Title: Vocalités vivantes

URL: http://vocalites.ca/

Collection: La francophonie de l'ouest canadien / Western Canadian Francophonie

Description: Vocalités vivantes is a cinematographic and poetic journey across Canada. Our team will meet members from six different Francophone communities in Canada. This project is intended for Francophones and Francophiles around the globe. Vocalités vivantes is a video rally between poetry and documentary. Its starting point is a duo combining poetry and new music. This duo is composed by the poet Carl Lacharité and the sound artist Érick d’Orion. The text entitled Le vivant deals with the theme of origin both of the individual and of community, even of species and of language. That is because this theme is approached by an art drawing on this very last material. The poet and artistic director Simon Dumas as well as the film-maker David B. Ricard join the duo of departure. Gathered around the original poetic text the artistic team will meet members of six different Francophone communities. Over the stopovers the performance will highlight different realities of French in Canada. In each province the original text will be adapted or rewritten by a poet living in the area visited. This new version of the poems will be read to the camera by citizens, retail traders, etc. The reading could be done by a grocer, the mayor, artists, etc. The team is the witness of this experience. It captures and archives various stages of the work and later interprets, connects and puts it all on stage with the help of the poets enrolled in the process. A documentary film is also to be made through this experience. In one week per stopover the team of poets and artists “amplifies” the original text with the help of the Other, finally returning it to the host community in the form of a closing show combining poetry, sound art and video testimonies.

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Subject:   poetry ,  poésie,  Canada ,  film,  spoken word