The workshops below are in conjunction with an exhibition continuing to March 2 at the Blackwood Gallery at UTM and at the Justina Barnicke Gallery at Hart House on the downtown U of T Campus - Roger

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In association with our current exhibition Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, curated by Seamus Kealy, 

please join the JMB Gallery for 2FREE HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS on Activism. Learn the tools to change YOUR world, NOW

 Media, Art and Power with "Media Tigress" Carly Stasko, February 8, 2008 1-4 pm
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Video Activism with Director Velcrow Ripper (ScaredSacred), February 15, 2008, 1-4 pm


******These are pre-registered workshops, please email daymilman@gmail.com to register*******

Media Art and Power with Carly Stasko, Friday, February 8, 2008 1-4

In a time where it seems that war is an industry and industry is often responsible for war, when the privatization of public space and public discourse floods the environment with messages – few of which reflect people's lived experiences, and when social networks are expanding across the globe, the role of art becomes paramount to shifting conceptual paradigms and creating new visions of the world – new stories of peace.

From zines to culture jamming to grassroots media literacy education and street art, Carly Stasko will discuss and facilitate conversations about the role of creative action and play as a subversive activity.

 Carly Stasko is a grassroots media literacy educator as well as an artist, activist and self-titled "Imaginator" (someone who agitates imagination).

 VIDEO ACTIVISM
with Director of  the acclaimed ScaredSacred VELCROW RIPPER

 Velcrow Ripper is an award winning filmmaker, writer, media activist, web artist, and sound designer who creates powerful media that address the central issues of our times.  Learn about the power of video as a tool for transformation and activism.  This workshop is a rare opportunity to explore video activism with someone who lives it.   Velcrow has travelled around the globe and worked with visionaries such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Judy Rebick, Julia Butterfly Hill, Thich Naht Hahn, and Noah Levine.

 Participants will learn about Velcrow's work and the work of other activists practicing in the video medium while exploring the impact of media in our times.  Both a dialogue and a practical working session, this workshop gives basic training on camera operation, and offers students an opportunity to actually make their own video work.  

 
*****These are pre-registered workshops, please email daymilman@gmail.com to register*******