Dana Inkster

Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to change through the first-ever strike at Lakeside.

“The videos in this program specifically articulate intervention as tactics of creative expression and protest, bringing forward a shared sense of challenges of doing feminist work in the public register, and they take up the risk and labour of feminist embodiment. In all selected works, desire lines remap space to the rhythm of other wants and needs; they are invitations to step out of official lines and to walk in the company of other absentee presences.” -Archive/Counter Archive Educational Guide, page 9.

A late night musical request launches a nocturnal dreamscape.

Welcome to Africville gives voice to what may have been marginalized members of an Afro-Canadian community in 1969. It's intention is to be a catalyst to thought and reflection about the lives and struggles of people from that community whose stories still go untold. It is the fictional account of a family. We listen to the stories of three generations of women and their friend Julius on the day their community is to be destroyed by the municipal government of Halifax. This story is a portrait of four individuals coping with universal uncertainties and insecurities.

The 10 new and retooled silent video works presented here are each director's response to a silent and nocturnal viewing situation. They are short, eclectic and remarkably diverse, representing a glimpse of contemporary Canadian video art.

No two adoptees are alike. Harold & Peter, Lynne & Lynn, Maureen & Stephen and Dana candidly share their stories and reveal how being adopted shapes an individual’s identity right into adulthood. Their stories underline the complexity of adoption as it relates to the human impulse to tell stories about ourselves in pursuit of figuring out where we fit in.

Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to change through the first-ever strike at Lakeside.

Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to change through the first-ever strike at Lakeside.

“The videos in this program specifically articulate intervention as tactics of creative expression and protest, bringing forward a shared sense of challenges of doing feminist work in the public register, and they take up the risk and labour of feminist embodiment. In all selected works, desire lines remap space to the rhythm of other wants and needs; they are invitations to step out of official lines and to walk in the company of other absentee presences.” -Archive/Counter Archive Educational Guide, page 9.

A late night musical request launches a nocturnal dreamscape.

Welcome to Africville gives voice to what may have been marginalized members of an Afro-Canadian community in 1969. It's intention is to be a catalyst to thought and reflection about the lives and struggles of people from that community whose stories still go untold. It is the fictional account of a family. We listen to the stories of three generations of women and their friend Julius on the day their community is to be destroyed by the municipal government of Halifax. This story is a portrait of four individuals coping with universal uncertainties and insecurities.

The 10 new and retooled silent video works presented here are each director's response to a silent and nocturnal viewing situation. They are short, eclectic and remarkably diverse, representing a glimpse of contemporary Canadian video art.

No two adoptees are alike. Harold & Peter, Lynne & Lynn, Maureen & Stephen and Dana candidly share their stories and reveal how being adopted shapes an individual’s identity right into adulthood. Their stories underline the complexity of adoption as it relates to the human impulse to tell stories about ourselves in pursuit of figuring out where we fit in.

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