Illuminate the Night project, "French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848)", La cathédrale Saint-Boniface, Nuit Blanche Winnipeg 2016, October 1

"French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards, after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848)" is a large scale tableau vivant HD video projection that recreates a work by 19th century painter Cornelius Krieghoff. This piece re-imagines Krieghoff’s lithograph, "French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards" that depicts a family playing cards around a table. Krieghoff’s piece, which is in the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Canada, fascinates me because it is a representation of early French Canadian life that mixes elements of documentary, allegory and humour. It also echoes the voyageur/settler/Métis iconography that I grew up learning about as part of my Franco-Manitoban heritage.

This event is sponsored by Evolution Presentation Technologies. For more information please go to www.evolutionav.ca .

This artwork is one of 12 recipients of the 2016 Illuminate the Night award. I would like to thank the Winnipeg Arts Council and Nuit Blanche Winnipeg for their financial support of my project. For more information about this event please go to http://nuitblanchewinnipeg.ca/ or the event page on the Culture Days website at https://culturedays.ca/en/2016-activities/view/57b0a86f-2828-49cd-b42c-05294c4a89be

French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848), HD Video still, Jacquelyn Hébert, 2014

French Canadians Playing at Cards, Lithograph, Cornelius Krieghoff, !848, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada

The Cyclotrope Circus - Co-presented by the Images Festival at the 8 fest! →

The Cyclotrope Circus - Co-presented by the Images Festival at the 8 fest!    STARTS TODAY, FRIDAY JANUARY 30!

the 8 fest 2015

8th ANNUAL FESTIVAL

Friday, January 30 to Sunday, February 1

SPK Polish Combatants' Hall

"a little festival for small films"

http://the8fest.com

The 8 fest returns to Toronto for its eighth year for three nights of screenings and live performances. This year will find the festival back at last year’s wonderful venue: the SPK Polish Combatants' Hall (206 Beverley, at Cecil Street, two blocks south of College) The 8 fest is North America's longest running festival devoted to all forms of small-gauge film, including Super 8, 8mm, 9.5 and loops, shown in their original formats. The 8 fest showcases the 70+ history of small gauge film - from contemporary artists' work in the form, to its wider cultural use in home movies, instructional loops and beyond.

This year's edition of the 8 fest consists of eight programmes, one Super 8 workshop, and one artist's talk. Also, the eighth edition of the 8 fest features a zoetrope installation co-presented by the Images Festival!

http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1312&month=n

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THE CYCLOTROPE CIRCUS COMES TO THE 8 FEST, TORONTO, JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 1, 2015!

The 8 fest is a unique Toronto-based film festival that presents all forms of small-gauge film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm, as well as works in installation, loops, and 'proto-cinema devices' like zoetropes.

The 8 fest is a festival for anyone using small-gauge to create rough little gems on film – personal, handmade, experimental, animations, diaries, essays, collage, cut-ups, performance/film, music/film.

The 2015 8 fest will be held January 30 - February  1, 2015 at SPK Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley Street, Toronto, Ontario.

For more info about The 8 Fest : http://the8fest.com/ 

MAKING A MARK, VAV Gallery, Montreal, October 13 - 24, 2014, Iakwé:iahre Colloquium | Concordia University

I will present my work, If I was a 'real' Canadian, I would know how to build a canoe for the Making a Mark Exhibition at the VAV Gallery at Concordia University, Oct. 13-24, 2014. This special exhibition is part of the Iakwé:iahre Colloquium being presented by the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des Conservateurs autochtones (ACC/CCA) on the traditional territory of the Kanien’ke:haka in Montréal, Quebec from October 16-18, 2014.

Making a Mark is an exhibition that considers how artistic production can facilitate inter-cultural exchange by seeking to create a dialogue between Aboriginal and Settler groups. This exhibition runs in tandem with the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective’s annual national colloquium of the same name. Artists: Odessa Dobbie, Vanessa Fleising, Wahsontiio Cross, Nathaniel Marchand, Amelie Lapointe-Lavoie, Hearyung Kim, Jacky Hebert, Scott Berwick, Joshua Miller, Aaron Leon, Cedar-Eve Peters, Barbara Iperciel, Nico Williams, Fannie Gadoua. Curators: Nadia Lisi and Tricia Livingston

Vernissage: October 14th, 6:00PM – 9:00PM

Middlessage: October 17th, 6:00PM - 9:00PM

For more info about the exhibition: MAKING A MARK | October 13th to 24th | http://vavgallery.concordia.ca/gallery/making-a-mark

For more info about the Iakwé:iahre Colloquium | http://iakweiahre.com/

Iakwé:iahre focuses on an active and collaborative act of remembering as applied to the contemporary idea of an archive from an Indigenous perspective. “We remember” in culturally specific ways of knowing based in orality and continuum of time. “We remember” this process as a living and dynamic form of communication. TheIakwé:iahre Colloquium brings together curators and artists to listen, share and discuss the creation of an Aboriginal Art Living Archive, so that we all may remember.

The Iakwé:iahre Colloquium is the sixth in an ongoing series of colloquia presented by the ACC/CCA, and the first to take place in the province of Québec. The colloquium will bring together French and English-speaking Aboriginal curators, artists, arts writers and researchers of all levels. In order to enable a forum for critical exchange and help bridge the linguistic divide, services in French and English, including simultaneous interpretation, will be available.