Membership
Membership Information

AMAAS welcomes new members, and we encourage you to join our network for media art in Alberta. The Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS) serves media artists and organizations in Alberta. Founded in 1991, AMAAS provides communication, advocacy and education; as well as member programs including webhosting, an annual conference, workshops, publishing, awards, sponsorship, and artist commissions. Now, and since its inception, AMAAS is governed by a volunteer group of directors, who are all representatives of the media arts.

AMAAS offers three membership options:

Media Artists residing in Alberta - For independent creators in the media arts, having the status of a professional artist in Alberta, and sharing the aims and objectives of AMAAS. This class of member has voting privileges. 
The cost is only $25 annually and offers numerous services and benefits to independent artists: Conference, Communications, Advocacy, Website, Workshops, and access to Equipment/Resources as available.  If you join of one of our organizational members, they may offer a $5 addition to their regular membership fee to add a full AMAAS Media Artist Membership along with their membership.


Media Arts Organizations - For any non-profit organization operating in Alberta which has, as its main activity, creation, production, dissemination, exhibition, distribution or research and experimentation in media arts; and that carry out their primary activities in the province of Alberta; pay artist’s fees; and share the aims and objectives of AMAAS. This class of member has voting privileges.
The cost is $50 annually. Membership applications are accepted year round, are approved by AMAAS Board of Directors. Membership benefits include all of those available to individual members; plus access to shared Advocacy representation and Marketing campaigns, shared Resources (equipment, research, data, etc) and subsidized Web Hosting.


Allies - For any organization or individual that supports the aims and objectives of AMAAS. This class of member does not have voting privileges, but will receive news bulletins.
$25 annual membership.

 

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Current Organizational Members


Full Members

Active Citizens Television (ACTV)

Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS)

Calgary Cinematheque Society

Calgary Society of Independent Film Makers (CSIF)

Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF)

Dreamspeakers Film Festival

EMMEDIA

Fairy Tales Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Film and Video Arts Society - Alberta (FAVA)

Global Visions Film Festival

Hidden Gems Film Festival

Metro Cinema

New University Television Society (NUTV)

Quickdraw Animation Society

Reel Shorts Film Festival

 


Ally Members


Alberta Student Film Festival

The Banff Centre's New Media Institute

Show Us Your Shorts: A Festival of Short Films

 


Advocacy News

Public presentations later this month:

Michele Wozny, will be releasing her comprehensive report on Media Arts preservation and collections this month.  Two public presentations are planned: June 24th at 1:30 PM in Hinton, AB at the Holiday Inn, 393 Gregg Ave; and June 28th at 7:30 PM in Calgary, AB at the QAS/EM theatre, 351 11 Ave. SW.


The report will be available for purchase or free download in July, 2011 - contact the AMAAS office for details.

 

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