Community Engaged Workshops
Green screen performance
Mary Bunch, dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning & Caitlin Fisher
Calling queerdos, trans, crips, feminists & BIPOC dreamers and worldmakers!
In a world of climate catastrophe, racism, mass displacement, colonial dispossession, queer and transphobia, gender-based violence, and war, we invite community participants to fabulate possible worlds and habitable futures with us.
In this two day workshop, participants create experimental worlds with devised performance and green screen video. We begin with a full day performance workshop. Expect the unexpected and be prepared to move and improvise! On day 2 you will experience the magic of live compositing with virtual sets as you shoot, edit, and sound mix a short green screen video with assistance from a team of filmmakers.
Participants take away a co-created original short (1-3 minute) video, as well as an individual and small group photo.
Team: .Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Mary Bunch, Moynan King, Lokchi Lam, Lia Tarachansky, Luke Kuplowsky, Emily Barton, Rain Migwans
Anishinaabemowin Tool Development
Dolleen Tiisawii'ashii Manning
Aniin Anishinaabeg of southwestern ontario! help create An Augmented Reality app that animates story phrases in our own dialect. featuring the voices of the First language speakers who keep our language alive!
Lead by Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, a member of Kettle and Stoney point, and the youngest daughter of fluent language speaker Rose Elijah Manning baa, our team of media artists is bringing this workshop series to Kettle and Stoney Point, Walpole Island, Chippewas of the Thames and Aamjiwnaang First Nation - four communities in Southwestern Ontario who share a unique, and endangered dialect. We offer two types of media creation for this resource. The first is green screen performance, as you see in the sample video featuring Sky Stonefish above. The second is photogrammetry- a way to scan objects to make 3D images. We have some samples below that use the language recordings available on the online Ojibwe People’s Dictionary from the University of Minnesota. The voices are placeholders until we hold our first recording session with Jenny Blackbird, Mona Stonefish, Jarvis Nahdee, and other Elders who speak our dialect.
These will be made available to community members through this website, and on an app you can access on an IOS or android phone.
Media Arts workshops at schools
Hillside School, 2024
In the spring of 2024, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning brought the team to Hillside school, Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation. We worked with grades 5, 6, 7 & 8 classes at , to experiment with photogrammetry and green screen performance. Elders Mona Stonefish and Jenny Blackbird brought Anishnaabemowin to the experience, as we piloted our Language Tool Development Workshop. Everyone had a blast!
