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Because it carries an attentive relationship to the world, an ear for the present, and for the ties that bind us together, the Théâtre de la Concorde has chosen to make it a space for civic reflection woven into each of the theater’s monthly themes. How can poetry today help us understand reality, share it, and nourish the collective energy of living together?
Conceived by Rodolphe Perez, the poésie-concorde series offers several participatory gatherings dedicated to contemporary poetic writing. Each session opens with an open mic, giving space to voices still in the process of writing, texts in motion, where the thinking of the present is being made. These readings take place on the warm Ciné-club stage, before giving the floor to invited authors whose work sheds light on the month’s theme: emancipation, attention to others, the invisible, our inheritances… Each encounter thus becomes a moment of dialogue where readings, exchanges, literary analysis, political reflection, and conversation with the audience intersect. Far from the clichés that would confine poetry to abstraction or ornament, the series instead affirms that poetic writing captures the liveliness of the present: it questions our gestures, our anger, our fragilities, our impulses. It welcomes the singularities of our time and invents forms to express what moves through all of us. This meeting point between creation, critical thought, and citizenship makes Poésie-concorde a true sensitive laboratory of our time. These sequences extend the reflection begun by the Théâtre’s monthly programming and are part of its commitment to opening the stage to writing that strengthens critical thought. Program Thursday, January 15, 2026: Writing Emancipation This first session opens the series on the side of liberation: in a month devoted to questioning abuses of power, poetic writing comes to unsettle forms of domination, crack imposed narratives, and restore breath to voices kept silent. Open readings and dialogue with the guest will make it possible to think of poetry as a gesture of opening, resistance, and inner reclamation. Thursday, February 12, 2026: Staying Alert: Hearing the Other In February, as we explore what ignorance produces in democracy, this session invites active, attentive, and sometimes demanding listening. Poetry will be considered as an art of decentering: a space where we learn to hear what unsettles, shifts, or reveals our blind spots. Readings and discussions will illuminate the ways poetry reopens attention to others. Thursday, March 19, 2026: Invisible Figures & Recognition In March, the series turns to those largely forgotten by our shared narratives. This session will be devoted to those whom democracy struggles to see or recognize. Poetic writing, through voices shared in the open mic and then through the meeting with the invited author, will become a tool for visibility, repair, and narrative justice. Saturday, April 18: A Possible Tomorrow In April, as we explore the question of inheritances, this session sets out to think through our genealogies and our debts. Poetry takes up codes in order to better invent; it breaks forms that have proven themselves in order to explore new ways of hoping for a future. Hoping for tomorrow while looking straight at where we come from and what we leave behind. Thursday, May 21: Individual Mythologies, Collective Imaginaries In May, the series takes up the theme of “Our Commons” to bring individual mythologies and collective imaginaries into dialogue. Poetic writing offers a space for confronting the stories we may tell ourselves, stories that can nourish us or hold us back alongside shared histories. How can we write a common horizon without an encounter between the self and the world? Thursday, June 11: I & We, Shared Space Continuing the explorations of inheritance and the commons, June will look at self-writing as a gift. Our identities, fluid and shifting, may be nothing more than a negotiation between the “I” and others in order to coexist sustainably in the world.
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