SpokenWord Paris

Open Secret! That sweet community open mic…Le Bistrot des Artistes is double-booked this week, & I’ve asked many-a-venue to host us, to no avail. So it shall exist in front of Notre Dame (meet me at the door). At 8pm nightlong sign-up begins, & the show is at 9.

Every Wednesday – without fail. Tonight’s theme: “The Importance of Bein’ Crazy!” Dare to make true art as well as live fully…Our crazyfunny & oh-so-smart featured artist this week is Mark Norman Harris (who just held his second Cabaret Voltaire). Hilarious songwriter, poet, painter, & cult leader! 🙂 Bring an “adult beverage” & join us!

Chris Burke is an English writer and journalist, whose debut poetry collection ‘The Noise of Everything at Once’ was published by Happy House Books in January. His work has appeared in publications including Antiphon, the French Literary Review, Snakeskin, Prole, the Richmond Review and Monkey Kettle, and three of his poems were longlisted for the 2014 UK National Poetry Competition. Born in London and raised in Essex, he has also written and consulted on screenplays for film and television.

Camille Adnot is a Parisian poet and teacher. Graduate of Anglophone Literature from Paris-Diderot University, she specialises in visual poetry and is currently preparing a PhD project on William Blake’s engravings while finishing her studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris, which she integrated in 2012. She teaches English, as well as French to foreigners; she has notably taught French for a year in Nottingham University, UK, and to immigrants in Paris. Always passionate about prose storytelling in French, her studies have led her to try her hand at poetry in English. Her poems often deal with perception confusions, shapeshifting, and the female body and psyche, but she also loves to revisit old myths and to give them a contemporary take. She is a regular spoken word performer at Le Chat Noir, and is also fond of Open Secret and the Other Writers’ Group. She has recently been published in The Opiate Magazine.

Open Secret! Intimate open mic, every Wednesday @Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 5è. 8pm sign-up starts, & @ 9 the show…Theme: “Sincerity.”
Featured artist: singer/songwriter Darshana! Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).

Darshana, after six years of playing rock music at many venues & festivals in Paris (such as Gala Polytechnique, La Loco, Scène Bastille, & Festival Rock’n’Solex) as the singer and guitarist of the Four Black Taxis, started a new solo career with a completely new energy and repertoire. He is essentially a musician of protest songs in folk music, & has been coached by the music editor of Eddy Mitchell for 4 years. Notable interviews include Fault Mag (http://fault-magazine.com/2011/03/darshana-congreve//http://fault-magazine.com/2011/07/darshana/) & the world-renowned INSTITUTE Mag (https://institutemag.com/2012/05/29/darshana-congreve-2/). A new CD is coming, with the engineer & musicians of Louis Lumière. (Darshana’s SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/darshana).

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Open Secret – intimate open mic, Wednesdays @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 75005 Paris.  8pm, nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9 le spectacle!

Our theme this Wednesday is taken from the title of luminous featured poet Filippa Bahrke’s new book – “Elsewhere.” Filippa’s bio is below…& this be a Double Feature! There shall also be a set of poignant song by Declan David Hughes…

Filippa is 24 years old and based in Montmartre, Paris. Her debut poetry chapbook, Elsewhere, was published by corrupt press in 2016. She is the winner of the PNSEL poetry prize, and her poems have featured in many magazines and an anthology.

Open Secret, that intimate open mic, Wednesday nights underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 5è. Tonight’s theme: “Fumbling towards ecstasy…”
At 8, nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9pm le spectacle…Share your gorgeous art with this tight-knit community – poetry, song, comedy, bizarre performance art (encouraged), theater scenes/monologues, live painting, silent dancing, & whatever else you can invent! See you @ Le Bistrot!