Cinechats

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About

Come see movies that will stir your imagination, engage your emotions, and make you think — movies with powerful stories and award-caliber performances.

The Cinechats Film Program is an acclaimed weekly — and year-round! — series of the best motion pictures from around the world. It’s like the Toronto International Film Festival, but it’s right here in suburbia — and without all the immodest hype. Instead, we have an optional master class in film after each week’s film, a seminar that takes the form of a lively informal conversation.

A ground-breaking, not-for-profit educational collaboration between Artsforum, Ontario Tech University (UOIT), Trent University, Durham College, and the Durham Council for the Arts, Cinechats makes continuing community education accessible and compelling. A past president of UOIT said that Cinechats is an invaluable asset for UOIT and Durham College because of its inimitable “humanizing function” in an academic setting that is otherwise largely devoted to technical subjects. And, to prove his point, one UOIT student declared that attending Cinechats was ‘the highlight of his time at university!’

Links

• https://artsforum.ca/film/cinechats artsforum.ca

Organizer

Durham Council for the Arts & Artsforum Magazine

Artsforum is an award-winning not for profit magazine of arts and ideas. Our remit runs the gamut from film to foreign policy. We have published continuously for 25 years. We are the leading publication of our kind in the GTA.

In 2012 (and again in 2014), Cinechats was nominated for the Art of Transition Creative Award. Our audience is enthusiastic, fiercely loyal, and not in the least cliquish; indeed, newcomers are at their ease from the moment they walk through the door. Cinechats is a place for the creative exchange of ideas and for joyous continuing education. It puts to the lie the all too prevalent noxious notion that suburbia in general, and Durham Region in particular, is not a place where one can strive for and expect the very best in any area of endeavor. Cinechats celebrates excellence as much as it does innovation; and it weekly rises to the challenge to demonstrate that big things, great things even, can happen (and thrive) in the most unexpected places.

Partners

Durham Council for the Arts

Ontario Tech University

Trent University in Durham

Aghe Friendly University Initiative

Durham College