The official site for Nuit Blanche can be found HERE. This event in Toronto runs from 7pm to 7am on September 29th, 2007. a.rawlings will be reading as part of 9 poets 9 cities in "Zone B, Location 14 (Cecil Street Community Centre), which is right in the heart of Chinatown and steps from Kensington Market and University of Toronto."COMMENT BOX BELOW FOR AUDIENCE MEMBERS OF THIS EVENT, THANK YOU.
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thanks to CA Conrad for including me in this experiment, and thank you to all of the poets for sharing their work. reading pleasure!
my event for 9 poets 9 cities occurred as part of toronto's 2nd annual nuit blanche, an all-night artstravaganza that saw a record turn-out city-wide and gave our public transit system some stress. i performed in a local community centre that was decked out in the spirit of a street festival. dancers, actors, musicians, mind-readers, and other esoterics filled the space.
nuit blanche was quite intense, a mixture of halloween for artists and an endurance test personally, as i performed on and off from 8:30pm to 7am.
for my incantations of 9 poets 9 cities, there was a fluid, roving audience -- novel given a standard poetry reading's predisposition towards audience as seatbound and mostly silent. the nuit blanche audience came and went, asked questions, murmured amongst themselves.
i shared texts from all poets, and used a computer projector to project the poems onto a wall of sheets strung up in the basement of the community centre. this gave passersby an opportunity to tune into what i read aloud, or to read poems and bios for themselves. i was fascinated to see how the poems in the condensed anthology interacted with each other when they shared the same space.
a.rawlings, thank YOU! And thanks too for sending that article published in THE STAR, I'll post it HERE for others to also read!
Wish I could have been there!
Thanks again,
CAConrad
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