Workshops
Winnipeg Studio Theatre and Brenda Gorlick Presents: Young Stars
August 23, 2010 to May 01, 2011
3 exciting programs for all ages
SUMMERSTARS
August 23 - 28, 2010
Intensive 1-week musical theatre program taught by local professionals
Intermediate (11-14) and Senior Levels (15 and up)
Music Video Creation
Registration Fee: $450.00 (plus GST)
YOUNGSTARS
September to May, 2010/2011
A Triple Threat Program with Specialized Instruction in Acting, Singing and Dancing
End of Year Performance
Registration Fee: $1350.00 (plus GST)
*New this season*
ADULTS ONLY ENSEMBLE
September to May, 2010/2011
A Musical Theatre Intensive for adults 18 and up
Limited enrollment
End of year cabaret
Registration Fee: $950.00 (plus GST)
Location: Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film (U of W Campus)
Enrollment to all classes by audition
For more information please visit:
www.winnipegstudiotheatre.com
Or contact Brenda Gorlick:
bregor@shaw.ca
The Whole Caboodle: Advanced Poetics Workshop with Ted Dyck
September 10, 2010
The Whole Caboodle
Advanced Poetics Workshop with Ted Dyck: September 26
Application & Submission Deadline: September 10
Advanced Poetics Workshop
Ted Dyck will be leading an advanced poetics workshop on the major tools at a poet’s disposal (Verse, Figure, and Form) on Sunday September 26th in the Burns Creative Classroom, second floor Arts Space, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It will be based on work submitted by participants. More information and details of the workshop are available from Victor Enns at venns@mts.net.
Cost $75 for members, $125 for non-members that includes a MWG membership
Minimum number of participants: 7
Maximum number of participants: 10
Selection Process:
First priority will be given to published writers then unpublished writers on a first come first served basis. It is expected that this will be a multi-level workshop and all writers are encouraged to register.
Method:
All writers will electronically submit five poems to a maximum of eight pages of new work. Poems for discussion will be selected by the facilitator. A syllabus (poems, summaries of concepts, writing exercises, and readings) will be circulated by email to all participants a week before the workshop. All poets will have their work discussed.
All registrations and submissions should be made by email to venns@mts.net . Fees, however, are to be paid by cheque to “The Manitoba Writers’ Guild” and mailed to MWG, 218-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3
Mentorship 101 with Shawna Dempsey (MAWA)
September 11, 2010
Sunday, September 11, 1-4pm, $50
MAWA presents Mentorship 101, with support from ACI Manitoba. MAWA has been a pioneer in the field of arts mentorship for the past 26 years. In this 3hour workshop, we will explore the ins and outs of arts mentorship: what is mentorship, what makes an effective mentorship program, sample structures, how to select good mentors, how to make effective pairings with trainees, ingredients of a productive mentorship, pitfalls and how to avoid them, managing expectations (realistic and unrealistic), negotiating conflict and closure. Led by experienced mentor and MAWA Co-ED Shawna Dempsey, this workshop is an excellent how-to for anyone considering setting up a mentorship program, anyone who will be mentoring, or anyone who works in peer-based arts education.
Please e-mail programs@mawa.ca by Thursday, September 10 if you will be attending. Places are limited.
Script Supervision
September 11, 2010 to September 12, 2010
Working closely with the director, sound, camera, wardrobe, and art departments, as well as the actors, the script supervisor/continuity person is in a unique position to observe and support the creation of a film. The script supervisor is the technical safety net for the crew and is responsible for ensuring that the footage delivered to the producers is in keeping with the approved script and contains the necessary elements for a successful edit.
Film Training Manitoba has designed this 2-day course to examine the essential skills, set etiquette, and techniques necessary to work as a script supervisor in the local film industry.
Script Supervision 101
September 11th | 10 am – 4 pm | $50
This is a primer course on continuity suitable for participants at an entry to intermediate level.
This workshop covers the basics that you need before you book your first continuity job or job shadowing experience as a script supervisor. If you’ve already done script on a feature or short film, this course will fill in any gaps in training you may have. If you’ve never been on a film set before this workshop will give you the opportunity to see if script supervision is a career path you would like to pursue. If you are a director, actor, producer, or other film technician and would like to know how to work more effectively with your continuity person, you will also find this course useful.
Some of the topics covered include:
• The role and responsibilities of the script supervisor during prep and production
• How to time and break down a script
• Script supervision paperwork
• How to "see" like a continuity person
• The differences of script supervision for features, television, and commercials
• Visual F/X note taking
• Basic editing and directing theory
Advanced Script Supervision
September 12th | 10 am – 4 pm | $50
Advanced Script Supervision is suitable for participants who have completed Script Supervision 101 and/or who have gained some on-set experience as a script supervisor.
This workshop was designed to further your knowledge of script supervision and assist you in your professional development as a script supervisor for film and television. Some of the topics covered include:
• The most common technical errors directors make and how script can help them work with different acting styles
• Tips for handling multiple camera shooting
• What block shooting is and how to prepare for it
• Post visual effects note taking and what you should know
• Continuity for improvised scenes
• Creating computer-based editing notes
About The Instructor
Daniela Saioni has been a professional script supervisor since 1992 and is a proud member of IATSE 873 and ACTRA. She has worked as a script supervisor on feature films (Traitor, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Three to Tango, The Boondock Saints), television series (Soul Food, Traders, Angela’s Eyes), miniseries (The Path to 9/11), and MOWs (The Day Reagan Was Shot). She has been a script supervisor in nine countries and has also done commercials for all budget levels and genres.
Our workshops are held in various venues in the downtown area so please visit our website, www.filmtraining.mb.ca, for more information on how to find us, and how to register for these workshops. You can also call us at 989-9669!
Film Training Manitoba is pleased to offer training at a significantly reduced cost to the Manitoba Film industry.
Aqua Books: Forging the Muse - A Workshop with poet Chandra Mayor
September 15, 2010 to December 01, 2010
When: September 15, 22, 29
October 6, 13, 20, 27
November 3, 10, 17, 24
December 1
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Location: Aqua Books (274 Garry Street, between Graham and Portage)
Cost: $250 plus GST.
Contact kelly@aquabooks.ca or 943-7555 to register.
Notes: This workshop is appropriate for beginning or intermediate poets and is limited to 10 people. Bring a notebook and pen.
Does the Muse of Poetry come to you at night, streaming with the moon through your windows, the unseen hand guiding your pen as you fill page after page with (probably rhyming) verse of unspeakable beauty and profundity, while you, the passive vehicle for this marvel, surrender yourself up to the voices of Truth and Light? Nope, me neither. (And if that is indeed your poetic process, you’ll probably hate my course).
“Poetry is the way we give name to the nameless so that it can be thought,” said Audre Lorde. This 12 week course will help us understand how that happens – how each of us can transform images, ideas, and emotions into words that truly communicate in our writing. We will focus on the craft of poetry and of language (image and metaphor, place and point of view, voice, form poetry, line breaks, and how to give effective readings). We’ll learn how (and why) editing and workshopping is so important. We’ll explore personal mythologies, the world(s) of publishing, performativity, and whatever else seems interesting. We’ll play, and take risks, and create a community of writers – we won’t (and shouldn’t) always agree with each other, but we’ll each understand more about what we write, why we write, and how to get closer to the poems we really want to write. The course will include lots of reading, lots of discussion, and most importantly, lots of writing (and lots of feedback).
I don’t really believe in the notion of ‘the muse.’ But I do believe in inspiration, hard work, the creative urge, and learning the skills to express it. And I do believe, absolutely, that poetry can (and does) transform the world, and ourselves. Let’s light the fires and figure out how.
Chandra Mayor’s writing has appeared in several anthologies, including Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood, Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, and Post-Prairie. Her first book, August Witch: poems, was short-listed for four Manitoba book awards and won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. She received the 2004 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer, and the following year her novel, Cherry, won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. The title story from her most recent book, All the Pretty Girls (conundrum), was shortlisted for a 2008 CBC Literary Award,and the collection itself won a Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Mayor lives in Winnipeg.
For more information, visit http://aquabooks.ca/
Negotiation Skills with Gary Furlong
September 18, 2010
Alliance of Manitoba Sector Councils, 1000 Waverly | $50
September 18th | 9 am – 5 pm
The film and television industry is dynamic, fast-paced, and all about negotiation. The crew negotiates with their department heads, the department heads negotiate with the production manager, and the production manager negotiates with everyone. To be successful in the film industry you must be able to negotiate.
This one-day course is designed to enhance the negotiating skills of anyone working in the film and television industry. Through a combination of mini-lectures and experimental exercises, participants will learn specific methods to help them become more effective negotiators - both on-the-job, and in their personal lives.
Mr. Furlong holds a Master of Laws and has extensive experience in mediation. He has delivered customized courses for the film and television industry, including work with ACTRA and the National Screen Institute.
Focal Point: Lecture Series with Dr. Oliver Botar
September 23, 2010
László Moholy-Nagy and Feminism: The Origins of his Photographic Practice
Thursday 23 September 2010 @ 7 PM @ Aqua Books 274 Garry Street
In this lecture Dr. Botar will present his research on Moholy-Nagy’s early exposure to a circle of Feminist photographers in Budapest, and his contacts during the early ’20s with German women’s communes and their work with the photogram. These experiences helped inspire him to write his highly influential Bauhaus book Painting, Photography, Film (1925), his manifesto of the “New Vision,” and laid the foundation for one of the most important Modernist photographic practices of the 20th century.
Currently, an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Oliver A.I. Botar’s research regards early twentieth-century Central European Modernism with an emphasis on Hungary and Germany plus “Biocentrism” and Modernism in early to mid-twentieth-century art, architecture and photography, and the history of art in new media (with a particular focus on the art of László Moholy-Nagy).
WSO Workshop with Mark O'Connor: Violin Method Book Series
September 25, 2010
The WSO is delighted to present a workshop on Mark O’Connor’s Violin Method Book Series. The one-day introductory workshop will take place on Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 9:00am – 3:30pm. The workshop will include a presentation by Mark O’Connor followed by a workshop on the series with Pamela Wiley on the method books.
For only $135.00, your workshop registration includes Book I & II with CDs, lunch, and a ticket to the WSO’s concert with Mark O’Connor that evening.
Sign up by Friday, September 10, 2010 and receive two complimentary tickets to a WSO Masterworks concert during the 2010-2011 season!
This workshop is presented on behalf of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Seven Oaks School Division. For more information, please see the attached Workshop Registration Form or contact Amy Wolfe at (204) 949-3977 or awolfe@wso.mb.ca.
Intro to Google SketchUp for Film and Television
September 25, 2010 to September 26, 2010
September 25th & 26th | 10 am – 5 pm | $125 (includes Google SketchUp 7 for Dummies)
Red River College, Princess Street Campus | Room P318
Instructor - Larry Spittle, Production Designer and Art Director
Google SketchUp is an easy to use software program for exploring, creating and presenting your ideas in 3D. Google SketchUp is free and available for download from Google.
SketchUp allows those working in film and television to work as fast as the ideas come to them. Drawing storyboards, designing sets, and planning shots are just some of the pre-visualization tasks that you can tackle with SketchUp. SketchUp can help you work out your ideas, solve complicated spatial problems, and produce convincing visuals faster than any other digital drawing tool out there.
In this workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of how to use the SketchUp program, starting with simple floor plans and adding in 3D elements using laptop computers. Participants should begin reading Google SketchUp for Dummies prior to the course and download the free version of Google SketchUp 8 , to test out the program prior to the course.
Participants will need:
- Laptop (with power cord)
- Google SketchUp 8, downloaded, installed and functioning - http://sketchup.google.com/download/gsu.html
- Measuring tape
- Pencil and eraser
- Notepad
Aqua Books: Through the Looking Glass; A YA Fiction Writing Intensive with Anita Daher
September 30, 2010 to December 02, 2010
When: Nine Thursdays this fall: September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 18, 25, and December 2, 2010.
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Location: Aqua Books (274 Garry Street, between Graham and Portage)
Cost: $225 plus GST ($200 plus GST before September 1). Contact kelly@aquabooks.ca or 943-7555 to register.
Notes: The workshop is limited to 12 people. Bring a notebook and pen.
Tickle your muse and develop skills as Anita Daher leads you on a journey into the world of writing picture books, children’s periodicals, middle grade and teen novels. Take your vitamins and prepare to absorb in-depth information on the genre, and the children’s writing and publishing industry in Canada. There will be exercises, assignments, dynamic interaction, and at the end—a party!
Anita Daher has been entrenched in the book publishing industry for more than fifteen years. Her short stories have appeared in Prairie Fire Magazine, and she is author of seven youth novels, including Arthur Ellis and MB Book Award finalist Spider’s Song (2006). She has led workshops across the country, and has been a popular presenter at conferences and festivals. When not teaching, presenting, or working on her own stories, Anita edits teen novels for Great Plains Publications.
For more information please visit: http://aquabooks.ca/
"Can I Google it?" Competences and skills required for the cultural field in 2020
October 06, 2010 to October 08, 2010
‘Can I Google it?’
Competences and skills required for the cultural field in 2020
ENCATC’s 18th Annual Conference
Brussels, 6-8 October 2010
ENCATC is pleased to invite you to the 18th ENCATC Annual Conference. This event will take place from the 6 - 8th of October in Brussels at the Residence Palace, the historic Art Deco building, which hosts Brussels’ International Press Centre.
This year, the ENCATC Conference will focus on two of the most important issues facing universities, training organisations and culture. Firstly there is increasing demand from governments, students and employers to focus education on gaining employment rather than enriching oneself intellectually as part of human and civil development. Is a focus on functional competences and skills in Cultural Management providing a poor education for dealing with more complex issues? As the economic downturn begins to really affect cultural spending for governments, with substantial cuts for arts budgets predicted can the creative sector be creative in its response to not just survive but thrive.
It will also allow you to understanding better a number of guiding documents and major conferences initiated by UNESCO and others that have created new cultural and educational policy directions - from Stockholm in 1998 to Seoul 2010. These also include the adoption of the UNESCO Convention on the protection and the Promotion Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005 and the World Conferences on Education for Sustainable Development. Each of these landmark events has provided an impetus to rethink what is taught in universities.
The Conference will provide opportunities to debate, to network, as well as to exchange experiences by offering participants a wide range of strategies and practices adopted by universities in different context across Europe and beyond. Moreover, interactive seminars and study visits will offer academics, trainers, cultural operators and experts from a range of backgrounds, the possibility to debate and discuss about current trends and perspectives in cultural management and cultural policy.
To register for ENCATC’s Annual Conference, please click here: http://www.encatc.org/register/. Deadline for registration is the 23 of September.
Canadian Conference of the Arts 2010 National Policy Conference
November 01, 2010 to November 03, 2010
Artists: Powering the Creative Economy?
Dates: November 1-3, 2010
Location: Ottawa
Join the Canadian Conference of the Arts in celebrating our 65th anniversary with the CCA Annual Awards Ceremony and our 2010 National Policy Conference.
Since the creative economy is local, regional, national and global, the scope for discussion is vast. Over the course of three days, our Conference will be a forum for these issues by focussing on the role of the artist. Keynote speakers, panels, emerging thinkers, and artists will consider impediments and aids impacting artists who may be driving the creative economy.
As Canada and other countries move towards an increasingly flexible, digitally-based, mobile and creative economy, artists and producers of content are both more important players and increasingly vulnerable. The Canadian Conference of the Arts 2010 National Policy Conference will explore the policies we need to ensure that Canada will be a leading player in the creative economy.
To keep updated on speakers, sessions, and the conference location check our website frequently! www.ccarts.ca
Writing for Visual Artists: Out of Your Head and onto the Page with Kari Hasselriis (MAWA)
November 08, 2010 to November 10, 2010
Free for MAWA and ACI MANITOBA members; $30 for non-members
MAWA presents Writing for Visual Artists with support from ACI Manitoba. Kari Hasselriis talks us through the many tricks (and potential pit-falls) of written communication. This three-evening workshop covers grammar basics, discusses how to compose effective e-mails, gives you tips on how to not overwrite and instructs on how to create parallel structure and active voice. Learn correct comma usage! Break free of tired grammar myths! Befriend the semi-colon! All this and more to help you hone your skills on writing grants, artist statements and day-to-day communications to better articulate your ideas.
Kari Hasselriis is a freelance grammar nerd. She has taught in Czech Republic, California, and Russia. She now teaches around Manitoba in the public and private sector. She likes breaking grammar myths and mentoring on style and structure. In her free time she knits and dotes on her horses.
No need to register just show up!
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