Formats

Different ways of putting writing on a stage.

Each one is a production with its own dramaturgy, cast and technical rider. All of them adapt to a venue, a theme, an audience and a language.

Photo: Mar Perla

Projected text falling across the body of a performer during a Writing Concert

Writing Concert

Since 2014

An exhibition of live writing. Invited writers build stories out of what the audience gives them, led by a host, backed by a live band and the full visual setup. It can be built around a theme, a collection or an anniversary.

Photo: Mar Perla

Projected text during a Live Writing session

Live Writing Session

Since 2014

An encounter. A device we install to invite everyone who walks in to join through writing, sharing the keyboard. Live music, projection, and a room where writing in public turns out to be easier than it sounds.

Photo: Mar Perla

A dancer and a writer facing each other across a keyboard during a Writing Slam

Writing Slam

Since 2014

A writing competition unlike any other in the world, where new literary challenges are invented constantly for four to eight participants to face live. The audience takes part, there is music and there are performers. A live literature show.

Photo: Mar Perla

Participants writing at a games table during the Literary Casino

Literary Casino

2018

An installation of writing games: a theme park of literature. Players move between tables and choose which challenge to take on, with computers, paper, blackboards and typewriters. It has been staged once, and it is waiting for the right venue to do it again.

Photo: Josep Tobella

Text projected large onto a wall with live musicians below, Graffitext

Graffitext

New

Live writing taken to the street and onto the walls of the city, turning the session into a visual experience through video mapping. The text stops being a document and becomes architecture.

Stable, adaptable, and still growing.

Some formats have been stable for a decade. We keep adapting them, and we keep inventing new ones. Every session is built for the room it happens in, and that part stays.

A Writing Slam for a film festival uses films. One in a museum uses the collection. One for an anniversary uses the archive. The challenges come from a catalogue that has been growing since 2014 and gets new entries every year, so no two editions repeat.

Sessions run between 45 and 120 minutes. They work in any language. They have been performed for thirty people and for five hundred, indoors and outdoors, in cinemas, theatres, museums, libraries, galleries and public squares.