PROGRAM CLOUDBURST COUNCIL 2016

PROGRAM CLOUDBURST COUNCIL  2016  

Fri. May 13, 2016

noon-2:00     Early Bird Registration (enjoy the site)

2:00-3:00      Nature Walk: haiku moments

                       (an outdoor ramble of roadside, fields and woods at Gell Center)

3:00-6:00       Registration ongoing in Main Lodge

3:30-4:30       Beginning Poetry Circle (one poem from each poet)

4:30-4:40       Poetry reading Marge Merrill

4:40-4:50       Poetry reading Maril Nowak  

5:00-6:00       Light Dinner Served (soup, bread, green salad)

 6:00-6:05      Alan Casline: Welcome

6:05-6:15       Poetry reading: George Wallace 

6:15-6:25       Poetry reading: Stephen Baraban

6:25-7:35       Gallery Six Reading Reenactment (with John Roche, Michael Czarnecki, Nick Eckerson, Dwain  

                       Wilder, George Wallace, Michael Peters, ryki Zuckerman, etc.)  

7:35-8:35       Panel: Beautitude: (George Wallace, Kerouac’s holy goof; Alan Casline, Mexico City Blues;

                       Helen Ruggieri, Kerouac’s Haiku/Spontaneous Verse).               

 8:35-8:40       Martha Deed: Cloudburst thoughts and evening wrap-up

 8:40               Party 

 Sat. May 14, 2016

 8:30 Breakfast Served (oatmeal, cereal, fruit, bagels, eggs, etc.)

         Breakfast will be continuously served.

9:30-10:30        Remembering Ken Warren

10:30-10:40       Poetry Reading: Howard Nelson

10:40-10:50       Poetry Reading: Jane Sadowsky

10:50-11:00       Poetry Reading: Michael Peters

11:00-11:10       Poetry Reading: Helen Ruggieri

11:10-11:20       Poetry Reading: David Landrey

11:20-11:30       Break   

11:30-12:30       Panel: Beatniks: John Roche, on the road(ghosts); 

                                     Alifair Skebe, On Diane DiPrima, Steve Tills, Reading Jim McCary             

12:40-12:50       Poetry Reading: ryki zuckerman

12:50 -1:00        Poetry Reading: Nick Eckerson

 1:00 Lunch Served (cold sandwiches bag lunch)

 Open Time 1:00 – 3:45

Tour in Finger Lakes Watershed with Steve Lewandowski (optional)

Steven Lewandowski will lead us on an expedition to Canadice Lake

Keeping Still: Find a spot and stop. Sit still for at least 15 min. but do not check the time (optional)

4:00-4:10        Poetry Reading: Gretchen Schulz

4:10-4:20        Poetry Reading: John Berry

4:20-4:30        Poetry Reading: Martha Treichler

4:30-5:35       Panel – Beats and Beyond: David Landrey, On Joel Oppenheimer; ryki zuckerman, On Joy  

                                     Walsh, Janine Pommy Vega, Ann Waldman,  Alifair Skebe and David Landrey, On  

                                     Denise Levertov

5:35-5:45         Poetry Reading: Robert McDonough 

5:45-6:15        Elegy for the Road/Kerouac’s Ghost(performance) Michael Czarnecki and Sue Spencer

 6:15–7:00       Dinner (hot vegetarian etc.)

 7:00-7:10        David Yockel

 7:10-7:20        Dwain Wilder

7:20-7:30         Leslie Gerber

7:30-7:40      Colleen Powderly

7:40-8:00-    Music, Songs, and Poetry by Tamar Samuet-Sigel        

 8-10 -          Open Mic hosted by John Roche (by sign-up, those not otherwise slotted during conference to go first)

                     Bring a poem by a beat poet to read as part of your open mic presentation

 10-10:10   Wrap-up John Roche

 10:11- 12:00 Campfire Party

12:00-?          Midnight open mic until we run out of poems

 Sunday May 15, 2016

 9:30-11:00                Brunch (like Saturday Breakfast)

 9:30-ongoing          Trade Fair

10:30-10:40              Poetry Reading: Alifair Skebe             

 10-40-10:50            Poetry Reading: Therese Broderick

10:50-11:00              Poetry Reading: Martha Deed

 11:00-12:40              Workshop: “How many Beats does it take to change a light bulb?

                                   led by Therese L. Broderick

                               Therese will help you to generate a piece of writing—poem, song, essay, story, love letter,

                                   blog post, or tweet—with a prompt that radiates from the numbers and equations, as well as

                                   from the non-quantifiable registers, of your Cloudburst Council experience.

 12:40–1:00               Further Round-Robin of Poetry.  Each poet read one poem