STARTING SEPT. 30, THROUGH THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, watch Danis Goulet’s Divided By Zero and Amanda Strong’s How to Steal A Canoe online FREE! For the 2025 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we are sharing two wonderful videos chosen by the Woodland Cultural Centre’s Executive Director, Heather George, on the occasion of WCC’s unveiling of the site of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School as a site of conscience. ⊕
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Feminist Archival Futures: Canadian Film & Video 1970s-1990s. Program #2: Fantasy/Memory/Media
Tuesday, Oct. 24, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, at Vtape’s Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond Street West. Program #2: Fantasy/Memory/Media features films and videos that take media and memory as their subject. It focuses particularly on non-narrative experimental art works that explore how feminism is broken down and reworked relative to photography and the cinematic image” (Lexie Corbett). Works by Rhonda Abrams, Marnie Parrell, Buseje Bailey, Elizabeth Chitty, Su Rynard, Wendy Geller, Midi Onodera. ⊕
Into The Night: Yonge Street Shorts (1975 – 1978), presented by Gallery 44 & Vtape
Tues. Sept. 23, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m., join us for three historic shorts by Janis Cole & Holly Dale, and by Rodney Werden, exploring transfeminine subjects on-screen in the context of Toronto’s Yonge Street Sin Strip of the 1970s. Curated by Jordan King. Janis Cole & Jordan King in person! Co-presented with Gallery 44. ⊕
SERIOUS BIZ: a Commons @ 401 screening for Ontario Culture Days
Sat., Sept. 20, 3:00 pm, Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West (FREE): join us for Serious Biz, a short, all-ages short film and video screening for Ontario Culture Days! Curated by Kaitlynn Tomaselli and Kelly Liu. Works by Dayna McLeod, Hannah Hull & Tara Hakim, Noor Gatih, Evelyn Pakinewatik, and Alice Sheppard & Danielle Peers. ⊕
DEATH & DATA, presented by Saloon Toronto, temp. files Video Publishing Cooperative & Vtape
Join us Friday, Sept. 19, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., for Death & Data, a program about how “the data of life, its scents of flesh and blood, and death, are encoded in and created by our bodies, experiences, and technologies.” Co-presented with temp. files Video Publishing Cooperative & Saloon Toronto. ⊕
Since opening our doors in 1983, Vtape has presented a substantial program of screenings, exhibitions, artists’ talks, and publications. Events from 2012 to the present are represented here in this archive. This online resource reflects a combination of event-based programming, exhibitions, and education dedicated to the development of video art and new and diverse audiences. The Past Events Archive is organized by year, starting with the most recent events, and moving backwards through history.
Image credit: Installation view of God Play exhibition, October 2024; photo by Henry Chan (2024)