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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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July 25-27, 2008; Edmonton

The Event Program

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Wednesday 23-07-2008
2 pm Registration begins
3-5 pm Tours
6-… Collage-a-thon

Thursday 24-07-2008
8-10 am Early Bird Breakfast
11:30-4 pm Whyte Ave Shopping trips
4:30-6:30 pm Cohen Films at the Library
7-8:30 pm “Dance Me” performance
Latenight…Collage-a-thon

Friday 25-07-2008
11-3 pm University Tours
5-7 pm Academic Talks
8-10 pm Haven Night Club (Peter Elkas, Roddy Hart, Darrell Scott, Tom Rush) and Hospitality Suite (Vicky Hynes, Karla Anderson and Ann Vriend) concerts
10:30-12 am Clinker Performance

Saturday 26-07-2008
9:30-1 pm River Valley Tours
2-4 pm (Traditional) Open Mike
8-10 pm Winspear Concert (Peter Elkas, Roddy Hart, Darrell Scott, Ted Bishop, (spoken word), Tom Rush, Todd Babiak (spoken word), Serena Ryder, Jann Arden, emceed by Kate Hammett-Vaughan)
Latenight “Dance Me to the End”, DJ Dance Party

Sunday 27-07-2008
11-3 pm Picnic in the Park party
3pm, 5pm Clinker performance(s)
8-10 pm Monsieur Camembert Concert
Latenight-… DJ Dance Party

Monday 28-07-2008
8-10 am Survivor’s Breakfast (For volunteers and board members)
1:30 pm Banff Mini-Event