Cadence 2022 – Haiku You: An All-Ages Film Poetry Workshop [Online]

Zoom workshop hosted by Echo Park Film Center
Apr. 27 from 4–5pm PT

** Free event! **
Donations to Echo Park Film Center are encouraged.

Cadence 2022 is a hybrid virtual-and-in-person festival. There are three categories of festival pass: VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person), all available here. Proof of vaccination and masks are required for NWFF visitors! Full Covid policies here.

Duration: 1h

About:

A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. A haiku often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time.” — Poetry Foundation

In this workshop for poets and new poets, filmmakers and new filmmakers, we begin with the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and transform them into short films. Free event! Everyone welcome!

This club meets monthly! We start with a viewing of video haikus made by participants using the previous month’s promt and then speed write haikus using a new prompt for the month to inspire the next creation. If you’d like to share work, bring a short video haiku—whatever that means to you, anything goes, not required to participate—in response to the March prompt IMAGINE PEACE!

FAQ: How do I participate?

Back to Festival Catalog:

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.

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