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GAZA DIARIES – Short Film Program
2024
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ALIS
2023
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ATTILA
2023
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Adieu Sauvage
2023
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Anya Liftig – Holler Rat
2023
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BECAUSE WE HAVE EACH OTHER
2023
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VIRTUAL
Behind the Scenes Insights on Directing the Award-Winning Documentary BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS
2023
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Blue Sky, White Clouds
2023
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DEAR MOTHER, I MEANT TO WRITE ABOUT DEATH (我们在黑夜的海上)
2023
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Drawing Workshop with Logan MacDonald
2023
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wherever you are is where i want to be
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IF YOU ASK ME
2023
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Kenya
2023
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LIKE A FISH ON THE MOON / ZAN, MARD, BACHE / زن، مرد، بچه
2023
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Same As Sister – Upstairs, In Our Bedroom
2023
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The Dependents
2023
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The Gathering at Rendezvous With Madness: Mind the Gap
2023
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What’s Eating My Mind & Katanga Nation
2023
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Workman Arts Members: Born To Be An Artist
2023
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back home | OPENING NIGHT FILM
2023
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wherever you are is where i want to be – EXHIBITION
2023
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wherever you are is where i want to be
A Voice Through the Melt
2022
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BIGGER THAN TRAUMA
2022
FILM
BIGGER THAN US
2022
FILM
CHAINS & CROWNS – Stéphane Alexis
2022
KIND RENDERINGS
CINNAMON – Wen Tong
2022
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DON’T LET ME FALL TOO FAR
2022
PERFORMANCE
EAT YOUR CATFISH
2022
FILM
FESTIVAL PRE-LAUNCH EVENT
2022
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GEMMEL & TIM
2022
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HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND — Opening Film
2022
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I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
2022
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IF YOU ASK ME
2022
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LES PRIÈRES DE DELPHINE | DELPHINE’S PRAYERS
2022
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LIZ ROBERTS: ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FILMMAKING
2022
ARTIST TALK
FILM
WORKSHOP
LOSING IT- Boozie
2022
KIND RENDERINGS
LOVE BOUND
2022
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MIDWASTE
2022
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MIS DOS VOCES / MY TWO VOICES
2022
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MULTITUDE OF FISH – ASCENSION TALES – Jenny Chen
2022
KIND RENDERINGS
MY EMPTINESS & I
2022
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MY LEFT-HAND IS TALKING AND MY RIGHT-HAND IS NURTURING – Jessica Field
2022
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NEURODIVERGENT CREATOR COZY TEA TIME: ENVISIONING AFFIRMING AUTISTIC AND ADHDER REPRESENTATION
2022
ARTIST TALK
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PUBLIC SPEAKING THROUGH COMEDY
2022
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Rain In 2020
2022
FILM
Rendezvous With Madness Festival Pre-Launch Event
2022
THE THINGS WE CARRY WITH US – Twinkle Banejree
2022
KIND RENDERINGS
TWO DOGS
2022
FILM
The Flin Flon Cowboy Cabaret
2022
PERFORMANCE
The Suicide Key
2022
PERFORMANCE
UPON, REFLECTION: RECENT SHORT FILMS BY WORKMAN ARTS AND SATELLITE MEMBERS
2022
FILM
WHEN WE REACH OUT, WHO SHOULD RESPOND?
2022
FILM
kind renderings — EXHIBITION
2022
EXHIBITION
KIND RENDERINGS
(IN)SITE EXHIBITION
2021
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A-SITE HOSTS AI AND AR WORKSHOP SERIES
2021
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ANNY
2021
FILM
PRE-RECORDED PANEL/Q&A
ART COLLAGE WORKSHOP
2021
WORKSHOP
AUTISTIC REELS: RECLAIMING OUR STORIES
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
Big Feels: Post Radical Growth Symposium
2021
SYMPOSIUM
CHELSEA WATSON MASTER CLASS
2021
WORKSHOP
COAL MINES AND TREE TOPS – Dani Crosby
2021
IN(SITE)
DASHTE KHAMOUSH / شوماخ تشدشد (THE WASTELAND)
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
DRUNK ON TOO MUCH LIFE
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS
2021
FILM
FUNDING YOUR NEXT PROJECT
2021
WORKSHOP
GIL GOLETSKI: ANIMATION FOR EVERYONE
2021
WORKSHOP
GREEN GAZING – Ashley Bowa & Lesley Marshall
2021
IN(SITE)
HOW TO DISTRIBUTE YOUR FILM AND MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE
2021
WORKSHOP
HOW WE CARED – Saroja Ponnambalam & Rupali Morzaria
2021
IN(SITE)
HYBRID PRECARITY – Leena Raudvee
2021
IN(SITE)
IF YOU ASK ME – Youth Shorts Program
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
INFERNAL GROVE STUDY GROUP
2021
WORKSHOP
JACINTA
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
KÍMMAPIIYIPITSSINI: THE MEANING OF EMPATHY
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
LUGINSKY
2021
ARTIST TALK
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
MY FATHER’S STORIES/LA PROFESSION DU PÈRE
2021
FILM
NORTH BY CURRENT
2021
FILM
PRE-RECORDED PANEL/Q&A
NUMBNESS
2021
FILM
PERMISSION TO BE REEL: FILMMAKER MENTAL HEALTH DURING COVID
2021
WORKSHOP
POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ
2021
FILM
PROCESSING DURATION
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
SAFE
2021
FILM
SARAH TRAD: EMOTIONALITY IN ACTION
2021
WORKSHOP
SELF // ISOLATION – Chelsea Watson
2021
IN(SITE)
SZEPTY/WHISPERS: DIALOGUE
2021
IN(SITE)
TAKING CARE
2021
WORKSHOP
THE LAST SHELTER
2021
FILM
THE TESTAMENT OF OLIVER
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
THIRZA CUTHAND: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
TRUE – PROJECT UNDERTOW
2021
PERFORMANCE
UNBREAKABLE – Amplify Collective
2021
IN(SITE)
VISIÓN NOCTURNA / NIGHT SHOT
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
WHAT EVERYONE GETS
2021
FILM
LIVE PANEL/Q&A
WORKSHOPS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENTS
2021
WORKSHOP
48 Years – Silent Dictator
2020
FILM
Alpha Support
2020
Apocalypse In Your Bedroom
2020
Artist Panels
2020
ARTIST TALK
BREATHE
2020
Due to Renovations
2020
Ectoplasms
2020
Hindsight
2020
FILM
If You Ask Me
2020
FILM
Into the dark of my skin
2020
Intolerance of Uncertainty
2020
Jo, Don’t Go There
2020
Judy Versus Capitalism
2020
FILM
Les heures heureuses
2020
FILM
Literary Balms
2020
ARTIST TALK
Mad Carpets
2020
Mad Fairy Tales
2020
Mad Poetry Apothecary
2020
WORKSHOP
Madwomxn
2020
FILM
Master Class: Too Close for Comfort – Creating an Environment of Care in the Theatre
2020
PERFORMANCE
WORKSHOP
Medication Meditation
2020
Mountain Duets
2020
Multitude of Fish
2020
Nasir
2020
FILM
Neuroelastic
2020
Nocturne
2020
FILM
Post-Part
2020
Prose in Therapy
2020
Quarantine Blues
2020
FILM
Queen Latifah Give Me Strength
2020
PERFORMANCE
Re:Building Resilience Exhibition
2020
EXHIBITION
PERFORMANCE
Resistant Bodies
2020
ARTIST TALK
Scarecrow
2020
Shadow Flowers
2020
FILM
Spectral Spaces
2020
ARTIST TALK
The Anatomy of a Home
2020
The Bridge
2020
PERFORMANCE
The Collage Party
2020
WORKSHOP
The Fever
2020
FILM
The Marriage Project
2020
FILM
The Silhouettes
2020
FILM
The Unseen
2020
FILM
The World Is Bright
2020
FILM
This is Not A Burial
2020
FILM
ThreadBare
2020
Veins of the World
2020
FILM
Winter’s Yearning
2020
FILM
untitled ([not] always like this)
2020
Bedlam
2019
FILM
Chaos
2019
FILM
Conviction
2019
FILM
Foxy
2019
FILM
If You Ask Me
2019
FILM
In Search…
2019
FILM
In This House
2019
PERFORMANCE
Intangible Adorations: Experience The Icon
2019
PERFORMANCE
Irene’s Ghost
2019
FILM
Junha’s Planet
2019
FILM
Kabul, City in the Wind
2019
FILM
Laughter vs. the Universe
2019
PERFORMANCE
M
2019
FILM
Making Mad Exhibition
2019
EXHIBITION
My Soul Drifts Light upon a Sea of Trees
2019
FILM
Our Wonderful Lives (Nos vies formidables)
2019
FILM
PSYCHOSIS
2019
PERFORMANCE
Retrospekt (Retrospect)
2019
FILM
Tale of The Sea
2019
FILM
The Life and Death of Fred Herko
2019
PERFORMANCE
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