Open Studio

This open studio provides the public with an opportunity to engage with Justin Ducharme and his creative research practice. His current research centers around themes of chosen family structures, the representation of sex work throughout cinematic history and the urban queer Indigenous existence.  
 
While working in the Artists’ Books room, Ducharme will select artists’ books for visitors to browse through that relate to his research practice. He will also be presenting a variety of film screenings, offer public drop-in hours, and host a writing workshop. Registration for the workshop is required. All events are free to attend. 
 
About the workshop on February 13: Join writer/filmmaker Justin Ducharme for a free form writing workshop designed to help writers explore and understand the development of character(s) and story. Ducharme invites writers to disengage from self imposed caution and judgment — allowing themselves to access generative ideas through random free write exploration. Free with limited capacity.  

Artist book resource here: https://guides.ecuad.ca/c.php?g=585901&p=5331258  

 Presented as part of Research As… with Justin Ducharme

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot “Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

Research As… is a public program that makes creative research visible. Artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.