Oral poetry, storytelling, monologue, slam and experimental sound performance remain at the fringes of the literary world–largely because they lack a critical framework. This talk will examine some current states in spoken word and look at the work of three Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artists: Kaie Kellough, Moe Clark and Cat Kidd. We round it all out with […]
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SpokenWebPod Listening Party — Oct 07, 2019 (Events)
Join us to listen to the first episode of the SpokenWeb Podcast! Gather together to listen, or tune-in from wherever you are, and join in the conversation over Twitter at #SpokenWebPod at 12-1 pm PST or 3-4 pm EST. Listen here and find out more about the podcast: https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/
The Words and Music Show: Performing the Archive — Oct 10, 2019 (Events)
For 20 years, the Words and Music Show (W&M Show), established and organized by poet and musician Ian Ferrier, has been a constant cultural haven for a wide variety of performers living in and visiting Montreal. As the city’s longest running spoken word poetry, literature, performance, and music show, it has featured and celebrated top […]
Performing the Archive: The Daphne Marlatt with special guest Sari Dale — Sep 19, 2019 (Events)
Join us for a reading and Q&A with as-claimed Canadian poet and novelist Daphne Marlatt. This first event in the SpokenWeb “Performing the Archive ” series, curated by Megan Butchart, will feature Marlatt reading from leaf leaf/s alongside her 1969 archival voice, as well as newer work.
Performing the Archive: An Epic Reading — Sep 12, 2019 (Events)
Love Poetry? come join us at the AMP Lab for an epic reading event. We’ll take turns reading aloud Daphne Marlatt”s poetry from Frames of a Story (1968) to her most recent collection. Reading Seveva (2016). All welcome :drop in at any point during the event to help us celebrate poetry and perform the archive. […]
Performing Technology: SpokenWeb presents Oana Avasilichioaei — Nov 14, 2019 (Events)
Performing Technology is an investigation into the electroacoustic tools and methods that poets and sound-artists use to manipulate and create sound poetry and sound art. Join us for performances and conversations about methods of listening to our sonic environments. Opening performance debuts a new sonic creation “Sonic Thresholds: 4th Space” by Concordia PhD student, Nik […]
Deep Curation: Experiments in Poetry Reading Curation — Nov 07, 2019 (Events)
This series of events are organized in partnership with SpokenWeb, Writers Read, and the Mile End Poets’ Festival. Opening with a panel discussion on literary event curation, this event will feature Margaret Christakos, Deanna Radford, Danielle St. Amour and Jason Camlot, facilitated by Klara du Plessis. It will focus on different contemporary and historical strategies […]
Performances, Workshops | Concordia University, Deep Curation, Mile End Poets Festival, Montreal, panel, SpokenWeb, workshop, Writers Read
Spoken Code — Sep 27, 2019 (Events)
An evening of improvised audiovisual live coding; where algorithms unfold, in the form of a process, in time and over time, and depends on its past inputs. This event approaches code as thought and through this movement, it seeks to create emerging and ephemeral audiovisual relations that unfold in the interplay of code, voice, and […]
Performances | Concordia University, Montreal, Rodrigo Velasco, Spoken Code
The Politics and Poetics of Mediated Sound: Abel, Avasilichioaei, Scott and Starnes — May 30, 2019 (Events)
Part of the SpokenWeb Symposium 2019 This evening features performances of poetic work by Jordan Abel, Oana Avasilichioaei, Jordan Scott and Jason Starnes. Each uses the affordances of mediated sound to intervene in the oral transmission of text, creating work that invites engaged and differential forms of listening and reciprocity. The event will be hosted by […]
Performances | Jordan Abel, Jordan Scott, Mediation, Oana Avasilichioaei, performance, poetry, Sound Recording
Deep Curation — May 03, 2019 (Events)
Part of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival Cost: Free Deep Curation is a new and experimental approach to literary event planning. The event is curated and hosted by Klara du Plessis, PhD candidate in the Department of English and features poets Liz Howard, Oana Avasilichioaei and Tess Liem (MA 17). “This format refocuses agency […]
Performances | Blue Met Festival, Deep Curation, Klara du Plessis, Liz Howard, Oana Avasilichioaei, Tess Liem