Audio-Visual Resource Centre

Audio-Visual Resource Centre The AVRC serves the School for Studies in Art & Culture (SSAC) at Carleton University The Jacques Emond Jazz collection, made up of approximately 3300 LPs.

The Audio-Visual Resource Centre (AVRC) is the resource centre for the School for Studies in Art and Culture (SSAC) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Carleton University (CU) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The AVRC serves the combined faculties of Art History, Music and Film at CU. Our teaching and research collections include:

An Art History and Film Reference Collection (made up

thousands of exhibition and sales catalogues, journals and books). Approx. 250,000 35mm slides and to date approx. 101,500 digital images (accessible through a web-based fire-walled system). Original material, largely acquired through donations, has and will continue to play a significant role in our digital image collection development. The Helmutt Schade collection, for example, is comprised of approximately 35,000 images. Our teaching collection is being developed on a course-by-course basis and will compliment subscription-based image resources supported by the Carleton University Library. Approx. 2500 VHS tapes, 2900 DVDs and BDs, 370 Laser Disks, and 5000 16mm films, including approx. one-third of all NFB productions donated by the National Film Board of Canada (partially housed across campus), and to date about a dozen 35mm films. The Archive of Canadian Woman Artists, a multi-media archive made up of thousands of items. The archive was created by the late Natalie Luckyj, former member of the School’s Art History faculty.

04/30/2026
Tomorrow (Friday) 12:30-3:30 with Indigenous filmmakers Neil Diamond and Joanne Robertson at 412 St Patrick's Building, ...
03/26/2026

Tomorrow (Friday) 12:30-3:30 with Indigenous filmmakers Neil Diamond and Joanne Robertson at 412 St Patrick's Building, Carleton University. "Discussion about the film, their work, and the surprising truths behind the Indigenous imagery buried in history."

Red Fever is a witty and entertaining documentary about the profound – yet hidden – Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity. Join directors Neil Diamond and Joanne Robertson for an in-person screening and discussion about the film, their work, and the surprising truths behind the In...

Today 6-8pm at The National Gallery of Canada with Indigenous filmmakers Neil Diamond and Joanne Robertson. Discussion l...
03/26/2026

Today 6-8pm at The National Gallery of Canada with Indigenous filmmakers Neil Diamond and Joanne Robertson. Discussion lead by our own Tom McSorley.

Explore the profound impact of Indigenous masks on Surrealism in this event held in association with the exhibition Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast.

11/30/2025
11/30/2025
11/30/2025

Winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2025, directed by Mstyslav Chernov, the filmmaker behind “20 Days in Mariupol.”
Join us for a special one-night screening on December 7 at 6:30 PM at ByTowne Cinema, Ottawa — a gripping story of courage, loss, and resilience in wartime Ukraine.

11/30/2025

For decades, Thomas King was considered to be one of the most prominent Indigenous authors and creators. The news that he has no Indigenous ancestry came as a shock to many people this week.

But not to Jesse Wente, a prominent Anishinaabe writer and storyteller-in-residence at Toronto Metropolitan University. Wente worked as a producer on the screen adaptation of King’s book, "The Inconvenient Indian." Though ancestry issues came up for other people working on the film, King's never came into question. But Wente had wondered about his friend’s ancestry.

The confirmation that King is not Indigenous still emotionally affected Wente, even if he wasn't totally surprised by it. Today on Commotion, he joins Elamin Abdelmahmoud to work through the complicated feelings and how he’s grappling with the fallout.

Full discussion: beacons.ai/commotioncbc

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Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
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