News – Page 9 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Poolside Gallery Launch Party

FINALLY, after nearly 35 years of supporting the development, exploration and dissemination of Winnipeg’s creative artistic practice, Video Pool Media Arts Centreannounces the opening of our very own POOLSIDE GALLERY, an intimate presentation venue for the creative exploration of media arts practices.

Video Pool Plant Sale Fundraiser

Along with the sale you can join us in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s new PoolSide Gallery, on the 2nd floor of the Artspace building, for a vegetation and growth based exhibit called Seeded. With work by Terry Billings (SK), Kelsey Braun (MB), Julie Gendron + Emma Hendrix (MB), Ken Gregory (MB), Joel Penner (MB), Colby Richardson (MB), curated by Jennifer Smith.

VUCAVU Info Session

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to share with our members and supporters information about our partnership with seven other Canadian Independent Media Art Distributors, resulting in VUCAVU.com. VUCAVU is a bilingual online platform used for the dissemination of independent Canadian video and film. After over three years of planning and working on the project, we look forward to launching the platform in Spring 2016! Video Pool Media Arts Centre will have over 100 titles on the platform to begin and will constantly be adding new titles.

2016 Member Screening Call for Submissions

If you are interested in taking part in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s 2016 Member Screening on March 3, 2016, please email Jen with an online link at vpdist@videopool.org

Digital Distribution Platform Announced

Video Pool is excited to share the Canada Council for the Arts’ announcement of a 1.5 million dollar investment into a new digital distribution platform.
We are thrilled to be part of this amazing group of distributors who have been working so hard to get the platform off the ground to benefit Video Pool Members and the Media Arts Community at large.