Convocation

Convocation this year was on campus (in a gym!) rather than the Centre of the Arts. Much less seating and they asked people to watch via live FB stream. Three of my (co-supervised) MFA students convocated, although only Sandra was there on stage. 
 

Wood

Last painting class until fall. 

Tired of bringing home small batches of wood from the farm so Margaret bought a half cord and we loaded it onto the relocated racks in the yard. William's hair filled with detritus in the process.  Ready for summer now, I hope. 

 

After an early meeting on campus, I had coffee with Geremy  at the new coffee shop in the research building (they do their own baking). Later in the afternoon, Margaret and I went for groceries and saved over $150 when we scratched a 50% saving at the till. 

 

Almost like summer vacation

The only thing not like summer vacation today was the lack of heat. I put on some records and painted  and then finished reading a book. An actual book! David and Angie's fourth in this series. Fun. 

The camera on the other hand wasn't an actual camera, it was a dummy camera with a light but no camera qualities. 

 

Records and painting

 Found time to put on a record and do some painting today. Did a second copy of this Canon DV camera. 

Gin

 Gin party at Richard and Gerda's. First of the season.  I only had a couple. Some nice chats but mostly it was a come and go sort of thing. 

AGR opening and BBQ

AGR had a bbq in the courtyard leading up to the opening of a video installation by Saskatoon's Linda Duvall and New York's Jillian McDonald. 

 

Kristen and air conditioner

Kristin has been here all week. Finally got a chance to see her today. She came amid the installation of our air conditioner. After the noise had died down, she was William's guest on his radio show. The focused on medical related comics in this week's Leader Posts. 

 

Camera from university

 Borrowed this dv video camera from Jessie. Lots of rounded edges so was fun to paint. 

William grant submission

William submitted his first grant application today. He's been a Filmpool member almost 5 years so I guess it is about time (I'd submitted my first one after being a member about 2 months). 
 

Contractor

 Over a year after our fire, we finally have a contractor (Mark) to rebuild the garage. This will take a while, but we've started the process of ordering the components. 

William's game

 William is in a video game class, working with GB Studio. Pulled an all-nighter earlier this week and still only created a partially complete exercise. He's doing some cool stuff and is very focused and engaged. This weekend he updated this exercise and submitted the changes (the game is a relatively straight forward memory game but the first version failed to give the player the material they needed to memorize, making recalling that material literally impossible. 

Cards with dad

 I pulled out my deck of cards with dad today (who I visited instead of going to the CVAF street fair) and dealt rummy instead of cribbage. To my surprise, dad seemed to recall how to play and we had two and a half hands before getting too distracted. 

Monty Python class continues

 Week three of my four week Monty Python class through Lifelong Learning. Everyone loves "Life of Brian". Only two hours, so don't get enough time for proper discussion, but had some nice chats. A number of the participants talked about telling their kids (who are in their 50s) that they saw Holy Grail last week and were amazed at the amount of the dialog that their "kids" could rattle off from memory. Grandchildren, however, were mystified. 

YAAG pop up screening

Even though YAAG is still non-functional (due to last  year's fire) I held a pop up screening of my work including premiering the new silent film "Dancing In The Past" which is constructed from newly scanned ray-o-grams along with masks built from three older films.  I'd not got an announcement into the Cathedral Festival in time to be in the program, but I still had a nice cluster of people join and watch. We went pretty late, hanging out in the gazebo on the old furniture that no longer has a home in our house. 

Filmpool CVAF screening

 Filmpool screening. Sat with Don List who had his film about the Plains Hotel in the program. Most of the films were wonderful and soulful experimental films.  They also screened "The Devil Knows You're Dead" by Lee Chambers. 

Quick and Dirty

 Really great "Quick and Dirty" talk this month including three friends talking about their creative process: Gavin de Lint, Allan Dotson, and Gerri Ann Siwek. 

CVAF parade

 

Butterflies was the theme for the Cathedral Festival this year so Margaret and William dressed appropriately for the parade this morning. The mayor came out and introduced an art flag raising and rock on rock performance conduced by the conductor of the symphony. 

On William's radio show

 I'm William's first return guest on his radio show. We recorded on Friday and aired this morning, talking mostly about Garfield. The more I listen, the more interested I am in participating. This episode is available for the next three weeks here: SUNDAY FUNNIES ON CJTR. 

Covid or not...

 I've been so tired all week that I don't know how to get through my days. I've been certain something is wrong but it never seems to be covid (I've taken to doing the whole back of the throat swabbing even).