Open Secret! Your own personal community open mic, Wednesdays @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, in the Latin Quarter. Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). 8pm, nightlong sign-up begins, & at 9 the show.
Tonight, two special things – some Germanophones (like brilliant Swiss writer Cordula Frei) & Anglophones shall read from the letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as his poetry, in German & English. The theme is of course the title of his famous colllection, “Letters to a Young Poet.”
Also, catch John Hoggett again (Monday’s SpokenWord feature)!
John Hoggett is a Pinko Commie Queer, dedicated homosexualist, environmentalist and wordsmith. He performs regularly at Lets Talk About Gay Sex and Drugs in Ku Bar, Soho, London and has performed at most Climate Camps…
Noman Hosni isn’t really the kind of guy you can easily pigeonhole. An expert Jack-of-all-trades, he’s a collector of vocations: director, host of the famous TV show Garage on TSR 2, avid practitioner of extreme sports—one might understandably assume he’s hyperactive. His role models include Ricky Gervais, Michael McIntyre, and Daniel Tosh, among many others. After a trip to the legendary stand-up clubs of the United States in 2006, he finally decided to take the plunge and go into comedy. Winner of the 2009 Night of Humor, he was an accomplished member of the Swiss Comedy Club, where he honed his style night after night. After performing at the Montreux Comedy Club in 2010, he participated in the Open du Rire for Radio Rire et Chansons. A Debjam Comedy prizewinner, he was chosen by Jamel Debbouze for the Marrakech Festival of Laughter and invited to join the Comedy Club troupe in Paris starting in September 2011. Hosni also performs in English with the International Comedy Club (formerly known as Funny Laundry) in Geneva , Lausanne , and Zurich . In the not-so-distant future—who knows?—he may even take the boards of London by storm. In the meantime, one thing’s for sure: the sky’s the limit for Noman Hosni.
“Dareka performs his poetry since 2005 in France, then in USA, and everywhere his feet can land on. He is now traveling through France and Europe to satisfy his thirst for poetry. He hosted the popular Paris Poetry venue, “Slam au Downtown”, for two years when he wasn’t rocking the stage with his experimental fusion punk jazz spoken word band, La Bête Aveugle. He got his poem-tales series turned into a play once, hosted a workshop at the USA national poetry slam, another about poetry performance in many schools of Casablanca, represented France at the London Poetry Olympics, rode a horse in Icelandic mountains (unrelated), got his poetry recently displayed in an art gallery in Japan. He often performed his poetry in very strange places, such as a pizzeria in Rio de Janeiro, a church in Hanover, a Sephora make-up shop in the Ardennes forest, on a tennis table in a craft shop turned vegetarian restaurant in Porto, and so on, and yes, he liked it. Just as his life, his poems are metamorphic animals, and he’s a zoo keeper in hell. They are trees and buildings, little skeletons dancing under the moonlight, lonely kids lost in urban mazes, sewing needles stuck in his frail stupid little heart. They are maelstrom of rhymes, soda drinks in a night bar, for a drunken public. They are you, they are him, they are life and death kissing in a blink, but it does not really matters.”
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