Brewmaster Ed Koren of the Black Creek Historic Brewery shared his tasting notes with us for the One-Mile Beer, released on Nov. 3, 2011.

Soho-based Dado Valentic is a colorist and digital image workflow expert. His facility, MyTherapy, provides clients with on-set supervision, including look development, color grading and finishing, and digital distribution, with a specialization in stereo 3D.

While much of Valentic’s work is on independent feature films, such as Inbred – the latest work by director Alex Chandon – the facility also delivers commercials projects, music videos and television shows.

The city’s best Halloween venue, Black Creek Pioneer Village, will present a special All Hallows’ Eve on Saturday, October 29. All Hallows’ Eve is a rare opportunity to visit the beautifully recreated 1860s village at night – the perfect setting for a spine-tingling Halloween experience. Several of the historic homes at Black Creek are said to have their own ghosts and visitors will have a chance to enter those buildings and hear their stories firsthand. Numerous authentic traditions from the past, including ghastly medical procedures, wakes, phrenology and body snatching will come back to life that night. Performances by Vladimir, International Grand Illusionist and Master of Levitation, will be offered on the main stage, and visitors will have the opportunity to taste a special new pumpkin ale, brewed for the event at the Black Creek Historic Brewery.

Montreal: Oct. 18, 2011… Montreal-based audio and VFX house, Boogie Studio, announced a spate of new hires and appointments, including new producer/business development manager Patrice Cormier, online assistant/color artist Cristel Bergeron and online editor and visual effects artist Cadie Desmeules-Desbiens, all formerly with Technicolor Montreal’s commercial/VFX division, as well as internationally renowned colorist Gary Chuntz.

Qube Cinema will introduce the new XP-I digital cinema server at ShowEast. Based on the Qube XP-D Series 2 server platform, the XP-I is designed to work in conjunction with the Qube Xi 4K Integrated Media Block (IMBs) installed in the projector. Along with support for a wide variety of formats, the Qube XP-I server and Qube Xi 4K IMB will play content at up to 4K resolution, and stereo 3D at high frame rates of 48 and 60 frames per second.

Modus FX, one of Canada’s emerging leaders in visual effects, announced today that it has signed with International Creative Management (“ICM”), one of the world’s largest talent and literary agencies. Based in Montreal, Modus FX is the first Canadian postproduction house to be included in the prestigious entertainment agency’s roster. The partnership between ICM and Modus FX will provide Hollywood studios with easier access to Modus’ capabilities for project development, VFX supervision and postproduction.

An exhibition of new work by artist Drew Klassen opened at Gallery Page and Strange in Halifax on September 30 and will run through October 21. Based primarily on Klassen’s travels in Europe, East Asia and Cuba, the new paintings are dense, gestural renderings of his experiences of both natural and human-made environments. The result is a fluid, restless interplay between representation and abstraction, and a new phase in the artist’s evolution.

Black Creek Historic Brewery has embarked on a quest to brew its first, and possibly Canada’s only, One-Mile Beer – made from ingredients grown on site at Black Creek Pioneer Village, and brewed with the same equipment and techniques that were used by early Ontario settlers in the 19th century. If successful, 30 to 35 “Growlers” (two liter jugs) of the handcrafted ale will be ready in late-October for purchase.

Black Creek Historic Brewery has embarked on a quest to brew its first, and possibly Canada’s only, One-Mile Beer – made from ingredients grown on-site at Black Creek Pioneer Village, and brewed with the same equipment and techniques that were used by early Ontario settlers in the 19th century. Two years ago Black Creek Pioneer [...]

Toronto: September 13, 2011… Black Creek Pioneer Village will host the 55th annual Pioneer Festival, a harvest celebration of local foods, beautiful crafts and the communities who create them. By continuing traditions which date back to Ontario’s early settlers, the Pioneer Festival provides the public with a window into sustainable living practices and community building: issues which are as relevant in our time as they ever were in the past.