Verse meets visuals in motion at Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) in April. Cadence Video Poetry Festival, presented by Northwest Film Forum, programmed in collaboration with Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and artist Râna San, is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, taking place annually during National Poetry Month. This year’s festival takes place in-person April 21–24 and online April 21 – May 1.

Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image.

EPFC is delighted to partner with Cadence for the second year in a row with Haiku You, a free all-ages online film/poetry workshop. Sign up here! http://www.archive.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/haiku-you-an-all-ages-film-poetry-workshop-april-edition/

Lots of great stuff going on! We’ve got Growing Healthy online on Tuesday, Haiku You online on Wednesday, Eco-Lab in person at Moberly Fieldhouse on Thursday, the final session for our international Care Package: Power to the Pinholes workshop with Dagie Brundert on Saturday, the Sunday night Filmcycle mobile screening AND the arrival of our summer Artist In Residence, Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot. All events are FREE and all ages!

More details here: http://www.archive.echoparkfilmcenter.org/blog/epfc-north/

Verse meets visuals in Cadence: Video Poetry Festival at Northwest Film Forum, April 16–25! Celebrate National Poetry Month with a pass to this online festival featuring five thematic showcases of recently created video poetry focused on identity, belonging, and calls for racial justice, as well as a feature length film poem! Tickets are sliding scale and available now: bit.ly/cadence2021home

This year’s programming includes Haiku You, EPFC’s monthly online gathering for poets and filmmakers:

https://nwfilmforum.org/education/workshops/cadence-2021-haiku-you/