A project from the Regent Park Film Festival
ANANYA OHRI I drew when I was little, but drawing is not a talent that grew with me. Photos are important to me, and I take hundreds of them on my phone, yet never revisit them to tease out the stories they tell. I ask myself what kind of personal archive would work for me? […]
THIRZA CUTHAND Recently, I combed through my archive of 25 years’ worth of personal diaries for a project about my relationship with love and desire. Going back over my life was illuminating in ways I hadn’t expected. Events I thought I remembered accurately turned out to have been different than my memory depicted them. With […]
We’re excited to be hosting our next workshop in Kahnawake, Quebec. Local community artist MaKenzie Whyte will be leading participants through fun arts based activities and share you can hold on to personal histories. Sign up today! Space is limited to 10 participants. ‘Saving Ephemera: Storytelling Archives and the Role of Archiving’ Time: Saturday March […]
This weekend we’re proud to have our Indigenous filmmakers, Nadine Arpin, Jennifer Dysart and Lisa Jodoin host screenings, talkbacks and workshops in Thunder Bay (at Waverley Resource Library) and Sioux Lookout at Sioux Lookout Public Library. In Thunder Bay Saturday and Sioux Lookout Sunday they will host theatrical screenings of all of six short films, […]
Back by popular demand – we are hosting our second ‘What Is Home?’ Zine-Making workshop as part of our ongoing Home Made Visible tour. BIPOC communities are disproportionately underrepresented in all media. How do past images unearthed from personal and institutional archives come to shape new stories? What does this mean for our own familial […]
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