Community Calendar

Join artist resident Ajunie Virk for a workshop that teaches participants how to create experimental audio by drawing directly onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, a technique the artists uses herself to personalize sound and generate abstract audio layers within her own video works.

This hands-on workshop methods in mark-making, sound reading, and editing to craft unique sonic textures. Participants will be introduced to historical and artistic antecedents, including the work of Daphne Oram and Arseny Avraamov, and learn analog and digital tools – including 16mm projectors, the Photosounder software, among others.

Attendees: Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops, but can also request one in the registration form. You can install the Photosounder software here. Additional materials will be provided. We’ll be ordering a pizza for everyone. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm.

Join Squeaky Wheel and visiting artist resident Arielle Knight for a short form writing workshop! This skill share invites participants to experiment with autobiographical storytelling and the practice of autotheory—the blending of lived experience and critical thought—to create new forms of narrative that collapse the boundaries between personal and intellectual inquiry. Drawing from practices in experimental film, performance, and essay-making, this session will guide participants in transforming fragments of memory, personal archives, and embodied experiences into generative creative material.

Participants will engage in short writing and reflection exercises that explore how personal narrative can serve as both evidence and theory, as well as how storytelling becomes a method for survival, healing, and critique. Examples of artists and thinkers who employ autotheory to reframe vulnerability as a tool for intervention will be presented, including excerpts from texts by bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Maggie Nelson.

Through group discussion and individual exercises, participants will learn strategies for translating autobiographical material into multiple media forms—moving image, sound, installation, and text—and discuss the ethics of working with one’s own story and the stories of others. By the end of the workshop, each participant will have developed a short creative concept or fragment that reflects their own approach to merging self-experience and theory in creative practice.

The filmmakers presents this skill-share as an offering; centering on creating a supportive and exploratory environment, where storytelling becomes a form of research and resistance, allowing each participant to reimagine how the personal can illuminate the collective and the political.

Attendees: Notebooks and pens for the workshop will be provided, though participants are welcome to bring their own. We’ll be ordering a pizza for everyone. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm.

The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Jamestown for its 50th Anniversary featuring the world’s best mountain sport, culture, and environmental films. Each night features different films, sure to amaze, inspire and educate.

Your Banff ticket also includes an all-access weekend pass, April 24-26, to The Roger Tory Peterson Institute, located a short ten-minute drive from downtown Jamestown. Hike our nature trails through the Peterson Preserve, then come inside The Lodge – designed by famed architect Robert A.M. Stern – and check out our latest exhibitions, including Art that Matters to the Planet: Beyond Beauty.

The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Jamestown for its 50th Anniversary featuring the world’s best mountain sport, culture, and environmental films. Each night features different films, sure to amaze, inspire and educate.

Your Banff ticket also includes an all-access weekend pass, April 24-26, to The Roger Tory Peterson Institute, located a short ten-minute drive from downtown Jamestown. Hike our nature trails through the Peterson Preserve, then come inside The Lodge – designed by famed architect Robert A.M. Stern – and check out our latest exhibitions, including Art that Matters to the Planet: Beyond Beauty.