Poetry Brothel Berlin - First edition: Steamy windows.
Event Information
Description
This is the launch of The Poetry Brothel Berlin, a unique chance to get to know the finest international performers and poets in this amazing city. Tickets are very limited so be sure to grab one fast.
This event will be mainly held in English but feel free to ask the poets to perform in your language. You never know what surprise is awaiting for you. Our theme for the evening is "Steampunk". Feel free to interpret this as you feel.
Look at our Facebook-page for inspiration!
The venue includes a bar with drinks at very decent prices. Soup and small snacks will be available for the hungry souls. And it's a party. An immersive party. We want you to enjoy life at its fullest!
The ticket is your gate to the venue and the after party: to a world of wordy love, sensual music and great performers. It DOES NOT include the private readings. So if you want to enjoy our beautiful Poetry Whores in a private setting, show them your love and make sure you tip them! They like cash, darlings.
More information about this unique concept:
The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello. It is a concept based in concept on the fin-de-siècle bordellos in New Orleans and Paris, many of which functioned as safe havens for fledgling, avant-garde artists,
The Poetry Brothel's "Madame" or "Monsieur" presents a rotating cast of poets as "whores," each operating within a carefully constructed character, who impart their work in public readings, spontaneous eruptions of poetry, and most distinctly, as purveyors of private, one-on-one poetry readings in back rooms. For a small fee, (please foresee some cash!) all of the "poetry whores" and some performer are available for these sequestered readings at any time during the event. Of course, any true brothel needs a good cover; The Poetry Brothel's is an immersive cabaret, offering a full bar, live music, burlesque dancers, painters, and fortune-tellers, with newly integrated themes, performances and installations at each event.
Poets performing at the Brothel are male and female and everything in between, emerging and established, local and international, and they engage audiences in an immersive experience that flows seamlessly through the Brothel's public spaces into its private poetry readings. Central to this experience is the creation of character, which for poet and audience function as disguise and as freeing device, enabling The Poetry Brothel to be a place of uninhibited creative expression in which the poets and audience can be themselves in private. Through the vehicle of the private reading, The Poetry Brothel offers access to a part of the artistic process that was previously restricted to individuals in already intimate relationships.