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Movie Night at the Visual Collections Repository | Feb 23rd, 5-7pm, Concordia University

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1515 Ste. Catherine St. West
Visual Collections Repository (VCR), Room EV. 3.703
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada

Event Description

The Visual Collections Repository (VCR) at Concordia University is organizing a screening event on February 23rd from 5-7 pm EST. The two films being shown are I am Somebody by Madeline Anderson and an excerpt from Public Channel's Attica Interviews. This screening is organized by Archive/Counter-Archive and supported by the VCR film collection.
 

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Exhibition | more-than-human, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Feb 1 - May 13

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199 Richmond Street West 
Toronto ON M5V 0H4
Canada

Event Description
This interdisciplinary exhibition of media artworks features work from several A/CA members, including Suzanne Morrissette, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, and Mary Bunch. In addition to the exhibition itself, there are also a number of events scheduled over the course of its duration.
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Screening | Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging | Dec 1st, Vtape

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Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space (Fourth Floor)
401 Richmond St. West
Toronto ON M5V 3A8
Canada

Event Description
Vtape is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world. We also feature two new works by Toronto-based artists TJ Cuthand and Sarah Flicker.
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Working Papers Series: Johanna Laub | Zoom, Nov 29, 2022

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Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Johanna Laub, who is a PhD student, Goethe University, Frankfurt and visiting scholar, Concordia University. Johanna’s talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.

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Sexile and the Task of Archiving Cuban Queer Diasporas | Screening & Talk | Nov 14th, Concordia University

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Concordia University, York Amphitheatre, EV-1.605, Main Floor
1515 Saint Catherine Street Ouest
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada

Event Description
Please join us for a talk and screening with Lázaro González at Concordia University on November 14th 2022 - held at Concordia University's York Amphitheatre (EV 1.615, 1515 Saint Catherine Street Ouest, Montréal, Quebec) from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
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Moving On | Reel Asian Film Festival Short Film Screening | Nov 10, 6:30 PM, TIFF

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TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King St W
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada

Event Description
Archive/Counter-Archive is excited to act as a Community Partner for the 26th iteration of the Reel Asian Film Festival  (Nov 10-19) to support of their presentation of Moving On, a programme of short films that will screen at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Nov 10 at 6:30 PM.
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Memory in Motion Screening | 7-9 PM, Oct 27, TMU

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122 Bond Street, Room 307
School of the Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto ON M5B1E9
Canada

Event Description
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and Archive/Counter-Archive are partnering to bring together an in-person screening and panel event to celebrate the 2022 UNESCO World Audiovisual Heritage Week running from October 27 – November 5. The eight films presented as part of “Memory in Motion” celebrate and reinterpret what is possible through non-fiction storytelling in the way they use archival footage in filmmaking. Although wildly different in approach and style, they explore the generative potential of artistic engagement with documentary heritage in contemporary filmmaking practices as a means of re-imagining our relationship to audiovisual history. The screening will be followed by a panel moderated by Olivia Wong and featuring filmmakers Franci Duran, Jennifer Dysart and Nadine Valcin.
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Working Papers Series: Theo Xenophontos | Zoom, Oct 25, 2022

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Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different Universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Theo Xenophontos, who is a PhD candidate in the Cinema and Media Studies program at York University. Theo’s talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.

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Biophilia: Artist and Archive | Nuit Blanche, Oct 1-2, 2022

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York University
4700 Keele St
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Canada

Event Description
As part of the broader Streams~ event, and in collaboration with the Archives of Ontario and the AGYU, Archive/Counter-Archive is organizing six media art installations across the Keele campus. Five of these will be united under the exhibition title, Biophilia: Artist and Archive, with the sixth being tied to the launch of CineMobilia, a new mobile infrastructure dedicated to digitizing archival moving image material.
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CineMobilia Launch and Screening Programme | Oct 1-2, 2022

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134 Ian MacDonald Blvd
(Across the street from the Archives of Ontario)
North York ON M7A 2C5
Canada

Event Description

As part of the 2022 Nuit Blanche festival, CineMobilia is being launched by Archive/Counter-Archive with an all-night, outdoor micro-cinema installation and screening programme. The micro-cinema space will be located across the street from the Archives of Ontario on York University's Keele campus. The screening programme will start at 7 pm, run throughout the rest of the evening, and involve many drop-in talks by artists.

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Book Launch | Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures

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Artscape Daniels Launchpad
East Tower, 130 Queens Quay E, 4th Floor
Toronto ON M5A 0P6
Canada

Event Description
Commemorating the 15-year history of Nuit Blanche, Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures is an edited collection by artists, scholars, curators and contributors that considers Nuit Blanche in Canada and abroad. Through personal reflections, dialogues, and projects, the essays and images in this full-colour volume generate a multi-perspectival view of Nuit Blanche, which has spanned numerous urban centres and forged countless community relations, in a volume that brings together historical, contemporary and future-oriented understandings of this large-scale public art event. Hosted by Nuit Blanche and the City of Toronto with PUBLIC Books.
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