Scope to be completed at a later date

This sub-series consists of video components, computer programming components, source tapes and language dubs used in “from the Transit Bar” as well as a wealth of documentation reflecting the enormous undertaking of the project in all of its’ numerous exhibitions and iterations. Included is: correspondence, programming notes, construction diagrams, budgets and catalogues for both phase one “…from the Transit Bar” and phase two, an exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University in 1993.
The work is a six-channel videodisk installation initially made for six monitors. The piece is concerned with the notion of displacement that is as axiomatic as trust between strangers and bar disclosures. Fourteen narrators tell fragmented tales of their experiences of deracination, love, exile and the bar where they meet, and these are interwoven to become a collective telling. Initially taped for documenta IX (Kassel, Germany) in the year the Berlin Wall collapsed, the recounted experiences are fragmented through different languages, with voice-over in either Yiddish or Polish, and sub-titles in alternating English, French or German. An edition of the work (as an “artwork”) was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada.

Item is a video contain a documentary on the history and evolution of the Kingston Psychiatric Hospital. Includes a small amount of patient testimony. Producer: Barry Gardiner. Senior Producer/Director: Janice Belanger. Producer/Director: Shallen Thompson. Writer: Susan Beeby.

The file consists of a recording of the 3rd annual lecture as it was delivered at the University of Manitoba.

File consists of records relating to "The 14th Annual Hannah Happening: "Truth Knowledge, and Medical Progress - A Historian's Perspective" Michael Bliss."

File consists of records relating to "15th Annual Hannah Happening Dr. Murray McQueeg "Walkterton Inquiry Unedited."

File consists of records relating to "16th Annual Hannah Happening: James G. Young, M.D.: Medicine and the Rest of the World."

Between 1987 and 2007 there were 10 drag show fundraisers to support compassionate HIV/AIDS care at Casey House. This series is comprised of videos of the fundraiser, DQ, over the first decade. At the height of the AIDS epidemic the Toronto drag community rallied to support the concept of a hospice for people dying of AIDS. One of the founders of the show was Kingstonian John Eric Turner (aka Sacha Maceknzie). The first show in 1987 raised $38,000 to complete the purchase of 9 Huntley Street, Casey House’s home for 29 years. Writer and director Michael Oscars would go on to lead three more cabaret-style shows. The second, in 1988 raised funds for renovations to Casey House. Some of the shows had names, The Sequin, Lucky Lady, Diva Oz Vegas, and some stayed simple, such as DQ ’92.

The 1992 show raised $105,000, seed money for Casey House’s home hospice program offering palliative nursing care for people in their homes, a service still offered to this day. This was a week of drag artist shows with a cast of more than 60. The 1995 show raised $120,000, the largest single event in Casey House history says the ’94-’95 annual report. With over 60 men and 2 women, held at the Bathurst Street Theatre. In 1997 the 10th anniversary show raised a record breaking $132,000 to support home hospice services. The 1997 show introduced a new creative team of Les Porter, creator and director & Don Calderwood, choreographer.