The Paris Chapter: 26 Feb - 3 March
All-day brunch, launch parties, language apéro, word games, a drawing atelier, one-woman show, accountability breakfast, dance highlights and more.
In this edition:
BE - a question or quote to help you live deeper
GO - where to explore next
DELVE - a quick curation of online reads
DO - three Paris event recommendations for the week ahead
Additionally, for premium subscribersEXPAND - the full line-up of events
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BE
“Open your ears to music, your eyes to painting. And don’t think! Ask yourselves… whether the work of art has carried you away to a world unknown to you before. If so, what more do you want?”
— Vasily Kandinsky
GO
Each week, a place to pop into or base a little exploration around
Le Loulou (6e)
All-day brunch from the best at it: Aussies (I might be slightly biased, but you do have us to thank for smashed avo*). Expect healthy egg-focused fare alongside acai bowls, fresh juices, gluten free pastries and the like.
While you’re about: pop next door to Bolia for some design inspiration (and a copy of their beautiful catalogue), pick up a book from Shakespeare & Co, and take a very Parisian “I must read now” pause in Square René Viviani, with a view on Notre Dame.
* Smashing up avocado, adding some spices and oil, spreading it on toast and charging you a lot of money for it.
DELVE
The pieces that have stuck with me, from all I’ve read this week
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“Every morning when he asked, “How can I help you?” I’d pause, grateful for the breath, for the second to ask myself the same question. It was there, in the tender space between his asking and my answering, that I found myself more naked than I’d ever been.”
On Sentimentality and What Forms Us by
”Maybe, being an artist isn’t about transforming ourselves into some totally new and foreign being, but finding out what sort of being we are, and being more of that.”-
“By its very definition, a hit is an outlier. Something that broke the mold, shocked the system, fared better than all the rest… They cannot all be hits. That’s just basic math.”
To Cure Burnout, Embrace Seasonality by Cal Newport
“When knowledge work arose as a major economic sector in the 20th century, office buildings became virtual factories, with members of this growing class of workers metaphorically clocking in for eight-hour shifts… attempting to transform their mental capacities into valuable output with the same regularity as an assembly-line worker”
(Thanks
for the find)
DO
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Wed 28
Julia Perazzini, 8pm
A multi-faceted exploration of the fear of death and how to truly live, in this one-woman show from the actor, performer, ventriloquist and director.
(FR) 24€, Théâtre Public Montreuil
Thur 29
Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe, 7/8pm
The story of French artist Pierre Bonnard and his muse, as presented by Lost in Frenchlation (they handily add English subtitles to the film).
(FR/EN) 10€, Le Balzac (8e).
Sat 2
Hike Parc de Saint-Cloud, 10am - 2pm
Play outside and meet new people, in one of Paris’s prettiest - and least touristed - parks.
(FR/EN) Free, Domaine Nationale de Saint-Cloud
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