Performances – SpokenWeb

ORAL/TRANS/MISSIONS | A performance retrospective by Clifton Joseph — May 06, 2022 (Events)

Montreal, QC - Hotel 10, Salle Godin

The Atwater Poetry Project, in partnership with the Blue Metropolis Festival and SpokenWeb, are pleased to welcome dub poetry legend CLIFTON JOSEPH for a special spoken word presentation, our first live event since March 2020.

A founder of the Canadian tradition of dub poetry, a political performance poetry genre of Caribbean roots, and 1/3 of the influential group DE DUB POETS with Lillian Allen and Devon Haughton, Joseph will perform work from throughout his forty-year career before joining APP curator Faith Paré in conversation.

Performances | Atwater Poetry Project, Blue Metropolis, CLIFTON JOSEPH, dub poetry, Faith Paré, Montreal, performance, poetry, SpokenWeb

Living the Plague at Words & Music: A Literary Community Listening Party — Feb 28, 2022 (Events)

Virtual Participation - Zoom Link Below

SpokenWeb community partner, The Words and Music Show, will gather to revisit the past two years of online shows by listening to Jason Camlot’s recent podcast “The Show Goes On: Words and Music in a Pandemic”.

Performances, Presentations

Atwater Poetry Project Online: Tolu Oloruntoba & Jason ‘Blackbird’ Selman — Feb 22, 2022 (Events)

Virtual Participation - RSVP Link Below

The Atwater Poetry Project is overjoyed to feature two poets thinking through ancestry, time and migration, and masculinity, from the West Coast to the St. Lawrence: TOLU OLORUNTOBA (Each One a Furnace, Penguin Random House, 2022), winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Award for English Language Poetry, and JASON ‘BLACKBIRD’ SELMAN…

Performances | Atwater Library, Atwater Poetry Project, Montreal, Reading

Poetry by Memory: A Recording Booth, Co-Presented with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival — May 7-8, 2022 (Events)

Montreal - Hotel 10, Hall

SpokenWeb, a research program that preserves literary sound recordings, will run a booth on site where festival attendees will be invited to recite lines from a poem they know by heart into a microphone for preservation on a reel to reel tape.

Collaborations, Performances | Blue Metropolis, Concordia University, Memory, Montreal, poetry, Recitation, Recording, SpokenWeb

Sounding Undernames, a SpokenWeb Poetry Reading and Conversation, Co-Presented with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival — May 08, 2022 (Events)

Montreal - Hotel 10, Terrasse

This free in-person event will be hosted by Katherine McLeod featuring readings by and discussion with SpokenWeb team members Klara du Plessis, Faith Paré, and Carlos A. Pittella.

Collaborations, Performances | Blue Metropolis, Concordia University, Discussion, Montreal, Poetry Reading, SpokenWeb

Readings and Discussion featuring UAlberta Writer in Residence Ifeoma Chinwuba and Edmonton Poet Laureate Titilope Sonuga — Feb 07, 2022 (Events)

Virtual Participation - University of Alberta - RSVP Link Below

SpokenWeb UAlberta and the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta are pleased to present a dual reading and discussion featuring three prominent Edmonton-based authors.

Performances, Talk | Edmonton, Ifeoma Chinwuba, Reading, SpokenWeb, Titilope Sonuga, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, University of Alberta

An Introduction to The Library of Historical Audio Recordings at i78s — Jul 22, 2021 (Events)

Virtual Participation

The Library of Historical Audio Recordings at I78s is the public portal into the Giovannoni Collection—an extensive private archive of sound recordings on cylinders and discs from the 1890s through the 1930s. In this presentation, we’ll introduce the site’s conception, design, and features, followed by a guided tour highlighting categories of content which are likely to […]

Performances, Talk

SpokenWebPod Listening Party- Robert Hogg and The Widening Circle of Return — Jul 05, 2021 (Events)

Virtual Participation

On Monday, July 5, we bring you a new episode of the SpokenWeb Podcast that explores the formation of poetic identity and community through the story of Robert Hogg and the TISH poets. This story is sonically told through the eyes of his former student — now SpokenWeb RA — Craig Carpenter. In the summer of 2019, […]

Interviews, Performances

Special SpokenWeb “Listening, Sound, Agency” edition of the Words and Music Show — May 23, 2021 (Events)

Hosted from Montréal / Tiohtià:ke - Concordia University - Zoom

On the closing night of the 2021 “Listening, Sound, Agency” symposium, Wired on Words partners with SpokenWeb to co-host a special edition of the Words and Music Show.

Performances | Cole Mash, Eight Track (Talonbooks 2019), Erin Scott, Governor General’s Literary Awards, Ian Ferrier, Jason Camlot, Kevin McNeilly, Klara du Plessis, Listening, Listening-Sound-Agency, Oana Avasilichioaei, performance, The Words and Music Show

Rough Craft: Notes on the creation of the audio / visual / textual work Small Stones (Post)

Posted May 22, 2021

Specially commissioned for the Listening, Sound, Agency Symposium, Griffin-award-winning poet Kaie Kellough, designer and artistic director of LOKI studios Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, and Constellation recording artist and saxophonist Jason Sharp, collaborate on an interdisciplinary work. Long-awaited, Small Stones will premiere tonight, 22 May 2021 and may be watched in the embedded video below. To enhance and support the listening and watching experience, Kaie has generously shared some reflections on the process of creating this work with his collaborators and the meandering iterations of the poem through page, dialogue, and performance.

Performances, SPOKENWEBLOG, Uncategorized | baritone saxophone, Breakglass Studios, design, font, interdisciplinary, Jason Sharp, Kaie Kellough, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, poem, poetry, Small Stones, video