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   [Date]: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 22:03:24 -0400
   [From]: Christy Sheffield Sanford <christys@gnv.fdt.net>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] misti lingua

This poetry slam (see announcement below) is one attempt to accomodate
several languages at once.  This is a special event, of course, but
I'm sure there'll be other projects similar to this one.  I suppose the
software of the future might be an email translator.  Everyone could
write in his or her preferred language and a program on the editor would
translate the message. 

Best wishes, Christy 
Christy Sheffield Sanford
http://gnv.fdt.net/~christys/index.html 




GLOBAL POETRY SLAM
October 16 [Sat] 3 PM, 
Hosted by Annie Lanzillotto with Alexander Walsh as Virtual Chat Jockey
With Regie Cabico, Guillermo Castro, Daniel Fern, Edvige Giunta,
Gerthie Owtram, Clare Ultimo, Yolanda Wilkinson, and special guests.

                                As part of the New Europe '99, The
Kitchen
(NYC & on site in Vienna), Radio Lilliput (Milan), Terminal Bar
(Prague),
and ChannelP.com present Global Poetry Slam- an inter-continental drift
of
words colliding in live webcast with four cities, five languages, a
dozen
accents and thirty voices. Featured in the slam are poets Regie Cabico,
Guillermo Castro, Daniel Fern, Edvige Giunta, Gerthie Owtram, Clare
Ultimo,
Yolanda Wilkinson, among others. The Kitchen event also includes
"Kitchen
Babel," which consists of 11 international NYC high school students
providing instant language translations. ChannelP.com will host an
online
chat surrounding the event.

                                The event is structured in rounds of
seven
minutes. Poems are read at one location and simulcast on forty-foot
screen
and computer terminals at The Kitchen and computer terminals at each of
the
European sites. Bi-lingual poets located on-site receive the poems and
instantly translate and perform them in another language. Hence, Global
Poetry Slam becomes the vehicle for poets to be "live" on two continents
at
the same moment, with the ruddy qualities of the instant translations
offering a unique and challenging experience to both performers and
audience.

                                To join the chat portion of this Global
event, simply enter channelp.com in you computer, and click on the
"launch
chat" button in the upper left corner of your screen.  This takes you to
the
pseudochat page, here you log-in as a member or guest (both are free),
and
hit enter.  The Global Poetry Slam chat will be conducted in the
channelP
chat room on the Psuedo online network, with chat jockey, Alexander
Walsh.
Chat away!  The Chat portion of the Global Poetry Slam starts at
2:30p.m.
and concludes at 5pm.


Alexander J Walsh
Director of Community 
Founding Editor- Art Attack
http://www.channelP.com
The Performance Channel