NOTE: All times are given as CST, Central Standard Time (GMT -6)
* All film screenings are accessible to the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, using ASL interpreters, or embedded text or captioning.
* All American Sign Language (ASL) programs are captioned, voiced or interpreted in English

ONLINE PROGRAMS:

MONDAY APRIL 1:

12:00-1:00   The Video Jukebox – Presented By: Ian Gibbins
A collection of videos from current and past Festival curators, presenters and judges.

1:00-2:00    Juried Screenings (1 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

2:00-3:00    REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

                                                   ~ BREAK ~

7:00-8:00    The Video Jukebox – Presented By: Ian Gibbins
A collection of videos from current and past Festival curators, presenters and judges.

8:00-9:00    Juried Screenings (1 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

9:00-10:00  REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

TUESDAY APRIL 2:

12:00-1:00  Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow – Presented By: Sarah Tremlett
Five filmmakers talk about how one art form can inspire and revision another.

1:00-2:00    Juried Screenings (2 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

2:00-3:00    REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

                                                   ~ BREAK ~

7:00-8:00    Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow – Presented By: Sarah Tremlett
Five filmmakers talk about how one art form can inspire and revision another.

8:00-9:00    Juried Screenings (2 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

9:00-10:00  REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 3:

12:00-1:00   Moving Poems in the City – Presented By: Fiona Tinwei Lam, Alger Ji-Liang
These twelve poetry videos created for the Vancouver Poet Laureate’s City Poems Project are based on place-based poems about historical and cultural sites in Vancouver, CA.

1:00-2:00    Juried Screenings (3 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

2:00-3:00    REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

                                                   ~ BREAK ~

7:00-8:00    Moving Poems in the City – Presented By: Fiona Tinwei Lam, Alger Ji-Liang
These twelve poetry videos created for the Vancouver Poet Laureate’s City Poems Project are based on place-based poems about historical and cultural sites in Vancouver, CA.

8:00-9:00    Juried Screenings (3 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

9:00-10:00  REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

THURSDAY APRIL 4:

12:00-1:00   ASL Video – Presented By: Douglas Ridloff

1:00-2:00    Juried Screenings (4 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

2:00-3:00    REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

                                                   ~ BREAK ~

7:00-8:00    ASL Video – Presented By: Douglas Ridloff

8:00-9:00    Juried Screenings (4 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions

9:00-10:00  REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.

FRIDAY APRIL 5:

12:00-5:00  Juried Screenings – Audience Voting

1:00-2:00    ASL Poetry – Panel Discussion

2:00-3:00    REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Discussion about ASL poetry

                                                   ~ BREAK ~

6:30-7:30    Juried Screenings – Announce Winners

7:30-8:30    ASL Poetry – Panel Discussion

8:30-9:30    REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Discussion about ASL poetry

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IN-PERSON PROGRAMS:

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SATURDAY APRIL 6:

1:00-1:30    DOORS

1:30-2:00    Open Mic

2:00-3:00    GEOPOETICON with Odveig Klyve & Bjørn Gulbrandsen (Norway)
Short poetry films crossing borders of language, politics and geography, including the film
“Does your hand shake, Vladimir?” where voices from all over the world are heard.

3:00-4:00    I Didn’t Die That Day with Helen Dewbery (England)
Fragmented memories from London’s underworld of prostitution; told in 3 voices and 12 poems plus discussion.

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4:30-5:30    ASL Performance by Douglas Ridloff + Deaf Slam

5:30-6:30    Best of Fest (International) – Screening, Winning and Honorable mentions of poetry films and videos.

6:30-till?     After Party – Everyone invited.

SUNDAY APRIL 7:

1:00-1:30    DOORS

1:30-2:00    Open Mic – Sign up sheet

2:00-3:15    Changing the World One Poem at a Time (Texas edition) with Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran
Five poems from five renowned Texas activist poets — J. Estanislao Lopez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robin Davidson, Aris Kian Brown, and Lupe Mendez — are transformed into video poetry plus live readings and Q&A with the poets, filmmakers, and audience.

3:15-4:00    Best Of ZEBRA – Presented By: Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel (Germany)
A selection of the best films based on poems by Natallia Arsiennieva, Simon Barraclough, Ariane von Grafenried, Tania Haberland or Cia Rinne from the 2020-2023 ZEBRA festival editions.

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4:30-5:30    Location/Houston (Houston TX)
A collaboration between Houston Poets and Houston Filmmakers commissioned by Public Poetry.

5:30-5:50    Sufi Poetry in American Sign Language and Dance – Performed By: Sabina England
An ASL performance focused on the elements of nature, water, air, fire and earth. Based on Sufi Poets and her own work.

5:50-6:10    Jabberwocky in American Sign Language (ASL) – Performed By: Heba Toulan
Different versions of this classical nonsense poem by various ASL artist.

6:10-6:30    Festival Winners – Best 4 Videos selected by judges and audience

6:30-till?     After Party – Everyone invited.