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The Cohenites have pestered, pandered, and bartered their way into attaining a number of Cohen films. Come check them out at the Stanley A Milner Public Library (across the street from the Hospitality Suite!)

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The “Collage-a-thon” is a sort of modern, party version of classic collages. Inspired by Cohen’s music + videos, playing throughout the hospitality suite, participants create collages based on one of the festivals 6 themes:

“4 Old Songs”
“Inspiration/Temptation”
“Find Yourself Friday” (Buddhism, religion, minimalism)
“Dance Me to the End”
“Back on Boogie Street”
“Closing Time”

Not into collages? There’s plenty to do without getting into the glue…. Check out our massive Cohen library of films + music, relax with friends, or plan the details of your visit to Edmonton with the help of our volunteers.

Live Cinema Audio-Visual Performance
Commissioned by the Leonard Cohen International Festival 2008
July 25 & 27, 2008
Rice Theatre
Tickets $15 General Seating

Clinker’s “On the Other Side…” explores Cohen’s continued romance within the light and dark inside our human experience. An audio-visual “deep listening” environment which will draw inspiration from the vast depths of emotion written into the poetry and music of Leonard Cohen.

The lush bass tones of Cohen’s voice provide a point of departure for our journey inside Clinker’s cinema of sound and light. Drawing from years of experience in creating and manipulating music and audio, Clinker will deconstruct and reassemble Cohen’s voice into surreal “bass-scapes” using his unique and sophisticated system of analogue and digital electronics.  Clinker’s creation will bathe the audience in an array of Cohen’s “golden” vocal chords augmented with a connection between sonic and visual details. A specially designed sub-sonic sound system will be in place to reinforce the experience of extreme sound-movement through the body.
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The 2008 International Leonard Cohen Event held in Edmonton, Canada, promises to be bigger and better than ever!

Wednesday July 23 – Sunday July 27          (previous events)

The 2008 event will feature:

• A Gala Concert at the Winspear Centre: Jann Arden, Serena Ryder and more…
• Open mike performances
• Clinker Performance
• Dance Me to the End of Time
• Cohen Cafe
• Poetry readings
• A visual arts display
• BBQ Picnic in the Park
• Guided sight-seeing in Edmonton River Valley as well as a wide variety of participant activities

…and for the first time ever…by popular request!

• A 24-hour hospitality suite

Get tickets to the Gala Concert at the Winspear Centre featuring Jann Arden, Serena Ryder and more… Click here

Register as a delegate for the festival which includes:

• A ticket to the Gala Concert at the Winspear on Saturday night
• Access to all events (open mike events, poetry readings, picnic)
• Access to the 24 hour hospitality room

Click here or Registration Page

Brief Overview of Festival Schedule (click here for more - The Event Program Download Program)

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01:10 Kim The Saturday Lineup: Peter Elkas, Roddy Hart, Darrell Scott, Ted Bishop, (spoken word), Tom Rush, Todd Babiuk (spoken word), Serena Ryder, Jann Arden, emceed by Kate Hammett-Vaughan

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