Day 2: Special Panel Discussion + th quiet releef uv bones

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"Seeing the Voice: The Evolution of Videopoetry from Cocteau to Youtube"

A hybrid of verse and video. A wedding of word and image. Panellists will address the state of the union while discussing the past, present and future of the once-obscure genre of videopoetry.

Panellists: Tom Konyves, Canadian videopoem pioneer • Warren Dean Fulton, poet, publisher, videographer and past curator of the Vancouver Videopoem Festival • Katrin Bowen is a director residing in Vancouver BC Canada. She writes and directs documentaries, visual poetic short films, television, and feature length films • Kurt Heintz, Chicago-based writer, new media artist and director of e-poets.net • Taien Ng-Chan, Montreal-based writer, editor, photographer, film/videomaker and curator.

Moderator: Danika Dinsmore, poet, novelist, screenwriter and past President of Women in Film and Television Vancouver.

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PRECEDED BY

SCREENING: th quiet releef uv bones • Canada 2009. Film: Lenore Herb. Poem/Voice: bill bissett. 10 mins.

In Memoriam: Lenore Herb • Vancouver videographer/filmmaker Lenore Herb, an important chronicler of Vancouver’s poetry and early punk scenes, died on October 24, 2010, at the age of 63.

In her memory, a screening of th quiet releef uv bones, a videopoem she made in collaboration with her friend bill bissett, will precede this afternoon’s panel discussion.