Bridging Barriers Workshop Session

Intensive, 3-day work session of V+ slam poets and the Chicago team Speak'Easy Ensemble to create a special, multilingual poetic performance in the name of "Bridging Barriers". Speak'Easy, led by Marc Kelly Smith have created a training technique called "One Poetic Voice", an innovative process of oral intepretation, already used successfully with German and French poets in the past. Here, they will work with the V+ slammers to interlace the poetic texts of various (mostly Slavic, English and Hungarian) languages into a performance act, to be delivered a day before the main event of the Finals at Trafó. (http://www.marckellysmith.net/international.html).