Interactive activities, noise-making and collaborative opportunities combined with international underground art forms like Mail Art, Noise, Fluxus Performance, plus scholarly lectures, performance art and poetry reading. 20+ Artists visiting from as far afield as Maine and Florida specifically to attend this portion of the festival. Wild and Fun!

Admission  free

10 – 12 parade preparations, street performances in front of the school

12 – 1 parade

2 – 3 TJ Anderson and Richard Normand, Gyorgyi Voros, Mary North-tribute to the beat poets

3 – 4 Bill Beamer and Gary Trombone – duo, inframince, for prepared pocket trumpet Und Sackbut: John Cage You Had Your Chance

4 – 5 Warren Fry – Oberiu poetry reading/lecture (approx 20 min)

6 – 7 John M. Bennett – poetry reading and power point presentation on visual poetry

7 – 8 Andrew Topel – reading & slide-show of visual work (approx 20 min)

8 – 9 Id M Theft Able – performance (from Windham, Maine)

9 – 10:00 Ben Bennett – free improvisation workshop (bring the means to make sounds, preferably something that doesn’t need an electrical outlet).

Featuring a “collab-fest” of activities including a stuffed animal orchestra, Dada poetry performances, exhibits of international mail art, plus sound performances with music and poetry by John M. Bennett (Ohio State University) and his sons Ben and John A. Bennett. Participating : 20+ artists visiting from Maine to Florida!

-Admission free

The Post-Neo Absurdist Anti-Collective – dada poetry performances (from New Brunswick, New Jersey)

http://postneoabsurdism.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

John Also Bennett – performance with a flute and a fan (from Columbus, Ohio)

http://www.myspace.com/gingerfetus

Ben Bennett – sound performance (from Columbus, Ohio)

The BeBeBe – music and poetry by John M. Bennett, Ben Bennett, and John Also Bennett (from Columbus, Ohio)

http://www.johnmbennett.net/