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> Festival Voix d’Amériques > 2002 Edition > Schedule >
Friday, March 1, 2002
2:30 pm
Round-table on Literature and New Media
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A round-table on the role of language and performance as mediated by
technology.
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5:00 pm
5 à 7 — Open Mic: Poetry Slam
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Bob Loblaw joins Johnny Cheesecake for an evening of competitive poetry.
Performers have three minutes to strut their stuff and are judged by randomly
chosen audience members on a scale of 1 to 10. Sign-up is from 4:30 to 5 PM and
the winner takes home $50.
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8:00 pm
Cabaret
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Set 1 — Spoken
The core of the spoken word and slam traditions: a writer/performer alone on a
stage with a microphone and an audience.
Set 2 — Multimedia
Language as translated into technologies other than the page and the stage:
audio/video/Internet/CD-ROM.
Set 3 — Words & Music
Poetry and literature that lives in an environment of sounds and music.
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