Le Grand Jeu
Events at this venue
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When T-Shirts Become Archives
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome archives are not built at once, but slowly assembled through years of looking, collecting, and remembering. Before culture became fully digitised, memory often lived in magazines, photographs, mixtapes and personal objects — fragments that carried entire worlds within them. Journalist, editor and curator Eglée de Bure opens her personal archive in Roots Picnic Music […]
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The City in Motion: Paris Ride Out
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBeyond its monuments and boulevards, Paris is also a city of riders, gathering spots and improvised routes. TARSTREETSPORTS: Paris Ride Out captures one of those moments when movement becomes a way of inhabiting the city. Set in a hidden Paris location, the zine documents an evening where riders, DJs and spectators came together, transforming an […]
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When Letters Meet – Skript Letter Jam #4
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn a moment when graphic cultures increasingly overlap without fully meeting, Skript Letter Jam #4 explores what happens when the culture of the letter becomes a shared space rather than a separate practice. Typography, calligraphy, graffiti and letter painting are brought together not as a comparison, but as a live encounter between gestures, rhythms and […]
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Thierry Maignan – Negroïde City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn Paris, some presences are constant yet rarely centered — visible in everyday life, but still pushed to the margins of dominant narratives. Negroïde City begins from this tension. Through a series of black-and-white photographs, Thierry Maignan traces a lived city shaped by bodies, gestures, and movements that quietly redefine its landscape. Both intimate and […]
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Off the Rails — Graffiti, Trains & the Underground City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAfter a fifteen-year-old boy discovers a graffiti blackbook, his eyes are opened to an unseen city. As his interest in rugby league fades, he finds himself drawn to spray cans, a camera, and the abandoned buildings, rooftops and active train tunnels of Sydney. In its forgotten spaces, he encounters a community who see the city […]
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Before It Dries While It Lasts — Writing, Water & Disappearance
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBefore It Dries While It Lasts is an experiment in writing as a temporary act — stripped of its usual claim to permanence. Working with water, Edoardo Baraggioli creates wall interventions that evaporate over time, questioning mark-making, duration and disappearance within the field of graffiti. For this evening at Le Grand Jeu, Edoardo will present […]