These crazy “movie previews” were a feature at last year’s Friday the 13th End of Year Screening. Designed by Dan Babineau; video editing by Jimmy Hayes.
One of our former students, Nicolas Gouin, now studying at Concordia University, has had his short film accepted to the Reykjavik International Film Festival. But you can see the Montreal premiere on Monday, Sept. 19 at the Cinémathèque Québecoise. Congratulations to Nic.
Thanks for supporting our recent exhibition of art and photography by Champlain’s talented Faculty and staff. Already many others have come forward about showing their work next year.
Our latest exhibit features the work of students in Creative Arts classes, “Art & Media” and “Beyond the Object”. It will be in the Wayne Remington Gallery (2nd floor of G-block) until May 9. We hope you will take a moment to check it out.
Why are Kim Handfield and Marianne Paquette acting so silly? You would have to ask them. But they’ve each just been awarded $750 dollars at the Caisse Desjardins Scholarships evening. Kim received the “Bourses d’Excellence” for being the Creative Arts student with the highest R scores in her first 2 semesters at Champlain. Marianne, just finishing her first year at Champlain, took the prize for Creative Arts student with the highest overall average from her high school. Congratulations to both!
Loto-Quebec has a travelling exhibition of Quebec art called TRACÉS. One of our teachers, Francesca Penserini (and her sculpture), appears in the promo video. Check it out here.
It’s that time of the year again! Many of our fourth semester students are biting their nails and losing sleep as they try to make some important decisions about university programs and deal with the complicated application process. That made them very appreciative of a visit from 9 former Creative Arts students who came to share their experiences with applications, interviews, portfolios, and life at university in general. Much thanks are due to our terrific grads: Annie-Kim Brais, Lillian Cheung, Spencer Dalton, Andre Dubois, Jason Goodall, Pat Therrien, Camille Gagnon-Chalifour, Bianca Boulay, and Marylene Pivin.
Champlain Creative Arts students Steve Deku, Michael Gannon and Melanie Cardinal worked as volunteers on this year’s “Dance To Give” event for Centraide.
Soraya Bashonga, the event’s planner & coordinator, writes, “These are very talented, passionate, and professional students! I have only good things to say about Steve, Michael, and Melanie’s work ethic. They are serious and did amazing work. During the event, they started at 1 pm and finished at 11 pm, videotaping and taking pictures non-stop! I didn’t have to tell them anything; they knew what to do and how to do it. I was also impressed by their natural ability to socialize with the people they were filming, some of whom thought they were working for Musique Plus (the sponsors of the event).”
The short video they made is posted on Facebook & YouTube; they are still doing some editing for the final video/documentary. Check out their work in progress here.
Here’s a link to a trailer put out by Concordia University’s Animation Department. Two of our former DISA students, Fanny Berthiaume and Caroline DeKoninck, are completing their studies in the program and are featured in the clip. Click here to see it. Annie and Caroline are also featured on our Students page.
Here is a slide show of photos showing students and teachers at work in the Creative Arts program, 2009-2010.
