Drop by PAVED to pick up your film for this workshop, today!

In this workshop, attendees will a receive a role of 35mm colour negative cine film (normally used to make a movie). You will have your choice of a 15 frame role of Kodak Vision 3 50D (50 ISO daylight) or Fuji 250F 250D( 250 ISO daylight). We will process your previously shot film into colour negatives with hand mixed chemistry in our darkroom.

Other themes covered will include: where to source this type of film, different film stocks available, how to load cine film into cassettes, sourcing chemicals and alternative developing kits as well as homemade alternative developing process chemistry.

Bruce Gibson is a carpenter, cabinet makers and hobby photographers. He began shooting film in the mid 60s. He is interested in cine film as an alternative film source which is equivalent to conventional, professional film stocks.

Members: $10
Non-members: $60 ($50 Price of membership at time of registration or $25 for students/underemployed + $10 workshop supply fee)

To register for our Members’ workshops:
• Email technical@pavedarts.ca
• Call Lenore at 306-652-5502 ext 3
• Drop in – Upstairs at 424 20 ST W, Saskatoon, SK.

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PAVED will be closed between December 20 – January 2rd. Our staff will be spending time with family and friends.

We wish you all a safe and lovely holiday season!

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The production centre at PAVED Arts is excited to support the artistic projects of our members through the “Members Micro Grant”. Producing members in good standing can submit their project to receive up to $625 cash and $750 production centre credit.

1. Only PAVED Arts members in good standing can apply to the production fund.
2. Members who have already received a Members Production Fund Award are ineligible.
3. Projects will be assessed by a jury of 1 staff member and 2 artists from the community.
4. Artists must publicly acknowledge the support of PAVED Arts on social media, and elsewhere, if applicable.

Proposal MUST include:
– Current artistic CV (How to Write a CV)
– One page project outline.
– Production schedule to be completed within 4 months of the deadline.
– An equipment budget explaining both the production centre credit and cash elements of the grant (using the current PAVED Arts pricelist – see website)
– Examples of previous work or examples of the proposed project if already in progress. Digital support can also be shared using dropbox or wetransfer.

Please send submissions by email, or drop off your proposal at the PAVED production centre. Email or wetransfer proposals to technical@pavedarts.ca. If you have any questions, please email or call our Technical Director, Lenore Maier at technical@pavedarts.ca or 652 5502 ext 3.

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This workshop will introduce practical film/video editing with Final Cut Pro X. We will examine the interface, how to set up a project, import footage and other media and then learn editing techniques. The workshop will explore many of the tools and also demonstrate how to use filters, generators, and titles. We will finish with exporting or sharing a project in numerous ways and for different purposes. Once complete, attendees will be ready to use the PAVED Editing suite and operate FCP X on your own system.

Raj Padmanabh is on the Board of PAVED Arts, and has a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of Saskatchewan where his focus was acting and directing. He has certificates from Stanford University in editing, post-production and effects and is an Apple Certified Pro Trainer. Works include national documentaries, “Canada Remembers: Women Who Served andSacrificed”(2010), “Canada Remembers: Their Achievements and Sacrifices”(2009), “Canada Remembers: Our Lasting Legacy”(2008), Global Currents’ “Stolen Sisters” (2008). Raj has directed and edited scripted drama as well as music videos including “All My Ex-Girlfriends” (2016) and SCMA Video of the Year nominee, “Roll the Windows Down”. Raj is slated to direct the feature film “Safe in the Dark” in 2018. Other projects are currently in development.

Members: FREE
Non-members: $50 (Price of membership at time of registration or $25 for students/underemployed)

To register for our FREE members’ workshops:
• Email technical@pavedarts.ca
• Call Lenore at 306-652-5502 ext 3
• Drop in – Upstairs at 424 20 ST W, Saskatoon, SK

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Learn techniques from the World’s Foremost Bee Taxidermist!If you’re an aspiring bee taxidermist and want to grow your craft on a strong foundation, the best way to do it – by far – is one-on-one instruction. You could learn from video tutorials, but you can’t stop a video and ask the instructor if you’ve done it right. In Ruth Marsh’s one-of-a-kind workshop, you’ll get direct feedback and you won’t move on to the next level until you know your work is correct.As the world’s foremost Bee Taxidermist, Ruth Marsh brings nearly a decade of experience to PAVED Arts for this one of a kind workshop.

At the beginner level you will learn three key foundational techniques of bee taxidermy:
1. How to construct bee legs out of reclaimed electronic resistors;
2. How to braid bee antennae out of fine wire and;
3. How to mould bee wings out of salvaged copper.

Given that the full process of Bee Taxidermy requires several weeks to complete and time is limited, you will be provided with a pre-preserved and reassembled, taxidermic bee-body-base (head, thorax and abdomen). During the workshop, you will be given instruction on how to properly and safely attach antennae, wings and legs to this basic bee body. Workshop participants will be provided with take-home information on how to prepare and preserve a dead bee body from scratch. All of the pieces that you work on during the workshop will be yours to take home.

This workshop is intended as an entry level course which will give you the confidence you need to prepare and preserve heirloom quality taxidermic bees for your family to enjoy for generations to come!

Ruth Marsh is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist of settler ancestry based out of Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS) which is located on unceded Mi’Kmaq territory. Her work employs an absurdist and often comically deadpan approach to address absence, longing, memory and healing both in bodies and environments. She is interested in exploring the ways in which modalities of labour can translate into enacted care: exertion as meditation, repetition as litany, effort over time as love. Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006, her practice has spanned painting, drawing, taxidermy, video, performance, installation and stop-motion animation. Her work has been shown in galleries, museums and festivals in Canada and abroad including The Confederation Centre of the Arts (Charlottetown, PE),The New Gallery (Calgary, AB) and Bideodromo International Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain).

For several years, Ruth has been creating a series of artworks which focus specifically on bee disappearance and decrepitude. Summoned through an ongoing public call, hundreds of found, dead bees are sent through the mail to my Halifax studio from individuals across Canada. Once received, the bees are taxidermically preserved and meticulously repaired using discarded technology. The newly refurbished bees are then revived, frame-by-frame, through the process of stop motion animation.

Approaching this work from a perspective which is part cyberpunk mad-scientist and part devoted, repair technician, her work mindfully employs techniques which mirror bee life itself. Through processes which are inherently labour intensive, repetitive and painstaking, she is building a wry vision of a future wherein the world’s bees have perished due to human causes. Ruth is assembling this invented story through animations, still images, immersive video installations, a DIY instructional video and a growing museum of taxidermically preserved bee specimens.

To register for our FREE members’ workshops:
• Email technical@pavedarts.ca
• Call Lenore at 306-652-5502 ext 3
• Drop in – Upstairs at 424 20 ST W, Saskatoon, SK

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Starting annual salary range: $30,000 – $32,000 per year, based on experience.

This is a permanent, full-time position with benefits that requires availability Tuesday through Saturday, with occasional evening, overtime and holiday work. 

PAVED Arts is an innovative and dynamic artist-run exhibition and production centre that promotes contemporary visual culture. PAVED is an acronym for photographic, audio, video, electronic and digital; PAVED Arts exists to support artists who work in these media. We are based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and we are currently hiring for the position of Production Coordinator.

The Production Coordinator reports to the Executive Director, as well as directly to the Technical Director who oversees the production department at PAVED Arts. They will be familiar with the production centre facilities and demonstrate extensive knowledge in equipment required for media arts production. The Production Coordinator will build on PAVED’s rich history as a media arts production centre by: continuing to provide excellent service to our active and committed membership; supporting all of the ‘PAVED’ arts by providing access to diverse and high-quality equipment and; assisting the Technical Director in media arts production activities, program and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:
• Offering friendly and informative service to membership
• Providing members with orientation training for equipment and facilities
• Provision of equipment and facilities to members
• Ensuring all PAVED users are members in good standing
• Demonstration of production equipment to members/users as needed
• Sales transactions of supplies, consumables and rental fees
• Keeping organized records and statistics related to facility use
• Maintenance of equipment and facilities in a state ready for use
• Booking and scheduling of facility and equipment use
• Preparing/checking equipment packages in/out
• Filling out and filing invoices and facility/gear rental forms
• Maintaining a clean and tidy workspace at all times
• Maintain supplies and consumables required for ongoing operation
• Troubleshooting and on-the-spot equipment problem solving
• Maintenance of production equipment
• Documentation and processing of member productions
• Answering inquiries related to the production facility
• Receipt and processing of applications for membership
• Encouraging members to place self-initiated work into distribution
• When applicable, facilitating the process of members placing work into distribution
• Facilitate members involvement in/use of resource centre, library, etc.
• Having discussions with member on their interests, projects and productions
• Encouraging members and directing them to appropriate resources
• Promoting member registration, participation and submissions to projects
• Answering questions related to production programs
• Answering the phone and re-directing the call to another staff member, when appropriate
• Website maintenance and development of program content
• Identification of tasks suitable for volunteer work
• Maintenance of volunteer hour logs
• Coordination of volunteer schedules, activities and other staff
• Assemble resources and materials for volunteers to work with
• Documenting exhibits and performances at PAVED events/openings
• Assist with exhibition install and strike
• Assist with building security orientation, safety and utility of the space
• Other duties as assigned

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:
• Working professional competence in a wide range of equipment types and production practices
• Hands-on technical problem-solving with production centres and rental gear
• Knowledge of video and audio non-linear editing and post-production
• Experience with contemporary digital media production techniques and practices, including audio and video-post production and media asset management
• Familiarity with PAVED’s software, equipment base and multi-user production facilities
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, particularly in demonstrating equipment and facility instruction
• Familiarity with contemporary media art practices and artist-run culture
• Commitment to the development of independent production and to helping artists and facility users advance as creative, competent multimedia producers
• Experience as a practicing artist
• The ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple projects and/or deadlines concurrently
• A strong attention to detail
• Highly reliable, self-motivated, engaging and personable
• Strong work ethic and the ability to work independently and within a team environment
• The ability to take initiative and be proactive to the myriad responsibilities in the workplace

PAVED Arts is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, women, and gender variant individuals.

Remuneration: The Production Coordinator is a salaried position with benefits that requires availability Tuesday through Saturday, with occasional evening, overtime and holiday work.
$30,000 – $32,000 per year, based on experience.

Interested and qualified parties are requested to submit a cover letter, resume and two professional references by Friday, November 16th, 2018 at 5pm.
Email To: executive@pavedarts.ca
Subject: Production Coordinator Position  
Attn: Travis Cole, Executive Director, 424 20th Street West, Saskatoon, SK, S7M 0X4

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“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.

…One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.”

Mary Shelly, Frankenstein: Or,The Modern Prometheus 1869, pg.42
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 Part 1: B&W Film Processing — Analog photography lives! Arrive to this workshop with an exposed roll of film (black and white 35mm) and leave with a set of developed negatives ready for printing. In this workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of  black and white film development in a chemical darkroom (and learn your way around PAVED’s Member Darkroom). Common development equipment and techniques will be used to prepare participants to develop film independently.

Intro to the Darkroom: Part 2
Making Prints w/ Charles Brooke

Saturday, October 20th, 12-4pm
AKA/PAVED Arts Event Space
Limit 6-8 participants. No experience necessary!

Analog photography lives! Arrive to this workshop with your developed roll of black and white film and leave with an enlarged positive print and contact sheet.

Participants in this workshop will learn the basic techniques required to create black and white prints from negative film. Basic enlarger operation and chemical steps will be covered to produce pleasing finished prints. Participants will complete the workshop with basic knowledge to independently explore further creative possibilities in the darkroom, and a working knowledge of the free Member’s Darkroom at PAVED Arts.

Charles Brooke is a recreational photographer from Saskatoon. Having spent many years out of the darkroom, he recently returned to chemical photography at PAVED Arts. His current interests lie in honing his traditional darkroom skills to create images oriented within an historical context.

Members: $10 (Supply Fee)
Non-members: $60 ($50/Price of membership at time of registration or $25 for students/underemployed + $10 Supply Fee)

To register for our Members’ workshops:
• Email technical@pavedarts.ca
• Call Lenore at 306-652-5502 ext 3
• Drop in – Upstairs at 424 20 ST W, Saskatoon, SK

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In this workshop, you’re invited to come together to discuss soundscapes and favourite sounds, and take part in listening exercises before going outside to undertake field recordings and discuss the results. No experience necessary!

Kate Carr has been investigating the intersections between sound, place, and emotionality both as an artist and a curator since 2010. During this time she has ventured into tiny fishing villages in northern Iceland, explored the flooded banks of the Seine in a nuclear power plant town, and recorded wildlife in South Africa and in the wetlands of southern Mexico.

Her work draws on field recording, experimental composition and various techniques of sonic mapping to examine the ways we shape and are shaped by the lived sonic realities of our natural and built worlds. Kate Carr is currently PAVED Arts’ artist-in-residence.

Members & Sounds Like Festival Pass Holders: FREE
To register for this workshop, email Lenore at technical@pavedarts.ca

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It all started with a cardboard box on the street.
I should have just left it there
but I liked looking at it, and being around it.
So many pictures and words…
Few were turned to lights.

Chicago called, and I had to deliver the work from Saskatoon.
It was a long drive, a long stay.
Missed home, drove back
Empty car.
Almost a year has passed.
Fetched my green, glowing, Documents.
Full car.

A lot of time was spent on the highway that year.
Too much time has passed.
But I am glad to be here
with my hog
and Celine.

Julie Oh’s solo exhibition at PAVED Arts presents a new body of work composed of large-scale neon sculptures, drawings on cardboard, video, and a live sound feedback. These eclectic mix of works are formally and conceptually bound by a single object, of which the artist found on the streets of Saskatoon just outside of a Harley Davidson motorcycle dealer. Through the practice of looking, pondering, and circling around this found shipping container over a long period of time, the works in this exhibition aims to offer a distanced, yet intimate understanding of the original object.

Artist Bio:

Julie Oh (b.1984, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Saskatoon. She was the 2018 feature artist for the RBC Emerging Artist Series at Remai Modern. Recent group exhibitions include: Living Architecture, 6018 North, Chicago; Double Gaze, ACRE Projects Gallery, Chicago; Punctured Landscape, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC.  Julie completed her MFA as a Fulbright Fellow at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012, and holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan.

The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their support in realizing this project.

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PAVED Arts and Nuit Blanche Saskatoon present:
Robotic Bug Workshop w/ Stefan Scott
Saturday, September 30th, 12-4pm
AKA/PAVED Arts Event Space
This workshop is FREE for children and adults alike. You do not need to be a PAVED Arts member to attend.

During this workshop, Stefan Scott will teach how to make a battery-operated, responsive “bug”. The bug will crawl along the ground on geared wheels. It will be programmed so that its antennae act as sensors: when the bug bumps into obstacles, its antennae will send signals to the wheels to turn left or right to move around the obstacle. Each participant will be able to build and take home their own robotic bug. Stefan is a Computer Science and Robotics teacher at Aden Bowman Collegiate and will ensure this workshop is suitable for all ages.

Stefan Scott  is a computer science and creative digital arts instructor who lives in Saskatoon. Ever since starting up an extracurricular robotics program three years ago, he’s been fascinated by the creative possibilities with electronics, microcontrollers, and project-based learning that is driven by computer science.

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We are absolutely thrilled to bring sound artist Kate Carr to Saskatoon, all the way from London, UK! Kate arrived in Saskatoon on the 19th and will be staying until October 7 – her work here culminating in a performance at Sounds Like 8: Kate Carr, Joda Clément, & Manufacturing Entertainment on Thursday, October 4.

She is also leading a workshop – Listening and Field Recording Workshop w/ Kate Carr – at PAVED on October 3.

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A call was put out to Saskatoon and area photographers to submit photographs depicting “Diverse Communities.” The Open Call resulted in submissions from more than 80 photographers. Submissions were narrowed down to 30 by a community jury consisting of Cory Schewaga (Artist/Photographer/Videographer), Ben Lindsay (Youth Coordinator, Out Saskatoon), and John Shelling (Graphic Designer/Artist).

For nine weeks, 60 city buses will feature these unique photographs. “Saskatoon Transit is proud to support community initiatives such as this one,” says Jim McDonald, Director of Saskatoon Transit. “Toons on Transit allows residents from every neighborhood in Saskatoon to experience a piece of local art.”

PAVED Arts will also be displaying prints of the winning photos in their Digital Photography Suite. The Digital Photography Suite is open to the public Tuesday to Friday, from noon to 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays from noon – 4:00 p.m. This is a unique opportunity for visitors and residents to view the City through the eyes of the artists and honours the artists with a professional print of their work.

Toon’s On Transit is a continuation of PAVED (photography, audio, video, electronic, and digital) Arts programming that highlights the talents of local artists through outreach and exhibitions. Located in the heart of Riversdale, PAVED Arts has been facilitating independent media artists for over a decade. Their gallery space highlights emerging artistic talent from the community. “We are excited to take Toon’s on Transit into every neighbourhood of Saskatoon,” says Travis Cole, PAVED Arts Executive Director.

Look for the hashtag #TOT2018 on twitter and Instagram (@PAVEDArts, @StoonTransit), and keep an eye out for #TOONSTUESDAYS on Instagram/Twitter!

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On View September 14 to October 20, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, September 14, 8pm
Artist Talk: Friday, September 14, 7pm – Upstairs Event Space

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“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together”.   ~Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower, January 1961

Electromagnetic forces can be shaped, modulated, monitored or transformed in order for them to be utilized. The FRAGILE SAFARI situations are constituted as a ‘parcours’ through two bodies of work. The first work is the evolved signals intelligence (SIGINT) work: We Should Take Nothing for Granted – On The Building of An Alert And Knowledgeable Citizenry the second is the spatial electromagnetic installation STAR VALLEY (ICARUS).

Together, the works provoke a sensorial experience of the immaterial electromagnetic spectrum, and open well-defined societal questions regarding notions of privacy in the 21st century. Collectively, the elements form a tactical media landscape that is conceived as an “electromagnetic theatre” in order to engage the visitors/participants on multiple levels; technologically, intuitively, intellectually and politically. Arguably the electromagnetic spectrum is the most valuable, yet non-exhaustable natural resource, while it’s control and use continues to be strategically significant and economically vital.

Central to both works are probes, the devices that are probing multiple aspects of the electromagnetic spectrum by monitoring or transmitting signals in order to observe or occupy the spectrum. These acts activate civic potentials to engage and re-imagine the relationship between the global citizenry and sovereign actors with the military industrial complexes including their visible, opaque and dark structures by addressing current positions and debates about the notions and structuring of privacy, surveillance states, and safetylss. Each element in FRAGILE SAFARI is the result of research and construction of hardware and software systems nto be utilized as a set of tools, in order to gain knowledge of the occupation, use and potential misuse of global mass communication infrastructures.

STAR VALLEY (ICARUS), is a single spark-gap transmitter lthat occupies and overwhelms local signals . The transmitter is controlled by a computer running a neural network that has been trained on US/NATO codenames, describing units, orders of battle and/or military operations and their descriptions in order to generate new names, theatres, and directives of ‘imaginary’ operations both from the past and projected into the future, highlighting the intentional obfuscation of facts from the public.

Lastly, We Should Take Nothing for Granted – On The Building of An Alert And Knowledgeable Citizenry, is designed to demonstrate the fragility of the local communications infrastructure by probing the visitor’s personal communication devices while creating a generative sonic landscape of over 20 years of collective signal monitoring archives using Eisenhower’s presidential farewell address from 1961 as a compositional tool.

The title for the series FRAGILE SAFARI is derived from another “safari”, the BIG SAFARI, which is a specialized black USAF program dedicated to air systems modification for collection and processing of SIGINT (signals intelligence) and COMINT (communications intelligence) data, as well as offensive and defensive electronic warfare. The program is one of the oldest electronic warfare related programs and responsible for much of the SIGINT collection globally since 1952.

The works on display are small part of the evolutionary toolkit that Biederman and Peljhan have been creating over the past 20 years in order to re-examine and redefine our relationship to the political, philosophical and physical conditions of the Electromagnetic Spectrum.

The artists would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana Cultural Department, C-ASTRAL and the University of California Santa Barbara Media Arts and Technology Systemics Lab and the Wave Farm (Acra, NY) for their financial and material support. A special thanks to Brian Springer and Aljosa Abrahamsberg.

ARTIST BIOS:
Matthew Biederman works across media and milieus, architectures and systems, communities and continents since 1990. He creates works where light, space, and sound reflect on the intricacies of perception and policy. Since 2008 he is a co-founder with Marko Peljhan of Arctic Perspective Initiative, dedicated to fusing traditional knowledge through new technologies towards greater autonomy of the circumpolar region. He has served as artist-in-residence at a variety of institutions and institutes, including the Center for Experimental Television on numerous occasions, CMU’s CREATE lab, the Wave Farm and many more. His work has been featured at: Lyon Bienniale, Istanbul Design Bienniale, The Tokyo Museum of Photography, ELEKTRA, MUTEK, Montreal Bienniale (Musee des Arts Contemporain), Bienniale of Digital Art (BIAN, Montreal), Artissima (Turin, IT), among many others.

Marko Peljhan is a theatre and radio director, conceptual artist and researcher. He founded and co-founded several still active arts organizations in the 90’s such as Projekt Atol and one of the first media labs in Eastern Europe LJUDMILA. From 1994 on he worked on Makrolab, a project that focuses on telecommunications, migrations and weather systems research in an intersection of art/science/engineering; the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation and the Arctic Perspective Initiative. He is the recipient of many prizes for his work, including the 2001 Golden Nica Prize at Ars Electronica with Carsten Nicolai and his work has been exhibited internationally at multiple biennales (Venice, Lyon, Istanbul, Gwangju…) and festivals, at documenta, ISEA, Ars Electronica and museums and art institutions worldwide (YCAM, ICC-NT, PS.1. MOMA, GARAGE…). He serves as professor and director of the MAT Systemics Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara, the Chair of the Media Arts and Technology program at UCSB, the coordinator of international cooperation of the SPACE-SI Slovenian Centre for Space Sciences and Technologies and editor at large of the music label rx:tx. In the radio spectrum he is known as S54MX. 

Image: We Should Take Nothing for Granted, On the Building of an Alert and Knowledgeable Citizenry, 2017 Ars Electronica, Linz AT. 

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Saturday September 15th, 12pm-4pm
AKA/PAVED Arts Event Space

Every wonder where all the sounds in your favorite film or television show come from? A lot of them are custom made by Foley or sound effects artists, and used to enhance the soundscape of the final product. Foley is the art of recording everyday noises and adding them to media to enhance the realism, or manipulating these sounds to create something bigger than life (think explosions, mythical creatures, etc.).

Join us for an afternoon workshop that covers the history of Foley, and teaches you how to record, create and customize your own sounds to use in your very own films.

Emma Kramer-Rodger is a musician, composer and audio engineer based in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is passionate about working in a variety of entertainment mediums including film, video games and virtual reality. Emma has completed a Bachelor’s degree in music performance from the University of Regina and a certificate in Audio Production for Film and Video Games from Berklee College of Music Online. Currently working full time at Talking Dog Studios, she has worked on a number of independent video games and larger film productions, including Distorted and The Humanity Bureau. In addition to creating unique sound effects and Foley, Emma also has a passion for music composition and creating virtual reality spatial audio.

Members: FREE
Non-members: $50 (Price of membership at time of registration or $25 for students/underemployed)

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This summer, between July 30th-Aug. 3rd, 2018, thirteen youth from our community between the ages of 13-21, were given the opportunity to create music videos using songs generously provided by local musicians including Wild Black, Too Soon Monsoon, DAYTRVP, the Faps, Taylor Jade, Factor, Jezebel, and Natural Sympathies.

Through this free workshop, young people learned hands-on filmmaking techniques and skills such as shooting, directing and editing video, stop motion, video collaging, lighting, and more, while being mentored through the process by local musicians, artists, and community leaders. The resulting music videos were screened to a standing-room-only audience on August 3rd, in the PAVED Arts/AKA event space.

This workshop was generously funded through the Community Initiatives Fund and we thank them for their amazing and ongoing support.

Watch below or go to our VIMEO page: vimeo.com/pavedarts

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Summary: Anthology of critical essays that analyze contemporary visual and media arts exhibitions and events that have transpired at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. Foreword by Crystal Bueckert with essay contributions from Rose Bouthillier, Reilly Forbes, Sandra Fraser, Bart Gazzola, Tarin Hughes, David LaRiviere, Jessica Morgun, Marcel Petit, Edward Poitras, and Leah Taylor.

80 pages, hard cover, 45 colour images.
Design by Lindsey Rewuski, Printed by Friesens Corporation.

ISBN 978-0-9689334-9-7 

Copies are available for purchase: $20.00 + $4.94 shipping within Canada, $10.30 shipping to the U.S. and $20.60 shipping abroad.
Contact David LaRiviere: artistic@pavedarts.ca

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PAVED Arts has received funding once again to facilitate the second DIY week long video music workshop for youth in our community. The 5 day camp intends to empower and educate youth. Participants between the ages of 13-21  will work through a series of educational workshops that teach both technical and theoretical aspects of music video production. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with dynamic local artists and professionals in a creative, hands-on environment and they will work together in teams to produce music videos and interactive photo/video collages for songs donated by established Saskatoon bands and musicians.

The camp will take place at PAVED Arts July 30th – August 3rd, with lunch provided daily.

Although the goals of this camp are not results based, the program will conclude with an official FREE screening of the music videos created during the week on Friday August 3rd in the PAVED Arts event space at 7:30pm.

This camp is open to everyone, however preference will be given to female, trans, two-spirit, gender non-conforming and equity seeking youth. With room for a maximum of 20 participants.

Beyond leaving the program with a more advanced understanding of storytelling, creative expression, photography, and video production, this program also aims to educate participants in areas such as media literacy and community development.

This program will incorporate the use of digital cameras, video cameras and computers/laptops on which the youth will be able to edit their videos and sync them with music using affordable and accessible software supplied by PAVED Arts Production centre.

EMAIL:  coordinator@pavedarts.ca with any questions

Many thanks to Community Initiatives Fund for the support on this project.

Check out this highlight trailer from last year – Music: Bodies by We Were Lovers

All of last years spectacular videos are viewable on our Vimeo.

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For the last decade, Laura St. Pierre has created installation, photo, and time-based works that question how we live in cities and on our planet. Her current project, Spectral Garden, involves collecting and preserving flora from changing landscapes. Using a technique common to botanists, the plants are preserved in isopropyl alcohol. This maintains their three-dimensional form, but leeches the colour from their flowers and leaves. Unlike a seed or a cutting, these tissues cannot be used to create new life; instead, they preserve a moment in time and space.

Since returning to Saskatchewan in 2013, St. Pierre has been struck by the poor air quality that the residents of Saskatoon experience due to forest fires that have been raging in the Western Boreal Forest each summer. For weeks at a time, city-dwellers can smell the forest burning: the odour is a powerful reminder of how this ecosystem is changing. In response, she began to collect plant specimens from the Boreal Forest near Jan Lake, SK, close to her family’s cabin. Since her last visit to the area, it has also been ravaged by fires, a fact that resonates as she works in the studio.

These carefully preserved plants have been the subject of a series of photographs. New for PAVED Arts, St. Pierre is creating a four-channel HD video projection that uses these unique specimens as a jumping-off point. Immersive and otherworldly, Spectral Garden continues St. Pierre’s exploration of our relationship to the natural world.

This project is presented by PAVED Arts, in a partnership with the Dunlop Art Gallery as part of Roadside Attractions, funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter initiative.

Bio:
Laura St. Pierre’s installations, sculptures, public works, and photography have been exhibited throughout Canada and abroad. St. Pierre earned undergraduate degrees at UBC and the U of A, and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University in Montreal. She has received arts grants from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the Canada Council. Exhibitions in 2018 include Winter Garden at VivianeArt (Calgary), The Museum of Future History and the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), La vie fragile (Montreal), and a new video project at PAVED Arts (Saskatoon) as part of the Roadside Attractions series developed by the the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina). // laurastpierre.com

Credits:
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter initiative. With this $35M initiative, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada. // Ce projet est l’un des 200 projets exceptionnels soutenus part initiative Nouveau chapitre du Conseil des arts du Canada. Avec cette initative 35 M$, le Conseil des arts appuie la creation et le partage des arts au Coeur de nos vies et dans !’ensemble du Canada.

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Submission Deadline TBA

The production centre at PAVED Arts is honoured to support our communities work through the “Members Production Fund”. Producing members in good standing can submit their project to receive up to $625 cash and $750 production centre credit.


Policy
1.Only PAVED Arts members in good standing can apply to the production fund.
2. Members who have already received a Members Production Fund Award are ineligible.
3. Projects will be assessed by a jury of 2 staff members and 1 artist from the community.
Proposal
Proposal MUST include:
– Current artistic CV.
– One page project outline.
– Production schedule to be completed within 4 month of the deadline.
– An equipment budget explaining both the production centre credit and cash elements of the grant (using the current PAVED Arts pricelist – see website)
– One DVD or Flash Drive (15 min max), Audio CD, (15 min max) or 10 jpegs of previous work or examples of the proposed project if already in progress. Digital support can also be shared using dropbox or wetransfer.


Please send by post, dropbox, wetransfer, or drop off your proposal at the PAVED production centre.
Email dropbox/wetransfer proposals to technical@pavedarts.ca
If you have any questions, please call Lenore Maier at 652 5502 ext 3.

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About Memberships:
Did you know? PAVED member perks include free work-shops and darkroom plus artist-priced access to equipment rentals, video editing suite, digital photo suite, audio suite, event space rentals, and more. Our Darkroom Suite is always free for our members to use!

Fee: $50/year ($25 for Student/Underemployed)
To buy/renew your membership, please contact Lenore at
technical@pavedarts.ca or 306-652-5502 ext. 3

www.pavedarts.ca/membership

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Please join us Friday, May 11th for the first day of Scott Benesiinaabandan’s Animiikikaa 10-97. PAVED Arts will host an informal meet and greet with the artist from 7 to 9 PM. 

Animiikikaa 10-97 is a 3-channel audio installation originally commissioned by the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The installation, featuring a woman speaking clearly in the Anishinaabe language, develops the notion that the particular sonorous qualities of indigenous spoken word is unfamiliar to the vast majority of people who live in its native country. Benesiinaabandan’s gesture also reflects upon a recent history in which the Anishinaabe language was actively subjugated, such that placing it into the public sphere constitutes a political act in itself.

Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinaabe intermedia artist that works primarily in photography,video, audio and printmaking. Scott has completed an international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia, Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland, and  University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency, along with international collaborative projects in both the U.K and Ireland. Scott is currently based in Montreal, where he is completing a MFA in Photography and a year long Canada Council New Media Production grant through OBx Labs/Ab-TeC and Initiative for Indigenous Futures where he is currently investigating virtual reality as a medium.
Related Events:

Closing Reception: Friday, June 15, 2018 at 8pm 
Everyone welcome. This reception is in conjunction with The National Indigenous Media Arts Gathering: Listen, Witness, Transmit, June 12-15, 2018.

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