VP Staff & Board

Director

Emma Hendrix

e-mail: emma@videopool.org

Emma (they/them) is a sound and installation artist, sound designer, composer and cultural worker (http://emmahendrix.com). In their sound art practice they build visceral, expressive environments that investigate the narratives of individual experience by revealing and exploring the inherent qualities of sounds, particularly field recordings, found sounds, and ‘machine languages’ of everyday things. Emma creates installations and performances as Manufacturing Entertainment with Julie Gendron, and composes for theatre, dance, video, film and new media installations and performances. In their administrative career they have served on several local and national boards and were active in the research and development of a Provincial Art Service Organization for media arts and digital practices in British Columbia. Emma has developed a practice around social purpose real estate and social enterprise for creative non-profits.

Collections & Distribution

Madeline Bogoch

To rent and purchase artwork for screenings or inquire about distributing your work, contact:

e-mail: madeline@videopool.org

Madeline Bogoch (she/her) is a writer and ﬁlm programmer based in Treaty 1 Territory/Winnipeg. Her writing has been published in Public Parking, C Magazine, Peripheral Review, Galleries West, and others. Madeline is the Director of Media Collections and Distribution at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, current Guest Editor at BlackFlash Magazine, and Co-Director of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF).

Technical Services

Eusebio Lopez-Aguilar

e-mail: eusebio@videopool.org

Eusebio (he/him) is a musician, producer, audio-engineer, sound designer, and father. He has worked with many local, national, and international artists through his work in studio and on stage as both a performer and sound technician. Through his social activism, he has endeavoured to make art making and art showcasing more accessible for underserved and underrepresented communities in Winnipeg. His art practice has included work with technology, soundscapes, and lighting. Currently focusing on raising two strong brown geniuses, he does find time to write and record music.

Programming

Iyunade Judah

e-mail: iyunade@videopool.org

Iyunade Judah (he/him)is a visual artist. His mediums are photography, film and sound. His work explores themes around blackness and its relationship to subjects like love, masculinity, and tradition using re-imagination and symbolism as vehicles.

Facilities and Administration

Shereen Ramprashad

e-mail: shereen@videopool.org || venue@videopool.org

Shereen Ramprashad (she/her) is a mid career interdisciplinary artist, blending spoken word, sound, and video. Her ongoing Instagram project Boring Post is a look at every day mundane and the contrast with the expectations of social media. Her practise includes collaborative work under the umbrella of Duo Project. She explores social media’s impact on society’s perception vs perspective, communication vs misinformation. In her quiet moments she enjoys crocheting fun and interesting dog sweaters for the very small to the very big.

Education

Sasha Kucas

email: education@videopool.org

Sasha Kucas is a first-generation Canadian with Croatian ancestry, a writer, and a lens-based artist. Kucas' academic career reflects her commitment to life-long learning. Her path began in architecture, progressed to fine arts and dance, and led to a theatre degree specializing in production and design from the University of Winnipeg. She received a Post-Baccalaureate in Education at the Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC and a Fine Arts degree with Distinction from the University of Manitoba. Kucas has transitioned from teaching to working in the Arts sector. At VPMAC, she will combine her passion for education and art and is super excited to be a part of developing the Education Program.

Accounting

Angela Forget

Bookkeeper: Angela Forget (she/her)

To contact us by phone about accounting or bookkeeping related matters, please contact Emma as above.

Gallery Installer

Theo Pelmus

Bio Coming Soon!

Graphic Design

Sarah S Design

Bio Coming Soon!

Board of Directors

Chair

Hazel Venzon

Hazel (she/her) is a theatre artist: an actress, social-performance artist, writer, director and producer. Her artistic background is rooted in Sculpture and Performance Art (University of Manitoba’s School of Fine Art) and formal Acting Training (Studio 58).

As a producer, Hazel has self-produced her own works around Canada since 2002 (Eat Kiss and More, boombox, Embrace, Your Nanny Hates You). By 2007 she linked up with Canadian performance-based innovators Mammalian Diving Reflex (MDR) (Toronto). She continues to produce and tour MDR works today. During her time in Whitehorse (Yukon Territories) she produced local, national and international works in the performing arts as Programming Associate for the Yukon Arts Centre. She has produced for festivals such as PuSh, Luminato and as the Industry Producer for Magnetic North Theatre Festival.

As a performer, Venzon spent ten years working with Vancouver’s most innovative theatre companies including Boca del Lupo, Caravan Farm, The Chop, Green Thumb, New World Theatre, Rumble Productions, Ruby Slippers, Theatre Replacement and Urban Crawl. Collaborative credits in Toronto include projects with Volcano Theatre, Cahoots and Mammalian Diving Reflex. International tours include The Places We Go (Tacloban City, Philippines), and Nanay: a testimonal play (Berlin and Manila).

She is the founder and executive artistic producer of U ‘N I T(ogether)Productions, a producing company for theatre, film and television – shared with fellow Winnipeg-based artist, David Oro.

Vice-Chair

Douglas Lewis

(He/Him) As a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and art educator, my vision is to generate “relational situations” through my art, and further discourse. As an artist, I explore concepts between social and subconscious spaces that rely on an ever-evolving variety of mediums which include sculpture, video, photo, audio, and performance, often culminating as installations. As a curator, my interest is to produce collaborative relationships between myself and selected artists. I am specifically interested in the concept of "distances" between things geographic, cultural, socio-political, or economic. As an art teacher, I draw from my experiences abroad, artmaking and curation. My primary instinct is to help students learn to be self-driven and conceptually minded so they might find the mediums that best fulfil their interests. This process includes teaching the necessary technical skills to work with selected materials.

Treasurer

Fernando Dalayoan

Fernando Dalayoan (he/him) is a Filipino-Canadian filmmaker, writer, and performer living in Winnipeg. He has produced several short films that touch on the theme of Asian diaspora, particularly the Filipino-Canadian experience. He works full-time as an elementary teacher and holds a Master’s Degree in Education.

Dalayoan’s short films have been screened in Canada and internationally. Young Ligaw, which is Dalayoan’s second film to be awarded the National Film Board of Canada Financial Assistance Program, was officially selected at the 12th DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival, 8th Chicago Filipino American Film Festival, and International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal. Dalayoan’s documentary, Manila Road, ranked as one of the top three short documentaries in the Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival (2013). His short film “Hearing Diversity” was one of the winners in the ACTRA National Diversity Short Film Competition 2015. His latest short film is called “Caring for Lola” (2019).

Dalayoan continues to hone his skills as a filmmaker. He appreciates different facets of filmmaking and values collaborating with different artists to achieve a common vision. He has begun working on a featured documentary that he is co-directing and co-producing.

Secretary

Vanessa Eidse

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vanessa Eidse (she/her) received her BFA at the University of Manitoba School of Art (1995) and MFA in Time Based Art at York University (2002). After graduating she moved to Khon Kaen, Thailand, where she worked in the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Khon Kaen (2002-2005). She has exhibited work in Canada at TRUCK Gallery (Calgary), the AGYU (Toronto), Video Poem Festival (Vancouver), as well as Ace Art and Plug In (Winnipeg). Her work has shown internationally at XX Video Art Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, the Film/Video Arts Anthology Film Archives, New York and at the Sixth International Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland.

In past years, Vanessa has interned at The Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, volunteered at El Museo de los Ninos in Sucre, Bolivia and Art City in Winnipeg. She currently lives in Winnipeg with her family.

Members at Large

Alex Also

Alex (they/them) is a Winnipeg based interdisciplinary artist from Northern New Mexico, whose current personal practice is based in drawing and moving image mediums. With a professional background in Architecture, they seek out the spaces between things; between tangible and intangible, place and movement, being and becoming. In early fall 2021 they completed a residency program at Pocoapoco in Oaxaca Mexico, and in the summer of 2022 they screened their first short film “Objects in Mirror are Closer” in Winnipeg Manitoba. Over the last year the guiding theme of Also’s work has been deep grief and the mechanisms by which that grief is metabolized. They look forward to dedicating much of 2023 to making lamps.

Nathan Flores

Nathan Flores (he/him) aka Nayden, is a rising young Filipino-Canadian Artist and Filmmaker based in Winnipeg, Canada, who writes, directs, lenses, and edits his own short films, music videos, A/V installations, and other indie projects. His work explores a deep connection to memory, nostalgia, self, and longing for what once was, or was never there to begin with. Nayden's talents have been recognized on a national level, earning a Best Student Cinematography nomination from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) for his debut short film, "1000 Paper Cranes'', as well as "Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography" and "Best Young Filmmaker" at the Los Angeles Indie Short Fest. Nayden's video exhibit, “Tell Me When The Time Has Come”, was presented at Kultivation Festival sponsored by CBC Manitoba, and his multimedia exhibits, "The Renaissance of Memory" and “Closure”, premiered at Nuit Blanche in 2022 and 2023. His newest short film, “Memories of Youth” (CBC Gem) won Best Cinematography and Best Editing at UWPG Film Festival and was nominated for an award in Sound Editing, and has screened at festivals both locally and internationally. Nayden is evolving his artistry as an emerging talent, crafting innovative narratives across diverse mediums that offer a deeply personal connection with his audience.

Ryan Takatsu

Ryan Takatsu (he/him) is a sansei, designer, video artist, cultural equity advocate and co-founder of Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Born in Winnipeg and studied at the University of Manitoba – Interior Design; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity - Toronto Publishing Workshop; the University of Toronto - Information Technology Design Centre, Apple Design Modeling Centre; and the University of Winnipeg.

During the 1980s and 1990s, he was a cultural worker with the diverse visual arts communities of Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal.

Currently, he is a prolific, social media-pocket video artist focusing on music, art, social comment and social anthropology. He is an occasional writer and has written for the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation and recent video works have been screened at the Gimili Film Festival, ArchiShorts and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

Megan McDonald

Megan (she/her) is Saskatchewan-raised, Winnipeg-based whose presence is usually behind-the-scenes and camera. With a formal education in political science and women and gender studies, with additional background in film history, she is interested in studying the intersections of gender, sex, and race in politics and media. Megan's primary artistic interests lay within the realms of analog film and film production and she has experience working in theatre arts administration. She is continuing to explore new mediums and processes, including film processing, collage, and writing.

Rachael Hosein

Bio coming Soon!