Imaginarium @Cornerstone Festival 2004

The theme was The Groteseque, climaxed by the Gopher-Guts Sing-a-Long. Click photo for movie.


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SPECIAL EVENTS 2004
>> SPECIAL GUEST | BIRTHDAY PARTY | POETRY KARAOKE

SPECIAL GUEST
Micah Harris, author of the graphic novel HEAVEN'S WAR, a cosmic battle between The Inklings and Aliester Crowley

Charles Williams Engages in Spiritual Warfare 1938: As the world moves toward global war, a secret angelic battle is waged in the heavenly realms to determine mankind's fate. The infamous Aleister Crowley plans to manipulate those angelic struggles and thus shape the world according to his will. Only "The Inklings" — 20th century fantasy authors J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams — oppose his scheme. Their altercation with Crowley will take them to the very threshold of Heaven — and one of the Inklings outside time itself!

At Imaginarium 2004, Micah Harris will be talking about his graphic novel, Heaven's War, and also leading the three-part seminar, Pop Labyrinths: Postmodernism, Relativism & Evil in Popular Culture. Micah has written novels, plays and a short film script and has published non-fiction in Fantasy Empire, Cinemagic and the Twin Peaks fanzine Wrapped in Plastic. He teaches composition, literature and film at a community college in North Carolina.

See interview with Micah Harris.

The Imaginarium is ALL ABOUT poetry. Our stock-in-trade has been myth and image, and in leveraging the oppositions in that notorious "War Between the Poets and Philosophers" in our frequent emphasis on Science Fiction. This year, we thought we'd acknowledge and honor the Muses directly, and channel a portion of our annual Barbaric Yawping into an informal sharing of our favorite poems. Do you have a favorite (Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, non-Western, Modern, Postmodern, none-of-the-above) poem? Rap lyric? FDA-required ingredients listing? Let's perform our favorites for each other (or excerpts: try to keep it short, we want everybody to have a turn.) In fact, if you'd like to reserve a favorite poem and so acquire an exclusive right to read it, email us and we'll mark down your reservation. Obviously, this only works if we get some participation, so we look forward to hearing from old friends and new either now or on the night of July 2, 2004 at 10:30 PM in the Imaginarium at Cornerstone Festival, near Bushnell, Illinois.

>> The confluence of two seminars, It's A Wonderful Cosmos: Chesterbelloc & the Capra Science Films and Poetic Agonies and Ecstasies: The Yin & Yang of Romanticism suggested this Imaginarium Event, which (as we know) can go either way: either "Hey, guys, nice try" (the "Square Dance") or "THAT WAS AMAZING!!!" (the "Gopher Guts Sing-A-Long"). So with such stakes, what can we can but cross our fingers and roll the dice (and if you've ever tried to roll the dice with crossed fingers, you know how hard it can be... So gather your metaphors, badly-mixed or not, and we'll share ours, on another summer's evening together at Cornerstone.)

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