This AVAnnotate project explores the final annual Sound Institute of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership, Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Kelowna, in May 2025. Over four days, poets, professors, archivists, artists, librarians, and researchers participated in a “summer camp” of immersive literary-audio activities. During the SpokenWeb Collections Showcase—where each partner institution creatively highlighted its archival work—the University of Alberta team presented a 360° video, SpokenWeb UAlberta in 360°. This project blends past and present technologies by playing literary recordings from the 1960s–80s on a Sony TC-102 reel-to-reel tape deck in the Edmonton locations where they were originally captured. Filmed with an Insta360 X4 camera and Zoom H3-VR ambisonic microphone, the video can be viewed in a VR headset, placing audiences visually and sonically inside the historical moment. This project was created by Natasha D’Amours and Sarah Freeman for the 2025 SpokenWeb Symposium, with assistance from Michael O’Driscoll, Sean Luyk, Michael MacKenzie, Xuege Wu, Robert Montgomery at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, and Courtney Higgins at the Art Gallery of Alberta.
