Part of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival Cost: $7 This event is hosted by writer, performer and SpokenWeb community partner Ian Ferrier. It is Montreal’s longest-running literary variety show and this edition will feature Melanie Mununggurr-Williams, Liz Howard, Kaie Kellough and Julie Bruck. For tickets and more information, click here.
Performances | Blue Met Festival, Hôtel 10, Ian Ferrier, Julie Bruck, Kaie Kellough, Liz Howard, Melanie Mununggurr-Williams, Montreal, The Words and Music Show
When recording to tape became accessible in the 1960s, artists began documenting literary performances and conversations. But most of these audio archives remain inaccessible or in danger of decay. Those that do end up being digitized are largely unreachable by a wide audience. SpokenWeb, a cross-university project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council […]
Performances | Blue Met Festival, Concordia University, Deep Curation, Hôtel 10, La Vitrola, Montreal, Performing the Archive, The Words and Music Show
SpokenWeb & Writers Read present novelist, poet, and sound performer Kaie Kellough. Kellough will read selections from his new book of poetry Magnetic North (Penguin, 2019), Accordéon (ARP Books, 2016) and forthcoming fiction. The event will be hosted by Dr. Katherine McLeod. Kaie Kellough is a novelist, poet, and sound performer. He is the author […]
Performances, Presentations | Concordia University, Kaie Kellough, Katherine McLeod, Montreal, Writers Read
This workshop, led by Jon Saklofske (Acadia University) and Deanna Fong (Simon Fraser University) reflects upon the materiality, affordances, and constraints of cassette tape technology through techniques of revisualization, remediation, and remix. Focusing on the complex interplay between live sound and its recorded document, this workshop asks: What does the recording do to sound, its […]
Workshops | AMP Lab, Concordia University, Deanna Fong, Montreal, Press Play, Press Play East, TAG Research Centre
Samuel Mercier (SpokenWeb Research Affiliate) will be giving a talk at the conference Littérature, medias et discours culturel about the recent discovery of the Alan Lord archive by the SpokenWeb team. Cette communication vise à explorer le cas du fonds Alan Lord, découvert lors de mes recherches avec l’équipe de SpokenWeb, afin de montrer les enjeux […]
Presentations | Littérature: medias et discours culturel, Montreal, Samuel Mercier, Université de Montréal
The Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) will be hosting Jason Camlot, director of SpokenWeb, with Jared Wiercinski and Tomasz Neugebauer (both librarians at Concordia University). They will present on the development of a metadata schema and a metadata ingest system (Swallow) for the collections of digitized legacy literary audio that are […]
Presentations | CIRHN, Jared Wiercinski, Jason Camlot, Montreal, Tomasz Neugebauer, Université de Montréal
Yuliya Kondratenko (SpokenWeb Coordinator) will be instructing two workshops on project management on Feb 21, 2019 and on March 5, 2019. Whether you are managing a team, leading a committee, or encouraging someone’s learning, you need to support your people to maximize the potential of collaboration. In this session, we will explore the theory and […]
Workshops | Concordia University, Montreal, Yuliya Kondratenko
Yuliya Kondratenko (SpokenWeb Coordinator) will be instructing two workshops on project management on Feb 21, 2019 and on March 5, 2019. Whether you are managing a team, leading a committee, or encouraging someone’s learning, you need to support your people to maximize the potential of collaboration. In this session, we will explore the theory and […]
Workshops | Concordia University, Montreal, Yuliya Kondratenko
SpokenWeb presents this event in collaboration with The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN). Exactly fifty years ago this month, at what later became Concordia, where this talk is being held, Canada’s most dramatic and important student occupation of the 1960s took place. When a group of students, primarily of Caribbean descent, filed a protest against […]
Presentations | ARCMTL, Concordia, Louis Rastelli, Montreal, QAHN
As an in-person holiday get-together, we would like to invite you to a SpokenWeb event at Casa Del Popolo. The event is part of The Word & Music Show series organized by Ian Ferrier and it features performances by Klara Du Plessis, Katherine McLeod, Jason Camlot. Aurelio Meza will be making Cartonera Books* throughout the performance). […]
Performances | Aurelio Meza, Casa del Popolo, Ian Ferrier, Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod, Klara du Plessis, Kodama Cartonera, Montreal, The Word & Music Show