Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Cinema Politica screening tonight - "Reel Injun"



Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg Students’Association (UWSA) present the film Reel Injun (Canada, 2009). Directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Reel Injun has won three Gemini Awards and a Peabody Award. It has been selected for screening by The University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Students' Council.

Synopsis:
Hollywood has made over 4000 films about Native people; over 100 years of movies defining how Indians art seen by the world.

Reel Injun takes an entertaining and insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through the history of cinema.

Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond looks at how the myth of “the Injun” has influenced the world’s understanding — and misunderstanding — of Natives.

With candid interviews with directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell and Russell Means, clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, including Stagecoach, Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Atanarjuat the Fast Runner, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to today.

Please stay for a discussion after the film.
All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. 

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg. Click here for campus and parking maps.
Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Art Education Outreach at Gallery 1C03




Thanks to all of the students and teachers from Sister MacNamara School for coming to visit us at Gallery 1C03 this week! The students were led through an art education program for our current exhibition -- Jane Tingley's Plant (iPod) Installation -- by Gallery 1C03 volunteer art educators Ahlam Al-Khateeb, Sylvia Dueck, Victoria Nikkel and Sheila Soulsby. Gallery 1C03 is proud of our community art outreach program; if you would like to book a visit with us for one of our upcoming exhibitions, please contact Gallery Director/Curator Jennifer Gibson at j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Gallery 1C03 & UWSA to screen "To the Tar Sands"


Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) present the film To the Tar Sands in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Thursday, November 8 at 6:30 p.m.

Directed by Emmy award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Jodie Martinson, To the Tar Sands (Canada, 2008) was selected for screening by the UWSA Bike Lab.

The film follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1,300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the impacts of Alberta’s tar sands boom firsthand. They talk to farmers, moms and dads, an urban planner, oil industry workers, the chief of a First Nations community and others along the way asking “How has the tar sands boom affected you?” As the kilometres click away, they excavate into their own complicity with Alberta’s rush to develop the tar sands.

Produced on a shoestring budget off of the back of a bicycle, To the Tar Sands screened to a sold-out crowd at the Calgary International Film Festival and was officially selected for the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver.

Please stay for a panel discussion after the film on “Activism, Cycling and Empowerment”, facilitated by Liz Williams of The University of Winnipeg Campus Sustainability Office. Panelists include David Dorning (Coordinator, UWSA Bike Lab), Andrée Forest (Volunteer, UWSA Bike Lab and Ice Rider), Alana Lajoie-O’Malley (Manager, Campus Sustainability Office), and Anika Terton (Public Education and Outreach Coordinator, Climate Change Connection).

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome.

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg. Click here for campus and parking maps.

Gallery 1C03and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Image: Scene from To the Tar Sands.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Plant (iPod) review & interview with Jane Tingley


Kaeleigh Ayre has written a great review of Jane Tingley's Plant (iPod) Installation for The Uniter. You can read it here. Thanks Kaeleigh!


And two weeks ago, Jane was interviewed on CKUW 95.9 FM's "Eat Your Arts & Vegetables" program. You can download and listen to the interview by clicking on one of the October 18, 2012 program archive files at CKUW's site here. Heartfelt appreciation to EYA&V hosts Aleem Khan and Derek Brueckner for welcoming Jane to their show!