PROGRAM CLOUDBURST COUNCIL 2014

PROGRAM CLOUDBURST 2014 

Fri. May 9, 2014

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

2:00-3:00      Pilgrimage To Stream Source with Stephen Lewandowski and Alan Casline

                       (an outdoor visit to source of small stream that runs through Gell Center)

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

3:30-4:00      Beginning Poetry Circle (one poem from each poet)

4:00-4:15       Maril Nowak, poetry reading

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

 6:00-6:10      Alan Casline: Welcome

6:10-6:25       poet Ryki Zuckerman

6:25-6:40       poet  Martin Willitts,Jr.

6:40-7:30      Panel – Pilgrimage, Relics, Symbols, Rituals (John Roche, Craig Czury, Alifare Skebe)

 7:30-7:45    Michael Czarnecki, poetry reading

 7:45-8:00     John Roche: Cloudburst thoughts and evening wrap-up

 8:00  Party 

 Sat. May 10, 2014

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

         Breakfast will be continuously served.

 10-11:15 -  Panel- Charles Olson, Topicality and a Sense of Place (Stephen Baraban, Robert McDonough,  

                               Martha Treichler )

11:15-11:30  poet  Howard Nelson

11:30-11:45  poet  Linda Griggs

11:45-12:00  poet  Marge Merrill

12:00-12.15  poet  Patricia Roth  Schwartz

 12:15- 1:15 Panel –Exploring Pathways (Alan Casline, Claudia M. Stanek, Mark W. O’Brien)

 1:15  Lunch Served (cold sandwiches bag lunch)

 Open Time 1:15 – 3:45

Tour to Burning Spring Finger Lakes Watershed with Steve Lewandowski (optional)

Steven Lewandowski will lead an expedition to the Burning Springs, where LaSalle was taken for the show in 1654. A bit of poetry will be in the offering (each poet bring one poem to read)

 Papermaking Workshop: For those not on The Burning Springs exploration in the same time slot Ryki Zuckerman is doing a papermaking making workshop in the main lodge (optional)

4:00-4:15                poet  Judith Kerman

 4:15-5:00  Panel –Using Sacred Materials (Stephen Lewandowski, Jane Sadowski, Leah Zazulyer)

5:00-5:15  poet        poet Charlie Rossiter

5:15-5:30  poet        poet Edie Abrams

 5:30 - 7 Dinner (hot vegetarian etc.)

 7-10 - Open Mic hosted by John Roche (by sign-up, those not otherwise slotted during conference to go first)

 10-10:10 Wrap-up Helen Ruggieri

 10:11- 12:00 Campfire Party “night of two fires” one in lodge fireplace one outside at our firepit

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

 Sunday May11, 2014

 9:30-11 Brunch (like Saturday Breakfast )

 9:30-11 Trade Fair

 11:10-12:40 Panel:  Make It New (Helen Ruggieri, Martha Deed, Dwain Wilder, Paulette Swartzfager,  David Landrey)

 12:40 – 1:00  Further