NOTE: All times are given as CST, Central Standard Time (GMT -6)
* All programs are accessible to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, using ASL interpreters, or embedded text or captioning.
* All American Sign Language programs are captioned or interpreted in English
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023 ONLINE SCREENINGS
9:30-10:15 REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director –
Audience, filmmakers and poets can drop in to chat & network online in real time
10:30-11:15 JURIED SELECTIONS (1/4)
To My Next Lover ~ Kieran Charnock
It is Said. ~ Janet Lees
Lift Every Voice and Sing ~ Fred Michael Beam
Deer. ~ Davida Singer
Let Rip: Teenage scrapbook ~ Lee Campbell
A Spark Catches ~ Natalia Gaia
The Moon Appears ~ Jelle Meys
My Mirror ~ Marcelese Cooper
Singing Ears in Spring ~ Hanqing Zhao
11:30-12:15 THERE AND NOT THERE
After Image ~ Ian Gibbins
Blue Womb ~ Laura Bianco, Eduardo Yagüe
Feast ~ Mike Hoolboom
Metamorphosis ~ Marie Craven, Eduardo Yagüe
The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself ~ Ian Gibbins: Tasos Sagris, poetry
The Prophetess ~ Marco Joubert
They Are There But I Am Not ~
12:30-1:15 VOICES
Hooked ~ Helen Dewbery, Chaucer Cameron, poet
Culture Night ~ Colm Scully
Drink, Lassie, Drink ~ Nina Tetry, Volha Hapeyeva, poet; Annie Rutherford,
translation
~ BREAK ~
2:30-3:15 Expressions
Famous – Aarron Loggins
Girl – Aarron Loggins
Don’t Matter to Me – Aarron Loggins
Hymn to the Nile – Sabina England
3:30-4:15 QUÉBEC HAS MANY TONGUES
Act Of Creation, ~Tanya Evanson, Based on a 13th century Persian
poem by Najm Al-Din Razi. (English).
TEMA//THEME ~ Eric Ben; Miroslav Mićanović Poetry
Homenaxe á potencia da pataca ~Monique Moumblow; Erín Moure,
poetry (English/French/Galician)
Bound (2016). Poet: Oana Avasilichioaei. Jessie Altura.
(English/French/Romanian).
Tongue ~ Rachel McCrum; Rachel McCrum Poetry (Croatian).
Fourrer le feu//Screw the fire ~ Farid Kassouf; Marjolaine Beauchamp
poetry (French).
[untitled] ~ Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui; Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui poetry
(French, Wendat).
Des mots dans la neige//Words in snow: Je suis au monde//I am in the world: D’où venons-nous//Where we come from Poet ~ Jonathan Lamy;
Jonathan Lamy Poetry(French)
Chauffer le dehors//Heating the outdoors ~ Farid Kassouf and Renaud
Lefebvre; Marie-Andrée Gill poetry (French).
as the breath is… ~ Martin Reisch; Endre Farkas poetry; additional
performance: Carolyn Marie Souaid. (English).
4:30-5:15 Ink Stained Fingertips
Introduction ~ Crom Saunder
And Yet the Books ~ Czeslaw Milosz
Tygre ~ William Blake
Because I could Not Stop For Death (Poem # 479) ~ Emily Dickenson
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening ~ Robert Frost
My Shadow ~ R.L. Stevenson
A Man Said to the Universe ~ Hart Crane
America As A Gun ~ Brian Bilston
The Day the Saucers Arrived ~ Neil Gaimon
Jabberwocky ~ Lewis Carroll
based on Edgar Allen Poe’s Raven (with Vayl Larkin) ~ Crom Saunders
Litany (with Shannon Moutinho) ~ Billy Collins
~ BREAK ~
7:30-8:20 JURIED SELECTIONS (2/4)
Howl ~ Martin del Carpio
Playground ~ Jeffrey Morin
Invisible ~ Steve Downey
My Dream Out ~ Fiona Aryan
Merry. ~ Fiona Tinwei Lam
On the Couch with My Depression ~ Angharad Gladding
The Yes Yes Fish ~ Patrick Moser
Even Roses Blossom in the Vale ~ Mitchell Collins
Arrogance ~ Tova Beck-Friedman
Oblique Theatre. ~ Oana Avasilichioaei
Immigrants Open Shops ~ Pat Boran
My Town Newlyn ~ Diana Taylor
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023 ONLINE SCREENINGS
12:30-1:15 JURIED SELECTIONS (3/4)
Landschop ~ Daniel H. Dugas
Good Machines ~ Ana Pantic
End of Old Age ~ Carles Pamies Sauret
Petrykivka ~ Anne Ciecko
For the Skeptical ~ Dawn Westlake
It Started with a Breeze ~ Margo Stutts Toombs
Don’t Kid Yourself. ~ Finn Harvor
Legacy ~ Natasha Boskic
SLABBED ~ Ben Cook
Changing Skin ~ Maxime Coton
Blue Voice at the Border ~ Davida Singer, Anney Bonney
1:30- 2:15 21st Century ASL
Panel Discussion – Peter Cook, Sabina England, Douglas Ridloff, Crom Saunders
2:30-3:15 JURIED SELECTIONS (4/4)
For the Rockin Bus Driver ~ Cormac Culkeen
Soft Ground ~ Indigo Eli
Home to the Hangers ~ A.D. Cooper
Things You Have Forgotten to Take with You ~ Elena Baucke
Nomad Palindrome ~ Kai R Carlson-Wee
In Slow Motion ~ Rosalía Fernández Rial
Coming Home ~ Graciela Escalante
Dislocation ~ Vanessa Renne Zimmer-Powell
Grace ~ Kathryn Darnell
I Want to Love you in Analogue ~ April Lampre
Song of Myself, Stanza 5 ~ Mitch Gould
Avalon Video-Poem ~ Marilyn McCabe
America (I Wanted to) ~ Matt Mullins
The Path ~ Victoria Zadorska
3:30-4:15 EVOKE
Chronicles of the Underground ~ Daniel Noreña
Evocations ~ Erick Santiago
Here they come! ~ Ezequiel Reyes and María Rivera
Moira ~ Victoria Gaspar and Yolanda Yépez
We will be smoke ~ Miguel Crespo
Are you afraid? ~ Yolanda Yépez, Victoria Gaspar, Sugar
“Memories of the Sea” ~ Estefanía Díaz, Carlos Cruz
Macuil ~ Jael Jacobo
Barricade as ritual ~ Marcela Cuevas Ríos
Distance. exe.~ Oscar Pacheco
4:30-5:15 ~ CHANGING THE WORLD ONE POEM AT A TIME
Emmett (till de remix), film & poem by Avery R. Young, with Studio
Revolt
Embarrassed, directed by Jake Dypka, poem by Holly McNish
Shoes Without Feet, film & poem by Caroline Rumley
Everything is Radiant between the Hates, film & poem by Rich
Ferguson
Semi-Automatic Pantoum, film & poem by Matt Mullins
Angel of History, directed by Eric Esser
No where to go but on, film & poem by Janet Lees
Tides, film by André Silva
6:30-7:15 ECOPOETRY FILMS & SUBJECTIVITY
Wishing Well ~ Mary McDonald; Penn Kemp poetry
Utility Pole ~ Fiona Tinwei Lam, Mary McDonald; Fiona Tinwei Lam
poetry
I Cannot be Human ~ Sarah Tremlett
Villanelle for Elizabeth not Ophelia ~ Sarah Tremlett
Flood Tide ~ Ian Gibbins
Colony Collapse ~ Ian Gibbins
8:30- 9:15 AWARDS & Screening award winners’ works