Scartissue - Past Projects

Lecture and workshop with Antonio Muntadas (workshop co-sponsored by EM/Media).
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman. Directed by Stephen Shipper using amateurs from Hillhurst/Sunnyside.
A series of 30 half-hour radio programs for school children on musical theory, commissioned by ACCESS Radio.
Workshop on small press publishing with Clive Robertson and Lisa Steele.
Initiation and production of the VOICE, our community newspaper.
Organization of "The Seat of Ideas", by Robert Filliou for Off Centre Centre and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Organization of "The Last Oasis", Hillhurst/Sunnyside's community fair.
Presentation of Yolocamba Ita, Runa Simi and Quilantaro, Central American groups.
Co-sponsorship of lectures by Fred Landis (on South America) and Stan Persky (on Poland).
Design of prototype for an audio/visual teaching aid "The Artist as Model" for the Alberta Art Foundation.
Community billboard project related to rapid transit routing.
Sponsorship, production and documentation of "The Contest Show", live theatre and videotape.
Two performances by Clive Robertson.
Lecture by Carl Loefler on computerized video.
Co-sponsorship of presentations by Headlines Theatre (Vancouver) and Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa).
Co-sponsored Hillhurst/Sunnyside disarmament plebiscite.
Organization of poster workshop on Health and Welfare issues with Peter Dunn and Loraine Leeson of London, UK.
Working visit from Jan Swidzinski to discuss editing and publication of his book Freedom and Limitation.
Presentation of slide lecture by Montreal artist Freda Guttman.
Presentation of video tapes by cultural workers in Central America.
A workshop on Media, Sexual Stereotyping and Choice by Marusia Bociurkiw of Emma productions, Toronto.
A workshop and presentation of tapes (with EM/Media) by Antonio Muntadas. Funded by Canada Council.
Presentation of video tapes by Garry Kibbins.
Co-sponsorship (with Committee for Missing Persons of the Americas) of concerts by Latin American musical groups.
Sponsorship and organization of a major musical benefit for Youth Action for Peace.
Co-sponsorship (with the Committee Against Racism) of "Media Stereotyping, the Case of the Middle East".
Presentation of a slide lecture by Jay Singer on the rehabilitation of windmills in Nicaragua.
Presentation of the taped performance "The Ganser Syndrome" by Clive Robertson (with EM/Media.)
Presentation of Cuban poet Pablo Arnando, (with the Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association.)
Co-sponsorship of our community volunteer recognition night with five other local agencies.
Presentation of a poster workshop for Youth Action for Peace.
Presentation of a Peace Art Exhibition for Youth Action for Peace.
Sponsorship of Sisters of Sistren, a theatre collective which developed from a workshop given by Jamaican group Sistren.
Co-sponsorship of a Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), developing infrastructure and promotional materials.
Co-sponsorship of Community Alternatives Project, a community development corporation.
Publication of a text by Jan Swidzinski, Freedom and Limitation - Anatomy of Post-Modernism.
Production of audio tapes by local performer/poet Kirk Miles and Chilean singer-in-exile Jorge Mansilla.
Hillhurst/Sunnyside Community Garden Project: We initiated and implemented a community garden for our community.
Spanish, French and Russian language classes at beginner and intermediate levels.
Production of "Under A Cloud", an original children's pantomime. The pantomime deals with environmental issues.
Fireworks. "Bridge of Fire" by French artist Pierre-Alain Hubert. Calgary Winter Olympic Games. Funded in part by CRAF.
Hanna Chusid. Storytelling techniques to develop a sense of community in local schools. Funded by Alberta Culture.
Presentation of a tape showing by Nancy Nichol on the History of Feminism in Canada.
A presentation by local journalist/photographer Anne Georg on women's groups in Nicaragua.
A 4-day intensive video workshop conducted by Norman Cohen.
Calgary/Cuba Exchange. In 1989 the Cuban Ministry of Culture sent a historical survey of Cuban poster art to Calgary.
The following year, Syntax sent two representatives to Cuba with an exhibition of our poster work.
Norman Cohn. Video Workshop, Time Travel and the Humane, Part II.
John McCubbin, Men To Men: A Discussion of Men's Roles in Society. 3/4" Video production.
ArtScape/CityCore; The artist in the inner city. 2-day conference with proceedings.
Paul Woodrow, Mireille Perron. "Is The Fear of Poverty a Form of Political Control?" Transportation billboard project.
Advocacy Poster Workshop
Art is a Fact. Poster. Collaboration with Jan Swidzinski to mark the 20th anniversary of Contextual Art in 1997
Urban Mythologies. A series of "trading cards" by local artists about the Calgary Stampede and the cowboy myth.