A Cluster of Poetry Film Events, Bristol, 17th – 21st October
Coming up this month there are a flurry of events for those of you interested in poetry film and poetry. Across three days there will be a lot to see and enjoy.
On the 17th October at John Sebastian Lightship you can find Bristol Poetry Film festival on from 1.30 to 9 p.m. Films from the competition entries will be screened, alongside Two Black Boys in Paradise by Dean Atta, and a workshop with animator Suzie Hanna and Sally Bayley. Leading Canadian video poets Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas (Basic Bruegel) have flown in from New Brunswick, and will also be presenting their work, which extends across forty years. They are pioneers in the field of video poetry (see The Poetics of Poetry Film) and this is a rare and exciting opportunity to see them, so please come along.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-film-festival-bristol-tickets-1992554744880
On the 20th October Valerie and Daniel will also be showcasing their work as authors and publishers of experimental Canadian poetry at East Bristol Books. They will be reading their own work and discussing authors from their Basic Bruegel Editions series. I am really fortunate to be one of the authors and so I will be reading, as well, from my memoir (as artist, writer and model) Horse-Woman. 7–8.30
And the next day at Arnos Vale cemetery 2-5 pm there will be a launch of the National Centre for Videopoetry by Carole Enahoro from The Write Place, Frome. There will be screenings and talks with a focus on the role of video poetry in relation to symbolism, wellbeing, ancestral patterns, philosophy and even Jungian psychology, as well as the chance to take part in an immersive singing bowl and gong sound bath.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/nationalcentreforvideopoetry/2383178
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Pluridisciplinary artist and writer, Valerie LeBlanc was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has worked and presented throughout Canada and internationally. LeBlanc’s first video: HOMECOMING was collected and screened by the National Gallery of Canada. She is the creator of the MPB (MediaPackBoard), a portable screening / performance device.
Poet, video poet and musician, Daniel H. Dugas has participated in numerous exhibitions and completed several residencies in Canada and abroad. In 2021, he received the New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Sarah Tremlett is an award-winning poetry filmmaker, poet, theorist, curator, and director of Liberated Words. She co-founded Poem Film Editions and authored The Poetics of Poetry Film (2021), a landmark study (available in over 650 academic libraries worldwide) exploring the relationship between moving images, language, aesthetics, and philosophy, and the evolving practice of poetry film. Her latest publication *Horse-Woman* is a poetic memoir with early paintings. It centres on living in a London bedsit whilst modelling and recording her volatile, traumatic life, and is part of the Basic Bruegel Chapbook series.
