SpokenWord themes & special guests:

(Themes are suggestions to inspire, you don’t have to follow them.)

2025 themes & special guests:

Jan 6th — Slip — entirely open mic, no guest
Jan 13th — Childhood — Gill Sotu
Jan 20th — Wood — Sue Burge
Jan 27th — Humanity — Henry Madd

Feb 3rd — Soil — Victor Sakanwi (with Ubayy)
Feb 10th — Musicality — Mark Norman Harris
Feb 17th — Trip — entirely open mic, no guest
Feb 24th — Rainbow — Xoài David

March 3rd — Black — Jasmine Vegas
March 10th — Spring — entirely open mic
March 17th — Walls — Youssef Alaoui
March 24th — Heartbreak — Claudia Talbot
March 31st — Encounters — Philip Lynch

Apr 7th — Magic — Catherine Ronan
Apr 14th — Thirst — no guest, entirely open mic
Apr 21st — Rebirth — Johny Brown
Apr 28th — Connection — AJ Dolman had to cancel due to ill health

May 5th — Vices — Jason Fisher
May 12th — Parasite — Ed Bell
May19th — Control — Monalisa Maione
May 26th — Joke — entirely open mic, no guest

June 2nd — Ecstasy — Alex Dimitrov & Yann Rousselot
June 9th — Trauma — Helen O’Keeffe
June 16th — Kill — Josh Cake
June 23rd — Nostalgia — Alex Vellis
June 30th — Glue — entirely open mic, no guest

July 7th — Free — Skye Jackson
July 14th — Survival — Heidi Seaborne & Cynthia Good
July 21st — Meltdown — Emmet O’Brien
July 28th — this SpokenWord cancelled due to illness.

Sept 1st — Summer’s End — no guest, entirely open mic
Sept 8th — Space — Alice Gretton
Sept 15th — Roads — Judymay Murphy
Sept 22nd — Obsession — Floyd Humphrey
Sept 29th — Conversations — Tim Holm has had to postpone due to health issues

Oct 6th — Labels — Kim B Miller
Oct 13th — Influence — entirely open mic, no guest
Oct 20th — Search — William Strangmeyer
Oct 27th — Self-love — Robin Bobo

Nov 3rd — Witch — Zac Graves
Nov 10th — Breath — Dominica Selvaggio
Nov 17th — Grief — Sivani Howe
Nov 24th — Euphoria — entirely open mic, no guest

Dec 1st — Fabric — Kara Schneider
Dec 8th — Earth — Joseph Torijos
Dec 15th — Endings — Andrej Kapor

SpokenWord will be taking a Christmas break after 15th December. Back Monday 5th January.

Got a great idea for a theme?
Text it to us on +33 6 26 90 13 26

Reckon you’ve got what it takes to be the special guest?
If you’ve got both strong poetry and skill at performance then talk to Antonia Klimenko or David Barnes at SpokenWord on Monday or drop an email to spokenwordparis @ gmail.com

Cheers,
David Barnes