I participated in a simultaneous live video poetry performance held over the Internet in New York, Chicago and California. Here’s information on the event from the organizers:
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Essentially, 17 November is a big day for Telepoetics in New York, Chicago and California. Here’s where it will happen:
The California link-ups…
From 7:00 pm to 11.00 pm Pacific time, you can drop in at the San Francisco Exploratorium’s McBean Theater, 3601 Lyon Street, and get in on the action with the 20th annual San Francisco Poetry Film/Video Festival, presented by the Poetry Film Workshop and The National Poetry Association, George Aguilar, director. The link-up from the Exploratorium will connect with Orange County’s Java Garden, 17304 Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach. Hosting the event will be NPA’s George Aguilar in San Francisco and Telepoetics’ own Merilene Murphy in Huntington Beach
The Poetry Film Workshop brings to our family the collected works of poets and experimental media-makers screened over two decades. They hold what is one of the deepest and most diverse archives of poetry on film, video, and hypermedia ever assembled. The Workshop joins Telepoetics on their 20th anniversary, and we’re very proud to be a part of their celebration. We expect to soon link this very web into the PFW’s poetry video archives on line. Keep in touch with us and watch what happens!
Available at the California sites will be an anthology cassette from last year’s Poetry Film Festival featuring their best and brightest. the prize winners from 1994. Also featured in Huntington Beach will be poet Daniel X O’Neill, with a five member ensemble, performing from his new book “memotoallemployees” (Juggernaut, 1995]. Both the videos and signed copies of the book will be available in Huntington Beach
Other featured artists in Huntington Beach include Michelle Ben Hur, Charles Ardinger, John Blyth, and (of course) Merilne Murphy. If you want to know more, you can drop an e-mail note to either Janie Toben at Java Garden or to George Aguilar at The Poetry Film Workshop. Or you can call the Poetry Film Workshop at 415-776-6602 New York and Chicago link-up: The Chicago Voice
Joining Telepoetics for their own innaugural link-up will be the Internet Café, 82 E Third St, between 1st and 2nd Avenues in Manhattan’s East Village. The Chicago site will be Randolph Street Gallery, 756 N Milwaukee Ave. The mission? To reveal something of the Chicago voice in performance art and performance poetry. Chicago emmigres in New York will join present day residents so the audiences in both cities can listen, watch, and compare The event kicks off Friday, 17 November at 9.00 pm eastern/8:00 pm central time
New Yorkers include: performance artist and 8-track guru Brendan de Vallance, slam poetry champion and “Big Goddess” Lisa Buscani; Letter eX founder and poet Deborah Pintonelli, musical world-traveling poet Lydia Tomkiw, and raconteur author of “Bricolage Ex Machina” Carl Watson Current Chicagoans include performance and videopoet Jean Howard, Katherine Boyd, an accordionist (with really groovy glasses), Bryn Magnus of Chicago’s Curious Theater Branch, and David Kodeski and Lucia Strusz, both from “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind”
Contact Randolph Street Gallery at 312-666-7737, or The Internet Café at 212-614-0747
