arts, Brock University on April 23rd.

New for 2010, the festival will include a three-day theatre showcase from April 16-18 featuring three local, full-length productions by Mainstream, Present Company Inc(luded) and Stray Theatre. In the Soil will also feature a Variety Night on Thursday April 15 of burlesque, music, spoken word, comedy, performance art and sound making at the Sullivan Mahoney Courthouse Theatre. Media artists Marinko Jareb, Ryan Rivando, Donna Szöke and David Vivian will be featured in street-level installations in downtown St. Catharines.

This year's In the Soil venues: L3, The Merchant Ale House, The Mansion House, Mikado, Niagara Artists Centre, Stella's, The Office Tap & Grill, Strega Café, Sullivan Mahoney Courthouse Theatre, St. Catharines Public Library (54 Church St) & Centre for the Arts, Brock University.

April 15 - 24 2010.
Tickets $5 at the door / $10 for theatre showcase / $20 for Brock Showcase

For full schedule and more information on the festival, visit In the Soil's website

Christian Bök + CCMC | Thurs 1 April

Christian Bök + CCMC
Thursday 1 April beginning at 7pm

Poetry and Performance for the Automatistes
Featuring Christian Bök and CCMC
Five bucks or cough up what you can

About Christian Bök
Christian Bök is a Canadian experimental poet. His work Eunoia, a story that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters (that is, a lipogram), is one of the best-selling works of Canadian poetry. Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry at Coach House Books, Eunoia won the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. His poetry has been featured in the lyrics of Norwegian artist Ulver's "A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP" (2003). Bök is also a sound poet, having performed an extremely condensed version of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate, and has created an artist book comprised of Rubik's cubes. Bök is a graduate of the University of Toronto and currently teaches at York University in Toronto. He has also worked in science-fiction television, designing artificial languages for fictional alien species.

About CCMC
CCMC 'free music orchestra' formed in 1974 in Toronto as the Canadian Creative Music Collective. Defining itself as, “a composing ensemble... united by a desire to play music that is fluid, spontaneous, and self-regulating,” the CCMC, by its instrumentation, by the backgrounds of several of its founders, and by the improvised nature of its music, was initially aligned with the free jazz community.

CCMC is Michael Snow (piano), John Oswald (atlo sax), and Paul Dutton (vocals).