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3 EVENTS IN DECEMBER, 2011
Community Solidarity Network presents
Whose Streets?
G20 Fundraiser & Book Launch Party
Launch of the first book about the G20 protests:
Whose Streets?
The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest.
All proceeds go to the Toronto G20 Legal Defence Fund.
Performances by Hut (with members of Hooded Fang),
Abstract Random, and Secret Trial Five.
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Thursday, December 8, 7:30-11:30pm,
$10 / pwyc
(sliding scale, no one will be turned away!)
Pomme's
1st Birthday Party!
Wear something pink. Panty optional.
DJs Plex and My Goodness.
Saturday, December 3, 10pm, $5 before 11pm, $10 after
The Loop Collective presents its Lighthouse
Memory Fade: Carl E. Brown
A North American 35mm premiere!
plus a feature-length 16mm film.
Carl E. Brown in person!
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Friday, December 2, 8pm, free!
Donations welcome.
(unclassified)
NOVEMBER 5, 2011
Pleasure Dome Artists' Film Exhibition Group presents
Splitting the Choir
Donigan Cumming, in person!
Saturday, November 5, 8pm, $8
(unclassified)
Book Launch - 7pm
3 EVENTS IN OCTOBER, 2011
Wavelength Music Arts Projects presents
Halloween Party with Corpusse
Corpusse: Surrender to the Passion
a documentary by Malcolm Fraser
(2010, HD video, 59 minutes)
followed by a
rare live performance by Corpusse himself!
then a
DJ dance party with Invisible City Sound System.
Saturday, October 29, 10pm, $15 (adults only)
advance tickets at Rotate This & Soundscapes
Inside Under The Volcano:
Frater Achad & Malcolm Lowry
A new documentary by Elio
Gelmini
(Canada, 2011, video, 50 minutes)
Thursday October 6, 8:30pm, free!
PRIVATE SCREENING
RSVP: elio dot gelmini at sympatico dot ca
The 6th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
in 130 varied locations, indoors and outdoors.
Saturday-Sunday, October 1-2, 7pm-7am, free!
including: CineCycle presents
"Scopitones" on 16mm, outdoors!
Short music films from the 1960s. (unclassified)
Saturday-Sunday, October 1-2, 9pm-7am, free!
Courtyard, Main Floor, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
5 EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER, 2011
The Loop Collective presents its Lighthouse Series
Movement, Gesture, Dance
Short films and videos, 1946-2011.
16mm films by Amy Greenfield, Maya Deren, Garine Torossian,
Sarah Abbott, Ed Emshwiller and Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.
Videos by Allen Kaeja & Douglas Rosenberg, Erin McCurdy,
Priscilla Guy & Mandoline Hybride and K.G. Guttman.
Total running time: 110 minutes, plus Intermission.
Curated by Kassandra Prus. Facebook
Friday, September 30, 8pm, free!
Donations welcome.
(unclassified)
100
Thousand Poets for Change
Short readings, performances, videos,
by John Barlow, Jemeni G, Chet Singh,
Min Sook Lee, Lynn Crosbie, Priscilla Uppal,
Steve Venright, Allan Tong & Ngardy Conteh,
Christine Duncan, Powys Dewhurst, Mike Hoolboom,
Darren O'Donnell & The Young Mammals and others.
A global event in 350 cities in 70 countries!
Saturday, September 24, 8pm, $pwyc
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) presents
Land of Destiny
A documentary (video, 2010, 80 min.) by
Brett Story, in person!
Co-winner of the best Canadian documentary
at the 2011 Canadian Environmental Awards!
Followed by a Q&A, music and socializing!
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Friday, September 23, 7pm, $5-10
No one turned away!
Drop Frame Video presents, from the Videodrome…
Tragedy, Controversy & Memory:
Reflections on 9/11
10th Anniversary of "9/11"
Short videos by 15 artists including
Augart, Daniel Borins , Dave Diaz, Emad Dabiri,
Istvan Kantor, Jeremy Bailey, Jubal Brown, Kurkop,
Nwodtlem, Pete OHearn, Skeeter, TalixZen, and more.
Plus a media tennis match with Metzgorrre, Radock,
MountainDewMann, ThatComputerPerson, Pilli10,
Superkoffee, Djninjalovemistake and Chrisgendo.
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Sunday, September 11, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
9th Sea Change - A Night
of New Performance
New work by Toronto artists of different disciplines:
Noah Davis, Dave Borins, Nicole Ratjen,
Nathan Carroll and Miguel Ramirez.
Snacks and refreshments!
Friday, September 9, 8pm, $7 advance, $10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
2 EVENTS IN AUGUST, 2011
pomme
is french for apple
A fresh and irreverent look at womanhood,
sex, society, and all kinda madness in between.
Creators & performers Bahia Watson, Liza Paul,
featuring Abena Malika. Panty optional. Adults only.
Thursday-Saturday, August 25-27, 9pm, $12
Admission by guest list only. Limited seating.
RSVP: comeseepomme at gmail dot com
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Tension vs. Meditation:
Contemporary Japanese Animation
8 short videos, 2006-2011, total 52 minutes,
by Shiho Kano, Yusuke Nakajima, Aki Nakazawa,
Yuta Takehiro, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Kotaro Tanaka,
Kazuhiro Goshima and Chikara Matsumoto.
Curated and presented in person by LIFT's
current artist-in-residence, Tomonari Nishikawa.
Friday, August 5, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
2 EVENTS IN JULY, 2011
New Teatro Theatre Company presents
Techno and Salsa Party
A fundraiser with DJ Camilo,
food and a cash bar.
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Friday, July 15, 10pm, $5
Scapegoat Journal and Gendai Gallery present
16mm Films by Ernie
Gehr
3 shorts, 1972-1992, 93 minutes.
Launching Scapegoat: Issue 01.
Dance party with DJs, cash bar
Friday, July 8, 8:30pm, $5
(unclassified)
$10 with copy of Scapegoat: Issue 01
2 EVENTS IN JUNE, 2011
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Minority Report:
Representing Gays, Lesbians and
the Sexual ‘Other’
in Sexploitation Films
Lecture & Screening with Eric Schaefer in person!
Associate Professor, Dep't of Visual & Media Arts,
Emerson College, Boston.
Saturday, June 25, 7pm, $8 (unclassified)
The Loop Collective presents their Lighthouse Series
Recent Works by The
Double Negative Collective
A group of experimental film and video artists in Montreal.
35mm films by Christopher Becks, Karl Lemieux and Daïchi Saïto,
16mm films by Malena Szlam, Lindsay McIntyre, Philippe Léonard,
and Lucia Fezzuoglio, a video by Eduardo Menz,
and a live performance by Jerusalem in My Heart.
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Friday, June 3, 9pm, free!
Donations welcome.
(unclassified)
MAY 28, 2011
Gallery TPW presents
Episode III: Enjoy Poverty
(Renzo Martens, Netherlands, 2009, video, 90 min.)
A gonzo art-documentary, followed by a
discussion moderated by art historian and critic
Nikolas Drosos in person from New York City!
Saturday, May 28, 7pm, free! (unclassified)
4 EVENTS IN APRIL, 2011
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
Toronto artists from different disciplines.
Snacks and refreshments!
Friday, April 29, 8pm, $7 advance, $10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
Angura
and
the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS)
present
Keiichi Tanaami Animation Retrospective
A rare screening of 10 short videos (1975 - 2005)
by this legend of Japanese pop psychedelia.
A Benefit for Japan - all proceeds to the
Red Cross Japan Earthquake Fund.
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Saturday, April 23, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Enrico Mandirola:
Residency Screening & Artist Talk
Spring 2011 Resident Enrico Mandirola,
in person from Bogota, Columbia!
with the premiere of 2 new 16mm films!
Plus his first film (1999, 16mm).
Followed by an artist talk.
Friday, April 15, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
FADO Performance Art Centre presents
Imagined Spaces / Lost Objects
Performances by Laura Margita, Amalie Atkins,
Janine Eisenächer and Julianna Barabas.
Amalie Atkins' film performance includes
a bicycle-powered 16mm projector!
Curated by Victoria Stanton.
Sunday, April 3, 7pm, $10 / pwyc
2 EVENTS IN MARCH, 2011
The Loop
Collective presents their
Lighthouse Series of experimental cinema
Stan Brakhage: The Vancouver
Island Quartet
(1991-2003, 16mm, 192 minutes, silent)
One of the first-ever public screenings!
Introduced by R. Bruce Elder!
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Friday, March 18, 8pm, free,
donations welcome (unclassified)
Pauses between the four films, and one brief intermission.
Pleasure
Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group and
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art present
Enthusiasmic:
Films of Love, Longing and Labour
Marysia Lewandowska in person!
Guest-curated by Scott McLeod.
Friday, March 4, 7pm, $8 (unclassified)
FEBRUARY 26, 2011
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Entropicana:
The Joy of Destruction
Films and videos, including by Michael Snow,
Ujjwal Utkarsh, Michel Klöfkorn, Chris Gehman,
Alexandre Larose and Louise Bourque.
Saturday, February 26, 7pm, $8 (unclassified)
JANUARY 21, 2011
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
Toronto artists from different disciplines.
Alicia Eisen, Hamza Fouad, Andy Cockburn,
Jason Maghanoy and Chere Francoise.
Snacks and refreshments!
Friday, January 21, 8pm, $7 advance, $10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
34 EVENTS IN 2010
EVENTS 2008
- 2009 - 2011
- 2012-2014
- Upcoming
DECEMBER 11
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
Saturday, December 11
DECEMBER 4
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
On an Exotic Adventure…
Blondes in the Jungle
(Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA, video, 45 minutes),
and Home 2 (Olaf Breuning, USA, video, 30 minutes).
Saturday, December 4, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
4 EVENTS IN NOVEMBER
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Niagara Strikes Again:
Recent Films from the Niagara Custom
Lab
Hand-processed, optically-printed, 35mm & 16mm films
made at Toronto's unique, artist-run, custom film lab, by
Alexi Manis, Sara MacLean, Chris Gehman, Andrew Lennox,
Kelly Egan, John Price, Sebastjan Henrickson, Joshua Bonetta.
Guest-curated by Sebastjan Henrickson in person!
Friday, November 26, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
In A Sedimental Mood
Marc Couroux in person from Montreal!
with his recent videos, and the premiere
of one created especially for Pleasure Dome!
Friday, November 19, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
24h
of butoh and it is not butoh
Performances and Installations.
19 Toronto & American artists.
Non-stop for 24 hours!
From Friday, November 12, 11:59pm
to Saturday, November 13, 11:59pm.
$10 / pwyc
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
The Unlucky Sailor
Recent video by Gary Kibbins in person!
from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Saturday, November 6, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
3 EVENTS IN OCTOBER
BreakThrough:
A Conscious Documentary
Ordinary People having ExtraOrdinary Conversations.
A screening and breakout session with co-directors
Michal Abney & Jaimes McNeal in person!
Monday, October 25, 7:30-10:30pm, $30 (unclassified)
Matiz-Nuance MultiArts Movement presents
Fort-Da
Videos, live performances, and a round-table discussion
by Latin American Toronto artists, in person!
Juana Awad, Jorge Arcila, Julieta Maria, Laura Barron
and Gullermina Buzio. Curated by Carmen Ocampo.
Friday, October 22, 8pm, free! (unclassified)
The 5th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
in 130 varied locations, indoors and outdoors.
Saturday-Sunday, October 2-3, 7pm-7am, free!
including: CineCycle presents
"Scopitones" on 16mm, outdoors!
Short music films from the 1960s. (unclassified)
Saturday-Sunday, October 2-3, 9pm-7am, free!
Courtyard, Main Floor, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
2 EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER
Theatre Caravel presents its quarterly series
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
TONIGHT: Darren O'Donnell and the Torontonians,
Sam Clayton, Teodoro Dragonieri, David Delisca.
Snacks & refreshments!
Friday, September 24, 8pm, $7 advance,
$10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
The Broken Shape:
Jennet Thomas in Person
From London, UK with her short videos, 1997-2008.
Saturday, September 18, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
AUGUST 22
10th
Bicycle Film Festival Tour
4th year in Toronto. Mostly video. (unclassified)
August 18-22
INCLUDING
Empire
by Christian Thormann & Luke Styles
(USA, 2010, video, 55 minutes) preceded by 2 short videos.
Sunday, August 22, 8pm, at CineCycle
2 EVENTS IN JUNE 2010
Celebrating Toronto Bike Month with
Pedal
Power
Director Christopher Sumpton in person!
Preceded by live music by local musician Donald
Quan
on his custom Bikrophone
- a musical bicycle instrument.
Thursday, June 17, 8pm, $5
Pleasure Dome celebrates it's 20th Anniversary with
Curating from the Archives:
A 20th Anniversary Event
A two-part program of past works (1967-2003)
curated by Andrew James Paterson and
Sarah Robayo Sheridan, both in person!
16mm films by Marcel Broodthaer (a very rare print),
Robert Nelson, Andrea Callard, Joyce Wieland, George Kuchar,
and videos by Roberto Ariganello, John Smith, Riccardo Iacona,
Cathy Sisler, Steve Reinke, Martha Colburn, Sadie Benning,
Diane Bonder and Anne McGuire.
Sunday, June
13, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
(moved from outdoors, June 12, due to rain)
4 EVENTS IN MAY 2010
Live Music
Saturday, May 29
WORN
Fashion Journal Issue 10
Release Party and Art-on-Pins Exhibit
Sassy, soulful, sixties songs.
One-inch pins - a buck a button!
Friday, May 28, 9pm-2am, $7
$5 if you wear a pin. Cover includes free Issue 10.
Petunia
Veteran Toronto country-blues music and film artist,
recently based in British Columbia & New Brunswick.
The Minimalist Jug Band
Veteran Toronto slam poet music artist.
Thursday, May 27
Upping
the Anti Launch Party!
Launching Upping the Anti Journal, Issue #10
Raffle, Dancing, Politics, Fun.
DJ Tanner and DJ Zehra.
Thursday, May 20. 8pm, $10
(includes new issue)
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Subscribers get in free.
4 EVENTS IN APRIL 2010
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents Part 4 of its Strategies of the Medium series
Pieces of Eight
Super 8 & 8mm films shown on super 8, 16mm, 35mm, video, by
John Price, Gail Mentlik & Anne Borden, John Porter, Roy Mitchell,
Kika Thorne, John Cannizzaro, Chris Kennedy, Alexandre Larose,
Dagie Brundert, Robert Kennedy, Allyson Mitchell, Clive Holden.
Followed by a Panel Discussion with
Alexandre Larose in person from Montreal!,
Kika Thorne, Roy Mitchell and John Porter.
Friday, April 30, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Toronto Film Scene presents
Offside
(Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2006)
Screening in support of the filmmaker
recently jailed in Iran without charges.
Among many international screenings this week
of Panahi's award-winning films.
All proceeds donated to Amnesty International.
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group "Free Jafar Panahi".
Tuesday, April 20, 8pm, $10 (classified)
The
3rd Zero Film Festival
North America & Europe Tour of the best of the festival
held in Los Angeles and Brooklyn last December.
Self-financed indie films from around the world and
local filmmakers in hosting cities. Curated by Steven Strauss.
Friday, April 16, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle presents
Personal Ethnographies
Cinema / Performance by
Ross Lipman in person from Los Angeles!
with his 16mm films, 35mm films, and video.
Sunday, April 11, 8pm, $5
5 EVENTS IN MARCH 2010
The Toronto Japanese Film Appreciation Pow-Wow
presents their continuing series of
experimental and underground films from Japan.
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song
1974
Kazuo Hara's 1974 landmark documentary,
(in Japanese with English subtitles), preceded by
shorts by Toronto film & video artist Da Hye Kim.
Curated by Chris MaGee & Naomi Hocura. Facebook
Friday, March 26, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
Toronto Media Co-op, Upping the Anti and Groundwire present
I (Heart) Alt Media
Fundraiser for alternative coverage of the G20.
Featuring live music by 100 Dollars, Bob Wiseman,
Garbage Face, John Rose, Kay Pettigrew, D'bi Young,
Anand Rajaram, and DJs Nick Red & DJ B#.
Thursday, March 25, 9pm
The Owle Bird presents its
Music Video Release Party
Live music by The Owle Bird, The Skeletones Four,
The Dead Elm Society of Canada, and Lisa Bozikovic,
plus short videos by local artists, and live video projections.
Thursday, March 11, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
What Manner of Person Art Thou?
Erin Cosgrove's animated video
(2008, 65 minutes)
Saturday, March 6, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Theatre Caravel presents
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
with Angelica LeMinh, Krista Dalby, Stevie Jay,
Lara Martin and Dominika Dittwald.
Snacks & refreshments!
Friday, March 5, 8pm, $7 advance, $10
at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents
Part 5 of its Strategies of the Medium screening series
Go Big or Go Home
Screening and Panel Discussion.
Contemporary Canadian artists' films,
all shot and finished on 35mm, 2001-2009,
by John Price, Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton,
Louise Bourque, Sonia Bridge, Clive Holden,
Christina Battle, Kelly Egan, Steven Woloshen.
Followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers
Kelly Egan and Steven Woloshen in person.
Saturday, February 27, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Receive Bacon Productions presents
The
Human Project: Screening & After Party
Premiere of the pilot episode of The Human Project
series of experimental art documentaries.
Plus DJ J-Lah (http://www.j-lah.com)
Thursday, February 25, 9:30pm, $5 (unclassified)
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Contact: Tekin Maximilian Salimi - 416-722-7445
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The Films of Chris Kennedy
Toronto independent filmmaker,
programmer, writer,
in person with 6 of his recent 16mm films,
a recent 35mm film and a recent video.
Wednesday, February 24, 8pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
The Pleasure Principle
Three films (on video) from the
McMaster University Film Board
in Hamilton, Ontario, 1966-1969.
Introduction by Stephen Broomer.
Friday, February 12, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
The Toronto Japanese Film Appreciation Pow-Wow
presents the Toronto premiere of
Masaki
Iwana's Vermilion Souls
The first ever feature video made by a butoh dancer!
"Best Film" Award at the 2009 Portobello Film Festival!
Featuring Iwana's dance troupe La Maison du Butoh Blanc.
Presented in Japanese, French, Italian with English subtitles.
(Note: Restricted, adults only, brief scenes of graphic sexuality.)
Preceded by a short talk on butoh and Japanese film, and a
live dance by Minae Omi, Meryem Alaoui, Joanie Audet!
Curated by Chris MaGee & Naomi Hocura. Facebook
Poster
designed by Andrew Remington Bailey.
Friday, February 5, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
JANUARY 2010
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Public Lighting
by Mike Hoolboom in person!
(Canada, 2004, video, 76 min.) Re-cut for this screening!
Saturday, January 23, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Plus the re-launch of the publication
Projecting Questions? (2009) at 7pm.
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
40 EVENTS IN
2009
EVENTS 2008
- 2010 - 2011
- 2012-2014
- Upcoming
Band "Barn Owl" - December 5
Speaker - December 3
6 EVENTS IN NOVEMBER, 2009
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Identifications
Early artists' television (1970)
by Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Garry Kuehn, Klaus Rinke,
Daniel Buren, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Gino de Dominicis, Ger van Elk,
Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Rückriem, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier,
Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn,
Mario Merz, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio.
Saturday, November 28, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Theatre Caravel presents
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
Afrakaren Nile, Haley McGee, Chere Francoise, Rob Faust.
Visual art by Erin Finley. Snacks & refreshments!
Friday, November 27,
8pm, $7 advance, $10 at door
Admission by guest list only, and spaces fill up quick!
RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot com
ambientTV.NET presents
Faceless A video by Manu Luksch.
Thursday, November 26, 8pm
aluCine
Toronto Latin Media Festival (Nov 12-28) presents
screenings at CineCycle November 19-21, including
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group co-presents
Films by Jose Rodriguez-Soltero
Two 16mm films from 1965 & 1966.
Friday, November 20, 7:30pm & 9pm, $8 (unclassified)
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
Cameraless Animation and Animated
Sound
16mm & 35mm Film Workshop with Richard Reeves from Calgary!
Sunday, November 15 , 11am-5pm, $35
Limited enrolment!
Toronto Free Broadcasting (TFB)
/ Toronto Free Gallery
and CineCycle present
Wasting Naples
(Nicol Angrisano)
Digital documentary produced by Insu^TV,
Neopolitan pirate television station,
about the garbage crisis in Southern Italy, 2003-2009,
the largest environmental disaster in Western Europe.
(English cut version. 77 minutes)
Monday, November 2, 7:30pm, free
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS IN OCTOBER, 2009
Studio Tofu presents
1st Annual Hallowheelin'
Urban Cycling Challenge
Open to all cyclists of all skill levels. Facebook
Helmets & costumes suggested. Lights & bag mandatory.
2 Courses: Easy & Hard. Rain or moon. Tonnes of prizes!
Saturday, October 31, Registration:
5:30pm, $8
Ride: 7pm sharp! Manic Coffee, 426 College
St.
Halloween After-Party at CineCycle, 8pm, Non-Riders: $2
EDGE
- Perspectives on Drug Free Culture
A new documentary video (Germany, 2009, 82 minutes)
by Marc Pierschel & Michael Kirchner, in person!
Poster
on flickr!
Tuesday, October 20, 8pm, $10 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group presents
Just One Kiss - The Fall of Ned
Kelly
Finnish filmmaker Sami Van Ingen in person!
with the premiere his new 35mm film with a live
musical soundtrack by local band Picastro.
Friday, October 16, 8pm, $12 (unclassified)
YYZ Artists' Outlet presents
Fashion Show
Designs by Karey Shinn, War and Leisure
and a performance by guest artists including Xenia Benivolski.
Thursday, October 15, 8pm-9:30pm
Pleasure
Dome Artists Film Exhibition Group and
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
present Part 3 of LIFT's Strategies of the Medium series
The Wooden Lightbox: a Secret
Art of Seeing
Alex
MacKenzie in person from Vancouver, BC!
with the Toronto premiere of his
live performance
using his original hand-made 16mm projector!
Saturday, October 10, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
The 4th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events (no super 8)
in 125 varied locations, indoors and outdoors. Poster
on flickr!
Saturday-Sunday, October 3-4, 7pm-7am, free, including:
CineCycle presents
"Scopitones" on 16mm, outdoors,
all-night
Short, music films from the 1960s.
Saturday-Sunday, October 3-4, 9pm-7am (unclassified)
Courtyard, Main Floor, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
The Dupont and Spadina Corner Collective (DCC) presents
Molotov Rag
Fundraiser for the next issue of the magazine.
Live music by Hush Money, Barf, Pigeons!, and Danger! Danger!,
plus spoken word by White Noise Machine, and a vegan bake sale.
Friday, October 2, 9pm, $5
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS IN AUGUST, 2009
Theatre Caravel presents
Sea Change - A Night of New
Performance
New work from artists of all media!
Snacks & refreshments provided.
Saturday, August 29, 8pm, $7 advance,
$10 at door
Spaces fill up quick! RSVP: info at theatrecaravel dot
com
Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) presents
Veer
- A New Documentary about Bicycling
(Greg Fredette, USA, 2008, video) Poster
on flickr!
Exploring America’s fast-growing bicycling culture,
profiling 5 people whose lives are tied to bicycling
and the bike-centric social groups they belong to.
Thursday, August 27, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
York University Depatment of Film presents
Alt Vault
Videos by Sarah Devine, Owen Sheppard, Brad Tinmouth,
Mark Hanson, James Harris, Tara Khalili, Meelad Moaphi,
Ariana Andrei, Alexandra Byers and Tess Marie Garneau,
from the 3rd & 4th Year Alternative Project Workshop
taught by Philip Hoffman at York University.
Wednesday, August 26, 8-11pm, $5/pwyc (unclassified)
Family Contact presents the World Premiere of
My Awesome Movie
New feature-length comedy video made locally by Aaron Manezyk.
Saturday, August 22, 9pm, $5 ($8 w/ DVD) (unclassified)
Preceded by stand-up comedy at 8:30pm.
9th
Bicycle Film Festival Tour, August 19-22,
3rd year in Toronto, at The Royal Cinema & Studio Gallery, presents
After Party
Celebrate the new film Where Are You Go?
by Benny Zenga & Brian Vernor, showing at 7pm at The Royal.
Friday, August 21, 9pm, $5, at CineCycle
Free to Festival ticket holders!
Pleasure Dome presents
Un Été comme les autres
A 16mm double-projection film (1969) by Robert Morris,
a 16mm film (1984) by Joyce Wieland & Hollis Frampton, and
two videos (2006, 2007) by Duncan Campbell and Jordan Wolfson.
Friday, August 14, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
Annual Open Screening (Under the
Stars?)
Bring your films or videos to show, or just come to watch.
16mm, 8mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, mini-DV.
Max 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, August 8, 9pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Due to rain, held at CineCycle
(not in the courtyard of 401 Richmond St. W.)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
4 EVENTS IN JULY, 2009
Pleasure Dome presents
La
Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
(René Laloux, France/Czechoslovakia, 1973, on 35mm!)
Saturday, July 25, 9pm, $8 (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Due to rain, held at CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents Part 2 of its Strategies of the Medium series
Screening / Panel: Printed Light
16mm & 35mm films made using optical printers,
by Martin Arnold, John Kneller, Alexandre Larose,
Barbara Sternberg, Francois Miron, Christina Battle,
Gary Popovich, Louise Bourque, and Amanda Dawn Christie.
Screening followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers
Christina Battle, John Kneller and Francois Miron.
Saturday, July 11, 8pm, $8 suggested donation (unclassified)
Preceded by the LIFT Summer BBQ, 6-8pm,
in the parking lot behind CineCycle.
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) presents
Vegan Delights from Halifax, Nova
Scotia
Screening & discussion with Siloen Daley in person
presenting animated videos made over the past 10 years
by herself and other Halifax women who inspired her:
Beck Barker, Helen Hill, Helen Bredin, Shelley Wallace,
Amy Lockhart, Katherine Sheehan, and Andrea Dorfman.
Friday, July 10, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
The Mourning of Everyday Life
Recent Films by Sarah Pucill, in person from UK!
Friday, July 3, 8pm, $8 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS MARCH-JUNE, 2009
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
presents its Strategies of the Medium series
Screening / Panel: Animating Analogue
Current practices in film-based animation using animation stands.
Screening 16mm films by Jonathan Amitay, Wendy Tilby, Larry Jordan,
Frank Mouris & Caroline Mouris, Janie Geiser, Amy Lockhart,
Chris Gehman, Ed Ackerman & Colin Morton, Rick Raxlen.
Followed by a brief panel discussion with Canadian artists
Jonathan Amitay, Chris Gehman, and Ellen Besen.
Friday, June 19, 7pm, $8 suggested donation (classified)
Ed Video and Pleasure Dome present
The
Iberoamerican Trilogy
by Martin Sastre, in person from Madrid.
(Spain, 2002-2004, video, 40 minutes)
Saturday, June 6, 8pm, $5/pwyc (unclassified)
Celebrating Bike
Month (Toronto, May 25 - June 25),
CineCycle and The Bicycle Film Festival (BFF,
Aug 19-22) present
Film
Night
Premiere of the BFF trailer shot in Toronto in May 2009,
rare 16mm bicycle films curated by Martin Heath and Benny Zenga,
new bicycle videos by Benny Zenga with live music by Nif-D + Melons,
a new bicycle video by Nicholas Kovats, and a super 8 film by John Porter.
Thursday, June 4, 8pm, $5 (adults only)
19th Inside
Out
Toronto LGBT Film & Video Festival
May 14-24, $12/9 each, various venues
No super 8. (classified)
Fridays, May 15 & 22, 7:45pm & 10pm, $9, CineCycle
Honest I's CD Release
also with Mina May, Videotape, Lan Sounds.
Friday, April 10, 10pm, $5 ($8 with a CD)
32elvismovies.com presents
Creepy Classics
Old cartoons, shorts and a black & white horror feature,
all projected on 16mm! With an illustrated program booklet!
Thursday, March 26, 7:30pm, $8
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
6 EVENTS IN FEBRUARY 2009
Jamie's Area Fundraiser
Support the new art space
opening in Kensington Market, March 2009!
Live music by Anagram, Bush League ft. Jeremy Strachan,
Katie Stelnanis, Animal Monster, DJ Rob Gordon, and a
special performance by collaborative artists Butt+Poon.
Saturday, February 28, 10pm, $10
The Community Bicycle Network (CBN) presents
CBN Movie Night
Tired of winter? Break away with the movie
Breaking
Away (Peter Yates, USA, 1979)
Free popcorn, and a raffle for great CBN prizes!
A CBN Fundraiser and Critical Mass Ride After-Warm-Up.
(Join the monthly Critical
Mass Ride at 6pm, Bloor & Spadina.)
Friday, February 27, 8pm, $5 or pwyc (unclassified)
South Asian Visual Arts Collective (SAVAC) presents
Monitor 5: New South
Asian Short Videos
Artists of South Asian heritage in Canada and internationally.
Siddhartha S. Joag, Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Khaldoon Ahmed,
Richard Fung & Ali Kazimi, Natasha Mendonca, Unum Babar,
John Greyson, Aseem Mishra and Ujjwal Utkarsh.
Curated by New York-based filmmaker Mridu Chandra.
Thursday, February 26, 7:30pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Sorry, Baby, but You’re
Disturbing My Fantasy
Videos by Nina Könnemann, in person,
Anna Berger, Keren Cytter, Viola Klein and Claus Richter.
Sunday, February 22, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
PUNCHCLOCK and Barriere Lake Solidarity present
Music Show in Support of
The Algonquin of Barriere Lake
A fundraiser for their legal fees, with music by
Young Wife, Woolly Leaves, $100 Trio Electric,
Personal Helicopter, and DJ Michael ComeauI.
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Friday, February 20, 9pm, $5-5,000
Pleasure Dome presents
Hold Me Now All Through the Night
Michael Robinson in person from USA!
with recent videos and 16mm films by himself,
Shana Moulton, Kent Lambert and Luther Price.
Saturday, February 7, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
4 EVENTS IN JANUARY 2009
So&So Fundraiser
Support the new Toronto-based arts and culture periodical
to be released in early March 2009!
Live music by Sounds Like BS and Our History of Cowboys,
plus DJ Philpmode.
Thursday, January 29, 9pm, $5
Pleasure Dome presents
Internal Archivists
Aleesa Cohene & Dani Leventhal
in discussion with Brenda Goldstein.
Saturday, January 24, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Ruckus
Magazine Concert / Reading
Student performances by Erich Boshart, Jimmy McInnis,
Zoe Alexis-Abrams, Jasmyn Burke, Guy Doucette,
Terror Lake, Barn Owl. Baked treats and buttons.
Friday, January 16, 8pm, $5
Pleasure Dome presents
Ryan Trecartin’s I-Be
Area
Plus Members New Year's Party!
Saturday, January 10, 8pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
25 EVENTS IN 2008
EVENTS 2009
- 2010 - 2011
- 2012-2014
- Upcoming
2 EVENTS IN DECEMBER 2008
Primary Colors presents
DD/MM/YYYY
Music Video Launch Party
I Really Dig Your "Sound" Love, Carol by Jesi
the Elder.
Live music by DD/MM/YYYY,
Romo Roto, Narwhalz, Ear Power,
with Jesi the Elder's projections all night long.
Friday, December 12, 10pm, $10 (includes free zine)
Niagara Custom Lab presents its
Artist-in-Residence Daan DeBakker
in person with a very short program of his own
single 8 films, and video, from Holland.
Saturday, December 6, 8pm, free
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
6 EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2008
Pleasure Dome presents
Ponytail (2008,
video, 90 minutes)
A computer animation by Barry Doupé, in person!
Saturday, November 29, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty presents its
"Save The Liu Family Home!"
Fundraising Party
Live Music & DJ. Auction. Food. Raffle.
Friday, November 28, 7:30pm
Over the Top Festival presents
Yeast (Mary Bronstein, USA, 2008, video)
Wednesday, November 26, 8pm, (unclassified)
$10, or 3 for $20! (Bring two friends you
don't like.)
Pleasure Dome presents
Under the Microscope
Recent videos from UK, Asia & USA, by Kim Kyung-Mook,
Martin Creed, Ömer Ali Kazma, Semiconductor, and
M.M. Serra, in person from New York City!
Saturday, November 22, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
This Ain't the Rosedale Library presents
Me
and My Brother by Robert Frank
(1968, USA, 16mm, 91 minutes) plus
Getting it Together, about poet Larry Eigner,
by Leonard Henny and Jan Boon (1967, USA, 16mm, 20 minutes).
Monday, November 17, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Testing Body, Mind and Soul
Historical Performances
Saturday, November 15, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
7 EVENTS IN OCTOBER 2008
Pleasure Dome presents
Sad Nuggets
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn
Saturday, October 25, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
The Philosopher of Chaos
John Bock Films
Saturday, October 18, 8pm, free (unclassified)
Pleasure Dome presents
Screaming City: West-Berlin
1980’s
Curated and presented by
Florian Wüst and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, in person!
Friday, October 17, 6:30, 8:30 &
10pm,
$5 each / $10 all (unclassified)
Lantern Revue
A night of film & video performance, music, storytelling & theatre
by Robert Kingsbury & Troy Coulterman & Vanessa Kimmons,
Neil Cavalier, David Stein, Amy Bowles & Lisa Kennedy,
David Frankovich & D. Alex Meeks & Chris Wiseman,
J.M. McNab & Stefan Banjevic.
installation by Rebecca Pletsch & Alex Unger.
Friday, October 10, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
The 3rd Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events (no super 8)
in 125 varied locations, indoors and outdoors,
Saturday-Sunday, October 4-5, 7pm-7am, free, including:
Pleasure Dome presents
Hooliganship: Cartune Xprez
Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris in person from Portland,
with their multi-media performance, plus animated videos by
Takeshi Murata, Shana Moulton, Bruce Bickford and others.
Same program shown twice,
Saturday, October 4, 9pm & 11pm, $pwyc
(unclassified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
CineCycle presents
"Scopitones" on 16mm, outdoors,
all-night
Short, music films from the 1960s.
Saturday-Sunday, October 4-5, 10pm-7am (unclassified)
Courtyard, Main Floor, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
Ruckus Magazine Launch
Party!
These Electric Lives (TEL)
Remixed, and Terror Lake.
Mark & Gary will be DJing after the bands play.
MySpace
Friday, October 3, 9:30pm, $10/7
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
CineCycle and Locheal Communications present
microcinefest
2008
Films & videos not at the Toronto International Film Festival, by
Hee Won Cho,
Tracy German, Martin Heath, Vanessa Renwick, Helen Hill, Melinda Stone,
Les Blank, Richard Leacock & Don Pennebaker, Craig Baldwin, Kaljo
Kiisk,
Andrew Patterson, Martin Reis, Istvan Kantor, John Porter, Robert Frank,
Renata Mohamed, Marcos Arriaga, Tony Romano, Van Guylder,
Dusan Makaveyev, John Greyson, Lutz Dammbeck, and more.
35mm, 16mm, super 8, 8mm and DLP video projection.
Subversive archival films. Midnight surprises.
September 5-12, $10 each / $50 pass (unclassified)
The
Torrent's
Catherine Deneuve Video Premiere
plus animated and psychedelic videos by
Amy Lockhart and Philippe Blanchard, in person!
Live music by The Torrent and Animal Monster.
Hosted by Keith Cole.
Saturday, September 20, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
Pages Books presents
This
is Not A Reading Series
Nowtopia
author Chris Carlsson in person
for a reading, reception and book-signing.
Thursday, September 4, 8pm, free
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
5 EVENTS IN AUGUST 2008
Dandy
Horse - Toronto on Two Wheels!
Launch of Toronto's urban cycling magazine:
This first issue is a full-colour, 48-page
celebration of bicycling in Toronto!
DJs, fresh magazines and cake!
Thursday, August 28, 7:30pm, $5
Pleasure Dome presents
Skip, Divided
The Films of Rosalind Nashashibi
From Glasgow. Videos & 16mm films, 2000-2005.
Saturday, August 16, 8pm, $5 (unclassified)
Annual Open Screening Under the
Stars
Bring your films or videos to show, or just come to watch.
16mm, 8mm, super 8, VHS, DVD, mini-DV.
Max 10 minutes. First come, first shown.
Saturday, August 9, 9pm, $pwyc (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
(Due to rain, held at CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.)
CIUT-FM 89.5 and Afrofest '08 present
5 X 4
A performance installation with
20 performers and 20 household objects.
Conception & Direction by Alicia Grant & Cara Spooner.
Performances by Alicia Grant, Alicia Winn, Anni Spadafora,
Cara Spooner, Chelsea Omel, Chris Wiseman, D Alex Meeks,
Jenn Sciarrino, Laura Mendes, Natalie Boustead, Rebecca Pletsch,
Shirin Yousefi, Rebecca Simonetti, Robert Kingsbury, Sarah Fregeau,
Shelly Hering, Devon Hyland, Erin Cowan, Jared Raab, Jasmyn Burke.
Music by: Nick Storring.
Friday, August 8, 8.30pm, $5-10
Pleasure Dome presents
Art(core):
The Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body
Curated by M.M. Serra, in person from NYC! Outdours!
Filmmaker and director of the Film-makers’ Cooperative.
Films (1963-2002) by M.M. Serra, Carolee Schneemann,
George Kuchar, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Scot-Free,
Peggy Ahwesh, James Fotopoulos, Martha Colburn,
and a double-screen projection by Barbara Rubin.
Saturday, August 2, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
(rain location: CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
JULY 2008 AT CINECYCLE
Pleasure Dome presents
Sinbad of Baghdad:
Jack
Smith's Super 8 Films
Curated by Jerry
Tartaglia, in person from NYC! Outdoors!
North American premiere of recently restored super 8 films
on video (1975-1985), plus two 16mm films (1968-1970).
Saturday, July 26, 9pm, $5 (unclassified)
Outdoors in the courtyard, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
(rain location: CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave.)
The Latino Canadian Cultural Association (LCCA)
presents
Rhyme the Image arts festival (July 4, 12, Aug. 16), including
Capsules of Time
- Video Night
Videos by Julian Calleros, Lena Recollet, Monica Gutierrez,
Faisal Anwar, Rocio Boliver, Rivelino Diaz, Donna Huanca,
Constanza Camelo, Prashant Miranda, Bradley Nolan,
We are not Speedy Gonzales. See MySpace
page.
Saturday, July 12, 7pm, $pwyc
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
CineCycle celebrated
"Bike Month" 2008 with
Free Screenings May 28, June 5, 9, 11.
Celebrating Bike
Month (Toronto, May 26 - June 21),
and The Cycle Messenger World Championships (CMWC)
(Toronto, June 13-16), CineCycle presents
Quicksilver
- 8pm
(Tom Donnelly, USA, 1986, 106 minutes) on 16mm!
Classic Bicycle Racing Films - 10pm
on 16mm!
Wednesday, June 11, free (unclassified)
Celebrating Bike Month (May 26 - June 21), CineCycle presents
Jour
de fête by Jacques
Tati
(France, 1949, 70 minutes) on 16mm!
and a short by Tex Thayer.
Monday, June 9, 8pm, free (unclassified)
Celebrating Bike Month (May 26 - June 21), CineCycle presents
Historic Bicycle Photography
Lorne Shields' 35mm slides and commentary
from his collection of early cycling photography.
The evolution of the bicycle from the early 19th Century.
Fashion, sport, social history, invention, manufacturing, touring.
Thursday, June 5, 8pm, free
Celebrating Bike Month (May 26 - June 21), CineCycle presents
The
Bicycle Thief by Vittoria
De Sica
(Italy,
1948, 93 minutes) on 16mm!
and a short super 8 film by Martin Reis.
Wednesday, May 28, 8pm, free (unclassified)
END OF PAST EVENTS
EVENTS 2008
- 2009 - 2010
- 2011 -
2012-2014
- 2015-2016
- Upcoming
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
