Windswept Productions

27/01/2025

Happy to be showing "Hunger at Home" at the 2025 Belleville Downtown Docfest. Food insecurity along with the related issues of homelessness and addictions are top of mind concerns in Belleville right now.
Date and time to come.

13/12/2024

Only people in the video biz will get this:

29/11/2024

CPKC Holiday Train in Belleville - November 29, 2024

27/11/2024

CPKC Holiday Train is coming to Belleville this Friday at 9:15 am

22/11/2024

203 years ago today, Captain John Walden Meyers - "founder of Belleville" - died.
This clip from "Damned Rascal" explores how he passed into local folklore and legend:

When Captain John Walden Meyers died on November 22,1821 he soon entered into the folklore of early Ontario.

21/11/2024

360 view of Dr Collip Monument in Belleville - reverse side

21/11/2024

360 view of the Dr Collip Monument in Belleville

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20/11/2024

Today is Dr. James Bertram Collip Day in Belleville. This is a recording of the 1st Collip Day held in 2012, the result of the tireless efforts of Dr. George Pearce to honour Belleville's own co-inventor of Insulin.

Dr. James Bertram Collip was part of the team that isolated insulin as a treatment for diabetes. This team's work has saved millions of lives yet Collip's ro...

21/10/2024

Today is World Food Day - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) created World Food Day to commemorate its founding in Quebec City, October 16, 1945. The goal of the FAO is to free humanity from hunger and malnutrition, and to effectively manage the global food system. World Food Day events are organized in over 150 countries across the world, making it one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. These events promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and help strengthen the link between agriculture and food security.

I produced this video which premiered at a number of Belleville's United Churches this morning. It shows the stark reality of hunger in our City and the many people who are working to combat this scourge.

https://vimeo.com/windsweptproductions/hungerathome?share=copy

This is "Hunger at Home: Food Insecurity in Belleville" by Windswept Productions on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

20/10/2024

Today is World Food Day - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) created World Food Day to commemorate its founding in Quebec City, October 16, 1945. The goal of the FAO is to free humanity from hunger and malnutrition, and to effectively manage the global food system. World Food Day events are organized in over 150 countries across the world, making it one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. These events promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and help strengthen the link between agriculture and food security.

I produced this video which premiered at a number of Belleville's United Churches this morning. It shows the stark reality of hunger in our City and the many people who are working to combat this scourge.

https://vimeo.com/windsweptproductions/hungerathome?share=copy

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18/10/2024

Premiere of my new documentary "Hunger at Home: Food Insecurity in Belleville"

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15/10/2024

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over Belleville, Ontario - Oct 14 24.

Notice the 2 Starlink Skytrains in the 2nd picture - hard to NOT see them now! (PS - these may have been airplanes - navigation lights flashing?)

11/10/2024

Northern Lights on the Bay of Quinte - October 10, 2024

11/10/2024

Northern lights on the Bay of Quinte - October 10, 2924

18/09/2024

Last night's partial eclipse of Harvest Supermoon.

10/09/2024

Take a VIRTUAL sail onboard Panache in the Katie Gray Race from Belleville to Picton - August 31, 2024
Shot in 8K - watch with VR headset if possible.

A Virtual sail onboard Panache in the Katie Gray Race from Belleville to Picton - August 31, 2024 . (during one of the few non-rainy moments!)

08/09/2024

100 years ago today Belleville's “Log Cabin Monument" was unveiled. It is was the culmination of the celebrations held in Belleville in June, 1924 to commemorate the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists (UEL) in the Bay of Quinte area. The 5-day event was HUGE with many 1,000's in attendance – easily one of the largest events that ever took place here! The cornerstone for this monument – the first to commemorate the UEL in any Canadian City - was laid on June 17, 1924 and was unveiled on Sept 8. It was designed by Belleville Architect J. Arnold Thompson and built by former Mayor George A. Bennett. On a rainy Fall day (much like today) Colonel Harry Cockshutt Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, unveiled the monument in front of thousands of citizens and students.

By early part of this century, excitement around the Loyalists had long faded and the monument had fallen into a sad state of disrepair. There were plans to replace the deteriorating structure with another monument or plaque but the Hastings County Historical Society strongly opposed the idea. The structure was found to be repairable and with the help of the John M. Parrott Foundation, the monument was moved across the street from the original location on southwest corner of Front and Dundas to its present location on the northwest corner. It was restored and re-dedicated on Sept 10, 2005.

Sadly, the monument has been left to deteriorate again.

08/09/2024

Belleville's UEL Monument - 100 years old today!