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    • Events

    Upcoming ses­sions:

    Saturday, September 30, from 6pm to 8:30pm
    Collective reading of Les Guérrillères, accom­pa­nied by audio excerpts pre­sented by Clemence Allezard and more

    Saturday, October 28, from 6pm to 8:30pm

    Friday, December 8, from 6pm to 8:30pm

    Note : col­lec­tive read­ings are held in French

    Previous events

    Friday January 27, from 6 to 8:30pm
    Collective reading of Le Corps les­bien, pre­sented by Catherine Ecarnot, and pre­ceded by " J/E ", a radio­phony by Syn Guérin and Eugénie Kuffler


    Bétonsalon, 2023.

    Friday, February 24, 6 to 8:30 pm
    Collective reading of La pensée straight


    Bétonsalon, 2023.

    Friday, March 31, from 6 to 8:30 pm
    Collective reading of Wittig’s L’Opoponax

    Friday, April 21, from 6 to 8:30 pm
    Collective reading: Wittig’s the­atre, around Le Voyage sans fin, with an inter­ven­tion by Lorraine Wiss, Doctor of Theatre Studies, and broad­casting of extracts from the radio plays La récréa­tion and Le Grand Cric Jules.

    Friday May 26 , from 6pm 8:30pm
    Collective reading (in French) of Virgil, non (1985), with Aurélie Massa (artist, author and per­former) and Theo Mantion (PhD can­di­date in lit­er­a­ture at Harvard University), as well as a dis­covery of sound archives.

    Friday June 23, from 6pm to 8:30pm
    Program around les­bian and queer writing, with Monique Wittig and beyond

    Saturday, July 8, from 5pm to 7pm
    Introduction to karate

    By Marie Bouard, instructor at Niji-Kan Karaté Do, an LGBT karate club
    Open to begin­ners, free, by reg­is­tra­tion only at info@­be­ton­salon.net

    As an exten­sion of Monique Wittig’s col­lec­tive read­ings at Bétonsalon since the begin­ning of the year 2023, this intro­duc­tion to karate is an oppor­tu­nity to get in shape and put into prac­tice the decon­struc­tion of gender rela­tions. In the long his­tory of the links between fem­i­nist move­ments and self-defence, it is also a nod to the prac­tice of this mar­tial art by many fem­i­nists of the 1970s, including Monique Wittig, who began prac­tising it in 1975 and through it met Sande Zeig, her teacher and later her partner, with whom she wrote Brouillon pour un dic­tion­naire des amantes the fol­lowing year.

    Saturday, September 9, from 4pm to 6pm
    Introduction to karate work­shop

    By Marie Bouard, instructor at Niji-Kan Karaté Do, an LGBT karate club
    Open to begin­ners, free, by reg­is­­tra­­tion only at info@­be­­ton­salon.net

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