Programming Archives 2006

POOL CUE: VP members' screening

Donna Szoke: Reasonable and Senseless - Nov. 2006

Donna Szoke
Reasonable & Senseless: The Technical Disaster
On display in Jazz Winnipeg's Arthur St. window space (100 Arthur St.)
November 10 - December 8, 2006

Listen to Donna Szoke's artist's talk

IMAA National Conference - September 2006

Independent Media Arts Alliance National Conference
Winnipeg is known as the murder capital of Canada. However, in September 2006 during the IMAA Conference, Winnipeg’s arts community will attempt to kill this horrible nickname by saturating the city with film, video, and new media, turning Winnipeg from Murder City to Media City.

(right: Winnipeg coupons by L'Atelier National du Manitoba - click to enlarge image)

Amy Lockhart Screening - September 2006

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents
Walk for Walk: Animated Works by Amy Lockhart
Wednesday September 20, 2006
9 PM  at the Cinematheque
Main floor, Artspace Building
100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Canada
Admission:  Free

The Pit Bar, Dawson City - July/August 2006

Video Pool presents

The Pit Bar, Dawson City
by Allison Hrabluik
July 21 - August 18, 2006

Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts
021-100 Arthur Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Closing reception: August 17, 7 pm

Any Port in the Storm - June 2006

Any Port in the Storm
A site specific video installation
by Alex Poruchnyk
June 16 - 25, 2006
Belair, Manitoba
12 - 5 PM Tuesday - Sunday 

Any Port in the Storm is an eight-channel, site-specific video installation housed in a semi-subterranean building constructed especially for the piece.

Active Layers - May/June 2006

Active Layers:
Women Artists and New Media
May 26 - June 24, 2006
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 12 - 5 PM
Teresa Ascenção, Michelle Gay, Amelia Jiménez, Liss Platt, Veronica Verkley

Curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer, Active Layers presents the work of five women artists using interactive technologies to engage the viewer's imagination and experience.

Satan MacNuggit Video Road Show - June 2006

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents the
Satan MacNuggit Video Road Show
The activist media art of Jonathan Culp

8PM, Saturday, June 10
Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse
91 Albert Street, Winnipeg

The Satan Macnuggit Video Road Show is a guerrilla underground screening project, bringing subversive video to bars, barns and galleries, far and wide.

Walking and Being at Plug In ICA February 16

Winter by Nicole Shimonek

Video Pool Media Arts Centre in cooperation with Plug In ICA presents
Walking and Being, a series of videos curated by Grant Guy
7:30 pm Thursday February 16 2006
Plug In ICA, 286 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
Formal screening with curator's introduction
Refreshments will be served.

Following the screening, Walking and Being will be available for viewing February 17-24 during regular Video Pool hours, in the Video Pool third floor studio.

Previous exhibition dates:

. Charlottetown, PEI, Island Media Arts Coop, November 18, 2004
. Montreal, Quebec, Groupe Intervention Video, February 8, 2005
. Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum/Syracuse Film and Video Festival, April 27, May 1, 2005
 
Includes Video Pool Media Arts Centre artists: Grant Poier, Brenna George, Nida Home Doherty, Ley Ward and John Morgan, Jack Lauder, Marian Butler, Janet Hawkwood, Terry Billings, Alex Poruchnyk, Erika MacPherson, Val Klassen, Nicole Shimonek, Lori Rogers.

For more information and sample video clips, please visit www.videopool.org/walkingandbeing.htm
For press previews please contact Cam at vpprogramming@videopool.org or call 204.949.9134 ext.1

Art's Birthday January 14

Art's Birthday 2006 was a smashing success thanks to our volunteers, sponsors, and enthusiastic guests!

Party snaps

artsbirthday.net
www.cheapmeat.net/ArtsBirthday.html
www.studioxx.org

Unofficial videos!

Art's Birthday Cake Contest Results

The Art's Birthday Real & Surreal Cake Contest

On Saturday January 14th the glycemic index shot up sky-high at Video Pool, when the Art's Birthday cakes hit the palates of our discerning celebrity judges. The competition was tooth and nail, icing and fork! The results are in...

Video Pool gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Western Canada Cultural Fund, Winnipeg Foundation, Thomas Sill Foundation, W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation, City of Winnipeg, Assiniboine Credit Union, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism, Artspace Inc., and our members.