Poetic Phonotheque

08/01/2026

Add your voice and poem to the archive when you visit Oslo, at

18/11/2025

A report of activities from our recent festival NATURE & CULTURE: International Poetry Film Festival is now live at Red Door Magazine and can also be acquired in print at the webshop www.reddoormagazine.com

Issue 40 of Red Door Magazine also contains news about our latest arrival, to Oslo at Cappelens Forslag - and the entire list of the latest additions to our videopoetry archive.

Oh yes, we've been busy. All for the love of poetry.
Say YES to our right to a poetic Existence.

See the entire selection of films in their different categories (animation, short film, experimental, documentary and poetry films) throughout the month of November at our website:
www.poeticphonotheque.com

13/11/2025

The good work of the Poetic Phonotheque keeps expanding. We're building a contemporary archive of multimedia poetry, in all languages! And now, you can find us in Norway, too!

The FONOTEK phone has arrived as a permanent resident at our favorite hiding place in Oslo: A bookshop, of course, but also so much more than that! A hub for art, culture, and community,

When in Oslo, stop by Cappelens Forslag... pick up the receiver, and record your poem after the tone. Your voice will be added to our archive (of hundreds of audio recordings and videopoems), which you can find at www.poeticphonotheque.com

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06/11/2025

It's a wrap!
NATURE & CULTURE International Poetry Film Festival at has now marked the arrival of the to Canada, and the 5th anniversary of this multimedia poetry festival, now in 3 countries.

Many thanks to all the participating filmmakers, poets, collaborators and volunteers, as well as to and .biograf for hosting the corresponding versions of the festival in Malmö and Copenhagen.

You can learn more about the Poetic Phonotheque at www.poeticphonotheque.com

05/11/2025

05/11/2025

Stories that move through sound, image, and language. Join us Nov 5 for Nature & Culture, an international poetry film festival now in Calgary for the first time.

Featuring a POETRY TAKEOVER section of guest poets, including:

Shone Thistle (she/they) is an award winning poet, speaker and community builder with more than two decades of experience in poverty reduction, family violence prevention, and culture building. In the sport of poetry, they've received perfect scores at the world-famous Nuyorican Poets Café. Their writing can be found in several anthologies, including Mic Check: An Anthology of Canadian Spoken Word Poetry and YYC POP Poetic Portraits of People. They have two children’s books in the works, and proudly serve as both the Executive Director of Calgary Q***r Arts Society and as Calgary’s 7th Poet Laureate (2024-26).Shone's visual art practice is grounded in the materials of childhood creativity including the use of tissue paper, drywall compound, acrylic paints and white glue. Their creations are playful, poetic and tactile.

In 2025 Shone received the prestigious Stonewall Porchlight Award for their volunteer leadership in the creation of safer, more welcoming spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ community members. A catalyst in the creation of Canada’s strongest municipal bylaw against conversion therapy, Shone met the moment in 2020, calling in dozens of other community leaders to build a unified front. Their work helped shift public policy, sparked national conversation, and affirmed the power of community-led change.

Shone lives, works and plays in Mohkinstsis, otherwise known as Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are the daughter of a west coast painter and an east coast naval boatswain; their heart swells with the oceans despite having become a proud prairie dweller. Born on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen peoples, most colonially known as Victoria, British Columbia; Calgary has been home for more than two decades.

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04/11/2025

Calgary! We're ready for you!
The POETRY TAKEOVER has arrived.

See you tomorrow at the Calgary Central Library for NATURE & CULTURE: International Poetry Film Festival.

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Live poetry, and a curated selection of poetry films, experimental, animation, short films and documentaries with a poetic lens on humanity’s relationship with nature.

Don't miss it!

03/11/2025

Live poetry. Experimental film. Global voices. Nature & Culture brings its Copenhagen roots to Calgary on Nov 5 at the Central Library. Come for one performance or stay all day.

Joining us this November 5th:
Rosemary Griebel is an Alberta writer and professional librarian with a passion for community building, nature, and story. Growing up on the prairies she developed a deep respect for the language of the land and its inhabitants. Her award-winning poetry has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry in English, as well as on CBC Radio, literary magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, and on public buses. Her collection of poetry, Yes (2011), was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert and the Pat Lowther awards, as well as the Stephan G. Stephansson award. Recently, her essays have appeared in Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy (2023) and Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI (2024). In 2019 one of her poems was chosen for Alberta’s first literary landmark, as part of Project Bookmark Canada’s CanLit Trail.

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01/11/2025

Words become images. Images become worlds. Nature & Culture: International Poetry Film Festival — Nov 5, Calgary Central Library. Featuring poets, filmmakers, and performances throughout the day.

Adrienne Adams is a poet, artist and curator dedicated to creating safer inter-sectional space to honour the feminine. She curates Woolf’s Voices (aka Virginia), joking that it’s an excuse to howl in public. She has performed her work extensively and co-curated The Storytellers for The Indie YYC. She is published or forthcoming in filling Station, Lida, Antilang, Free Fall, Politics/letters live, Polyglot, Wax Poetry and Art, Rose Quartz, NōD, New Forum, Death Cap (Coven Editions), Stygian Zine, Artizein Arts and Teaching Journal, The Last Petal (Sword and Kettle Press), YYC POP Anthology, Fire Season III Anthology, Mothering Anthology (Inanna Publications) and others. Her Chapbook Red Heads was published by above/ground press in 2022.

She has featured at South Country Fair, The New Beat, The Storytellers (IndieYYC), Expressions Poetry, FlyWheel, University of Calgary Spoken Word, YYCSPEAK Reading Series, The People’s Poetry and Ignite Festivals and co-curated for Single Onion and the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival. She Co-Curated The Storytellers for The Indie YYC for their 2019/20 season.

Her artwork has been shown at The New Gallery, Untitled Art Society, Oolong Teahouse, Mount Royal University Library and is in the permanent collection at The Alberta Children’s Hospital. This fall she had artwork in the Boxed Gallery Show at Loft 112 and currently has a piece there in Big Wig.

Ms. Adams has worked as an artist in residence and art teacher in the community for over 20 years working with ages 0-96 teaching drawing, painting, art and movement, sculpture, community murals, poetry amongst other projects.

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31/10/2025

From Copenhagen to Malmö, and then Calgary!

Nature & Culture: International Poetry Film Festival brings poetry films, live readings, and artistic encounters to the Central Library, Nov 5. Join us for a day of voices, vision, and movement.

Lisarose Berreth-Feragen (she/her) has written for most of her life to help her deal with her intense emotions. She resides in central Calgary and spends her time walking, admiring trees, doing yoga and hanging out with her cats. Lisarose has performed her poetry at Single Onion, Red Mile Revenge, Flywheel, CJSW, CBC and Woolf's Voices. While originally, she thought she had retired from performing, she is excited to be back after 10 years off! Currently Lisarose is studying plant medicine, trying to keep her kitchen clean and writing poems in her sun room.

Visit www.poeticphonotheque.com to watch the 100 selected films of this year's festival!

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30/10/2025

And we're ready!
Mark a bit 🩷 on your calendar for this Saturday and hang out with us in Malmö at for NATURE & CULTURE: International Poetry Film Festival.

Doors open at 15.30
This is a FREE event

Looking forward to this poetry takeover
hosted by with , to sharing an international selection of films with you, live performances, a performance by .irl and a DJ set by

A festival by and