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Dreamscapes at DIGI60
DREAMSCAPES Returns to the Big Screen!
We’re thrilled to share that DREAMSCAPES is coming back to the big screen in Ottawa. Catch it on December 5th at 6 PM as part of the Community Shorts program at the Digi60 Filmmakers’ Festival.
We’re so excited and honoured to have our film showcased alongside an incredible lineup of local talent.
Get your tickets and join us for an unforgettable evening of storytelling!
Dreamscapes Screening : Celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities with Dreamscapes
* informations en français à suivre
December 3, 2025 | 12–1 PM
Amphitheatre, Civic Campus + Virtual via Microsoft Teams (link below)
Free Admission
Step into Dreamscapes. An evocative experimental film that reimagines how we see mental health and disability. Hosted by Disabled Community@TOH, this special screening invites staff, patients, and families to come together in celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Through striking imagery and reflective storytelling, Dreamscapes challenges traditional, medicalized views of disability and opens space for authentic voices and experiences to be seen and heard.
Why Join Us?
Experience a powerful film that explores identity, resilience, and representation.
Take part in meaningful conversations about accessibility and equity in healthcare.
Connect with others in a shared celebration of inclusion and creativity.
Accessibility:
The event features ASL interpretation, closed captioning, and a wheelchair-accessible venue.
Attend Virtually:
Join via Microsoft Teams
For questions, contact DiversityInclusion@toh.ca.
Let’s celebrate together and imagine new dreamscapes for inclusion.
Célébrons la Journée internationale des personnes handicapées avec Dreamscapes
Le 3 décembre 2025 | de 12 h à 13 h
Amphithéâtre, campus Civic + en ligne via Microsoft Teams
Entrée libre
Plongez dans Dreamscapes. Un film expérimental évocateur qui réinvente notre regard sur la santé mentale et le handicap.
Organisée par Disabled Community@TOH, cette projection spéciale invite le personnel, les patients et les familles à se rassembler pour célébrer la Journée internationale des personnes handicapées.
À travers des images saisissantes et un récit introspectif, Dreamscapes remet en question les visions traditionnelles et médicalisées du handicap et ouvre un espace où les voix et expériences authentiques peuvent être vues et entendues.
Pourquoi participer ?
Vivez un film puissant qui explore l’identité, la résilience et la représentation.
Prenez part à des conversations enrichissantes sur l’accessibilité et l’équité dans les soins de santé.
Créez des liens avec d’autres personnes dans un esprit d’inclusion et de créativité.
Accessibilité :
L’événement comprendra une interprétation en langue des signes (ASL), un sous-titrage codé et un lieu entièrement accessible aux fauteuils roulants.
Participation virtuelle :
Rejoignez-nous via Microsoft Teams
Pour toute question, écrivez à DiversityInclusion@toh.ca.
Célébrons ensemble et imaginons de nouveaux paysages de rêve pour l’inclusion.
10th Form Festival | Dreamscapes Screening and Artist Talk-Back
Dreammaking in Frame
Saturday November 15 | 5:00-6:30PM PST
Live Talkback facilitated by cát nguyên
Location: Online via Eventive
Doors: 4:45PM PST
Dreammaking in Frame is a collection of films that immerse us in reimagined realities — dreamlike states that do not conform to the ordinary or the recognizable. Activated by nonnormative movement(s), the body becomes a vessel that bends the line between truth and performance and unravels relational boundaries. Each of these films embark on an introspective journey, leaving us to contemplate our place within the everyday world we witness.
Screening Advisory: This screening features films with topics that may be challenging to some viewers. To learn more about our support offerings during screenings visit F-O-R-M FAQ.
Calgary Dreamscapes Screening & Q&A
Join the National accessArts Centre (NaAC) and Ghost Rooster Collective for an evening of film, conversation, and community. This special event features the World Premiere of COSMOS REPORT (2025), the new short film by the NaAC Film Ensemble, paired with the evocative experimental film Dreamscapes (2024) by Ghost Rooster Collective.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, offering audiences the chance to engage directly with the artists about their creative processes, inspirations, and accessible visions for the future.
SCOTTISH MENTAL HEALTH ARTS FESTIVAL
Dreamscapes
Screening at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival – Unique Perspectives
Thursday, November 7 | 3:20 PM
A meditation on memory and the subconscious, Dreamscapes drifts between waking life and the dream world. Through layered visuals, textured sound, and quiet moments of performance, the film traces how personal histories and fleeting emotions shape the way we see ourselves and others.
Presented as part of the festival’s Unique Perspectives programme, Dreamscapes offers an intimate, visually arresting exploration of identity—inviting audiences to wander through inner landscapes where the boundaries of reality blur and every image carries a hidden story.
Pandora's Briefcase | Fresh Meat Festival 14
Festival Artworks by Maggie Woods
@specialmaggiemoments
Pandora’s Briefcase
Created and Performed by Ghost Rooster Collective
Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson, Rachel Gray, Liz Winkelaar, and guest artist Rebecca Gray.
Pandora’s Briefcase follows the daily routine of the Ghost Rooster office workers and a mysterious briefcase. This work is an absurd, glamorous meditation on temptation, transformation, longing, and the absurdity of productivity culture.
Genesis of the Show:
Pandora’s Briefcase was born out of our desire to move from film into live performance, bringing our collective’s energy into the room with an audience. We were curious about what would happen if we combined singing, dance, and experimental theatre in a playful yet unsettling way. The office became our central metaphor: a place of structure, repetition, and absurdity, where routine can both hold us and trap us. We loved the fun of bringing ordinary objects to life by turning corporate props like desks, folders, and of course the briefcase, into instruments that disrupt expectations. The creative spark was the tension between order and chaos. Our greed and desire, what we forget in daily routine, and the sudden power of disruption to reveal something more human and wild underneath.
As a disability-led collective, disruption is central to our creative language. Disability art often unsettles familiar structures, asking audiences to question assumptions about bodies, productivity, and value. In Pandora’s Briefcase, the corporate world becomes a stage where those assumptions are most rigid. By inserting singing, dance, and absurd play into that environment, we used our lived experiences as disabled artists to turn routine into a site of possibility. The performance’s unruly energy reflects how disability arts challenge systems designed to contain or exclude us transforming the office into a space where difference, desire, and imagination take centre stage.
DREAMSCAPES Screening & Artist Talk-Back | Kingston
✨ ABOUT THE DREAMSCAPES NATIONAL TOUR
Ghost Rooster Collective is excited to bring the national Dreamscapes tour to Kingston, ON for a special fternoon at H’Art Centre. Settle in for an intimate screening of our experimental film followed by a lively artist talkback. This stop is part of a cross-country journey that mingles glamour with the weird, the wild, and the deeply sincere. Expect trolls, tears, twists, puppets, projection, dance, drama, and more as Dreamscapes makes its Kingston debut.
✨TICKETS ARE FREE!
Tickets are free to make this event accessible to everyone. All are welcome. By reserving your ticket, you guarantee your spot and help us manage attendance to ensure the event stays within capacity limits, creating a comfortable and safe environment for all attendees.
✨HOW TO FIND THE VENURE
Enter the Village campus via the entrance off Princess Street. Once inside:
Keep left and follow the driveway around the building to the back of the main building.
Continue to the west side of the building
Parking is available on the left side of the driveway, or
Continue to a drop-off roundabout at the west wing entrance.
Find the accessible double doors. From there, you can take the elevator or stairs down to Level 0. Once on Level 0, another set of accessible doors will be on your right — that’s us!
Cinema Touching Disability Festival
Dear Committee Members,
We are so honoured to have Dreamscapes awarded First Place at the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival. Thank you for recognizing the work and vision behind this project. It truly means so much to us to have it celebrated among such inspiring filmmakers and stories.
Films that center disability are vital because they expand how we understand and represent lived experience. They challenge stereotypes, amplify underrepresented voices, and invite empathy through authentic storytelling. Festivals like Cinema Touching Disability create essential space for these perspectives, reminding us that inclusion in art isn’t just about visibility, but about reshaping the narratives we tell and who gets to tell them.
We deeply appreciate the time and care you put into organizing and judging the festival. Your support and recognition encourage us to continue creating and sharing work that sparks conversation and connection through film.
With gratitude,
Ghost Rooster Collective
The Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival and Short Film Competition aims to change the picture of disability through film. The top cinematic celebration of disability in the state, the Festival features the work of independent filmmakers from around the world, from documentaries to animated shorts to the avant-garde. The festival provides a unique and entertaining way to positively and accurately view disability.
Dreamscapes is selected to be screened during Block 3 at 8:15pm.
Mirror Mountain Film Festival | LOCAL HEROES
Saturday September 6, 7pm
ODD Box, 2 Daly Ave. (2nd floor)
Pay-what-you-can
Suggested admission $10
Local talent and creativity are in the spotlight in this selection of short films from the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Co-presented by Digital Arts Resource Centre.
Dreamscapes Screening : National Tour Kick-Off
A LETTER TO OUR COMMUNITY
Dear Friends,
We are so grateful to everyone who joined us at Tangled Arts + Disability in Toronto for the afternoon kick-off of the Dreamscapes short film national tour. It was such a meaningful way to begin this journey, and we are still carrying the energy of that gathering with us.
Sharing Dreamscapes with you is very close to our hearts. We are thankful for the community that came together around the film and for the openness with which you welcomed us. The thoughtful conversations and reflections shared reminded us how powerful it is to come together through art.
As we continue the national tour, we are excited to keep building connections across Canada. Each stop gives us the chance to express our gratitude, to show our vulnerabilities, and to grow alongside audiences who inspire us with their generosity and insight.
Thank you for being part of this beginning. We look forward to meeting more of you on the road and continuing to share in the experience of Dreamscapes.
With love and thanks,
Ghost Rooster Collective
Photos by Kendra Epik Photography
EVENT INFORMATION ARCHIVE
✨ ABOUT THE DREAMSCAPES NATIONAL TOUR KICK-OFF
Ghost Rooster Collective is thrilled to launch the Dreamscapes national tour in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability in Toronto! Join us for an energizing evening of experimental film, live performance, and a post-show artist talk-back. This event marks the start of our cross-country journey, blending glamour with the weird, wild, and deeply sincere. Expect trolls, tears, twists, puppets, projection, dance, drama, and more as we share Dreamscapes in Toronto for the very first time.
✨ ABOUT THE FILM
Dreamscapes is a genre-blurring experimental film that delves into mental health, alternate realities, and the complex journey of healing. Centered on an intimate interview with Amelia Rose Griffin, the film brings her personal experiences of navigating multiple realities to life through vivid dreamscapes. This portrayal offers a unique perspective on Disability, inviting audiences to step into Amelia’s reality and explore the experience of disability beyond a medicalized lens.
Ghost Rooster Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa. Thank you to Ottawa Dance Directive for their continued support.
✨ ABOUT GHOST ROOSTER COLLECTIVE
Ghost Rooster is a collective of artists with diverse disabilities, working at the intersection of dance, visual art, and film. We believe in accessibility as a collaborative framework for creative leadership, with a process rooted in listening, mutual support, and the core principles of the Disability Arts movement. For us, access is not just a requirement—it’s a source of innovation and creative potential.
✨ PROGRAM
⭐ 12:00 PM – Doors open
⭐ 12:30 PM – Opening remarks
⭐ 12:40 PM – Performance, film screening, and talkback
⭐ 2:00 PM – Event concludes
✨TICKETS ARE FREE!
Tickets are free to make this event accessible to everyone. All are welcome. By reserving your ticket, you guarantee your spot and help us manage attendance to ensure the event stays within capacity limits, creating a comfortable and safe environment for all attendees.
✨VENUE & FILM ACCESSIBILITY
Tangled Art Gallery is wheelchair accessible with a 60-inch-wide automatic front door and step-free entry. The building has elevator access via the North East (Richmond) entrance, where an indoor ramp leads to Tangled. Seating includes a couch, chairs with backs and armrests, and floor cushions available upon request. Service animals are welcome. For full details on physical and event accessibility, visit: tangledarts.org/accessibility
Dreamscapes incorporates ASL translation.
✨PARKING & TRANSPORTATION
401 Richmond does not offer visitor or free parking at any time. However, there are a number of parking lots in the immediate area. Venue can be accessed by TTC by taking the 510 Spadina streetcar from Spadina subway station or Union Station, or the 501 Queen streetcar.
Dreamscapes Short Film Premiere
A LETTER TO OUR COMMUNITY:
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Ghost Rooster Collective, we want to offer you our sincerest thanks to all who attended the Dreamscapes short film screening at Club SAW. From the midst of a blinding snowstorm, you arrived. Confirming that once again that art, imagination, and community will always find a way.
Performing, screening, and talking about this film with all of you was an act of vulnerability and pure joy. Dreamscapes was birthed from a space of extreme imagination, individual reflection, and collective storytelling, and to get to see it realized on film with all of you present in the room was truly unforgettable. Your presence, your kindness, and your love meant everything to us.
Thank you for sharing this moment with us, for believing in our creative visions, and for being among the talented community members making nights like this possible. We hope to dream with you again soon.
With gratitude and excitement,
Ghost Rooster Collective 👻🐓
Photography by Curtis PerryEVENT INFORMATION ARCHIVE
✨ ABOUT THE DREAMSCAPES PREMIERE
Ghost Rooster Collective is thrilled to present the premiere of Dreamscapes! Join us for an energizing evening featuring a film screening, live performance, and an artist talk-back. This event marks our exciting debut on the Ottawa arts scene, blending glamour with the weird, sincere, wild, and fun. Expect trolls, tears, twists, puppets, projection, dance, drama and more as we share Dreamscapes for the first time publicly.