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Night Moves: Street Photography, Poetry and Music with Rodney DeCroo

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Rodney DeCroo is a singer-songwriter, playwright, poet and screenwriter. To mark the publication of his first collection of street photography, Night Moves (Anvil Press), this will be a multimedia event with slides, poetry, music, film and conversation. Night Moves is a gritty, touching and truthful portrayal of contemporary urban life. With his poet’s eye for detail, DeCroo faithfully captures the living character of East Vancouver, especially the pulse of the Commercial Drive area that he has called home for the past 30 years.

7:00 pm — Social mixer (VIFF Atrium)
7:30 pm — Introduction and slide show: Images from Night Moves
7:45 pm — Conversation with Mike Usinger on the art and ethics of street photography, followed by Q&A and intermission
8:30 pm — Poetry, Music and Short Films with Rodney and his band, The Wise Blood

 

Guest
Time

7:00 pm

Date

April 23

Venue

VIFF Cinema, VIFF Centre

19+
120 min

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Rodney DeCroo

Rodney DeCroo is a poet, singer-songwriter, playwright and street photographer. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Allegheny, BC; Next Door to the Butcher Shop and Fishing for Leviathan. He has released eight albums with Northern Electric Records and Tonic Records and has toured throughout Canada, the US and the UK for over a decade. He has written and performed two critically acclaimed solo plays, Stupid Boy in an Ugly Town and Didn’t Hurt that toured extensively in Canada and the US. His two act play In the Belly of the Carp (co-created with the Butcher Shop Collective) recently debuted at the Shadbolt Center for the Arts. In 2019, he was Moniack Mhor’s (Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre) International Poet in Residency. Night Moves is his debut collection of street photography. His street shots have also appeared in subTerrain, BC Review and Monte Cristo Magazine

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