[{"id":"6884","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 2"],"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. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer."],"creator_names":["Gotham, Lee"],"creator_names_search":["Gotham, Lee"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"https://viaf.org/viaf/106179112\",\"name\":\"Gotham, Lee\",\"dates\":\"1962-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\",\"Producer\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Duncan, Drew","Ferrier, Trevor John","Backo, Njacko","Groupe de Poésie Moderne","Skarstedt, Sonja A.","Suderman, Lynn","Phineas Flower Trio","Godin, S. (Steve)","Karasick, Adeena"],"contributors_names_search":["Duncan, Drew","Ferrier, Trevor John","Backo, Njacko","Groupe de Poésie Moderne","Skarstedt, Sonja A.","Suderman, Lynn","Phineas Flower Trio","Godin, S. 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Pittella\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"VHS #Highlights_2 asset. The asset was digitized, generating both uncompressed and compressed video files. Metadata based on the compressed file.\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670549201354752,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.772Z","contents":["The tape includes excerpts from four different events: (1) Enough Said 1995-02-20, Backo and Groupe de Poésie Moderne; (2) Enough Said 1995-02-27, Skarstedt and Suderman; (3) Enough Said 1995-03-06, Phineas Flower Trio and Godin; (4) Enough Said 1995-03-13, Karasick.\n\n[Bistro 4]\n00:00:14\nVideo Description: Colour video, different degrees of closeup of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). A single mic stand. 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 regularly passing by. The windows from across the street are also visible, including an outdoor “JETHRO” sign. People frequently pass in front of the camera. On the café windows, some decals are partially visible, with words from the menu such as “DÉJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nTrevor Ferrier\n00:00:15\n[Cuts to Ferrier playing drums while telling a story in English, opening with the line “Some have seen it and wish they hadn’t.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Trevor Ferrier entering the stage and picking up his percussion instrument from the floor. Ferrier wears a red Henley shirt with the sleeves rolled up, shaved head, and thin moustache. Different degrees of closeup as Ferrier tells a story while playing percussion.\n\nTrevor Ferrier\n00:16:03\n[Plays the sanza while telling another story in English, opening with the line “Once on the far side of yesterday there lived a little girl who wanted to know the future.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Trevor Ferrier picking up the sanza.  Different degrees of closeup as Ferrier tells a story while playing the sanza. At some point the camera zooms into an extreme closeup of his hands playing. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:10\n[Thanks Trevor Ferrier and announces a break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks to stage and makes remarks. Gotham wears a grey button-down shirt with sleeves a bit rolled up and tucked into jeans, black leather belt, full beard, and long hair tied in a ponytail. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:35:29\n[Cut to Lee Gotham introducing Njacko Backo.] | Video Description: Medium long shot from the other side of the stage, now capturing the performers slightly from a diagonal left. \n\nNjacko Backo\n00:35:40\n[Salutes the audience in French and tells a story titled “Macaco.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Njacko Backo entering the stage. Backo wears a dark sweater, neck-length braided hair, and a large beaded necklace. As Backo tells a story, the camera alternates among different degrees of closeup and pans from side to side to accompany Backo on stage. At some point, Backo balances a percussion instrument (the same one Ferrier drummed) on his head, acting out part of the story. Backo incorporates call-and-responses and a choruses with the audience into the storytelling.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:48:36\n[Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom to a medium closeup as Lee Gotham walks on stage, clapping and smoking. \n\n[No signal]\n00:48:42\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne\n00:48:46\n[Cuts to the Groupe performing a spoken-word piece, alternating solos with choruses. Audience laughter as a group member repeats the line “Ce soir.” Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. All wear black shirts and pants. Six members of the group stand in a circular formation, all facing the stage, with the centre apparently empty. As the group performs, the camera zooms in and out of various degrees of closeup. At some point, a seventh performer emerges from the centre of the group formation, going up and down several times. Later on, the group briefly breaks the formation, acting out an argument.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne\n00:55:20\n[The Groupe performs a second spoken-word piece, opening with the line “Bonsoir, nous sommes le Groupe de Poésie Moderne!” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. The seven group members now stand in a loose row, all facing the stage. Save by one performer, who reads, all members perform from memory. Zoom in and out of various degrees of closeup.\n\nGroupe de Poésie Moderne\n01:01:18\n[The Groupe performs a third piece, opening with the line “Bonjour, ma très belle, je suis inquiet pour toi.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne performing. The piece opens with only two members dialoguing and facing the audience, while the others stand on either side of the duo, with their backs to the camera. A third member turns to the audience and stands in front of the duo, addressing the audience. At the end, all other members turn to salute the audience, amid applause. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:03:38\n[Thanks the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. Announces the open mic, as well as upcoming events.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then closeup as Lee Gotham thanks the performers and makes announcements.\n\n[No signal]\n01:03:50\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:03:58\n[Cuts to Skarstedt reading the short story “Heaven and Hell” (later published as part of the play “Saint Francis of Esplanade,” Empyreal Press, 2001).] | Video Description: Medium closeup, then zoom in and out, oscillating between extreme closeup and medium shot. Skarstedt wears a sweater with an eight-point-star pattern, dangle earrings, and a blonde mullet. Lee Gotham adjusts the mic as Sonja Skarstedt walks onto the stage. Gotham wears a black turtleneck, stud earrings on the left lobe, hair tied under a black Taqiyah-style skullcap with a folded visor, and a beard. Skarstedt reads from a manuscript.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:18:58\n[Exclaims “Poor Lord!” and the audience laughs.] | Video Description: Medium closeup. Sonja Skarstedt reads. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n00:19:02\n[Resumes reading of “Heaven and Hell” after audience laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup. Skarstedt continues reading. At the end, walks off stage amid applause as the camera zooms out to a medium long shot.\n\n[No signal]\n01:36:57\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham \n01:37:05\n[Cuts to ambient sounds, voices.] | Video description: Medium shot of Gotham adjusting the mic and standing in front of the camera.\n\nLynn Suderman\n01:37:15 \nMy friend Mary brought me a Bible for this [Laughter]. [Tells a story about her first tattoo and people asking the same two questions about it: does it hurt, and is it permanent? Then presents these questions as a motto for our times, applicable to government budgets, haircuts, and wakes.] So, this is my wake, for February and for the fact that I quit smoking and February is the worst month to quit smoking and I’m not doing very well. | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham leaves and Lynn Suderman walks onto the stage. Suderman wears a black long-sleeved blouse and short black hair tucked behind ears. Suderman drinks from a glass and holds a Bible and a pack of pages. After setting the glass down, tells a story, brandishes the Bible and settles it down to read.\n\nLynn Suderman\n01:38:43\n[Reads “Wake up,” beginning with the line, “I went on a long drive one summer’s day.” Occasional unscripted interruptions to interact with the audience. Frequent bursts of laughter.] | Video Description: Alternating closeup and medium closeup. Lynn Suderman reads and interacts with the audience. \n\nLynn Suderman\n01:46:04\n[Interrupts the reading to ask her friend Mary to help search for a Bible passage. Starts reciting from memory when Mary finds the passage] | Video Description: Closeup then medium closeup of Lynn Suderman on stage. Suderman interrupts the reading and walks to the audience to ask her friend to search for a Bible passage.]\n\nLynn Suderman\n01:46:25\n[Continues performing “Wake Up.” Friend hands her the bible. Suderman reads from the bible and her pages. Makes one more unscripted interruption, causing a burst of laughter among the audience. Applause] | Video Description: Alternating medium and extreme closeups. Lynn Suderman reads. Zoom out to a medium shot as Suderman leaves the stage.\n\n[No signal]\n01:47:29\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n01:47:37\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing the Phineas Flower Trio.] | Video Description: Closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. Gotham wears a Taqiyah-style skullcap, and long button-down shirt over a t-shirt. \n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:47:44\n[Voice interrupts Gotham from out of the frame] Just get on with it, man! | Video Description: Zoom out from Lee Gotham and pan left to the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\n\nLee Gotham\n01:47:45\nI believe want you to keep your distance during their act, they want lots of space, so just stay where you are [laughter]. A little later in the evening we will have Steve Godin. Steve Godin is going to do something that will set everyone’s teeth on edge [laughter]. It’s not true; Steve is a wonderfully amenable type and he’s gonna be here with us before very long. And in the meantime please welcome Phineas Flower. Stay where you are. [Applause].  | Medium long shot panning between Lee Gotham, standing, and the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting, one of them smoking. Gotham finishes his remarks and introduces the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:48:25\n[Drummer interrupts the applause] No clapping, we are serious jazz musicians. [Laughter] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham leaving the stage and the Phineas Flower Trio walking to their instruments and places. Before sitting by the drums, the drummer goes to the mic. The drummer wears a long green coat over a black turtleneck and buzz-cut hair. The camera zooms into a closeup of the mic, and the guitar player gets his instrument caught on the mic cable, almost knocking the stand down.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:48:51\n[The band spends an unnecessarily long time tuning and making adjustments, seemingly to irritate the audience.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio: the drummer on right of the screen, further to the back, behind the mic stand; the guitar player in the middle, putting his lit cigar on his guitar head, among the tuning keys; and the bass player on the left, smoking. The guitar player wears a grey Henley shirt with sleeves rolled-up to the elbow, short hair, a thin moustache, and a goatee. The bass player wears a black and red coat atop a patterned button-down shirt, long hair, a Van-Dyke beard, and sunglasses.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n01:50:01\n[A voice from the audience says, “Let’s go, eh?!”; two band members reply aggressively, “Back off!” “What the fuck was that? Why don’t you shut up?!”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:51:17\n[A vocalist joins the Phineas Flower Trio to plays their first song, a spoken-word piece against a jazzy groove. One one of the first lines is “(Dereliction?) and (pain?), corrupted by ambient (rain?).” At the end of the first piece, the vocalist says, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of vocalist leaving the audience to join the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting on a bar stool, higher than the other band members. The vocalist wears short curly hair, sunglasses, and a grey sweater over a flowery dress. He is smoking and carrying a beverage. The camera zooms in and out, settling on a medium shot of the vocalist, with the drummer partially visible behind, the latter playing while smoking. The vocalist takes a sip, then puts both glass and cigarette down to perform.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:53:37\n[Performs a second spoken-word-jazz fusion piece, beginning with the line “(Motorway?) superhighway, a massive feat of evolution in engineering.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup alternating with a medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:57:05\n[Performs a third spoken-word-jazz piece. One of the first lines is “Richard Carlyle (?) among the wreckage.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup panning among the band members of Phineas Flower Trio, who perform another piece. At the end of the piece, medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; the vocalist smokes between songs.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n01:58:06\n[The vocalist shouts] Hey! [Someone from the audience responds, half-mockingly] No clapping. [The vocalist adds] We’re serious fucking jazz musicians up here. [Someone else from the audience protests] I didn’t fucking clap. [The vocalist responds and asks a question to the bass player] Good. What’s next, (Zanny?)?] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; then pan left to the bass player.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:58:22\n[The bass player states the title of the next piece, which is incomprehensible, then the band performs it. One of the first lines is “As the last drops of (glucose?) (?) (Cola?) go down his throat.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio, panning left and right among the band members. Zoom into a closeup of the vocalist, who drinks from a glass before the next song; then zoom out to a medium shot as the band performs, ending in a medium closeup.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n00:15:45\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece beginning, “Somewhere, somewhere higher than the sky.” At the end of the piece, the vocalist repeats what he said at the end of the first song, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup of the vocalist, as the band performs. At the end of the piece, the vocalist drinks from a glass.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n02:01:57\n[Right after thanking the audience, the vocalist adds, looking at the band] That sucked. [Someone from the audience asks] What kind of noise is this? [The vocalist responds] Bad noise! [The drummer interjects] Wait, man, I don’t like this dialogue going on. Can’t anyone straighten this young lady out? [Vocalist states] Let’s play the next song. [Guitar player asks] Ok, who’s the fucking pinhead who said that? [Vocalist asks the bass player] Yo (Zanny?), what’s the next song? [As the bass player starts to answer, the guitarist commands, aggressively] Pinheads, raise your fucking head. [Drummer, out of the frame] Get ’em, boy! [Vocalist] Alright, let’s play the song. [Guitarist] You’re lucky I’m in a good mood. | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:02:26\n[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping drum-bass riff. The vocalist burps into the mic before singing the first lines: “(You’re usually?) flapping its wings, a bee flies across the field (and fell?) searching frantically for food, gasping for breath.” Mid-performance, the drummer screams in the background. At the end of the piece, with the instrumentalists still playing, he vocalist repeats, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium shot of the band, with the vocalist unbuttoning and taking off his sweater, so now his flower dress is entirely visible. Then zoom into a closeup of the vocalist as he starts singing while holding a cigarette, sometimes smoking between lines. Mid-performance, the camera zooms out and alternates between a medium shot and medium long shot.\n \nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n02:05:50\n[Right after thanking the audience, the vocalist adds, looking at the band] Next. [Someone from the audience interjects] Don’t say thank you, we’re a serious fucking audience. [Vocalist] Alright! [Guitar player adds, pointing at the audience] You’re a really fucking funny guy, man. [Vocalist] Let’s go, next song! [Scattered laughter and incomprehensible heckling between band and audience] | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio and Audience\n02:06:26\n[Vocalist, with the guitarist interrupting the last word with a loud chord] In case you didn’t notice, this is an artistic (event?). [An audience member] If you didn’t (pack your lip?) it would be better. [Vocalist] Go for it. [Guitarist, out of the frame] Better than what? | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interacting with the band members and the audience.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:06:39\nThe Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping guitar riff, then a sudden pause, when the vocalist says “Hey.”] | Video Description: Zoom into an extreme closeup of the vocalist, smoking, then performing.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:08:17\n[The band suddenly stops playing, and the drummer says to the guitarist, both out of the frame] Hey man, it’s you. [Guitarist] No, it’s you. [Drummer] You fucked up twice there. [Vocalist, trying to intervene] Let’s take it, let’s just take it… [Guitarist] (?) you have, like, no sense of time (?). [Laughter, while the argument continues, until the vocalist commands] Play! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, drinking from a glass and trying to resume the performance while the band argues.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:08:43\n[The band resumes playing the same piece]. | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, often sipping from a glass, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot, so the drummer and guitarist also become visible.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:09:30\n[Bassist states the name of the next song] Next song is “Disgusting family.” [Vocalist announces] Alright, this is our last piece and then you will be rid of us once and for all. You can clap for that if you want! [Laughter] [Drummer] Disgusting family? [Vocalist] Wow, I don’t know, if Zanny’s standing up for this one, gotta mean something. [Laughter, shouts] [Vocalist] Zanny’s a studio musician, does a lot of uppers and stuff. | Video Description: Medium long shot, panning left and right between the bassist and vocalist, then zoom unto an extreme closeup of the vocalist. The bassist stands up and the camera pans left to show him. As the band starts performing, the camera pans back right and zooms into a medium closeup of the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n02:13:00\n[Vocalist interrupting the song to address the guitarist] Yo Kevin? Kevin? What the fuck is this? It’s just such fucking shitty noise (which you just made with that?) guitar, man. How much talent does it take to stick a fucking patch cord into a guitar anyway? [Many talk at once and the argument continues until the Vocalist suggests] Or just keep doing what you’re doing. Alright, here we go, it’s your noise! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interrupting the piece to complain about the guitarist. The camera pans to the drummer and the guitarist then back to the vocalist.\n\nPhineas Flower Trio\n01:47:41\n[The band resumes playing the same piece, and the vocalists speaks the last lines while the band is still playing]. Thanks for nothing. We’re the Phineas Flower Bar Mitzvah Quartet. We play weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties. T-shirts and CDs are available at the door. [Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup of the vocalist, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot and pans left and right, so the other band members become visible as they stand up and leave the stage.\n\n[No signal]\n02:15:08\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:15:16\n[Cut to Godin reading piece beginning with the phrase, “For some time I was pondering theoretically on a compromise revolving around the ritual existence of…” The text refers to Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Gérard de Nerval, among others. One minute into the reading, a distorted slow-moving instrumental music becomes audible in the background and gradually increases in volume.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup of Steve Godin seating, reading while holding the mic. Godin wears a black leather jacket and shoulder-length grey hair.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:22:22\t\nBut where is the guide? [After the question, Godin sighs into the mic, observing a pause of about 20 seconds during which we hear the background music and ambient noises.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:22:45\n[Resumes reading with an increased reverb effect on the voice. The instrumental background music, now louder, approaches the volume of Godin’s voice.] | Video Description: Alternating medium shot and closeup, as Godin continues to perform.\n\nSteve Godin\n02:27:30\n[Pauses. The background music also stops for a few seconds, before resuming, developing different looping patterns. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup, medium shot, and closeup, as Godin continues to perform. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot, as Godin stands up to leave the stage, amid applause, and hands the mic to Lee Gotham.\n\n[No signal]\n02:34:14\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n02:34:15\n[Cuts to Gotham introducing Adeena Karasick. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. Gotham wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt and a matching yellow bandana tied around head. Gotham adjusts the mic.\n\nAdeena Karasick \n02:34:34\n[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “Once, upon, I came to you when I could not be integrated” Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick performs a piece. Karasick wears a black zippered vest over a black long-sleeved shirt, gold dangling earrings, and shoulder length black hair that is loose and slightly curled. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:26:30\n[Thanks the audience. Explains that she will be reading pieces from multiple works, and that some relationships are only good for two things; “a poem at the beginning, and a poem at the end.” Laughter. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Incidentally accidental, it was an accident.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick introduces the piece, until maintaining a medium closeup while Karasick performs. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:40:24\n[Explains the Poetry Express project in Toronto, in which poets performed on a bus. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Keep your eyes on the road.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick flips through papers on a blue box atop a trolley cart, which also holds an almost full glass beer bottle. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece.\n\nAdeena Karasick \n02:43:00\n[Introduces and performs an excerpt of a longer work called Archetorture (Wave7Press, 1990) that, Karasick explains, explores memory and her mother’s death. Applause.] | Video Description: Flips through papers on trolley. Sips beer. Flips through papers again. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:48:30\n[Tells story about travelling in Germany. Performs 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 explain how food vocabulary is often the first words picked up in a new language, and then continues performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Sips beer. Shows audience an illustration in one of her collections (cover unidentifiable.) Performs a piece. The camera maintains a medium closeup. Closes books, sips beer, and it overflows with foam. Exits the stage and the frame. \n\n[No signal]\n02:54:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nAdeena Karasick and Lee Gotham\n02:54:50\n[Cuts to ambient sounds, voices.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick and Gotham have an inaudible conversation.\n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:55:19\n[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “When the word is bound (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Asks Gotham for something indiscernible with gesturing. Medium shot and extreme closeup as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n02:56:36\n[Performs a piece titled “Autobahn Cruise” (Mêmewars, Talonbooks, 1994). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n02:59:20\n[Performs a chanting piece that includes the line “just a little bit harder” from an unknown project called Squalor. Pauses performance. Says, “I’ve lost my page.” Recommences. Laughter throughout. Applause]. | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as Karasick performs a piece. Partway through, looks through folders of papers on the trolley to find another page. Recommences. \n\nLee Gotham \n03:03:30\nVideo Description: Readjusts the microphone that has begun to tilt downwards. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n03:03:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Parasite Maintenance.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and extreme closeups as Karasick reorganizes papers on trolley and performs a piece. \n\nAdeena Karasick\n03:08:53\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Aghast” (The Empress Has No Closure, Talonbooks, 1992). Shortly after starting to perform, briefly pauses and laughs. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece, pausing briefly to laugh near the beginning. \n\nAdeena Karasick \n03:08:52\n[Introduces and performs a chanting piece beginning with the line “can’t get enough serotonin.” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. Gathers papers and water glass and leaves the stage. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:03:32\n[Encourages the audience to ask for an encore. Applause.] | Video Description: Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and claps. \n\n[No signal]\n03:13:38\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nAdeena Karasick\n03:13:44\n[Cuts to Karasick explaining that “things are more uptight in Toronto.” Audience laughs at something unknown, Karasick asks, “what?” Performs a chanting piece beginning with the line, “Ululate pullulations, exhorting (Mortimer?) writhed in (bendable?) straddles.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick introduces and performs a piece.\n\n[No signal]\n03:16:29\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nLee Gotham\n03:16:35\n[Cuts to ambient noise and applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham leaving the stage.\n\nDavid Jager \n03:16:36\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Words.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. David 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\nDavid Jager\n03:18:25\n[Asks the audience if they want to hear an angry poem. Cheering. Introduces and performs a piece called “Smoke Eat Drive.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. Applause and cheering throughout. \n\nDavid Jager\n03:19:48\n[Introduces and performs a piece called “Missing.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as David Jager performs a piece.\n\nDavid Jager\n03:26:45\n[Looks through papers. Mumbles. Introduces and performs a piece called “Dream Chicken.” Applause.] | Video Description: Looks through papers. Loose and regular closeups as David Jager introduces and performs a piece. \n\n[No signal]\n03:23:02\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static.\n\nClifton Joseph \n03:23:12\n[Cuts to Joseph performing an unknown piece. Audience clapping along with Joseph.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Joseph performing a piece, gesturing and stomping his foot in rhythm. Joseph wears a brown button-up vest atop a light green short-sleeved shirt, black-framed glasses, and short black hair. \n\nAnne Diamond\n03:23:42\n[Cuts to Anne Diamond performing a piece titled \"Shoe Salesman.\"] | Video Description: Medium shot of Anne Diamond performing a piece. Diamond wears a jean jacket over a grey cowl-neck sweater and pixie-cut blond hair with bangs. \n\nClifton Joseph \n03:23:45\n[Cuts to Joseph performing the same unknown piece. 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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\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:00:01\nLee Gotham and Audience_Member2 misspeak. Michael Longley is misnomered as Michael Langley, and Ciaran Carson is misnomered as Ciaran Colours.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:01\n[Thanks audience. Explains that the event is a benefit for En Marge, a street kids shelter. Explains there will be opportunities to buy a raffle ticket for a bundle of three to five collections of poetry. Explains that ticket stubs also serve as a raffle ticket for “small press prizes.” Announces that Michael Langley will perform at Concordia University’s Hall Building on February 16th. Announces Ciaran Colours will perform on March 6th.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding and occasionally reading from a small notebook. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:03:09\nVideo Description: Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 walks in front of camera. Side profile of face takes up whole shot. \n\nAudience_Member2\n00:03:11\n[Corrects Gotham that the aforementioned poet’s name is “Longley” not “Langley.” Repeats date and venue details. Mentions that Longley won the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Mentions that Ciaran Colours won the first T.S. Eliot Prize.] | Video Description: Audience_Member2 off-screen. Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 moves forward and back, making their head periodically obscure the screen again. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:34\n[Says those are some “serious verses.” Mentions that “assistant” in a red bandana will be walking around selling raffle tickets for poetry collection bundles from The Muses’ Company, Véhicule Press, and DC Books, including Steve Luxton and Robert Allen’s works. Introduces Robert Allen as one of his favourite alumni 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.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, reading from a notebook.\n\nRobert Allen\n00:05:48\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\n00:07:43\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\n00:10:59\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 \n00:12:31\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\n00:13:12\n[Mentions he lives in the country with Anne Stone. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Mount Cloud.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Zooms out to long shot as Allen leaves stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:19\n[Thanks Robert. Explains again how buying raffle tickets works. Introduces John, liaison to En Marge, to explain services. Invites John to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks to the audience. \n\nJohn \n00:16:46\n[Thanks everyone. Explains that En Marge works with youth experiencing “family and social rupture” to give unconditional acceptance in difficult times. Explains that many of the kids write poems, and he will read some to shed light on their experience. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Little Candle” by fifteen-year-old Amanda.] | Video Description: Closeup as John adjusts mic, speaks to audience, and performs piece. John wears a light pink t-shirt, black snapback hat with a beige brim worn backwards, full beard one inch long, and slightly curly hair past shoulders. \n\nJohn \n00:20:10\n[Mentions that drugs are a big part of street culture and larger culture, and that it can be a solution with consequences. Introduces and performs a piece written by seventeen-year-old Caroline titled “Junk Sick,” about trying to quit heroin. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience and performs piece. \n\nJohn \n00:21:38\n[Introduces and performs piece written by an Indigenous fourteen year old named Cindy in French. Performs again in English. Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience, performs a piece, and speaks to audience again.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:23:01\n[Thanks John. Introduces Doug Isaac. Mentions Isaac’s poetry collection Past, Present: Tense will be published with Imperial (Note: book actually published with BuschekBooks, 2004.) Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:23:51\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\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:25:00\nAt 00:25:51 and 00:26:04, Isaac says a racial slur. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:25:05\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 \n00:35:52\n[Thanks Isaac. Announces the prizes for the raffle. Calls someone from off screen to help on stage. Lists prizes, such as one copy each of Moosehead Anthology issue 13 and the “Forbidden Fiction” issue, one copy of Don Coles’ Little Bird (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1991), and one copy of Erin Mouré’s West South West (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1988? 1989?). Announces winner. Applause] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Reads titles from books. Picks raffle number from person off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:54\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Grant Loewen’s Brick: Looking Up (DC Books, 1992.), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s “Forbidden Fiction” issue, and one copy of Jan Conn’s What Dante Did With Loss (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1994). Announces winner. Applause.] Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot. Raffle assistant now visible. Grey plaid button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large wire-rimmed glasses, and blonde hair pushed back from face. Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number from person now visible on stage. Announces winner.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:57\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Mark Leslie’s Dying with AIDS/living with AIDS: 1991-1992 (The Muses' Company, 1992), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s issue 13, and one copy of Gérard Godin’s Evenings at Loose Ends (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1991). Announces winner.] | Video Description: Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number. Announces winner. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:39:53\n[Announces another draw from the door prize tickets. Announces winner. Announces prizes from Pawn Press and ga press. Notes there will be a total of four door prize raffles. Introduces Anne Stone. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham picks raffle number from a white plastic tub and announces winner. Zooms into closeup as Gotham introduces Anne Stone.\n\nAnne Stone \n00:41:41\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Desire is a Lodger.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. Stone wears a burgundy vest atop a white long-sleeve shirt, an oversized newsboy cap, and no hair showing underneath it.  \n\nAnne Stone \n00:44:14\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Calf’s Head Soup.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nAnne Stone\n00:45:43\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Carrying off the (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:48:41\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham approaches the mic. \n\n[No signal]\n00:48:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nEND \n00:49:16\n[End of recording.] \n\nPART 2\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:14\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 \n00:00:15\n[Reads obituary for Manuel Betanzos Santos.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:02:25\n[Apologizes for talking about the raffle so much. Encourages people to buy tickets because there are many prizes. Introduces Raymond Filip. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, takes white card from off-screen, and reads from it.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:04:17\n[Mentions he was just at Manuel’s funeral. Reminisces about choking Devil’s Disciples member Michael French in the sixth grade. Explains childhood in Pointe-St-Charles and Verdun. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Flower Fights in the [?] Freight Yards”  from the collection “Flowers in Magnetic Fields” (Guernica Editions, 1994.)] | Video Description: Varying between medium shots and closeups as Filip speaks into the mic. Medium shot as Filip performs a piece, ending on an extreme closeup. Filip wears a dark plaid sport coat atop a brown button-down shirt, brown shaggy hair, mustache, and chin beard. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n0:09:34\t\nIn the following performance, Raymond Filip uses an outdated term in reference to a cross-dressing man.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:09:34\n[Explains more about growing up in Pointe-St-Charles. Introduces and performs piece called “Transvestite at his Toilette.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Filip speaks into the mic and flips through the copy of “Flowers in Magnetic Fields.”  Medium shot as Filip performs a piece. \n\nRaymond Filip\n00:14:36\n[Explains that Lithuania is a long-suffering country that inspired his self-described “oratorial” about the story of God. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Filip speaks into mic and shows the audience large prints of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania and other places in the country. Zooms into closeup as Filip performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:21:55\n[Thanks Filip. Announces a break. Begins to announce next raffle draw.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:27:37\n[Colin Christie and Corey Frost in media res 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 \n00:28:45\n[Announces raffle draw. Thanks audience for coming out. Lists prizes, including one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper (DC Books, 1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks (Guernica, 1989), [?] [Norris?] collection, and rocks between the dead (?). Announces Endre Farkas will perform next. Invites Farkas to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic. Reads titles from books. Zooms into loose closeup as Gotham introduces Endre Farkas. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:31:09\n[Announces a collaborative performance with Suzanne Nuttall on March 27th, 1995 at Enough Said. Mentions that a reporter Juliet Waters of The Montreal Mirror called him a “literary sperm salesman.” Says he will defend himself by reading the letter he wrote to The Montreal Mirror. Reads letter beginning with the line “Not only is Miss Waters ignorant in referring to the Muses [Farkas’ publishing company, The Muses’ Company] as ‘literary sperm salesmen’ but she is also a sexist [Sal?]” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup of Farkas speaking into the mic. Zooms into closeup as Farkas reads letter. Farkas wears a black, long-sleeved collared shirt and a dark moustache, and is balding on top of head. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:37\nCan I read my letter? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:33:45\n[Addressing Nelson] Oh, you wanna do it now? | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks to Nelson. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:47\n[Announces she will deliver her letter to The Montreal Mirror. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson adjusts mic and speaks into it. Nelson wears a dark brown vest a top a floral print collared shirt a top a white shirt, thin silver chain, medium brown hair in a loose ponytail. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:01\n[Addressing Nelson] Why is this happening now? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:03\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] I don’t know, because Endre started it. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:05\n[Addressing Nelson] This isn’t The Mirror’s [evening?] | Video Description: Off-screen\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:08\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] Um, it is in a way. | Video Description: Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:11\nWell, the notice was specifically about this evening. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:34:14\n[Reads letter to The Montreal Mirror beginning with the line “Juliette Waters described participants in the February 13th En Marge benefit at Bistro Quatre as ‘literary sperm salesmen.’” Applause.] | Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:36:23\n[Mentions he will read love poetry. Performs a piece titled “Wandering Gypsy” from his collection “Szerbusz” (DaVinci Press, 1974). Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:38:13\n[Introduces and performs “A Vegetarian Ear Eater” dedicated to professional wrestler Killer Kowalski. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:41:58\n[Introduces and performs prose poem from his collection From Here to Here (The Muses' Company, 1982) beginning with the line “To get there, you take all sorts of roads.” Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic. Zooms into loose closeup as Farkas performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:45:50\n[Introduces and performs piece for his daughter Katherine titled “Why I Didn’t Write You a Poem on Your Birthday.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:47:29\n[Introduces and performs a parody of Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” called “Maple Leaf Rag.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:51:26\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Heirloom” dedicated to A.M. Klein from new collection titled Surviving Words (The Muses' Company, 1994.) Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:54:16\n[Skips to Gotham introducing Steve Luxton.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into mic. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:55:08\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Hermit Crab Song.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. Luxton wears a red button-down shirt, round metal-rimmed glasses, wavy blonde ear-length hair. \n\nSteve Luxton\n00:56:19\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Bedouin Song.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:58:32\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “[Joining?] on de Bullion Street.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:00:11\n[Mentions he went to an American school for writing under the “founding confessionalist poet” W.D. Snodgrass. Performs a piece beginning with the line “The writer is middle age.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:02:22\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Sweeney Todd.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into loose closeup as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:05:52\n[Announces there will be two more raffle draws and two more door prize draws. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:07:01\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs piece titled “How to Read a Poem” from her collection A Room of One’s Own (unable to find this collection online.) Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:10:15\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Sometimes I Think of You” about Montreal artist Seymour Segal, who designed the covers for Nelson’s collections The Work of Our Hands (The Muses' Company, 1992) and Grasping Men’s Metaphors. Applause.] | Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic, shows the audience two books, and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:18:36\n[Seems to ask Gotham how long she has left to read.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:18:40\n[Says Nelson should do one more.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:18:47\n[Introduces and performs piece inspired by “Last Dance at the Four Penny” by Leonard Cohen titled “Freylekh” from her collection Grasping Men’s Metaphors (The Muses' Company, 1993). Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:26:23\n[Thanks Nelson. Invites Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nIan Ferrier \n01:26:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: 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. Medium shot zooms into closeup as Ferrier adjusts the mic, speaks into the mic, and performs a piece.\n\nIan Ferrier \n01:31:36\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\n01:33:03\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 stage]\n01:35:40\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:35:55\n[Announces the last two raffle draws. Lists prizes, including one copy of Gary Geddes’ Light of Burning Towers (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks, one copy of Moosehead Anthology, and one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner a stack of books. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:38:05\n[Lists prizes, including one tape of ga press poetry performances and one copy of issue one and one copy of issue two of Pawn Press’s literary/cultural journal. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding a casette and two thin volumes, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner prizes. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:39:32\n[Introduces Sonja Skarstedt. Mentions that she is the editor of Empyreal Press. Applause throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:05\nCan you introduce Sonja first, please? She has waited so long. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:08\n[Introduces Skarstedt again. Invites her to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:21\nAnd a damn fine poet in her own right. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:22\n[Echoes Unknown_Audience1. Notes that first edition of Empyreal's existence will be read from.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:40:46\n[Introduces and performs ekphrastic piece titled “Blue Teardrop” written about a painting by a seven-year-old girl.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. Skarstedt wears a purple sweater, striped scarf in various shades of purple, light brown shoulder length hair tucked behind ears, and long hanging earrings. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:43:20\n[Introduces and performs titular piece from second manuscript titled Demolition Symphony (Empyreal Press, 1995). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:46:35\n[Introduces and performs “voyeuristic” piece titled “Rue de l’Esplanade: Voyeurs.” | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:48:55\nAm I running out of time? | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:48:57\nDo another! [Applause.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:49:05\n[Introduces and performs a “typical Montreal poem” about the Montreal International Jazz Festival titled “Street Fest in the Key of J.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as s introduces a piece. Zooms into closeup as Skarstedt performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:52:57\n[Thanks Skarstedt. Announces Skarstedt will perform with Lynn Suderman next month. Thanks performers and audience for attending.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham runs left hand through hair and speaks into the mic.\n\n[Audience]\n01:54:02\nVideo Description: Zooms out to show audience putting on jackets and talking to each other. \n\n[No signal]\n01:54:08\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nEND \n01:54:16\n[End of recording.] "],"score":6.9199705}]