Enough Said 1995-04-17, Joseph

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:
3976
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
Lee Gotham collection
Series:
Lee Gotham collection
Sub Series:
Lee Gotham collection

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:
Enough Said 1995-04-17, Joseph
Title Source:
Asset
Title Note:
On tape labels and corroborated by Lee Gotham, who introduces the event headliner.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Performance: Spoken Word Poetry
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

Notes:
Rights status in process. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer.

CREATORS

Name:
Gotham, Lee
Dates:
1962-
Role:
"Series organizer", "Producer"
Notes:
Lee Gotham was also the MC of this event.

Name:
Joseph, Clifton
Dates:
1957-
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Headliner.

CONTRIBUTORS

Name:
Duncan, Drew
Role:
"Recordist"
Notes:
Videographer.

Name:
Grundland, Mark
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Marcel (?)
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Nawrocki, Norman
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
McGrail, Justin
Dates:
1968-
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Hawley, Steve (Liquid)
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Sabrina
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Paco W.
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Andy
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Unknown Performer
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Ed
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Lion Man
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Christine
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Godin, Steve
Dates:
1956-
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Simon
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
Tom
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer.

Name:
David J.
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
Open-mic performer. Referred to as "David Jaeger" on the label of #SpokenWord_Sampler asset.

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:
Image
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Video
Material Designation:
VHS
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
120 minutes
Playback Mode:
Mono
Tape Brand:
TDK SHG
Sound Quality:
Good
Other Physical Description:
VHS #5 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events.

DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION

Duration:
02:28:14
Size:
4.18 GB on disk
Bitrate:
2304Kbps (original); 256Kbps (master)
Encoding:
MPEG-4 movie
Content:
This is file 1 of 1 containing an AV recording of the event featuring Clifton Joseph as part of the Enough Said series, organized by Lee Gotham, with extra open-mic performances by Norman Nawrocki, Justin McGrail, Steve Godin, Steve "Liquid" Hawley, and others.
Notes:
Dimensions: 640 × 480.
Content Type:
Video Recording

Dates

Date:
1995-04-17
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Asset

LOCATION

Address:
4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada
Venue:
Bistro 4
Latitude:
45.5169628
Longitude:
-73.5796147
Notes:
Bistro 4 (pronounced Bistro Quatre), no longer in existence.

CONTENT

Contents:
[Bistro 4 stage] 00:00:04 Video description: Colour video. Long-shot of host Lee Gotham on the stage of the venue Bistro 4 (Quatre), addressing audience with opening remarks. Stage is juxtaposed with four large windowpanes that look onto vehicles and passerby on Saint-Laurent Boulevard. Evening. A large orb-shaped light hangs above the stage. Orange curtains are draped at the top of the windows. A number of unknown audience members are visible in the initial camera view. Lee Gotham 00:00:05 Evening, peoples, peoples, peoples. Thank you very much, once again, for coming out, taking in some of the sights and sounds of the Main on a Monday evening in spring. We've got a hot show for you guys tonight. [Laughs] It'll be a lot of fun, gonna be some serious fun as well. To get into things without blabbing about local events, as I'll probably find ample opportunity to do so during various points during the evening, I'd like to just say, well, you know, thanks for coming. Clifton's really going to dig it, I know you're going to dig him and, um, I got a couple special surprises, the first of who I'll introduce right now. It's Norman Nawrocki. Can you welcome Norman, he's going to kick things off for us. [Audience applause]. | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham addresses audience while adjusting microphone stand. Long brown hair in bun. Beard. White collared shirt with graphic t-shirt layered underneath. Lee Gotham introduces Norman Nawrocki, and adjusts microphone. Norman Nawrocki 00:00:57 [Addresses audience. Introduces "Soldiers for Jesus, Get Off!" (later published in Rebel Moon: Anarchist Rants and Poems, AK Press, 1997). Audience laughter and applause throughout.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki enters via stage left. Short blond/brown hair. Collared shirt with hoodie layered over. Lee Gotham exits frame. Norman Nawrocki 00:01:30 [Performs "Soldiers for Jesus." Audience snapping, stomping, and laughter throughout. Audience applause at the end.] | Video Description: Norman Nawrocki reads poem from a sheet of paper, snapping fingers to lead audience. After performing, Nawrocki exits via stage left. Lee Gotham passes through camera view. Various unknown audience members pass back and forth through camera view, briefly blocking Gotham. Lee Gotham 00:03:40 [Introduces Marcel (?). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. Lee Gotham introduces Marcel and exits stage left. Marcel 00:04:17 [Addresses audience. Reads in French and then translates to English a few lines from Victor Hugo's "La Function du poète," beginning with "Peuples ! Écoutez le poète !"] | Video Description: Marcel enters from stage right. Short brown hair. Grey beard. White turtleneck. Addresses audience through microphone then reads poem from book. Marcel 00:05:07 [Addresses audience and reads "Poem," beginning with the line "There's a rustling in the silence." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Marcel addresses audience while flipping through publications, then reads poem from held publication. Marcel 00:07:20 [Addresses audience and performs Unnamed Poem 2, in English. Audience applause.] | Marcel briefly addresses audience and reads poem from publication, pacing back and forth on stage, projecting voice without using microphone. Marcel 00:09:00 [Performs Unnamed Poem 3, beginning in French then switching to English mid-poem. Audience applause]. | Video Description: Marcel shuffles through papers and publications then performs Unnamed Poem 3, moving from stage left to stage right throughout. Nods at audience, gathers pages and publications; then nods to Lee Gotham who walks onto stage from stage left. Marcel and Gotham briefly interact and Marcel exits stage right. Lee Gotham 00:13:26 [Addresses audience. Introduces Marc Grundland.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience at microphone. Introduces Mark Grundland and exits stage left. Mark Grundland 00:14:21 [Addresses audience. Promotes Inkling Magazine. Introduces "The Man in the Street".] | Video Description: Mark Grundland enters stage left. Long curly black hair. Black graphic t-shirt. Grundland addresses audience. Mark Grundland 00:15:00 [Reads "The Man in the Street."] | Video Description: Mark Grundland reads short story from a stack of pages. Mark Grundland 00:22:45 [Interacts with Lee Gotham, saying "almost." Addresses audience. Resumes reading "The Man in the Street". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham leans into camera view, saying something to Mark Grundland. Grundland and Gotham briefly interact. Gotham exits frame. Grundland addresses audience and finishes reading, before exiting stage left. Lee Gotham 00:26:45 [Addresses audience. Introduces Justin McGrail, from Fluffy Pagan Echoes.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Lee Gotham walks off via stage left. Justin McGrail 00:27:36 [Interacts with an offscreen audience member. Addresses audience. Introduces the dance-poetry show "Of Fire and Sword" as context for his first piece.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail walks on stage from stage left. Short brown hair. Brown coat or blazer with pins on collar. McGrail briefly interacts with unseen audience member before addressing audience through microphone. Justin McGrail 00:28:13 [Begins performing "Of Fire and Sword" but immediately laughs and addresses audience. Audience laughter. Resumes performing "Of Fire and Sword." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Justin McGrail closes eyes and recites words. Turns face away and mutters before laughing. Then addresses audience into microphone and resumes reciting the poem. Justin McGrail 00:29:45 [Addresses audience. Introduces and performs "Circle". Thanks audience. Audience applause. | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Justin McGrail addressing audience. McGrail reads poem from piece of paper. Addresses audience before exiting via stage left. Lee Gotham 00:31:02 [Addresses audience. Promotes next edition of Enough Said. Announces fifteen-minute break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham enters stage via stage right and addresses audience. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Audience members passing in front of camera briefly obscures view. [Bistro 4 stage] 00:31:55 Ambient sounds, voices. | Video Description: Camera cuts to a close up shot of the lone mic. Lee Gotham 00:31:57 [Addresses audience. Promotes Norman Nawrocki's Human Life International counterprotests. Introduces Clifton Joseph. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks onto stage via stage right and addresses audience at microphone. Clifton Joseph 00:34:16 [Interacts with Lee Gotham. Addresses audience. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Jospeh enters stage via stage left, drinking from glass. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone to Clifton Joseph's height. Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Clifton Joseph 00:35:57 [Recites from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Addresses audience throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience and recites poetry, making occasional gestures that emphasize portions of the poem. Clifton Joseph 00:36:30 [Laughs. Addresses audience, mentioning Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, bill bissett, and The Four Horsemen (sound poetry group), among others. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Clifton Joseph 00:41:25 [Performs Unnamed Poem 1.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem, occasionally using pointing, snaps, and other gestures to emphasize the performance. Clifton Joseph 00:42:26 [Performs Unnamed Poem 2. Audience clapping along to beat.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Clifton Joseph 00:43:07 [Performs Unnamed Poem 3. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Sips from glass. Addresses audience. Clifton Joseph 00:44:11 [Imitates R&B singing group. Sings from "Harlem Blues". Addresses audience. Asks audience for lighter. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Clifton Joseph takes out a pack of cigarettes and lights one with a match from an audience member. Clifton Joseph 00:46:30 [Resumes addressing audience. Introduces and performs "I Remember Back Home". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Performs poem. Ashes cigarette and drinks from glass. Clifton Joseph 00:49:30 [Performs "Pimps."] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Clifton Joseph 00:52:05 [Initiates call-and-response with audience.] | Video description: Cups hand to ear. Clifton Joseph 00:53:29 [Addresses audience. Audience applause; audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph smokes cigarette and crushes it under foot. Drinks from glass. Addresses audience. Clifton Joseph 00:55:35 [Performs "Chuckie Prophesy". Audience applause. Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from water glass. Addresses audience. Unknown Audience Member 1 00:58:10 [Interacts with Clifton Joseph.] | Video Description: Audience member interacts with Clifton Joseph. Clifton Joseph 00:58:16 [Addresses audience.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Clifton Joseph 00:59:13 [Performs "Slo-Mo". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Drinks from glass. Clifton Joseph 01:04:00 [Begins performing "A Chant for Monk". Interacts with unknown audience member off-screen. Laughs. Audience laughter. Resumes performing "A Chant for Monk".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs poem. Camera zooms in as Clifton Joseph interacts briefly with offscreen audience member. Clifton Joseph 01:08:08 [Initiates audience call-and-response. Resumes performing "A Chant for Monk".] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performs, with gestures that accentuate performance. Clifton Joseph 01:09:12 [Finishes performing "A Chant for Monk". Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph interacts with Lee Gotham. Clifton Joseph bows for audience applause. Lee Gotham 01:09:51 [Addresses audience. Promotes upcoming events, including Clifford Duffy’s "The Invention of God."] | Video Description: Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone and addresses audience. Lee Gotham 01:11:06 [Introduces Clifton Joseph's second set. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Jump cut. Extreme close-up on Lee Gotham addressing audience. Clifton Joseph 01:12:14 [Addresses audience. Audience applause and laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph speaking into microphone, addressing audience. Clifton Joseph 01:13:32 [Introduces and performs "Lookin' for a Job." Audience laughter. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph drinks from a glass in front of the microphone, then continues addressing audience. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing. Joseph improvises various gesticulations for emphasis, such as raising glasses off his face on the word "sight." Clifton Joseph 01:16:06 [Addresses audience. Interacts with audience member. Audience laughter throughout. Introduces and performs "(Metropolitan Blues?)." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out on Clifton Joseph performing and laughing into microphone. Clifton Joseph 01:24:00 [Briefly performs from "Special Request" before addressing audience.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Briefly gesticulates as he performs lines from a song. Adjusts and speaks into microphone. Clifton Joseph 01:24:45 [Performs Unnamed Poem 4. Concludes with audience call-and-response. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph performing into microphone. Clifton Joseph points toward audience to initiate call-and-response. Clifton Joseph 01:26:13 [Addresses audience, interacting with individual audience members throughout. Audience laughter throughout.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph walks around the microphone to drink from a glass. Camera zooms in and out as Clifton Joseph addresses audience. Accepts glass from unseen audience member and drinks from it. Clifton Joseph 01:30:27 [Performs Unnamed Poem 5. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out as Clifton Joseph removes microphone from stand, places down glass, and holds microphone in hand. Camera pans across stage as Clifton Joseph performs, facing away from audience. Joseph turns toward audience and places microphone in stand. Lee Gotham briefly adjusts microphone as Joseph performs. Joseph moves microphone stand to stage right. Camera follows Joseph as he walks through audience performing. Audience applauds. Joseph wipes face with hand and walks through the crowd, exiting the camera's view. Camera pans back toward the stage. Lee Gotham enters frame and approaches microphone from stage left. Lee Gotham 01:34:23 [Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in on Lee Gotham, who speaks into microphone and claps along with audience. He exits the frame. Camera pans across audience applauding. Joseph reenters frame. Camera pans, following Joseph walking toward the stage. Camera zooms in as Lee Gotham and Joseph embrace, and Joseph dances on stage. Joseph bows. Clifton Joseph 01:35:00 [Addresses audience. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Clifton Joseph speaks into microphone, addressing audience. Drinks from glass before walking off stage via stage left. Lee Gotham walks to stage. Lee Gotham 01:35:21 [Addresses audience and announces break. Laughs.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone stand and addresses audience. Brief VCR static. Lee Gotham 01:36:02 [Addresses audience. Reads from Unnamed Periodical. Addresses audience member ("See you later, Bob") and resumes addressing audience. Announces open mic and its first performer, Steve Hawley.] | Video Description: Close-up on Lee Gotham speaking into microphone and reading from a periodical. Lee Gotham exits frame and returns with a dictionary. Waves to an audience member off-screen before addressing audience again. Steve "Liquid" Hawley 01:37:38 [Addresses audience. Addresses Unknown Audience Member 2.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham moves out of frame. Steve "Liquid" Hawley enters stage from stage left. Black sweatshirt. Backward baseball cap on short dark hair. Cigarette in hand. Hawley lifts microphone from stand and holds it close to mouth while addressing audience. Camera zooms out, revealing Hawley holding a glass. Steve "Liquid" Hawley 01:38:21 [Performs Unnamed Piece 1.] | Video Description: Steve "Liquid" Hawley raps into microphone. Steve "Liquid" Hawley 01:38:46 [Addresses audience. Interacts with unknown audience member. Introduces and performs Unnamed Piece 2. Laughs; audience laughter.] | Video Description: Steve "Liquid" Hawley speaks to audience and briefly dances while making a joke. Places down glass. Camera zooms in to close-up as Hawley introduces and performs next piece. Hawley raps into microphone, briefly laughs, and continues performing. Steve "Liquid" Hawley 01:41:14 [Introduces and performs Unnamed Piece 3. Addresses audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Steve "Liquid" Hawley raps into microphone. Camera zooms out as Hawley exits frame. Lee Gotham claps while walking up to microphone. Lee Gotham 01:43:27 [Addresses audience. Announces Sabrina. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Gotham speaks to audience. Sabrina moves across screen, walking toward stage. Gotham adjusts microphone to Sabrina's height and exits stage left. Sabrina 01:43:45 [Addresses audience. Introduces and performs "(?) Blues." Laughs and addresses audience mid-poem. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out as Sabrina addresses audience. Brown, shoulder-length hair with a clip. Patterned scarf around next. Dark jacket. Reads poem from a piece of paper. Looks toward applauding audience members off-screen. Stops reading and addresses audience, making "finger-gun" motions. Laughs and looks behind left shoulder, away from audience, then recites the rest of the poem. Walks out of frame. Lee Gotham 01:47:35 [Addresses audience. Announces Andy. Interacts with Andy, before announcing Paco W.] | Video Description: Sabrina moves across camera view as Lee Gotham arrives at microphone. Lee Gotham addresses audience. Gotham exits frame. Paco W. 01:48:31 [Reads Unnamed Piece 1. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco walks to microphone and makes brief "sign of the horns" gesture. Short brown hair. Earring in left ear. Collared shirt. Paco adjusts microphone before reading poem from a stack of pages. Paco W. 01:50:26 [Introduces and reads from "Fragments of Our (Kin?)." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Paco steps briefly away from microphone. Passing audience member obscures camera view. Paco looks down toward pages and steps back in front of microphone. Reads into microphone from stack of pages. Walks off-screen. Lee Gotham returns to microphone and adjusts stand. Lee Gotham 01:51:51 [Addresses Andy. Introduces Andy. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses Andy (who is off-screen) before walking off-screen. Andy 01:52:13 [Addresses audience. Reads Unnamed Piece. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts upward as Andy walks to microphone. Curly chin-length hair. Red shirt. Black toque. Necklace. Andy reads from notebook. Andy 01:53:35 [Reads "Quiet." Audience laughter throughout. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Andy closes notebook and turns around to grab a piece of paper before speaking into microphone. Looks down at page while reading. Moves away from microphone and walks out-of-frame via stage left. Lee Gotham moves to microphone. Lee Gotham 01:55:20 [Addresses and introduces David J.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone addressing David J. (who is off-screen) before exiting stage-left, out of frame. David J. 01:55:29 [Addresses audience. Introduces and reads "Who Do?" Audience laughter, applause.] | Video Description: David J. walks to microphone and addresses audience. Short black hair. Grey collared shirt under black sweater. Camera zooms out as David speaks to audience while flipping through a notebook. Reads from notebook. David J. 01:56:10 [Introduces "Cadillac Bomb." Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. speaks to audience while flipping through notebook. Reads from notebook. David J. 01:56:55 Introduces and reads "The Devil's Got the Goods". Audience applause.] | Video Description: David J. steps away from microphone and flips through notebook. Speaks, inaudibly, to off-screen audience member. Addresses audience. Camera zooms in as David reads from notebook. David steps away from microphone and nods to audience, before walking stage left, off-screen. Lee Gotham approaches microphone. Lee Gotham 01:58:42 [Addresses audience. Asks about Jeff, then invites Unknown Performer to the stage.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience. An unnamed audience member briefly passes in front of Lee Gotham. Unknown Performer 01:59:23 [Introduces and reads ("Also Badge"?).] | Video Description: Unknown Performer approaches microphone with a stack of papers. Long straight brown hair. Pink t-shirt. Reads from stack of papers. Unknown Performer 01:59:55 [Introduces and reads "For Salman" (Salman Rushdie). Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown Performer briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers. Unknown Performer 02:00:32 [Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem. Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Unknown Performer briefly steps away from microphone before introducing another poem. Reads from stack of papers. Addresses audience and walks from microphone, exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone. Lee Gotham 02:01:41 [Addresses audience. Interacts with Ed.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks to audience before interacting briefly with an audience member, Unknown Performer, off-screen. Unknown Performer enters from stage left as Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Camera zooms in as Unnamed Audience Member 4 moves toward microphone and Lee Gotham exits stage left. Ed 02:01:59 [Introduces and reads "Open Hand, Empty Hand." Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Ed addresses audience. Brown hair in bowl-cut style. Collared shirt. Dark trench coat. Reads poem. Addresses audience and exits stage left. Lee Gotham enters and moves to microphone. Lee Gotham 02:04:06 [Addresses audience. Announces Lion Man.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham speaks into microphone, addressing audience and Lion Man. Gotham adjusts microphone as Lion Man enters frame from stage right. Lion Man 02:04:25 [Makes purring noise into microphone. Audience laughter.] | Video Description: Lion Man addresses audience. Straight chin-length brown hair. Emerald green vest. Brown collared shirt. Lion Man 02:04:30 [Performs "Impropaganda." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man recites poem into the microphone. Lion Man 02:06:28 [Addresses audience. Audience laughter. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem, about "if water and plant life could speak to us." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lion Man steps away from microphone and smiles. Addresses audience. Flips through notebook before addressing audience. Reads poem from notebook. Closes notebook and steps away from microphone, exiting stage right. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham enters from stage left, clapping, and walks up to microphone. Lee Gotham 02:09:33 [Thanks Lion Man. Announces Christine. Promotes upcoming event, Clifford Duffy’s "The Invention of God," at the Woodstock Bar.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, speaking into microphone. Christine enters frame from stage left and flips through papers. Gotham adjusts microphone and walks off-camera, exiting stage left. Christine 02:10:04 [Addresses audience. Audience response. Laughs and resumes addressing audience.] | Video Description: Christine stands to the side of microphone, flipping through pages. Christine walks up to the microphone and addresses audience. Christine laughs at and flips through pages. Short blond hair. Black collared shirt. Light-wash jeans with large belt buckle. Christine 02:10:43 [Reads Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera zooms in and out on Christine reading from notebook. Looks down away from audience. Camera zooms out as Christine flips to a new page. Christine 02:11:52 [Reads Unnamed Poem 2. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Flips through notebook pages before settling on a new page. Christine 02:13:30 [Reads from "Unfinished Poems." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Christine reads from notebook. Walks from microphone and off-screen via stage left. Christine is seen again passing through camera's view. Lee Gotham enters from stage left and walks to microphone. Lee Gotham 02:14:37 [Addresses audience. Thanks Christine. Announces Steve Godin.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience. An unknown audience member passes briefly through camera view. Gotham exits as Steve Godin walks toward the microphone from stage right. Steve Godin 02:14:57 [Addresses audience. Introduces and reads Unnamed Poem 1. Audience applause. Thanks audience.] | Video Description: Steve Godin addresses audience while looking through pages. Long grey straight hair. Black leather jacket over black t-shirt. Reads from a stack of pages. Addresses audience and exits via stage right. Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage left. Lee Gotham 02:18:47 [Thanks Steve Godin. Announces Simon.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience and exits stage left. Simon 02:19:05 [Addresses audience. Introduces and reads "Pulling Me In." Audience applause.] | Video Description: Camera tilts down as Simon approaches microphone. Collar-length straight brown hair. Round glasses. Blue long sleeve t-shirt. Camera zooms in as Simon addresses audience. Simon reads into the microphone. Simon 02:19:50 [Addresses audience. Introduces and reads "The Day with the Face." Thanks audience. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Simon steps briefly away from microphone before stepping back and addressing audience. Simon raises stack of pages higher, into frame. Reads from stack of pages. Steps away from microphone and looks down. Speaks briefly into microphone before exiting stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone from stage right. Gotham takes cigarette out of mouth. Lee Gotham 02:23:43 [Thanks Simon. Interacts with off-screen audience member (Jean-Luc). Introduces Tom. Audience applause.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, laughing throughout. Gotham moves from microphone and exits stage right. Tom 02:24:31 [Addresses audience. Audience laughter] Introduces and performs "Call Before You Dig."] | Video Description: Tom enters from stage left. Blond hair. Black backward baseball cap. Navy and flannel jacket. Reads from pages. Tom 02:26:20 [Addresses audience. Audience applause. Introduces and reads "The Conspiracy of the (?) Dentist." Laughs. Addresses audience. Audience laughter and applause.] | Video Description: Tom steps away from microphone and shuffles through pages. Approaches microphone and addresses audience. Reads from pages. Then exits stage left. Camera zooms out as Lee Gotham approaches microphone clapping. Lee Gotham adjusts microphone. Lee Gotham 02:27:56 [Addresses audience with concluding remarks.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham addresses audience, removes cigarette from mouth, and resumes speaking. An audience member briefly passes through camera view. END 02:28:05 [End of recording.]
Notes:
Event recording starts at at 01:26:02:01 of VHS #5 asset, which contains multiple events.

NOTES

Type:
General
Note:
VHS #5 asset. Contains recordings of multiple events: (1) Enough Said 1995-04-10, ga press; (2) Enough Said 1995-04-17, Joseph; and (3) Enough Said 1995-05-01, Stephens, Suderman, Diamond and McGrail. The asset was digitized, generating both uncompressed and compressed video files; the compressed files were then split into events to facilitate the transcription work. Metadata entries based on events.
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Faith Paré
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Carlos A. Pittella

RELATED WORKS

Citation:
Nawrocki, Norman. Rebel Moon: @narchist Rants & Poems. Edinburgh: AK Press, 1997.

Citation:
Joseph, Clifton. Metropolitan blues. Toronto: Domestic Bliss, c1983.

Citation:
Zetlin, Liz, & Myke Dyer (directors). Words Aloud : the spoken word festival, 2007 [DVD]. Markdale, ON & Mississauga, ON.: McNabb Connolly, 2009 [Includes performances by Clifton Joseph].