Media Advisory: International E-Poetry Festival at UB to Feature Eclectic Visual and Sound Performances

The University at Buffalo will host the 2011 International E-Poetry Festival May 17-21, featuring two evening performances that offer unique opportunities to highlight the eclectic and avant-garde literary/musical/ performance art scene for which Buffalo is famous.

A Performance of Dance and Digital Poetry

Text and Media by Robert Creeley (to whom this year's festival is dedicated), Marcel Duchamp and festival poets

Jazz Performance by the Steve Swallow Quartet

Choreography by Anne Burnidge, Kerry Ring, Arielle Cole, Laura Curry, Tressa Gorman Crehan, Shelley Hain, Brianna Jahn and Tara Madsen..

7 p.m. and 9 p.m., Thursday, May 19, in the Black Box Theater, Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. Media are encouraged to arrive early. Doors close precisely at 7p.m. and 9 p.m.

Festival Gala Closing Performances

"A Sonic Encounter with Joan La Barbara," featuring American composer/performer/sound artist Joan La Barbara, who famously explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument that expands traditional boundaries. The performance will include music by John Cage, Morton Feldman and La Barbara.

"Speculative Scores," a performance by Lawrence Upton, UK poet, graphic artist and sound artist remarkable for the range of his genres and forms, and British experimental musician John Drever, whose music explores human utterance, the minutiae of everyday soundscapes and residual noise.

"Telmary & La Mamacita," a performance by rapper, activist and poet Telmary Diaz, a "Cuban rhyming revolution" and catalyst of that nation's hybrid hip-hop scene.

8 p.m., Friday, May 20, in the Black Box Theater, Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.

Press arrangements: Patricia Donovan in the UB Office of Communications at 645-4602.