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Grant-writing for Success!

What might otherwise be a confusing chore becomes simple, creative and rewarding in this workshop. We will review everything you need to know about putting together, writing and submitting a grant under the new funding models at federal and provincial arts councils. In addition to outlining the Who, What and Why of your project, your application needs to pitch your story in the right way to the panel of jurors. Hear surprising insights into how a jury makes decisions. These will give you tips for making your application strong and convincing.
An Alternate History of Canadian Electronic Music (1956-1981)

Send+Receive @ Video Pool: Exhibit & Artist Talk: Keith Fullerton Whitman

Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound and Video Pool team up once again to present a listening lounge exhibition in Poolside Gallery that kicks off during S+R’s 20th anniversary festival and runs through October, as well as a presentation by renowned composer, recording artist and performer Keith Fullerton Whitman.

Introduction to After Effects Workshop with Rylaan Gimby

Are you tired of the terrible title options premiere and final cut offer? Would you like to create some special effects in your short film? Looking to get into digital animation? After Effects is a digital compositing and animation program in the Adobe Creative Suite. Get ready to drop the Saul Bass as you create titles worthy to introduce your brilliant work, or let out your inner JJ Abrams as you cover your screen in artificial lens flares.

Introduction to Camera Workshop with Wendy Buelow

In this one evening class we will be working with Video Pool’s HD cameras – Sony FS700, FS100, NEX EA50, with a short intro to the 4K cameras at the end of class. Participants will learn to use the auto and manual settings of these cameras, gaining greater control to produce video of the highest quality. Exposure, white balance, gain control, shutter, audio, zebra stripes and more! We will have hands-on practise with these cameras, and discuss how to manage the media after the shoot.
Santiniketan Railway Station – Prasanta Ghosh

WNDX – Exhibition: Random Variables

Random Variables curated by Ushmita Sahu brings together a group of young video-art practitioners from across India. Video art is a relatively late entrant in the Indian contemporary art scene and it has gradually made its way into art school curriculums only in the last decade or so, leading to a crop of young artists working with moving images.