Digital Arts Resource Centre
67 rue Nicholas Street K1N 7B9 Ottawa, ON, Canada

This week's newsletter features RESOLUTION 2021, Anishnabe Azejicigan, OAC Grant Info Session, "Producing" workshops and more! - https://mailchi.mp//message-from-the-director-in-the-absen

Join Mark Haslam, Media Arts Officer with the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario on March 11, 2021 3:00 PM for a virtual info session on available Ontario Arts Council grants and services for Media Artists. This event is presented in collaboration with Digital Arts Resource Centre. This information session will be conducted in English only. The next Media Artists Creation Projects program deadline is April 7th, 2021. https://digitalartsresourcecentre.com//info-session-oac-g/

We hope you're as excited about RESOLUTION 2021 as we are! This year’s line-up of works showcases the broad scope of artistic practices in which our members are engaged. Join us on our website, on Thursday February 11th, 2021 at 7pm for the online screening! We'll be showcasing the artists leading up to the show! For a full line up, check out digitalartsresourcecentre.ca. -- Pixie Cram is a filmmaker and stop-motion animator who lives in Ottawa. In her films she explores the...mes of nature, technology and war. On top of her own art practice, she works as a freelance screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. -- Nathan Hauch (he/him) is a cripqueer poet and filmmaker. A proud member of Qu’ART - Ottawa Queer Arts Collective (@QuARTOttawa on Twitter), he is also an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets. still is the first of three video poems on the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by sway and slip. In 2017, he released his first visual poem, the art of the morning, a celebration of the joy disability can bring. It opened the Ottawa-Canadian Film Festival in 2018. With Amen Jafri, he was part of the creative team behind the documentary, City that Fun Forgot? that explored Ottawa’s (undeserved?) reputation as a dull government town to local and national media attention in 2014. Visit him online at Nathan Hauch Creative and Twitter (@nhauch) -- Edgar Hernandez is a prolific artist whose work in film, media projection, sculpture, painting and digital technologies with a focus on difficult questions related to habitat renewal, climate change and mental health. Aguacateco Mayan speaking from Guatemala, Edgar Hernandez is based in Ottawa, Canada. Edgar has seen his work exhibited in many group exhibitions, including the One World Film Festival, The People's Forest, Prescott Russell and Fresh Paint / New Construction Gallery Art Mûr, Montréal. He holds degrees in art and design, including a BFA (Sculpture and Media) from the University of Ottawa with a minor in Spanish. Furthermore he earned a college diploma in Graphic Design from La Cité collégiale. Navigating through the current social changes, Edgar has filmed numerous short videos of indigenous knowledge and wisdom through the Eagle and Condor Collective. Edgar is currently an art instructor for the Association pour l'Intégration Sociale d'Ottawa (AISO), Ottawa. This busy working artist also finds time to be an active local community volunteer and has contributed to abroad community projects in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

Still spaces left for our 4-day Production workshop! Emily Ramsay is a producer, production manager, and festival director who focuses on local, grassroots storytelling in the Ottawa region. Emily will be teaching participants how to manage story, crew, budget, actors, permits, distribution, and the big picture items that will help you to create and complete your video project!