Local poets Cleveland Wall and Frank May will create poems on demand using old-fashioned typewriters from 5-8 p.m. as part of the Poetry in the Wild Project.
Face painting by Milan Stevens will run from 6 p.m. until the start of the film at 8:30 p.m.
Bring a blanket or chairs and a picnic dinner. The screening will take place on Movie Hill near the KSAT dog park.
The Karl Stirner Arts Trail Poetry in the Wild Project includes many opportunities to engage with local poets as they create spontaneous poetry on demand using old-fashioned typewriters on the arts trail, Easton Farmers’ Market, and West Ward Market. The project began with a celebration of National Poem from Your Pocket Day at the Easton Public Market and outside Book and Puppet on April 18.
Movies Along the Trail is sponsored by Integrated Automotive Services, Timmerman Equipment, Bi-State Construction, Ed and Kathy Ahart, and Northampton County.
Another film in the Movies Along the Trail series will feature the award-winning documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project on Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. The film will be preceded by a poetry treasure hunt and a concert by Yolanda Wisher and the Afro Eaters band.
Please get in touch if you’re willing to help set up luminaria before a movie and remove them afterward.
An animated expansion of Harry Nilsson’s 1970 album of the same name, The Point (75 min., 1971) was directed by Fred Wolf and has a rating of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It “tells the story of a young boy named Oblio, who is banished from the über-conformist Pointed Village for the misfortune of being born with a round head in a society of cone-shaped domes,” says David Filipi, Film Comment. “Accompanied by his dog Arrow, Oblio encounters numerous odd creatures during his exile, and this fanciful journey provides Wolf with ample opportunities for moments of free-flowing, hand-drawn animated splendor.”
The Point explores themes of conformity vs. individuality, acceptance, and a deeper philosophical question: What really gives something meaning? This whimsical film uses a framing device of a father, voiced by Ringo Star, telling his son the fable as a bedtime story.
Poetry in the Wild is supported in part with funding from the Hotel Tax grant programs through Northampton County’s Department of Community & Economic Development, a Crayola Community Grant, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts.
