Third and Maybe Final Call: Calling Northwest (And Beyond Beyond) Sound Poets

Please spread this where/when you can:

Indeed, it's time to follow-up on the two excellent sound poetry festivals held in Portland in this as-yet-to-be-named decade (2000s?), to take the baton Mark Owen and David Abel and others so ably ran with, to bring sound poets to one Northwest place, to re-VERB-er-ATE.

Here's the proposal: A festival in Moscow, Idaho, from April 3 to April 5, 2008.

We would start with an ensemble performance on the evening of April 3, followed up on April 4 by appearances in K-12 classrooms in Moscow and Pullman, WA, as well as University of Idaho and Washington State University creative writing classes. On the evening of April 4 we would have another ensemble performance (different poems, different personnel, different interactions... and another possibility: students performing pieces created during school visits). Late morning/early afternoon on April 5, I see another ensemble performance, including an outdoor activity, one designed to yank in a wider audience... Might also find space for a visual poetry show.

Let me know, wherever you reside, whether you're interested in being a part of this proposed festival. We may have a little money to help cut travel costs, etc.  E-mail me if you're at least 66% sure you'd like to do this. If I get a dozen bites or more by the end of July, I'll go into second gear--wider calls, various solicitations, tentative bookings...

Some nibbles of interest so far from Nico Vassilakis, mIEKAL aND, Geof Huth, Andrew Topel, Chris Piuma, David-Baptiste Chirot...

Comments

[Chris]

So, is this in fact happening? I think all the Roomies are hoping to go...

[Silva Danca]

Hi, Is your festival happening? It's unlikely I could get there from the UK but am interested in sound poetry, put me on your mailing list if you have one! - maybe check out a friend of mine: http://www.myspace.com/olchar_lindsann for someone who might be interested in taking part..

[Geof Huth]

Don't forget that I responded in the affirmative to the first call. I'm not sure I'll be able to make it, but I've blocked the time on my calendar! Geof

[david-baptiste chirot]

Hola Laurie and Crag: This is my third response to Call--i first replied at vispoets a while back when the announcement first went up, then back channel, so posting here also--i didn't see my name listed here so didn't know if you hadn't received the mail or seen the one at vispoets-- onow/ards!! david-bc