Syndicate: Vancouver Videopoem Festival call for submissions

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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:29:24 -0800
From: Heather Haley <hshaley@emspace.com>
Subject: Vancouver Videopoem Festival call for submissions


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


3rd ANNUAL

V A N C O U V E R   V I D E O P O E M   F E S T I V A L

The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is seeking videopoem submissions for the ancouver 
Videopoem Festival-the only screening event of its kind in Canada. Get public 
exposure and have your work screened in a premier public venue-Pacific 
Cin?math?que, November 8-11, 2001. We are interested in any original, creative 
combination of poetry with material on videotape. Cinepoems are also acceptable 
provided they are transferred onto videotape format.

This event provides a much needed venue for the presentation of  work in this 
burgeoning art form. The most innovative treatments are explored and presented. 
The selection of works is a broad range of mostly Canadian artists, a smaller 
amount of international artists and a diversity of poetic styles and video 
strategies. The EEC aims to develop a forum for defining, legitimizing and 
nuturing work in this hybrid genre and the artists who produce it in Canada. The 
festival components include SEE THE VOICE-a Poetry Video Workshop, two or three 
screenings, an awards gala and a night of performance-STAGED & SCREENED, Mixed 
Media Cabaret-wherein poets interact with their videopoems by incorporatiing 
elements of dance, theatre and music.

DEADLINE: June 1, 2001

To obtain an official VVF 2001 Submission Application Form, contact Executive 
Director, Heather Haley @ (604) 535-8588 or visit our web site:
http://www.edgewisecafe.org

If accepted into the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, all successful entrants will 
receive a screening fee and be eligible for VVF 2001 awards. The giving of 
awards is intended to recognize outstanding merit and to offer the public and 
artists a developing standard for vidopoetry in these categories:

-Best Videopoem  The Edgewise Award 
-Best Direction  The Vision Award      
-Best Performance  The Voice Award    
-People's Choice  The Cin?math?que Award        

-The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is a non-profit arts organization whose mandate 
is to make poetry accessible to all members of society through a variety of 
media and educational programs. 

-Digitized videopoems can be viewed in the Multimedia section of the Edgewise 
site. 

-Funding for the Vancouver Videopoem Festival has been received from the Canada 
Council for the Arts and is produced in partnership with Pacific Cin?math?que


Heather Haley-Executive Director
Edgewise ElectroLit Centre
The EEC is a non-profit organization
whose mandate is to make poetry accessible 
to all members of society through
a variety of new media 
and educational programs.
www.edgewisecafe.org
PH (604) 535-8588
FAX (604) 536-3691

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