Toronto Free Broadcasting

For its first season, Toronto Free Broadcasting (TFB) makes this call for instructional videos on ways you navigate your environment to yield (or envision) ways to move in-between, and across boundaries separating “home,” “school,” “work” and “public space.” Round Two of Season 1 submissions will be accepted throughout the program (September
10 – October 31, 2009), and made viewable at torontofreebroadcasting.net. The ongoing archive of instructional videos forms one part of Toronto Free Broadcasting which also includes a series of live “educational programs” by artists and instructional video-making workshop nights held at the Toronto Free Gallery.

Videos should be between 1 to 10 minutes, documenting your practical skills, tactics, and knowledges –or those of someone you know– in forms such as “instructions,” “how-to’s,” “lessons,” “plans,” and “demonstrations.” Lessons might range from navigating the quickest route from point A to point B (fence-hopping techniques), to a step-by-step on negotiation tactics (dancing the tango with three), etc. These are some examples of knowledges which may not have use in predetermined day-to-day surroundings, though are useful in their personal, provisional and speculative grappling with the built environment. We love to see skills created, applied to situations particular to you, or which engage in the productive misuse of objects and spaces.

Submission Guidelines
Please submit video(s) and accompanying text document(s) along the following guidelines:

· Round Two of Season 1 submissions accepted from September 1 –
October 31, 2009
· Video submissions will be viewable and archived online at: torontofreebroadcasting.net
· Multiple entries are welcome and encouraged!
· Videos can be old or new!
· Each video should be no longer than 10 minutes
· Submissions should include a text document outlining:
1. Title, production date, other credits
2. A short written description of video (50 words max)
3. Contact information, email or surface mail address (optional)
· For those interested in licensing their videos, we encourage the use of Creative Commons licenses. (Information about Creative Commons can be found here: http://creativecommons.org)

Sending Video Files:

· Please submit your videos via free video uploading websites like YouTube and Vimeo by providing us with a link (which we’ll use to embed on the TFB website). If have questions about this process, you don’t have an account or have privacy concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us and we can discuss options.

We look forward to receiving your submissions! Please email us at info@torontofreebraodcasting.net if you have any questions.

Charlie, Xan and Sebastian invite Carole on a tour of the CNTL Facility.

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Special Thanks: Victoria Cowan, Colin Medley, Adam Medley, Jordan Train Ramsay, Xenia Benivolski, Jacques Le Dreff and Amy C Lam.

This was a live performance where Negrete invited two groups of people from the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco – one that identifies with Valencia Street and the other with Mission Street to voluntarily exchange their clothing. The project is an attempt to bring two disparate worlds together – two parallel streets divided by ethnic, economic and cultural extremes.

Risa, the girl who made this film was raised in different country every 2-5 years, she always found English language to be funny.
She started getting very obsessed with English idioms when she came to Canada to go to university. In the art management class, she soon realized she had no clue what the text book was talking about. There were terms such as “house of cards”, “at arm’s length” or “piece of cake”’ splattered all over the text book. “What does house made of cards or how long the arm is or small cakes has to do with arts funding system…?”, this kind of thoughts appeared all the time while she read for her classes. This experience was the first inspiration for this film.
One day, when she was browsing through internet, she came across this word ‘hot chicks’. Not just once. They were everywhere! As a bird lover, she found this English very very funny and had to do something about it.

So she did.

Basic ingredients: A ball, a wall, people.
Extras:Sometimes some painted lines help, if not some strategically placed objects will do the trick.

In the cold winter of 2008 Gintas Tirilis and Alison S. M. Kobayashi explored the Mississauga, Etobicoke suburbs desperately in search a warm place where they could smoke cigarettes. What the pair discovered was a strip of abandoned motels along Lakeshore Blvd, just on the edge of Toronto. This video illustrates how you can gain access to these spaces.

A series of films showing how to either build or break a relationship which explore competition and play, and the friction between the two that occurs in any pairing.

A series of films showing how to either build or break a relationship which explore competition and play, and the friction between the two that occurs in any pairing.

Before the Woodstove alludes to the luxury spaces of the country fireplace or the sauna and demonstrates an attempt for the visual and atmospheric qualities without the precarious chimney.

2009

Karen Kraven

The Pleasures of Doubling is a short instructional video that explores different styles of doubling on bicycles and its associated pleasures. Ahh… the pleasures of doubling on a bicycle…awkward starts, uncomfortable positions, one person doing more work than the other…Doubling on a bicycle is the retro-modern version of a piggyback. Enjoy.