Friday April 13 (James North Art Crawl), from 7 pm-9:15: “Behind the Kiln” multi-media dance, music, video collaborations in real-time. Dancers include: Olga Barrios, Liz Bates, Laura Reid, Victoria Slager, Grace Loney, Tanis MacArthur. Musicians include: Brier Pomfret, Ronald Weihs. Video vee-jaying by Judith Sandiford.
9:30 – midnight (tip jar): Jazz with Emily Kemp vocals, Scott MacIntosh guitar, Jordan Snider drums, Tom Altobelli bass, and Chris Bruder piano.
Dance, Event, Film, James North events, Music
Under the Influence of Dub from Luke Banville on Vimeo. Klyde Broox is an award winning dub poet and author. This short documentary highlights his migration from Jamaica to Canada. Directed/Edited: Luke Banville; Director of Photography: Jake Levinsky; Sound Design/Music: Conor Sullivan; Sheridan College Media Arts – 2012. [The performance portions of this documentary were filmed at Klyde's PoeMagic evenings at Artword Artbar.]
Event, Film, Literary, Spoken Word, News
Monday February 20 at 8 pm. We’ll be open for a special event – “Love In Motion: A Post-Materialist Love-in” at Artword Artbar. . . featuring Janice Lee (acoustic guitar/spoken word), Lorimer Longhaul (spoken word), Kendall Downey (spoken word) and a screening of the animated short “Condiment Love” (stop motion animation) by Aaron Fitzpatrick…
Here are some links: Janice Lee www.janjolee.net
Lorimer Longhaul http://lorimerlonghaul.wordpress.com/
Kendall Downey http://www.flickr.com/photos/kendallx
Aaron Fitzpatrick www.fitzpromedia.com
Event, Film, Literary, Spoken Word, Music
Friday, February 10, 2012, from 8 pm onwards… (James North Art Crawl). Music, dance, video, and all of the above. Opening guest set: Rob Willett, guitar and voice. Second set, “Behind the Kiln” part one, dance and music improvised before your eyes, featuring Tanis MacArthur, with the improvising orchestra (Trio Arjento plus friends). Third set, a more formal concert set by Trio Arjento , Jennifer Lockman piano, Tom Shea guitar, Orange McFarland stand-up bass, (minus Marcy Hull who is not able to join in). Last set, “Behind the Kiln” part two, more real-time collaborations and live video-mix by Judith Sandiford, with guest musicians (including Angela Macaroni on flute) and dancer/movers including Jenny Rae on a visit from Thailand
Dance, Event, Film, James North events, Music
Wednesday, January 25 at 8 pm, $5. A Multi-Media, Music & Animation Showcase! Featuring animated shorts (Animated Doom Prophecies) by Aaron Fitzpatrick from Hamilton (FitzproMedia.com) – . View some of Aaron’s animation here: www.fitzpromedia.com
Plus guest artists Miramichi 
from Hamilton (Experimental Electronica) (http://www.facebook.com/miramichimusic?sk=wall)
Plus Slender Loris (Quirk Rock Exploration), and Lorimer Longhaul (Spoken Word/Squat Poetry)
Event, Film, Music, Special event
Thursday November 10 at 8 pm pwyc. Behind the Kiln #13. Always thrilling and unpredictable, our evenings of real-time collaborations between dancers, musicians and visual artists, are a treat. Organized by dancer-choreographer Tanis MacArthur and video-jammer Judith Sandiford. [Image left Sept 15: duet Tanis MacArthur, Rose Gowling, plus live web-cam (photo Anne Milne)]
Movers and sounders tba.
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Thursday October 20, 7:30 pm, Tom Dusome is hosting a film night.
“Dear Freeskool Friendlies, We are planning a get together for everyone who’s interested in talking about how we learn in our society… Film: “Free To Learn” (Albany, NY Free School – 2007). We will view the film, and follow up with discussion regarding learning, education and how these processes are played out in our society. We encourage one and all to come along and join in on the discussion, share your thoughts and experiences, and together we will envision the future of learning… Love, Hamilton Freeskool” www.HamiltonFreeskool.org
For information on the documentary, visit: http://www.freeschoolmovie.com/menu1.htm
Event, Film
Thursday October 13 at 8 pm pwyc. Behind the Kiln #12. Always thrilling and unpredictable, our evenings of real-time collaborations between dancers, musicians and visual artists, are a treat. Organized by dancer-choreographer Tanis MacArthur and video-jammer Judith Sandiford. [Image left Sept 15: duet Tanis MacArthur, Rose Gowling, plus live web-cam (photo Anne Milne)]
Movers and sounders for our “ghOulish and dreAry” Oct 13 include: Victoria Slager, Anne Milne, Jennifer Lockman, Tom Shea. Orange McFarland, Tanis MacArthur, Liz Bates, Ron Weihs, Judith Sandiford.
Dance, Event, Film, Music, Theatre
Thursday September 15 at 8 pm, pwyc. Behind the Kiln #11. Always thrilling and unpredictable, our evenings of real-time collaborations between dancers, musicians and visual artists, are a treat. Organized by dancer-choreographer Tanis MacArthur and video-jammer Judith Sandiford. Movers and sounders: Jenny Rae (via skype from Thailand), Liz Bates, Rose Gowling, Paula Grove, Tanis MacArthur, Jennifer Lockman, Ron Weihs, Orange McFarland. Image left: Sept 15: live realtime duet Jenny Rae (in Thailand) and Liz Bates (in Artword Artbar), via skype and a web-cam. Wow! We did it! (photo Anne Milne)
Dance, Event, Film, Literary, Spoken Word, Music
Thursday Sept 1, 8 pm, pwyc. Last minute craziness — Behind the Kiln #10. Last fling of summer. Our wildly unpredictable multi-media collaborations between dancers, musicians and a video-jammer, making it all up on the spot. We’re filling a gap the only way we know how — having fun and making magic. Come and join us. Coordinated by dancer-choreographer Tanis MacArthur. Participants so far: movers- Liz Bates, Carissa Bowerman and sister, Tanis Macarthur (maybes from Rose Gowling, Victoria Slager); sounders- Jennifer Lockman, Ron Weihs, Tom Shea; visuals- Judith Sandiford
Dance, Event, Film, Music
Saturday July 9 at 8:30 pm, free — Filmmakers Night at Artword Artbar: An Evening of Short Film Screenings. Participants so far: Alex Szatmary (“Voodoo” and “Ocean-view”), Brent Ross (“Canadian Priaires”), … more coming…
Submission Information for filmmakers:
- Format must be digital and able to run on a laptop on standard media player software. We have the laptop and the digital projector in place.
- Running time under 10 minutes, preferred.
- All genres welcome. – No limits about previous screenings.
- No fee to participate, but pre-registration is requested.
- To register, please send an email to Judith Sandiford artword@artword.net
Please provide: your name, title of film, running time of film, a brief description, all the film credits, date made and other background of the film.
Event, Film, Special event
Thursday July 7 at 8 pm, pwyc. Behind the Kiln #9, thrilling and unpredictable evenings of real-time collaborations between dancers, musicians and visual artists. Organized by dancer-choreographer Tanis MacArthur and video-jammer Judith Sandiford. Participants Tanis MacArthur, Liz Bates, Grace Loney, Victoria Slager, Jennifer Lockman, Tom Shea, & more tba.
Photo above: BtK June 11 with Eugene Martynec, Nobuo Kubota, dancers Victoria Slager and Tanis MacArthur, plus a Steel Image by Shane Turcott manipulated by Judith Sandiford.
What is “Behind the Kiln”? 
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Dance, Event, Film, Music
Saturday June 11 at 8 pm, $5. We are delighted to have two of the best improvisers in Canada as our guests for a special “Behind the Kiln”. Eugene Martynec, laptop improviser, and 
Nobuo Kubota (click to view performance), sound poet, will kick us into very high gear. The rest of us will also be there to provide the movement, visuals and more sound. Movers so far include Liz Bates, Tanis MacArthur, Jenny Rae, Victoria Slager. Sound from Jennifer Lockman piano, Tom Shea guitar, Orange McFarland upright bass. ”Behind the Kiln” is our regular evening of multi-media collaborations in real-time, with musicians, dancers and video jammer. It’s thrilling, unpredictable, unexplainable. Be there!
Dance, Event, Film, Music, Special event
Thursday May 12 at 8 pm, pwyc. Behind the Kiln #7, thrilling and unpredictable evenings of real-time collaborations between dancers, musicians and visual artists. Participants this time: Sounds-Tom Shea, Jennifer Lockman, Orange Macfarland, JonGordon Odegaard, Ron Weihs; Moves-Grace Loney, Jenny Rae, Liz Bates, Rose Gowling, Victoria Slager, Tanis MacArthur and a ‘maybe’ from our juggler, Lacey Cameron; Visuals: Judith Sandiford. Theme “EchOes”. [Image Tanis and Victoria from April's evening.]
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Dance, Event, Film, Music
Sunday, April 10th, at 8 pm, at Artword Artbar, 15 Colbourne Street, Hamilton, $10 or PWYC. A screening of the film “TERRITORIES” based on the documentary process of photographer Larry Towell, directed by Mary Ellen Davis (Canada 2007, 65 minutes) that captures renowned photographer Larry Towell’s exploration of borders and territories, in both Mexico and Palestine.
Followed by a discussion with Jimmy Johnson, focussing on “The Palestine-Mexico Border”, the space where two militarized borders meet — the militarized Mexico-U.S. border and Israel’s regimes of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. Read more…
Event, Film, Special event
Most Tuesdays at 8 pm, Artword Theatre hosts “Theatre Tuesdays”, with readings of new plays and/or works-in-progress, readings of favourite plays we like, short theatrical presentations, films about theatre, etc. To get involved, as a writer, reader, presenter, actor, listener… contact us: artword@artword.net
* March 22: Theatre Tuesdays presents a screening of the film version of “Skinning the Cat” based on the stageplay by Kevin Land, starring Matt Willson (also a producer) and Jonathan Harrison, and directed by Jeff Santa Barbara (runs 81 mins). Also on the bill, a 12-minute short by local filmmaker and animator Alex Szatmary, “Angels of Death” shot on location in Romania and Hamilton. Alex Szatmary, Matt Willson and Kevin Land will be present to talk about the films afterwards. Cover pwyc.
* March 29: some films about the experimental theatre of the 60s and 70s.
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