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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

BSL renga on youtube!



With Words (and The 1000 Verse Renga Project) in partnership with the University of Bristol and BSL Poets, were involved in the Bristol Sign Poetry Festival, and creating the world's first BSL renga.

Running parallel to the Saturday night performance, which included two performed renga, were two all day renga workshops with people from England including various London areas, and Surrey; as well as Preston; Leeds; Bristol; Wales and Scotland; Belgium; Sweden; India; South Africa; Lithuania; and the Czech Republic.

Workshoppers practicised composing renga, and then performing renga (on film) before leaping onto the stage just a few hours after becoming renga poets.

We created four BSL renga over the weekend!


A 150 strong audience watched this world first, a British Sign Language Renga Performance, which made this the most memorable of Saturday nights!

Here are some of the BSL renga on youtube

Saturday night BSL renga performance:

weblinks:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuYo2d51lKA&feature=related 


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The 1000 Verse Renga Project
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BBC 1000 verse renga article:
http://tinyurl.com/rengaBBC

Phase Two at Bath Libraries:
http://tiny.cc/BathLibraries

Bath Chronicle renga page:
http://tiny.cc/BathChronicle79

Southbank Centre Global Poetry System:
http://tinyurl.com/SouthBankRenga

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2 comments:

Rachel Green said...

utterly brilliant!

Pris said...

Wow!!! I loved watching these. Not knowing sign language I so wish I'd known what they were saying.