A listening session and performance of pieces by Oana Avasilichioaei and Klara du Plessis.
Performances | Klara du Plessis, Listening Session, Montreal, Oana Avasilichioaei, OBORO, performance
On July 6, 2021, the Poets Corner Reading Series held an event on Zoom featuring poets Ian Williams and Jane Munro hosted by Adrienne Drobnies. After Drobnies reads Williams’s bio, Williams says, “Muted now how about now can you hear me now? I still can’t see you, only your name. Your voice is breaking up” (“Jane […]
Article, SPOKENWEBLOG | Archive of the Digital Present, canadian poetry, Ian Williams, Jane Munro, online, performance
https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscu2vqDktGNCs9wZVnKSc7pqZEAbzYl2F
Collections, Launch, Performances, Presentations, Talk | Andy Slater, Annie Murray, Daniel Martin, Ellen Waterman, English Studies in Canada, ESC, Gascia Ouzounian, Jason Camlot, Jason Wiens, Julia Polyck Oneil, Juliette Bellocq, Katharina Fuerholzer, Katherine McLeod, Kelly Baron, Klara du Plessis, Kristen Smith, Kristin Moriah, launch, Listening, Mara Mills, Mathieu Aubin, Nina Sun Eidsheim, performance, Reading
Abstract Launched in 2005 and rebooted in 2022, the Fred Wah Digital Archive is a digital web project that intends to act as a living archive of the work of Fred Wah, including a new interview with the author. As a consequence of the poet’s interest in the sonic and phonetic aspects of language, the […]
Article, SPOKENWEBLOG | accessibility, audio, captioning, Fred Wah, fred wah digital archive, performance, poetry, transcription
ShortCuts on SPOKENWEBLOG is a series of critical commentaries about short clips selected from audio collections across the SpokenWeb network. This post introduces a three-part series by Teddie Brock, all based on a 1978 panel discussion with Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriott, and Irving Layton, as recorded on audio preserved at the Simon Fraser University Archives. […]
ShortCuts, SPOKENWEBLOG | 1930s, 1940s, archival audio, archive, canadian poetry, candida rifkind, Dorothy Livesay, f.r. scott, literary history, modernism, performance, Poetry Reading, sandra djwa, ShortCuts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Heritage Writers' Festival
In an exciting world premiere, the eight finalists for the inaugural Quebec Writers’ Federation Spoken Word Prize will offer short performances showcasing their talents. The prize is open to all forms of spoken word performance, from storytelling to sound poetry, hip hop, and dub. Presented by the Quebec Writers’ Federation and Concordia’s SpokenWeb project, the event will be hosted by poet and SpokenWeb director Jason Camlot.
Performances | 4th Space, Caitlin Murphy, Concordia University, Debbie Braide, Erin Moure, Jason Camlot, Joanne Pelletier, Liana Cusmano, Lucia De Luca, performance, poetry, Prize, Quebec Writers Fund, QWF, Raissa Simone, Roen Higgins, spoken word, SpokenWeb
During the residency at Studio303, du Plessis will collaborate with poets and interdisciplinary artists Kama La Mackerel and Alexei Perry Cox to produce a performance that will observe themes of place, identity formation, and grief surrounding binaries and borders.
Performances | Alexei Perry Cox, Deep Curation, Kama La Mackerel, Klara du Plessis, Montreal, performance, poetry
During the residency at Studio303, du Plessis will collaborate with poets and interdisciplinary artists Kama La Mackerel and Alexei Perry Cox to produce a performance that will observe themes of place, identity formation, and grief surrounding binaries and borders.
Performances | Alexei Perry Cox, Deep Curation, Kama La Mackerel, Klara du Plessis, Montreal, performance, poetry
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
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