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Several big spheric lamps hanging over the stage and draped orange curtains almost entirely raised, covering little of the windows. Against the windows, a vertical rectangular banner with the name “ga press / MONTREAL,” as well as a series of smaller separate posters with numbers on them: 86, 99, 116, and 235.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:00:16\nGood evening, one and all. Thank you so much for coming back out to yet another instalment of EnoughSaid. We have a wonderfully eclectic offering for everyone here this evening, ga press’ first anniversary, [singing] Happy birthday ga press, happy [interrupts himself] no. (?) their first anniversary and, among other things, we are launching their first (boatload?) novel, Chris Bell’s work will be available, is in fact available, along with many other ga press authors at the table location outside the door, when everyone has a moment, stop by, please leaf through this stuff, it is a lot of fun. Ok [video skips ahead] …forge straight into things, just remind everyone that here and in the same time slot, this time next week, Clifton Joseph, radical, political, rap-rhyme writer, taking part with a lot of poets’ performances at the Rialto next week, so, yes, (?), next week, Clifton Joseph, don’t miss him, he is something special, in your face but in such a sweet way, you’ll love him. I have (?) the week after that we’ll move down the street to Woodstock (Caf?), the bar, for Clifford Duffy’s Invention of God. Come back here the week after, on the first to wrap it all up, for the last of the regular weekly series of events, Monday nights here at Bistro 4. We’ll be doing things, independent things, once a month of so, throughout the summer, but as for this wonderful (experiences?) near and dear to my heart, it will come to a finish on the first of May. In any case, without a whole lot more blather, EnoughSaid is pleased to present to you the progenitors of ga press, ga’s (little?) ones, Colin Christie and Corey Frost, may we have you [applause] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham on stage. Gotham wears a dark open jacket, a t-shirt with different shades of brown, a full beard, and hair tied in a bun. Camera zooms in and out several times.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:02:31\nHi, I just wanted to say before I started that I am really honoured to be reading for ga press’ birthday, they’ve impressed me (?) over and over again, (with?) both the material they’ve chosen and their layouts, and I’m really glad (?) (upcoming?) writers (?). And the piece I’m gonna be doing is called “Blue toenails” (?). [Reads “Blue toenails.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Golda Fried walking to the stage. Fried wears jeans, a blouse, an open long jacket, and loose long hair. Camera zooms in and out several times while Fried reads, remaining most of the time in a closeup.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:05:33\n[Background music stops. Ambient sound, with Colin Christie and Corey Frost repeating “Gah” at odd intervals. TV audio, mostly inaudible, introducing the next performer, Golda Fried. Laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Colin Christie and Corey Frost hold their TVs back up, playing different videoclips in which their recorded selves appear. The camera zooms in and out of each TV set, panning in between them. Christie and Frost put their TVs down. Applause.\n\nGolda Fried\n00:09:00\nHi, I just wanted to say before I started that I am really honoured to be reading for ga press’ birthday, they’ve impressed me (?) over and over again, (with?) both the material they’ve chosen and their layouts, and I’m really glad (?) (upcoming?) writers (?). And the piece I’m gonna be doing is called “Blue toenails” (?). [Reads “Blue toenails.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot. Golda Fried walks to the stage, wearing loose long hair, jeans, a blouse, and an open long jacket. Camera zooms in and out several times while Fried reads, remaining most of the time in a closeup.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:20:05\n[Ambient sound. TV plays a recording of “Blister in the Sun” by Violent Femmes. Song fades into background, and the TV audio, mostly inaudible, introduces the next performer, Sandra Jeppesen. Applause.] | Video Description: Colin Christie and Corey Frost come back to the stage to set up AV equipment. They each hold up a TV set in front of their faces, playing a different videoclip: Christie wearing the same striped shirt and dancing, Frost talking in front of a brick wall.\n\nSandra Jeppesen\n00:22:10\nHey, this is fun, is everyone having fun? Ok, I’m gonna read two pieces; the first one is a bit longer than the second one, and the second one is the piece that the ga guys have made into a chapbook, and I think they’ve done a really good job, and I think they’re great. So, I’m glad that they wanted to publish my chapbook. [noises from adjusting the mic] (?) make allowances for short people. Ok, my first piece is about how (art?) is sometimes difficult to write, it’s called “Go to hell, Margaret Atwood.” [Laughter. Reads “Go to hell, Margaret Atwood” and “Mister and his son, or how to go insane in 10 easy steps.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Sandra Jeppesen walking to the stage. Jeppesen wears black pants and blouse, round glasses, several types of earrings (including a nose piercing and dangle-cross earrings), three different necklaces (one with a yin yang pendant), and an asymmetrical haircut with temple shave. Camera zooms in and out several times, remaining most of the time in a closeup. Jeppesen adjusts the mic and reads; while reading, Jeppesen removes the glasses. After reading the first piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot and registers applause, as well as Jeppesen drinking water by the edge of the frame.\n\nSandra Jeppesen\n00:34:10\n[Reads “Mister and his son, or how to go insane in 10 easy steps,” mentioning ga press published it as a chapbook (Blister in the Sun, ga press, 1995).] | Video Description: Medium long shot. While Jeppesen reads, Colin Christie and Corey Frost hold up a TV set each, displaying video with the numbers corresponding to each part of the poem. Jeppesen leaves the stage amid applause.\n\n\nSandra Jeppesen\n00:40:39 \nI always like to run away (?) readings. Colin and Corey are now going to do a performance of something by Julie Bruck, who I know is another ga press publishee. Here they are. | Video Description: Jeppesen returns to the stage to introduce the next act, while Colin Christie and Corey Frost tweak with the AV equipment. Frost removed his sweater and now wears only a polo shirt.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:41:00\n“Perceived threat” by Julie Bruck; layout by ga. [Read “Perceived threat,” by Julie Bruck (later published in The End of Travel, Brick Books, 1999). First, Frost reads the poem leaving out the final words from each line; then, Christie reads just those final words; then together, interweaving their parts, they read the full poem. Telephone rings mid-performance and Frost ad libs an extra line to the piece, “Every dreaded phone call.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot, then closeup. Colin Christie and Corey Frost pass back and forth a miniature book while reading the piece.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:43:01\nAll right, well that is half of ga’s first birthday party, and please stick around for the second half, which will follow almost directly. We’re gonna take a very short break, allow everyone to get up, stretch their legs, have another drink, every drink has 25 cents towards the (aid?) of the series, what else do you need to know? Yeah, come on up, same time, same place next week, radical, political, rap-rhyme writer Clifton Joseph, gonna (flow?) and give us some lyrical phrases. Ok, so, I’ve noticed there has been twice as many people on the left-hand side of the open mic board and half as many on the right-hand side before we got underway here; now the half that has disappeared from the left is a result of people leaning against the board; well, these things happen, if you remember existing at one point in history on the left-hand side of this board, you might want to put yourself back in there. Unfortunately, there are at least half again as many people as we need on the right-hand side of the board [video skips ahead] | Video Description: Medium long shot. Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Camera zooms in to a closeup. Gotham speaks while scratching the right temple.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:44:16\nWelcome back, my friends. (?) Thanks for hanging out, hope everyone is refreshed, we are just about ready to forge into the second half of ga’s offerings. Corey and Colin are ready to reveal to you yet more wondrous mysteries of the workings of ga press. They will kick off the second half of the act themselves. Please come back out next weekend (to hear?) this fellow Clifton Joseph, he’s really a kick-ass performer, and I would hate to bring him in from Toronto without a crowd to welcome him. In any case, I’m sympathetic to the students doing good student things, (hanging?) in and studies, so if that’s the case, well, hang. Lots of luck with it. Without further ado, Corey and Colin and, later, Chris Bell. | Video Description: Closeup. Lee Gotham adjusts mic. Camera zooms out to a medium shot, then in to closeup.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost \n00:45:21\n[Ambient sound. Colin Christie and Corey Frost alternate reading dozens of short passages from different ga press publications, with long silences in between.] | Video Description: Medium long shot. Colin Christie and Corey Frost return to the stage and stand in silence; through gestures alone, one asks what the other is holding, which turns out to be various ga press’ publications. They agree on one of the books to begin with and then alternate reading dozens of short passages, each from a different ga press publication. Camera zooms in and out a few times, remaining most of the time in a medium shot.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:54:53\n[Ambient sound. Lee Gotham asks what were Colin Christie and Corey Frost reading from in the previous act. Christie answers they were volumes published by ga press and advertises the books for sale at the entrance of the venue. Laughter. Christie explains they cannot play the video they recorded to introduce Chris Bell, so he introduces Bell himself, describing the video the audience would have seen, and stating that “Tales of the Lost Cheebah-ha” is Bell’s first published novel and ga’s first novel published. Laughter. The video eventually works, playing the recorded introduction to Chris Bell. Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to medium long shot. Colin Christie adjust AV equipment and walks over to the mic to have a conversation with Lee Gotham (who is off-screen). Camera zooms in to a medium closeup. Christie introduces the next reader, Chris Bell. Camera zooms out to medium long shot and we see Corey Frost adjusting the AV. Christie and Frost lift each a TV set playing a video-introduction to Chris Bell. Camera zooms in to video-recording playing a demonstration of Christie putting a band and a sleeve on Bell’s book.\n\nChris Bell\n01:01:17\n[Chris Bell’s introductory remarks are mostly inaudible until Lee Gotham asks him to adjust the mic. Bell reads from “Tales of the Lost Cheebah-ha” (ga press, 1995). Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in to a medium closeup. Bell wears glasses, a black suit, a black dress shirt with a layer of glimmering dots (perhaps a separate half-vest), and a dress-shirt stud with a silvery bull head. Bell reads while holding a copy of “Tales of the Lost Cheebah-ha” with his left hand. Applause. Camera zooms out to medium long shot; we see Bell exit and Lee Gotham join the stage applauding.\n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost \n01:22:56\n[Corey Frost thanks Chris Bell for reading and explains that Bell’s novel comprises five chapbooks, each telling parts of the story in different ways, with different styles. Frost adds the book is selling for $5. Colin Christie thanks a series of people.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in to a medium closeup. Colin Christie and Corey Frost alternate using the mic to do final remarks and acknowledgments. Applause. 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Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC: The Muses’ Co., 1995.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/49065916\",\"citation\":\"Stephens, Ian. Diary of a Trademark [Music Cassette]. Montréal: Wired on words, 1995.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670549164654592,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["[Building Danse stage]\n00:00:11\n[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Colour video. A plain performance space (55 Avenue des Pins East, 2nd floor, Montreal, QC, H2W 1N6), with a large stage (as revealed later in clip) with a microphone and long, grey curtains hanging from a rafter in the background. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:00:12\n[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces set and first poem, \"For Those Who Deny the Holocaust\" (from Surviving Words, The Muses' Co., 1994), mentioning neo-nazi Ernie Zundel.] | Video Description: Closeup of Endre Farkas addressing audience. Farkas wears a leather jacket, short salt-and-pepper hair, fedora.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:01:12\n[Reads “For Those Who Deny the Holocaust”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Endre Farkas reads, glancing down occasionally, then back up to look across the audience.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:02:24\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause. Introduces “The Missing Link” (from Surviving Words).] | Video Description: Endre Farkas addresses audience, introducing the next poem.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:02:48\n[Reads “The Missing Link”.] | Video Description: Endre Farkas reads.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:05:30\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause. Introduces “O Canada.”] | Video Description: Endre Farkas puts an unseen object down, before addressing audience.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:05:59\n[Reads “O Canada”.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to medium closeup on Endre Farkas reading, then zooms into closeup.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:10:48\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause. Dog barks.] | Video Description: Endre Farkas addresses audience and steps away from microphone. Camera zooms out as Farkas walks across the stage, exiting on the right-side of the frame. \n\n[No signal]\n00:10:52\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:10:56\n[Addresses audience. Audience member interacts with Unknown_Reader1 (howls like a dog). Audience laughter. Introduces Unknown Poem 1.] | Video Description: Closeup on Unknown_Reader1 addressing audience. Unknown_Reader1 wears rectangular-shaped glasses, short light hair under toque, moustache, and beard.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:11:12\n[Reads piece beginning with the line \"Yes, our time passes and only dreams save us\").] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 reads. Camera zooms out to medium closeup, revealing Unknown Performer 1 reading from paper in an open binder.\n\nUnknown_Reader1\n00:12:12\n[Thanks audience. Addresses audience, encouraging applause for “the boys” (likely to mean organizers Ian Ferrier and Lee Gotham). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 looks up to audience and addresses them. Applauds along with audience . Camera shakes while zooming out to medium shot. Unknown_Reader1 walks from microphone toward stage right.\n\n[No signal]\n00:12:19\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nFortner Anderson\n00:12:24\nNow I don't know how many of you have been around Saint Lawrence street over the last several years. Is Chancey here? Chancey? [Audience member responds.] Still in the room? Oh, he just stepped out. Well, there were a couple of readings that have gone on up and down Saint Lawrence street over the several years. Off the Boulevard, Chancey and Peter worked on for a long time. The current incarnation is a wonderful series of readings that occur each Monday night around 9 o'clock at the Bistro 4, that's the corner of Duluth and Saint Lawrence. They're curated, managed, put together by our next reader, Lee Gotham, hailing from Britain, here in Montreal now five years. I'd like you all to welcome Lee. [Audience applause. Ambient sounds (voices). | Video Description: Closeup on event host, Fortner Anderson, looking to audience and addressing them through microphone. Anderson wears dark collared shirt, black browline glasses, and short grey hair. Anderson briefly diverts attention off-stage before resuming addressing audience. Nods at conclusion of introductory marks to Lee Gotham, exiting via the left side of the frame. \n[Building Danse stage]\n00:13:17\nCamera zooms out to a medium long shot on the lone microphone, bathed in the glow of a spotlight hanging on stage right. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:20\nVideo Description: Lee Gotham enters the stage via stage right. Gotham wears a loose shirt, dark trousers, long brown hair tied in bun, and a beard,. Camera zooms into medium closeup as Gotham picks up microphone and unravels cord from around stand, moving the stand away to stage left.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:13:44\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"The problem is we get wasted in alleyways\").] | Video Description: Camera zooms into medium closeup shot on Lee Gotham pacing slowly across the stage and reading into microphone.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:01\n[Pauses. Addresses audience. Vocalizes. Audience members briefly interact.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham breathes before addressing audience. Camera zoom into closeup as Gotham pauses and closes eyes. Gotham hums into microphone. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:30\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"Those wheels\").] | Video Description: Lee Gotham performs, pacing around the stage. Camera zooms in and out between medium closeup and extreme closeup on Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:57\n[Transitions into addressing audience. Audience laughter. Audience applause. Addresses videographer Drew Duncan. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, causing more audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham laughs and smiles at the applause. Camera zooms into closeup on Lee Gotham, who looks into camera lens and addresses videographer Drew Duncan. Gotham addresses audience, walking toward stage right. \n\nFortner Anderson\n00:15:35\nThat’s a strong conclusion to our first set. [Audience laughter.] But he’ll be back, he’ll be back, he’s promised to come back in the third set. He’s poring over his texts as we speak. [Audience laughter.] Now, I’d like to remind you all that the recession is now officially over, and you can spend your hard-earned money back at the beer fountain, each and every one of you should drink two or three. [Audience laughter, ambient sounds (voices)]. Now I’d like to introduce our musical interlude with the Hieronymus Borscht Nonet, and we’ll be back in about fifteen-twenty minutes for our second set. It’s going to be all groups. [Ambient sounds (tuning instrument). Audience interaction (whistle).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Fortner Anderson addressing audience, pacing across the stage. Camera pans across stage, ceiling, and floor of venue.\n\n[No signal]\n00:17:23\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nHieronymus Borscht Nonet\n00:17:28\n[Performs Unknown Composition. Ambient noise (voices).] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on guitarist, Sam Shalabi, glancing between sheet music and guitar, chewing something. Shalabi wears a yellow shirt, short dark hair, and glasses. Camera zooms out to medium shot of the two musicians, including an unknown pianist next to amps on stools and sitting before two large-paned windows. Unknown_Musician1 wears a  patterned shirt, white pants, short dark hair. Camera zooms into closeup on Unknown_Musician1 who reads sheet music while playing. An audience member briefly passes in front of the camera’s view. Camera continues to pan between Shalabi and Unknown_Musician1, and zoom in and out. \n\n[No signal]\n00:18:48\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:18:52\n[Vocalizes (mic check).] | Video Description: Camera cuts to closeup on the side profile of Lee Gotham, speaking into microphone and facing stage-right. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:18:54\nWelcome back, one and all, to our second set. Please, all hecklers, remember that you had your chance earlier, so just mellow for a moment. Okay, in the second set of our presentation, we have for you some amazing groups. We have Swifty Lazarus, Corey, Colin Frost (Corey Frost and Colin Christie) from ga press, le Groupe de Poésie Moderne, and the Fluffy Pagan Echoes, all in one very nice package. [Audience laughter.] Before we get to all that, I’m making amends for my little false start. And as I have a microphone in front of me, as well as text— [Audience laughter. Lee Gotham laughs.] I’ll go for it. | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. An audience member briefly passes in front of camera view. Gotham briefly glances down at pieces of paper while addressing audience. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:19:53\n[Reads poem beginning with the line \"The problem is we get wasted in alleyways\").] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between extreme closeup and medium closeup on Lee Gotham, who wraps a hand around the microphone and performs poem, occasionally glancing down at pages.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:21:48\n[Pauses. Ambient noise (paper).] | Video Description: Lee Gotham briefly pauses performance to flip a page.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:21:51\n[Resumes reading.] Applause. | Video Description: Lee Gotham resumes performing poem. Camera zooms out between medium long shot and medium shot of Lee Gotham.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:24:14\n[Addresses audience. Introduces Swifty Lazarus. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience before putting stack of pages down on the stage. Camera zooms out to medium long shot as Lee Gotham reaches over to grab another piece of paper, and walks back to microphone. Gotham glances down at paper and addresses audience.\n\nSwifty Lazarus (Todd Swift and Tom Walsh)\n00:25:05\nVideo Description: Camera pans away from Lee Gotham to stage right, where synthesizer player Tom Walsh and performer Todd Swift are setting up. Both wear black suit jackets over white button-down shirts, grey dress pants, bowties, glasses, and dark hair. There is a synthesizer, a music stand, and a microphone. A ceiling fan above them is briefly seen, as well as an unknown audience member sitting on the sill of one of the large-paned windows. Lee Gotham briefly passes through the camera’s view, walking off stage right.\n\nSwifty Lazarus (Todd Swift and Tom Walsh)\n00:25:08\n[Applause. Recording of unknown broadcast plays.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium shot on Todd Swift putting on headphones. Camera zooms out, revealing Tom Walsh programming the synthesizers. Todd Swift puts a cigarette in mouth. Camera zooms into a medium shot of Tom Walsh, also putting on headphones. Camera pans between the performers. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:26:57\n[Perform series of unknown compositions.] | Video Description: Tom Walsh presses a key on synthesizer, cueing a new audio clip. Camera zooms into Todd Swift lifting a stack of pages and beginning to perform. Camera zooms in and out and pans between the performers. Occasionally the performers sit or squat on stage to sip from glasses, or employ various objects to enhance the performance, such as a handheld radio or newspaper. \n\nSwifty Lazarus\n00:41:42\n[Finishes compositions. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Todd Swift and Tom Walsh bow and walk away from their equipment. \n\n[No signal]\n00:41:51\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nga press (Colin Christie and Corey Frost)\n00:41:55\n[Ambient noise (footsteps, movement). Performs piece beginning with the line “Well, the sun’s gone down on a Rhine valley town”). Audience laughter throughout.] Video Description: Camera cuts to a medium long shot of Colin Christie and Corey Frost on stage, looking at each other. Christie wears grey t-shirt over long-sleeved shirt and short, brown hair. Frost wears a white t-shirt, light wash jeans, long black hair, and glasses. A physical ‘dialogue’ solely using movement and gestures is acted out by the performers. Colin Christie walks in a circle before arriving at a second microphone set up on stage. Colin Christie pulls out something from back pocket as Corey Frost stands upstage left. Colin Christie takes out a harmonica from a case and plays it. Corey Frost picks up the microphone out of the free stand and begins reciting a poem. Camera zooms into a closeup on Corey Frost. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot and pans to also capture Colin Christie. Corey Frost and Colin Christie pace around the stage and gesture throughout to accentuate the performance.\n\nga press\n00:49:45\n[Audience applause. Corey Frost promotes the upcoming ga press book launch at Enough Said, featuring new work by Sandra Jeppesen and Chris Bell. Audience laughter. Colin Christie addresses audience. Corey Frost resumes promoting ga press catalogue. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Colin Christie and Corey Frost step away from microphones, bow, and then reapproach them. Colin Christie and Corey Frost address audience. They step away from microphones and exit via stage left.\n\n[No signal]\n00:51:06\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n00:51:11\n[Ambient sounds (voices; footsteps; opening and closing door; dog barking.) Unknown_Member2 of GPM addresses Unknown_Member1 and the audience. Ambient sounds (opening and closing door; footsteps).] | Video Description: Camera cuts to a long shot of an open stage area, a black grimy wall as a background and white floor, with a microphone stand downstage centre, a black milk crate upstage centre, and a ladder and building materials pushed to the side. Camera pans toward the right, revealing multiple audience members sitting along the side of the stage, and Unknown_GPMMember1. Unknown_GPMMember1 wears a black turtleneck, black pants, dark hair in two braids, large belt buckle, and lipstick. Unknown_GPMMember1 closes a door behind them and walks onto the stage. Unknown_GPMMember1 lifts a piece of paper to read as they step up on the milk crate. Camera zooms into a medium long shot of Unknown_GPMMember1. Unknown_GPMMember2 enters the frame via stage left, holding a cue card in their left hand. Unknown_GPMMember2 wears a black turtleneck, black pants, and long dark hair pulled into a ponytail. They address Unknown_GPMMember1 and the audience, before taking position facing away from the audience upstage left. Slowly, other members of the group, each wearing the same all-black outfit, enter through the door and taking position across the stage, facing away from the audience.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n00:52:30\n[Perform Unknown Composition 1. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on the member standing on the milk crate beginning the performance, reading from the piece of paper and swivelling to address everyone in the room. Camera zooms in and out throughout and pans to follow other members of the group, who perform a series of dramatic skits. \n\n[Building Danse stage]\n01:02:20\nVideo Description: A dog casually walks across the stage as the group performs, exiting stage left.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n01:07:05\n[Unknown_Member3 thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: The group ends in neutral standing positions, and Unknown_Member3 addresses audience. 5 of the 7 members of GPM walk into a single line downstage centre, while two remain upstage, facing away from the audience. The two upstage members walk downstage and kneel into positions behind the line, facing stage left and stage right, respectively. \n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n01:07:30\n[Ambient sounds (dog barking). Performs Unknown Composition 2. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: The GPM assumes new dramatic positions and perform their second dramatic skit.\n\n[Building Danse stage]\n01:07:51 \nThe previous dog walks across the stage behind the performers, exiting stage left. Camera zooms in and out and pans throughout to follow the performers moving across the stage.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne (GPM)\n01:10:47\n[Finish Unknown Composition 2. Audience applause. Ambient sounds (dog barking).] | Video Description: The GPM filters one-by-one off the stage, exiting stage left. Camera pans right, capturing the members leaving through a door. Camera continues panning right across the applauding audience, who fill the room right to the back wall. Camera sharply pans left toward the stage, empty except for the black milk crate and a microphone stand.\n\n[No signal]\n01:11:01\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:11:05\n[Audience applause. Vocalizing (repeating \"toy boat\" at different volumes and tones). Ambient sounds (movement, dog barking). Vocalizing begins to cohere at the same volume and rhythm.] | Video Description: Camera cuts to a long shot of the open stage area, with the black milk crate in the centre of the stage. An unknown audience member walks across the stage. An unknown person moves a microphone stand closer to centre stage. Camera pans toward them as they exit stage right. Two people enter the stage from stage right. Camera pans toward the right, where another set of performers is seen running and walking into the stage area. Members of the Fluffy Pagan Echoes move around the stage, each doing different actions, such as stomping, speaking into different microphones, or examining different parts of the stage. They assemble downstage centre, moving microphones closer to centre stage. Camera zooms into a medium closeup on Victoria Stanton. Stanton wears a black vest over a long-sleeved grey shrt and shoulder-length brown hair. The camera pans right to capture each Fluffy Pagan Echoes member. Ran Elfassy wears a white graphic t-shirt, green shorts over white pants, a necklace, and black toque. Vincent 'Vince' Tinguely wears a white graphic t-shirt, jeans, chin-length white hair, and glasses. Scott Duncan wears a flannel shirt and short curly brown hair. Justin McGrail wears a yellow patterned shirt over graphic t-shirt, short brown hair, and necklaces. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:12:21\n[Address audience (introduces each member: Ran Elfassy, Victoria Stanton, Scott Duncan, Vince Tinguely, and Justin McGrail).] | Video Description: The Fluffy Pagan Echoes address audience. The camera zooms into an extreme closeup on Ran Elfassy, looking toward the other members and counting them in. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:12:42\n[Perform “Resistance is Reasonable”.] | Video Description: Fluffy Pagan Echoes perform “Resistance is Reasonable”. Camera zooms into first a medium closeup, then an extreme closeup, on Victoria Stanton, who performs a solo during the piece into microphone. Camera zooms out into long shot of the entire group. \n\nFluffy Pagan Echoes\n01:16:34\n[Finish “Resistance is Reasonable”. Audience applause. Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Fluffy Pagan Echoes members bow. Ran Elfassy picks up an object from the floor (a hat?). The group exits via stage right. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:16:51\n[Audience laughter. Addresses audience. Announces ten-minute break and upcoming set, including Ian Stephens. Promotes merchandise table.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into extreme closeup on microphone stand on stage left. Lee Gotham leaps into frame and addresses audience into microphone. Lee Gotham reads final set from a piece of paper.]\n\n[No signal]\n01:17:22\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nDee Smith\n01:17:26\n[Introduces poem. Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Camera cuts to closeup on the side profile of Dee Smith addressing the audience. Smith wears a white shirt, patterned vest, necklace, earrings, rings, and short dark curly hair with headband. \n\nDee Smith\n01:17:36\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"Talking 'bout you lovin' me this way\").] | Video Description: Dee Smith reads poem.\n\nDee Smith\n01:18:34\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Dee Smith flips through pages. Camera zooms into extreme closeup as Dee Smith addresses audience.\n\nDee Smith\n01:18:43\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"You see, man and woman have it, some choose to spread it\").] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into closeup on Dee Smith performing, occasionally glancing down to read from pages.\n\nDee Smith\n01:19:35\n[Finishes poem. Unseen audience member interacts. Audience applause. Introduces poem and addresses audience. Audience snaps and stomps to a rhythm.] | Video Description: Dee Smith addresses audience. Dee Smith directs audience to keep rhythm by snapping.\n\nDee Smith\n01:19:58\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"What the hell, what the hell, what a situation.\" Audience snaps and stomps alongside.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to medium closeup on Dee Smith performing, glancing down occasionally at their notebook.\n\nDee Smith\n01:21:20\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Dedicates next poem. Audience laughter. Introduces poem.] | Video Description: Dee Smith flips through notebook and addresses audience.\n\nDee Smith\n01:22:00\n[Performs poem in Jamaican dialect, beginning with the line \"Woman, are you alone\".] | Video Description: Dee Smith performs poem written in notebook.\n\nDee Smith\n01:23:53\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Dee Smith closes notebook and thanks audience. Camera zooms out to medium long shot as Dee Smith tilts microphone stand down and walks off stage via stage left. \n\n[No signal]\n01:23:58\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nIan Ferrier\n01:23:59\nThank you very much, Dee Smith. Dee will also be appearing at part of the Enough Said series on April 3rd, if anybody wants to catch that, so please come out for that. Our next performer has been touring all over the place. He's about to head to Europe, he's been touring North America with a show called The Men's Show. He's a vital part of a group called Rhythmactivism (?), and he's an amazing performer, Mr. Norman Nawrocki. [Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into extreme closeup on Ian Ferrier addressing audience. Ferrier wears a dark collared long-sleeved shirt, black jacket, and drk chin-length hair. Ian Ferrier looks up and tilts microphone down before exiting the frame via the left. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot on the lone microphone on stage.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n01:24:37\n[Addresses audience. Addresses Ian Stephens. Audience applause. Ambient sounds (dog barking). Introduces “Hey, Garçon! Another Hotdog, Right Here!”.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Norman Nawrocki wears a long-sleeved black sweatshirt and short brown hair with fringe. Camera zooms in and out on Norman Nawrocki adjusting microphone and addressing audience. Norman Nawrocki turns toward stage right to address off-screen audience member (Ian Stephens). Camera zooms into extreme closeup on Norman Nawrocki introducing poem.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n01:25:08\n[Performs “Hey, Garçon! Another Hotdog, Right Here!”. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Norman Nawrocki performing poem, glancing down to read from paper.\n\nNorman Nawrocki\n01:28:11\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki nods and thanks audience. Camera zooms out to long shot as Norman Nawrocki exits via stage left.  Ian Ferrier, with a cigarette and piece of paper in hand, approaches microphone via stage right. An audience member briefly passes through camera view.\n\nIan Ferrier\n01:28:23\n[Addresses Norman Nawrocki. Promotes upcoming poetry events: Enough Said with Endre Farkas (March 27, 1995); Vox Hunt poetry slam (hosted by Todd Swift, Tuesday, April 4, 1995, Maître (?) Renard Blues Bar, 4910 Saint-Laurent Boulevard). Introduces Fortner Anderson. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Ferrier addresses Norman Nawrocki (off-screen). Ian Ferrier addresses audience. Ian Ferrier exits via stage right.\n\nFortner Anderson\n01:29:16\n[Ambient sounds (movement).] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into medium long shot as Fortner Anderson enters via stage left. Fortner Anderson picks up microphone and unravels cord from around stand. Anderson puts hand to chin and steps sideways, facing stage left. Camera zooms into an extreme closeup as Fortner Anderson looks toward audience.\n\nFortner Anderson\n01:29:30\n[Performs poem beginning with the line \"I hate these poems. They stink of the Good Book\". Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Fortner Anderson performs Unknown Poem 1, pacing throughout the stage, occasionally making gestures to accentuate performance and add humour.\n\nFortner Anderson \n01:34:25\n[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Fortner Anderson puts microphone back onto stand and nods to the audience. Camera zooms out as Fortner Anderson exits via stage right.\n\n[No signal]\n01:34:40\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nIan Ferrier\n01:34:46\n[Audience laughter. Addresses audience. Introduces medley recording from Ian Stephens’ newest cassette (from Wired on Words Productions) and Ian Stephens. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Cut to camera zooming into extreme closeup on side profile of Ian Ferrier standing at microphone, addressing audience. Ferrier exits via stage right. Camera zooms out to long shot of the lone microphone on stage.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:35:31\n[Ambient sounds (voices, coughs, movement, dog barking). Recording of unknown Ian Stephens' medley fades in and plays, beginning with the line \"23-12-91 under the bridge.\" Ian Stephens performs a piece.] | Video Description: Camera tilts before positioning upright again. Ian Stephens walks on via stage right carrying a chair, putting it down centre stage. Ian Stephens wears a brown jacket, darkwash jeans, black hooded sweatshirt, and a backward baseball cap. Ian Stephens places a bottle on the black milk crate behind the chair. Ian Stephens points and nods to an audience member (off-screen). Stephens takes off brown jacket and drops it next to the black milk crate. Ian Stephens walks up to the chair, takes out a book, drops it on the floor in front of him, and searches pockets. Ian Stephens walks back to brown jacket and searches it for a yellow object.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:36:31\n[Ian Stephens continues performing a piece. Towards the end, he repeats the line \"Thinking about cracks.\"] | Video Description: Camera tilts up and zooms into closeup to capture Ian Stephens removing hat, dropping it on the floor, and putting hoodie over his head. Stephens begins wrapping his head in yellow caution tape. Ian Stephens takes out a set of bottom veneers from sweatshirt pocket. Camera zooms into an extreme closeup as Stephens places the veneers in his mouth, attempting to chew and breathe through a small slit between the tape. Camera zooms out to a long shot and pans up and down to capture Ian Stephens' entire figure on stage, with caution tape draping to the floor. Stephens bends and limps, sitting in the chair centre-stage, making himself smaller and smaller. Camera zooms into a closeup of the fingerless gloves on Ian Stephens' hands. Ian Stephens twitches to certain words in the recording. Ian Stephens stands, waving his arms around him, and approaches the microphone stand. Camera zooms into extreme closeup as Ian Stephens holds onto the microphone stand and vocalizes into microphone.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:41:35\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens addresses audience before stepping away from microphone stand. Ian Stephens unravels caution tape from around head and pops out veneer. Ian Stephens adjusts microphone and stares out at audience. \n\nIan Stephens\n01:41:56\n[Performs a piece beginning with the line \"If I can't have you\".] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Ian Stephens performing into the microphone.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:43:21\n[Live instrumentation (guitar (?), bass (?), piano) fades in. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens nods head at an unknown musician (off-screen) as he continues to perform. Ian Stephens lifts microphone from stand and performs pacing across the stage, camera panning and zooming in and out to follow his movements.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:46:28\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens thanks audience and walks toward centre stage. Ian Stephens places microphone in stand and picks book off of floor. Ian Stephens flips through book.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:46:49\n[Addresses audience. Thanks Fortner Anderson and Ian Ferrier. Audience applause. Thanks Endre Farkas for assistance with Diary of a Trademark (The Muses Co., 1995). Introduces “Do You Want a Colour TV?” from Diary of a Trademark. | Video Description: Ian Stephens addresses audience into the microphone. Stephens thanks Fortner Anderson and Ian Ferrier, applauding along with audience. Stephens addresses audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:47:33\n[Reads “Do you Want a Colour TV?”.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens reads from book in his hand into the microphone, glancing up occasionally at the audience.\n\nIan Stephens\n01:49:02\n[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Stephens addresses audience and starts to walk off stage. Stephens collects items from floor and unwraps caution tape from around his shoulders. Camera pans to follow Stephens walking off via stage right. Camera pans back to a long shot of the stage. Camera zooms into a closeup as Ian Ferrier enters via stage right, approaching the microphone. \n\nIan Ferrier\n01:49:25\n[Thanks Ian Stephens. Addresses audience. Audience member (Ian Stephens?) interacts (calling out “buy it!”). Audience laughter. Ian Ferrier promotes Ian Stephens’ cassette. Introduces Aidan (?) Evans. Announces end of event, mentioning that the pianist of the Hieronymus Borscht Nonet will keep playing the piano while the bar remains open. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ian Ferrier addresses audience. Ferrier laughs at unseen audience member’s (Ian Stephens?) remark and resumes addressing audience. Ian Ferrier waves to audience and exits via stage right. Camera quickly pans across applauding audience. \n\nHieronymus Borscht Nonet\n01:49:58\n[The pianist of the Hieronymus Borscht Nonet plays unknown composition on piano.] | Video description: Camera shifts downward and blurs from the speed of its movement. Audience members’ feet and stools.\n\n[No signal]\n01:50:00\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nEND\n01:51:37\n[End of recording.]"],"score":7.9372616}]