The yearly International Video Poetry Festival 2015 will be held for fourth time in Greece in Athens. Approximately 2000 by BlockIt Ad remover”> people attended the festival last years

There will be two different zones of the festival. The first zone will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). The second zone will include cross-platform collaborations of sound producers and by BlockIt Ad remover”> music groups with poets and visual artists in by BlockIt Ad remover”> liveimprovisations.

The International Video Poetry Festival 2015 attempts to create an open by BlockIt Ad remover”> public space for the creative by BlockIt Ad remover”> expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry.

It is very important to notice that this festival is a part of the counter by BlockIt Ad remover”> culture activities of Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts] and will be non-sponsored, by BlockIt Ad remover”> freeentrance, non commercial and non profit event. The festival will cover the costs (2000 posters, 15.000 flyers, high quality technical equipment e.t.c.) from the incomes of the bar of the festival.All the participating artists and the organizing groups will participate voluntary to the festival.

Void Network started organizing multi media poetry nights in 1990. Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] believe that multi media Poetry Nights and Video Poetry shows can vibrate in the heart of Metropolis, bring new audiences in contact with contemporary poetry and open new creative dimensions for this ancient art. To achieve this, we respect the aspirations and the objectives of the artists, create high quality self organized exhibition areas and show rooms, we work with professional technicians and we offer meeting points and fields of by BlockIt Ad remover”> expression for artists and people that tend to stand antagonistically to the mainstream by BlockIt Ad remover”> culture.

We would like to thank Dave Bonta from the Moving Poems, a by BlockIt Ad remover”> global site with the by BlockIt Ad remover”> best video poems in the by BlockIt Ad remover”> web that inspired us to create the International Video Poetry Festival in Athens and we cooperate since 2012 to spread out the announcement of the Festival each year so as to gather new video poems from all over the world.