Gogaytte
14.09.25 · 17h
Langues : FR
14+
Duration: 1h
Place: Riches-Claires
A goguette is a festive practice in which a group of people, mostly men, gather to sing around a feast. The first singing societies of this kind date back several centuries. They developed during the 18th and 19th centuries, with the famous Société du Caveau founded in 1729, the pioneer of goguettes at the time.
The Société du Caveau published a collection of songs, La femme / par les membres du Caveau, which were sung at the Summer Banquet on 21 June 1862. Each guest, having previously drawn a part of the body, composed a song about the part they had drawn and sang it at the banquet. The text produced by this goguette is highly sexist and heterocisnormative.
Mélina Ghorafi organised a series of writing and singing workshops proposing a reversal of this paradigm by bringing together women and queer people, bodies oppressed by patriarchal society, to create a goguette in which we would sing about our own bodies, in our own terms. During these workshops, the duo T2T proposed a culinary exploration of the relationship between food and gender, in response to the invitation from la Gogaytte. During the workshops at Poisson Sans Bicyclette, the participants developed recipes with different effects on the voice. They will be experimenting with how the voice can be thought out, deployed and strengthened, in particular through the use of ingredients that modify hormonal levels.
During the workshops at Poisson Sans Bicyclette, participants developed recipes with different effects on the voice. They will be experimenting with how the voice can be thought out, deployed and strengthened, in particular through the use of ingredients that modify hormonal levels.
During the public performance, spectators will be invited to join in the Gogaytte by cooking these beverages together, while listening to the songs composed during the workshops. The event will end with a collective tasting session.