Summary of organization/program
Charles Street Video (CSV) is a non-profit, artist-run centre located in downtown Toronto. Our mandate is to provide media artists with opportunities for production and to foster an environment for the advancement of the media arts practise, experimentation and the creation of community.
Contact information
65 Bellwoods Avenue, Toronto ON M6J 3N4 Canada
(416) 603-6564
Geographic region
- Local
Participants
- Media artists (youth to adults etc…)
History/Background Information
Established: 1981
CSV rents editing rooms as well as cameras and production gear. Our facility hosts resident artists, co-hosts youth development projects, including the CSV/ Inside Out Queer Youth Project, provides workshops and equipment orientations, awards scholarships to media art students and sponsors screenings and performances.
Under the name of the Charles St. Video and Performing Arts Society, CSV was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1981. We gratefully acknowledges the contribution of our members through membership and user fees, and that of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council for annual operating and occasional project assistance, as well as theOntario Trillium Foundation and Heritage Canada’s Cultural Spaces program for capital funding.
Dominant Media Forms
video production
Objectives
- To provide media artists with opportunities for production and to foster an environment for the advancement of the media arts practise, experimentation and the creation of community.
Statement of Principles
not provided
Strategies
CSV rents editing rooms as well as cameras and production gear. Our facility hosts resident artists, co-hosts youth development projects, including the CSV/ Inside Out Queer Youth Project, provides workshops and equipment orientations, awards scholarships to media art students and sponsors screenings and performances.
Samples of work
Funding Sources
not provided