Nancy is a filmmaker and artist who photographed people and places she encountered to create a short photo-based animated travelogue of Halifax. She will held a screening of her completed animation along with work by herself and others at the Echo Park Film Centre in LA.
Teresa Chun-Wen Cheng worked on creating a short stop-motion video from one of her comics, exploring the effects of racism and colonialism on children's perception of themselves and the violence that comes out of the internalized racism. She held a screening of the video-in-progress.
Sarah and her lovely dog Logan came for the month, and worked on several projects. Sarah completed a short video with animation, called "This City is Falling Down." She also played a few shows singing with her mini ukulele, and decorated the shed with curtains and messy drawings and collages.
Jo spent two weeks working with the Anchor Archive and Atlantic Filmmakers Coop on a new animation (check out the photo of her using the oxberry). We had a screening of some of her 16mm works, and there are now copies of her amazing comic zines in the library.
Simone kept busy with a million projects such as screen-printing patches and posters, knitting socks, volunteering with Books Beyond Bars, co-hosting the radio show and of course working on The Video Booth Project. The Video Booth made appearances at the Gottingen Street Festival, the Community Action on Homelessness Street Youth Festival, Canzine East and the North Branch Public Library, collecting rants, interviews and stories from who-ever dared to enter the booth.
At the roberts street residency, shimby will be creating a short about trying to make sense of experiences from when she was 18 and in halifax for the first time. It will be an exploration of young adulthood, subcultures and identity intersections and will be screened with live musical accompaniment + a bake sale at the end of her three weeks at roberts street.
Y. Abdulqadir and Sumaya Ugas will work on a short film/video project exploring the nuances of love and sisterhood within the context of black female friendship. The project, which ultimately explores and celebrates the warmth, depth, and resiliency of black female friendship and sisterhood as a grounding framework for our survival as marginalized folks, will be included in the publication of the second issue of our on-going zine project titled Somali Semantics.