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Students create poetry videos in partnership with City Poems Poetry project
Throughout the Spring 2023 semester, students from the IAT 344 Moving Images course created video poems for the Vancouver Poet Laureate’s City Poems Project.
The project aims to stimulate public engagement and interest in poetry about local historical, cultural, and ecological site.
Student teams were challenged with making short poetry videos based on 15 poems from an eligible list. All 15 poems centre around local sites like English Bay, Commercial Drive, the Komagata Maru memorial in Coal Harbour, Hogan’s Alley, Chinatown, and more.
In total, teams of IAT 344 students produced 17 poetry videos now available for viewing online on the Vancouver Public Library YouTube channel as a part of the City Poems Contest. The contest also includes poetry videos submissions from UBC and Emily Carr students.
The top three poetry videos, as selected by contest Judge Heather Haley, will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Museum of Vancouver on June 11, 2023 from 1:00-3:00PM.
Audience choice awards will also be announced at the ceremony and will be awarded based on the number of “likes” that the videos receive on the Vancouver Public Library’s YouTube playlist.
The voting period is open now until Thursday, May 25. See the full list of SIAT poetry videos below and "like" the YouTube videos to vote for your favourite videos!
IAT 344 poetry video submissions:
An Existence That We Can Call Home
Team: Xinran Han, Xinrui Ju, Delai Gao, Minyang Zhang, Tianai Guo
Location: The First Narrows, by what is now known as Lions Gate
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Contrasts
Team: Christy Lam, Erika Hance, Danny Lee, Vincent Zhang
Location: Chinatown
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Contrasts
Team: Brian Baldueza, Wilson Pahm, Nanop Yansomboon, Brianna Wong, Milana Umrilova. Location: Chinatown
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Diaspora
Team: Kayla Canama, Tingting Liu, Liam Lester, Jean David Muco, Abby Balisky, Eleonora Shive
Location: The former Marco Polo Restaurant, 90 East Pender St.
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Entertainment
Team: Christy Fang, Vito Fan, Cici Tan, Calvin Lin, Alex Liu.
Location: The former Marco Polo Restaurant, 90 East Pender St., Chinatown
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Near Commercial
Team: Paula De La Fuente, Lorena Gracia, Audrey Ao, Irene Gao
Location: Commercial Drive, East Vancouver
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Postcard from English Bay
Team: Alexi Lee, Van Mai, Erin Teply
Location: English Bay
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Postcard from English Bay
Team: Zak Zastera, Jonathon Newman, Alyssa Umbal, Russel Yuen
Location: English Bay
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Sen̓áḵw
Team: Kim Phan
Location: Seńákw, commonly known as Vanier Park
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the stone artist
Team: Michael Song
Location: Stanley Park Seawall
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the stone artist
Team: Siyue Zhong, Yanming Guo, Haier Guo, Zhaoyang Lin
Location: Stanley Park Seawall
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the stone artist
Team: Grace Yang, Jalene Pang, Brandyn Chew
Location: Stanley Park Seawall
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This was meant to be for Nora
Team: Joanne Kim,Yenan Huang, Dongmei Han, Hanako Oba
Location: Hogan’s Alley, Strathcona
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To the Otter Who Snuck into the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden and Ate the Koi
Team: Derian Sera, Trisha Wong, Emmanuel Navas
Location: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (Strathcona) and Downtown Eastside
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To the Otter Who Snuck into the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden and Ate the Koi
Team: Lamin Lamin, Karina Ibrayeva, Veronika Tatsiy, Lena Yu
Location: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden & Downtown Eastside
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Welcome
Team: Kais Neffati, Bhalinder Singh Oberoi, Ishmael Togi, Minh Truong Location: Coal Harbour
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What do I remember of the Evacuation
Team: Cindy Wang, Erin Au, Rohan Samuel
Location: Hastings Park and Marpole
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