VEHICULE DAYS: Exhibit/ Reading/ Performance
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Vehicule Poets
Most writers spend their creative lives in solitude focusing on their own work. This was certainly true of the Vehicule Poets. But what differentiated them, aside from making art new again, was their desire to be community-minded. The Vehicule Poets wanted their poems to mean, but also to move, dance, sing, howl and play. They also wanted a lively community that encouraged inclusiveness and diversity.
They saw poetry as language at play in the most sacred of ways. Language at play, they felt, was freedom. Their association with the artist-run Vehicule Art Gallery fed into their aesthetic. They let themselves be influenced by artists from other disciplines, and over time, the reverse was also true. They became part of the avant-garde movement in Montreal. Through their individual and collective work, this “Group of Seven” (Endre Farkas, Artie Gold, Tom Konyves, Claudia Lapp, John McAuley, Stephen Morrissey and Ken Norris) revitalized Montreal’s dormant English language poetry scene and made it new again.
Exhibit/ Reading/ Performance
Please join us Thursday, April 26, 2018 for a public showcase of their archival material, including manuscripts, letters, journals, posters, manifestos, books and photos. Take an interactive touch screen virtual tour of their work and documents.
The highlight of the evening will be a reading by the Vehicule Poets and a lively presentation of their work scored for a multi-voice sound collective led by Kathy Kennedy, who currently directs the Concordia University chamber choir.
The exhibit will be on display in the Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room from April 26 to May 31. The material was gathered from Rare Books and Special Collections, and from the poets’ private collections.
The event is presented in partnership with the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival with thanks to Ms. Kathleen Weil MNA, M. David Birnbaum MNA and M. Jacques Chagnon MNA.
Seating is limited.
