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[Ambient sounds. Mic feedback noise, with Lee Gotham humming to the same pitch.] Good evening one and all and thanks once again for coming out to another evening of Enough Said. Just a short (?) of things underway this evening, a couple of items of interest, in the very near future. I have the grand pleasure of presenting this (one?): Adeena Karasick, this next Monday. Adeena is a performance poet, language-centred writing, tender concerns front and centre, and is a wonderful act; she has toured all over the world, read with everyone from Ginsberg and Creeley to Nichols (?). It's a wonderful pleasure to present her. The week after, this is another pet project of mine, that I've only plugged very discreetly up until now, but it's called Pawn, and it's a cultural magazine that it's growing out of a pretty eclectic literary bag, that we managed to get together as a bunch of undergrad students at Concordia two or three years back. Still literature as an undeniable emphasis, and a real strong lineup, and I'm not gonna talk anything about any of the people (involved?). We will be launching this magazine, and some of those people involved will be here, not next Monday but the Monday after. So, that's a couple of items in the near future. In the nearest future, I have the equal pleasure in presenting this evening two very interesting acts: the first of them the Phineas Flower Trio. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage then zoom into different degrees of closeup as the camera adjusts frame and focus. Lee Gotham walks to the mic. Gotham wears a long button-down shirt over a t-shirt and a taqiyah-style skullcap. Gotham signals to someone out of the frame (presumably the sound technician), makes announcements, and introduces the performers of the event.

[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.

I 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.

[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.

[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 over a patterned button-down shirt, long hair, a Van-Dyke beard, and sunglasses.

[Unknown_Audience_Member] Let's go, eh?! [Two band members, 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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[The vocalist, shouting] Hey! [Unknown_Audience_Member, half-mockingly] No clapping. [The vocalist] We're serious fucking jazz musicians up here. | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible.

[Unknown_Audience_Member] I didn't fucking clap. [The vocalist] 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.

[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.

[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.

[The vocalist, after thanking the audience] That sucked. [Unknown_Audience_Member] What kind of noise is this? [The vocalist] Bad noise! [The drummer] Wait, man, I don't like this dialogue going on. Can't anyone straighten this young lady out? [Vocalist] Let's play the next song. [Guitar player] Ok, who's the fucking pinhead who said that? [Vocalist] Yo (Zanny?), what's the next song? [As the bass player starts to answer, the guitarist, aggressively] Pinheads, raise your fucking head. [Drummer] 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.

[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.

[The vocalist, after thanking the audience] Next. [Unknown_Audience_Member] Don't say thank you, we're a serious fucking audience. [Vocalist] Alright! [Guitar player] 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.

[Vocalist] In case you didn't notice, this is an artistic (event?). [Unknown_Audience_Member] If you didn't (pack your lip?) it would be better. [Vocalist] Go for it. [Guitarist] Better than what? | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interacting with the band members and the audience.

The 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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

Thanks for the (angst?), guys. The Phineas Flower Trio, thanks, in general. Ok, what we're gonna do with this break between acts is that the first three of open-mic participants, if they're ready to roll, and we'll do that in a half a second. [Audio becomes incomprehensible then skips]. | Video Description: Medium long shot as Lee Gotham enters the stage as the Phineas Flower Trio leaves. Gotham holds a beverage and announces the next portion of the evening program.

[Recording resumes mid-sentence]...this evening, Steve Godin. Texts also on the back by Steve Godin, and Ran is gonna read us number one of the series of three. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham making remarks and announcing the next performer, while holding a glass.

[Mockingly, parodying the Phineas Flower Trio] Hello? Hello? Hi! This is serious poetry. You don't clap. [Reads text written by Steve Godin, beginning with the sentence, "The human mind and soul can be in conflict with the ideal architecture that (reveals?) the True Self."] | Video Description: | Medium closeup of Ran Elfassy reading from a flyer. Elfassy wears a long-sleeve green Henley shirt over a grey turtle neck and buzz-cut hair.

[Announces that they will read two pieces. Asks the audience to clap to the rhythm of cha-cha during the performance of the first piece. Someone in the audience asks "How does it go?" and Ran Elfassy demonstrates. Ran Elfassy performs a piece titled "Indulge me." The audience keeps the rhythm all the way through.] | Video Description: | Medium closeup then closeup of Ran Elfassy performing.

[Reads a story beginning with the phrases, "By window and the yellow curtain, by the brass hooks." Ran Elfassy thanks the audience amid applause.] | Video Description: | Alternating extreme closeup and medium closeup of Ran Elfassy. Elfassy takes the mic from the stand to perform a second piece, then puts it back on the stand amid applause.

[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.

[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.

[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 over a brown button-down shirt, brown shaggy hair, mustache, and chin beard.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 over a black shirt, a necklace, and light brown hair. Frost wears a plaid vest over a medium blue plaid shirt, a necklace with a large gold ring, and long curly dark brown hair.

[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.

[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.

Can I read my letter? | Video Description: Off-screen.

[Addressing Nelson] Oh, you wanna do it now? | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks to Nelson.

[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.

[Addressing Nelson] Why is this happening now? | Video Description: Off-screen.

[Addressing Audience_Member3] I don't know, because Endre started it. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic.

[Addressing Nelson] This isn't The Mirror's [evening?] | Video Description: Off-screen

[Addressing Audience_Member3] Um, it is in a way. | Video Description: Closeup zooms inot extreme closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic.

Well, the notice was specifically about this evening. | Video Description: Off-screen.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Skips to Gotham introducing Steve Luxton.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into mic.

[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.

[Introduces and performs piece titled "Bedouin Song."] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece.

[Introduces and performs piece titled "[Joining?] on de Bullion Street." Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 (The Muses' Company, 1993). Applause.] | Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic, shows the audience two books, and performs a piece.

[Seems to ask Gotham how long she has left to read.] | Video Description: Off-screen.

[Says Nelson should do one more.] | Video Description: Off-screen.

[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.

[Thanks Nelson. Invites Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Introduces and performs a piece titled "St. Valentine's Day Massacre." Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Unzipped black winter jacket over 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.

[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.

[Introduces and performs a piece titled "Politician." Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece.

[Announces the last two raffle draws. Lists prizes, including one copy of Gary Geddes' Light of Burning Towers (Signal Editions, [Vehicule 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.

[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.

[Introduces Sonja Skarstedt. Mentions that she is the editor of Empyreal Press. Applause throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.

Can you introduce Sonja first, please? She has waited so long. | Video Description: Off-screen.

[Introduces Skarstedt again. Invites her to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.

And a damn fine poet in her own right. | Video Description: Off-screen.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

Am I running out of time? | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic.

Do another! [Applause.] | Video Description: Off-screen.

[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.

[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.

[Performs Unnamed Poem 1 with chant-like vocalizations and maraca including the line "I got a feeling we're going to make (?) strong."] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett performing a piece and keeping rhythm with a maraca. bissett wears a black and white patterned vest over a blue tie-dye shirt with a white graphic on the front, large square plastic-framed glasses, and shoulder-length light brown hair with a receding hairline. Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bissett and his maraca. Lee Gotham briefly passes through camera view.

[Finishes Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett stops the rhythm and brings the maraca to his lips. Camera zooms out into a long shot as bissett puts maraca in his back pocket and picks up a binder with multiple documents inside. Audience members applaud. bissett addresses audience.

[Reads "n e c k s" (from Th last photo uv th human soul, Talonbooks, 1993). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between long shot, medium long shot, and closeup on bill bissett reading poem from lifted binder.

[Finishes reading "n e c k s". Audience applause. bill bissett introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience laughter and applause.] Video Description: bill bissett closes binder and rubs hand across forehead. Camera pans across the room, capturing a full venue of applauding audience members. Camera zooms into closeup on bissett addressing audience. bill bissett begins walking off stage via stage left.

[Ambient sounds (voices).] | Video Description: Nelson stands up from audience and places hand on bissett's shoulder before moving by him. Nelson speaks to an audience member out-of-frame (bissett?) before walking to the microphone stand on stage.

[Addresses audience. Interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter. Addresses audience, introducing Unnamed Poem 1 as a response to bissett's "(ken and heath made for life?)." Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson speaks into the microphone, which is set significantly higher on the stand than their height. Nelson wears a green and orange patterned dress, long dark hair, and a necklace. Nelson addresses bill bissett (off-screen). Nelson addresses audience. An unseen audience member adjusts microphone stand to Nelson's height. Nelson spits out gum and looks for place to put chewed wad. An unseen audience member stretches out palm in front of Nelson. Nelson addresses audience before glancing down at the pages they hold.

[Reads Unnamed Poem 1 beginning with the line "I hear the geese before I see them." Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Sharon H. Nelson reading from pages. Nelson breaks from reading to address audience before returning to reading.

[Finishes Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. bill bissett addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson interacts with bill bissett. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down sheets of paper on the floor and walks off via stage left. Camera zooms out to long shot, capturing applauding audience members. bill bissett walks up to microphone stand via stage left. bissett addresses audience and adjusts microphone stand height. Camera pans right. Nelson addresses bissett. Audience members laugh. Lee Gotham is at one of the large window panes, adjusting a fixture. Camera pans left, back toward bissett on stage. Audience members briefly pass through camera view. bissett adjusts glasses, opens binder, and flips through pages.

[Reads Unnamed Poem 2 beginning with the line "Vapours, don't blame it on the dog."] | Video Description: Medium shot of bissett reading a poem from a lifted binder

[Finishes Unnamed Poem 2. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett flips page and addresses audience.

[Reads "unmatching phenomena" (from Inkorrect Thots, Talonbooks, 1992). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: billl bissett reads from binder. Audience members briefly pass through camera view.

[Finishes "unmatching phenomena". Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Audience laughter. Begins poem before breaking off to address audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and glances down, flipping through it. bill bissett lifts binder again and addresses audience. bissett smiles at audience laughter and addresses audience, lifting hand.

[Resumes reading "last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade" (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett resumes reading from binder.

[Finishes "last nite I had a nitemare abt free trade". Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through its pages. bissett addresses audience.

[Begins reading Unnamed Poem 3 beginning with the line "Who wrote the script though? Don't you always wonder that?" before breaking off to addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes reading poem before addressing audience and interacting with Unknown_Audience_Member. Audience laughter. bill bissett interacts with another Unknown_Audience_Member. Audience laughter. Resumes reading poem. Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett begins reading from binder before addressing audience, raising hand. bissett resumes reading before addressing audience again. An unseen audience member addresses bissett and they interact. bissett interacts with another unseen audience member. bissett resumes reading from binder.

[Finishes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience applause. bill bissett thanks audience. Unknown_Audience_Member and bissett interact.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot as bill bissett lowers binder and flips through pages. Camera pans across audience members applauding. bill bissett addresses audience. bissett interacts with an unseen audience member.

[Reads "reflex blu" (from What We Have, Talonbooks, 1988, https://worldcat.org/en/title/18641644).] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out between closeup and medium closeup on bill bissett reading from binder.

[Finishes "reflex blu". Audience applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers binder and adjusts glasses, looking out at audience. bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett walks toward Sharon H. Nelson stage-left and they shake hands and exchange a kiss. Nelson walks toward microphone stand. bissett takes seat adjacent to stage left.]

[Addresses audience. Addresses Unknown_Audience_Member. Addresses audience. Introduces "Form and Structure" (from Grasping Men's Metaphors, Muses' Co., 1993) mentioning Dorothy Parker. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson tilting microphone downward and addressing audience. An unknown audience member walks into the frame, kneeling to adjust microphone stand to Nelson's height. Nelson addresses unknown audience member.

[Reads "Form and Structure". Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads to the audience, with gestures to accentuate the poem's humour.

[Finishes "Form and Structure". Audience applause. Introduces "On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet". Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles at the audience as camera zooms out into a medium long shot. Nelson flips through the book in their hands. Nelson addresses audience.

[Reads "On the Success of a Middle-Aged Poet".] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a closeup on Sharon H. Nelson reading from book.

[Audience laughter. Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson introduces Unnamed Poem 2 in the style of nursery rhymes, and mentioning playing show-and-tell in school. Sharon H. Nelson begins to read Unnamed Poem 2 beginning with the line "When we were little children and playing show-and-tell," breaking off to address audience. Audience members respond.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson nods. Addresses audience. Looks down to read, before glancing up and address audience.

[Resumes reading Unnamed Poem 2. Audience laughter throughout. Addresses audience member resuming reading poem.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson glances down and reads from book. Glances up to address audience before resuming reading.

[Pauses. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson smiles, raises a finger, and addresses audience (inaudible).

[Resumes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson resumes reading poem.

[Finishes Unnamed Poem 3. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson puts down book and smiles at audience. Gestures toward and addresses offscreen audience member (bill bissett?). Camera zooms out into medium long shot as Nelson exits via stage left. Backs of audience members' heads. Nelson and bissett interact off-screen. bissett approaches microphone via stage left.

[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height. bissett flips and sorts through pages, putting one briefly in his mouth. An unknown audience member briefly passes through camera view. bissett selects a page, places something down, and turns back toward the microphone.

[Performs "evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd" (from Inkorrect Thots). Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and in between extreme closeup and medium long shot on bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone. bissett holds up and references pages throughout the performance, occasionally flipping.

[Finishes "evreewun needs a gud fuck n th rest is bullshit jack sd". Audience applause. Thanks audience. Addresses audience, talking about quinine, TV detectives, and murder mysteries. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett goes silent and slowly lowers outstretched arms. Camera zooms out to long shot of applauding audience members in front of the stage, with one unknown audience member in an orange sweater moving through the crowd. Lee Gotham approaches the stage via stage left and interacts with bissett before returning to his seat. bissett picks up binder and flips through pages. Camera zooms in as bissett addresses audience. bissett drinks from a glass, puts it on the floor, and flips through binder.

[Reads Unnamed Poem 4 beginning with the line "Mr. and Mrs. Ridge of Venus Land". Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder.

[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Sharon H. Nelson flips through pages, and an unknown audience member adjusts the microphone stand to Nelson's height. Nelson addresses audience member adjusting microphone stand and thanks them. Camera zooms into a closeup on Nelson.

[Laughs. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: bill bissett laugh before looking back down at binder.

[Resumes reading Unnamed Poem 4. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on bill bissett reading from binder.

[Finishes Unnamed Poem 4. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson.] | Video Description: bill bissett lowers and closes binder. Gestures to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson). bissett addresses audience and applauds along with them. bissett begins exiting via stage left. bissett and Nelson embrace and address one another as Nelson walks toward microphone stand.

[Addresses audience. Addresses bill bissett.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience and looks over to bill bissett to address him. An unknown audience member briefly obscures camera view.

[Addresses audience, discussing bissett's artwork. Audience laughter. Introduces "Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett's iconography, 'Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,' acrylic on canvas, 18x24", 1991)."] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.

[Reads "Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett's iconography, 'Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,' acrylic on canvas, 18x24", 1991)".] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson reads from pages.

[Finishes "Because of Everything: Dissolving Critical Distance (bill bissett's iconography, 'Dancing Magic Animals: Hearts and Rings,' acrylic on canvas, 18x24", 1991)". Audience applause. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Introduces "The Best Minds of My Generation" (from This Flesh These Words, Ekstasis Editions, 2002), mentioning the piece is dedicated to bill bissett and to George (Predelli?), a former Catholic priest. Audience laughter. Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into long shot as Sharon H. Nelson gathers pages and nods toward audience. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Nelson addresses audience and flips through pages.

[Coughs. Reads "The Best Minds of My Generation".] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson coughs into fist. An audience member briefly obscures view of stage. Nelson reads from pages.

[Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Sharon H. Nelson addresses audience. Sharon H. Nelson picks pages up from floor and exits stage via stage left. Camera pans across applauding audience members. Sharon H. Nelson sits in audience as bill bissett returns to the microphone stand on stage. bill bissett adjusts microphone stand height.

[Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: bill bissett addresses audience. bill bissett raises glass to offscreen audience member (Sharon H. Nelson?) and sips from it.

[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Camera zooms out into medium long shot as bill bissett adjusts glasses and flips through pages. Lee Gotham passes through camera view, glancing right into the lens.

[Reads "why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown" (from Th Influenza uv Logik, Talonbooks, 1995).] | Video Description: bill bissett reads from binder. Camera zooms in and out between closeup on bissett and long shot of bissett on stage, panning across the audience members listening to the reading and smoking.

[Finishes "why dew we feer change feer uv th unknown." Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: bill bissett briefly closes binder before opening it again.

[Performs Unnamed Poem 5 beginning with the line "Jennifer Rawlins."] | Video Description: bill bissett performs and vocalizes into microphone, holding sheet of paper.

[Finishes Unnamed Poem 5. Audience applause. Thanks audience. Thanks Sharon H. Nelson. Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera pans over applauding audience members throughout the room. bill bissett addresses audience. Lee Gotham moves through crowd and approaches stage. bissett is given his binder by the unknown audience member holding it. Gotham and bissett hug. bissett addresses audience before exiting stage left as Gotham approaches the microphone stand.

Wow, I think we need-Woo! Just a little time to cool down now after that. Geez, you know, I can't, I can't say how happy I am to, you know, be a part of something that involves not only a generous helping of spectacle but, you know, a whole lotta love, and just generally rejuvenating experience. I think what I'd like to do is, like I said, take a little break. Any of the open-mikers who've hung out and are still up for it are more than welcome to have their day in the rain in a moment or two. I can't encourage people enough, as well, to come over to the corner at some point if you're going hang out for a bit. We've got loads of books, both Sharon's, bill's, and some small press offerings of various natures. You know, when I first met bill, I was doing my degree at Concordia. I went down to the stacks in what was at that time the Norris Library. Do you know there are 41 titles of bill's in that library? Several of Sharon's as well. But 41-you're not going to find a lot of them in the bookstores anymore, but bill is part of a very, very vital scene, going back a good twenty odd years. [Sharon H. Nelson interacts ("Pushing thirty!")] Pushing thirty! And they're all still in the stacks, you know? You go down to what's now the Webster Library, or over to the Redpath, or any other incredible institution of those varieties, you can check the stuff out because I tell you, a whole lot of innovation went into the years between then and now. Okay, so-enjoy, hang out. I should mention the coming weeks. Second in the series, Wired Words-spoken word documents prepared by Corey Frost, Colin Christie, and ga Press, that's featuring Fortner Anderson and Neil Wiernik next week, same time, same place. I'd like to send a thought out to my future performer for the week after, Ian Stephens, is not very well and I think with all the love in the air here this evening maybe we can all share a thought with Ian. And yeah, hang out, please, as long as you'd like, and we'll get right to a little impromptu reading in a moment. Thanks. [Audience applause]. | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjust microphone stand height. Gotham addresses audience and at one point addresses Sharon H. Nelson (off-screen) before returning his focus to the audience. Gotham begins walking off off via stage right.

[Addresses audience.].| Video Description: Camera zooms into audience members sitting at table, in chairs, and at the bar, some of who turn toward the stage (off-screen) at the sound of Lee Gotham's voice.

[Cut to Unknown_Reader 1 reading a poem including the line "Warms my heart, always one step below."] | Video Description: Sudden cut. Camera quickly zooms in from long shot to close up on Unknown_Reader1 reading from pages. Unknown_Reader1 wears a maroon sweater and curly chin-length brown hair. An audience member briefly passes through camera view.

[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Introduces "Token Golden Showpiece".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 lowers pages to flip through them. An audience member partially obstructs camera view when sitting down. Unknown_Reader1 addresses audience.

[Reads "Token Golden Showpiece".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 reads from pages.

[Finishes "Token Golden Showpiece". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader1 glances up and begins walking away from microphone. Unknown_Reader1 smiles at the audience applause. They exit via stage left.

[Thanks audience. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces "The Prisoner's Song".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 fishes pieces of paper out of the front pocket of their shirt. Unknown_Reader2 wears a black and grey flannel shirt over a graphic t-shirt, and a brown ponytail. Unknown_Reader2 addresses audience.

[Reads "The Prisoner's Song".] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 reads from piece of paper.

[Finishes "The Prisoner's Song". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader2 exits via stage right. Camera zooms out to reveal Lee Gotham, clapping and rising from his seat to go to microphone. Lee Gotham addresses audience.

[Addresses audience member (Scott Duncan). Introduces Scott Duncan. Audience applause. Promotes "Pawn to Infinity" (magazine). Introduces Scott Duncan. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone and addresses audience member. Camera zooms out and pans to the left, toward the back of the venue. Audience members clap and walk through the back of the venue. Camera pans slowly right, toward the stage. Audience members listen and chat at their tables.

[Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Scott Duncan approaches microphone via stage left. Duncan wears a black t-shirt with white graphic, black flatcap, and short dark hair. Duncan addresses audience.

[Begins performing piece, repeatedly spelling out "P-O-M." Audience laughter. Unknown audience member interacts with Duncan. Resumes performing piece. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into closeup on Scott Duncan as he recites poem from memory. Scott Duncan pauses briefly and looks over toward off-screen audience member who interacts with him. Duncan resumes performing. Then Duncan lifts shirt to reveal and rub his abdomen marked with the same letters that he spells out in the poem, "P O M". Duncan resumes performing. Lee Gotham passes briefly through camera view. Duncan lifts shirt again, which he does throughout the performance.

[Finishes piece. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Scott Duncan smiles at audience and exits stage via stage left. Lee Gotham rises from seat and approaches microphone. Camera pans toward the left, following Scott Duncan moving to his seat and sitting down.

[Addresses audience. Addresses Scott Duncan. Scott Duncan interacts with Lee Gotham. Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes performance series. Introduces Phil. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera pans back toward stage where Lee Gotham speaks into the microphone. Gotham addresses Scott Duncan before addressing audience. Camera pans toward the left and zooms into Phil, the next open mic performer, rising from their seat.

[Ambient sounds (voices, movement).] | Video Description: Phil takes guitar out of case at the back of the venue as tables of audience members chat and drink. Phil moves to the stage and sets down a sheet of paper on a music stand. Phil puts guitar strap over shoulder and adjusts microphone stand.

[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Unknown audience member addresses Phil, and they interact. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Phil addresses audience. Phil wears a white long-sleeved shirt and a shaved head. Phil interacts with an audience member (offscreen). Phil rests slightly back on a ledge on stage and looks down at the piece of paper.

[Performs composition beginning with the line "And all the while." Audience laughter throughout. Bistro 4 landline rings.] | Video Description: Phil performs a composition, picking guitar strings with one hand while glancing occasionally at a piece of paper in the other hand. Passersby look into the venue through the large-paned windows.

[Finishes composition. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Phil stands and takes guitar strap off of shoulder. Phil leaves the stage via stage right. Camera pans to follow Phil walking toward the back of the venue to return to seat.

[Announces Halina Berger. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham calls out for Halina Berger via the microphone. Berger confirms attendance (offscreen) and Lee Gotham announces their set. Lee Gotham addresses an audience member (offscreen) who sits adjacent to stage left, before sitting. Berger enters the stage via stage right.

[Addresses audience. Reads poem beginning with the line "If I could be at peace with everybody."] | Video Description: Halina Berger addresses audience. Berger wears a red blouse and short brown hair. An audience member briefly obstructs camera view. Berger reads from a piece of paper in hand.

[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Halina Berger looks up from piece of paper and nods at audience. Berger exits stage via stage right. Lee Gotham, clapping, rises from seat and approaches microphone.

[Thanks Halina Berger. Addresses Justin McGrail. Announces Justin McGrail. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Halina Berger. Lee Gotham steps toward stage right, looking for someone toward the back of the venue. Gotham addresses Justin McGrail and then addresses audience. Gotham returns to seat. McGrail (short brown hair, button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves, suspenders, grey trousers, ear piercing) enters stage via stage right. McGrail cups hands over mouth before turning toward microphone.

[Performs poem beginning with the line "The trick is, was, used to be seem to be seen as structurally strict".] | Video Description: Justin McGrail performs poem from memory, with gestures to accentuate language. McGrail wears a white button-down shirt with sleeves rolled-up to elbows, green pants with suspenders, and short dark brown hair.

[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail walks off via stage right. Lee Gotham enters frame, clapping, and stands in front of microphone.

[Addresses audience. Promotes Fluffy Pagan Echoes.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience.

[Performs poem beginning with the line "X-Factor (?) and sub-atomic fumes."] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and resets its angle to capture the stage. Camera zooms in from long shot to closeup on Unknown_Reader3 reading from a piece of paper. Unknown_Reader3 wears a white long-sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled-up to elbows and short brown hair.

[Finishes poem. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown_Reader3 lowers piece of paper and exits via stage right. Lee Gotham enters frame applauding and adjusts microphone.

[Addresses audience. Announces Paul. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Camera tilts upward toward windows.

[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Unknown audience member interacts with Paul. Audience laughter. Paul thanks unknown audience member.] | Video Description: Camera resets angle back toward stage. Paul addresses audience. Paul wears a grey sweater, fleece vest, buzzed dark hair, and a goatee. Paul laughs at unknown audience member's (offscreen) comment. Paul looks down at pages and then addresses unknown audience member.

[Reads "Tell Us". Briefly interjects to announce title, before resuming reading.] | Video Description: Paul reads poem pieces of paper. Paul briefly addresses audience before resuming reading, occasionally turning pages.

[Finishes "Tell Us". Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause. Introduces "Egg". Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Paul addresses audience and smiles.

[Reads "Egg".] | Video Description: Paul reads poem from pages, occasionally flipping pages.

[Ambient sounds (movement, voices).] | Video Description: Paul trails off and blinks at pages. Paul rocks back and forth, trying to hold onto microphone stand, and stumbles out of frame. Camera pans slightly to the right. Lee Gotham's shoulder is seen, as well as the slight view his head turning to look toward the stage. Gotham rushes toward stage. Camera zooms out, revealing Gotham and multiple unknown audience members assisting Paul stand up. Paul blinks and touches chest.

[Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Paul addresses audience. Unknown audience members assisting tend to Paul as Paul picks up spilled pages from the floor. Paul is handed a glass and they drink. Paul speaks into the microphone and holds up pages. Gotham pats Paul on the back as assisting audience members return to their seats. Gotham claps as he returns to his seat. Paul is handed additional pages.

[Resumes reading "Egg".] | Video Description: Paul reads from pages.

[Finishes "Egg". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paul exits via stage left and returns to their seat. Lee Gotham takes to the microphone.

[Addresses Paul. Audience laughter. Thanks Paul. Calls next performer.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Paul. Gotham calls out for and addresses next performer. The next performer moves through tables toward the stage. Gotham pats them on the back as they pass each other.

[Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Promotes gig at Bar L'Exterieur. Introduces themself as Bro. Introduces "The Way of Zen" (?).] | Video Description: Bro addresses audience and flips through pages in hand. Bro wears a black t-shirt, glasses, dark shoulder-length hair with male pattern baldness, and a dark thick beard beginning to go white.

[Reads "The Way of Zen" (?). Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Bro reads poem from pages.

[Finishes "The Way of Zen" (?). Audience laughter and applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces Unnamed Poem 1 ("The story of my life can be summed up very briefly").] | Video Description: Bro sheafs through pages and tilts microphone. Armstrong addresses audience.

[Reads poem beginning with the line "The story of my life can be summed up very briefly."] | Video Description: Bro reads from pages.

[Finishes poem. Audience applause. Addresses audience. Introduces another unnamed poet's work, "For Henry". ] | Video Description: Bro lowers pages to sheaf through them, placing toothpick (?) in their mouth. Armstrong addresses audience.

[Reads another unnamed poet's work, "For Henry".] | Video Description: Bro reads from pages.

[Finishes "For Henry". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Bro lowers pages and exits via stage left. Lee Gotham rises from seat and approaches microphone stand.

[Thanks, Bro. Addresses audience. Announces end of event. Promotes following week's event (Fortner Anderson and Neil Wiernik, and Wired on Word cassette launch) and the upcoming Pawn's magazine launch. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Camera pans toward the left across venue, with audience members applauding, rising from their seats, drinking, and putting on coats.

[Skips to Brule midperformance, mouth percussing a slow hip hop beat. Says he will introduce new band. Introduces the drummer and mouth percusses a fast drum solo. Vocally mimics an upright bass playing walking jazz bassline and introduces bass player. Introduces the "hardcore guitar" player and vocally mimics a heavily distorted guitar holding a low note.] | Video Description. Medium closeup as Brule mouth percusses drumbeat with his back turned to camera. Brule wears a white button-down shirt with thin vertical stripes, a purple scarf with fringe at both ends wrapped once around neck, dark pants with a dark belt, reddish beard and mustache, short reddish hair with one piece curling on forehead, and a headset mic, holding a long scoop shovel with a handle on one end, a wooden shaft, and a black plastic blade. Zooms out to medium shot then zoom into closeup as Brule speaks into mic. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brule, turned away from camera, mouth percusses drumbeat. Turns back, and vocally mimics an upright bass while pretending to play upright bass with shovel. Vocally mimics a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel, shaking the shaft of the shovel quickly.

[Explains that "the digital" (which seems to be a looping machine) was cold when he was warming up, it has a memory time of eight seconds which slows down when it is cold, but it warms up when everyone is in the room.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to audience while turning knobs on a large grey machine that is on his right with knobs and switches and ¼ inch and XLR cables plugged into the top. Zooms into medium shot.

[Mouth percusses same slow hip hop beat, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line "The people by (?) tell me who can say." Vocally mimics a guitar playing a fill in between lines. Recites line "I need a manager" that the looper repeats twice. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a short melody, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a higher melody that harmonizes with the first, records on looper, looper plays back. Changes delivery of piece; lines become closer together with less space in between. Stumbles and recovers. Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brule mouth percusses and adjusts knobs on looper. Picks up something behind him. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brule pretends to play guitar with shovel. Performs a piece, while playing shovel in between lines. Pretends to play a trumpet. Periodically adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into medium shot and closeup as the lines get closer together, then zooms out to medium long shot as the piece concludes.

[Loud crashing sound.] | Video Description: Holding a video camera, Audience_Member1 walks behind Brule and equipment from Brule's right to left as if stepping over something. Knocks over something not visible. Audience_Member1 wears a black baggy sweater with collar, beige pants, nearly completely shaved head.

[Addresses Audience_Member1, saying "no problem." Explains he doesn't perform at comedy clubs anymore because "they don't know anything about music." Suggests that pop music has gotten worse, while he has gotten better. Notes he is influenced by blues, bebop, and jazz.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule talks to audience and gestures. Lee Gotham can be seen in the audience on the bottom left corner of the frame taking his jacket off and adjusting in chair.

Video Description: Walks behind Brule again, this time from Brule's left to right, carrying more camera equipment.

[Asks Gotham if he wants to plug in another mic to Brule's left.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to Gotham who is in the audience, gesturing to the mic cable hanging from ceiling.

Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham gets up from chair, walks across stage, and stands on chair to reach mic cable hanging from ceiling. Gotham wears a black unzipped sweater over a yellow shirt, black pants, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder-length brown hair.

[Scores Gotham setting up mic by vocally mimicking a guitar and then a trumpet playing a circus-like melody.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to audience. Turns to look at Gotham. Pretends to play guitar on shovel. Gestures as if he were playing a trumpet.

Video Description: Smiles while walking off stage on the right side of the frame.

[Vocally mimics a guitar playing a driving riff that repeats the same note in quick succession.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule pretends to play guitar on shovel, shaking the shaft of shovel gradually more violently.

[Criticizes how people "get the gig" if they can play Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. Encourages people to write their own music.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to audience. Adjusts knobs on the looper.

[Vocally mimics guitar playing single notes with reverb. Makes a popping sound that the looper repeats to resemble a steady driving bass drumbeat. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple upbeat hard rock riff in a major key. Performs a piece beginning with the line "I'm young, I'm white, and I'm stupid," vocally mimicking the guitar riff in between lines. Periodically stops the looper, recreates the drumbeat, and resumes performing piece. Repeats the line "How do you do? Tell it to you." Resumes performing piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule pretends to play guitar with shovel. Puts hand over mouth to make popping sound. Adjusts knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar on shovel. Periodically returns to looper to recreate drumbeat. Momentarily grabs mic and stand on his left and leans it towards an audience member while repeating one line.

Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham tests mic, talks to someone slightly out of frame, and walks away.

[Mentions that he has a selection of beats that can accompany open mic performers' readings. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a fast punk song into standing mic.] Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule sips water. Grabs paper from off-screen. Gestures with it while talking to audience. Walks over to mic. Tests it. Walks back to looper then back to mic. Zooms into medium shot as Brule vocally mimics a guitar. Accidentally pulls cord out of mic.

[Apologizes for technical "quandries." Thanks venue employees. Says they will "continue this as long as possible." Announces they will request cash from audience next week to donate to En Marge, a homeless youth shelter below St. Catherine, and that over ten poets, including Raymond Filip and Endre Farkas, will perform. Announces the break. Mentions that the Peter Turret Trio plays every Friday and Saturday night. Mentions a film and video evening that a Concordia group hosts events every second Sunday. Mentions they have no open mic participants and encourages people to sign up. Brule mouth percusses a jazz beat and vocally mimics a jazz bassline periodically throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham plugs cord back into mic. Tests it. Picks up notebook from off-stage. Adjusts mic. Zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into mic.

[Encourages audience to applaud Gotham. Explains his selection of beats that can accompany open mic performers' readings. Vocally mimics a bass playing a simple Motown bassline.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brule speaks to audience and gestures with a pad of paper. Vocally mimics a bass while pretending to play the upright bass with shovel.

I want to do the slow wuthering gospel. | Video Description: Gotham off-screen. Medium shot as Brule looks into audience and walks back to looper.

[Says he will prepare the sample. Mouth percusses a galloping rhythm, records it on looper, looper plays back. Slows tempo on looper. Vocally mimics a heavily distorted guitar holding long low notes.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule mouth percusses and vocally mimics guitar while adjusting the knobs on the looper.

[Says "I see no reason why we shouldn't embrace chaos" citing the frequency of burning buildings and ambulances.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham speaks into mic while holding a piece of paper while Brule, on Gotham's left, adjusts knobs on looper.

[Tells Gotham "slower, slower."] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule steps towards Gotham, who is on his right, and points at Gotham's sheet of paper.

[Explains to Brule that he is doing a preamble, not reading yet.] Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham speaks to Brule and gestures with his hands.

[Remarks that Gotham's preamble sounded "deep." Slows tempo on looper. Resumes vocally mimicking a heavily distorted guitar holding long low notes.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule pulls the papers in Gotham's hand towards himself, speaks to Gotham, and turns back to looper.

[Agrees, says he wants to "earn the respect of the mentally elite" poets in the room. Mouth percusses a sultry jazz drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a sparse line with reverb. Performs a piece in French. Vocally mimics a bass playing a simple ascending line.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brule speaks into the mic. Zooms out to medium shot as Brule mouth percusses and vocally mimics instruments while adjusting knobs on looper. Zooms out to medium long shot as Brule vocally mimics a trumpet. Performs piece.

[Says it is a short piece so he will read slowly. Performs a piece beginning with the line "Breaking broken buried remnants hiding from the sky." Repeats the same collection of lines three times, each with differing deliveries. Thanks audience. Applause. Remarks how easy it is, encourages audience to participate.] | Video Description: Medium long shot gradually zooms into medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham leaves stage. Gotham returns, speaks into the mic, adjusts it, and leaves stage again.

[Asks for examples of Brule's beats.]

[Says that's the farthest he has gotten in writing the song. Audience begins applauding, but he says "no, no." Offers punk film score music, an RnB (bop?), and New York art school jazz as beats to accompany open mic performers' readings. Prepares to play another song.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to audience, picks up pad of white paper, sips water, and prepares to play another song.

[Asks Brule to play a punk beat.] | Video Description: Off-screen.

[Vocally mimics guitar playing a fast punk riff. Explains that these are the kinds of things he would improvise while an open mic performer was performing.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule vocally mimics guitar and speaks with a group in the audience. Returns briefly to looper. Leans slightly out of frame to talk to group in audience again, who seem to be looking at his list of beats.

Bo Diddley.

[Vocally mimics guitar playing a Bo Diddley riff. Asks audience if they remember his mentors, the duo Deja Voodoo. Resumes vocally mimicking guitar playing a Bo Diddley riff, records on looper, looper plays back improperly. Records again. Performs a piece beginning with the line "Out in the swamp near Montreal."] | Video Description: Medium long shot as E.J. Brule vocally mimics a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Adjusts knobs on looper. Talks to audience. Resumes vocally mimicking a guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into medium closeup as Brule performs a piece.

[To the tune of "I Want Candy" (The Strangeloves, single, Bang Records, 1965)] I want candy. I want candy.

[Says people think the riff was made up five years ago.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brule talks to audience, walking around stage and gesturing.

Video Description: Hawley rises from seat.

[Asks Hawley if they want "a slow slow rap." Introduces song written for a hairy woman. Says he imagined if Prince produced a song for Leonard Cohen. Mouth percusses a Prince-like drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line "You don't have to [rip?] your lip" and vocally mimics a standup bass playing a Prince-like bass fill in between stanzas. Vocally mimics a trumpet playing a quick motif. Mouth percusses a shaker playing eighth notes. Vocally mimics a bass fill to end song. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule vocally mimics many instruments, speaks to audience, and adjusts knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Zooms into medium shot partway through.

[Says he has been saving his favourite beat. Pauses. Mouth percusses an upbeat 90s hip hop beat.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule sips water, accidentally knocks mic battery pack out of pocket, and resituates it. Mouth percusses a drumbeat while adjusting knobs on looper and pretending to play guitar with shovel.

[Says he wrote poetry before he started singing but no one wanted to hear it.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Hawley walks to stage, shakes Brule's hand, and speaks into mic. Hawley wears an oversized black sweater with a hood, no zipper, and white and red logo on the left side of chest that reads "TW SHOW," dark pants, and a black bandana with white accents tied around head.

[Says he can play the beat slower or faster. Beat speeds up to comical level. Says "no, a little slower." Beat slows down to comical level. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Brule off-screen. Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Hawley smiles and laughs into mic.

[Introduces and performs piece about a bumblebee beginning with the line "Fly, come and fly with me." Says partway though that it is freestyle. Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Hawley speaks into mic and performs a piece.

[Says people can improvise, but asks that if someone brings a prewritten piece, to let him look. Says that people think one needs to be young, black, and misogynistic to be a rapper. Says he had to think about how to tackle accusations of cultural appropriation. Mouth percusses a faster version of the same 90s hip hop beat that Hawley performed over, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a more complex bassline. Performs a piece titled "How Can You Be So White (And Be So Funky?) (Freedom of Speech, self-released audio cassette, 1989). Vocally mimics guitar playing fills between the verses. Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into medium shot as Brule speaks to audience. Mouth percusses drumbeat and vocally mimics bass while adjusting knobs on looper. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel.

[Says he can never get the samples right for Led Zeppelin. Vocally mimics the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" (Led Zeppelin III, LP, Atlantic Records, 1970), records on looper, looper plays back. Stops looper and says he needs someone to do Robert Plant's scream in "Immigrant Song."] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brule speaks to audience. Vocally mimics instruments while adjusting knobs on looper and pretending to play guitar with shovel. Makes a "come hither" motion with hand towards audience member. Throws up hands exasperatedly.

Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham hugs Brule and stands on his left.

[Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," records on looper, looper plays back. Tells Gotham to get close to his headset mic.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Brule vocally mimics instruments, adjusts knobs on the looper, and talks to Gotham.

[Imitates Robert Plant's scream in Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." Audience cheers. Looper replays only small part of Gotham's scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brule's mic, mouth wide open.

[Tells Gotham to not "do it so long this time."] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to Gotham, who is off-screen, making a "come hither" motion with hand toward Gotham.

Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham walks back on stage on Brule's left, holding up his shirt with one hand and gyrating hips seductively, seemingly looking at one audience member.

[Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brule vocally mimics bass and guitar while pretending to play the guitar with shovel. Motions for Gotham to come closer.

[Imitates Robert Plant's scream in Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." Looper replays only small part of Gotham's scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brule's mic, mouth wide open.

[Apologizes to audience, saying Gotham "fucked [him] up with the start of that."] | Medium long shot as Brule speaks to audience and adjusts knobs on looper.

Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham walks away from Brule and hovers in front of the camera, nodding his head to the beat.

[Asks Lee to do one more.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brule adjusts knobs on looper and gestures for Lee to return to stage.

Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup caused by Gotham walking towards camera, sips drink, hops back towards stage and stretches arms upwards.

[Tells Gotham to "not get so close to the mic." Resumes vocally mimicking the bass and guitar line for Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into closeup as Brule vocally mimics bass and guitar while pretending to play guitar with shovel.

[Imitates Robert Plant's scream in Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." Looper replays only small part of Gotham's scream.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham screams into Brule's mic, mouth wide open.

[Says "that's a little more like it" and slows down tempo which lowers the pitch of Gotham's recorded scream. Vocally mimics a bass playing a slow simple bassline, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule adjusts knobs on looper and vocally mimics a bass while pretending to play guitar with shovel.

Video Description: Medium long shot as Gotham walks up to mic. Directs a questioning look at Brule. Walks away from mic.

[Speaks to Gotham, indiscernible.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to Gotham as Gotham passes.

[Returns to mic and performs a piece beginning with the line "The dubious occasion I recall I said."] | Medium long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham returns to mic and performs a piece. Directs a look at Brule.

[Slows down looper's playback.]

[Speeds up looper's playback.]

[Resumes performing a piece. Gradually delivers piece more rhythmically and song-like on Brule's beat.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Directs a look at Brule.

[Resumes performing a piece.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece.

[Mouth percusses a 90s hip hop drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back overtop previous beat. Repeating one of Gotham's last lines, says "rhythmic demise, that's what that sounds like."] | Video Description: Brule off-screen. Loose closeup as Gotham smiles and nods.

[Asks Brule to "do it one more time." Performs same piece again, with a very rhythmic, rap-like delivery to Brule's beat. Applause. Tells audience that making a fool of yourself on stage is "good for the soul."] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Gotham performs a piece zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into mic.

[Addressing unheard audience member, says "no more covers."] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule addresses unseen audience member and adjusts knobs on looper.

How about "Land of 1000 Dances"? (Chris Kenner, single, Instant Records, 1962).

[Pauses to think, says a long drawn-out "oh."] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule thinks.

Video Description: Walks to Brule.

[Speaks to Hawley. Vocally mimics bassline from "Land of 1000 Dances," records on looper, looper plays back. Asks Walsh "something like that?"] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule speaks to Hawley, vocally mimics a bass, and speaks to Walsh.

Video Description: Dances in front of the camera, smiling widely.

[Mouth percusses a horse galloping, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs piece beginning with the line "Got a new horse." Vocally mimics a standup bass playing a solo. Asks Audience_Member5 if they have any "barnyard epics."] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Brule mouth percusses and adjusts knobs on looper. Zooms into closeup as Brule pretends to play the upright bass with shovel. Speaks to Audience_Member5.

No, I don't think so.

[Asks Walsh if he wants a Motown beat.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brule talks to Walsh.

Uh, yeah!

[Laughs, asks Walsh if he has a woman in his life because he also says "yeah" like that when he is confused. Mouth percusses a drumbeat with a strong snare backbeat. Vocally mimics a guitar playing sparse single low notes. Asks Walsh if he wants to perform.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium long shot as Brule speaks to Walsh. Adjusts knobs on looper. Mouth percusses a drumbeat, records on looper. Pretends to play guitar on shovel. Zooms into medium closeup as Brule speaks to Walsh.

Oh no I'm not-

[Cutting Walsh off, says he can't request a beat and not perform. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple low riff. Says he won't improvise unless an open mic participant performs. Talks to audience about how people are worried he will "represent[] them" if he "gets somewhere." Says musical comedy duo Bowser and Blue are representing anglophone Montrealers on the world stage. Mentions alternative band Doughboys.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brule speaks to Walsh. Vocally mimics a guitar playing a simple low riff. Speaks to audience.

[Says "Tom Walsh is a poet."] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Hawley walks up to mic and speaks into it, smiling.

[Mouth percusses an upbeat hip hop drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back. Vocally mimics a distorted guitar playing a pentatonic riff, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Brule off-camera. Closeup of Hawley smiling and preparing to perform.

[From the crowd] Tom's in the house!

[Says "this is improv." Asks Brule to slow down the beat.] | Video Description: Closeup as Hawley addresses audience and then Brule.

[Slows down looper's playback.] | Video Description: Brule off-camera. Closeup of Hawley preparing to perform.

[Improvises a piece beginning with the line "Lonely child, now check it, lonely child." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Hawley improvises a piece while holding a beer and a cigarette. Zooms out to medium shot as Hawley takes mic off stand and continues performing.

[Encourages audience to further applaud Hawley. Explains how he was inspired by Tibetan throat singers. Mouth percusses drum beat with shaker. Vocally mimics distorted guitar playing simple distorted pentatonic riff. Performs a piece titled "St. Thomas' Mantra" (Freedom of Speech, self-released audio cassette, 1989) with heavy reverb on voice, mouth percussing and vocally mimicking guitar between lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Brule speaks to audience. Adjusts mic that unclipped from lapel. Mouth percusses drum beat and vocally mimics guitar. Performs a piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Zooms into closeup as piece concludes.

[Thanks audience. Vocally mimics distorted guitar playing a simple rock riff, records on looper, looper plays back. Mouth percusses a drumbeat with emphasis on beat three, records on looper, looper plays back. Performs a piece beginning with the line "Let me tell you about the cruelest thing that I have ever done," in which first stanzas are rhythmically tied to the beat, and are later conversationally spoken. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brule speaks to audience. Vocally mimics guitar and adjusts knobs on looper. Mouth percusses a drumbeat and adjusts knobs on looper. Performs piece while pretending to play guitar with shovel. Partway through, pretends that shovel is a baseball bat.

[Speaks to audience member about them performing.] | Medium long shot as Brule leans down to talk to audience member.

Video Description: Medium long shot as Hawley approaches Brule and asks a question. Brule nods affirmatively.

[Mouth percusses a reggae drumbeat, records on looper, looper plays back.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Brule mouth percusses a drumbeat and adjusts knobs on looper.

[Greets audience, asks "is everybody cool?" Heavy Jamaican accent. Performs a piece overtop Brule's beat. Applause.] | Video Description: Oversized leather jacket over a white button-down shirt, a large leather top hat/baseball cap hybrid with red accents, large silver rings with jewels. Holds black mittens in one hand and the mic in the other. Loose closeup as Unknown_Reader1 speaks to audience and performs a piece. Dancing audience member briefly obscures camera.

[Asks audience whether they want a break. Announces a break.] | Video Description: Medium long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks to the audience.

Bonsoir, mes chers amis, and welcome back to yet another segment of Enough Said. Nice to see everyone out (?). In nearly spring, I have the immense pleasure this evening presenting two fine artists of various disciplinary persuasions. I would like to know that everyone is comfortable, as we have a real treat (?). We have, this evening, a cabaret of poetry. And the participants---and your performers---are Endre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall. Endre Farkas started creating sound-text-movement poetry-performance pieces in the late 70s, before the spoken word was a glint in anyone's imagination. Endre worked with collaborators from different disciplines across Canada. He's also published seven books of poetry. His most recent book is Surviving Words (The Muses' Company, 1994) and is available along with the Bare Bones cassette (En Guard Records, 1994), pertaining to Suzanne Nuttall, who is one half of Bare Bones. They've just returned from a successful tour out West and in the Yukon. They've two cassettes and a CD to their credit. I think I see both CDs and cassettes, is that right (?), in your corner. Just on your way out, or on your way in, you can have a look at this stuff, because they're beautiful offerings. So, Bare's most recent CD-cassette is called Elusive and is available here this evening. So, both Surviving Words and Elusive---anytime, during the evening, you might wanna choose the intermission, but anytime, (on your left just before the?) door. And now, welcome to the cabaret! [Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium closeup as Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Gotham wears a red button-down shirt over a black t-shirt; full beard, long hair tied in a bun. Gotham makes introductory remarks. Camera zooms out to a medium shot at the end.

[Testing the mic and sound system, playing the sanza. Then ambient sounds, audience voices.] | Video Description: Diagonal angle of the stage, capturing the performer from their right side. Medium shot of Trevor Ferrier sitting in front of the mic, playing the sanza on his lap, testing the mic. Ferrier wears a red Henley shirt with the sleeves rolled up, shaved head, and thin moustache. Zoom into a closeup as Ferrier finishes the sound check and leaves the stage. We see the reflex on the window of Ferrier hugging and talking to Lee Gotham. Then the camera remains stationary on part of the stage and the windows, with parked cars, falling snow, and the outdoor "A LOUER" sign across the street visible.

[Recording skips to Lee Gotham speaking, mid-sentence] In one, (so?), three offerings. On vous presente ce soir toutes sortes de lectures. Enfin, c'est l'essai de comprendre l'histoire, peut-etre, de "le mot dit," de l'origine. On commence avec deux raconteurs traditionnels. We've got a couple of traditional storytellers and, in the second half of the evening, we have the Groupe de Poesie Moderne to do something amazing with language and, I think it's safe to say, something representative of more or less the contemporary and... And I'd suggest... (?) did you ever think of the "Groupe de Poesie Post-Moderne"? Anyway, (all the way from?) the traditional (brand?) and, two varieties, two different languages represented: Njacko Backo, who'll be up presently, is a storyteller and musician who comes from Cameroon, un conteur traditionnel camerounais; and Trevor Ferrier, who will open the night's entertainments... he uses African percussion. And I think we'll all appreciate perhaps the contrast between a tradition of storytelling wherein the performer is basically the only vehicle for that tradition and, the other end of the spectrum, the Groupe de Poesie Moderne, a little later on. So, without a whole lot more chatter, I'm going to introduce Trevor Ferrier to you. Bon, faites comme vous voulez, c'est chez toi, chez vous, ce soir. I should mention that every coffee and beer sold goes a little way to helping the series continue, and I'll leave it at that. Trevor, if we may, please. Trevor Ferrier. [Applause]. | Video Description: Cut to a medium closeup of Lee Gotham making introductory remarks at the mic. 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. Different degrees of closeup as Gotham makes introductory remarks, often gently scratching the corner of his right eye.

[Thanks the audience. Introduces and performs "as the breath is the journey i move and it is imperceptible as is the breath just breathed in and out." The piece begins with sounds of breathing into the mic, followed by vocalizations of each word that forms the title. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into a closeup as Endre Farkas approaches the mic and thanks the audience. Farkas wears a light striped button-down shirt, red suspenders, thick eyebrows, and short grey hair with hairline receding. Performs the piece.

[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. Different degrees of closeup as Ferrier tells a story while playing percussion.

[Suzanne Nuttall says "naked" off-camera, which Endre Farkas repeats as Nuttall walks to join him on stage. Each repeats the word many more times, sometimes in unison, then Farkas begins reciting a piece opening with the line, "Against the world and without time to be innocent," which proceeds as a dialogue between the performers. Applause at the end.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot as Endre Farkas stands at the mic and Suzanne Nuttall walks to join him on stage. Nuttall wears dark pants, a long-sleeved white button-down shirt with black details on both sides of the buttons, short dark hair combed up, and one dangle earring on the right lobe. They perform a piece while standing side by side, with the mic stand between them. At some point they dramatize searching for something and switch sides on stage, then briefly hold hands. Zoom out to a medium long shot as Farkas drinks water and Nuttall leaves the stage.

[Introduces and performs "Au Canada." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then zoom into different degrees of closeup as Endre Farkas introduces and performs a piece.

[They perform a piece opening with the line "I love you, as a way to (start?) the bone." Mid-performance, Nuttall starts singing. Then, Nuttall and Farkas resume the spoken-word dialogue.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Suzanne Nuttall walks onto the stage to perform a piece with Endre Farkas, both standing, the mic between them. Mid-piece, Nuttall starts singing while Farkas stands looking at her. They then resume the dialogue piece.

[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.

[Performs a solo passage opening with the line "It is what we cannot have that is erotic." At some point, a prolonged silence suggests Nuttall forgot a line. Audience laughter, followed by Farkas saying "Your turn!"] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot as Suzanne Nuttall walks to each side of the stage, addressing the audience, while Endre Farkas stands to the side. The camera zooms into a medium closeup and pans, accompanying Nuttall from side to side. Mid-performance, Nuttall forgets a line and signals to Farkas, smiling and asking for help.

[They perform a piece opening with Farkas breathing loudly into the mic. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Zoom Endre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall stand side by side, near the mic, performing a piece.

[Speaks amid applause.] We will take a five-minute break and we'll be back with "Murders." Thank you. | Video Description: Medium long shot as Farkas makes remarks.

[Makes announcements of upcoming Enough Said events, including Clifford Duffy's "The Invention of God," at a different venue, and Dee Smith at Bistro 4. Introduces the second half of the poetic cabaret. Background music and ambient sounds.] | Video Description: Cut to a medium long shot then zoom into a closeup as Lee Gotham makes remarks while holding a cup, introducing the second part of the show. The camera zooms out to Gotham and Farkas making final preparations for the second act.

[Background music and ambient sounds as Farkas and Nuttall make final preparations for "Murders."] | Video Description: Cut to a medium long shot of the stage, now with Endre Farkas sitting alone at a table upstage, while Suzanne Nuttall, now wearing a suit coat, walks towards the camera then past it. Farkas stands up and also walks towards the camera, then back to his table on stage, drinks from a cup, then stands and walks towards the camera one more time.

[Background music, ambient sounds. As the music ends, Endre Farkas and Suzanne Nuttall perform a one-act play titled "Murders." At the end, Farkas thanks the audience amid applause and states, "If you have any mysteries, we'd be glad to solve them."] | Video Description: Cut again to a medium long shot of the stage. Endre Farkas sits alone at a table holding a cup. The camera slowly zooms in to and out of him, settling into a medium long shot during most of the performance. Suzanne Nuttall walks into view and stands by a flipchart to announce "Chapter one"; Nuttall then describes the setting of the "Welcome Cafe," where the drama takes place. Farkas stands up and puts on a detective trench coat and hat. Farkas and Nuttall perform a one-act play. Mid-performance, Farkas walks amid the audience. At the end, Farkas undoes his trench coat while thanking the audience.

[Thanks Trevor Ferrier and announces a break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks to stage and makes remarks.

[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.

[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.

[Thanks Njacko Backo amid applause. Announces the next performers.] | Video Description: Zoom to a medium closeup as Lee Gotham walks on stage, clapping and smoking. Gotham makes remarks and introduces the next performers.

[Ambient sounds, voices]. | Video Description: Cut to a medium long shot as Lee Gotham, cigarette dangling from his mouth, climbs up a chair to tinker with cables, his back turned to the audience. On stage, we see the members of the Groupe de Poesie Moderne standing in a circular formation, all facing the stage, with the centre apparently empty.

[The Groupe performs 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 Poesie 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.

[The Groupe performs a second spoken-word piece, opening with the line "Bonsoir, nous sommes le Groupe de Poesie Moderne!" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poesie 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.

[The Groupe performs a third piece, opening with the line "Bonjour, ma tres belle, je suis inquiet pour toi." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poesie 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.

[Thanks the Groupe de Poesie Moderne. Announces an open mic (not part of this recording), as well as upcoming events.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then closeup as Lee Gotham thanks the performers and makes announcements.

[Ibolya ("Ibi") Kaslik announces the duo will perform unplugged. Amy Millan corrects the pronunciation of her last name. Kaslik introduces their first piece is titled "Show me" and is an original composition. The duo performs "Show me," with Kaslik leading the vocals. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as the duo Edith's Mission enters the stage, sits, picks up their guitars, and plays a first song. Ibi Kaslik holds a black acoustic guitar and wears black long-sleeved shirt, long light-brown hair parted in the middle, two hair clips. Amy Millan holds a light brown acoustic guitar and wears a gray long-sleeved shirt and long dark hair.

[Duo performs a song beginning with the line "Well, today," with Amy Milan now leading the vocals. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as the duo Edith's Mission performing UnknownSong1.

[Duo performs a song including the chorus line, "I know he's somewhere out there," with Ibi Kaslik leading the vocals this time. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as the duo Edith's Mission performing UnknownSong2.

[Duo performs a last song, called "Every Day," Ibi Kaslik leading the vocals. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as the duo Edith's Mission performing "Every Day." The duo then stands up and leaves the stage while carrying their guitars.

[Vocalizes and grunts into the mic, performing a piece beginning with the lines, "I've got this thing on my. Don't mind me. I've just got this grinder sitting on my shoulder." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup then closeup as Kate Alsterlund enters the stage and performs a piece. Alsterlund wears a long-sleeved white turtleneck-style blouse with a cutout between neck and bust, neck-length light brown hair, and round dangle earrings.

[Noise of a bench being dragged. Introduces himself and announces he will read some poems, the first one about someone reading a poem at a cafe, titled "No poems about sex, please." It has end rhymes. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Tom Chamberlain drags a bench to the mic, sits on it, then performs a poem. Chamberlain wears a red-and-blue plaid shirt over a white t-shirt, and short blond hair.

This is a deconstructionist poem, so feel free to take it apart [laughter]. It's called, "This poem contains content" [laughter]. It's like those sex ads at night, where the woman comes on TV and says, "Are you lonely? We are" [laughter]. [Performs "This poem contains content." Laughter throughout. Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Closeup as Tom Chamberlain performs a piece.

This is a poem about how Montreal winters can affect you, (?) drive inside your apartment, inside yourself. You implode and then it's spring, so. It is spring. Tonight it turns spring while we're sitting here. (?) This is called "The winter of my discount tent" (sic.). [Performs "The winter of my discount tent." Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Tom Chamberlain performs a piece.

[Video resumes mid-sentence] manifestation of their worldly business. So, I'm gonna bring the lights down. I want everybody to sit down and enjoy the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. [Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium long shot of the stage, with Lee Gotham standing by the members of the Fluffy Pagan Echoes (Justin McGrail, Vince Tinguely, Scott Duncan, Victoria Stanton, and Ran Elfassy), plus an audience member helping set up equipment. Gotham wears a dark button-down long-sleeved shirt and shoulder length light brown hair.

[Ambient noise (audience talking.) Ran Elfassy shouts "OK! I've got something to say" and initiates a collective poem, with each member of Fluffy Pagan Echoes repeating the line "The solstice came at nine-fourteen this evening."] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a collective piece without mic.

[Elfassy salutes the audience, asking several people "How are you." Breathes into the mic. Sets up his piece as if in a play, saying "Now, a young man enters, stands, takes his space." Performs the first part of a piece inspired by television, beginning with the line, "The television surveys the audience."] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy as he picks up some papers and walks to the mic to salute the audience. Elfassy wears a long-sleeved striped shirt over a darker t-shirt and buzz cut hair. Walks away and then back to the mic, as an actor entering the stage in a play. Performs a piece while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. Elfassy gesticulates as if pressing a remote control towards the audience.

[Elfassy performs the second part of his piece, beginning with the dedication, "This is for all of those of you who bleed." Scattered laughter after some lines.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy performing the second part of his piece. Elfassy often gesticulates, acting out lines of the piece.

[Elfassy performs the third part of his piece, beginning with the line, "If you don't believe in abortions, you shouldn't have one."] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy performing the third part of his piece.

[Elfassy performs the fourth and last part of his piece, beginning with the dedication, "Slogans passing out." Scattered laughter after some lines. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Ran Elfassy performing the fourth and last part of his piece. Walks back into the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members standing upstage.

[Ambient sounds, scattered audience laughter.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Justin McGrail takes off his beret and puts on a jacket borrowed from Scott Duncan, while the other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes leave the Bistro 4 through the full-wall window and start making funny faces at the audience.

[McGrail performs a piece beginning with the line "In viewing the castles of (Paris?)." Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Justin McGrail performing a piece. McGrail wears a black blazer over a white shirt and dark brown hair. The other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes make funny faces and gestures at the audience, right outside the full-wall window of Bistro 4. The camera zooms into and pans from right to left, showing the performers behind the window. At some point we see Ran Elfassy making faces at a pedestrian passing by. At the end of the piece, McGrail turns to the window and bows to the performers, who bow back from behind the window.

[Ambient sounds, scattered audience laughter.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Justin McGrail returns the blazer to Scott Duncan, while the other four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes file back into the Bistro 4 and form a row behind Duncan. Duncan searches for something in the pockets of the blazer and finds a folded piece of paper.

[Duncan performs a piece beginning with the line "I love art, I hate art galleries." Audience laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Scott Duncan performs a piece. Duncan wears a black blazer over a plaid button-down shirt and short curly dark brown hair The four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. At some point, Ran Elfassy sits down on the stage.

[Duncan performs a piece beginning with the line "Dear Scott" and a quote from Barbara Woodhouse: "Never pat a dog on its forehead. Such activity will result in the dog developing a superiority complex." Audience laughter. Following Woodhouse's quote, Duncan reads what appears to be the piece's subtitle, "Gaudí's cathedral postscriptum." Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom into medium shot as Scott Duncan performs a piece, while some members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes remain visible, standing side by side, behind him. At the end of the piece, the camera zooms out as Duncan folds and returns the piece of paper to his blazer pocket, then rejoins the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members upstage.

[Tinguely introduces piece by quoting Ann Diamond, from a May 1992 issue of the Books in Canada magazine: "If ignorance is bliss, then Hell, with a capital H, is consciousness." Following the quote, the piece begins with the lines, "This made me ask some questions: how conscious is conscience?" Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Vince Tinguely performs a piece, while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him. Tinguely wears a white plain t-shirt, round glasses, and white short dishevelled hair. Upstage, Justin McGrail passes a glass of water to Scott Duncan, who in turns passes it to Victoria Stanton. The camera zooms into a medium short, alternating it with different degrees of closeup as Tinguely performs. Tinguely uses several paper bags as props, wearing them as hats and gloves, and drawing different symbols on them (e.g., a hammer and sickle, a swastika, a gender female sign) to represent different types of consciousness. At the end of the piece, Tinguely rejoins the row of Fluffy Pagan Echoes members upstage as the camera zooms out to a medium long shot.

[The group performs a sound-poetry chorus by repeating the word "seesaw" in different speeds and tones. As a solo against that background chorus, Ran Elfassy then performs a piece, beginning with the line "I swear I saw it with my own eyes." After Elfassy finishes his piece, the background chorus continues for a few more beats. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium long shot and medium shot as four members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a sound-poetry collective piece without mic. In front of the group, Ran Elfassy performs a solo piece against the background chorus. Elfassy wears a black and white striped long-sleeved shirt over a brown high-necked shirt and dark buzzed hair. Both Elfassy and Justin McGrail use hand gestures as if conducting the audience. At the end of the piece, Elfassy tilts his head down, in silence, while the

[Ambient sounds (voices.) Stanton performs a RAP piece beginning with the lines "Smash the windows, take the clothes / don't deny me the right to my fashion freedom." The other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes join Stanton in reciting the repetitions of the opening line, as a refrain. At some point, Justin McGrail starts beatboxing in the background. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Victoria Stanton sips water and talks to Vince Tinguely. Stanton wears a dark sweater and neck-length dark hair with bangs and a hair clip. Alternating medium long shot and different degrees of closeup as Victoria Stanton performs a piece, while the four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind her. Some nod with the beat of the poem. At some point, Justin McGrail starts beatboxing in the background.

[The collective performs a sound-poetry chorus by repeating the words "Toy Boat," each member initially reciting it in different speeds and tones, then gradually converging. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and perform a sound-poetry collective piece without mic.

[The five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes say each other's first names, amid applause: Justin, Vincent, Scott, Victoria, and Ran.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes stand side by side and introduce each other by rotating who speaks at the mic: after the first person on the left is introduced by the second, the first walks behind the group to the fifth position, until all are introduced.

[McGrail performs a piece opening with the line, "It was a crucifix, (but?) it was made of star." Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium long shot then different degrees of closeup as Justin McGrail performs a piece. McGrail wears a long button-down white shirt, two rings on the left hand, earring on the left lobe, and short dishevelled dark hair. The four other members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes, side by side, stand behind him.

[The group performs a collective piece. Each member says the line "It's all about" and completes the sentence with a different final word; when Ran Elfassy adds, "And letters," the collective interjects "Eh?" Elfassy then leaves the stage, walks among the audience, and returns to the group asking, "See? Did you get it?" A dialogue ensues, about the possible meanings of the sound "C/See." The group then plays several games with different parts of the audience, before returning upstage and saying, in unison, "What we have here is a Cafe. Resistance is reasonable. Thank you for your cooperation." Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium shot as the five members of Fluffy Pagan Echoes perform a collective piece. At first, each member says one line, then Ran Elfassy leaves the stage, walks among the audience, and returns to the group, at which point the piece becomes a dialogue between Elfassy and the other four members of the group. The group then moves about the stage, playing several games with different parts of the audience, then returns to a row upstage to thank the audience. The camera zooms out to a medium long shot as the some members of the group drink water amid applause, then the group leaves the stage.

[Asks where Lee (Gotham) is. Someone in the audience says, "What are you waiting for?," which McGrail repeats into the mic.] | Video Description: Cut to Medium long shot as Justin McGrail speaks into the mic while several Fluffy Pagan Echoes members block the camera's view while leaving the stage.

[Thanks Fluffy Pagan Echoes, citing their book, "A word circus" (Montreal: Egg Sandwich/Sandwich aux oeufs, 1994). Thanks the audience and makes announcements.] | Video Description: Cut to a zoom into Lee Gotham on stage. Long-sleeved kimono-style wine patterned shirt, long brown loose hair, beard. Gotham makes final remarks, first looking at Vince Tinguely, who is gathering objects on stage. Zoom out to a medium closeup, with Gotham holding a glass while continuing his remarks, with Tinguely visible behind him.

And glad to see the enthusiasm hasn't waned. As everyone is more or less comfortable and ready and not grumbling and over-ready we're gonna forge straight right into the evening's offerings. I have a lot, all of a sudden, of open mic participants, half of which I'm going to insert between the two sets our feature performer will give us this evening, and without [long pause midsentence.] | Video Description: A medium shot of Lee Gotham in front of the microphone, making introductory remarks. Gotham wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt and a matching yellow bandana tied around head. The camera zooms in for an extreme closeup as Gotham pauses.

Ok. I have to apologize, I don't think I've ever had so much trouble with the cassette deck (?). Wasn't much on the way of a half-time entertainment. But, with a second-act like I have this evening for us, I'll cut the apology short because I know the wait is gonna be worth the while. And, I'd just like to introduce anyone in the room unfamiliar with Dee Smith to herself and her work, a wonderful emerging of dub poetry and the versifying of her own make (sic). Please join me in welcoming Dee Smith to the microphone. [Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Lee Gotham walking on stage and adjusting the mic. Gotham wears an open sweater with abstract details over a v-neck t-shirt, full beard, and long hair tied in a bun. Different degrees of zoom as Gotham introduces Dee Smith as the second act of the evening. Note the event was copied to the VHS tape not in chronological order, and the digitized file preserves such sequence: act 2 (event headliner); act 1 (opening acts); act 3 (open-mic).

Good 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.

Installment of Enough Said, performative word event series. Um, don't be put off by all the musical acrobatics, we're definitely going to be concentrating on words as always. Um, we're going to start off as always also with a couple open mic participants. I see Brian's up first. Um, well, let me just wish everybody a Merry Christmas in case I forget a little later on, um, remind everyone that the series will run for the foreseeable future in the new year, um, starting back on the 9th, the second Monday in January. Come on out, see the likes of bill bissett, Ian Stephens, number of other word (?). And. Brian, I think if uh, you're in the house and ready to go, I think it's (?) there he is, jumping up in his seat. (?) going to come up and start the evening off for us, so please, make yourselves comfortable, and enjoy the evening. [Brief pause.] Suppose I should mention that the featured performer tonight is Anne Diamond and the second feature performer (?). If anyone is particularly enamored by those individuals, please hang out, they'll be up here before long. | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic, then zooms into medium shot as Gotham adjusts stage equipment for Brian and speaks into the mic again. Gotham wears a grey collared shirt with sleeves rolled to elbows over a white collared shirt, black taqiyah-style hat with a small folded visor, and shoulder length brown hair.

[Ambient sound. Audio muffled at first] Well, nice to see so many new faces among the old, and everyone else here on The Main, a beautiful... is it Monday?, it's always Monday isn't it?, it's a silly question, Monday night, thanks for coming out. It's almost like a last instalment of Enough Said, I suppose, although it's really something distinct. It's an independent production, it's a special presentation, it's my way of returning the favour that our Toronto cousins, Jill Battson and company, did us a week and a half ago, by hosting a number of us Montreal washed, unwashed, bright poets. This evening we're presenting "It Came from the 401," or at least (what is?) the 401, somewhere in the midst of it. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Gotham making introductory remarks on stage. Gotham wears a grey t-shirt, stud earring (perhaps two earrings) on the left lobe, sunglasses used as a headband, and long hair.

Further ado?

Well, I'm just making sure there isn't any further ado, but uh, I suppose (?) without any further ado, in this corner, hailing from Toronto, Ontario, published doubly with Talonbooks, Memewars and The Empress Has No Closure, both of which, among other items, by the way, are available in this corner, and anyway, during the evening, just come on over, acquaint yourselves with Adeena Karasick. Would you all please welcome Adeena. [Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to a medium shot as Gotham introduces Karasick. Gotham adjusts the mic.

[Thanks the audience for waiting. Says she'll read a couple of pieces, some of them in "Jamaican Dialect" (Jamaican Patois), others in standard English. Asks the audience if they'd like her to start with something nice and sweet or some real radical stuff. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Dee Smith enters stage and Lee Gotham adjusts the mic. Smith wears a green short-sleeved shirt over a black long-sleeved turtleneck, black Breton cap, pendant necklace, flower earrings, stud nose ring, plus several finger rings.

Jill Battson, Nancy Dembowski, Stan Rogal, and Mike O'Connor will be joining us. A number of canine, feline friends are probably dropping from time to time as well. [Laughter]. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham continuing with introductory remarks. The ears of a dog or cat become visible over Gotham's right shoulder, through the window, causing audience laughter until Gotham turns back to acknowledge the animal's presence.

[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.

And we are all going to have a hell of a time here, so please just sit back, order your drinks as you see fit, you know, poets are not the highly sensitive types they are made out to be. It means the vending is doing better, the series is going longer, anything like it, well, I think they'll understand the clinking of glasses, requisite in wetting your whistles. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham continuing with introductory remarks.

In any case, without too much further ado, I'd like to introduce you to a woman who for many of you won't require introduction, but I'll give it to you in any case. Jill Battson is the program coordinator for The Poets' Refuge reading series and has produced the Word Up video series for MuchMusic, (bravo?), and co-produced the CD for Virgin Records (Virgin/EMI Music Canada, 1995). Jill's poetry is published in Playing in the Asphalt Garden, Insomniac Press (1994). She has produced The Poetry Express, a poet's and playwright's reading series at Fringe Festival of Toronto, Wordapalooza, the spoken-word stage for the Toronto portion of the North American Lolapalooza tour, and the first festival of the spoken word. Jill's now working on going from high priestess to poetry goddess status in 1995. Please welcome the first one reading this evening, Jill Battson. [Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham introducing the first reader.

[Asks audience if they can hear him. Says he will read "quiet poems" tonight. Introduces and performs piece titled "Andrea's Christmas" by Toronto author Henry [Nimuth?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot as Campbell bends down to pick up large black folder. Campbell wears a light blue sweater over a medium blue collared shirt, dark hair, dark inch-long beard, and wire-rimmed glasses. Zooms into medium closeup as Campbell speaks into the mic, and zooms out to medium shot as Brian performs a piece.

[Invites the audience to snap their fingers or tap their toes, then demonstrates the rhythm they should keep while she performs. Performs a piece opening with the line, "What da hell, what da hell, what a situation." Applause. Smith explains the title is "Shituation Critical" (sic).] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Dee Smith snapping fingers to demonstrate to the audience the rhythm they should keep while she performs. Performs a piece. At the end of the piece, zoom into a closeup as Smith makes remarks.

[Ambient sounds. Recorded drumming music. Colin Christie and Corey Frost perform a dialogue using only the monosyllables "Guh!" and "Gah!" until they agree on the pronunciation "Gah!" for the name of "ga press."] | Video Description: Colin Christie and Corey Frost walk to the stage, each carrying a TV set on their shoulders. Christie wears a hat, a striped shirt, and a pendant. Frost wears glasses, loose long hair, a pendant, and a sweater with a fair-isle pattern around the collar. They proceed to set up AV equipment, helped by Lee Gotham. Christie and Frost each hold up a TV covering their respective faces. Laughter. The TVs play video-introductions of ga press. Camera zooms in and pans between the two TVs. Christie and Frost bring the TVs down, while still holding on to them. Frost walks to the middle of the audience, while Christie remains on stage and they perform a call-and-response piece, with Frost slowly walking to the stage and eventually hugging Christie.

(?) when I become goddess, I'm gonna be Madonna of poetry, that's what I'll be aiming for; a legend in my own mind. Reads "The tartness prickling my tongue" (published as "Nicked" in Playing in the Asphalt Garden, edited by Mike O'Connor, Insomniac Press, 1994). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson making brief introductory remarks, then reading while holding a pack of printed pages. Battson wears a leaf-patterned black-and-white vest over a white t-shirt and pixie-cut red hair with bangs. Camera zooms out and in a few times.

[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.

[Introduces the next piece as dedicated to "some sisters" Dee Smith used to work with and some of which "didn't have a strong sense of self, of who they were." Performs piece titled "As Nubian as." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Introduces and performs piece titled "For E. P.", written for Ezra Pound. Explains Pound's "ABCs of Poetry" (note: Campbell misspoke, and book's title is "ABCs of Reading"). Applause. Says something indiscernible into the mic.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Campbell picks up red folder from floor, speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.

[Explains that the next poem was written during an Action Poetry three-week retreat with thirty poets, at the Banff Centre for the Arts, in 1994. Reads ("Bivouac"?), beginning with the line "I watched the progression." Four-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a medium closeup of Jill Battson introducing and reading a poem.

[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.

So, this one is a little riddle. At the end of it, you tell me what you think it's all about, and that's the title of it. [Performs riddle piece. Applause. Remarks on the piece.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Dee Smith introducing a piece, then medium closeup as Smith performs it. At the end, closeup as Smith comments on the piece.

[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 over a trolley cart, which also holds an almost full glass beer bottle. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece.

[Contextualizes the series of poems called "The Apology Letters" and reads one of them, beginning "I don't know you very well." Laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Zoom from medium shot into a medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.

[Introduces and performs "a funny little piece" about hair. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup then extreme closeup as Dee Smith introduces and performs a piece.

[Thanks Brian. Invites Beau Williamson to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Introduces the piece, though indiscernible due to low speaking level and high background noise in the audience and on the tape. Performs piece beginning with the line "I had a beautiful hour of naked day that I wish to describe."] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Williamson wears a white "Rocky Horror Picture Show" graphic t-shirt with red lettering and black trim, long light brown hair, and large glasses.

[Introduces and performs a political piece about, in Smith's words, "some of the things I've seen some of my Black sisters going through." Smith alternates between Jamaican Patois and standard English. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

Hi, 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.

[Introduces and performs piece titled "Pictures of the Same Person."] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms into medium closeup and zooms out again as Williamson performs a piece.

[Introduces the next poem, written in Jamaica, about British playwright Noel Coward. Reads poem beginning with the line "We are up" (published as "Painting with Noel" in Hard Candy, Insomniac Press, 1997). Shout from audience member, then applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.

[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.

[Performs piece beginning with the line "Tired hands greet the limp phallus of joy."] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Williamson performs a piece.

[Mentions that Yule is coming and decided to write and perform a poem about the month of May anyways. Introduces and performs poem titled "May." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Williamson performs a piece.

[Reads "I burnt the ridges of my fingerprints smooth" (published as "Kathy" in Word Up, edited by Jill Battson and Ken Norris, Key Porter Books, 1995; and later in Hard Candy, Insomniac Press, 1997). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.

[Introduces a piece saying "some people might think this is about smoking, but there's a hidden message in it somewhere." Performs piece titled "Herbs: Ganja, Marijuana, (Cannabis?)." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Announces that there will be one more open mic performer before the first feature. Invites Jen Frankel to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic and lowers it.

[Dedicates the poem to a friend who died from AIDS-related causes. Reads "Morphine Headache" (partially published as "A Morphine Headache" in An Invisible Accordion, edited by Jennifer Footman, Broken Jaw Press, 1996; and, later, in complete form, in Hard Candy, Insomniac Press, 1997). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Jill Battson contextualizing and reading a poem.

[Says they have no sense of time and brought a clock. Seems to discuss with Gotham (off-screen) how long they can perform. Introduces and performs a piece titled "Ode to Beauty." Applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down to a medium shot as Frankel speaks into the mic. Frankel wears a loose black button-down shirt and short medium brown hair pulled back with a thick black bandana. Loose closeup as Frankel seems to talk to Gotham off-screen. Camera angles alternate between medium shots and medium closeups as Frankel speaks into the mic again and performs a piece.

The next piece is a two-part piece; and it was written after the last craziness that took place at Carifiesta, you know, the holiday when Black people get in the streets and get all crazy. Well, I was rather upset the last time something like this happened. [Performs "Carifiesta daytime" (Part 1) and then "Carifiesta nighttime" (Part 2).] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Reads "S&M" (published in Playing in the Asphalt Garden, edited by Mike O'Connor, Insomniac Press, 1994). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out and in, settling into a medium shot of Jill Battson, who contextualizes and reads a poem.

[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.

[Reads "Sea Grapes." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Jill Battson reading a poem.

[Introduces and performs "Declare war," primarily in Jamaican Patois. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Introduces and performs two chapters titled "A Clockwork Cat" and "Cathedrals and Crashing in Seas Without Shores" from a longer prose piece titled "Susan by Greyhound."] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Frankel speaks into the mic and performs a piece.

[Thanks Jill Battson and introduces Nancy Dembowski. Highlights that Dembowski was included in the aforementioned Word Up CD co-produced by Jill Battson (Virgin/EMI Music Canada, 1995) . Applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup of Lee Gotham, who introduces the next performer, Nancy Dembowski. Zoom out to track Dembowski walking towards the stage.

[Introduces and performs "Reality." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Performs poem beginning with the line "Turbaned guy keeping guard outside that Indian dive" (published as "Living with Shirley in Georgetown" in Word Up, edited by Jill Battson and Ken Norris, Key Porter Books, 1995; and later in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Applause.] | Video Description: Camera tracks Nancy Dembowski walking towards the stage and carrying a glass and some papers. Dembowski wears a black-and-white patterned dress, shoulder-length dark hair, and a necklace. Camera zooms into a closeup, as Dembowski smiles to the audience and immediately starts performing a poem from memory. Mid-performance, the camera zooms out to a medium shot. Dembowski frequently adjusts her hair back, away from her face.

[Introduces and performs "Cool but deadly." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Ambient sounds. 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.

[Introduces and performs "Some kind of love thing" as a love piece. Minute-long silence between introduction and performance, as Smith looks for the piece among papers. Applause.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Performs from memory a poem beginning with the line "The waiter cracks an egg" (published as "Sweets" in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). The Bistro landline rings mid-performance. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup then medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski performing a poem.

Well, for any and all of those down on Toronto, there's one very good reason we might reconsider, at least momentarily, for the evening, the value of our sister city. Okay, we are going to segue into, segue, word for the evening, into a short open mic segment. As we have a number, we'll dispose of the first four of them. Number of things on the horizon in the spoken word genre here in Montreal in the near future, first of which [pause] for immediate release, Saturday twenty fifth of this month, that's a little more than a week away, Building Dance just east of St Laurent on Pine Avenue, Wired on Words, the set release of spoken word projects number three, Ian Stephens, Diary of a Trademark on audio cassette, with a number of local support performers. Come on out, Saturday March twenty fifth, Building Dance, just east of des Pins. Building Danse (?) cool presentation, I may add. Okay, let's do this open mic thing. Please get up, stretch your legs, get to the bar, every drink counts to keep the ball rolling (with?) Enough Said, Vince Tinguely, Vince, my fellow Fluffy (?) friend, come on up to the microphone, please.] | Video Description: Adjusts mic and introduces next segment. Pauses and reaches to his left to grab a folded up piece of white paper. Reads from it. Calls someone to the stage. Medium shots and extreme closeups throughout.

Hey, 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.

[Explains that the next piece is a found poem, from the first paragraph of "The Sea-Hare" fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Performs from memory a poem beginning with the line "It was once upon a time a princess." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Nancy Dembowski performing a poem. During the applause, the camera zooms out to a medium shot of Dembowski drinking from a glass.

[Explains a dream he had involving Donald Sutherland who said, "I like to write as if I am reading." The audience collectively says, "I love you" in response to Tinguely's balloon prompts (see video description.) Vince says, "thank you." Applause.] | Video Description: Camera varies between medium shots and extreme closeups as Tinguely sets up unblown balloons and addresses the audience. Tinguely wears large wire-rimmed glasses, a black t-shirt, and white hair. Introduces the piece. Tinguely blows up a pink balloon, invites the audience to say the word "I" that is written on the balloon by waving it above his head. Continues with varying colours and sizes of balloons, each with one word printed on them to spell out the phrase, "I love you." Tinguely leaves the stage.

[Announces that the 1995 season will be more structured with time limits for open mic performers. Announces a break.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Cuts to Unknown_Musician1 quietly and sporadically playing snare drum and cymbal with brushes and Sam Shalabi fingerpicking jazz chords on guitar. Audience chatter in the background.] | Video Description: Long shot as Unknown_Musician1 plays small drum kit with brushes and Sam Shalabi finger picks an electric guitar. Unknown_Musician1 wears a blue and white argyle sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, a silver watch, glasses, and short curly dark brown hair. Sam Shalabi wears a red button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large metal-rimmed glasses, and thinning dark brown hair. Zooms into extreme closeup of Sam Shalabi looking around, chewing gum, and talking to individuals off-screen.

[Reads poem beginning with the line "Ran out of gas" (published as "Life on Venus" in Poetry Nation, edited by Cabico and Swift, Vehicule Press, 1998; and, with some variations, as "Life on Venus Avenue" in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.

[Introduces and performs another love piece opening with the line "Come away with me, beautiful lover." Applause.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Asks an unknown person to move away so the blackboard is visible (off-camera), which assumingly has bears the names of the open mic performers. Invites Kevin, the next open mic performer, to the stage.] | Video description: A medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic briefly, gesturing for something to be moved out of the way, and introducing the next performer.

[Exclaims that the open mic sign-up board is full. Introduces himself as the first feature performer. Says Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi are performing with himself for the first time. Introduces a piece as definitely not poetry. Audience collectively exclaims "aw."] | Video Description: Out-of-focus extreme closeup focuses and zooms out to closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Zooms out to long shot of Gotham speaking into mic, and Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi behind their instruments not playing. Zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, turns towards 1 and 2 and says something inaudible, and continues speaking into the mic.

[Explains that an old love poem to a lamprey eel and a collage of a lamprey eel were discovered while cleaning. Performs a piece titled "Lamprey, d'amour, My Life is Complete." Finishes the piece and continues to explain the relationship with the lamprey eel. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups and medium shots as Kevin introduces a piece, performs a piece, continues explaining the piece afterwards. Kevin wears a black long-sleeved sweater and short light brown hair. Kevin holds a large sketchbook that features a collage of a lamprey eel.

[Reads "Never" (published, with small variations, in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Zoom into closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.

[Begins performing a piece either titled or beginning with the line "Attention project proposals, explorations grants competition, Canada Arts Council."] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham begins performing a piece. Zooms into extreme closeup as Gotham says the line "one idea is a death of experience." Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.

[Reads ("Bastille"?). Three-second silence at the end of the poem, followed by applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.

[Introduces and performs a piece beginning with the line "Brother to brother" repeated several times. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Strike a discordant cord.] | Video Description: Off-screen.

[Resumes performing piece. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece.

[Reads "Ghosts" (published, with small variations, in Only the Ghost Has Lasted, Insomniac Press, 2000). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem. During the applause, Dembowski drinks from a glass.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "No, musicians should play as they see fit."] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham resumes performing a piece.

[Quietly playing uncertain chords and sparse drumming as Gotham continues performing.] | Video Description: Off-screen.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "The performer picks up a hammer." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham picks up hammer from off-screen. In between lines, dramatically hits a wooden block on stand to his right with hammer.

[Introduces and performs a piece about procrastination. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Dee Smith performing a piece.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "There can be no pause for the cause." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera angle alternates between closeups and medium shots of Gotham performing a piece and long shots of Gotham performing a piece, Unknown_Musician1 playing drums, and Sam Shalabi playing guitar.

[Introduces and performs a piece "for all the women in the house tonight," opening with, "If I said I didn't like the politics." Applause. Thanks the audience.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup of Dee Smith performing a last piece.

[Thanks Kevin, invites Sabrina to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and adjusts it.

[Introduces and begins performing a piece beginning with the line "images hanging in fountains." Pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Sabrina adjusts the mic and it tilts downwards. Sabrina wears a patterned black and white long-sleeved shirt and long medium brown hair with bangs swept to the side. Sabrina begins to perform, then pauses.

Video Description: Lowers the mic.

[Says to Gotham that she "will just be loud" and that she will likely "flail" and knock the microphone off its stand anyways. Continues to perform the aforementioned piece.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Sabrina speaks with Gotham who is off-camera, then an extreme closeup zooms out to a medium closeup as Sabrina performs piece with her arms crossed, periodically looking at a small piece of paper tucked in her right hand tucked under her left elbow.

[Reads "Borders." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Nancy Dembowski reading a poem.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "The performer is blurting out opinions to strangers." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Camera alternates between medium closeups and extreme closeups of Gotham performing a piece.

[Thanks Dee Smith and announces a break. Sudden cut.] | Video Description: Various degrees of closeup as Lee Gotham walks to stage and makes remarks. Video suddenly cuts.

Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham adjusting mic stand for Joe De Paul.

[Tells a story with surreal turns about his father being fired from his job, before directing his children to create a vegetable garden with ulterior motives. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Joe De Paul enters the stage. Joe De Paul wears a purple sweater, buzz cut with receding high hairline, stubble goatee and mustache, and a small hoop earring on right lobe. Various degrees of closeup as Joe De Paul tells a story.

[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.

[Introduces and performs a "travelling poem" beginning with the line "I knew you were bound for the USA," dedicated to a member of the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup to extreme closeup as Sabrina performs a piece.

[Lee Gotham announces a break and starts announcing upcoming events, when the recording skips ahead]. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup of Lee Gotham at the stage, making announcements. Cut to long shot of the audience, then pan to the left and to the right before cutting again.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "Opinions again: that's what I call using your head." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi begins quietly but becomes more prominent in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece.

[Lee Gotham introduces Mike O'Connor]. | Video Description: Medium closeup. Lee Gotham at the stage, introducing the next performer.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "It's a milk and honey mid-September, an [?] Indian coffee and cigarette summer" Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder and more complex in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece. Zooms into medium shot partway through.

[Introduces the first piece as a "Toronto poem" inspired by a Victorian house. Reads the piece, beginning with the line "Cool, clean, coloured walls." Applause.]. | Video Description: Medium closeup of Lee Gotham leaving the stage and Mike O'Connor entering the frame. Zoom into a closeup. O'Connor wears a greyish open button-down shirt over a black t-shirt with a partially visible white illustration and short black hair. O'Connor reads a piece.

[Introduces and performs an "angry woman poem" beginning with the line "I'm a woman agonized by a torturous itch." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Sabrina performs a piece.

[Performs a piece beginning with the line "I put my foot on an oil can." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Sabrina performs a piece.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "I went to the doctor for the first time in twelve years." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi softens in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.

[Thanks Sabrina, invites Rondo to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and adjusts it.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "Less about what you think, I still don't get it." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes louder in background with staccato chords. Asks Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi to play more soothingly. Laughter. Says "or ignore him."] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Looks over to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi, who are off-screen.

[Introduces and performs a piece about Crad Kilodney titled "Crad." Applause.] | Video Description: Loose and extreme closeups as Rondo performs a piece. Rondo wears a black open cardigan overtop a black shirt, short dark hair pulled back with bangs loose, two thin dark necklaces.

[Sam Shalabi continues to play complex drum beat, Unknown_Musician1 softens chord attack but plays complex progression.] | Video Description: Off-screen.

Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham sits down on something unseen and, holding the mic away from him, mouths something unseen to Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi.

[Play calmer jazz music.] | Video Description: Camera pans to long shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums with brushes and Sam Shalabi playing guitar.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "We were still sitting there on the beach listening to the crazy old Indian." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pauses.] | Video Description: Camera pans to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece sitting down. Camera alternates between closeups, medium shots and medium closeups as Gotham performs a piece.

[Introduces and reads "Not Irish." Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup. Mike O'Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.

I 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.

[The duo introduces and reads "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.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "Well, there wasn't a lot of story to it." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi resumes in major key. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece. Gotham stands up. Zooms out to longshot as Gotham picks up hammer on his left and pretends to hit himself on the head with it in between lines. Zooms into medium closeup.

[Introduces and reads "Holding Hands." Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out into a medium shot. Mike O'Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.

All 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.

[Announces upcoming literary events. Reintroduces Adeena Karasick. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Introduces and reads "Home." Applause, as well as approval shouting and whistling from the audience. | Video Description: Medium shot. Mike O'Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.

Welcome 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.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "That's good, that's just fine, now we'll just relax" delivered in a deeper tone than previously. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi barely audible in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs a piece.

[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.

[Ambient sounds. 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.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "An escaped convict fell into a deep hole someone had dug beside the roadway." Music reminiscent of middle-Eastern music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi plays in background. Sam Shalabi stops playing guitar part way through. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham leans backwards on something unseen and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as Gotham stands up and continues performing piece.

[Introduces and reads "Magnetic Poetry Kit." Applause. | Video Description: Medium closeup. Mike O'Connor reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.

[Performs a piece titled "Autobahn Cruise" (Memewars, Talonbooks, 1994). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece.

[Cut to Lee Gotham announcing the open-mic portion of the evening, then inviting Bill to the stage.] Video Description: Cut to a closeup of Lee Gotham making remarks and inviting an open-mic participant to the stage, while smoking a cigarette.

[Introduces and performs a piece opening with the line, "Among the mountains, we start the day like every day." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Bill entering the stage while smoking a cigarette. Bill wears a suit jacket over a button-down shirt and long curly hair. Various degrees of closeup as Bill introduces and performs a piece.

[Introduces and reads "Dream Poem." Audience laughs multiple times throughout the reading. Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot. Mike O'Connor reads a poem, then smiles and waves at the audience, leaving the stage amid applause.

[Performs a piece opening with the line, "The gratitude of savages." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background.] | Video Description: Zooms out to show Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi playing their instruments beside Gotham.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "The water's run out." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi becomes busier in the background.] Video Description: Long shot as Gotham performs a piece.

[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.

Video Description: Zooms into medium shot of Sam Shalabi playing guitar and chewing.

[Performs "Why." Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.

Video Description: Pans to medium shot of Unknown_Musician1 playing drums. Gotham is visible on the right side of screen.

Resumes performing piece. Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham continues performing a piece. Zooms out to medium shot part way through. Gotham expands arms like flying bird while performing.

[Introduces and performs "Seams." Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Thanks Mike O'Connor. Announces the upcoming Vox Hunt poetry slam, featuring Fortner Anderson, Carol Davison, and Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Distributes a pack of printed poems by Joe Blades, printed by Rob McLennan. Introduces Stan Rogal]. | Video Description: Camera zooms into a medium closeup of Lee Gotham at the stage, making remarks, distributing printed poems, and introducing the next performer. As Gotham leaves the stage, the camera zooms out into a medium long shot.

[Performs a piece opening with the line, "Come on frolic in my playground." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "Well now, where were we. You wanted to talk about sex today?" Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham performs piece. Camera alternates between medium closeups and medium shots throughout .

[Performs a piece opening with the line, "Glazed stare, disemboweled display." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Performs a piece opening with the line, "The forgiving sun again visits." Late thinning applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.

Video Description: Readjusts the microphone that has begun to tilt downwards.

[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.

This was written on a Christmas night, at a therapy house. [Laughter. Performs a piece opening with the line, "Living still among the crystal night." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Interacts with the audience. Introduces and reads "Postcard from Home" (published in The Imaginary Museum, ECW Press, 1993). Frequently interrupts the reading with ad lib comments, provoking laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom into closeup as Stan Rogal enters the stage and adjusts the mic. Rogal wears shorts, a black open short-sleeved shirt over a black graphic t-shirt with two faces in white and the words "BALD EGO," trimmed beard, and temple hair. Rogal reads a poem, then drinks from a glass.

[Ambient sounds. 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.

[Performs a piece opening with the line, "And if I gaze into the future." Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "I'd like to make it reasonably clear that I'm a frightened man." Sombre music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham pauses.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece.

[Performs a piece opening with the line, "If for this day, for this moment, me." Applause.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Performs a piece, opening with the line, "And, in the middle of my misery, my sanctity diminished." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a piece.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "The performer gradually regains his composure." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi continues in background. Gotham and music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi pause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham sips water and performs a piece. Zooms into closeup part way through, then zooms out to medium shot.

[Introduces and performs "Conformity." Thanks the audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Bill performs a last piece.

[Introduces and reads "Hourglass" (published in The Imaginary Museum, ECW Press, 1993). Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a medium closeup. Stan Rogal reads a poem.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Introduces "Personations: 7" as a piece close to a "language poem," from a book titled Personations (later published by Exile Editions, 1997). Reads "Personations: 7." Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot then into a medium closeup. Stan Rogal reads a poem.

[Resumes performing piece with the line "Failure to recognize boundaries between self and the world outside." Music by Unknown_Musician1 and Sam Shalabi ceases in the background. Thanks audience. Applause. Thanks audience and announces break before Ann Diamond's performance] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham performs a piece. Takes cigarette package out of pocket. Zooms out to long shot during applause. Zooms into medium shot when Gotham resumes speaking into mic.

[Introduces and reads "Personations: 24" as a poem written for Cafe Naked, a play (directed by Lisa Ryder, Bald Ego Productions, 1994; the poem was later published in Personations, Exile Editions, 1997). Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot. Stan Rogal reads a poem.

[Encourages the audience to ask for an encore. Applause.] | Video Description: Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and claps.

[Cuts to Gotham inviting Ann Diamond to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham speaking into the microphone.

[Says she planned to improvise but got nervous as she approached the venue. Introduces and reads from a pamphlet found outside the venue titled "A Free Lecture on Past Life Regression, Reincarnation, and Karma."] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and reads from pink pamphlet. Diamond wears a dark graphic t-shirt with the word "MAUDITE" and an orange devil printed on it over a reddish-brown cowl neck sweater with sleeves rolled up to elbows, hanging earrings, and short medium brown hair. Puts down pamphlet.

[Explains 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.

[Introduces and recites from memory "Bone Lady." Twice Rogal forgets his lines mid-performance, so he checks a piece of paper; laughter. Applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms out then immediately into a closeup. Stan Rogal performs a poem.

[Asks audience "do you believe that?" Laughter. Introduces and asks the audience a series of true or false questions beginning with "We are all survivors. True or false?" Audience shouts out a mixture of "true" and "false" after each.] | Video Description: Closeup as Diamond sips beer. Closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond reads from thick spiral notebook.

[Notes that the last piece Karasick performed will be featured in an issue of Pawn. Mentions that Karasick's books are for sale at the back. Mentions it is his birthday. Audience begins singing "Happy Birthday," banging on tables, and clapping. Lee invites D. Holmes to the stage.] | Video Description: Extreme closeups and medium shots as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic. Stands back and smiles as the audience sings. Speaks into the mic again.

[Introduces and recites from memory "Classical Joint Coffee, (Jazz in the Rocks?)." Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot. Stan Rogal performs a poem.

[Tells story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Invites Anna, who is in the audience, to ask question.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Diamond tells a story.

[Performs a piece beginning with the line, "Large V8, large grapefruit juice, cup of coffee." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and medium closeups as Holmes performs a piece. Holmes wears a red sweater over a grey collared shirt and short light brown hair swept to the left.

Was this a dream?

I'm not gonna tell you.

[Introduces and reads "It Was Suddenly As If" twice: first as Rogal wrote it, then as magazine editors published it, altering the meaning of the poem. Laughter. Applause. | Video Description: Medium shot, then zoom into a medium closeup. Stan Rogal reads a poem twice, then walks off stage.

[Resumes telling story about being kidnapped by the Rolling Stones and being taken to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Diamond telling story.

Thanks performers and makes announcements, mentioning the the Enough Said would resume in October. | Video Description: Long shot of audience clapping and Lee Gotham entering the stage. Zoom into a closeup of Gotham, who thanks the performers and makes announcements. Camera zooms out and pans left and right, showing the audience.

[Says it was a dream. Explains how under hypnosis people believe that dreams are real memories. Says she was on the national news with the next story that is not a memory or a dream. Tells a story about getting into a car accident during a hurricane on Poxy Island near Prince Edward Island with a short aside about Leonard Cohen. Audience laughter throughout.] | Camera angles vary between medium closeups and long shots as Diamond speaks into the mic and tells a story.

A voice offscreen says "alright, go for it." Ambient sounds and laughter. | Video Description: Cut to a long shot outside Bistro 4 but still inside the main building. Ian Ferrier skates with roller blades towards the camera, which pans to follow Ferrier, who does an 180; Ferrier then repeats the move toward the other end of a corridor. Ferrier has short hair and wears khakis and a jacket over a red shirt. A person with shorts, white t-shirt, socks and sandals gesticulates by Ferrier while smoking.

[Performs a piece beginning with the line, "What do you find more in, the lake, do you find more in." Applause.] | Video Description: Seems to ask someone off stage whether he can perform a little longer. Medium shots and extreme closeups as Holmes performs a piece.

[Thanks Holmes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic.

[Mentions that the Fluffy Pagan Echoes will perform next week. Invites David Jager to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic.

[Introduces and performs a piece called "Words." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David Jager performs a piece. J. wears a light brown striped button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow and dark brown hair falling onto forehead in strands.

[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.

[Introduces and performs a piece called "Missing." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as David Jager performs a piece.

[Introduces a piece called "Dream Chicken." Mumbles while looking through papers. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Looks through papers. Loose and regular closeups as David Jager introduces and performs a piece.

[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. Camera zooms out to medium long shot.

[Sudden cut to Gotham mentioning Endre Farkas will perform in the coming weeks. Invites Mitsiko Miller to the stage.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Asks the audience a series of true or false questions about her trip to the Caribbean with Mick Jagger among other topics. Audience shouts out a mixture of "true" and "false" after each.] | Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Diamond asks the audience questions and pauses as they respond.

[Mentions that "this is a very good evening." Mentions song by Anita Franco. Introduces and performs a piece called "Ennui" in French. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Mitsiko addresses audience and chews gum. Miller wears a black blazer over a black-and-white horizontal-striped shirt, black pants, and bleached hair in a shaggy pixie cut. Miller takes off denim jacket and reveals a black cardigan underneath. Medium shots and extreme closeups as Miller introduces and performs a piece.

Thank you ga press, Colin and Corey collectively. | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham at the stage.

[Introduces and performs a piece titled "Seguir Adelante, But Going Nowhere" Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as Miller introduces and performs a piece.

[Mentions that she wants to launch a project titled "Canada: The Untold Story" about recovering memories.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic.

[Reminds audience that the Fluffy Pagan Echoes will perform the next week. Notes that the next performer is part of the group. Invites Justin McGrail to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic, adjusts the microphone, and pushes the trolley out of the way.

[Mentions the Toronto Star trolley "freaks him out." Introduces and performs an untitled piece beginning with the line "It's not about who's around, secret whispers exclusive soundings." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Justin McGrail addressing the audience. Camera pans down to show outfit. McGrail wears white button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow and a small collar, a dark plaid kilt falling just below the knees with a sporran on a chain in front, tight black pants, white hiking socks scrunched up above black lace-up boots, a bracelet on each wrist, a necklace with a pendant, and short dark hair falling onto forehead. Medium shot to extreme closeup and back again as McGrail performs a piece.

[Thanks Ann Diamond. Announces Enough Said will return for a new season on January 9th, 1995 with performances by bill bisset and Sharon Nelson, as well as the second cassette launch of Wired on Words series on the 23rd. Announces the event is over. Thanks audience for attending and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Lee Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Cuts to Gotham inviting Vince Tinguely to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic.

[Introduces and performs a piece beginning with the line "[At the height of the?] Cuban Missile Crisis and a bowl of clean water." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Tinguely speaking into the mic zooms out to medium shot as Tinguely performs a piece. Tinguely wears a white t-shirt, large wire-rimmed glasses, and thin white hair.

[Thanks Adeena Karasick. Tells audience to buy books. Thanks Danielle "and company" for the venue. Reminds audience of event on des Pins mentioned earlier. Cut off mid-sentence.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks briefly into the mic. Video suddenly ends.

[Thanks Vince. Invites Amanda Blush to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites [inaudible] to the stage. After a few seconds of no one responding, invites Graham Olds to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic.

[Mentions he is from British Columbia which is very concerned with the environment. Introduces and performs a piece titled "If Elvis Was an Environmentalist." Applause.] | Video Description: Camera angles vary between medium closeups and medium shots as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Olds wears a red graphic t-shirt with black geometric designs and a face printed on the front, chin-length medium brown hair, and a thin moustache.

[Talks about riding bike from Tofino to Port Alberni. Performs a piece beginning with the line "When waves of adrenaline excrete from the renal cortex of your kidneys."] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece.

[Performs untitled piece beginning with the line "I'm a cappuccino cowboy." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic and performs a piece.

[Praises the Montreal metro system. Performs a piece beginning with the line "Never been the biggest fan of riding the bus." Invites Julie Crysler to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Olds speaks into the mic, performs a piece, and speaks into the mic again.

[Invites Ran Elfassy to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Says "hi" to the audience. Says his poem is not about fucking Leonard Cohen. Performs a piece beginning with the line "I was a lover last night, last night I was alone with a lover." Breaks midperformance to mention that the second half of the piece is titled "Crisis." Resumes performing. Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Elfassy speaks into the mic, performs a piece, speaks into the mic briefly, and resumes performing. Elfassy wears a white t-shirt, beaded necklace with square gold pendant, and dark hair in a small bun at the crown of his head.

[Thanks Elfassy. Invites Thoth Harris to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Says he will give an autobiographical statement before performing, stating that he is from Vancouver, that he was abused as a child, that his abuser recently died, and his girlfriend recently gave birth. Introduces and performs a piece titled "Breathing Space."] | Video Description: Medium closeup to medium shot as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harris wears a pinkish-grey plaid over a white shirt, grey and white striped scarf, and a grey toque with ear flaps and strings. Zooms into closeup part way through. Zooms out to medium shot as piece concludes.

[Introduces and performs a piece titled ["Samson's Lost Beach"?] ["Sam's on Glass Beach"?]. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Harris puts mic back on stand. Medium closeup as Harris performs a piece. Zooms out to medium shot as the piece concludes.

[Introduces and performs a piece titled "Damage Counter #1." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Harris speaks into the mic and performs a piece.

Video Description: Long shot as Gotham walks to microphone.

[Cuts to Berger in medias res performing a piece including the line "like being afraid of falling asleep, like going, like being."] Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Berger performs a piece. Berger wears a dusty rose button-down cardigan, thick gold chain, and short medium brown hair.

[Thanks Berger. Invites R. M. Vaughan to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.

[Asks audience if they are bored by performers mentioning their place of birth. Mentions that he lives in Toronto and is from the east coast. Mentions he runs the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Company. Mentions that all pieces he will read are from a series titled "Seven Sentences from Balzac's 'A Murky Business' and 'All of my Life'" and each include a Balzac quote. Performs a piece that, after the quote, begins with the line "Unless he's very large and the laws of perspective have bent for me."] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Vaughan wears a dark red and grey long sleeve button-down plaid, wire-rimmed glasses, and medium brown hair in a buzzcut. Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Vaughan performs a piece. Briefly zooms in on Vaughan's left arm gesticulating as the piece concludes.

[Dedicates next work to [?] Beddington who runs a queer publishing company that does not publish queer work. Performs a piece that begins with the line "You and me and politics."]| Video Description: Extreme closeup zooms out to medium closeup as Vaughan speaks into the mic. Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece.

[Performs piece including the line "remember you and I are not supposed, our bodies little principalities." Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen.

[Performs piece beginning with the line"Wholesome boy, gift from whatever gods rule that particular patch of cloud." Pauses intermittently throughout due to people loudly laughing and talking on the street.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece, occasionally stopping and turning to his right and left, looking off-screen.

[Introduces and performs a piece titled "[Lined?] Poem, Three Lines Long, About Hate." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Vaughan performs a piece.

[Thanks Vaughan. Encourages audience to see Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Invites [Harpy?] to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham adjusts the mic and speaks into it.

[Introduces and performs piece beginning with the line "It's the end of the semester, as you can see." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as [Harpy?] speaks into the mic and performs a piece. Harpy wears a grey-striped sweater without a zipper over a white shirt, single hoop earring, and short curly hair.

[Asks everyone to think of leaf cutting ants in preparation for Fluffy Pagan Echoes' event at Phoenix Cafe the week after. Performs a piece titled "The Bus Driver's Mona Lisa." Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Duncan speaks into the mic. Duncan wears a white cable knit sweater over a brown collared shirt, light wash baggy jeans, and dark brown messy hair. Medium closeup as Duncan performs a piece.

[Performs a piece beginning with the line "It is a sense of defeat that crawls over shoulders." Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as McGrail speaks into the mic and performs a piece. McGrail wears a black baggy t-shirt with the English flag printed on the left sleeve, long chain, and a light brown newsboy cap turned backwards with medium brown hair curling out the front. Zooms into closeup partway through.

[Encourages audience to go to Fluffy Pagan Echoes show. Announces a special surprise.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic.

Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna and Diamond walk on stage. Anna wears a lapelled leather jacket over a black turtleneck sweater and short dark brown hair. Diamond wears the same outfit as during her feature but also wears an oversized grey jacket and a yellow, red, and black patterned scarf.

[Says this will be an example of how sometimes speech in another language sounds serious when it is not and vice versa.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna lights a cigarette and speaking into the mic.

I will sing in Greek.

And I will translate.

[Sings in Greek.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium shot as Diamond sings into the microphone and then pushes the mic to Anna

[Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Anna speaks into the mic.

I didn't know it meant that. [Resumes singing.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Diamond speaks into the mic, sings into the mic, and then pushes the mic to Anna.

[Translates the words Diamond sang. Laughter. Announces she will do the other part. Sings.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Anna speaks into the mic, then takes off jacket. Zooms into closeup as Anna sings into the mic.

[Thanks Anna and Ann Diamond. Thanks the audience. Announces the end of the event.] | Video Description: Long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic.]

[Explains that she thinks it means "I love your beautiful eyes and I love your hair and get a job and don't run after the whores." Laughter.] | Medium closeup as Diamond speaks into the mic and then pushes the mic to Anna.

[Explains that it means "I don't want you to give me palaces and castles, I don't want you to give me riches like all the other sluts that you give them too, just feel sorry for the little parts of my heart, and just tell me that you love me." Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Anna speaks into the mic.

Evening, peoples, peoples, peoples. Thank you very much, once again, for coming out, taking in some of the sights and sounds of the Main on a Monday evening in spring. We've got a hot show for you guys tonight. [Laughs] It'll be a lot of fun, gonna be some serious fun as well. To get into things without blabbing about local events, as I'll probably find ample opportunity to do so during various points during the evening, I'd like to just say, well, you know, thanks for coming. Clifton's really going to dig it, I know you're going to dig him and, um, I got a couple special surprises, the first of who I'll introduce right now. It's Norman Nawrocki. Can you welcome Norman, he's going to kick things off for us. [Audience applause]. | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjusting microphone stand. Gotham wears a white collared shirt over a graphic t-shirt, long brown hair in bun, and a beard. Gotham introduces Norman Nawrocki, and adjusts microphone.

Evening, peoples, peoples, peoples. Thank you very much, once again, for coming out, taking in some of the sights and sounds of the Main on a Monday evening in spring. We've got a hot show for you guys tonight. [Laughs] It'll be a lot of fun, gonna be some serious fun as well. To get into things without blabbing about local events, as I'll probably find ample opportunity to do so during various points during the evening, I'd like to just say, well, you know, thanks for coming. Clifton's really going to dig it, I know you're going to dig him and, um, I got a couple special surprises, the first of who I'll introduce right now. It's Norman Nawrocki. Can you welcome Norman, he's going to kick things off for us. [Audience applause]. | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjusting microphone stand. Gotham wears a white collared shirt over a graphic t-shirt, long brown hair in bun, and a beard. Gotham introduces Norman Nawrocki, and adjusts microphone.

[Addresses audience. Introduces "Soldiers for Jesus, Get Off!" (later published in Rebel Moon: Anarchist Rants and Poems, AK Press, 1997). Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Narrocki wears a hoodie over a collared shirt and short blond/brown hair. C. Lee Gotham exits frame.

[Addresses audience. Introduces "Soldiers for Jesus, Get Off!" (later published in Rebel Moon: Anarchist Rants and Poems, AK Press, 1997). Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Narrocki wears a hoodie over a collared shirt and short blond/brown hair. C. Lee Gotham exits frame.

[Performs "Soldiers for Jesus." Audience snapping, stomping, and laughter throughout. Audience applause at the end.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki reads poem from a sheet of paper, snapping fingers to lead audience. After performing, Nawrocki exits via stage left. Lee Gotham passes through camera view. Various unknown audience members pass back and forth through camera view, briefly blocking Gotham.

[Performs "Soldiers for Jesus." Audience snapping, stomping, and laughter throughout. Audience applause at the end.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki reads poem from a sheet of paper, snapping fingers to lead audience. After performing, Nawrocki exits via stage left. Lee Gotham passes through camera view. Various unknown audience members pass back and forth through camera view, briefly blocking Gotham.

[Introduces Marcel (?). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham introduces Marcel and exits stage left.

[Introduces Marcel (?). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham introduces Marcel and exits stage left.

[Addresses audience. Reads in French and then translates to English a few lines from Victor Hugo's "La Function du poete," beginning with "Peuples ! Ecoutez le poete !"] | Video Description: Marcel enters from stage right. Marcel wears a white turtleneck, short brown hair, and a grey beard. Addresses audience through microphone then reads poem from book.

[Addresses audience. Reads in French and then translates to English a few lines from Victor Hugo's "La Function du poete," beginning with "Peuples ! Ecoutez le poete !"] | Video Description: Marcel enters from stage right. Marcel wears a white turtleneck, short brown hair, and a grey beard. Addresses audience through microphone then reads poem from book.

[Addresses audience and reads "Poem," beginning with the line "There's a rustling in the silence." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Marcel addresses audience while flipping through publications, then reads poem from held publication.

[Addresses audience and reads "Poem," beginning with the line "There's a rustling in the silence." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Marcel addresses audience while flipping through publications, then reads poem from held publication.

[Addresses audience and performs Unnamed Poem 2, in English. Audience applause.] | Marcel briefly addresses audience and reads poem from publication, pacing back and forth on stage, projecting voice without using microphone.

[Addresses audience and performs Unnamed Poem 2, in English. Audience applause.] | Marcel briefly addresses audience and reads poem from publication, pacing back and forth on stage, projecting voice without using microphone.

[Performs Unnamed Poem 3, beginning in French then switching to English mid-poem. Audience applause]. | Video Description: Marcel shuffles through papers and publications then performs Unnamed Poem 3, moving from stage left to stage right throughout. Nods at audience, gathers pages and publications; then nods to Lee Gotham who walks onto stage from stage left. Marcel and Gotham briefly interact and Marcel exits stage right.