Is a voice heard in the forest when it sings or orates, narrates?


Since the first one was so successful, LE Writers and so social are joining forces to bring you the open mic night on a regular basis. Come and read your poetry or short stories or your favorite poem by other authors. Or come and sing or play a song. The plan is a nice mix of music and spoken or slammed word. Any language is warmly welcomed too, as we are a very international group. of course you can also just come and watch....but we'd rather you added your voice to the throng.

Have your voice heard in the Lime tree city (Lipsia), and hear others as they express themselves.

War and Peace - Berlin Reading

Leipzig Writer's first Berlin reading took place August 27th, 8pm at John Power's G11 Galerie. The theme, 'War and Peace'. A salon staging, the evening opened with Sarajevo artist Christiana Biron's impassioned personal account of her country's past and current conflicts. Our scribed meditations on the topic followed. It then ended with a candlelit musical performance by soprano Aleksandrina Semerdzhieva accompanied by electric guitarist Stuart McClean playing Bach and Mozart.

Our segment featured Svetlana Lavochkina, Stew Tunnicliff, Rima Chakaroun, Ralf Lowland and myself - Kat Steiger. We started with a flash-card reading blitz - each of us delivering phrases from Stew's 'Conflicting Thoughts' on flashcards, then tossing them to the ground. I then began with 'Blackbird' - a piece written in honor of my father linking his turbulent childhood and Viet Nam. German and Russian translations echoed after. Svetlana then read an excerpt of 'Crashattic' - a short story set in Kiev and Novosibirsk during World War II. This piece was recently accepted by Witness, one of America's top literary publications. Stewart next lured the audience with his distinct British phrasing through works marked by his homeland in 'Legend Passed' and 'Capital Damage'. Rima's 'Rocking Horse of Time' was another visceral portrayal of witnessed war, in Lebanon. Lastly, '800 Years' was read by Ralf in both English and German - slowing to a close with the lines "Our Ireland's neither dead nor gone, Tis sleeping it is, still" . . .
It was a unique performance that highlighted our variety of viewpoints and voices. We thank John Powers for the invitation and look forward to future projects amongst ourselves to continue to creatively collaborate on!

makes sense

a workshop that explores our reaction to sensory stimuli.............through words. more info coming soon!

going official in Leipzig

Timing is the essence and I firmly believe this to be so in Leipzig. We hit the cross roads of Europe at a time  where one path was leading to internationalization, and the other to a buzz among the art scene here.

The first half of this year has been a blast of blips but mainly turbo boosting collaborative motivation, with the success of the Closest East to the Heart, rolling into The Embassy of Love into the Open Mic and on to the next one on 24th Sept.

So we are gonna take the lion by the mane and go official under some kind of company status, most likely an e.V. (non-profit organization) by the end of the year.

Keep your pens scribbling and come join us to write or to contribute to events, or the organization.

Date of e.V. founding 2nd Oct 2011

Creative splurges, and unexpected success

"Variety ...the spice of life and there was plenty of diversity on the evening." Leipzig Zeitgeist

The Open Mic was a right raving resounding success with 12 contributors, 5 lingos and some nice response and reviews. We had an audience numbering someat between 40 and 50. The night went for about 2 plus hours and was very nicely MC'd by Greek- New York Nick.
We had moods of loss, miscommuniciation, light hearted humour, stories, poems and many songs.
Unexpected though it was coz it fell on the Gothik Treff weekend,  in the end down to the turn out we decided to do this event every 3 months.

Next date in your diary is the 24th September for the sequel.

Also in the pipeline for October is a creativity- sensory workshop, keep your eyes peeled and your ears open for this unique event at the cross roads of Europe and writing styles.