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The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

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Location

Various
Hanover - Durham - Saugeen First Nation ON N4N 3B8
Canada

Event Description
This year, the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film premieres three films made in the Saugeen Takes on Film (STOF) workshop, supported by Archive/Counter-Archive. STOF is a result of a collaboration of the Saugeen First Nation Employment and Training Centre, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, and the Film Farm.
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Book Launch & Reception - Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age

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Location

350 King St. West, 4th Floor
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada

Event Description
Join us for the book launch and reception of Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age, co-edited by Scott MacKenzie and A/CA Project Director Janine Marchessault. The book contains essays by numerous A/CA collaborators and partners, and is the “first book to trace the development of handmade and hand-processed film in its historical and contemporary contexts, and from a global perspective” (2019, McGill-Queen’s University Press).
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Exhibition: After hours Chez Madame Arthur

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A/CA Co-Applicant Jules Pidduck and A/CA Community Partner MediaQueer Database present an installation evoking the legendary bar Chez Madame Arthur (1971-1975), alongside never-before-seen photographs by Montreal photographer Suzanne Girard. After hours Chez Madame Arthur conjures the poetry, the seduction, the politics, and the fierceness of Montreal lesbian bars of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Conference: Archives of LGBTQ+ minorities in Europe & Canada

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Location

The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
15 King's College Circle, Room 251
Toronto ON M5S3H7
Canada

Event Description
Archive/Counter-Archive's Project Manager Aimée Mitchell will be moderating a panel on LGBTQ+ archives, featuring A/CA Community Partner Raegan Swanson (Executive Director of The ArQuives), Antoine Idier, Rebecka Sheffield, Courtnay McFarlane, and Philip Pike.
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Trans Archival Futures

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Location

VIVO Media Arts Centre
2625 Kaslo Street
Vancouver BC V5M 3G9
Canada

Event Description
This event is in conversation with Archivist-in-Residence Sophie Roberge's "Every Queer Thing" project at VIVO 2019. Multi-media artists Chase Joynt and Chris E. Vargas are working at the epicenter of contemporary trans representational practice and visual culture. Trans Archival Futures is a presentation of their recent film and archival work: Vargas’ project MOTHA: Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art which was recently on display at the New Museum, and Joynt’s short film Framing Agnes.
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69 Positions: Critically Revisiting the Partial Decriminalization of Sodomy & Abortion Through the Canadian & Québec Archive

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SUM Gallery - 268 Keefer Street (Suite 425)
Vancouver BC V6A 1X5
Canada

Event Description
To commemorate and problematize the 50th anniversary of this milestone, the Queer Media Database Canada-Québec (hereafter, MEDIAQUEER) has planned an ambitious series of screenings and archival exhibitions entitled “69 Positions: Decriminalization in the Queer Canadian and Quebec Archive” in which we will screen landmark works of film in tandem with archival exhibitions about the history of (and around) this paradigm shift.
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Home Made Visible Screening + Panel Discussion at York University

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York University
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Canada

Event Description
Experience archives through a personal lens with the short film program of Home Made Visible, Regent Park Film Festival's nation-wide archival project. Join us after for a panel discussion with the HMV team and filmmakers.
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Holding Still and Moving

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Location

122 Bond Street
Ryerson University School of Image Arts
Toronto ON M5B 1X8
Canada

Event Description
The film students of the F+PPCM Graduate program at Ryerson University have curated a selection of independent films with ties to the Prairie region of Canada made between 1974 and 1989. They will be projecting 16mm prints by filmmakers Elaine Pain, Ed Ackerman, Joanne Jackson Johnson, Ellie Epp & more.
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