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SUMMARY:Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:BREAD & ROSES!\nTreat yourself to some FREE bread from LF Bakery and Raspberry & Rose flavoured ice cream and sorbet from Dee Dee’s Ice Cream. Yum!! \nOur opening reception will feature a medley of short presentations giving a glimpse of what’s to come in our 2019 festival. \nLuyos MC\nYou’ll also be treated to the precolonial kulintang (southern Philippines) sounds of artist and musician Luyos MC. Based in Southern Ontario\, Luyos MC explores the traditional Indigenous music of particular Maharlikan islands (a place currently known as the southern part of colonized Philippines) to revitalize the appreciation of these disappearing traditions. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWith thanks to
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SUMMARY:The Big Picture: Working Conditions of Independent Animators
DESCRIPTION:What is it like to be an independent animator? What challenges do independent Animators face finding funding for their work\, conveying their visions to producers\, and scrounging for the vast amount of time needed to make films frame by frame? What supports are available from arts organizations? And how can we put our heads together to improve living and working conditions for these independent artists? \nThis panel features special guests Michael Fukushima (Executive Producer of the National Film Board’s English Animation Studio)\, laura jeanne lefave (Program Officer at the Canada Council for the Arts)\, and award-winning independent animators Steve Woloshen and Sam Decoste. \nIt is for aspiring independent animators\, commercial animators who want to know how the other half lives\, and members of the public who would like to see behind the curtain on the process that has brought us some of the greatest Canadian films ever made. \nBiographies:\nSam Decoste is an independent animator\, curator\, and educator who believes in the power of stories. Decoste directed and animated the documentary short Mary & Myself (National Film Board prod. Annette Clarke 2013)\, which was nominated for a 2014 Best Short Documentary Canadian Screen Award and won the Shelagh MacKenzie Award for Excellence in Filmmaking from the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Their installation\, Cahun: Framed (2015)\, was featured at the Animation Festival of Halifax last year. This year Decoste is the curator and mentor of the four- person installation project entitled Under the Rug. \nMichael Fukushima is the head of the National Film Board of Canada’s world-renowned Animation Studio\, in Montreal. He has been making films since 1984\, which is a lot of water under the bridge. Fukushima joined the NFB Animation Studio in 1990 as a filmmaker\, then became a studio producer\, and is now executive producer and studio head\, with a lot of films (and some awards) under his belt. He now mostly produces the producers and offers up sagacity and wise-cracking bon mots. \nlaura jeanne lefave is Program Officer for the Explore and Create program of the Canada Council for the Arts. The Canada Council is the national funder for the arts which supports individual artists and arts organizations through grants\, services\, prizes\, and payments. Lefave is herself a dedicated champion of the arts who assists artists\, curators\, and organizations with specific advice through information sessions and grant-writing workshops across the country and by responding to individual questions. \nSteven Woloshen has created over 50 abstract films and time-based installations for festivals\, galleries and museums. His accolades include the 2016 René Jodoin and 2015 Wiesbaden  Lifetime Achievement Awards and two Governor General’s award nominations. Woloshen is a teacher\, film conservationist\, animator\, craftsman and the author of Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker (2010)\, a hands-on manual for handmade\, analogue film techniques\, and Scratch\, Crackle & Pop! A Whole Grains Approach to Making Films without a Camera (2015). As Scratchatopia\, Woloshen has hosted solo retrospectives and workshops in Europe\, North America and Northern Africa. \n\nUnder the Rug: The Invisibility of Art Labour\nUnder the Rug is an animation exhibition that reflects on the often laborious process of creating art\, and the disconnect between art’s consumption and creation. \nThe show features the work of performance and multimedia artist Annie Onyi Cheung\, visual artist Angela Henderson\, film and theatre artist Tara Taylor and interdisciplinary artist Tom Elliott. Each artist has created an animated response to the theme through the lens of their respective practice. \nTheir individual installations can be seen throughout the festival grounds: in the board room\, the hallway\, the coat room and the screening room\, making the exhibition a part of instead of an addition to the festival. \nDedicated viewing times: Launch 5pm-6:30 Thursday May 9\, & Installations Cocktail Social 5pm-7 Friday May 10\n  \nPresented in partnership with
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SUMMARY:Black Feminism: Sistas of the Struggle
DESCRIPTION:We marched\, sang\, protested and supported the feminist movement\, we fought for maternity leave\, employment equity\, flex time\, and society stands on our shoulders. \nA panel discussion examining the story of Black women who have led movements for social change during the 70’s\, 80’s and 90’s.\nAlthough Black women have played an important role – both behind the scenes and on the frontlines – in struggles for equality\, women’s rights and social justice\, they are generally excluded from historical narratives of the feminist movement. It is time their stories were told and their contributions to social justice acknowledged and recognized. \nPanelists:\nDelvina Bernard\, Lynn Jones\, Dolly Williams and Carolann Wright-Parks \nPanel Moderator:  El Jones \nWith opening poetry by:\nDr Afua Cooper and Martha Mutale. \n“When we speak of feminism there almost always is the tendency to assume that this is something that was created by white women.” Author and Feminist Civil Rights Leader\, Angela Davis \n \n  \nBiographies:\n\n\n\n\nDelvina Bernard is an educator\, songwriter and human rights advocate. For twenty years she led the nationally acclaimed female acapella quartet Four the Moment gaining international recognition for her award winning compositions themed around gender justice\, anti-racism\, and wider social justice issues. A founding member of the Black Arts Network (BANNS) and African Nova Scotia Music Association (ANSMA) Bernard has shared the stage with artistic giants such as Maya Angelou\, Pete Seeger\, Buffy Saint Marie and Oscar Peterson. As principal founder of the Africentric Learning Institute of Nova Scotia (ALI)\, Bernard has been at the forefront of the Canadian Afrocentric education movement.\n\n\n\nDr Lynn Jones is a a community and labour activist from Truro\, Nova Scotia. From the time she was a child\, she struggled against racism\, sexism and discrimination. Jones became a strong labour activist with the Public Service Alliance of Canada\, and then became the first person of colour to be elected Vice President of the Canadian Labour Congress. She has been active in the movement against environmental racism and helped craft the first environmental racism bill in Canada. She presently chairs The Global Afrikan Congress-Nova Scotia Chapter\, a global organization who seeks reparations for the atrocities of the trans -Atlantic slave trade.\n\n\n\nDolly Williams is from the community of East Preston\, Nova Scotia\, Canada. She has served on numerous boards and committees\, including the Congress of Black Women Preston and Area Chapter\, East Preston Ratepayers\, the Halifax Senior Council\, the National Action Coalition of Canadian Women\, the Black Cultural Society of Nova Scotia\, the Black Educators Association and Southeastern Capital Health Board\, among many others. She currently sits on the Nova Scotia Community Links Board\, is Chairperson of the Preston & Area Housing Fund Board\, and a member of the Women Inter-Church Council of Halifax. In 2007\, she published the book Black Women Who Made a Difference in Nova Scotia for the Congress of Black Women of Canada.\n\n\n\nCarolann Wright-Parks was born and raised in Beechville\, Nova Scotia. She has 30 years of experience in community development in Toronto\, South Africa and Halifax. While working with communities in Toronto\, she ran for Mayor in 1988 as the first (and still only) Black woman to run for Mayor of Toronto coming second against the incumbent. In 1994\, Wright-Parks returned to Halifax and is now the Director of Community Economic Development and Strategic Engagement at the Greater Halifax Partnership. With a specific mandate to assist\, support and enhance African Nova Scotian communities\, Carolann brings lifelong passion and experience for community development to her work.\n\n\n\nEl Jones is a poet\, educator\, journalist and advocate. She grew up in Winnipeg before moving to Halifax where she studied English at Dalhousie University. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax from 2013 to 2015\, and currently holds the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. El is a co-founder of the Black Power Hour\, a radio show developed collectively with prisoners.\n\n\n\nDr Afua Cooper is Halifax’s current Poet Laureate. She has published five books of poetry\, including the critically acclaimed Copper Woman and Other Poems\, and two historical novels. Her creative work has been recognized with national and international awards. In 2018\, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognized Dr. Cooper as one of the women who are changing Canadian society for the better. Cooper is also the 3rd James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian studies at Dalhousie University. An academic leader\, she is the founder of the Black Canadian Studies Association\, and also created the Black and African Diaspora Studies Minor at Dalhousie\, making it the first of its kind in a Canadian institution of higher learning.\n\n\n\nMartha Mutale is a Zambian-born poet\, organizer\, and advocate. Martha was a 4th Wall participant for the Michaëlle Jean Foundation\, where she submitted a poem called No Justice No Peace which talks about the global issues surrounding Black and Brown bodies. She has been performing poetry for several years\, she took part in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in 2016\, as well as the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam in Vancouver in 2017. She co-founded a non-profit called Poets 4 Progress which was active for two years and now spend her time working as a Program Coordinator for a Parent Resource Centre. She believes in collaboration\, building relationships\, and finding ways to better herself.\n\n\n\n  \nPresented by
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SUMMARY:Meso América Resiste!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Beehive Design Collective\nCome see a mural-sized pen and ink masterpiece that took over nine years to create!\nThe Beehive Design Collective works as word-to-image translators of complex global stories\, shared with us through conversations with affected communities. MesoAmérica Resiste covers resistance to large-scale infrastructure development throughout Southern Mexico and Central America\, touching on themes relevant to any community on the front lines of resistance to corporate globalization. \nThis interactive presentation will feature spoken word rhymes by MC Testament of Test Their Logik.
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SUMMARY:Iranian Music\, The Female Body and The Burden of Message
DESCRIPTION:Join Iranian academic and music researcher Hadi Milanloo along with local facilitator Carmel Farahbakhsh as they unpack Milanloo’s recent field research in Tehran. \nThis program explores Iranian female musicians and their relationship to an at-home and diasporic audience\, their visual identity in the context of unpredictable political climates\, and how their creative pursuits link and diverge from broader political and cultural contexts. Facilitated dialogue to follow. \nPresented in partnership with 
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