Pancake Breakfast

Join us for breakfast on Sunday April 2, 2023 at 9:30AM at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Yaletown! Drop-in animation workshops (Pixilation, Cut-out, Objects in Motion, Drawn animation) will be offered with instruction throughout the day. Enjoy an all-you-can-eat breakfast of gluten-free pancakes, juice, and gallons of hot coffee for the grown-ups!

Pancakes will be served from 9:30 – 11:00 AM.
Animation workshops will be offered from 10:00 – 2:00 PM.
Short Films programs will be shown from 10:00 – 2:45 PM. See schedule below.
Workshops, short films and a pancake breakfast are included with admission.

Special price: $7 per person, includes 4 short film programs + workshops + breakfast.

Reel 2 Real’s top priority is the safety and well-being of the public audience, workshop participants, and teachers. Wearing a mask is optional and all equipment will be sanitized and cleaned by our team.

Short Film Programs

Shorty Short Shorts – Mixed Animation

Sunday April 2 @ 10:00 AM

Little ones take big adventures while worlds of lyricism and poetry invite youngsters on a journey of self-discovery. From the back seat of the road trip to the unseen recesses of space, prepare to be swept away!

Recommended for grades 3-6

Themes: growing up, exploration, imagination, comedy, animation, mystery, poetry

Inner & Outer Animated Worlds

Sunday April 2 @ 11:15 AM

What’s happening on the outside isn’t always an indicator of what’s happening on the inside and vice-versa. Not to mention, other worlds may exist and these works illuminate the possibility of deeper forces at work.

Recommended for grades 4-7

Themes: reality, perception, environment, human perseverance, machine and AI technology, fear and connection

Family Matters

Sunday April 2 @ 12:30 PM

Parents and children, and grandparents and grandchildren, negotiate their connections to one another. With quiet observation they understand new and hidden internal experiences about survival, death, and existence that determine how to relate on the level of human, animal, and even AI.

Recommended for grades 4-7

Themes: environment, identity, boundaries, end of life and care, parent child relationships, living up to expectations, love, memory, artificial intelligence

The Right Thing to Do?

Sunday April 2 @ 13:45 PM

It’s not always easy to know who’s right and who’s wrong; if we’re making the right decision or the wrong one. Indulging in thought experiments of morality and justice allows us to consider nuance, empathy, and compassion, and hopefully invite self-acceptance.

Recommended for grades 5-7

Themes: self-care, love, justice, moral conflict, empathy, kindness, self-reflection, cultural differences

Workshops 

Cut Out Animation

A variety of pre-fashioned and cut out materials will be used to create characters and sets. In small groups, using video capture techniques, students will be taken through the steps of creating a short story.

Pixilation

Students get animated! Choreographed by the instructor, the class will glide, disappear and fly through the air. This is a great introduction to special effects and stop motion animation.

Objects in Motion

Using everyday office and school supplies, students will animate objects in new, silly, and imaginative ways.