Charles Street Video

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!

09/13/2024

🔹CSV x Geary Art Crawl 🔹

Sept 21st (1pm-12am) & 22nd (1pm-8pm) join us for:

🌊 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.

09/13/2024

🔹CSV x Geary Art Crawl 🔹

We will be housing two exhibitions for the 2024 Geary Art Crawl. Sept 21st (1pm - 12am) & 22nd  (1pm - 8pm) join us for:

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

A live audio-visual performance titled after Gaston Bachelard, philosopher and namesake of Chan’s experimental music project, Bachelard says, “Everything comes alive when contradictions accumulate.” Heidi Chan and Kristine White have come together to explore this concept in the context of health and illness, ability and debility, through experimental music, shadow puppetry, and digital projection.

🔴 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.

09/13/2024

🔹CSV x Geary Art Crawl 2024🔹

Sept 21st (1pm-12am) & 22nd (1pm-8pm) join us for:

🧊 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.

09/13/2024

This year Charles Street Video will be housing two exhibitions for the 2024 Geary Art Crawl.

Sept 21st (1pm-12am) & 22nd (1pm-8pm) join us for:

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

a live audio-visual performance titled after Gaston Bachelard, philosopher and namesake of Chan’s experimental music project, Bachelard says, “Everything comes alive when contradictions accumulate.” Heidi Chan and Kristine White have come together to explore this concept in the context of health and illness, ability and debility, through experimental music, shadow puppetry, and digital projection.

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🔴 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.

09/13/2024

🔹CSV x Geary Art Crawl 2024🔹

Sept 21st (1pm-12am) & 22nd (1pm-8pm) join us for:

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

🕯️ a live audio-visual performance titled after Gaston Bachelard, philosopher and namesake of Chan’s experimental music project, Bachelard says, “Everything comes alive when contradictions accumulate.” Heidi Chan and Kristine White have come together to explore this concept in the context of health and illness, ability and debility, through experimental music, shadow puppetry, and digital projection.