Enjoy Your Favourite Spring Festival at Home
Today we have rounded up a shortlist of Canadian festivals who have made the tough but exciting decision to share some of their programming online so you can continue to enjoy fresh content at home. Many of these festivals kick off tonight so tune in this evening for some new documentaries, art films and more!
Image source: CBC
Hot Docs at Home on CBC
When: Thursday nights starting on April 16th 2020.
Watch Hot Docs at Home on CBC, a multiplatform festival-at-home experience providing Canadians with front-row access to select titles from the 2020 Hot Docs Festival premiering Thursday nights starting April 16.
Following the postponement of the 2020 Hot Docs Festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a small selection of exclusive first-run feature documentaries that would have debuted at the Festival will now premiere on CBC, the free CBC Gem streaming service and documentary Channel. CBC will also partner with Hot Docs to expand the at-home audience experience with interactive, livestreamed Q&As with filmmakers and other original digital content at CBC Docs.
Image source: Images Festival. Sky Hopinka, maɬni — towards the ocean, towards the shore, 2020
Images Festival
Images Festival invites audiences to experience new and independent voices from Canada and across the globe at its 33rd edition, taking place online.
When: April 16-22, 2020
As one of the most enduring and respected platforms in the world for the exhibition and discourse of independent film and media art, Images continues to explore how moving image works are created, exhibited, and received in the current socio-political moment. Responding to the Covid-19 crisis, Images’ ON SCREEN program will be presented via live-stream at imagesfestival.com. Over 75 extraordinary works from some of the world’s most innovative and daring filmmakers and video artists will be available to stream, starting April 16th.
Silvia Kolbowski, That Monster: An Allegory, B+W film projection, 18 minutes (9 mins with sound, 9 mins silent), 2018.
Gallery 44 & Images Festival Present Silvia Kolbowski Digital Screening and Artist Talk
When: Saturday, April 18 at 12:00PM
Join Gallery 44 for an online screening of Silvia Kolbowski’s 2018 video That Monster: An Allegory, followed by a conversation between Kolbowski and co-curator Jared Quinton. That Monster is part of the artist’s solo exhibition A Few Howls Again, currently set to open in Gallery 44’s main space and vitrines, later this year.
“That Monster: An Allegory addresses the projections and identifications at play in today’s mass politics. The film was developed out of a desire to elucidate the riddle of mass enthrallment to demagogic power that does not serve its interests. That Monster features remixed images and sequences from the classic horror film The Bride of Frankenstein, (1935; James Whale). The film plays once with sound and once in silence.”
—Silvia Kolbowski
Please email heather@gallery44.org if you would like to attend. Registered attendees will receive a link to join the event.
Remote Control: an AGYU Live Instagram Performance Series
When: Tuesdays beginning on April 14th, 2020. 7-8PM.
Starting Tuesday April 14, at 7 pm, join the AGYU live on Instagram @a_g_y_u for Remote Control—a spoken word, dance, and music performance series curated by Randell Adjei and Nathan Baya. The series continues each Tuesday evening for the next four weeks.
AGYU is excited to launch a new Instagram takeover, featuring two influential performance scenes of spoken word poets, singers, rappers, and dancers. Working in partnership with cultural visionaries—Scarborough-based R.I.S.E. Edutainment Director, Randell Adjei and Jane Street Speaks Founder, Nathan Baya—AGYU presents Remote Control, an online social media forum for performance that builds virtual communities and creative solidarity in a difficult and unprecedented period of social distancing and cultural isolation.
