b.h. Yael is a Toronto based filmmaker, video and installation artist. She is Professor of Integrated Media at OCAD University, past Chair of Senate and past Assistant Dean.
Yael’s work has exhibited nationally and internationally and has shown in various settings, from festivals to galleries to community and activist groups, as well as various educational venues. Her work has been purchased by many universities and she is a recipient of numerous arts grants including the Chalmers Fellowship award. Her essay film Trading the Future, won the ‘Audience Award’ at the Ecofilms festival in Rhodes, Greece.
Yael’s films and installations have dealt with the many intersections of identity and family; it has focused on activist initiatives in Palestine/Israel, as well as apocalypse, geopolitical and environmental urgencies. Select titles include: Fresh Blood, A Consideration of Belonging; In the Middle of the Street; and Palestine Trilogy. Collaborative and collective projects include Spontaneous Combustion; the Olive Project by the Hardpressed Collective; BlahBlahBlah, Re(viewing) Quebec; and the Approximations series with Johanna Householder. Yael has also programmed arts lectures and media screenings, especially the Art Creates Change series at OCADU.
Yael premiered Lessons for Polygamists, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, at the Images festival in April 2017. No Lies, a one minute short and silent version won the “Most Original Film by a Local Female Director” award at the 2016 Toronto Urban Film Festival and first prize at first prize at the 2018 Gotta Minute Film Festival in Edmonton. She has recently completed a memoire on this family story. As well look out for Mike Hoolboom’s edited book, Family States, on Yael’s work to be published in 2021.
CV (selected entries)
degrees
MA, University of Toronto, OISE, Curriculum/Cultural Studies, 1997
AOCA, Ontario College of Art, Photo/Electric Arts/New Media, 1987
BEd., Teaching Certification, Ontario Teacher Education College, 1979
BA, York University, English, 1978
arts/films awards and grants (2000 – present)
2018 First Prize, Best Film, Gotta Minute Film Festival, Film and Video Society of Alberta (FAVA)
2016 Most Original Film by a Local Female Director, Toronto Urban Film Festival
2013 Media Arts Production Assistance, Canada Council for the Art
2009 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2009 Toronto Arts Council, Grants to Media Artists
2009 Ecofilms, Rodos International Films & Visual Arts Festival, Greece Awarded ‘Audience Award’
2008 Rivers Edge International Film Festival, Paducah, Kentucky
Awarded ‘Best Humanitarian Observation’: Media that Matters
2006 Chalmers Art Fellowship, Ontario Arts Council, Research & Creation
2006 Travel Grant, Canada Council
2006 Ontario Arts Council, Media Artists: Mid-Career and Established, Production Completion
2005 Ontario Arts Council: Exhibition Assistance to Artists, WARC,
2004 Near East Culture and Education Foundation, Production
2004 Ontario Limited O/A Famous Magazine. Production
2003 Film and Video Grant, Ontario Arts Council, Production
2003 InterAccess Emerging Artist Awards
2001 Artist Grants, Toronto Arts Council, Production
2000 Millennium Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Production
1998 Travel Grant, Canada Council
1996 Development Grant (B grant), Canada Council
1995 Completion Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1995 Video Production Grant Canada Council
1995 Grants for Artists, City of York Arts Grants
1992 Video Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1991 B Grant, Canada Council
1990 Film Production Grant, Canada Council
1989 Visual Artists’ Grant, Toronto Arts Council
1989 Video Installation Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1988 Explorations Grant, Canada Council
1988 Travel Grant, Media Arts, Canada Council
1987 Arts Promotion Travel Grant, External Affairs
artist residency
2018 Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock NY, 4-week residency
2013 Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock NY, 6 week residency
1995 Banff Centre for the Arts, Media Residency, Memory & History
1994 Banff Centre for the Arts, Media Residency, Banff, Alberta
public acquisitions
TRADING THE FUTURE, 2008
2009 University of Winnipeg
2009 McMaster University Library
2009 Brandon University
2009 University of Winnipeg
2008 Oberlin College Library, Ohio
2008 York University, curator: Kathryn Elder
2008 University of Toronto, Robarts Library
PALESTINE TRILOGY, 2006
2011 National Council on Canada Arab Relations, Vancouver
2007 University of Ottawa, Library Network
2007 Brandon University, Manitoba
2006 King’s University College
2006 University of Ottawa
2006 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2006 Observatori de Video No Identificat, (OVNI), The Observatory Archives, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
2006 Robarts Library, University of Toronto
2006 Ryerson University, Toronto
2006 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
APPROXIMATIONS (1-3), 2003
2006 Observatori de Video No Identificat, (OVNI), The Observatory Archives, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
2004 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2004 York Universities Libraries, Toronto, Canada
2004 Ontario College of Art & Design
2002 V.W. Bladen Library, University of Toronto, at Scarborough, Ontario
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET, 2002
2005 University of Toronto, Robarts Library, Toronto
(OF)FENCES, 2002
blahblahblah: Re(viewing) Quebec
2006 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
2006 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.
2004 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
2003 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.
2002 York University, North York, Ont.
2002 Ontario College of Art & Design
2002 University of New Brunswick, N.B.
2001 OPIRG, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont.
FRESH BLOOD, A CONSIDERATION OF BELONGING, 1996
2010 McGill University Library – Acquisition Dept:
2009 Brandon University
2009 University of Winnipeg
2007 University of Ottawa, Library Network
2007 Concordia University
2006 Simon Fraser University
2006 OISE, University of Toronto
2003 University of British Columbia
2003 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, B.C.
2002 The Rainbow Centre, University of Connecticut, Mass.
2002 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2002 St. John’s University
2001 Trinity College
2001 University of Victoria, B.C.
2001 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y.
2000 University of Toronto, Ont.
1999 University of Montreal, Que.
1999 Northern Arizona University, Ariz.
1999 New York University, N.Y.
1999 Denver Public Library, Col.
1999 Temple Israel, Boston, Mass.
1998 San Francisco State University, Calif.
1998 University of Southern California, Irvine, Calif.
1997 St Mary’s College, Calgary, Alta.
1997 OISE, University of Toronto, Ont.
1997 Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ont.
MY MOTHER IS A DANGEROUS WOMAN, 1987
1990 Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ont.
1989 Trinity Square Video Tape Collection, Toronto, Ont.
commissions
2005 DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED: Deir Yassin Remembered, Dan McGowan
2002 TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA: Inside Out Film & Video Festival, Pam Mathar
selected curated exhibitions/programs
Memory & Memorialization, Remembering the Nakba, Beit Zeitoun, Toronto, May 13; Programmers: Ayeda Ayed & Robert Massoud; Moderator: John Greyson (Deir Yassin Remembered), 2010
Approximations, Parts 1 - 3, Johanna Householder & b.h. Yael, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto: September 11 – October 10, 2009
North American Premiere, Closing Night Gala, Images Festival, Toronto. Programmers: Pablo O’Campo, Leslie Peters(Trading the Future) April 13, 2008.
World Premiere, Mumbai International Film Festival, India. Programmer: V. Packirisamy (Trading the Future) Feb 7, 2008.
Verbatim, Johanna Householder & b.h. Yael, Fleishman Gallery, Toronto, Curator: Rochelle Holt (Approximations & Verbatim), Nov. 23 – Dec. 2, 2007.
curated and juried group exhibitions: International
2019 Relief, Kleinert/James Center, Woodstock, NY. Curators, James Adelman and Oscar Buitrago (Lessons for Polygamists) April 6 – May 12
2018 Gotta Minute Film Festival, Film and Video Society of Alberta (FAVA), programmer, Melissa Thingelstad. (No Lies)
2018 Behind the Curtain presents Here I Am program, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland; Curated by Harriet Warman: (Lessons for Polygamists)
2017 Meet You More Than Half-Way: The Toronto We Know, Images Festival, Toronto, April 23, Curated by Tess Takahashi and Michael Zryd (Lessons for Polygamists)
2016 Twist and Shout, Toronto Urban Film Festival, TTC subway platforms, Toronto, Sept. 16 (No Lies)
2014 No Place – Queer Geographies on Screen, Norway, Curator: Anthea Black (Ken, Tov, Beseder)
2011 Spirit Enlightened, Culture Unplugged Festival; Programmer: Priyanka Shah On line festival: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/5997/Trading-the-Future
2010 Palestine Film Festival, Bloor Cinema, Oct. 8, Programmer, Dania Majid. (Premiere: Ken, Tov, Beseder)
2010 Middle Eastern Shorts, New Orleans Middle East Film Festival, Dec. 2. Programmer: Rene Broussard (Ken, Tov, Beseder)
2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival, Toronto Transit Commission, Network of 270 Onestop platform screens, Sept 10 – 19; Director, Sharon Switzer (Seldom)
2009 New Orleans Middle East Film Festival, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, November 17; Programmer: Rene Broussard (Palestine Trilogy)
2009 SunChild 2nd International Environmental Festival. Yerevan, South Caucasus, Armenia. October 25 to 29; Programmer: Ruben Khachatryan (Trading the Future)
2009 Ecofilms, Rodos International Films & Visual Arts Festival, Greece, June; Programmer: Lucia Rikaki (Trading the Future)
2008 City of Women, International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia Programmers: Dunja Kukovec & Koen Van Daele. Screening: October 15
2008 Conflict Zone Art Asylum, Tacheles, Berlin, Curator: Michael Ronen, March 2 (Palestine Trilogy)
2008 Mumbai International Film Festival, India. Programmer: V. Packirisamy, Feb. 4 (Deir Yassin Remembered)
2008 World Premiere, Mumbai International Film Festival, India. Programmer: V. Packirisamy, Feb 7 (Trading the Future)
2008 North American Premiere, Closing Night Gala, Images Festival, Toronto. Programmers: Pablo O’Campo, Leslie Peters (Trading the Future) April 13
2008 Jacksonville Film Festival, Florida: Shorts of Epic Proportions 2, May 19 (Even in the Desert)
2007 Les Rencontres Madrid, Encontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France, May 1-5 (Approximations)
2007 "America", The National Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia, curated by Jillian McDonald, Feb 20 (Approximations)
2006 Festival Internacional de VideoArte de Valencia, Sala Josep Renau, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain and Pace Digital Gallery, New York, curated by Jillian McDonald, October
2006 Broadcast: Public Access TV in Hawaii, Olelo, Channel 54, Oahu, (Deir Yassin Remembered) Oct. 31st, Nov. 7th, Nov. 28th, Dec. 5th
2006 Toronto International Arab Film Festival, John Spotton Cinema, NFB, curated by Vicky Moufawad-Paul, December (Deir Yassin Remembered)
2006 Observatori de Video No Identificat, (OVNI) Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain: programmed by Toni Serra & Joan Leandre (Deir Yassin Remembered) June
2006 Achtung Baby, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary; Casa Tranzit Haz, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 13 kubikov tranzit ateliery, Bratislava, Slovakia; curated by Nina Czegledy, (The Mission) June
2006 Vikalp: Films for Freedom, Mumbai, India: curated by Anand Patwardhan, May (Deir Yassin Remembered)
2006 Art + Activism, YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto: curated by Kym Preusse, (Palestine Trilogy), January
2005 the fear series, video installation: Contained Mobility, Harbourfront York Quay Gallery, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video; curated by Scott Berry & Jeremy Rigsby, March
2005 Toronto International Arab Film Festival, John Spotton Cinema, NFB (pacts)
2003 Video Art Plastique, Métamorphose 2, Centre d’art Contemporain Basse-Normandie, France. curated by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomszak, Catalogue (The Mission)
2003 Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, April (In the Middle of the Street)
2003 Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin, Texas, August (The Lonely Lesbian)
2002 Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Biagioli, England
2002 Mirror, Mirror: video work from the U.S. and Canada,” 291 Gallery, London, U.K., curated by Monica Bagioli.
2002 Piece Process, ARC Art Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Ill.: curated by Granite Amit, (In the Middle of the Street)
2001 Potshots: Recent Performance Installation and Video Art, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL., curated by Louise McKissick, (December 31,2000)
2001 Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, International Program Two, Toronto, ON, curated by Chris Gehman, April (The Mission)
2000 Images Festival, Orifice show (site specific installations), Robarts Library, UofT (You Are Here)
1998 Canada House, London, England (Selected Works)
1998 Broadcast: Free Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado
1998 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Penn.(Fresh Blood)
1998 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, San Francisco, California (Fresh Blood)
1998 Astrea Foundation, New York, N.Y. (Fresh Blood)
1997 Middle East Studies Association Film Fest, San Francisco, Calif. (Fresh Blood)
1997 The New Festival, New York, N.Y. (Fresh Blood)
1997 Gallery Connexion, Very Homo Show, Fredericton, N.B. (Fresh Blood)
1996 Festival Internacional de Video y Artes Electronicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (Fresh Blood)
1994 Atlantis Gallery, Spontaneous Combustion, London, England (Bomb Shelters)
1991 Leister Media Festival, Canada House, England,
1988 Broadcast: “NO T.V.” Cable, Rochester, N.Y.
1988 Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan (My Mother is a Dangerous Woman)
1987 Gioviani Film and Video Festival, Torino, Italy (My Mother is a Dangerous Woman
curated and juried group exhibitions national
2018 Under New Management: Video Rental Store, Knot Project Space, Saw Video Media Arts Centre, Ottawa. April 26th, 2018 - June 9th, 2018, Curatorial Collective: Su-Ying Lee & Suzanne Carte (Lessons for Polygamists, Trading the Future, Palestine Trilogy, Fresh Blood) http://www.sawvideo.com/knot/exhibit/video-rental-store
2017 7a*md8 – ON SCREEN, in partnership with Art Spin’s Desire Lines at Waterfront Toronto, programmers Golboo Amani and Francisco-Fernando Granados. August 24 (December 31, 2000, collaborative work with Johanna Householder)
2017 Liminal Visibility: Choreography Meets Performance on Video, Victoria Arts Council Gallery, June 24 –July 13 (Installation of Approximations, collaborative work with Johanna Householder)
2017 Toronto Queer Film Festival, Leaving the Nest, June 14 (Lessons for Polygamists)
2017 7a*md8 – ON SCREEN, in partnership with (Un)settled, The Guild, programmers Golboo Amani and Francisco-Fernando Granados. June 10 (December 31, 2000, collaborative work with Johanna Householder)
2012 Accented Video & the Autobiographical; Atomic Centre, Winnipeg, April 5 Programmers: Aisha Jamal and Sarah Shamash (Ken, Tov, Beseder)
2012 No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen, McIntosh Gallery, London, ON, April 2 Touring program; Curator: Anthea Black (Ken, Tov, Beseder)
2011 Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video, Curator: Janice Hladki
-The Robert McLauglin Gallery, Oshawa. July 2 – August 25,
-McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton: January 28 - March 27, 2010
2011 Lies that Tell the truth: The Centre for Art Tapes and the Khyber Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Halifax. Curators: Suzanne Caines and Claire Hodge, July 15 -August 14 (December 31, 2000, with Johanna Householder)
2008 IMAA Conference: On Common Ground, Kelowna, B.C. Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, (a hot sandfilled wind)
2006 Paul Wong Presents: Split Decisions: a programme of video curated from the Vtape distribution collection, Vtape, Toronto, ON, Nov. 26, 2005 – Jan. 13
2005 Brisk Collages & Bricolges: Artistic audits & creative revisions of mainstream media in recent Canadian shorts, Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax: curated by Gerta Johanna Cammaer, July [Catalog published by MSVU
2005 Image & Nation Film Festival, Montreal, curated by Nasrin Himada (Triskaidekaphobia)
2004 Herland Feminist Film & Video Festival, Calgary, Alberta(Triskaidekaphobia)
2002 Better Worlds: Activist and Utopian Projects by Artists, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University: curated by Jan Allen & Laura U. Marks, (of)fences (catalog published by Art Books Canada & AEAC)
2002 Artists Against the Occupation, Forest City Gallery, London, Ont.: curated by Jamelie Hassan, (In the Middle of the Street))
2002 Image & Nation, Montreal International Queer Film Festival
2001 Magnetic North, curator: Richard Fung, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, N.S.((of)fences)
2001 Out of Control in Media City, curator: Jeremy Rigsby, Available Light Collective, Ottawa,
1999 One World Film Festival, Canada
1997 Festival International du cinema et des nouveaux medias de Montreal, (Fresh Blood)
1997 Herland Film and Video Festival, Calgary, Alta.(Fresh Blood)
1997 Society of Cinema Studies Conference, Ottawa, Ont. (Fresh Blood)
1997 Image et Nation gaie et lesbienne festival, Montreal, Qc. (Fresh Blood)
1997 Video In/Video Out, Vancouver, B.C. (Fresh Blood)
1992 CFMDC Western Tour, 6 Cities from Winnipeg, Man. to Yellowknife, N.W.T.
1992 Canadian Film Celebration, Calgary, Alta., 1992
1991 Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, B.C., (Is Dad Dead Yet)
1991 Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, N.S.(Is Dad Dead Yet)
1991 Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, Yorkton, Sask.(Is Dad Dead Yet)
1988 Festival International de Films et Videos de Femmes, Montreal, Qc., (My Mother is a Dangerous Woman)
1988 Insight Film and Video Festival, Edmonton, Alta. (My Mother is a Dangerous Woman)
1988 Video Femmes, Festival des Filles des Vues, Quebec City, Qc. (My Mother is a Dangerous Woman)
1988 Hamilton Artists Inc., The Eccentric Furniture Show, Hamilton, Ont. (My Mother is a Dangerous Woman)
curated and juried group exhibitions provincial
2010 Memory & Memorialization, Remembering the Nakba, Beit Zeitoun, Toronto, May 13; Programmers: Ayeda Ayed & Robert Massoud; Moderator: John Greyson (Deir Yassin Remembered)
2009 Approximations, Parts 1 - 3, Johanna Householder & b.h. Yael, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto: September 11 – October 10
2008 Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Ontario- Sept (Even in the Desert)
2007 Verbatim, Johanna Householder & b.h. Yael, Fleishman Gallery, Toronto, Curator: Rochelle Holt (Approximations & Verbatim), Nov. 23 – Dec. 2
2006 Palestine Film Festival, London, Ontario (Palestine Trilogy)
2006 World Premiere, Royal Cinema, Toronto (Palestine Trilogy)
2005 A Very Personal Look: Toronto Video Art from the 70s to the Present, Art Gallery of York University: curated by Shay Gibson
2005 Hollywood Remake: a selection of videos by Laura Parnes and Johanna Householder & b.h. Yael, Curatorial Incubator Round II, Vtape Video, Toronto, ON, curated by Claire Eckert. Jan. 18 to March 25 [Catalog published by Vtape]
2004 London Lesbian Film Festival, London, Ontario
2003 Inside/Out Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, Invitational program, Tor.
2003 Dig/Dug, Koffler Art Gallery, Toronto, curator: Vid Inglevic, video installation, May (offering)
2003 New Works Show, Pleasure Dome, Latvian House, Toronto, ON. curated by: Sulie Saragosa, Sylvie Wisniewski & Katie Varney, Feb.(December 31,2000)
2003 Photophobia, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, August (December 31, 2000)
2003 South of 60, South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry’s Bay, Ontario; curator: Pat Jeffries, (The Lonely Lesbian)
2002 The Lady Show, Vtape Video, Toronto, ON, curated by Alissa Firth-Eaglund and Zöe Stonyk, June (The Mission)
2002 Power to the People, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, ON. curated by Daniel Cockburn, (December 31, 2000 & (of)fences), September
2002 Broadcast: Pride Television, Toronto, Canada
2002 Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, curator: Pam Mathar (Triskaidekaphobia)
Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, 2001 (The Mission),
2001 Out of Control in Media City, Available Light Collective, Ottawa, curator: Jeremy Rigsby, (The Mission)
2000 Art System, ElectroStatic, video collaboration and installation piece (Help Me)
2000 Music Gallery, collaboration with Marilyn Lerner, Toronto (Seldom)
1999 Harbourfront, Case Studies: The Word, Toronto (I will be (Whatever))
1997 Festival of Arab Culture, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ont. (Fresh Blood)
1997 Inside/Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, Toronto, Ont., (Fresh Blood)
1997 Mercer Union Gallery, Spontaneous Combustion, Toronto, 1996 (Retelling collaboration project)
1996 YYZ Artists Outlet, East of Here... Reimagining the Orient, Jayce Salloum Toronto, Ont., (Fresh Blood)
1996 World Premiere, Jackman Hall, AGO, Toronto (Fresh Blood)
1992 National Film Board, Ontario Women’s Centre, Toronto, Ont.,
1991 LIFT Screenings, Ontario Cinemateque, Toronto, Ontario
1991 World Premiere, Euclid Theatre, Toronto, (Is Dad Dead Yet)
1990 Labour of Love, Women's Common, Women’s Art Resource Centre Toronto
1990 Artspace Artists’ Gallery, Spontaneous Combustion, Peterborough (Home Rule)
1989 The Euclid Centre Screen Opening Festival, Toronto
1988 Emma Productions at A Space, Toronto, Ont.
1988 Broadcast: TV Ontario, Moving Images, Toronto, Canada
1987 Broadcast: ‘300 Dollars’, McLean Hunter, Toronto, Canada
1987 Groupe Intervention Video, On the Run Canadian Cities Tour
1987 ArtCulture Resource Centre, Collation/Collusion, Toronto, Ont.
group exhibitions – collaborations
2001 blah blah blah, (Re)sponses to Quebec, Innis College, Toronto ((of)fences)
1993 Spontaneous Combustion, 1 Queen St/Yonge St, Toronto (Bomb Shelters)
1989 Spontaneous Combustion, Massey Ferguson Showroom, Toronto (Home Rule)
1987 Gallery 76, Toronto (Watch Your Language)
1985 The Rivoli, Toronto (The French Lesson, performance)
1984 The Music Gallery, Toronto (Broken Strands, performance)
1980 WomanTides (S.W.A.C.), Toronto and Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (collaboration)
journals/publications
2020 (Upcoming) “Critical Attachments, Wendy Coburn's Video Works” program notes, co-authored with Rebecca Garrett, Fable for Tomorrow, OnSite Gallery, OCAD University
2020 “Breathless 2003”, Rebecca Garrett: Search, Ed: Mike Hoolboom, ConverSalon publishing
2018 The Colour of Butter, The Hunger. On line literary journal. Fall 2018. Editors: Erin Slaughter & Lena Ziegler https://www.thehungerjournal.com/the-colour-of-butter-b-h-yael
2016 “Devora Neumark: Challenging Home and Presence,” More Caught in Act, an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, Ed’s Johanna Householder & Tanya Mars. Artexte Editions, YYZ books
2014 “Dear John,” Walrus Magazine, March 2014
2012 Nahla Abdo: “Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship, review: Herizons Magazine, Summer 2012, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p43
2011 Cheryl l’Hirondelle, Joseph Naytowhow, b.h Yael. “Land Project: A Conversation between Canada and Israel/Palestine”, Cultivating Canada, Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity. Ed’s Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné. Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series, AHF, Ottawa,
2009 More Than Just Free Speech, Fuse magazine, Vol. 32, No.4, Sept 2009
2005 Pressed: When Words Were Earth, installation by Andrew Johnson, A Space Gallery publication, Feb.
2005 Picture the Performer, review of Caught in the Act, Sketch magazine, OCAD publication, Spring
2002 Nowhere Near the End, or, notes towards Trading the Future, Fuse Magazine, Vol 25, Number 4
2001 Video Stills Essay, Tessera, 2001
1999 Unbound Geographies/Fused Histories, A Space/Central St Martins, Toronto, 1999
1998 De-limiations, (program notes) British/Canadian Exchange, V Tape, 1998
1994 You cannot hear her grief, her crying, MATRIART, Women and War, 4/2/94: Bombshelters
1993 Inside/Outside: Shifting Perspectives, Images Film and Video Festival Catalogue, 1993
1991 Critical Perspectives, introductory remarks, Trinity Square Video Collection, 1991
1990 Sound Symposium, St.John’s,Nfld, (photography) Musicworks Magazine, 1990
1988 Images of Voice, Musicworks 42, Fall 1988
1988 Plains Conference, Fuse Magazine, Fall 1988
programming/curation: exhibitions/performances/etc.
(upcoming) Co-programmer, with Rebecca Garrett, Critical Attachments, Wendy Coburn's Video Works, Fable for Tomorrow, curators, Caroline Langill & Andrea Fatona, OnSite Gallery, October 2020
Co-programmer, Art Creates Change, lecture series OCAD University (2009 –present): Naeem Mohaiemen, Nov. 15, 2019; Shelley Niro, Oct. 23, 2019; Arahmaiani, January 30, 2019; Joe Sacco, September 20, 2017; Kent Monkman, February 8, 2017; Black Lives Matter, Leroy Newbold and Cyrus Marcus, Oct 26, 2016; Larissa Sansur, Sept 21, 2016; Public Studio, January 27, 2016; Rick Lowes, November 4, 2015; Rebecca Belmore, October 1, 2015; Dylan Miner and Devora Neumark, January 27, 2015 and others
Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits: Visualizing the Poetics of Green Energy, January 28, 2020
Co-Coordinator, Messmates Art Exhibition, Co-curators Michelle Beck and Dana Snow, Ada Slaight Gallery, Oct 21 – Nov 1, 2019
Panel co-organizer ( with Victoria Ho), Creative Action during Climate Crisis, Joce Two Crows Tremblay (moderator) , Maya Menezes, Andrea Bastien, Daniel Sarah Karasik, Nov. 1, 2019
Programmer, The Camera Am I, Fabulous Fringe Film Festival, Durham, ON, 2006
Co-Curator, The Olive Project, Two minutes for Peace and Justice, Programming and Web launch, Hard Pressed Curatorial collective, at Tranz < - >Tech International Video Art Biennial, Toronto, 2003
Programmer, Hand on the Pulse, Joyce Warshow, OCAD, co-sponsored with Inside/Out Festival, Sexual Diversity (U. of T.), Lesbian & Gay Archives, Innis College, U. of T., 2002
Programmer, Canadian De-limitations, LUX Cinema, London, England, 1998
Programmer, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Ont., 1993
Programmer, Feminism and Health Conference, Peterborough, Ont., 1990
exhibition catalogue essays
Pressed: When Words Were Earth, installation by Andrew Johnson, A Space Gallery publication, Feb. 2005
Picture the Performer, review of Caught in the Act, Sketch magazine, OCAD publication, Spring 2005
Unbound Geographies/Fused Histories, A Space/Central St Martins, Toronto, 1999
reviews of work/exhibitions
(upcoming book) Family States, Editor: Mike Hoolboom, various writers, 2021
Crane, Connie. Longing for belonging: the artistry of B.H. Yael. Herizons Magazine, September 22, 2011 (FALL 2011/ VOLUME 25 NO. 2)
Richard Fung. Geopolitics & The Videos of b.h. Yael. Fierce Magazine, March 10, 2010
Springgay, Stephanie. (2008). Corporeal pedagogy and contemporary video art. Art Education, 61 (2), 18-24.
Witnesses to History, New Works by b.h. Yael and Richard Fung, Dot Tuer, Sketch magazine, OCAD publication, Spring 2006
Palestine Trilogy, Kevin Temple, Globe and Mail, January 6, 2006
Yael’s potent Palestine Trilogy, Fran Schechter, Now Magazine, January 5, 2006
Imperfect Homecomings, Marilyn Burgess, Topia, Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, No.2, Spring 1998
Fresh Blood, Sandra Haar, Fuse Magazine, Volume 20, No. 1, Winter 1997
‘Home video’ makes Yael’s tale a true saga, Peter Goddard, Toronto Star, Sept. 19, 1996
Judy Garland’s battle grounds, Kyla Wazana, XTRA, Dec.5, 1996
Video artist reconstructs shifting Jewish identity, Cameron Bailey, NOW, Sept. 19, 1996
Desiring Daughters, Renee Baert, Screen 34:2, Summer 1993
This feminist film is drop-dead funny, Craig McInnis, Toronto Star, Jan. 15, 1991
Is Dad Dead Yet, Cameron Bailey, Now Magazine, Feb. 28, 1991
‘Is Dad Dead Yet?’ Diana Vazquez, Flea Bite, March 1991
Mothers Making Art, Pam Patterson, MATRIART, Vol. 1, no. 4, 1991
Watch Your Language, Jennie Punter, Nerve Magazine, April 1987
The 1986 New Work Show, Geoffrey Shea, Cinema Canada, Nov. 1986
reviews of work/group exhibitions
Spontaneous Combustion, Jennifer Rudder, Fuse Magazine, Spring 1994
Spontaneous Combustion, Jerry McGrath, Parachute, no. 74, April-June 1994
Spontaneous Combustion filling up empty office space, Deirdre Hanna, NOW, Dec. 9, 1993
Detonate! (They Blew Up Real Good), Randi Spires, Fuse Magazine, Spring 1990
Combustion stokes artistic fires, Donna Lypchuck, Metropolis, Nov. 9, l989
Dynamic young artists kickstart art season, Christopher Hume, Toronto Star, Nov.10, 1989
festival/art juries
Kos International Health Film Festival Ippokratis, Greece: International Feature Film Jury, 2009
Ontario Association of Art Galleries Jury: Book Design, Gallery Publications, Web Site Design, Ontario’s Public Gallery Publications; September 2008 ; Demetra Christakos, Seriously, Time to Stop; A Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons: Two Minutes to Move Forward Video Contest; May 2009; Anna Jaikaran and Martha Goodings, 2009
Imaginative Media Arts Festival, Experimental Film and Video: Gisele Gordon; 2007
academic activities/conference presentations (selected)
2017 Uncertain Futures Symposium, Canadian Association for American Studies Conference, organized by Ross Daniel Bullen and Mary Eileen Wennekers, October 28 (Trading the Future)
2017 University of Hawai’i, International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program, Faculty Speaker Series, Burns Hall, Faculty: Nandita Sharma, January 25 (Trading the Future)
2016 At the intersections of autobiography and politics, Art and Resistance Conference, Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, Bethlehem, May 12 -16 Rehab Nazzal
2016 Pegasus Conference (Peace, Global Health and Sustainability) Sheraton Toronto Airport Conference Centre, Toronto, May 15, 2016: Trading the Future. Dr. Petra Hroch
2014 Symposium on Arab Canadian Studies (ACANS), Artist Talk, York University, Founders College. March 5th - 6th 2014, co-organized by Walid El Khachab and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
2013 Screening and Artist Talk: Trading the Future, NSCAD University, Bell Auditorium, January 14. Dr Max Haven, Halifax
2012 Guest Filmmaker: Arab Canadian Filmmakers Seminar; University of Ottawa,
2011 Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship, Dr. Nahla Abdo, Beit Zatoun Reviewers: Professor Himani Bannerji, Professor Amir Hassanpour, Lilian Abou-Tabickh
2010 Apres Vous: Ethics, Pedagogy, Memory and Justice, Roundtable: Art and Pedagogy, OISE/University of Toronto, Nov. 12 – 14. Chair: Kim Simon, Gallery TPW
2010 University of Toronto, Hart House. Dr, Shahrzad Mojab; Dissent: The Politics and Poetics of Women’s Resistance, Women and Gender Studies Institute, May 11-12; Chair: Dr. Dina Georgis
2010 McMaster University, Museum Panel, Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video Curator: Janice Hladki, Jan. 29
2009 University of Toronto, New College. Dr. Dina Georgis; Violent Contradictions & Feminist Responses, The War on Gaza, A Symposium: Screening, April 2: Deir Yassin Remembered; Panel, April 3: “Reflections on Violent Contradictions”
2008 Conscience, Culture, Politics, Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York, March 27 & 28, Dr. Lee Quinby
2007 Society of Biblical Literature & American Academy of Religion conference in San Diego. November 17 – 20. Panel Chair: Dr. Janet Ross, McMaster University. Respondents: Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College; Lee Quinby, CUNY
2007 Journal Review: Intercultural Education, Volume 18 No. 4 November 2007: "Shaking Up" Vision: Video as a Site of Personal and Pedagogical Intervention in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance, Contested Imaginaries: Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back: Transnational Feminist Reading Practices, Pedagogy, and Ethical Concerns
2007 University of Toronto, Koffler Centre. Transnationalism, Activism, Art conference, Dr. Rinaldo Wolcott. Resisting Borders: Canadian Video Artists Approaches to Identity and Trans-local Cultural Exchanges. Panel Chair: Dot Tuer
2003 Women’s Voices from the Middle East, Symposium panel, Diaspora, Islam & Gender -MCRI Project, The Centre for Feminist Research, York University: moderator: Dr. Haideh Moghissi, March
2003 Transnational Improvisations: Performing Hybridity, University of British Columbia,Conference Organizer: Dr. Sneja Gunew, Oct.
2001 Panel, Technology and Gender, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2001 Paper, Retextualizing Gender, Media Technology and Gender conference, Panel Chair: Dr. Lee Quinby, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, Oct.
1998 Panel Chair, Radical Artiface, Universities Arts Association Conference, London, Ont.
1997 Brown University, Locating Feminisms conference, Rhode Island
1997 Screening & presentation, Independent Video; Console-ing Passions; TV, Video and Feminism Conference, Concordia Univ., Montreal
1996 Panel, Console-ing Passions; TV, Video and Feminism Conference, Madison, Wisc.
academic activities/artist talks and screenings
2019 Concepts in Anthropology, Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Nov 18
2019 Social Movements that Change the World, Ryerson University, Judy Rebick, Nov. 8
2018 Social Movements that Change the World, Ryerson University, Judy Rebick, Nov. 8
2017 Social Movements that Change the World, Ryerson University, Judy Rebick, Nov. 9,
2016 Social Movements that Change the World, Ryerson University, Judy Rebick, Nov. 11
2014 York University, Faculty of Fine Art, Toronto. Professor Jon Baturin; Critical Issues: Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity (FA/VISA 3001X), Feb. 24, 2010 & Oct 1
2013 McMaster University, Hamilton, Screening, March 12
2010 York University, Social & Political Thought. Gabriel Levine; Strategies of Critique XXIV: The Future (tbd); Graduate Students Conference, (Trading the Future) April 9
2010 Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Professors Isabelle Kim Lance McCready; Approaches to Urban Education (CTL1799Y), March 8 panel
2009 York University, Stong College, Toronto. Dr. Dalia Kandiyoti; Global Jewish Literature and Culture: April 29
2009 Brandon University, Manitoba. Dr. Di Brandt, Canada Research Chair, Literature & Creative Writing; Screenings, Feb. 11 & Feb. 12
2009 Master Class, Brandon University, Manitoba. Dr. Di Brandt, Canada Research Chair, Literature & Creative Writing; Feb. 13
2009 University of Winnipeg. Dr. Marvis Reimer, Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood; Screening, Feb. 10
2007 McMaster University, Film and Theatre Dept, Dr. Janis Hladky
2007 Global Tensions, Global Possibilities, McMaster University, Hamilton, Sept. 21-13: Emily Lukaweski
2007 McMaster University, Dr. Diane Enns, Department of Philosophy, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition
2006 University of Western Ontario, Dept. of Film Studies, Dr. Christopher Gittens
2006 University of Ottawa, Department of Science, Cinema Politica, Dr. Denis Rancourt
2005 Point of View, Nat Taylor Cinema, York University. programmed by Siamak Haseli
2005 McMaster University, Film and Theatre Dept, Dr. Janis Hladky
2005 Crossing Divides: Dialogue and Action for Justice, Emmanuel College, U. of T.
2004 Artist talk: Great Hall, Student Life Centre, University of Waterloo
2003 Chile Exchange, Art Making as Departure and Arrival, Moderator: Here and There: Translating Conflict panel, Ontario College of Art and Design
2002 Signs of Hope in the Middle East, OISE, (chair), Near East Culture & Education Panel Chair: Signs of Hope in the Middle East, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Near East Culture & Education Foundation & Science for Peace, Noam Chomsky event, Nov.
2002 University of Connecticut, Women’s Center
2002 Artist Talk, McMaster University, Film and Theatre Dept, Dr. Janis Hladky
2002 Media and Democracy Panel, (panelist) Ryerson University, Oct. International Environmental Film & Video Festival
2001 Lecture, Fisher Center, "2001 Space Odyssey: Gender Journeys and Gendered Spaces", Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, Dr. Betty Bayer
1998 University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
artist presentations/panels
2020 Moderating: Annina Ruest, Bad Mother / Good Mother, Feminist Art Conference, OCAD U, Mar 7
2019 Sunday Talks, on the work of Naeem Mohaiemen, The Power Plant, November 24 www.thepowerplant.org/ProgramsEvents/Programs/Sunday-Scene/b-h--Yael.aspx
2017 Dislocation in the Cinema, Images Festival, April 21, The Commons, 401 Richmond
2015 Feminist Art Conference. Division of Labour – Gendered Tasks and Expectations; OCAD University, Panel Moderator. Sept 27, 2015, Division of Labour – Gendered Tasks and Expectations, March 8, 2014, organized by Ilene Sova
2012 Routes and Roots of Feminist Cultural Production, Resources for Feminist Research, Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto, William Doo Auditorium, November 8
2012 Moderator: Prefix Urban Field Speakers Series: Uriel Orlow: April 24, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art; Curator: Scott McLeod
2009 National Film Board panel, Flipping Out, dir. Yoav Shamir; David Schatzky, moderator. Jan. 29,
2007 Sweet Mud, Rendez vous with Madness Film Festival, November 12, Kate Lushington, curator
2007 Responses to work by Yael Bartana, The Power Plant, Helena Reckitt, curator; Panel Chair Lisa Steele, March 21
2006 Downloading Video: Video Art and Digital Culture; Video Art in Canada website launch, Moderator: Lisa Steele: Canadian Art film series, Al Green Theatre, Toronto
2006 Artists Against War, Metro Hall, Toronto
2004 Crossing Divides: Dialogue and Action for Justice, Emmanuel College, U. of T., Dr. James Graff
2003 Artist panel: Dig/Dug, Koffler Art Gallery, Toronto, curator: Vid Inglevic, May
2003 Panel moderator: Here and There: Translating Conflict, Chile Exchange, Art Making as Departure and Arrival, Ontario College of Art and Design, organizer: Prof. Diane Pugen
2003 Artist talk: Report Back: All Done, Go Home, Medical Sciences Building, Science for Peace, University of Toronto, Dr. James Graff
2002 Artist Talk, Report Back: In the Middle of the Street, Northrop Frye Hall, University of Toronto
2002 Panel organizer/moderator, Active/ReActive, Planet In Focus, Toronto International Environmental Film & Video Festival
2002 Artist Panel, Bent on Change, (artist talk) U. of T., Ryerson & York University, Organized by Lisa Steele
2002 Media Panel: Media and Democracy Panel, Ryerson University, Oct.
2002 Artist Panel, Trembling before G-d, Cineplex, Toronto
2002 Hamilton Public Library, Jackson Square, Hamilton, (In the Middle of the Street)
2001 Workshop Facilitator, Montreal Centre for Judaica and the Performing Arts, Montreal
1998 Panel Moderator, Unbound Geographies/Fused Histories, A Space panel at AGO
1992 Visiting Artist, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph.
1991, Panel moderator, Trinity Square Video, A Critical Perspective, 1982-1991 Collection
1990, Panel, Healing Images: Media Representation; O.I.S.E. Toronto
1990 Artist Talk, Women's Art Resource Centre, Women's Common, Toronto,
community presentations
2019 Mentor, Animation Residency, Artist Health Alliance and Toronto Animation Image Society (TAIS), Sept 2018 – March 2019; Screening OCAD March 14
2016 Instructor, Grant writing for Arts Councils workshops, Liaison Independent Filmmakers Toronto (LIFT) Feb 2016; June 2015; Feb 2015; Sept 2014; and many more
2013 Answer the Call, August 16 Collective. Gladstone premier, John & Tarek’s Jail Break Cabaret, Nov. 9 (http://vimeo.com/79682177) Collaborative video project
2013 Partitions, Migrations and Exiles: Reflections on the Question of Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands, International Diaspora Film Festival, Innis College, U of T, Nov. 3
2013 Dalhousie University, King’s College, Halifax, Screening, January 15 (Ken, Tov, Beseder and Deir Yassin Remembered)
2011 Opening remarks: Lines of Resistance, Prison Art from the Middle East, Beit Zeitoun, April 9; Organized by Dr. Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, Department of Adult Education, OISE/University of Toronto
2010 Presentation: Masjid Mosque, Mississauga, ON, Nov. 5, Organized by Saadia Khan; Co-presenation with Khaled Loutfi Mouammar, Canadian Arab Federation
2009 Panel participant: Speaking Out: Jewish Artists Uncensored, Winchevsky Centre, Nov. 24; Moderator: Susan Cole
2009 Moderator: panel, Israel/Canada: Military and Political Connections: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), May 15; Organized by Not In Our Name
2009 CBC Radio: Q interview - Host, Jian Ghomeshi, May 13: http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2009/05/post_7.html
2009 Panel discussion & screening: TAROQ Islamic Center and The Muslim Unity Group, May 9; Mohammed Shokr, organizer (Deir Yassin Remembered)
2009 Moderator: panel, Gaza, the Narrative Gap: Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Mar 3; Organized by OCAD Student Union
2008 Moderator: panel, Is There a Connection? Zionism and Islamaphobia: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Nov. 28; Organized by Not in Our Name
2007 Brunswick Theatre, Toronto. Programmer: Robert Allison, Nov. 25 (Palestine Trilogy).
2007 Artists Against War, Christie Pitts, July (a hot sandfilled wind).
2007 QUIT: Quaker Initiative to end Torture, Canadian Conference, St. Paul University, Ottawa, organized by Anne-Marie Zilliacus, April |27–28
2007 McGill Faculty of Law, New Chancelor Day Hall, RadLaw, organized by Lissa Frances, March 5
2007 Adult Education, Temple Israel Synagogue, Ottawa, organized by Diana Ralph, January 28
2006 Masjid Al-Noor Mosque, St. Catherines, sponsored by Cordoba Foundation organized by Murtaza Najmudin, chaplain Brock University
2006 Lula Lounge, Fundraiser for Palestine
2006 Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Vanier College, Montreal
2006 Artists Against War, Metro Hall, Toronto
2006 Sky Dragon Community, Development Co-operative Inc., programmer: Kevin MacKay, Hamilton
2005 3D: Diversity, Democracy and Dissent in the Jewish Community, Metro Hall
2005 A Call for Morally Responsible Investment: A Nonviolent Response to the Israeli Occupation, Steelworkers Hall, Toronto
2004 Talk Cinema, Toronto International Film Group, Grande Cinema, Toronto
2005 V Tape Advisory on web site: Video Art in Canada
2005 A Call for Morally Responsible Investment: A Nonviolent Response to the Israeli Occupation, Steelworkers Hall, Toronto
2005 3D: Diversity, Democracy and Dissent in the Jewish Community, Metro Hall, Toronto
2005 Struggling for Peace in Israel/Palestine: Breaking Down the Barriers, Oakwood Collegiate Institute
2005 Jewish remnants in Iraq and Israel: Sephardic Kehila Centre, Toronto
2004 Messianic Judaism, Bloor Street United Church
2004 Talk Cinema, Toronto International Film Group, Grande Cinema
2004 Israel/Palestine Report Back, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
2003 All Done, Go Home, Medical Sciences Building, Science for Peace, University of Toronto
2003 Women’s Voices from the Middle East, Symposium (panelist), Diaspora, Islam & Gender -MCRI Project, York University
2003 The Middle East and War on Iraq, Symposium (moderator), Victoria College, University of Toronto
2002 Northrop Frye Hall, University of Toronto (In the Middle of the Street)
2002 Hamilton Public Library, Jackson Square, Hamilton (In the Middle of the Street)
2002 Folk Arts Multicultural Centre, St Catharines (In the Middle of the Street)
2002 A Space Art Gallery (In the Middle of the Street)
2002 Morris Wynchevsky Shule, Toronto (In the Middle of the Street)
2002 Hillel Children’s group, New College, University of Toronto (In the Middle of the Street)
1997 Screening & Panel, Anti-Racism Network, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
1991 Visiting Artist, Cimino, Video workshops
1989 Instructor, Video Production workshops, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
1988 Video Editor, Home is where the Heart is, Emma Productions
arts/festival juries
2009 Kos International Health Film Festival Ippokratis, Greece: International Feature Film Jury, Lucia Rikaki
2009 Seriously, Time to Stop; A Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons: Two Minutes to Move Forward Video Contest; May 2009; Anna Jaikaran and Martha Goodings
2008 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Jury: Book Design, Gallery Publications, Web Site Design, Ontario’s Public Gallery Publications; Demetra Christakos, September
2007 Imaginative Media Arts Festival, Experimental Film and Video: Gisele Gordon
2004 Canada Council for the Arts, (3 juries) Media Arts Dissemination: Annual Assistance for Programming, Assistance for Festivals and Distributors, Project Grants
2002 Ontario Arts Council, Visual and Media Arts Artist-Run Centres and Organizations
2002 Toronto Arts Council, Individual Media Arts
2001 Trinity Square Video, Video Residency, Sex show Jury
2001 Ontario Arts Council, Visual and Media Arts Artist-Run Centres and Organizations
2000 Canada Council, Cinemateque Review Jury
1999 Trinity Square Video, hiring Committee
1999 Canada Council, Web site evaluation
1999 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, best of Canadian work
1999 Trinity Square Video, Purchase Collection
1997 Public Art Commission Jury, Community Services, City of York
1996 Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Telefilm Award Jury
1996 Canada Council, Review of Distribution ARC’s
1995 Ontario Arts Council, Film and Video Jury
1994 Canada Council, Film Jury
1993 Trinity Square Video, Purchase Collection
1991 Canada Council, Video Production Jury
academic reviews
External Reviewer, Research Excellence Award, "Established Scholars/Researchers", University of Windsor, 2019
External Referee, Promotion Review of Faculty, Division of Media Arts, NSCAD University, 2018
External Academic Promotion Review of Faculty, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor, 2014
External Academic Research Award Review School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor, 2013
External Academic Promotion Review of Faculty, Department of Visual Arts, University of Victoria, 2009
External Academic Review of Faculty, Communications Studies, University of Windsor, 2007
arts and community boards
2014 – Cinema Politica, Advisory Board, National & International screening series
2012 – 2016 Beit Zatoun Cultural Centre, Board Member, cultural center for social justice
2011 – 2017 Wychwood Open Door, Community Drop In for people at risk
2001 Planet in Focus, Toronto International Environmental Film & Video Festival, Board Member
1988 – 1995 Northern Visions Film and Video Association, Images Festival, Board Member
1989 – 1991 Euclid Theatre, Programming Committee
1991 – 1992 Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Board Member
1988 Emma Productions, Board Member
1987 – 1989 A Space, Video Committee
courses/workshops
2019 “Narrative Structure and Contemporary Art,” Animation Workshop, Daniel Barrow at OCADU
2017 “How to Talk to People About Things”, Misha Glouberman, Sept, 6 weeks, Shaw YoungPlace
2017 “Authentic Facilitation II: Learning to Sit in the Fire of Conflict”, Anima Leadership, Annahid Dashtgard, May, CSI
2015 Paper Cutout Animation, Toronto Animation Image Society, Lynn Dana Wilton
2015 Dragonframe, Stop Motion, Toronto Animation Image Society, Evan DeRushie
2014 AfterEffects workshop, Witz Education
2014 The Doc Story Workshop, CSI, Juan Baquero
2003 Final Cut Pro Workshops, OCAD, Instructor: Brad Johnson
2000 Media 100 Orientations, Professional Development, Chris Terry, OCAD
1999 Women Writers Workshop, Ann Decter, George Brown College
1999 Director Workshop, Patrick Lee, OCAD
1999 Hand Processing Film Workshop, Philip Hoffman, Sheridan College
1998 Electronics for Artists, Simone Jones, Toronto School of Art
1996 Writing Workshop, Susan Musgrave
1996 Dialogue/Script Writing, George Brown College
1991 Production Management Workshop, Alex Raffi, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto
1990 Film workshop, Phil Hoffman, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto
1989 Writing Workshop, Ursula Pflug, Trinity Square Video
1988 Directing Workshop, Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Trinity Square Video
1983 Painting Studio, Joyce Wieland, Artsake
1981 Figure Drawing, Diane Pugen, Artsake