Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media

10/10/2024

Hello everyone, it’s been a while!
We’ve been posting our updates on AbTeC: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace regularly and ask you to join us over there to get the latest Skins workshop info!
(We’ll decommission this Skins page in the next few days.)

04/07/2022

https://www.naccnt.ca/events/skins-workshop-series

Don’t forget to check out our next round of Skins workshops coming up this Spring!
https://www.naccnt.ca/events/skins-workshop-series

05/27/2021

Another peek into our most recent Skins inDigital Youth Collective workshop series with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. This fantastical character design by participant Kaidin Davis!

05/20/2021

May 7th was the last iYC (inDigital Youth Collective) workshop. It was great to work with these youth in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival! Here is a character design (work in progress) by participant Caleigh Lightning!

05/04/2021

A fun memory from our Skins workshop series for the Journeys and Crossroads programmes at Dawson and John Abbott Colleges, which took place on April 14th! Participants get a good stretch in the spaceship yoga studio on AbTeC Island. Machinimagraph by Kahentawaks Tiewishaw!

04/29/2021

Here is a glimpse into our Skins workshop series for the Journeys and Crossroads programs at Dawson and John Abbott College! This drawing is from a 7th Gen Character Design workshop on March 22nd, created by Nicole Visitor.

03/23/2021

Call for past Skins Workshop participants! We would like to invite you to take part in Seven Generations Later, an exhibition with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival that will bring your Second Life avatars to physical spaces around the city of Toronto. For more information, reach out to Kaitlynn at [email protected]. Limited space available!

09/16/2020

09/10/2020

Check out these amazing characters created in our most recent 7th Gen Character Design workshop! It was the first of a special series of four workshops taking place this month, in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, called the iNDigital Youth Collective Workshop Series. The next workshop is today!

Artists featured: Kaidin Davis, Hayden Sylvester, Zephyr McKenna

09/03/2020

This month AbTeC: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace will be giving FOUR online Skins workshops for Indigenous youth as part of the 2020 iNDigital Youth Collective Workshop Series, a partnership with IIF partner imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and their collaborator ENAGB-IYA.

Today we are kicking things of with 7th Gen Character Design! This workshop asks participants to imagine a decedent of theirs that lives seven generations in the future and design that character using paper and pencil.

Learn more about the iNDigital Youth Collective on iN's website: https://imaginenative.org/indigital-youth-collective