Evenings of writing and speaking · Arles, Paris and beyond
Les Inavouables
The art of saying what we keep quiet.
Inavouable: what one cannot bring oneself to admit.
Two hours to write what we rarely say, read it aloud to strangers, and listen to what they have to tell.
Open evenings
One evening, two hours
8 to 20 people · in person
Everyone is free to write, and to read aloud, whatever they choose. No one has to reveal anything, and what is said during the evening stays in the room.
Nobody comes to learn how to write, and nothing gets cured. For one evening, you write down the jealousy or the grudge you have so carefully hidden, then read it to strangers who have just done the same.
Since spring 2026 · Arles, Marseille, Montreuil, Grignan, Paris…
Pressure / Contempt / Jealousy / Selfishness / Regret / Resentment / Greed · coming soon
Next evening
Greed
In the broadest sense: money, of course, but also the time, the energy and the attention we hold back.
Date and venue to be announced on Instagram.
Hear about the next eveningsOctober 2026 · Paris
Resentment
Revenge, memory, justice, forgiveness, and that very human talent for nursing a three-minute quarrel for twenty years.
2 September 2026 · Arles
Regret
At the Fondation Bustamante, where the artworks mingled with our words. The regrets that haunt us, shape us, and sometimes save us.
For organisations
Les Inavouables for organisations
Each session is shaped around the place, the group and what it is going through. We choose a theme together, and I design a writing prompt for that group alone.
Ambition, recognition, loyalty, failure. For away days, new roles, teams coming together.
Exhaustion, helplessness, loss, fear. To say what caring for others puts you through, and what you usually keep to yourself.
Success, comparison, fear of failure. Writing in the first person, to hear yourself better.
Museums, foundations, festivals: so that audiences write and speak, rather than only look.
More than 200 participants so far, with ICADE, Les Petits Frères des Pauvres and the Fondation Bustamante.
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