ANIMATION WORKSHOP

SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 10 AM to 12 PM

Limit: 25

Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (340 Provencher Boulevard)

The workshop, led by Toby Gillies will guide participants through the creation of a morphing, collaborative, hand-drawn, frame-by frame animation on paper, together! Participants can expect to draw, animate and watch the final work within the session. 

All ages and skill levels are welcome. 

Toby Gillies

Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies share an artistic practice rooted in experimentation through drawing, photography, and animation. They are drawn to collaborative making as a way to know people through artwork, and the potential to magnify individual voices through collective works. Their projects strive to build reciprocal relationships with one another and the natural world through shared art experiences in diverse settings – be it on locked healthcare units, in city parks, or on the sea ice. Most recently they released their short animated documentary Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, a short meditation on love, grief, and imagination.

Handmade GIFs

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 10 AM to 12 PM & 1 PM TO 3 PM

Limit: 25

Aabijijiwan New Media Lab (599 Portage Avenue)

This workshop will explore the production of handmade animated GIFs using both material and digital tools. Participants will create their own looping animations using physical drawing media alongside purpose-made animation software. Emphasis will be placed on experimentation in the workshop and attendees will be encouraged to explore materiality, abstraction, texture, and rhythm in their work in addition to narrative and storytelling.

Matthis Grunsky

Matthis Grunsky is an artist and educator originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is the head lab technician at the aabijijiwan New Media Lab at the University of Winnipeg. Using computer code as a connective tissue, Matthis’ artistic practice spans multiple material disciplines including painting, drawing, screen-based installation, and procedural animation. In both his educational and artistic work, Matthis advocates for a higher degree of technological literacy around the digital tools that have become engrained in our daily lives.

DIY Movie Makeup Effects for Kids

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 10 AM TO 12 PM & 1 PM TO 3 PM

SOLD OUT

Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (340 Provencher Boulevard)

In this hands-on workshop, kids will learn films most utilized makeup effects to create realistic cuts, bruises, and scrapes—just like the pros! They'll discover out-of-kit techniques for making injuries look lifelike, that are safe and fun. Additionally, students will explore the art of aging makeup through a demonstration, learning how to add wrinkles, age spots, and other techniques to look decades older. Whether for a film project, Halloween, or just for fun this class covers the makeup skills and tricks that make it all possible!

Note: There is an extra $7/person charge to cover materials for this workshop.

Brie Tait

With over 20 years of makeup experience, Brie Tait, an honours graduate of Vancouver Film School, has been a noteworthy artist in the film and television community. Having worked on many feature films, television series, documentaries, commercials, and music videos, she continues to work, teach and gain knowledge.

SHADOW PUPPETS

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 10 AM TO 12 PM & 1 PM TO 3 PM

SOLD OUT

Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (340 Provencher Boulevard)

Join Curtis in an introduction to one of the oldest forms of puppetry: Shadow puppets!  Curtis will take participants through the process of designing and building their own shadow puppets before leading the group in a shadow puppet parade across a specially made screen.  

Curtis Wiebe

Curtis L. Wiebe is a multidisciplinary artist who has a special interest in puppetry, film and music.  His award winning short films have screened all over the world in places like New York and at the Cannes film festival in France.  Curtis has been an art instructor at the Winnipeg Art Gallery since 2010 teaching students from the Seven Oaks and Winnipeg School divisions through the WAG's sponsored art programs.

Documentary Interview 101

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 10 AM to 12 PM & 1 PM TO 3 PM

Limit: 25

Aabijijiwan New Media Lab (599 Portage Avenue)

Come and learn the basics of documentary interviewing with Storyteller Kevin Settee. Learn how to setup an interview station with cameras, lighting, and subject. Students will learn the importance of research, how to write questions, and how to make your interviewees feel comfortable. Students will develop questions and interview their teachers! 

Kevin Settee

Kevin Settee was born and raised in the downtown west end of Winnipeg, with roots in Matheson Island, and Fisher River. As the current University of Manitoba Writer/Storyteller in Residence, Kevin focuses a lot of his work on social justice, Indigenous rights, and Indigenous storytelling through photography and video.

Paper cutout ANIMATION

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 10 AM TO 12 PM & 1 PM TO 3 PM

Limit: 25

Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (340 Provencher Boulevard)

In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of paper cutout animation by building and animating their own character.

Connor Yarish

Connor Yarish is an educator and stop motion animator based in Winnipeg. Working under the name Slumbo Animation, he makes short films, commissioned works, and other short-form content using clay, paper, puppets, and everyday objects.

Animating on Film with Heidi

Phillips

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 10 AM TO 12 PM & 1 PM TO 3 PM

Limit: 25

Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (340 Provencher Boulevard)

In this workshop participants will learn to manipulate the surface of the film using a variety of camera-less filmmaking techniques; painting, scratching, collage, found footage and masking in order to create an original experimental film on 16mm. They can transfer their creations to digital and walk away with short animations.

Heidi Phillips

Heidi Phillips is an experimental filmmaker and installation artist from Manitoba, Canada with an affinity for the tactility of the filmic medium. Phillips’ often uses thrifted super 8 films, contact printing and darkroom experiments to push her work into new places. Phillips’ old school process frequently becomes part of the content, as grainy scratched films are merged with images lifted from found footage to create mesmerizing, transcendent works.