SpokenWord Paris

70 years ago Paris was liberated. Monday 25th August meet au Chat Noir 8-8.30pm as usual. Then we’ll join the Parisians in the bal populaire and celebrate the end of the occupation. 1944 style. 

Like every other Monday during the summer Spoken Word Paris goes flaneuring and exploring the City. For Monday 11 we decided to accept the invitation by our old-young friend and fellow performer HLN (you might remember her French Impro Poems) to her squat in VilleJuif-Aragon. Being a squat and very informal place, you are allowed and even invited to bring your own bottles and drinks, but there is also a small bar. Let’s go and discover this underground venue:

6 Rue Jean Prouvé. Metro: Villejuif-Louis Aragon deep down on line 7.

I know for someone might look like a trip into the great unknown, and technically it is, so for the ones who are free early and want to take this trip all together, we can gather and sign up since 7pm into another picturesque place of Paris: Les Arènes Des Lutèce. a Roman amphitheater built during the 1^st Century AD. Les Arènes Des Lutèce. Map link at the bottom.

I’ll be there, look for me. (Alberto) We gonna leave around 8pm taking the metro line 7 in place Monge towards the terminus Villejuif – Louis Aragon.

Be there or be damned!
Sign up from 8pm until poetics begin around 8.45pm
Au Chat Noir
76 r Jean-Pierre Timbaud
Metro Parmentier

Alberto under the hat because I’m in Italie…
Cheers,
David

Pictures by Steve. This is just a selection. Check the full album here or on his blog.

Spoken Word Paris summer edition! It means every two weeks. July 21: we had Bethany Rose, special guest from London and many other guests for all over the world. It was a fund-rising night for Matthew Lancit’s project “Flaneurs – Street Rambles” and we watch a few clips from it. It was also last Spoken Word Night for Gabriel, Lucy and Beatrice. But come next Monday for a flaneur’s wandering Goodbye party where you can hug them one more time. Spoken Word Paris in its original formula comes back in two weeks, on August 4th. Theme: NIGHTMARES!

A SpokenWord truly in the spirit of the flaneur!

We’ll meet at the Chat-Noir at 8pm Monday (28th July) as usual. Then we’ll go on a pub crawl stopping at bars to do poetry slots, stories, stand-up, songs, etc as usual. This will either be in the bars or on the street, in squares, beside the canal, etc. We’ll have a mini-amp and microphone. We’ll do it in open spaces and we’ll probably head to the canal.
If it rains, we’ll stay in the Chat Noir.
So – weather permitting, this will be a SpokenWord on the move and pub crawl. Theme: double theme!! We invite you to do stuff on the themes of GOODBYE or THE FLANEUR. (As usual, themes are meant to inspire, only follow them fi you feel like it.)

Meet at the Chat Noir at pm as usual and we’ll go from there, probably setting off about 8.45pm

Sounds fun, doesn’t it?

If you can’t find us, didn’t make it to the Chat before we left, sms or call Gabriel and he’ll tell you where we are as we roam around Paris.
Gabriel Gorman 06 42 70 68 45

Cheers all,
David & Alberto

Start at Au Chat Noir:
76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 metro Parmentier/Couronnes

The lit magazine of Spoken Word Paris, an anthology of poetry and prose, has launched its third issue – “Interesting Times.” Get it for ten euors from us or from Shakespeare & Co., Paris.