SpokenWord Paris

Open Secret! Wednesdays @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 75005 Paris. 8:30 signup, 9pm show. Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).

This week’s special guest poet: Chris Bernstorf (http://www.chrisbernstorf.com/), plus ingenious German electro-pop singer/songwriter Jan Dark (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs9_Lp1S5m1iK-HoYadmLfw). Theme: “I’ll never grow up!”

Chris Bernstorf’s bio:
Performing since 2010 and touring since he finished college in the spring of 2012, ChrisBernstorf has carved a singular trail. Having performed around 400 shows in 38 states and Canada, he finds himself equally at home in the middle of a metal show or a living room and has developed a reputation for breaking down the barriers between himself and his audience, inviting everyone in the room into an experience, one he hopes is wrought with honesty, passion, and love.

Jan Dark’s bio:
“Ever since my childhood days in Germany, I’ve always thought of reality as something tedious to avoid at all costs. What helped me through the day was a coccoon made of all kinds of music. Throughout this journey, I’ve always kept writing my own songs. One EP (R.A.W.), one album (Charting Darker Waters), and lots of concerts ensued, and after several years of joyful noise, I felt like cooling things down for a change. The resulting EP “Healer” is equally sober and dreamy: minimalist, hypnotic pop music, with the occasional psychedelic flourish.”
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See ya @ da Bistrot 2nite, for poetry, hilarity & hot music! 🙂

Performing since 2010 and touring since he finished college in the spring of 2012, Chris Bernstorf has carved a singular trail.  Having performed around 400 shows in 38 states and Canada, he finds himself equally at home in the middle of a metal show or a living room and has developed a reputation for breaking down the barriers between himself and his audience, inviting everyone in the room into an experience, one he hopes is wrought with honesty, passion, and love.  His poems run the gamut from shout-a-long anthems to quiet love poems to post-rock-length journeys and are united by an indomitable sense of joy and life.  Performing in every setting from music venues to parks to kitchens to a church bathroom, Bernstorf’s poems have found a home in the ears of everyone from middle schoolers to hardcore kids to middle-aged moms, proving at every turn that the ultimate classification for his poems is simply poetry for people

Open Secret! Wednesdays @ Le Bistrot des Artistes.
6 rue des Anglais, 75005 Paris. Tonight’s theme:
“Buh-bye for now!” as we well-wish some young old friends… 🙂
8:30 signup, 9pm show.
Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).
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‘Tis an open stage: sing, recite, act, make people laugh, create startling performance art…be an inventor!  6 rue des Anglais is a postcard passageway marrying Boulevard Saint Germain to rue Langrange.  From St. Germain, just look for the wee Franprix-in-the-alley…the Bistrot’s steps away.  Our theme this Wednesday is “Buh-bye for now!” 😉

Let’s all meet at Le Bistrot des Artistes this coooool evening! 

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Pansy Maurer-Alvarez was born in Puerto Rico, grew up in Pennsylvania and did her literary studies at universities in the US, Switzerland and Spain. She now lives and writes (full time) in France. Her latest poetry collections are ORANGES IN JANUARY (KFS Press, 2016) and IN A FORM OF SUSPENSION (corrupt press, 2014) and she has 4 previous collections.  She is a contributing editor to the British magazine, Tears in the Fence and is the outgoing curator of the Poets Live reading series in Paris.