POETRY VILLAGE and TWILIGHT FILM CENTRE
2789 - 2803 Dundas West, Toronto.
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Heart and Art, a fluid Live Literature installation from Lillian Allen, is one of the center pieces of Junction Arts Festival 2010 located at 2789 - 2803 Dundas West, Toronto. Heart and Art will takeover/makeover a vacant lot into a Poetry Village or even a living breathing poem or book. We will create the world’s first, Installation of a live Poetry Village with stages, hubs, a giant screen, and an atmosphere to synergize creativity. Between daybreak and sunset, poets, writers, readers, lovers of the word and community members will collaboratively program, inhabit and vibrate and empower togetherness within the 2010 Junction Poetry Village.
The Poetry Village is a post-postmodern, multi-media, multi-platform, remix art installation that deals with location, process, and interactivity, building community and empowering the word. As part of this installation, poets, writers, readers, performers, lovers of the word, etc, are invited to co-create activities that will bring our ‘poetry village’ alive. In a community of words and poetics, the community is invited to take in the power of words to enliven and empower! Listen to some fabulous readings, or try your hand at writing a poem or two. Interact with poets and writers from all poetry and writing styles. Get poetic advice or join a group workshop. Vote for your favourite Slam poets and see the champions face off! Learn all about dub poetry.
This is part of a multi-media, multi-platform exploration, so along with on-the -ground experience, we will also be creating a “virtual poetry village” providing prompts and writing exercises to inspire ‘virtual villagers’ as well as local villagers to write their own poetry and travel along the geography of the festival to explore it’s poetic potential. We will be working in streaming and texting, tweets and beeps, facebook groups etc.
Watch out for instant printing and publishing of works created for the Festival.
Some activities of Poetry Village include; fence pages, live books, spontaneous experimental poetry creation, and random acts of poetry, digital poetry, poetry on stones, poem objects, chapbook alley, poetry on the street, chalk poetry, sky poetry, word games, and a poetry parade.
Poetry Village welcomes the Art Bar, Four Villages, York Town Community Center, The League of Canadian Poets, Ontario College of Art & Design OCAD University , New Dub Poets Collective.
Four Villages
"Foot notes;" participants will trace their feet and then decorate them with paper. The then can choose a story prompt and attach their story to their foot - and they can then hang them up on the fence. We would also like to hang some of the stories around the festival, so that people can stop and read stories as they wander through the festival.
audio art pieces by Reena Katz, created with audio gathered by 4 Villages workshop participants.
- List of featured Authors, Poets, Performers
Jill Battson
Clifton Joseph
Nalo Hopkinson
Robert Priest
Brenda MacIntyre
Klyde Broox
Leah a.k.a Miss Liza
Phyllis Walker
Rudy Fearon
Vitra Gosine
Keli Liu
Carrie Young Novick presents Women’s Voices 5 women reading, singing and performing their work of poetry, narrative, fiction and song. Voices to Inspire!
Michael St George
Memo
Derick Assante
Andrea Thompson
New Dub Poets Collective
D-Lishus
Neisha New Era
Shanique
Storm
Queen Tyessential
Iyah Fyah
Peculiar I
Sankofa
J. Nicole Noel
