Presenters

Aanmitaagzi is a multi-disciplinary professional artist-run company serving artists and community members from Nipissing First Nation and the surrounding area, linked to provincial and national networks. We are committed to fostering a vibrant arts community in Nipissing, nurturing historic Indigenous arts practices which span a middle ground between professional and community arts, and exploring how we can carry forward our practices in a meaningful contemporary context. Aanmitaagzi combines art making, education, professional development & social activism.

Website: https://www.aanmitaagzi.net/

Near North Mobile Media Lab (N2M2L) is a media arts access centre that provides the tools media artists, students, filmmakers and audiences in Northern Ontario need to produce, present and enjoy contemporary media arts in all its forms.

Website: https://www.n2m2l.ca/

White Water Gallery is a not-for-profit Artist-Run Centre committed to supporting artistic practices that prioritize risk and innovation. Understanding the need to advance the public’s threshold for viewing contemporary art the gallery encourages outreach programming that promotes accessibility and shared knowledge.

Website: https://whitewatergallery.com/

An important part of your Capitol Centre, the WKP Kennedy Public Art Gallery presents the finest in historical and contemporary Northern, Canadian and International visual artists. In their two gallery spaces, through their public arts activities, through their programming with the Capitol Theatre and in their touring exhibition projects, they showcase art of all forms and media. The WKP Kennedy Public Art Gallery is a gathering place for art and art ideas. They offer to the people of North Bay and Northeastern Ontario, a forum for artistic dialogue and development.

Website: http://www.kennedygallery.org/

The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective works with curators, artists, collectives and cultural organizations (eg. the Gateway Theatre Guild) to promote, animate, produce and document cultural events in the Nipissing region of northeastern Ontario.

The NRCC is committed to the professional payment of artists as outlined by the CARFAC Ontario union of artists. They are connecting new regional and national audiences for art and culture to emerging and professional visual, media and performing artists in the Nipissing region. The NRCC also offers administrative and educational programming assistance to all non-profit organizations in our region.

Website: https://thenrcc.com/

Nipissing University is a primarily undergraduate university with a reputation for excellence in teacher education, arts, science and professional programs. Nipissing is located on an impressive 720 acres of Canadian Shield forest within the city of North Bay, Ontario – a few hours travel north of Toronto and west of Ottawa.

Nipissing’s strategic focus on student success and experience has translated into consistent top rankings in the country in the areas of student support, student experience, faculty, and residences as a primarily undergraduate institution.  Students find themselves in a high-quality academic environment that is student-focused and based on personal teaching practices, innovative approaches to learning, and a growing research culture.

Website: https://www.nipissingu.ca/

For 50 years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Our activities are guided by a goal to increase our members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education, production and presentation supports.

As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic worth in its own right, our artistic programming extends our education and production activities in order to generate new knowledges.

Website: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/