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THE BLUE MOUNTAINS CREATOR SPACE
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The Blue Mountains Creator Space is a new digital arts lab open to residents of South Georgian Bay, providing them with the tools and skills to create, learn and explore digital art.
The state-of-the-art facility specializes in digital video, digital sound, digital photography, and digital design, with programs and tools for skill levels from beginner to advanced. The lab is located in the lower level of the Marsh Street Centre at 187 Marsh Street, Clarksburg. Membership to the Blue Mountains Creator Space is required to access the tools and services, available for free to residents of The Blue Mountains, Clearview, Collingwood, Meaford and Wasaga Beach.
The Digital Arts Lab has four digital arts workstations that members can use through an online booking system. The software includes the Adobe Creative Suite, Blackmagic Resolve Studio, Autodesk Maya, Avid Media Composer and Final Draft. There is also a complete digital sound recording studio featuring a 12 channel input Apollo X8 interface, a variety of microphones, as well as Cubase Pro 10 and ProTools Ultimate Software, that can be used to record music, produce podcasts, and to mix films and videos.
The Blue Mountains Creator Space hosts weekly workshops, after school programs, as well as monthly artist-led lectures called “DIGITALKS” that will teach digital art skills and techniques, instructed by professional artists and industry experts. Members can borrow digital arts equipment such as a Blackmagic 4K digital cinema camera, a Canon 6D full-frame digital photography camera, a GoPro Fusion 360 camera, LED lighting panels, and a portable sound recording kit featuring a Zoom H4N 4 channel recorder.
The Blue Mountains Creator Space Digital Arts Lab is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, in partnership with the Blue Mountains Public Library.