http://nwfolklifefestival2011.sched.org/event/f257fa6f976c47467778d3d090cd20b0
4-5P Friday, May 27, 2011
Type: Music Performance → Northwest Stories
Venue: Center House Theatre (Seattle Center)
Multi-Language Choral Poetry
URL: http://www.splab.org
Genre SW — Spoken Word-Poetry
We resuscitate the SPLAB Word Orchestra for this appearance at Folklife. Jeremy Springsteed is the Conductor. We hope to see you there.
SPLAB is pleased to present three visiting poets for a reading at 8P Sunday, May 22, 2011:
Jesse Morse lives in Portland, Oregon. His work has recently appeared in Past Simple, Slack Lust and Unheimliche. Work forthcoming in Page Boy. He’ll have two chapbooks out this year: Rotations (C_L Press) and paragraphs for dolphins (Thuggery & Grace). He runs the Smorg reading series. He plays guitar and sings in The Whirlies. He spends a lot of time outside with his dog Hank.
Richard Froude was born in London, grew up in Bristol and moved to the US in 2002. He is most recently the author of FABRIC, published by Horse Less Press. New writing can be found in Birkensnake, Witness, and Slack Lust. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
Erik Anderson’s The Poetics of Trespass was published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions in 2010. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Naropa University and, with Richard Froude and Anne Waldman, co-edits the magazine Thuggery & Grace.
The suggested donation is $5. (Link to Greg Bem’s audio and photos of the event.)
From Michael Schein:
Dear Poets
(a) Stuck in traffic on the I-90 bridge;
(b) In the basement, fixing a leaky washer;
(c) At the mall with a teenager, shopping for $200 jeans;
(d) At a poetry festival in the mountains of Leavenworth;
(e) (d), but not (e).
If you picked any of these answers, or are already making up additional responses in your head, then you belong at BURNING WORD at Icicle Creek Music Center in Leavenworth on May 21.
Please CLICK HERE to purchase your advance ticket – only $14 for the full day (May 21), or $12 for just the evening show. The lineup of events can be viewed HERE. Discount lodging is available at Der Ritterhoff Inn for only $65 per night – simply mention Burning Word. Carpools (offered or needed) should be posted on the Burning Word Facebook page. In case the world doesn’t end next Saturday, we’ve planned an exhilarating schedule of events for Sunday, May 22. Consider embracing a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study with a true master – Sam Hamill – in a small group session on Sunday, May 22, 9:30-12:30pm. Please CLICK HERE to purchase admission to THE WAY OF POETRY colloquium ($100) (hurry! only 3 spots left).Armageddon in Leavenworth – bring a change of Lederhosen!
In the Muse,
Michael Schein
Burning Word Director
In this workshop you will be introduced to basic and some more advanced techniques in animated gif (Graphics Interchange Format) creation. We will think about how this popular new media format can be used for experimental literary forms. Animated gifs are like the neon of the web: flashing, simple, short attention-getters that are some times cheap and tacky—like dancing insurance ads—but also have been taken up as a distinctly 21st century, democratic art form (e.g. http://bit.ly/kahHi5).
The workshop will include some discussion/introduction to animated gifs and its potential relation to poetic creation, tutorials on how to create simple animated gifs (although more advanced users are welcome to extend the conversation), and some workshop time to create. This workshop will hopefully be very open-ended with no strict preconceptions of how we will make alliances between poetry and new media. Participants will be encouraged not only to make gif-poetry, but also to think about how poetry could be gif-esque, or how to “write through” a gif, or utilize one for performance, etc.
All participants will be required to bring their own laptop. This workshop will be taught from a Mac. Bringing a PC is Ok, just be aware that there will inevitably be differences that may or may not be easily addressed. Laptops with Photoshop are a plus, but we will starting with free, open source software. (Other useful tools in Gif creation include a webcam, Snapz Pro X, YouTube downloader, QuickTime Pro, AfterEffects.)
Because of the nature of some of the websites we will be exploring participants should be aware that they may encounter some “inappropriate content” in the course of the workshop.
7P
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
SPLAB
Suggested Donation: Pay What You Can
Joe Milutis is a media artist and writer whose interdisciplinary work includes experimental sound and radio; video works; new media; experimental narrative; theoretical writings; and various media and literature hybrids. He is the author of the book Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything, and is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at UW-Bothell, where he
teaches courses in experimental writing, media, and cultural studies.
