NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSION [22 FEBRUARY 1997]
Kellfire Promotional Services
and
the Toronto Free Community Network
p r e s e n t . . .
Saturday, February 22nd 8:30pm
..............................The Inaugural
>> n o c t u r n a l T R A N S M I S S I O N >>
An Internet POETRY broadcast....................
//////// The DotCom Cafe 57 Duncan St. (Richmond & Duncan)
The last saturday of every month toronto poets transmit worldwide.
PREPARE TO DOWNLOAD ... Any and all poets who find themselves in
the vicinity of the DotCom cafe will raise their voices for
transmission while taking in the pleasant, user friendly
surroundings at 57 Duncan St. (Two streets west of university.
One south of Queen St. West.)
When the poets step up to the mike, the room suddenly spans the
entire electronic planet via the most powerful dedicated internet
connection in any "cyber" watering hole in Canada.
Co-hosted by TFCN's Michael Church,
Death Waits of CKLN 88.1 FM's "In Other Words" and
Stephen Humphrey of CIUT 89.5 FM's "Howl - The New Poetry"
+-+ The evening also features three of Toronto's most
+-+ intriguing poets .....
LUBA SZKAMBARA
JOHN BARLOW
BETH LEARN (with Joy Learn)
FREE Internet computer time for the entire evening
compliments of the DotCom Cafe.
-> Open mic segments throughout, <-
-> encouraging a full range of <-
-> experimental creation. <-
** h i s t o r i c a l c o n t e x t
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{ notorious net.happening 2.0 }
On an early January night the DotCom teemed with close to thirty
of Toronto's most talented and visionary poets, attracted by the
unfolding possibilities. It was an unprecedented happening, and
a resoundingly successful benefit for the Toronto Free Community
Network - a pro-active organization who are working to bring all
of Toronto's marginal communities online.
Around of e-mails and phone calls less than a week earlier and
Toronto's premiers Internet cafe became a spontaneous happening.
Partly it was the appeal of free internet access, partly the fact
that anything said was beamed instantly around the world, and partly
the MISSION of the TRANSmission.
The pay what you can door charge went to support the current fund-
raising objectives of the Toronto Free Community Network -- to
implement a fully online Internet access point within the 519
Community Centre, which for more that 21 years has served as a
central source of advocacy on behalf of Toronto's gay and lesbian
communities.
<<<< The ( t r a n s ) M I S S I O N continues. >>>>
** t h e p o e t s
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LUBA SZKAMBRA. A feminist writer whose output focuses on issues
of sexuality and power. She has been published in such journals as
"Proem" and the "The Moosehead Anthology", and had poetry received
at 1995 Fringe Festival "Poetry Express Bus" and the Baudyworks
Festival, an event exploring issues around censorship and freedom
of expression. Currently she is working on a collaborative piece
with photographer Brian Pitz centered around issues of gender
identity and body.
JOHN BARLOW. One of Toronto's most prolific and original poets.
Known for "OVERSION -- The Post-Raphaelite Poetry Magazine of
Free Writing and Correspondence" (now Drownt Dolphin Music/Ontario
Press Inc.) -- an ecstatic, densely-tectured experiment in
cut-and-paste, photocopier terrorism, precisely engineered
formlessness and freedom of expression. Also a most unpredictable
and engaging readers -- often abandoning the reader's passive stance
to challenge his environment. Recently his first trade edition of
poetry, SAFE TELEPATHY, was published on Exile Editions.
BETH LEARN. A multimedia language artist currently involved with
computer-generated graphics/audio works and web publishing. Beth
founded the learn/yeats company in 1974 to produce all of her work
as an artist, including the publication of"Cabaret Vert Magazine"
which explores experimental, multimedia, language and art -- Scheduled
to go online this spring. Her art/science work with work with
contextualism continues with "The Search For Life On Mars", which
concerns the genetic, biomolecular and evolutionary aspects of written
language. Beth will be performing with Joy Learn, and artist also
partnered with Beth in learn/yeats and "Cabaret Vert". Her prints,
drawings, sculptures have appeared in many small press publications
and exhibitions since 1975, including the artbook "parenthesis" --
whose text will be excerpted in the DotCom performance.
-> Open mic segments throughout, <-
-> encouraging a full range of <-
-> experimental creation. <-
** s p e c i a l a p p e a r a n c e s
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MATTHEW REMSKI. A Toronto Native, now living in Vermont with writer
Dennison Smith and her daughter, Matthew Remski is a former church
organist, founder of "The Scream in High Park", winner of the bp
nichol "Chapbook Award" for "Organon Vocis Organalis". He will be
in Toronto to promote his first novel, "Dying for Veronica"
( Insomniac P r e s s
378 Delaware Avenue,
Toronto, ONT, M6H 2T8
phone: (416) 536-4308
fax: (416) 588-4198
email: insomna@pathcom.com ).
CATHERINE KIDD. Montreal Poet down for a visit. Presently completing
her MFA in creative writing at Concordia. A tow-time winner of the
Irving Layton Award, Catherine's latest book is called"Everything
I wanted to Know About Love I learned From Taxidermy."
The artists and organizers extend special thanks to Coach House Books
for the provision of free scanning of the images you see around you
tonight in this Feb. 22 Inaugural Broadcast.
Coach House Books is Canada's newest (and oldest) small press. Publishing
poetry, fiction and artist books, Coach House Books returns small press to
its roots by catapulting it into the future: publishing simultaneously two
distinct forms of "book" -- online and 'the fetish object formerly known as
book'. Every title is available in both a fine, limited edition bound
volume and a distinct, complete text online, digital edition via the World
Wide Web at http://www.chbooks.com.
Visit the Coach House Books Web site at http://www.chbooks.com - bookmark it
because it changes practically everyday. To get in touch with us otherwise...
401 Huron Street
(rear) on bpNichol Lane,
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2G5
phone: (416) 979-2217
Outside the Toronto calling are: 1-800-367-6360
fax: (416) 977-1158
email: chp@chbooks.com
Saturday, February 22nd 8:30pm
..............................The Inaugural
>> n o c t u r n a l T R A N S M I S S I O N >>
An Internet POETRY broadcast....................
//////// The DotCom Cafe 57 Duncan St. (Richmond & Duncan)
