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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival – an imperceptible mark
DESCRIPTION:Tracing a multilingual lineage through the condensation of our collective memory\, this showcase peers into the abstract spaces of female poets. A feature-length video poem and an accompanying screendance expand our understanding of mother tongue and of presence\, even in absence. Have we forgotten what the women before us bore\, broke\, and buried to survive? A chorus of layered voices invites us to remember. \nThis showcase features a poetic screendance: “Ausencia (Absence)” from Mexico. In a place woven with memories\, absence is invoked only to be recognized as something filled with presence. \nABOUT \nCadence Video Poetry is a literary media organization hosting year-round screenings\, an artist residency\, workshops\, and artist gatherings to nurture creative community through video poetry. \nEvent Date & Time: April 19\, 6:30-8pm
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival-an-imperceptible-mark/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cadence Video Poetry Festival":MAILTO:cadencevideopoetry@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival – proof that we were here
DESCRIPTION:Inventing realities not as escapism but as determinism\, these video poems perfect the alchemy of dreaming. A love story emerges out of the polluted atmosphere\, plant life blooms into a collage of words\, and ice melts into a procedural poem. Through new channels of communication with nature\, these shapeshifting films prove that the key to providing a sustainable future is protecting the past. \nThis showcase features a poetic screendance: “People Mountain People Sea” from China. The scales of carbon-based life are out of balance. We are ‘losing’ each other just as we are ‘losing’ our bodies. This film explores the dynamic equilibrium of the Five Elements in Taoism—Water\, Wood\, Fire\, Earth\, and Metal—alongside three sets of balance between disease and health\, war and peace\, rationality and emotion. \nABOUT \nCadence Video Poetry is a literary media organization hosting year-round screenings\, an artist residency\, workshops\, and artist gatherings to nurture creative community through video poetry. \nEvent Date & Time: April 19\, 4-6pm
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival-proof-that-we-were-here/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T190000
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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival – a sculpture of echoes
DESCRIPTION:Vegetal time meets time travel\, demonstrating the subtle ways in which we are interconnected and influenced by our environments. Urban infrastructure defines new habitats\, the hand that feeds nourishes a new intimacy\, and a surreal spell brings new life into being. Creation myth\, memory\, humor\, and history combine in unexpected ways as these video poems ask: Is it cake? Or is it chaos? \nThis showcase features two poetic screendances:  \n“Reach” from the US \nAt the crossroads of intimacy\, trails of invisible energy imprint as two wanderers maneuver throughout the landscape\, leaving hints of mirrored action yet inverted perspective. Through the shifting shape\, current\, and conduit of water\, “Reach” follows the journey of two people in search of the other. \n“WE’VE WORKED SO MUCH (ABBIAMO LAVORATO TANTO)” from Italy \nThrough a visual poem of words\, dance\, and matters\, the colossal forms of cement mixers in a deserted factory become transformative spaces. The notion of labor and motherhood is redefined through these looming metallic bodies of resonance—concrete mixers treated as productive organs\, sites of a life’s work. \nABOUT \nCadence Video Poetry is a literary media organization hosting year-round screenings\, an artist residency\, workshops\, and artist gatherings to nurture creative community through video poetry. \n  \nEvent Date & Time: April 18\, 7-9pm
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival-a-sculpture-of-echoes/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival – the gaps in me
DESCRIPTION:What lies beyond the watery weight of a body? Do mirrors reflect the dusty light of truth? Part ghost story\, part performance art\, and part art object\, these video poems forsake flesh and revel in repetition. Emerging from the sand and slime of our collective grief\, they reveal the shared realities of loss and persistence\, as told through sutures\, similes\, and mise-en-scènes. \n  \nThis showcase features two poetic screendances: \n“All ways.” from the US \nYou could not have tried any harder. \n“Blessed Are Those Who Grieve” from Germany \nA slice of an inner\, surreal landscape of grief. Melting somatic work\, multilayered soundscapes\, and digital spheres\, the film explores a hybridity of mourning through the birth of a creature pushing towards the reconciliation of a collective grief. \n  \nABOUT \nCadence Video Poetry is a literary media organization hosting year-round screenings\, an artist residency\, workshops\, and artist gatherings to nurture creative community through video poetry. \n  \nEvent Date & Time: April 18\, 4-6pm
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival-the-gaps-in-me/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival – you flew from my eyes
DESCRIPTION:Giving shape and voice to what’s felt but can’t always be seen\, touched\, or retrieved\, these video poems meditate on the marks we leave and with which we are left. Between earthly boundaries and open sky\, dances\, phone calls\, and a trampoline become buoys for self and other within the sea of time. \nThis showcase features “The Sky After Rain (Aseman Bad Az Baran)\,” a poetic screendance from Australia. Written after the arrest of his boyfriend during Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests\, this soaring work is based on a poem by exiled Iranian poet\, Payam Feili. \nABOUT\nCadence Video Poetry is a literary media organization hosting year-round screenings\, an artist residency\, workshops\, and artist gatherings to nurture creative community through video poetry.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival-you-flew-from-my-eyes/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T160000
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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Verse meets visuals in motion at Cadence Video Poetry Festival in April 2025. Cadence Video Poetry is a series of screenings\, workshops\, and discussions on the genre of video poetry\, taking place annually during National Poetry Month. The festival takes place in person April 24 at Frye Art Museum\, April 25–27 at Northwest Film Forum\, and online April 25 – May 4. Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media\, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. \nIn its eighth year\, Cadence Video Poetry Festival remains the only festival dedicated to the form in the Pacific Northwest. The festival program includes an opening preview and four themed screenings with works selected from an open call for submissions\, including video poetry by members of the 2025 screening team\, new work from two artists-in-residence\, and Cadence workshop outcomes.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival/2025-04-27/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Verse meets visuals in motion at Cadence Video Poetry Festival in April 2025. Cadence Video Poetry is a series of screenings\, workshops\, and discussions on the genre of video poetry\, taking place annually during National Poetry Month. The festival takes place in person April 24 at Frye Art Museum\, April 25–27 at Northwest Film Forum\, and online April 25 – May 4. Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media\, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. \nIn its eighth year\, Cadence Video Poetry Festival remains the only festival dedicated to the form in the Pacific Northwest. The festival program includes an opening preview and four themed screenings with works selected from an open call for submissions\, including video poetry by members of the 2025 screening team\, new work from two artists-in-residence\, and Cadence workshop outcomes.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival/2025-04-26/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T190000
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SUMMARY:Cadence Video Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Verse meets visuals in motion at Cadence Video Poetry Festival in April 2025. Cadence Video Poetry is a series of screenings\, workshops\, and discussions on the genre of video poetry\, taking place annually during National Poetry Month. The festival takes place in person April 24 at Frye Art Museum\, April 25–27 at Northwest Film Forum\, and online April 25 – May 4. Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media\, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. \nIn its eighth year\, Cadence Video Poetry Festival remains the only festival dedicated to the form in the Pacific Northwest. The festival program includes an opening preview and four themed screenings with works selected from an open call for submissions\, including video poetry by members of the 2025 screening team\, new work from two artists-in-residence\, and Cadence workshop outcomes.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/cadence-video-poetry-festival/2025-04-25/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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SUMMARY:NWFF: Cadence Video Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Verse meets visuals in Cadence Video Poetry Festival at Northwest Film Forum\, in-person Apr. 24–27; online Apr. 25 – May 4! Celebrate National Poetry Month with a pass to this hybrid festival featuring online\, in-person\, and satellite screenings. The festival’s four showcases and two satellite screenings include work from two artists-in-residence\, the outcomes of a generative workshop\, and more than 50 video poems in 11 languages from artists around the world! \nScreening times \n\n\nApril 24 at 6pm | a new place for these treasures (Festival preview in-person at Frye Art Museum Apr. 24): https://bit.ly/cadence2025frye \n\n\nApril 25 at 7pm | their love defies: https://bit.ly/cadence2025love (in person at NWFF) \n\n\nApril 26 at 4pm | my more-than-me: https://bit.ly/cadence2025more (in person at NWFF) \n\n\nApril 26 at 7pm | grounding into the space: https://bit.ly/cadence2025grounding (in person at NWFF) \n\n\nApril 27 at 4pm | we effervesce minutely: https://bit.ly/cadence2025minutely (in person at NWFF) \n\n\nArtist + audience gatherings \n\n\nApril 26 at 5:30pm (in person at NWFF) & April 27 at 10am (virtual) | Cadence Casual Gatherings: https://bit.ly/cadence2025casual \n\n\nApril 26 at 6:15 pm (in person at NWFF) | Craft Talk with w/ Visiting Artists: Lilián Pallares + Charles Olsen https://bit.ly/cadence2025craft \n\n\nLiterary resources \n\n\nPoetry Bookshelf [Online]: publications by Cadence artists for purchase\, support your favorite video poets! https://bit.ly/cadence2025books \n\n\nAbout Cadence Video Poetry \nCadence Video Poetry Festival\, presented by Northwest Film Forum\, programmed in collaboration with Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and intermedia artist Rana San\, is a series of screenings\, workshops\, and discussions on the genre of video poetry\, during National Poetry Month. \nCadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media that makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. Featuring screenings\, an artist residency\, generative workshops for youth and adults\, and juried awards\, the festival fosters critical and creative growth around the medium of video poetry. \nFeatured image: The Shadows of Paper Trees (still)\, dir. Aida Daneshvar & Christopher Dreisbach
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/nwff-cadence-video-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
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