Charles Street Video

12/06/2024

*NEW WORKSHOPS* just dropped

📌✨ Part I: Thu 12 December 2024 // Part II: Wed 18 December 2024 📌✨
This workshop will introduce you to the process of directing a project on any scale. The workshop covers practical aspects of directing such as casting, locations, storyboards, rehearsals, telling a story with pictures, the psychology of composition, moving the camera, screen direction, eye-lines and the axis, shooting schedule, on set protocol, and other production concerns.

📌✨ Part I: Fri 13 December 2024 // Part II: Mon 16 December 2024 📌✨
This workshop introduces filmmakers on the key elements to writing an effective story, both for shorts, features and television. Elements in this workshop include: vomit drafts, beat sheets, storyboarding, A, B + C stories, as well as working with story editors and co-writers. Eric will share what’s worked for him in the past, and his writing process.

Make sure to register at the link in our bio 🎟️🎬

11/29/2024

Presented through Charles Street Video’s Maker Space program join us for the *Closing Reception* for 🌊“AFTER THE FLOOD”🧊

An interactive art installation that combines projection mapping, motion tracking, sound design, and footage of the natural world to explore urgent issues of water and climate change from an artist’s perspective. This exhibit invites viewers to reflect on the complex and evolving relationship between humanity and the environment, particularly through the lens of intergenerational creative experience. ✨

For information on Tickets check out the link in our Bio 🎟️✨❄️

11/29/2024

Thank you to all of our CSV members for an amazing year! We’ll be closed for the holidays from December 21st to January 5th. ☃️❄️

Until then stay tuned for some cool pre holidays events coming up!

11/15/2024

Presented through 🔴Charles Street Video’s🔴 Maker Space program, join us for

🧊AFTER THE FLOOD🌊

An interactive art installation that combines projection mapping, motion tracking, sound design, and footage of the natural world to explore urgent issues of water and climate change from an artist’s perspective. This exhibit invites viewers to reflect on the complex and evolving relationship between humanity and the environment, particularly through the lens of intergenerational creative experience. ✨

11/13/2024

Free Projection Mapping Workshop at CSV this Saturday! Register in our Instagram bio link!

Using MadMapper and projectors this is a beginner-level workshop that will introduce participants to projection mapping. Come learn projection mapping from artist and researcher Ilze (Kavi) Briede, as part of Yen Linh Thai and Katika Marczell’s two-person artist residency at Charles Street Video.

About Projection Mapping
Projection mapping is a technology that uses projectors to display video, images, or animations onto physical surfaces, transforming them into dynamic visual displays. Unlike traditional projection, which projects onto flat screens, projection mapping is used to map images onto irregular or three-dimensional objects, such as buildings, sculptures, or stages. This technique is often employed for artistic, entertainment, and advertising purposes, creating immersive experiences where the projected visuals interact with the physical form of the object, enhancing its appearance and creating the illusion of movement or transformation.
maximum capacity: 10

3 hours of instruction

Instructor:
Ilze (Kavi) Briede is a Canadian/Latvian artist and researcher working across multiple disciplines, including visual art, interactive installation and live performance. Her creative practice and teaching encompass bio-physiological sensing, live coding and video projection art. Currently, Kavi is a PhD student in Digital Media at York University (Toronto, Canada) and a researcher at several York University labs: nD::StudioLab, SLOlab, and Sensorium research cluster. Kavi’s current thesis explores system building for performance and immersive narratives that utilise biophysical sensing and live data to construct novel pathways to knowledge and perception modes. Kavi has received academic degrees in Visual and Computational Arts (Canada), Digital Media Production (United Kingdom) and Chinese language and culture studies (Latvia).

Image credit: Ilze (Kavi) Briede, “Video Projection Mapping on Building”, 2015.

10/15/2024

Charles Street Video is looking for a dedicated financial professional to join our team and help oversee, administer and ensure the accurate keeping of our busy, complex financial records and allied activities.

Deadline: October 28, 2024

See details and online application here: https://charlesstreetvideo.com/feature.php?id=86

Charles Street Video: Video Artist Collective & post production facility in Toronto, Canada

10/04/2024

🏺 Raqqa ware Museum 2.0 🏺

Presented through Charles Street Video’s Maker Space program, we’re very excited for you to explore this exhibition.

Created by Artist, researcher and technologist Jawa El Khash ( ), She invites you to explore the 3D ceramic collection inspired by 13th century Raqqa, Syria. This 21st century work revives the ancient art movement from Raqqa, and looks to the future of museology and digital archaeology.

10/04/2024

📌Pick-up & Drop Off Housekeeping Notice📌

Hello to our beloved CSV community.

We wanted to give you a friendly reminder that our Drop-off Hours are between 10am - 12pm and Pick-Up is between 2pm - 4pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday , and Friday 🗓️✨

10/03/2024

Well, you finally did it. You finished the first draft of your screenplay. Great job! You’ve accomplished more than most, and you should be proud. Only thing is, you’re far from done. Now, you arrive at the word so many screenwriters dread: rewriting.

It’s tough, no doubt about it. After climbing what you thought was the mountain with your first draft, realizing you’ve only reached base camp can sure put a damper on your sense of accomplishment. If you’ve found yourself struggling with or (let’s be honest) just plain avoiding the second draft, then fear not because this course is designed for you! In this workshop, I will give you the necessary tools to dig through your first draft, find the gold inside and mine it for all its worth.

Whether you’re a first-time writer or a seasoned vet of the screen trade, this course will not only help you overcome the fear of dissecting your work but also inspire you to relish the rewriting process. So, grab your scripts and metaphorical shovels, and prepare to get your hands dirty. Welcome to The Next Draft! ✍🏼📝

10/03/2024

The Canadian landscape for distribution and exhibition is quietly the most important and consequential aspect of our industry, informing the career potentiality of national artists, in both their capacity to make another movie, or even get their first off the ground.

In the short film world, it’s a sphere of business that will be the difference between your film getting into one or two regional festivals vs it getting onto dozens of platforms across the globe. Film distribution is the key to unlocking one’s insight into this world we are a part of and how it truly works. We can all recognize how film is really just one big business, and how business is all about mutually beneficial relationships to sustain exclusionary, profitable practices.

Facilitated by Zachary GoldKind ( ), in this workshop, we will go through Canadian-specific distribution, covering both short and feature film channels, the companies to be looking at and the relationships you’ll need to gain some grasp on if you want to maneuver yourself with confidence. 🗂📌

10/03/2024

Facilitated by Dan Tapper ( ), The Soundscape Design Workshop investigates how to create immersive sonic works with multi-speaker setups.

The workshop will utilize the Charles Street Video, multichannel audio system to move and distribute sound. We will learn about the mechanics of multichannel soundscape design as well as how to creatively work over speaker arrays.

The software supported for this workshop will include MaxMSP, Ableton Live and Reaper (open source, multi platform and free).

10/03/2024

Facilitated by Zachary GoldKind ( ), this workshop takes filmmakers through the work to organize their festival strategies, whilst considering what the circuitry is made of, how it works and maneuvering oneself through that, while best caring for yourself.

Essentially, a how-to on the festival circuit as an independent creator, this workshop will revolve around incorporating concerns of the mental wellness of filmmakers and the endurance required to find exhibition outlets. 🗣🎬

10/03/2024

Facilitated by Dan Tapper ( ), the Audiovisual Creation in TouchDesigner Workshop focuses on creating interactive visuals that respond to sound. 🖥️📽️

Visual media that responds to sound is frequently utilized in live concerts, installations and media art. The Audiovisual creation in TouchDesigner workshop will provide you with a suite of techniques and strategies for creating sound responsive media.

🔻 The workshop is open to all skill levels but some knowledge of TouchDesigner is preferred. 🔺

09/30/2024

Facilitated by Adjowa Karikari ( ) and Dillon Baines ( ), this ‘Share Tech’ event will cover finding high-quality music & samples, as well as demonstrating how to use Pioneer DJ equipment through hands-on instruction, followed by a lesson oncreating a DJ set in both Rekordbox and Serato. 🎧✨

This session will wrap up with a brief performance, showcasing how to effectively apply thetechniques covered, in this 2 hour event, while mixing tracks on Pioneer DJ equipment.

🔻 This event is open to all and free to attend. 🔺

CSV’s ‘Share Tech’, themed evening focuses on sharing knowledge and offering a brief overview of some of the most relevant gear and craft used in contemporary media art production.

We encourage participants to bring anything from among their own gear or experience that they might like to share with the group.

Please join us for some snacks, conversation and shared learning!

09/28/2024

🍁 Our Fall workshops and Share Tech events are here!! 🍂

Are you interested in learning how to DJ or engineer soundscapes? Struggling to get past the hurdle of your second draft? Maybe you’re interested in learning about Touch Designer? Or how to navigate getting your projects distributed? 🗓🎥✨

If this applies to you, make sure to check out the links in our Bio for more info!

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Our Share Tech Program for 🎧DJ’ing 101 is ✨FREE✨ and we will be offering ✨2 FREE✨ spaces per workshop for Black, Indigenous or People of Colour*.

*email us for more information on our FREE BIPOC seating.*

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09/27/2024

🔴 Need some extra help paying for CSV equipment? We got you! 🔴

At Charles Street Video we believe in accesibility and reciprocal based community offerings, such as our CSV$™️ program. Created to reciprocate the effort of our Members who volunteer their time with us, volunteers will recieve a $20 credit for each volunteered hour, that can be used for CSV equipment and or space rentals.

Currently, we’re looking for gallery attendants and general help during office hours. To signup make sure to check out the link in our bio. 🎥✨

09/26/2024

🔹CSV Art Exhibition🔹

Join us Thursday, September 26th & Friday, September 27th from 6pm - 8pm for an extended exhbition of:

🌊Measuring Beyond Extraction by Erica Whyte🧊

an installation interested in the relationship between water, data, and our global responsibility to water justice. Using original footage of Canada’s natural springs, Touch Designer, and pattern recognition, it visualises the mesmerising flow of water and caustics, prompting a deeper contemplation of hydrology and bodies of water. Projected onto cascading fabrics the installation blends art and science, challenging how computers quantify and interpret the natural world.

🟣🔵 Erica Whyte is an artist based in Toronto, focused on realism, perspective, and postmodernity. Her practice explores representation and the relationship between technology, words, images, sound, and the environment. Currently, she creates interdisciplinary installations inspired by internet culture, challenging conventional ideas about space and the tools we use to create art.

As an experimental artist through the Design Fabrication Zone (DFZ) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), she’s been working on refining her process using 3D printing, cutting tools, and multi-medium printers to create visual and sculptural pieces. Over the past few years, software such as Touch Designer and Ableton have also become important in her work and how she thinks of digital and traditional art forms.

This year, she’s showcased her work in two group exhibitions, ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ and ‘Infinite Wave’ at It’s Ok Studio; participate in the ‘Vector Festival’ by Inter/Access; and completed a three-month residency, ‘Intelligent Terrain’ by cultural arts group Ukai. 🟣🔵

09/22/2024

When Contradictions Accumulate
by Kristine White & Heidi Wai-Yee Chan

2024!