April 29 — Rent 101: Issues and strategies for artist and culture workers during COVID-19

with Sagan Yee, Nadine Lessio, Cole Web­ber and Car­rie Perreault Wednes­day April 29 5–7pm Co-pre­sent­ed by Trin­i­ty Square Video and MANO (Media Arts Net­work of Ontario) To reg­is­ter, email karina@trinitysquarevideo.com. URL link pro­vid­ed upon registration. Many artists and cul­ture work­ers are under eco­nom­ic pres­sure and trau­ma regard­ing their employ­ment and abil­i­ty to pay for hous­ing […] Read More

April 28 — Production Organizations: COVID-19 Challenges and Options

Host­ed by Media Arts Net­work of Ontario (MANO) and the Inde­pen­dent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) Tues­day April 28, 1:00 PM ET – 2:30 PM ET In the weeks since the nation­al shut­down has closed pro­duc­tion cen­tres and post­poned all types of artis­tic cre­ation across Cana­da media arts pro­duc­tion cen­tres have begun to eval­u­ate their options for […] Read More

April 20 — Small or Emerging Arts Organizations and Collectives: COVID-19 Online Check-In

Host­ed by Media Arts Net­work of Ontario (MANO) and Crit­i­cal Dis­tance Cen­tre for Cura­tors (CDCC) Mon­day April 20, 11:00 AM ET – 12:30 PM ET  RSVP with your name, group, and most press­ing issue to: membership@mano-ramo.ca to receive a login Over the past weeks artists, arts orga­ni­za­tions, and col­lec­tives have shared in the com­plex and chal­leng­ing expe­ri­ence […] Read More

April 13 — Northern Ontario Media Arts and Artist-Run COVID-19 Online Check-In

Host­ed by the Near North Mobile Media Lab (N2M2L) and the Media Arts Net­work of Ontario (MANO) Mon­day April 13, 1:00 PM ET – 2:30 PM ET RSVP to: medialabnorthbay@gmail.com to receive a login Over the past weeks artists, arts orga­ni­za­tions, and col­lec­tives have shared in the com­plex and chal­leng­ing expe­ri­ence of grap­pling with the effects of the […] Read More

MANO Membership Weekly Check-In Meetings

MANO will be hold­ing week­ly online check-in meet­ings via Zoom with our mem­ber­ship as a means of cul­ti­vat­ing com­mu­ni­ty, mutu­al aid, sol­i­dar­i­ty, and coun­ter­ing iso­la­tion. We will be main­tain­ing web and phone office hours Tues­day-Thurs­day 10am-5pm over the com­ing weeks and are avail­able to talk with boards, staff, and oth­ers as a sound­ing board and […] Read More

CANCELED: Ottawa and Barrie OAAG-MANO Regional Roundtable Discussions

Due to the cur­rent pub­lic health sit­u­a­tion MANO and OAAG are can­celling the Ottawa and Bar­rie round­ta­bles in April. We are work­ing on ways to host these meet­ings vir­tu­al­ly and will advise once con­crete plans have been put in place.     OAAG-MANO Region­al Round­table Dis­cus­sions: A Mass Cul­ture Gathering The Ontario Asso­ci­a­tion of Art Gal­leries […] Read More

January 16 — Toronto Media Arts Roundtable

Date: Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 16th, 2020 Time: 6–8 PM Venue: Toron­to Media Arts Cen­tre, 32 Lis­gar St, Toron­to, ON M6J 0C9 For the Jan­u­ary 2020 Toron­to Media Arts Round­table MANO and Crit­i­cal Dis­tance are part­ner­ing to frame the con­ver­sa­tion on the respon­si­bil­i­ties and pres­sures for artist-run and media art orga­ni­za­tions and col­lec­tives, along with staff and con­trac­tors for the […] Read More

January 9 — Barrie Media Arts Roundtable

Date: Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 Time: 5–7 PM Venue: MacLaren Arts Cen­tre, 37 Mul­cast­er St, Bar­rie, ON L4M 3M2   MANO is inter­est­ed in learn­ing about Bar­rie’s cur­rent chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties as well as dis­cussing issues such as fund­ing and build­ing col­lec­tives and organizations. The pub­lic round­table will pro­vide an oppor­tu­ni­ty for indi­vid­ual media artists and emerg­ing or […] Read More

November 23-Queer Canadian Films from the CFMDC 1975–85 

Queer Cana­di­an Films from the CFMDC 1975–85  Part of the Oth­er Places Book Launch Series Curat­ed by Tess Takahashi Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 23, 8:00pm Jack­man Hall, 317 Dun­das Street West, Toron­to, ON Free event More infor­ma­tion at: otherplaces.mano-ramo.ca Jere­my Podeswa, David Roche Talks to You about Love (1983). 16mm. Image cour­tesy of CFMDC Fea­tur­ing: Jill John­ston: Octo­ber 1975–6, […] Read More