ONE WAVE October 15 - 30, 2021 @Fortune Gallery As a tribute to persistence during troubled times, Miles Lowry’s ONE WAVE reminds us how a wave, full of energy, eventually lets go, dissipates and disappears as if it were never there. Created during lockdowns and waves of pandemic alarm, each painting is named for a presence, a yearning, or discovery. *Artist will be in attendance 12pm to 4pm on October 16 & 17. 537 Fisgard Street Victoria, BC Open 12-5 Closed Monday Gallery: 250 383 1552 See the show starting Oct 15 online @ www.loveandliberty.ca - COVID PROTOCOLS will be in place with masks required for indoor spaces. - http://www.mileslowry.ca http://www.loveandliberty.ca Be sure to 'like' Love and Liberty's Facebook Page Follow on Instagram

View this email in your browser Antimatter [media art] October 14 to 24, 2021 | Victoria BC & Online | antimatter.ca The 24th annual Antimatter festival continues this weekend with screenings, installations and online programs of international media art and experimental cinema. In-person screenings 6pm and 8pm nightly at Deluge Contemporary Art (636 Yates Street) have limited capacity and require advance ticket purchase at antimatter.ca. Saturday | October 16 | 6pm | Screening @ Deluge The Length of Day Collage, found footage and photochemical fictions by Cecilia Araneda, Kristin Reeves, A. Moon, Siegfried Fruhauf, Kathleen Rush, Charlie Egleston and Laura Conway. Saturday | October 16 | 8pm | Screening @ Deluge The Mirror Neuron Performative prosody and gestural empathy from Sarah Trad, Bea de Visser, John G. Boehme, Paul Tarragó, Adán De La Garza, Michael Heindl and Tommy Beacker. Sunday | October 17 | 6pm | Screening @ Deluge Stranger than Paradise The body is obsolescent: it is still needed but the preparations for its abolition are in progress. Film-choreography from Tamar Zehava Tabori, Bailey Plumley and Chris Haring/Liquid Loft. Sunday | October 17 | 8pm | Screening @ Deluge If I Could Name You Myself Movement and music drive meditative explorations of identity, race, gender and transcendence: Ann Oren, Michael V. Smith, Helanius J. Wilkins, Roma Flowers, Hope Strickland and Aram Karsi. Online Programs Screening programs are available online for 24 hours (midnight to midnight) the day after in-person screenings at Deluge Contemporary Art. Streaming is free (donations appreciated). Watch at antimatter.ca Online @ antimatter.ca Automat Some of the most rewarding and memorable experiences at Antimatter are artist talks, Q&As and informal social events with local and visiting filmmakers. As the situation this year again precludes most participants attending the festival to engage with peers and audiences, Automat presents a self-serve option. We coerced participating artists into making short videos that somehow “talk” about themselves and their work, whether by actually talking or otherwise. The results are as amazing as we’d hoped—spontaneous, revealing, witty and poetic insights into their lives and practices. Watch the results online at antimatter.ca. Deluge Contemporary Art 636 Yates Street Victoria, BC V8W 1L3 Canada

This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> Learn basic 2D and 3D stop-motion techniques from the award winning artist Amanda Strong! In this workshop, participants will explore basic methods of moving objects frame by frame, lighting, and rigging processes for stop-motion animation. Strong will be bringing in-process and completed puppets for participants to get a detailed look at design, render, and scale. As a group, participants will then get a chance to respectfully animate with Strong’s puppets to explore their functionality and get better insight to how they move. We encourage that participants bring objects or puppets they have made, to practice animating and to get feedback as well as to adapt them for animation (but this is not required). SATURDAY OCTOBER 30th 2021 10am – 4pm Pacific Time Mentorship meetings Oct 31 – Nov 2 REGISTER NOW >> Amanda Strong is an Indigenous (Michif) Media Artist and Stop Motion Director currently working as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). She has been practicing professionally in the arts for over 15 years. She holds a degree in Photography and Interpretive Animation from Sheridan College. With a cross-discipline focus, common themes of her work are reclamation of Indigenous histories, lineage, language and culture. Amanda Strong founded Spotted Fawn Productions in 2010 and has managed the company as the Owner, Director and Executive Producer since 2014. Amanda has also formed the collectives Media Creatorz, Indigenous Roots, and most recently Frame Sovereignty Collective which are all driven to build sustainable production skills and training to participants with the hopes of helping with access, visibility and digital literacy for Indigenous artists. Most recently, Amanda was selected as the First Canadian Director and first Animated Project for the Sundance Institute Indigenous Filmmaking Lab.

This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> In this workshop, local artist, curator and filmmaker Eli Hirtle will guide participants through conversation about practices & protocols specific to working with Indigenous peoples and their stories. Eli will share stories of his film-making practice, which he describes as “community-based collaborations”. We will also look at and discuss “ON-SCREEN PROTOCOLS & PATHWAYS: A Media Production Guide to Working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities, Cultures, Concepts and Stories”, a comprehensive publication commissioned by ImagineNATIVE film festival in 2019. Topics will include narrative sovereignty, screen-based protocols & principles, meaningful collaborations and building relationships based on trust, respect, responsibility, reciprocity and consent. As a case study we will watch Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring (2018), a film created by Eli Hirtle & Brianna Bear for a permanent art exhibition at Victoria City Hall. We will also view clips from the series Eli created for Telus’ Optik Network, Voices on the Rise (2019), to get a sense of how these protocols can be put into practice. MONDAY OCTOBER 18th 2021 6pm – 10pm Pacific Time Mentorship meetings Oct 19-21 REGISTER NOW >> Eli Hirtle is a nêhiyaw(Cree)/British/German filmmaker, beadworker, youth mentor and curator based on Lekwungen Territory in Victoria, BC, Canada. His practice involves making films about Indigenous cultural resurgence and language revitalization, as well as investigating his nêhiyaw identity through beadwork. Current areas of interest are learning how to speak his ancestral language of nêhiyawêwin and mentoring emerging Indigenous artists. Eli currently serves as Curator, Indigenous and Contemporary Art at Open Space Arts Society. Past curatorial projects include Sacred at Victoria City Hall, Pretty Good Not Bad Festival, IndigeVision Film Showcase, Wapakoni Cinema on Wheels Tour and Constellations of Kin in collaboration with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and ImagineNATIVE film festival. Film projects include RESIST: The Unistoten’s Call to the Land (2013), Voices on the Rise (2016 & 2019), and Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring (2018).

CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers is SUPER excited to announce Vancouver Island’s second edition of the One Take Super 8 Event — this time in full Kodak colour! A fun, non-competitive, community-driven creation and exhibition opportunity for intrigued newbies, amateur artists, and professional filmmakers alike. Super 8 film took the world by storm in the 1960s and 70s as an accessible way to make “home movies.” Today, the format lives on as an analogue escape from our digital world. The One Take Super 8 Event began in the year 2000 in Regina SK, and since then it has inspired the creation and screening of over 1,000 films in more than 50 locations around the world. CineVic presented the island’s first edition two years ago, and we’re bringing it back for another round of fun! Earlier this summer, 22 participants from Victoria and the surrounding region answered the open call to participate. They were given a camera, a roll of film, and one week to create their own 3-minute Super 8 movie. The only catch: no editing. The filmmakers had to shoot their scenes in order with no second chances, and they’ll witness their work for the first time along with an audience at the community screening on October 23rd. Soundtracks are optional, and because the Super 8 format does not record sound, they are created separately from the film and manually cued up on the night. Get your advance tickets now and join us in-person or online for the limited-capacity hybrid screening event! Saturday October 23rd 2021 7:00pm PT Alix Goolden Performance Hall 907 Pandora Avenue (enter through Victoria Conservatory of Music at 900 Johnson St.) Or watch from home on YouTube $5 advance tickets 📽 Click here for in-person screening tickets >> * Attendees will be required to present identification and proof of at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccination, which will be scanned upon entrance * Attendees must wear a mask at all times, and remain seated for the entire event 📺 Click here for YouTube livestream tickets >> See the world premiere of 22 new Super 8 films created by: Alex Skorochid • Octavian Kaul • Michael Korican • Suzanne Moreau • Ian Sebelius • Jerry & Alena Kott • Sonya Chwyl • Eli Hirtle • Bowen Macy • Elvie Simons • Greg Goldberg • Megan Switzer • Rachel Evans • Jessica Beach • Tyson Laidler • Ella Privet • Jen Yakamovich • Nathan Dunsmoor • Kemi Craig • Michelle Frey • Cat Lewis Many thanks to our event partners and sponsors: MediaNet / FLUX Media Gallery, Antimatter Media Art Festival, and Niagara Custom Lab. CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers acknowledges and respects the long history of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, as well as the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territory we carry out our activities. CineVic gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance and support of Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, Province of British Columbia, and the CRD Arts Development Service.

As the pandemic recedes, the artist explores her renewed appreciation for simple, quiet pleasures in this new series of figurative abstract paintings. A limited palette varies from work to work, with white paint and cold wax providing unity. The overall effect suggests moments of calm reflection on the journey to reach the place, real or imagined, where we feel most at peace. Solo painting exhibition by Margo Cooper. Opening Reception Thursday, October 14, 5-7:30 pm Artist in residence: October 12,15,20,23,27, 2-5 pm