The Society for Art and Technology [SAT], in collaboration with Vid

Max the Mutt Animation School invites everyone to attend our first open house at our new location: 952 Queen Street West at Shaw.

Come and view the wide variety of student work on display: life drawing, painting, cartooning, character design, animation: classical, 2D and 3D and much more!

Saturday May 1st and Sunday May 2nd
From 10:00 am TO 4:00 pm.
952 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1G8 Canada

Call (416) 703-6877 for more details or visit the Website at www.maxthemutt.com.

Mik Casey and Bill Speers will talk about their decades of experience as storyboard artists from the time they each started in animation at Crawley Films in Ottawa, and their international travels that eventually brought them back to Ottawa. Storyboarding for TV and feature animation will be discussed, with ample time for Q&A from the audience.

Tuesday, May 11 at 8:00 pm

Room T130, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa

Free admission and parking (N Bldg near Parking Lot 7)

The eighth annual Visual Arts Development Awards (VADA) assists British Columbia's emerging or mid-career visual artists and artisans. The initiative is to encourage the development of new skills and techniques. Grants range in size from $3,000 to $5,000. Last year 13 visual artists and artisans from across B.C. received awards. Their projects included: traveling to China to apprentice with a master ceramicist; learning underwater photography and exploring the loss of salmon in ancient fishing grounds; apprenticing with a tailor to learn costume making; and working with a mathematician to learn advanced systems of mathematics to generate patterns and manipulate results. BC visual artists and artisans from all cultures working in traditional or contemporary methods or mediums are eligible. VADA offers opportunities for non-institutional learning; to learn from a senior artist, mentor or elder; or a self-guided program. Applications will be evaluated on the basis of merit and quality of their proposals. Deadline for receipt of completed applications is Sunday May 30, 2004 at 5:00 pm. VADA was initiated and is funded by the Vancouver Foundation and is administered by the Contemporary Art Gallery. Applications can be downloaded from www.vada-awards.org or picked up at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver at 555 Nelson Street. For further information contact: vada@contemporaryartgallery.ca; or call: 604-681-2700.

The 23rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival encourages the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world, and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada. More than 150,000 people attended 500 screenings of more than 300 films from more than 50 countries. In 2003 there were a record 261 feature and mid-length films, plus 85 shorts.

The broad spectrum of fiction and nonfiction films from around the world is divided into the following sections:

* Cinema of Our Time

As part of the Montreal World Film Festival's International Film Market, Herv

Canadian National Expo is Canada

Your chance to develop the skills you'll need for entrance into the best visual-arts programs. These are also the skills the major animation studios in Canada and the U.S. are looking for!

10 Saturdays
October 16 to December 18, 2004
6 hours(br>
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Life Drawing
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Elemenets of Drawing

Cost: $800 + GST (for full day)
OR
Cost: $450 + GST (for half day)

CALL NOW TO REGISTER
(416) 703-6877
(1-877) 486 - MUTT

The most anticipated Global Event on Information Technology for Banks, Insurance & other Financial Institutions. Technology experts & business executives from these financial institutions will interact & discuss current technological & business issues related to:

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The National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI) is hosting the NSI FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival. NSI FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival is the largest established film festival featuring 100% Canadian feature and short films. The festival showcases some of the best short and feature-length films, industry forums and master classes, parties and free screenings on SnowScreen -- an outdoor movie screen carved out of snow. Approximately 5,000 people attended the festival in 2004. The market-driven programs have led to employment for NSI graduates by giving them a competitive edge