Programming 2023
Saturday July 8
Art – Environment – Life – Everything
Durham Art Gallery
EXHIBITION – Studio Projects’ most recent community-curatorial project Art – Environment – Life – Everything explores the intersecting points of artistic practice through the lens of environmental and collective survival. Together, Artist-Curators distance between us, Tara & Clayton Windatt and Emilio & Elyse Portal function as a multi-arts collective. Works will include media, performance, installation and audience participation. Bring hope and ideas. All are welcome. more info.
Thursday July 13
Queen’s Bush Pub
A casual celebration of staff, artists and festival patrons to kick off the start of the 2023 festival. Come have food and drink with us as we socialize and reconnect. The restaurant will be open and we will be enjoying ourselves on the patio.
Friday July 14
7pm > July 14th – Amplified Spirit
Durham Community Centre and Arena
7:00 pm > SCREENING – Cole Forrest – The current wave of Indigenous filmmaking breaks ground with every frame and amplifies the distinct experiences we all undertake as Indigenous people. We show ourselves through the magic of genre and reach beyond what was creatively possible. Make no mistake, the films in this program exemplify the power short films have, especially within Indigenous cinema. more info.
Saturday July 15
doors open 1:30pm > 2pm > WRESTLING EVENT
Durham Community Centre and Arena
PAY WHAT YOU CAN – FOOD BANK DONATION – Northland Wrestling is presenting a full-card of wrestling matches for the benefit of the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. Donations will be accepted at the door. All welcome, no purchase necessary to attend.
WRESTLING POETRY SLAM – NEW TIME! THIS EVENT WILL BEGIN DIRECTLY FOLLOWING WRESTLING
Durham Community Centre and Arena
Northland Wrestling Poetry Slam – A series of contemporary collaborative performance art works combining spoken word poetry and professional hard-hitting wrestling.
Sunday July 16
Durham Community Centre and Arena
SCREENING – Clayton Windatt – findingtrackzero – A series of super-low-resolution animations and art films being created on-site and screened through retro technology.
Durham Community Centre and Arena
SCREENING – Wayne Dunkley & Candace Elder – Through a hybrid combination of facilitated conversations, open dialogue, critique and coaching, newlocation offers forward-thinking creative practitioners an opportunity to contemplate, articulate and initiate transformative ways of being in the world.
Monday July 17 & Tuesday July 18
VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Working with FabFilmFest Artistic Director Clayton Windatt, a collective of artists will shoot a series of horror films to be presented at a later date.
Friday July 21
Durham Art Gallery
PERFORMANCE – distance between us – Working with their new emerging curatorial team, the Durham Art Gallery will produce Offerings of Care as a media-focused multi-arts pop-up both inside and outside the gallery. more info.
Saturday July 22
7pm > The Art Shack Experience
Durham Conservation Area
EXHIBITION – Napoleon Brousseau – The Art Shack is a story installation space, an intimate theater constructed from painting artifacts created in the original Art Shack, “art works as a building material for an intimate space for the expose into the creative process that encompasses all the aspects of my creative practice, painting, writing, music, performance, and installation works”. Inside the theater, the building blocks of the story space have been digitally manipulated into a series of videos that tell a story. Viewers are invited to enter the art shack to experience the creative process on an intimate level, the narration by the artist’s voice as an ASMR (Autonomous sensory meridian response) reinforces the intimacy of the creative experience.
Durham Conservation Area
PERFORMANCE – CreateDangerously – NEURONS is a short performance dance piece that takes a look inside the mind and how outside influences affect and shape the functions of our brain and disrupt communication within it causing us to turn on ourselves. Programmer: CreateDangerously
Durham Conservation Area
Installation – FabFilmFest – Art Party is a celebration of the festival and a reception for all our artists. What better way to close this year’s festival with a catered art party. Light refreshments and snacks provided. All are welcome.
Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film 