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Silly Little Projects Vol. II — D.I.Y. Trying
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome objects are impossible to throw away and useless to keep. A ticket stub, a broken earring, a key to a door that no longer exists. That is where Alisa […]
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Métamorphe — From Blackletter to Cholo
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceGothic script was never meant to travel. It was built for Northern European scribes, carried to Spain, then loaded onto ships — and once it reached Mesoamerica it stopped behaving […]
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La Chamba — Work, Travel & the Tourist’s Gaze
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLa Chamba is what work is called across much of Latin America: the job, the hustle, the thing that fills the day and quietly organises everything around it — streets, […]
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Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAn MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don't need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, […]
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Du bitume au sacré — Still Under Construction
Le Consulat Voltaire 114 Avenue Parmentier, Paris, FranceBefore Homecore, there was a kid from the banlieue raised the hard way, with street culture as a first language. That kid was Alexandre Guarneri. Thirty years after founding one […]
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Capuzzelle — Naming the Anonymous Dead
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceCapuzzelle are the anonymous skulls of Naples: for centuries, in the ossuaries and cemeteries of the city, the living would adopt one, give it a name and pray for its […]
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Philadelphia Graffiti Handstyles — Street Penmanship, from Gangster Prints to Wickeds
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FrancePhiladelphia has never had the mainstream aura of New York, and its writing has stayed largely off the record. Yet few cities have produced a scriptural texture of their own […]
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Oreall Pop-Up — Bathroom Problems in Paris
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Saturday, 3 October, Le Grand Jeu hands the shop over to the rapper Oreall for a one-day pop-up. It's his first time meeting his Paris audience in person, and […]
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T-shirts de Rap Français — Paris Book Release Party
Le Consulat Voltaire 114 Avenue Parmentier, Paris, FranceBefore it hangs in a frame, a scene lives on cotton. Concert tees, promo shirts, bootlegs — worn, faded, kept until they became documents in their own right. T-shirts de […]
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One Love Books Paris Launch — Greensleeves, Clarks and Jamaica
Le Comptoir Général 84 Quai de Jemmapes, Paris, FranceOn Saturday, 10 October, the London publisher One Love Books comes to Paris for an afternoon at Le Comptoir Général, co-organised with Le Grand Jeu and Judah Roger. There's no […]
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Fugace — Jean Sinelle’s last months as a student, in a zine
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceMost of what we keep from a period of our lives now sits on our phones: photos, but also screenshots, notes typed in a hurry, messages we never delete. In […]
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Rideaux de Fer #2 — Paris shutters, special Lutes
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Friday, 16 October, Nespo is back at Le Grand Jeu to launch the second volume of Rideaux de Fer, his zine devoted entirely to the painted shutters of Paris. […]
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