Porchlight Live Storytelling

Porchlight Presents “Fish Out of Water” – San Francisco’s Longest-Running Storytelling Show returns to Paris on 30 May 2025

Dive into a world of personal stories told live on stage as San Francisco’s Porchlight series returns to Paris for the third time. 

This year’s event will be held at the Galerie L'Avis De Passage on 30 May with a group of storytellers sharing personal tales centered around the theme Fish Out of Water. From moments of deep discomfort to surprising self-discovery this show will take the audience on a journey of cultural missteps unexpected adventures and the challenges of finding one’s place in a foreign or unfamiliar environment. Some fish even grow legs and evolve.

Whether it’s a story of navigating a new country experiencing a clash of cultures or overcoming personal boundaries Fish Out of Water  invites the audience to reflect on the universal feeling of being out of place and the beauty of transformation that those experiences can bring. 

Featuring:

A dynamic group of storytellers – some seasoned Porchlight veterans and some telling stories on stage for the first time choreographer Delphine Gaborit including actor Jean-Baptiste Marcenac writer Scott Hobbes Bourne journalist at Le Monde Sinead McCausland creative director Steve Muller and writer/activist Gail Straub

About Porchlight:

Porchlight was founded by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick in 2002 with the goal of getting people of the San Francisco Bay Area onstage to tell their personal stories. Our resident musical director, pianist Marc Capelle, keeps time on stage with great showmanship and panache. Porchlight has also produced shows in collaboration with cultural institutions such as Litquake, SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Film Festival, the Bay Area Science Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, and the Hay on Wye festival in Nairobi. 

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