FRUIT SALON - Readings & Art @ The Hoxton
About this Event
Ready to share your Creative Fruits?
Writer/performer Demi Anter (as seen at Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic and EdFringe) hosts FRUIT SALON, a new night combining the best of poetry open mic, interactive art salon, and quirky community space—in the swanky Hox Wintergarden.
What to expect?
Our event on August 27th features: a short performance by your host, open mic slots, a special session with Marty of Berlin Well, and an art raffle featuring Berlin-based Mira Lou (@miraalou), with proceeds going towards education and access around period poverty and menstrual health.
How does it work?
- Sign up for an open mic slot in advance for a reduced ticket.
- Eight slots are available per event, with four slots reserved for attendees of Creative Fruits Mornings, the monthly workshop at the Hoxton.
- Each open mic slot is five minutes.
- Readers are welcome to share work in any language (the night is primarily hosted in English).
- All types of writing are encouraged, from page poetry to spoken word to fiction, essays, scripts, travel writing, you name it.
- The only thing we don’t want to see is AI-generated writing, and anything racist, sexist, fascist, ablist, etc.
The aim of FRUIT SALON is to create a fun, high-energy, and supportive event for writers of all experience levels and backgrounds across Berlin.
We can’t wait to see your work, whether it’s something brand new, something highly polished, or something you’ve left in a drawer for years and forgot about until right this second.
Silly, serious, overly ripe, or not ripe enough: FRUIT SALON is ready for you!
About your host:
is an award-winning writer and performer, with work spanning poetry, creative nonfiction, script- and playwriting. She has been published in the US, Europe and the UK by Magma, Cheerio and The Times (UK), and has performed poetry at festivals around the world. Her teaching focuses on the power of writing from personal experience, and she has regularly teaches for the Royal National Theatre, London's Irish Cultural Centre, and YEN, among others. Her poetry collection Small Machine, which documents her first years in Berlin, was published by Write Bloody UK in 2022. Chanel Miller called it, "Strikingly luminous and soothing." Musa Okwonga called it, "Tender, visceral, beautifully vulnerable.”
About Mira Lou:
is an illustrator and designer from Berlin. With her calm and simple visual style, yet bold and distinctive color palette, she creates art on topics such as feminism, mental health, chronic illnesses, and everyday struggles. Her pieces strike a balance between important, thought-provoking messages and subtle humor that makes her work feel personal and relatable.
About Marty and Berlin Well:
Marty is the founder of , a space where emotional intelligence, breathwork, movement, and curiosity meet. As a certified coach and breathwork facilitator, she helps people explore the connection between emotions, body, and mind through experiences that are practical, playful, and deeply human. For this Fruit Salon, she is bringing a juicy taste of emotional intelligence. Expect something ripe, sticky, and surprisingly joyful.
The Hoxton Berlin's Wintergarden. Photos by Lolita Cameron.
Print by Mira Lou (@miraalou)
Agenda
🕑: 07:30 PM
Doors Open
🕑: 07:50 PM - 08:30 PM
Open Mic Performances (First Block)
🕑: 08:30 PM - 08:50 PM
Break
🕑: 08:50 PM - 09:20 PM
Guest Storytelling Session with Marty (Berlin Well)
🕑: 09:20 PM - 09:50 PM
Open Mic Performances (Second Block)
🕑: 09:50 PM - 10:00 PM
Raffle Draw & Tschüssi!
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
EUR 6.00 to EUR 10.00
