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Workshops
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13
Red School House
10 a.m.:
Dr Poetry's Poetry Diet
Robert Priest
$25. By reservation only
Are your poems so corpulent they sometimes break and squirt half-digested thoughts, cram-jammed slogans and hastily gobbled thought candies? Remove excess ugly feet, glutinous referents, jammed and jellied memes, compounded constipated run-ons. Try our comma diahoretics our period exfoliators. Who wants a sloppy unathletic poem which only serves to plug its own keyhole with pudge and porridge of the most florid kind? Does your poetry burst the veins of its own legs, does it heave up from underground its compressed condensed and bloated redundancies (which are no longer necessary)? Does it sweat to get up its own stairs, only to be unable to fit in the tub? Are there parts of your poetry you yourself can't reach? If your poem can't touch its toes without splitting its whole backend wide open you might want to try Dr. Poetry's new quick weight-loss workshop.
2 p.m.:
Eat Your Peace
Oni the Haitian Sensation
$25. By reservation only
Begin a journey on the vehicle of spoken word poetry that will blow your mind with tongue twisters, fun and engaging discussions, imaginative and stimulating exercises on the theme of voice. Oni will coach you in writing for a specific audience and help you back up your opinions with distinct language, culminating in a performance of your work. By selecting words and figurative expressions by understanding sensitivity, and an ear to the sound and rhythm of speech, you can enhance the persuasive or expressive power of both your presentation and writing. Participants will debate motivation of a character in a poetry monologue, or select words and phrases consistent with the particular voice and tone required for a dramatization of a scene set for urban theatre. The workshop will include vocal exercises and cadence to help prepare a written poem for presentation on the stage.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21a Queen Street, Kingston
10 a.m.:
Hear the Voice, See the Voice
Heather Haley
$25. By reservation only
Architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, Heather Haley presents an introduction to videopoetry. She will speak from her experience as a poetry video curator and producer, reading and screening her own videopoems Sideways and Dying for the Pleasure. In the workshop, Heather discusses history, methodologies, funding and the festival circuit — ensuring an excellent introduction to the hybrid genre.
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