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We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer."],"creator_names":["Gotham, Lee","Wiernik, Neil (aka Naw)","Anderson, Fortner"],"creator_names_search":["Gotham, Lee","Wiernik, Neil (aka Naw)","Anderson, Fortner"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112\",\"name\":\"Gotham, Lee\",\"dates\":\"1962-\",\"notes\":\"Lee Gotham was also the MC and one of the headliners of this event.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\",\"Producer\",\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/814159474065427660323\",\"name\":\"Wiernik, Neil (aka Naw)\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Event headliner. 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Pittella\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"VHS #1 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1994-12-19, Gotham and Diamond; (2) Enough Said 1995-01-23, Wiernik and Anderson; and (3) Enough Said 1995-01-09, Swifty Lazar. Note the recordings in VHS #1 are not in chronological order. The asset was digitized, generating both uncompressed and compressed video files; the compressed files were then split into events to facilitate the transcription work. Metadata entries based on events.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Jade Palmer\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670549178286080,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:00 \nVideo Description: Color video of the stage with mic stand at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:01\nThank you so much for coming out. Well, welcome to, I’m losing count, but the next and last, most recent, not last, most recent evening of Enough Said spoken word event series. Gee, you know, we’re in for a miracle, I’ve got a mouthful just introducing it all, maybe I’ll gloss it over a bit. We’re launching a cassette among other things, Broken Spoken features Neil Wiernik and Fortner Anderson, both of whom you’ll see up here before long. Before them, we have a couple of other treats, and I hope everyone is more or less comfortable, and if they’re not, that they take the initiative, wander up to the bar, pick what you’d like. Because of the crowds, of course, you won’t see a waiter with any regularity. And yeah so it’s a wonderful crowd, it’s nice to see everybody here, and let’s just kind of segue into the evening. There will be a brief pause, but don’t despair, everything will happen before very long. | Video Description: Camera varies between loose closeups and medium shots as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black sweater, sunglasses with clear frames and black lenses on head, with shoulder-length hair loose. \n\nJoelle Ciona and Monique\n00:01:39\n[Ciona performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I just can’t stand the city. There’s too many people.” No microphone, so volume is low. Partway through, Ciona and Monique alternate who is delivering the piece. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video description: Medium shot as Ciona pours steaming hot liquid from brown pitcher into a cup and begins performing a piece. Monique enters and sits on a chair on the stage while Ciona wanders through the audience, passing out white bowls and filling them from the pitcher. Ciona wears a black long-sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, black gloves, grey denim jeans, a black belt with a large silver buckle, silver and black glasses, and short blonde hair. Monique wears a white t-shirt with thin black stripes, black pants, and medium brown hair with bangs. Ciona stops at the stage to clean Monique’s hand with a white washcloth and trim their nails while delivering the piece. Closeup as Ciona begins biting Monique’s nails, periodically spitting out the pieces. Monique takes over delivering the piece. Ciona puts down Monique’s hand and resumes delivering the piece. The two performers go back and forth delivering the piece, with Ciona chewing Monique’s nails and sucking or licking Monique’s fingers when they are not speaking. Long shot to show (Johnathon Ascensio?) and (Angela Dora?) in fairy wings holding glowing lanterns approach the window outside, bite their nails, and attempt to fog up the window with breath. Closeup on the figures outside as the piece ends.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:07:50\n[Says he hopes the audience in the back “wasn’t completely disappointed,” assuming they were unable to hear. Mentions Ciona is a performance artist. Apologizes for not knowing the second performer’s name. Monique shouts from the audience, “Monique!” Laughter. Sees Ciona approaching the stage from the audience to collect props from the stage and asks if they want to explain the piece.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nJoelle Ciona\n00:08:34\n[Explains that their nail-biting habit inspired the work. Credits (Johnathon Ascensio?) and (Angela Dora?) as the “angels” outside. Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms out to medium shot as Ciona speaks into the mic that Gotham holds.  \n\nLee Gotham\n00:09:04\n[Invites “resident favourite” and Fluffy Pagan Echoes member, Victoria Stanton, to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes (Victoria Stanton, Scott Duncan, and Vince Tinguely)\n00:09:29 \n[Stanton explains they will perform with two other Fluffy Pagan Echoes members, Scott Duncan and Vince Tinguely. Tinguely begins reading what seems to be a scientific journal article titled “Compatible Quirks: How Yeast (?) Cold Virus Replication.” Stanton and Duncan interrupt with a dialogue about sickness. All three performers repeat “too much vomiting.” Stanton and Duncan repeat “mucous and puke” quietly as Tinguely resumes reading the journal article. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Stanton speaks into the mic zooms out to medium shot as Tinguely reads from a white paper. Duncan, on Tinguely’s right, and Stanton, on Tinguely’s left, alternate delivering a dialogue piece with no microphone. Stanton wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a black shirt, black pants, and a dark bob with bangs parted in the middle. Duncan wears a plaid button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, grey trousers, and short dark brown hair. Tinguely wears a white t-shirt, dark pants, and white wispy hair. Tinguely gradually steps back from the mic. Stanton holds up a white sign that reads, “TOO MUCH VOMITING.” Tinguely resumes reading from the paper as Stanton and Duncan recede into the background.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:13:10\n[Cuts to Gotham mid-speech] wider applications of what we’re saying of spoken work performance, but some of its roots as well, I think I can safely say. So as first the widest applications of (poetry?) then the root, it feels I could take the opportunity to expound upon what I think happens here. Enough Said implies that the words that we’ve all been taking in perhaps aren’t enough, that they require some delivery, some engaging accompaniment or just the expression involved, so they’re accompanied with images. Now, that image is perhaps evocative at best, but like words, not the ideal vehicle or a good true representation. An image can represent a human being, inaccurately at best, and well, like a government can represent a people, inaccurately at best. Representations have been a problem it seems, so why can’t we just present ourselves more often? I suppose that there perhaps aren’t enough born anarchists and we’re too fond of our image, anyways, the representation. We aren’t looking at ourselves, we like looking at representations of ourselves. This is great, and a great problem simultaneously, I think. So it’s really nice when here, I find a whole lot of wonderful words accompanied by often just as many thought-provoking and engaging images, and yet there’s still space, although it may be hard to grasp the concept with the number of us all here in one room, but space between those images and those words nonetheless, and in that space I think there’s room for that presentation, there’s a community of sorts and that’s what I’m finding most magical about Enough Said. [Introduces Neil Wiernick as a performance and radio artist.] | Video Description: Skips to long shot zooming into varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Neil Wiernick sets up a stereo in the background. Zooms into stereo and a medium shot of Wiernick momentarily \n\nNeil Wiernick\n00:16:13\n[Ambient noise. Music plays from stereo. Tests handheld mic that seems to be connected to stereo. Speaks into mic and stereo squeals and distorts voice.] | Video Description: Medium and long shots as Wiernick sets up microphone in front of stereo and tests the microphone. Wiernick wears a grey long-sleeved button-down shirt over a grey t-shirt, glasses, and dark brown thinning hair with long sideburns.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:20:16\n[Introduces and performs a piece including the line, “are you listening to me?” with the stereo squealing throughout. Audio becomes suddenly clear at the line “This is language, language you can understand.” Distortion resumes for the remainder of the piece. Intentionally plays static from the stereo. Resumes performing. Intentionally plays static again.] | Video Description: Closeup and medium shot as Wiernick introduces and performs a piece. Periodically activates and deactivates static sound using controls on back of stereo.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:22:59\n[Explains that the next two pieces are dedicated to a philosopher and artist whose name is indiscernible in the video. Performs piece beginning with stuttering fragments of the word “spectacular,” beginning with “s” and adding a letter or syllable periodically, until full word is said.] | Video Description: Medium shot to closeup to medium shot as Wiernick performs a piece.\n\nNeil Wiernick   \n00:24:28\n[Stereo squeals. Static. Plays recording of a voice repeating an indiscernible word, gradually increasing in volume, until ceasing. Plays recording of a conversation very quietly along with alarm-like sounds. Static. Volume of all parts gradually decreases.] | Video Description: Long and medium shots as Wiernick adjusts something on the back of the stereo, then sits on a chair on the left side of the stereo.\n\nNeil Wiernick \n00:26:44\n[Stereo plays recording of a voice repeating the same few indiscernible words overlayed with static and distortion. Volume gradually decreases. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Wiernick rises from chair and picks up stereo. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as the camera follows Wiernick carrying stereo through the crowd towards the back of the venue. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:27:39\n[Skips to audience applause. Announces that Ian Stephens will perform before Fortner Anderson. Invites Ian to the stage.] | Video Description: Skips to medium shot as Wiernick leaves the stage, Gotham adjusts the mic, and speaks into it. \n\nIan Stephens\n00:29:13 \n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “(Reegan’s?) Mind”. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup of Stephens on stage. Stephens wears a black parka over a black sweater; a red, black, and yellow scarf; a white cloth face mask tied around his head; red nail polish on some fingernails; and close-cropped light-brown hair. Medium shot of Stephens taking off parka and putting up hood of sweater. Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Stephens places two fake eyes over his eyelids and squints to keep them in place. Varying degrees of closeup as Stephens performs a piece. Gestures close to face throughout. Takes off hood partway through. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as Stephens extends arms upwards, finishes the piece, and puts on parka.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:58\n[Introduces Fortner Anderson as the “other half of ‘Broken Spoken.’” Promotes cassettes and publications for sale. Invites Anderson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nFortner Anderson\n00:37:11\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m a man. I’m a good man.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anderson takes mic off stand, turns away from the camera briefly, and turns back to perform the piece. Anderson wears a dark grey suit jacket atop a black button-down shirt, black leather belt, black and gold glasses, and dark brown hair that sweeps across forehead and waves away from face. Zooms into medium shot as Anderson casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson \n00:42:35\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Every day, I don’t care, and I will never care.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between long shots and medium shots as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Walks out of frame for a moment partway through. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson \n00:45:52\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I think I’m a young boy staring into a distant, sepia-toned future.” Alternates between full voice, whispering, and shouting. Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and loose closeups as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:54:59\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I got hurt so bad today.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:59:18\n[Thanks Ian, Neil, Joelle, and the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Directs audience to table to buy “souvenirs.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Anderson speaks into the mic. Places mic on stool. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:59:45\n[Thanks Anderson for “the climax of the evening’s offerings.” Announces brief pause and that the open mic will continue afterwards.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham puts mic back on stand and speaks into it while smoking a cigarette. \n\nUnknown_Reader1 \n01:00:20\n[Skips to Unknown_Reader1 performing a piece ending with the line “fantasies, hot fucking, same difference.” Applause.] | Video Description: Skips to medium closeup of Unknown_Reader1 performing a piece. Unknown_Reader1 wears a black outerwear jacket with pink lining and a light brown hood atop a black shirt, rectangular wire-rimmed glasses, and short dark hair.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:00:30\n[Mentions they are used to the audience laughing more. Performs a piece beginning with the line “When the thick sticky glob of ovulation is there for me to remove with my fingers, I like to hold it.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 performs a piece. Zooms out to longshot as Unknown_Reader1 turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n01:02:51\n[Says they will get serious because the audience is. Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m not kidding, I’m not kidding, I’m not kidding anyone anymore.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 performs a piece and turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nUnknown_Reader1 \n01:04:41\n[Thanks audience. Introduces and performs a piece titled “One Twenty Two Ninety Five.” Applause. Thanks audience again.] | Video Description. Medium closeup as Unknown_Reader1 speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:07:02\n[Says he “hope[s] that’s only a debut.” Invites Ian and Mike to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nIan\n01:07:19\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Remembrance Day.”] Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and closeups as Ian introduces a piece, sits down far from mic, and performs a piece. Ian wears a grey and black long-sleeved plaid shirt atop a black and white graphic t-shirt, and a short afro. Gotham adjusts the mic from Ian’s left partway through.\n\nIan \n01:08:01\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Town Square” about west Indian culture. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian introduces and performs a piece. Gotham adjusts the mic from Ian’s left partway through.\n\nMike\n01:08:46 \n[Mike walks on stage. Gotham quickly adjusts mic from Mike’s left. Mike begins speaking and promptly clears throat. While introducing piece titled “Crazy,” glass smashes off-screen. Laughter. Says “good job, opener,” or “job opening.” Performs piece. Stutters and mentions that they’re “nervous” and “shaking.” Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Mike pulls papers from inner pocket of coat, speaks into mic, and performs a piece. Mike wears an oversized black coat over a black sweater with a rolled collar and a grey flat cap backwards with brown hair only slightly visible on the sides. \n\nMike\n01:10:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Christmas Fears.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Mike performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:11:52\n[Thanks Mike and Ian. Asks (Julian?) (Jillian?) and Bill to read next open mic performer’s name on list. Next performer not present. Invites Sophie to stage.] Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nSophie\n01:12:21\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I dream of you a day after you leave for Florida.” Unknown metallic rattling sound in background during first two lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Sophie adjusts the mic and performs a piece. Sophie wears a brown striped sweater over a white shirt, a hoop earring with a gem in left ear, and a very short buzz cut. \n\nSophie\n01:13:25\n[Mentions that all poems are untitled. Begins performing piece. Stumbles. Resumes performing piece beginning with the line “The (speech?) twenty minutes southwest of Tel Aviv is nondescript enough to remain unnamed.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Sophie speaks into the mic, begins performing a piece, sticks out tongue momentarily, and resumes performing. \n\nSophie \n01:14:24\n[Mentions next poem is part of a series exploring “how shitty everything is in winter.” Performs a piece beginning with the line “This far North is cold, (raw?), and slushy this far into December.” Applause. | Video Description: Closeup as Sophie performs a piece.  \n\nLee Gotham \n01:15:34\n[Thanks Sophie. Invites Natasha, the open mic performer who was previously called but not present, to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nNatasha \n01:16:03\n[Mentions first poem is about a roommate who “split recently.” Performs a piece titled \"Jay.” Pauses intentionally throughout for a jerky effect. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Natasha wears a white button-down shirt, rings, bronze nail polish, a necklace with large dark beads, small hoop earrings, and long dark brown hair parted in the middle. \n\nNatasha \n01:16:58\n[Performs a piece titled “Madonna.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha performs a piece. \n\nNatasha \n01:17:34\n[Dedicates last poem to their dad. Performs a piece titled “Union Solidarity.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Natasha performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:19:13\n[Announces that featured reader on February 6th’s event wants to collaborate with poets interested in rap who want their readings accompanied with “beats.” Encourages those interested to come out. Invites Phil to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Rubs outer corner of right eye with thumb of right hand throughout. \n\nPhil\n01:20:26\n[Mentions he hasn’t decided what he wants to read. Pauses at length. Mutters. Performs a piece that begins with the line “Riding backwards, flying skywards.” Silence. Delayed applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms into closeup as Phil peaks into the mic, adjusts mic, pauses, and flips through papers off-screen. Phil wears a dark plaid button-down shirt with a hood over a white t-shirt and a very short buzzcut with a receding hairline. Performs a piece. Turns away from camera, going off-screen.\n\nSpokenWeb notes\n01:22:40\nThe following performance contains suggestions and descriptions of sexual violence.\n\nPhil\n01:22:44\n[Mentions that they write about things that are “too real” because “the more I deny it the more real it becomes.” Performs a piece beginning with the line “Destroy it, destroy, big boy.” CW: sexual violence. Laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil performs a piece.\n\nAudience_Member1 \n01:24:49\nFuck me! [Yelling loudly.]\n\nAudience\n01:24:51\nLaughter.\n\nPhil \n01:24:55\n[Addresses Audience_Member1] Not you.\n\nAudience_Member1\n01:24:58\nPlease! [Yelling loudly.]\n\nPhil\n01:24:59\n[Resumes performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil performs a piece. Pauses. Smiles. Speaks into the microphone. Resumes performing. Turns away from camera, going off-screen. \n\nPhil \n01:26:03\n[Mentions that the last poem was “not supposed to be funny.” Laughter. Long pause. Performs a piece beginning with the line “A man is there for (fucking?), or so the story goes.” Audio cuts midperformance.] | Video Description: Closeup as Phil speaks into the mic, turns away from camera, licks lips, claps six times, and performs a piece. Video cuts midperformance.\n\n[SpokenWeb edits]\n1:27:55\nVideo Description: Black screen with white text that reads \"Six minutes of this video have been removed.\"\n\nLee Gotham \n01:28:02\n[Invites Justin McGrail to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Holds left forearm to forehead to shield eyes from light. \n\nJustin McGrail \n01:28:10\n[Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes event at Café Phoenix. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Out eastern, flowing, dapples sowing, tread gashes, behind heel, head, cloistered lashes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as McGrail speaks into mic, wipes face, and performs a piece, gesturing with both hands. McGrail wears a white hooded jacket with two large pockets, no zipper, and sleeves rolled up to elbows, black suspenders, a watch, gold bracelet, grey newsboy cap with decorative pins on the front, brown hair poking out from edges.\n\nLee Gotham \n01:30:31\n[Thanks Justin. Invites Tom to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Holds left forearm to forehead to shield eyes from light. \n\nTom \n01:30:54\n[Makes a joke about musical group The Eagles. Laughter. Introduces and performs piece titled “Call Before You Dig,” about “taking too many art history classes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Tom speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Tom wears a dark brown cable-knit sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, backwards dark brown newsboy cap, light brown hair poking out the sides. \n\nTom\n01:32:50\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Sun Always Rises on One Side of my Head.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Tom speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[No signal]\n01:33:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nTom\n01:33:55\n[Skips to Tom in medias res performing a piece including the line “I am their link to the joys and the harrows of an experiential world.”] | Video Description: Camera zooms in from medium closeup to extreme closeup and back again as Tom performs a piece.\n\nEND \n01:35:14\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.2200027},{"id":"6883","cataloger_name":["Carlos A.,Pittella"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["Lee Gotham collection"],"source_collection_label":["Lee Gotham collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Spokenweb at Concordia University"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Lee Gotham collection contains the AV recordings regarding the Enough Said series, including readings, performances, open-mic, and spoken-word events that took place at Bistro 4 and other Montreal venues between December 1994 and June 1996."],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Enough Said, Highlights Part 1"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying assets. \"Hilights\" (sic) on Part 1, but \"Highlights\" on Part 2."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["Lee Gotham collection"],"item_subseries_title":["Enough Said"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights_notes":["Rights status in process. 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Gotham wears a grey collared shirt with sleeves rolled to elbows atop a white collared shirt, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder length brown hair. Unknown_Musician1 wears a blue and white argyle sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, a silver watch, glasses, and short curly dark brown hair. Sam Shalabi wears a red button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large metal-rimmed glasses, and thinning dark brown hair.\n\n[Cataloguer note: Gotham performs a long poem without announcing any section breaks. To enhance readability, this transcription will break when Gotham pauses for a significant period, denoted by the phrase “Gotham pauses” or “Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.”] \n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:46\n[Begins performing a piece beginning with the line “Attention project proposals, explorations grants competition, Canada Arts Council.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham begins performing a piece. Zooms into extreme closeup as Gotham says the line “one idea is a death of experience.” Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:01:14\n[Strike a discordant cord.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:01:15\n[Resumes performing piece. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:02:33\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “No, musicians should play as they see fit.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece. \n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:02:34\n[Quietly playing uncertain chords and sparse drumming as Gotham continues performing.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:02:40\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer picks up a hammer.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham picks up hammer from off-screen. In between lines, dramatically hits a wooden block on stand to his right with hammer. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:19     \n[Resumes performing piece with the line “There can be no pause for the cause.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera angle alternates between closeups and medium shots of Gotham performing a piece and long shots of Gotham performing a piece, Unknown_Musician1 playing drums, and Sam Shalabi playing guitar. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:05:38       \n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The performer is blurting out opinions to strangers.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium closeups and extreme closeups of Gotham performing a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:08:11\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Opinions again: that’s what I call using your head.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:09:08\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “It’s a milk and honey mid-September, an [?] Indian coffee and cigarette summer” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder and more complex in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms into medium shot partway through.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:10:51\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “I went to the doctor for the first time in twelve years.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi softens in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:11:22\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Less about what you think, I still don’t get it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder in background with staccato chords. Asks Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi to play more soothingly. Laughter. Says “or ignore him.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi, who are off-screen.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:11:50\n[Sam Shalabi continues to play complex drum beat, Unknown_Musician1 softens chord attack but plays complex progression.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:11:57\nVideo Description: Medium shot as Gotham sits down on something unseen and, holding the mic away from him, mouths something unseen to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:12:03\n[Play calmer jazz music.] | Video Description: Camera pans to long shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums with brushes and Sam Shalabi playing guitar.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:12:04\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “We were still sitting there on the beach listening to the crazy old Indian.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.] | Video Description: Camera pans to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece sitting down. Camera alternates between closeups, medium shots and medium closeups as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:14:58\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “Well, there wasn’t a lot of story to it.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi resumes in major key. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Gotham stands up. Zooms out to longshot as Gotham picks up hammer on his left and pretends to hit himself on the head with it in between lines. Zooms into medium closeup. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:18:11\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “That’s good, that’s just fine, now we’ll just relax” delivered in a deeper tone than previously. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi barely audible in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:19:04\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “An escaped convict fell into a deep hole someone had dug beside the roadway.” Music reminiscent of middle-Eastern music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi plays in background. Sam Shalabi stops playing guitar part way through. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham leans backwards on something unseen and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as Gotham stands up and continues performing piece.\n\nUnknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi\n00:22:47\n[Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background.] | Video Description: Zooms out to show Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi playing their instruments beside Gotham. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:22:54\n[Resumes performing piece with the line “The water’s run out.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes busier in the background.] Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. \n\nSam Shalabi\n00:23:15\nVideo Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing.  \n\nUnknown_Musician1\n00:23:31\nVideo Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:23:38\n[Continues performing piece. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham continues performing a piece. Zooms out to medium shot part way through. Gotham expands arms like flying bird while performing. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:25:04\n[Continues performing piece with the line “Well now, where were we. You wanted to talk about sex today?” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Camera alternates between medium closeups and medium shots throughout . \n\nLee Gotham\n00:28:43\n[Continues performing piece with the line “I’d like to make it reasonably clear that I’m a frightened man.” Sombre music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:31:09\n[Continues performing piece with the line “The performer gradually regains his composure.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham sips water and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through, then zooms out to medium shot. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:18\n[Continues performing piece with the line “Failure to recognize boundaries between self and the world outside.” Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi ceases in the background. Thanks audience. Applause. Thanks audience and announces break before Ann Diamond’s performance] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Takes cigarette package out of pocket. Zooms out to long shot during applause. Zooms into medium shot when Gotham resumes speaking into mic. \n \n[No signal] \n00:37:00\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:11\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Swifty Lazarus.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black zippered sweater with unknown white graphics on the back, a small white logo on the front left side, and sleeves rolled up to the elbows; black rimmed cap; and hair in a ponytail through the hole in the back.\n\nSwifty Lazarus \n00:37:55\n[Recording of cinematic music with harp and horns plays. Todd Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “After the end of the world, there is much work to be done.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Swift performs a piece. Todd Swift wears a black suit jacket atop a white button-down shirt with a black bowtie, black rectangular glasses, and dark hair close cropped on the sides and parted just off-centre. Tom Walsh wears a leather vest with decorative zippers atop a black long-sleeved shirt and short dark hair.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:39:32\n[Recording of uneasy and discordant string instrument music plays. Shifts to cacophonous horn and percussion sounds and screeching. Swift performs a piece titled “(?) Barbershop.” Brief applause and laughing. Video Description: Swift stands perpendicular to the mic. Walsh stands up. Swift approaches the mic and performs a piece. Loose closeup throughout. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:41:28\n[Recording of cinematic string and horn music plays. In a radio-esque transatlantic accent, a recorded voice delivers monologue that includes the line “the hearts of men, a shadow now.”] | Video Description: Swift holds up a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Looks at watch. Takes tape player away from mic. Loose closeup throughout.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:42:25\n[Recording of spare xylophone music plays. In a muted, mid-twentieth-century-radio tone, Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “The theory of tunnel (work?) is a powerful distinction between a (ledger?) and employment.” Music gradually adds both cinematic and discordant strings reminiscent of earlier musical sections.] | Video Description: Loose closeup to closeup as Smith performs a piece with a trumpet mute up to their lips.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:45:38\n[Recording of discordant string music and vocalization plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The shadowy man (has guilt inside?) (? and sighs?). Moscow.”.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Swift turns away from the mic. Closeup as Swift turns back and performs a piece, reading off a newspaper. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:47:38\n[Recording of up-beat jazz music with xylophone and horns plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line, “History is dead and the full weight of the present (?)” Laughter periodically throughout. The music and Swift’s delivery gets faster and more chaotic partway through. Music suddenly cuts seemingly on purpose and Swift continues reading. Music recommences. Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:51:04\n[Recording of a single unknown string or horn instrument playing seemingly random notes plays. A recording of two voices conversing plays.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Swift holds a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Nods and smiles along with the audio. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:52:35\n[Recording of simple snare and bass drum beat plays, in which short guitar or horn melodies quip periodically. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “So much rain in one hat band.”] | Video Description: Medium shots and loose closeups as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:55:17\n[Old recording of a two-voice conversation plays. Swift softly delivers a piece. Uneasy vintage horror movie music begins partway through.] | Video Description: Walsh stands and lights a cigarette. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:56:53\n[Old recording of a two-voice phone conversation plays. The first verse of a child choir singing “Oh Canada” plays. A recording of steady gong or cymbal hits plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “One softness (?) going, the sea turns like glass.” Recording of staccato pulses of unknown instruments begin partway through.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:59:48\n[Old recording of a newscast beginning with the line “The Nazi war criminal died” plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “But when the Berlin Wall fell five years ago, it was a signal.” A recording of raucous percussion plays after the first line, evolves into quiet sirens.] | Video Description: Closeup of the microphone while Swift smokes a cigarette off-camera. Closeup as Swift performs a piece.\n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:01:45\n[Recording of hopeful and content piano and drum music plays. Swift strongly performs a piece beginning with the line “There’s one thing I remember right from childhood. From the beginning. And it is the smell of roses.” Music slowly shifts to high-pitched and discordant electric organ chords with periodic driving percussion. Applause] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:11:58\n[Long pause.] | Video Description: Medium shot and closeup as Swift faces away from the mic checking watch and adjusting headphones, sometimes out of frame. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:13:06\n[Recording of ominous stringed instrument music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “What happened to you when you were murdered?”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece, ending with an extreme closeup. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:16:21\n[Recording of unknown screeching instrument plays. Recording of one person pleading “no” and “stop” and another person talking sinisterly plays. Recording of a two-voice conversation plays.] Video Description: Extreme closeup as Swift holds up a white handheld cassette tape player to the mic. Swift’s face reacts to the dialogue in the recordings. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:18:15\n[Recording of intense large wind instrument and large drums plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “The architect of the future.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:20:40\n[Recording of ominous ambient music plays. Swift performs a piece beginning with the line “I’ve seen a man stagger with a thousand arrows in his back.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:24:55\n[Swift announces, “this is the last one.” Recording of happy horn and drum music plays, cuts suddenly, and recommences. Swift performs a piece that may be titled “Ten Rose Songs.” Music cuts and recommences in different styles rapidly and repeatedly throughout performance. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Walsh stands up, leans over to Swift, sits back down. Closeup as Swift performs a piece. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n01:28:58\n[Walsh introduces Swift and themselves. Explains that the name of their group is inspired by “Hollywood’s greatest entrepreneur,” Irving Paul \"Swifty\" Lazar. | Video Description: Medium shot as Swift and Walsh stand side by side. Closeup as Walsh speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:29:46\n[Hopes everyone “soaked that up.” Encourages people to stay after the show. Mentions that bill bisset is next week’s performer. Mentions further future events. Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup to extreme closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\n[Bistro 4]\n01:31:04\nVideo Description: Camera zooms out from closeup to long shot of the lone mic on stage. \n\n[No signal] \n01:31:15\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nbill bissett\n01:31:18\n[Cuts to bissett performing Unknown Composition 1.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett, vocalizing and singing into the microphone and keeping rhythm with a maraca. Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bissett and his maraca. bissett wears thick-framed glasses, chin-length hair, and a graphic t-shirt. Lee Gotham briefly passes through camera view. He wears a green collared shirt and long brown hair.\n\nbill bissett \n01:37:37\n[Finishes Unknown Composition 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett stops the rhythm and brings the maraca to his lips. Camera zooms out into a long shot as bissett puts maraca in his back pocket and picks up a binder with multiple documents inside. Audience members applaud. bissett addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett \n01:37:58\n[Reads “n e c k s” (from Th last photo uv th human soul, Talonbooks, 1993). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between long shot, medium long shot, and closeup on bill bissett reading poem from lifted binder. \n\nbill bissett\n01:42:06\n[Finishes reading “n e c k s”. Audience applause. bill bissett introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience laughter and applause.] Video Description: bill bissett closes binder and rubs hand across forehead. Camera pans across the room, capturing a full venue of applauding audience members. Camera zooms into closeup on bissett addressing audience. bill bissett begins walking off stage via stage left. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:42:48\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Nelson stands up from audience and places hand on bissett’s shoulder before moving by him. Nelson speaks to an audience member out-of-frame (bissett?) before walking to the microphone stand on stage.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:42:59\n[Addresses audience. Interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, introducing Unknown Poem 1 as a response to bissett’s “(ken and heath made for life?).” Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson speaks into the microphone, which is set significantly higher on the stand than their height. Nelson wears green and orange patterned dress, long dark hair, and a necklace. Nelson addresses bill bissett (off-screen). Nelson addresses audience. An unseen audience member adjusts microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson spits out gum and looks for place to put chewed wad. An unseen audience member stretches out palm in front of Nelson. Nelson addresses audience before glancing down at the pages they hold.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:44:28\n[Reads Unknown Poem 1. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Sharon H. Nelson reading from pages. Nelson breaks from reading to address audience before returning to reading.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:48:09\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down sheets of paper on the floor and walks off via stage left. Camera zooms out to long shot, capturing applauding audience members. bill bissett walks up to microphone stand via stage left. bissett addresses audience and adjusts microphone stand height. Camera pans right. Nelson addresses bissett. Audience members laugh. Lee Gotham is at one of the large window panes, adjusting a fixture. Camera pans left, back toward bissett on stage. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. bissett adjusts glasses, opens binder, and flips through pages.\n\nbill bissett\n01:49:00\n[Reads Unknown Poem 1 (“vapours / don’t blame it on the dog / are you barking?…”). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera shakes, panning from stage and over various audience members, before panning back and zooming in and out on bissett. \n\nbill bissett\n01:51:50\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett flips page and addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett\n01:52:03\n[Reads “unmatching phenomena” (from Inkorrect Thots, Talonbooks, 1992). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: billl bissett reads from binder. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. \n\nbill bissett\n01:54:05\n[Finishes “unmatching phenomena”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Audience laughter. Begins poem before breaking off to address audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and glances down, flipping through it. bill bissett lifts binder again and addresses audience. bissett smiles at audience laughter and addresses audience, lifting hand.\n\nbill bissett\n01:54:32\n[Resumes reading “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett resumes reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett\n01:56:10\n[Finishes “last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade”. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through its pages. bissett addresses audience.\n\nbill bissett\n01:56:22\n[Begins reading Unknown Poem 2 (“who wrote the script though? / don’t you always wonder that…”) before breaking off to addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2 before addressing audience and interacting with Unknown Audience Member 1. Audience laughter. bill bissett interacts with Unknown Audience Member 2. Audience laughter. Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett begins reading from binder before addressing audience, raising hand. bissett resumes reading before addressing audience again. An unseen audience member addresses bissett and they interact. bissett interacts with another unseen audience member. bissett resumes reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett\n01:58:44\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 2. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Unknown Audience Member 3 and bissett interact.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through pages. Camera pans across audience members applauding. bill bissett addresses audience. bissett interacts with an unseen audience member.\n\nbill bissett\n01:59:06\n[Reads “reflex blu” (from What We Have, Talonbooks, 1988).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bill bissett reading from binder. \n\nbill bissett\n02:01:40\n[Finishes “reflex blu”. Audience applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and adjusts glasses, looking out at audience. bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett walks toward Sharon H. Nelson stage-left and they shake hands and exchange a kiss. Nelson walks toward microphone stand. bissett takes seat adjacent to stage left.]\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:02:14\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Unknown Audience Member 4. Addresses audience. Introduces “Form and Structure” (from Grasping Men’s Metaphors, Muses’ Co., 1993) mentioning Dorothy Parker. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson tilting microphone downward and addressing audience. An unknown audience member walks into the frame, kneeling to adjust microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson addresses unknown audience member.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:03:20\n[Reads “Form and Structure”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads to the audience, with gestures to accentuate the poem’s humour.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:04:02\n[Finishes “Form and Structure”. Audience applause. Introduces “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”. Audience laughter.]  | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles at the audience as camera zooms out into a medium long shot. Nelson flips through the book in their hands. Nelson addresses audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:04:38\n[Reads “On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet”.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson reading from book.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:05:18\n[Audience laughter. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson introduces Unknown Poem 2, in the style of nursery rhymes, and mentioning playing show-and-tell in school. Sharon H. Nelson begins to read Unknown Poem 2, breaking off to address audience. Audience members respond.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson nods.  Addresses audience. Looks down to read, before glancing up and address audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:05:48\n[Resumes reading Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout. Addresses audience member resuming reading Unknown Poem 2.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson glances down and reads from book. Glances up to address audience before resuming reading.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:07:17\n[Pauses. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles, raises a finger, and addresses audience (inaudible). \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:07:25\n[Resumes Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson resumes reading Unknown Poem 2.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:08:01\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 2. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down book and smiles at audience. Gestures toward and addresses offscreen audience member (bill bissett?). Camera zooms out into medium long shot as Nelson exits via stage left. Backs of audience members’ heads. Nelson and bissett interact off-screen. bissett approaches microphone via stage left.\n\nbill bissett\n02:08:27\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. bissett flips and sorts through pages, putting one briefly in his mouth. An unknown audience member briefly passes through camera view. bissett selects a page, places something down, and turns back toward the microphone.\n\nbill bissett \n02:09:26\n[Performs “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd” (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and in between extreme closeup and medium long shot on bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone. bissett holds up and references pages throughout the performance, occasionally flipping. \n\nbill bissett \n02:16:11\n[Finishes “evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd”. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Addresses audience, talking about quinine, TV detectives, and murder mysteries. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett goes silent and slowly lowers outstretched arms. Camera zooms out to long shot of applauding audience members in front of the stage, with one unknown audience member in an orange sweater moving through the crowd. Lee Gotham approaches the stage via stage left and interacts with bissett before returning to his seat. bissett picks up binder and flips through pages. Camera zooms in as bissett addresses audience. bissett drinks from a glass, puts it on the floor, and flips through binder.\n\nbill bissett \n02:17:30\n[Reads Unknown Poem 3 (“Mr. and Mrs. Ridge of Venus Land…”). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. \n\nbill bissett \n02:18:44\n[Laughs. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett laugh before looking back down at binder.\n\nbill bissett \n02:18:50\n[Resumes reading Unknown Poem 3. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett reading from binder.\n\nbill bissett \n02:20:22\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 3. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers and closes binder. Gestures to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson). bissett addresses audience and applauds along with them. bissett begins exiting via stage left. bissett and Nelson embrace and address one another as Nelson walks toward microphone stand.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:20:40\n[Addresses audience. Addresses bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience and looks over to bill bissett to address him. An unknown audience member briefly obscures camera view. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:20:43\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Sharon H. Nelson flips through pages, and an unknown audience member adjusts the microphone stand to Nelson’s height. Nelson addresses audience member adjusting microphone stand and thanks them. Camera zooms into a closeup on Nelson.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:21:21\n[Addresses audience, discussing bissett’s artwork. Audience laughter. Introduces “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991).”] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:23:14\n[Reads “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads from pages.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:27:31\n[Finishes “Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett’s iconography, ‘Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,’ acrylic on canvas, 18x24”, 1991)”. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Introduces “The Best Minds of My Generation” (from This Flesh These Words, Ekstasis Editions, 2002), mentioning the piece is dedicated to bill bissett and to George (Predelli?), a former Catholic priest. Audience laughter. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into long shot as Sharon H. Nelson gathers pages and nods toward audience. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Nelson addresses audience and flips through pages.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:28:45\n[Coughs. Reads “The Best Minds of My Generation”.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson coughs into fist. An audience member briefly obscures view of stage. Nelson reads from pages. \n\nSharon H. Nelson\n02:33:18\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson picks pages up from floor and exits stage via stage left. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Sharon H. Nelson sits in audience as bill bissett returns to the microphone stand on stage. bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. \n\nbill bissett \n02:33:29\n[Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett raises glass to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson?) and sips from it. \n\nbill bissett\n02:34:04\n[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into medium long shot as bill bissett adjusts glasses and flips through pages. Lee Gotham passes through camera view, glancing right into the lens. \n\nbill bissett \n02:34:22\n[Reads “why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown” (from Th Influenza uv Logik, Talonbooks, 1995).] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera zooms in and out between closeup on bissett and long shot of bissett on stage, panning across the audience members listening to the reading and smoking. \n\nbill bissett\n02:39:11\n[Finishes \"why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown.\" Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett briefly closes binder before opening it again. \n\nAudience\n02:08:23\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Camera begins to zoom out to a long shot revealing applauding audience members. bissett turns to an unknown audience member upstage left and interacts with them. The unknown audience member holds bissett's binder as bissett searches for a page inside it. Camera pans across audience members sitting adjacent to stage left.\n\nbill bissett\n02:39:33\n[Performs Unknown Poem 4 (“Jennifer Rawlins”?).] | Video Description: bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone, holding sheet of paper. \n\nbill bissett\n02:42:34\n[Finishes Unknown Poem 4. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Thanks Sharon H. Nelson. Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera pans over applauding audience members throughout the room. bill bissett addresses audience. Lee Gotham moves through crowd and approaches stage. bissett is given his binder by the unknown audience member holding it. Gotham and bissett hug. bissett addresses audience before exiting stage left as Gotham approaches the microphone stand.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:43:15\nWow, I think we need—Woo! Just a little time to cool down now after that. Geez, you know, I can’t, I can’t say how happy I am to, you know, be a part of something that involves not only a generous helping of spectacle but, you know, a whole lotta love, and just generally rejuvenating experience. I think what I’d like to do is, like I said, take a little break. Any of the open-mikers who’ve hung out and are still up for it are more than welcome to have their day in the rain in a moment or two. I can’t encourage people enough, as well, to come over to the corner at some point if you’re going hang out for a bit. We’ve got loads of books, both Sharon’s, bill’s, and some small press offerings of various natures. You know, when I first bill, I was doing my degree at Concordia. I went down to the stacks in what was at that time the Norris Library. Do you know there are 41 titles of bill’s in that library? Several of Sharon’s as well. But 41—you’re not going to find a lot of them in the bookstores anymore, but bill is part of a very, very vital scene, going back a good twenty odd years. [Sharon H. Nelson interacts (“Pushing thirty!”)] Pushing thirty! And they’re all still in the stacks, you know? You go down to what’s now the Webster Library, or over to the Redpath, or any other incredible institution of those varieties, you can check the stuff out because I tell you, a whole lot of innovation went into the years between then and now. Okay, so—enjoy, hang out. | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjust microphone stand height. Gotham addresses audience and at one point addresses Sharon H. Nelson (off-screen) before returning his focus to the audience. \n\n[No signal] \n02:45:13\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nIan Stephens\n02:45:16\n[Cuts to Stephens introducing and performing a piece titled “(Reegan’s?) Mind”. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Stephens wears a black parka atop a black sweater, a red, black, and white scarf, a white cloth face mask tied around his head, red nail polish on some fingernails, and close-cropped light-brown hair. Loose closeup as Stephens takes off parka and puts up hood of sweater. Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Stephens places two fake eyes over his eyelids and squints to keep them in place. Varying degrees of closeup as Stephens performs a piece. Gestures close to face throughout. Takes off hood partway through. Medium shot zooms out to long shot as Stephens extends arms upwards, finishes the piece, and puts on parka.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:51:58\n[Thanks Ian and the audience for attending. Introduces Fortner Anderson as the “other half of ‘Broken Spoken.’” Promotes cassettes and publications for sale. Invites Anderson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nFortner Anderson\n02:53:00\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I’m a man. I’m a good man.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anderson takes mic off stand, turns away from the camera briefly, and turns back to perform the piece. Fortner wears a dark grey suit jacket atop a black button-down shirt, black leather belt, black and gold glasses, and dark brown hair that sweeps across forehead and waves away from face. Zooms into medium shot as Anderson casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes. \n\nFortner Anderson \n02:58:24\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Every day, I don’t care, and I will never care.” Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between long shots and medium shots as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Walks out of frame for a moment partway through. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson \n03:01:41\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “Sometimes I think I’m a young boy staring into a distant, sepia-toned future.” Alternates between full voice, whispering, and shouting. Applause.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium shots and loose closeups as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage. Turns away from the camera and pauses after piece concludes.\n\nFortner Anderson\n03:10:48\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line “I got hurt so bad today.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anderson performs a piece and casually walks around the stage.\n\nFortner Anderson\n03:15:08\n[Thanks Ian, Neil, Joelle, and the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Directs audience to table to buy “souvenirs.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Anderson speaks into the mic. Places mic on stool. \n\nLee Gotham\n03:15:39\n[Thanks Anderson for “the climax of the evening’s offerings.” Announces brief pause and that the open mic will continue afterwards.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham puts mic back on stand and speaks into it while smoking a cigarette. \n\n[No signal]\n03:16:09\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n03:16:16\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Ian Stephens.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham talks to Ian Stephens, who is masked and sitting upstage. Gotham wears a dark sweater with snowflake motifs, rolled-up sleeves, black baseball cap turned back, stubble, long hair. Zoom into a closeup as Gotham goes to the mic and invites Ian Stephens to the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:16:50\n[Calls for Peter. Reads an epistolary poem to Peter. Invites Peter to the stage.] | Video Description: Zoom into a closeup as Ian Stephens interacts with the audience and reads a poem directed to an audience member. Stephens wears a brown jacket atop a t-shirt with the words “BAD RELIGION” partially visible, a black scarf with red and grey stripes, buzz haircut.\n\nPeter\n03:18:44\n[Reads “Science Fiction,” beginning with the line “I live in a very old beautiful home.” Applause. Calls Ian Stephens to the stage.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium closeup as Peter enters the stage. Peter wears a plaid brown shirt with rolled-up sleeves atop a white shirt, black scarf, black beanie hat, close-trimmed beard. Peter reads a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:22:20\n[Organizes objects on stage, in front of him. Introduces “Regan's mind #2, or, Reagan remembers.” Continues setting up the stage. Puts on a cowboy hat. Sits down. Explains that, in this piece, he is Reagan’s mind. Puts on fake eyeballs, one larger than the other.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens sets the stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:25:22\n[Performs “Regan's mind #2, or, Regan remembers.” The piece is spoken against the background recording of a radio that keeps switching between stations; Stephens frequently comments upon the different pieces of music. Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a piece while sitting down and holding the mic. After the opening the line, the fake eyeballs fall. Stephens readjusts them, but they fall multiple times. Stephens holds props during the performance, including a doll. At the end of the piece, amid applause, Stephens removes the cowboy hat.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:41:43\n[Introduces and reads “The holy city,” crediting the music to Kevin Komoda (Stephen’s collaborator in the Wining Dining Drilling musical group). Performs “The holy city,” against background music by Kevin Komoda. Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a closeup as Ian Stephens introduces and performs a piece. Stephens stands up to perform, holding a notebook and the mic; the camera zooms out and back into a medium closeup, following Stephens.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:49:37\n[Announces he wants to try something different at the end, opening space for questions from the audience. Introduces “a few sweet terror poems,” adding that it is tricky but not impossible to read them (referring to the fact he’s wearing a mask). Before reading, names objects from what he calls “Reagan’s mind’s desk,” including a book titled “Guilt Free.” Adds that Reagan is a lucky man to have Alzheimer’s.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens leafs through a notebook, talks with the audience, then puts on a skeleton mask.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:51:37\n[Reads a poem from the “Let’s be dead” sequence, beginning with the line, “I drew a picture of my coffin.” Explains it was not included in the book (Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995) because it was “too deadly.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n03:52:30\n[Reads “Let’s be dead,” opening with the line “I know the club where you got the blow-job” (with slight differences from the version published in Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995). Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens performs a poem. Removes the mask mid-performance.\n\nIan Stephens\n04:00:11\n[Introduces “I Started to get sick in New York” mentioning it is also from the book (Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995) and another piece with music by Kevin Komoda. States the piece is dedicated to David Wojnarowicz. Performs piece, with significant differences from the version published in the book. Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot then zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens introduces and performs a piece.\n\nIan Stephens\n04:06:35\n[Asks the audience if they have any questions.] | Video Description: Medium shot then zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens welcomes questions from the audience.\n\nAudience_Member1\n04:06:42\nDid I know you in Lennoxville in 1972? [Laughter.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from the audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n04:06:48\nA hypothetical question. Yes. [Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n04:07:03\n…speaking about a journalist, and we had a difference of opinion of your work, and she said, in spite of frequent irony, it wasn’t rescued, that there was something wrong with it [laughter]; and I thought, well, it’s more just sort of brute reality of it that appeals to me, more often than not, above and beyond all the crap and whatnot. What do you say, when someone has this adverse sort of reaction? | Video Description: Medium closeup then zoom out to a medium shot as Ian Stephens listens to a question from Lee Gotham.\n\nIan Stephens\n04:07:41\nI don’t care. [Laughter. Asks if anybody has another question.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Ian Stephens receives the mic back from Lee Gotham then zoom into a closeup as Stephens answers Gotham’s question.\n\nAudience_Member2\n04:08:03\n[Asks if Stephens is happy to be back in Montreal]. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from the audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n04:08:10\nOh yeah, I love Montreal, my home, I was born here, raised here. Everything I see around here resonates. (Certain little memories?). (?) Montreal was a province unto itself. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers to the question.\n\nLee Gotham\n04:08:33\n[Asks about other performers or events that Ian Stephens would like see throughout the town.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens listens to a question from Lee Gotham.\n\nIan Stephens\n04:08:48\nI think things are moving in a half-decent pace. [Lee Gotham interrupts.] I think the spoken word is getting passé. You have to make the leap into performance and you do that by getting out of the text; I’m still going through transition. But once you get beyond the text, it becomes performance poetry, which is a leap a lot of poets can’t do. The academics cannot do it. And I think that’s the litmus test. The academics, they wonder why their books don’t sell, they are unpopular, or whatever. You have to make that leap, I think. If you want to work with an audience, other than a very limited book reader. Ok, no more questions. Thank you very much. | Video Description: Medium closeup as Ian Stephens answers Gotham’s question. Zoom out to a medium long shot as Stephens puts scarf on and organizes objects amid applause.\n\nLee Gotham\n04:10:00\n[Thanks Ian Stephens. Announces break.] | Video Description: Zoom into a medium closeup as Lee Gotham takes the mic and announces a break.\n\n[No signal]\n04:10:15\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nLee Gotham\n04:10:20\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Robert Allen as one of his favourite profs from Concordia. Invites Allen to the stage to read from novels, poetry collections, and Moosehead Anthologies he has been a part of. Mentions Allen is a new editor at Matrix Magazine. Gotham wears a black and white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair down.\n\nRobert Allen\n04:11:30\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Wedding Poem.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Allen wears a grey long-sleeve plaid shirt with black buttons and a black hood, and slightly curly light brown chin-length hair.\n\nRobert Allen\n04:13:17\n[Explains that the next piece is about the plane crash of a French rugby team in the Andes mountains and it involves cannibalism. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Rugby Players Stranded in the Andes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n04:16:34\n[Explains that the next piece is about the mail order pornography business. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Late Romantics.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen \n04:18:03\n[Explains that the next piece encapsulates nineteenth-century Russian literature in five lines. Introduces and performs a piece titled “A Sadder Scene Than You Know at Tolstoy(’s?) Station.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n04:18:48\n[Mentions he lives in the country with Anne Stone. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Mount Cloud.” Applause. Hard cut.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Zooms out to long shot as Allen leaves stage. Hard cut. \n\nLee Gotham\n04:21:00\nIntroduces Doug Isaac. Mentions Isaac’s poetry collection Past, Present: Tense will be published with Imperial (Note: book actually published with BuschekBooks.) Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n04:21:30\n[Introduces piece titled “Centres of Treatment” that is in part a homeless man’s verbatim dialogue, while the other half is dialogue written by Isaac. Says he will use different voices for each character.] | Video Description: Closeup as Isaac lowers the mic and speaks to the audience. Isaac wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a white shirt that has an indiscernible pattern, and medium brown hair pushed back from face. \n\nSpokenWeb notes \n04:22:39\nAt 04:23:30 and 00:23:43, Isaac says a racial slur. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n04:22:44\n[Performs \"Centres of Treatment.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium shot as Isaac performs a piece, alternating between performing into the mic and stepping slightly away from it. \n\nLee Gotham\n04:33:33\n[Thanks Douglas (Doug) Isaac.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham speaking into the mic.\n\n[No signal]\n04:33:43\nAmbient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n04:33:53\n[Cuts to Colin Christie and Corey Frost performing a piece about suicide. Alternate between singing songs such as “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James & The Shondells (Roulette, single, 1968), vocally imitating vehicles, and performing the piece. Play the children’s clapping game “Miss Mary Mack.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot of Christie and Frost performing a piece without mics, singing, walking around the stage area, gesturing, and becoming different characters for an embodied and theatrical performance. Christie wears a light blue long-sleeved plaid shirt open atop a black shirt, a necklace, and light brown hair. Frost wears a plaid vest atop a medium blue plaid shirt, a necklace with a large gold ring, and long curly dark brown hair.\n\nLee Gotham \n04:39:01\n[Thanks Colin Christie and Corey Frost.] Video Description: Long shot of Bistro 4 and Gotham speaking into the mic.]\n\n[No signal]\n04:40:03\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video description: Black screen with white text that reads \"-0:00:32.\"\n\nLee Gotham\n04:40:07\n[Cuts to Gotham inviting Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.\n\nIan Ferrier \n04:41:09\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Ferrier adjusts the mic, speaks into the mic, and performs a piece. Ferrier wears an unzipped black winter jacket atop a black graphic t-shirt with a white logo, dark brown hair with a strip shaved out of it from above left eye to crown of head.\n\nIan Ferrier \n04:44:57\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Theatre of Three AM.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nIan Ferrier\n04:46:24\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Politician.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[Bistro 4]\n04:49:00\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. \n\n[No signal] \n04:49:11\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nSteve Luxton\n04:49:15\n[Cuts to Luxton introducing and performing a piece titled “Sweeney Todd.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into loose closeup as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Luxton wears a red button-down shirt, round metal-rimmed glasses, wavy blonde ear-length hair.\n\n[Bistro 4]\n04:52:38\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage.\n\n[No signal]\n04:52:45\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nSpokenWeb notes\n04:52:50\nIn the following performance, Raymond Filip uses an outdated term in reference to a cross-dressing man.\n\nRaymond Filip\n04:52:50\n[Cuts to Filip reading “Transvestite at his Toilette.” Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot as Filip performs a piece. Filip wears a dark plaid sport coat atop a brown button-down shirt, brown shaggy hair, mustache, and chin beard.\n\n[No signal]\n04:54:56\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nEND\n04:56:03\n[End of recording.]"],"score":4.2200027},{"id":"6885","cataloger_name":["Carlos A.,Pittella"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["Lee Gotham collection"],"source_collection_label":["Lee Gotham collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Spokenweb at Concordia University"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Lee Gotham collection contains the AV recordings regarding the Enough Said series, including readings, performances, open-mic, and spoken-word events that took place at Bistro 4 and other Montreal venues between December 1994 and June 1996."],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Enough Said, SpokenWord Sampler"],"item_title_source":["Asset"],"item_title_note":["Ephemera accompanying asset."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["Lee Gotham collection"],"item_subseries_title":["Enough Said"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights_notes":["Rights status in process. 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Closeup of a poster that reads \"Enough said\" with a logo above it looking into the window zooms out to a shot of the whole window. Window has horizontal blinds on the inside and various newspaper clippings taped to the outside.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:23\nEnough Said. Spoken word performance event series, here in Montreal. Weekly, for six months, full houses, people coming out to hear poetry, on a Monday night, consistently for six months. Spoken word, though, spoken word. Something, between the library stacks and the reading from the lectern approach of the traditional reading series, and, uh, the television, perhaps, side of the equation, the fast food delivery of a poetry slam, spoken word's, there's a lot of room created like a community, I think in a spoken word uh, uh, event where you see a lot of interactive action you see a lot of work coming out of the presentation of work, spoken words, so, blah, blah blah, let's watch some spoken word. [Jazz music plays in the background, seemingly coming live from Bistro 4.] | Video Description: Camera pans right to a closeup of Lee Gotham speaking, then zooms into a closeup of the Enough Said poster. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n00:01:22\n[Cut to Karasick performing a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line, “And I go in to take the (?) to Meine, to Meine,” which contains both English and German. Karasick interrupts the poem to exclaim \"I can't believe I wrote that.\" Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Karasick reading from a book. Karasick wears a black zippered vest atop a black long-sleeved shirt, gold dangling earrings, and shoulder length black hair that is loose and slightly curled. Pauses performance to speak into the mic. Laughter. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:02:24\n[Cut to Gotham performing a piece including the line, \"In life, there are misleaders and the mistaken.\" Live jazz music plays in the background.] | Video Description: Long shot of Gotham performing a piece, Sam Shalabi sitting and playing guitar, and Unknown_Musician1 playing the drum kit. Gotham wears a grey collared shirt with sleeves rolled to elbows atop a white collared shirt, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder length brown hair. Shalabi wears a red button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large metal-rimmed glasses, and thinning dark brown hair. Unknown_Musician1 wears a blue and white argyle sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, a silver watch, glasses, and short curly dark brown hair. \n\nSam Shalabi \n00:02:40\nVideo Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing.\n\nUnknown_Musician1\n00:02:57\nVideo Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:05\n[Continues performing piece. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham continues performing a piece. Zooms out to medium shot part way through. Gotham expands arms like flying bird while performing.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne\n00:03:18\n[Cut to Groupe de Poésie Moderne performing a spoken-word piece mixed with group singing. A group member repeats the line “Ce soir.” Various members speak in succession. Laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. Six members of the group stand in a circular formation, all facing the stage, with the centre apparently empty. All wear black shirts and pants. A seventh performer repeatedly emerges from the centre of the group formation, going up and down several times. Various performers speak.\n\nTrevor Ferrier\n00:04:15\n[Cut to Ferrier drumming while telling a story including the line “The banshee is known to sit wailing (?) the side of the tree.”] | Video Description: Long shot of Trevor Ferrier sitting and telling a story while playing percussion. Ferrier wears a red Henley shirt with the sleeves rolled up, shaved head, and a thin moustache.\n\nLynn Suderman\n00:05:17\n[Cut to Suderman asking her friend Mary to help search for a Bible passage. Starts reciting from memory when Mary finds the passage. Reads from the bible. Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Suderman talking to someone off-screen. Suderman wears a black long-sleeved blouse and short black hair tucked behind ears. Takes the bible from Mary and starts reading from it. Camera zooms into extreme closeup, then a longshot as Suderman leaves the stage. \n\nSwifty Lazarus (Todd Swift and Tom Walsh)\n00:06:28\n[Cut to Swift performing a piece beginning with the line “I’ve seen a man stagger with a thousand arrows in his back.” Recording of ominous ambient music plays. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of the mic on a radio-style stand hanging down. Swift enters the frame and performs a piece into the mic. Swift wears a black suit jacket atop a white button-down shirt with a black bowtie, black rectangular glasses, and dark hair close cropped on the sides and parted just off-centre.\n\nNjacko Backo\n00:08:24\n[Cut to Njacko Backo performing Untitled Poem. Audience clapping along to beat.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Clifton Joseph performing poem, stomping foot and gesturing. Joseph wears a brown button-up vest atop a light green short-sleeved shirt, black-framed glasses, and short black hair. \n\nAnn Diamond \n00:09:33\n[Cut to Ann Diamond performing a piece titled \"Shoe Salesman.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Ann Diamond performing a piece. Diamond wears pixie-cut blond hair with bangs and a jean jacket over a grey cowl-neck sweater. \n\nIan Stephens\n00:10:28\n[Cut to Ian Stephens introducing and performing “Christmas Eve, 93” (titled “24/12/93” in Diary of a Trademark, The Muses’ Co., 1995).] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup of Ian Stephens at the stage. Stephens wears a wine-colour button-down shirt unbuttoned at the top atop a wine-colour t-shirt, a stud on the left earlobe, a multicolour bead necklace, and short hair. Medium closeup of Stephens performing a poem by heart.\n\nDee Smith \n00:11:45\n[Cut to Dee Smith introducing and performing a piece beginning with the line “Brother to brother” repeated several times. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece. Smith wears a green short-sleeve shirt atop a black long-sleeve turtleneck, black Breton cap, pendant necklace, flower earrings, stud nose ring, plus several finger rings.\n\nbill bissett\n00:13:26\n[Cut to bill bissett performing Unknown Composition 1, vocalizing and singing into the microphone. Maraca in the background.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett performing a piece and keeping rhythm with a maraca. Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bissett and his maraca. bissett wears thick-framed glasses, chin-length hair, and a graphic t-shirt. \n\nDavid Jager\n00:14:47\n[Cut to David Jager introducing and performing \"Smoke, Eat, Drive.\" Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. Applause and cheering throughout. Jager wears a light brown striped button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow, dark brown hair falling onto forehead in strands.\n\nEnough Said edits\n00:16:00\nVideo Description: Cut to a digital graphic of the Enough Said poster seen on the window at the beginning of the recording. \n\nNo signal\n00:16:12\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nEND \n00:17:29\n[End of recording.] "],"score":4.2200027}]