Video Pool News

Bingo is Our Name-O

Video Pool asks 7 x 3 (yes that's right, 21) of our luckiest devoted members to join us in working 3 upcoming Bingo fundraising events. Allocated by the Manitoba Lotteries Corporation, Bingos are significant fundraising opportunities for Video Pool. The awards will go toward technical purchases, programming, and distribution archiving.

All bingos will be held at McPhillips St. Station Casion, 484 McPhillips St. Rides can be arranges, and we hope you will join us for pizza and drinks on us afterwards. Please contact Kendra, VP's Administrative Assistant, at vpadmin [at] videopool.org to sign up.

Our bingo dates & times are:
Friday, October 10, 2008
meet at Video Pool (2nd floor): 5:15 - 5:30
Arrive at Casino: 6:00
Sell tickets: 6:15 - 9:45
Pizza & Beer: 10:00 - ?

Monday, November 3, 2008
Meet for dinner/snacks and car pooling (venue TBA): 7:15
Arrive at Casino: 9:00
Sell tickets: 9:15 - 11:45

Sunday, December 7, 2008
Meet in Artspace lobby: 2:30
Arrive at Casino: 3:15
Sell tickets: 3:30 - 6:45
Pizza & beer: 7:00 - ?  

Performance Lecture by Glen Johnson

Thursday, September 25, 2008
7:00 pm
Video Pool 3rd Floor Studio
Admission is free!
Reception to follow

Glen Johnson's long awaited performance lecture has been rescheduled! Sit back and relax as he explains why technology has ruined art and why artists should return to producing work using sticks and berries.

Glen Johnson is a performance and installation artist whose work invariably involves text. He has delivered faux-lectures to stunned audiences in at least two provinces. He has hung a bed on one wall and nailed tiny words to another. He has performed at aceartinc, The Annex, Gallery 803, Platform Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, the University of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. He is largely responsible for the website www.persiflage.ca. He received a Bachelors Degree in Classics from the University of Winnipeg in 1993 and expects that some day they will ask for it back.

Artist Talk by Jessica Thompson

Friday, September 12, 2008
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Video Pool 3rd Floor Studio
Admission is free!

Join artist Jessica Thompson as she discusses her new media practice, encompassing sound, performance and mobile technologies. For more information please contact Sandee Moore at 949-9134 ext 8.

Thank You Video Pool Volunteers!

Video Pool extends an enormous thank you to the generous members who volunteered at our 2008 Bingo on Thursday, June 26: Lynn Devisscher, Erika MacPherson, Sister Dorothy, Wendy Buelow, Sylvie Beaudry, Leslie Supnet, Eric Larock and Karen Cornelius.

Video Pool gratefully acknowledges The Manitoba Arts Council and Manitoba Lotteries Corporation Bingo Allocation for their support. Video Pool plans to purchase a new computer for our editing suite with this award.

PAINTERS!

Thanks are also due to the dedicated members who kicked off the painting of our newly renovated third floor production centre: Vanessa Kroeker, Vince Krochak, Bruce Robertson and Darcy Fehr.

Tees, Please!

The Video Pool t-shirts are now in! Come on down and try one on at the Tech department on the third floor, or write to Kendra with your preferred colour, size and style. Original design by Myron Campbell, screenprinted at War On Music. Available in pink and black, in men's and women's styles, sizes small to extra-large. $20 Canadian tax included. (T-shirt only, models not included)

Video Pool AV Club

After a long hiatus, Video Pool's Open Library Lounge is back, under the new name AV Club. Started by Simon Hughes back in the day, later revived by former Distribution Coordinator Alethea Lahofer, and most recently hosted by current Distribution Coordinator Gabriel Schroedter, this popular night gives members the opportunity to watch video art works in an informal setting. Thanks to the involvement of crackerjack volunteer hosts Clint Enns and Stacey Abramson, VP members will once again get together to view new and old works. As part of the new format, members can also bring their own videos to share and selections from the Winnipeg Film Group will also be shown.
AV Club meets at 7:30 pm on the last Wednesday of the month in the Video Pool Studio (3rd floor). For playlists and more info see myspace.com/videopoolav.

310 Video Clips + Still Growing

(Ho Tam's My Memories of Me)

www.videopool.org now includes over 310 30 second video clip samples of recent video art titles by our members (new titles added regularly). As well, there's an extensive, hyper-linked, catalogue of thousands of Video Pool Media Arts Centre members' works from the last twenty years.

Visit Our On-line Audio Gallery

Visit our Audio Gallery's MP3 Archive to listen to new works by Michael Stecky, Video Pool Media Arts Centre's Audio Artist in Residence for 2002/03, or to the entire contents of our compilation CDs, IN BETWEEN THE SOUND OF MUSIC, or AUDIO ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE (1992 to 1997). Stay tuned for more additions soon.

Video Pool gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts; the Manitoba Arts Council; The Winnipeg Arts Council; The Winnipeg Foundation; The Thomas Sill Foundation; Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism; Manitoba Science, Technology, Energy and Mines; Manitoba Lotteries Corporation; The Department of Canadian Heritage; Multi-Media Risk Insurance; Artspace Inc.; The National Film Board; and Video Pool members.