Verbatim Text Sound Expo was conceived during the first year of the pandemic, with the intention of bringing together Hudson Valley & Catskills-based poetry presses and record labels in an outdoor space to learn about each others’ work and trade books and tapes. Since then, it has grown into an annual market and performance festival featuring local and regional independent poetry publishers and record labels. The market is accompanied by a schedule of performance across disciplines: poetry, avant-garde music, sound art, and hybrid text-sound experiments. It is a gathering of poets, noisemakers, fabulists, pickers, shredders, orators, and interdisciplinary ramblers moving between & across domains of text and noise.
All Verbatim performances are curated by the presses and labels. If you are a small press poetry publisher or a record label that focuses on experimental sound, and you are based in the Hudson Valley, Catskills, Capital Region, Western Mass, or nearby areas, please get in touch if you're interested in becoming a vendor. We have limited capacity so participation isn't guaranteed.
Nestled in the scenic mountains of Maplecrest, New York, Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, a program of the Catskill Mountain Foundation, is a peaceful sanctuary where making art is a form of thinking. Sugar Maples hosts immersive summer workshops in studio arts, a summer youth program, and year-round weekly classes, creative retreats, and special exhibitions and events.
The campus has multiple facilities including Sherwood House, a modest and comfortable inn with ensuite rooms and a shared kitchen; a dedicated Fibers and Ceramics Studio; the Art Studio & Gallery for workshops and exhibitions; Speakers Space, a charming country chapel for presentations and performances; the Kiln Pavilion for ceramic firing; a Natural Agriculture Farm offering seasonal vegetables; and last but not least, Thyme Field, an open gathering space overlooking Thomas Cole Mountain for festivals and events.
Learn more about Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts.
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