DOING IT IN PUBLIC Feb. 29 - March 1

Doing it in Public

For more information including workshop opportunities, please visit http://trentu.ca/english/DoingitinPublic.php

A conference in Public, Performance and Poetry
February 29th 2008 - March 1st 2008 at Trent University


Thursday Feb 28th

7:30 pm Rooke Lecture at the Peterborough Public Library:
Christian Bök, When Cyborgs Versify.


Friday February 29th 2008

11:00 am - 12:45 pm Registration, Meet/Greet and Light Lunch: Traill College at The TREND

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Poetry Panel: From Text to Performance.
Neal McLeod talks to Jill Battson, and Motion Brathwaite, Ziysah Markson, Lebogang Mothibatsela, and Angela Rawlings.

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Poetry Panel: From Word to Sound.
Michael Morse talks to Christian Bök, Derek Beaulieu, Adeena Karasick, and Alexis O’Hara.

8:00 pm Poets in Performance: Sadleir House, 751 George St. N.
Alexis O’Hara, Motion Brathwaite, Ziysah Markson, Adeena Karasick and Lebogang Mothibatsela.


Saturday March 1st 2008

12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch Senior Common Room, Traill College

1:00 pm - 2:45 Workshops

3:00 pm - 4:45pm Workshops

8:00 pm Poets in Performance: Sadleir House, 751 George St. N.
Jill Battson, Christian Bök, Derek Beaulieu and Angela Rawlings with Michael Morse, Michel Côté and Ciara Adams.

All events are free and open to the public.



Please contact: Prof. Hugh Hodges, hughhodges@trentu.ca or Kim Fielding kfieldin@trentu.ca

Donations are welcome and can be sent to:

Trent Univeristy
c/o Kim Fielding
English MA Public Text
Traill College, WH 133
Peterborough, ON
K9J 7B8