Cadence 2022 – Cinema Divina: Contemplative Social Art Practice [Online]
Zoom workshop hosted by NWFF
Apr. 30 from 4–6pm PT
Apr. 30 from 4–6pm PT
This live Zoom event during Cadence 2022 is pay-what-you-can, priced on a sliding scale, $10–100*. Suggested min. contribution $30.
Cadence 2022 is a hybrid virtual-and-in-person festival. There are three categories of festival pass (though passes do NOT include workshops): VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person), all available here. Proof of vaccination and masks are required for NWFF patrons! Full Covid policies here.
Duration: 2h
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Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022 [Hybrid]
About:
Enliven your deeper wisdom, tenderness, and resilient spirit with contemplative, queer, media artist Marilyn Freeman through their illuminating practice of Cinema Divina.
As we face the ever-intensifying urgency of this troubled world we find ourselves in you are invited to open your heart through Cinema Divina—a contemplative, creative, social art practice. In this live virtual event, Cinema Divina creator Marilyn Freeman will guide participants through a meditative screening ritual with a film they created through and for contemplative practice.
Marilyn re-imagines the ancient Judeo-Christian ritual of sacred reading or lectio divina in today’s audiovisual vernacular as Cinema Divina—a contemplative screening ritual to deepen your inner knowing, and to increase your capacity for healing yourself and our world. In this event, as Marilyn guides you through a ritual of four increasingly revealing viewings, you will be invited into reverent silences, reflective writing, sharing and spacious listening.
Marilyn’s new, short poetic film, Like the Air—about love, loss, reflection, and resiliency—will serve as a vector for mindful attention, transporting you as a participant into deeper awareness of your own thoughts, emotions, intuition, and insights. Through the guided screening participants—individually and collectively—co-create the meaning of the piece with their own awareness, imaginations, and associations. Those who engage in this practice nurture their own source for insight into vulnerability, resiliency, gratitude, stillness, love, wonder, courage…. As a practice, Cinema Divina is a way of cultivating the conditions to be wholly awake and infinitely connected if only for a fleeting, wondrous moment.
FAQ: How do I participate?
- Reserve your sliding-scale ticket through Brown Paper Tickets.
- 1 hour before the program, NWFF will send a Zoom link and password to your registered e-mail address! (Don’t see it? Check your spam filter.)
- If you encounter any issues tuning in, please contact rana@nwfilmforum.org for a quick follow-up. (But please, check your spam first!)
Marilyn Freeman (they/them)
Media Artist | Writer | Queer | Contemplative
http://marilynfreeman.com
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Cadence: Video Poetry Festival 2022 Index
Cadence: Video Poetry Festival is an annual series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, held during National Poetry Month. The festival approaches video poetry as a literary genre that is presented as visual media, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image.
In its fifth year, the 2022 festival features 51 artist teams from throughout the world. Cadence is the Pacific Northwest’s only festival dedicated to the form of video poetry.
Short film programs at NWFF:
- When I’m not asking for permission (in-person Apr. 21, 7pm | online Apr. 21 – May 1)
- What is hidden needs to be seen (in-person Apr. 22, 7pm | online Apr. 21 – May 1)
- It is strange and kinda symbolic (in-person Apr. 23, 7pm | online Apr. 21 – May 1)
- Its flashes are flashes of fire (in-person Apr. 24, 7pm | online Apr. 21 – May 1)
Satellite short film programs:
- Internal Tides in Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water (in-person Mar. 18 – May 30 at Seattle Art Museum)
- As the wind is breathing (in-person Apr. 11–29 at Jack Straw Cultural Center, online Apr. 21 – May 1)
Live collaborations:
- Haiku You: An All-Ages Film Poetry Workshop (online Apr. 27, 4pm PT)
- Cinema Divina: Contemplative Social Art Practice with Marilyn Freeman (online Apr. 30, 4pm PT)
Literary resources:
- Poetry Book Fair (online)