A festive SpokenWord for those like me with no family to annoy in Paris… theme MIDWINTER, usuall SpokenWordery with sign up from 8pm, poetics begin from 8.30pm downstairs at the Chat Noir… Cheers all, David Barnes

Camille Adnot is a fiction writer and poet, who writes both in English and in French. She grew up in France, where she read English at the ENS of Paris and Paris-Diderot uni, which developed her love for the music of the English language. That love was furthered by living in the UK for a couple of years, first in Nottingham and then in Oxford, where she taught French. She’s also around London from time to time. Currently she’s doing a PhD on the mapping of chaos in William Blake’s illuminated books at Paris-Diderot, and teaching English lit. That hasn’t led her to engrave her poetry yet, but she’s worked in collaboration with visual artist Anne Huynh on turning a number of poems into paintings, and they’re also thinking of making a short movie out of one. In the meantime, Camille keeps on writing, performing at open mics like Spoken Word Paris or Angora Poets, taking part in the AWOL workshop, and she’s recently become part of the Poetry Brothel, where you can listen to her poetic alter ego, Sasori Sting, recite poems in a decadent fashion. Her poems in English, and poems of other writers that she has translated into French, have been published in The Opiate, Those That This, and Quail Bell Magazine.

SpokenWord falls on November 5th this year… variously known as Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes Night or further back it was Gunpowder Treason Day. It celebrated the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 in which Guy Fawkes and his conspirators almost succeeding in blowing up the Houses of Parliament and killing King James I.

Guy Fawkes – Catholic terrorist or the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions? In recent years, notably with the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta that popularised the Guy Fawkes mask, he has been celebrated by anarchists as a symbol of resistance to the fascist tendancies of the state.

Traditionally in Britain effigies of Guy Fawkes are burnt on bonfires and fireworks let off. Effigies of other hated figures, or even things, have also long been thrown on to the fire.

So this SpokenWord why not bring something to be symbolically destroyed?

Or a poem or spoken word piece or song on the theme of Conspiracy/Guy Fawkes/Bonfires.

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know no reason
Why Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!

…English folk verse

Cheers all,

David Barnes

Beatrice Mori is an Italian bilingual professional actress, singer and musical theatre performer represented by Play Actors International Agency, who moved to London almost 3 years ago. She completed her training in Musical Theatre at the Royal Central School Of Speech And Drama, University Of London. Since then she started working both as an actress on camera for different projects that include among others: a role in “Double Entendre” which also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Things We Do Before Midnight” from Paniscus Motion Production, “Jessica & Scott” Short Love Story, a cameo on Sky 1 for What’s Up TV, a comic and bubbly role in “Yo Magazine” Sitcom; and also on stage as a musical performer. The main projects have been: the prestigious “West End Live 2017″ event in Trafalgar Square, Anything Goes” The Musical at the Greenwood Theatre, an Off West End production of a new original musical called “The Dream” at the Iris Theatre (Covent Garden), “Love Bites” Play at Art’s Night Event  in a new original play called “Our Dads Fucked Us Up” in which she plays an eccentric and cynical gypsy. She recently finished the run of the musical “West Side Story” as one of the Shark singers and dancers  and has now been cast in a new original show that will debut soon at the Etcetera Theatre (Camden Town) as well as being chosen to play a lead role in a new sci-fi series. When she’s not rehearsing or auditioning, Beatrice performs original and rearranged songs with her guitarist Alex Carli (Lotus Duo) in various venues/events around London. Beatrice also showcased her first on going work-in progress One Woman Show “Embracing Shadows” at Art’s Night Event  which received positive feedbacks. Even if it’s still a work in progress, she has already been offered the chance to work on it as a short movie by an award winning producer and filmmaker.