Wednesday 19 August, 21:00

Aja Monet — Jazz Poetry

Brooklyn-born poet and musician Aja Monet weaves spoken word and jazz-inflected song into a charged, intimate performance. Her voice combines surreal imagery, precise diction and raw emotional clarity, supported by subtle electronic textures and live instrumentalists. Collaborations with leading jazz and soul figures inform a multidisciplinary approach that blends improvisation, rhythmic poetics and melodic hooks. The staging favors close, cinematic lighting and spacious soundscapes, inviting listeners into a communal, urgent evening of reflection and fierce tenderness.

In English.

Parc La Grange,
Quai Gustave-Ador, Geneva
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Photo Credit: Daniel N Johnson

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