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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
Vancouver 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 Cinémath?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 Canadian
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: 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 Cinémath?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. oDigitized 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
Cinémath?que.

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