the Cafe Café Gallery logo     The Café hosted an open mic and a regular feature show at 5115 North Lincoln Ave. (just south of Foster) in Chicago, IL through the end of 2011 (where the open mic then gained the name The Café Gallery and was then hosted by Gallery Cabaret, 2020 North Oakley Ave. in Chicago). All pre-2012 listings relate to the Café (all 2012 + links are to Gallery Cabaret) are listed here. Because recordings from recent years are so video-intensive, we have separated each weekly recorded listing into its own web page. In the meantime, feel free to choose a date and watch video clips (or in some cases you can also listen to sound clips).

    (Also note that amongst all available audio files available on this page, all Macintosh .aif files, Linux .au files and Windows .wav files are low resolution versions of all of the poetry readings available. The only CD quality versions of these audio recordings are in the available mp3 files.)

    Following is a list of dates (from most recent to oldest) of Kuypers performances at The Café Gallery (through The Café and Gallery Cabaret), including weekly intros to every open mic. They all usually contain poetry or prose, but some contain music ... For songs done at the Café in honor of MFV guitarist Warren Peterson, check out a hundred Milton Berles Fly Away; for all additional tracks performed at The Café Gallery, go to the Janet Kuypers music at the Café Gallery page.

“the book reading series” (started ~weekly in 2020) contains links
to all book reading videos and poem writings in the series.
7/8/15 7/22/15
with Janet & John’s LAST Chicago music set		 8/5/15
the last night she hosted this open mic
5/27/15 6/10/15 6/24/15
4/15/15 4/29/15 5/13/15
3/4/15 3/18/15 4/1/15
1/7/15 2/4/15 2/18/15
10/22/14 12/3/14 12/17/14
10/7/14
(bonus HA!Man of South Africa show)		 11/19/14 10/8/14
8/27/14 9/10/14 9/26/14
7/16/14 7/30/14 8/13/14
6/4/14 6/18/14
with the “Partial Nudity” book release feature		 7/2/14
4/23/14 5/7/14 5/21/14
3/12/14 3/26/14 4/9/14
1/29/14 2/12/14 2/26/14
12/4/13 12/18/13 1/15/14
10/30/13 11/6/13 11/20/13
9/18/13 9/25/13 10/16/13
08/09/11 08/16/11 08/23/11
7/24/13
with the “Mysticism vs. Science”
feature with Buddha 309		 7/31/13 8/14/13
6/19/13 6/26/13 7/17/13
5/29/13 6/5/13 6/12/13
4/24/13 5/8/13 5/22/13
3/13/13 3/27/13 4/10/13
with a “Beyond what we See”
10 minute mini-feature reading,
and an “After the Apocalypse”
other writers reading set!
1/30/13 2/13/13
with a “Last Minute”
15+ minute mini-feature reading!		 2/27/13
12/5/12 1/2/13
with two “Periodic Table of Poetry”
10+ minute feature readings!		 1/16/13
10/31/12
(Bonus week for Halloween!)		 11/7/12 11/21/12
and her “Periodic Poetry” (Periodic Table of Poetry) feature video link
the 10/3/12 show
JK (with the music of HA!)		 10/10/12 10/24/12
and a “airport phonecall” cell phone show intro video link
9/12/12
and a “Grocery Store Stories” cell phone
mini-feature show intro video link		 9/26/12
and a “Listening In” cell phone
mini-feature show intro video link		 10/3/12 (Bonus week!)
8/1/12 8/15/12
and a “Overheard Conversations” cell phone
mini-feature show intro video link		 8/29/12
6/20/12 7/4/12 7/18/12
5/9/12 5/23/12 6/6/12
3/28/12 4/11/12 4/25/12
2/15/12 2/29/12 3/14/12
12/18/11 1/18/12 2/1/12
11/27/11 12/04/11 12/11/11
11/01/11 11/13/11 11/20/11
and her “hmmm” feature video link
10/04/11 10/11/11
and a “Contents Under Pressure”
mini-feature video link		 10/18/11
08/30/11 09/06/11
and a “Contents Under Pressure”
mini-feature video link		 09/13/11
08/09/11 08/16/11 08/23/11
07/19/11
and &“Astronomy 101” feature video
(w/ video & background music) link		 07/26/11 08/02/11
06/28/11
and a “Close Cover Before Striking”
mini-feature video link		 07/05/11
and a “Close Cover Before Striking”
mini-feature video link		 07/12/11
and “Celebrations in Song”
feature video and music link
06/07/11
and a “Close Cover Before Striking”
mini-feature video link		 06/14/11
and “Ten Minutes with Warren”
feature video and music link		 06/21/11
and a “Close Cover Before Striking”
mini-feature video link
05/17/11 2 mini-features
1st a 10 minute set of “Trunk Fest” poems,
later the story “Stalker,” with reader John Yotko		 05/24/11
and a “the Window”
mini-feature video link (with a Vittorio Carli reading)		 05/31/11
and a “Close Cover Before Striking”
mini-feature video link
04/26/11 05/03/11 05/10/11
04/05/11 04/12/11 04/19/11
03/15/11 03/22/11 03/29/11
02/22/11 03/01/11 03/08/11
01/25/11 02/08/11 02/15/11
12/14/10 12/21/10 01/18/11
11/23/10 11/30/10 12/07/10
11/02/10 11/09/10 11/16/10
10/12/10 10/19/10 10/26/10
08/03/10 08/10/10 10/05/10
a hundred Milton Berles Fly Away
songs 02/23/10 through 07/13/10		 07/20/10 07/27/10
06/29/10 07/06/10 07/13/10
06/08/10 06/15/10 Kuypers’ 06/22/10 Feature
w/ musician Victor Sanders
& guitarist/reader John Yotko
05/18/10 05/25/10 06/01/10
04/27/10 05/04/10 05/11/10
04/06/10 04/13/10 04/20/10
03/16/10 03/23/10 03/30/10
02/23/10 03/02/10 03/09/10
02/02/10 02/09/10 02/16/10
01/12/10
the 1st open mic Janet Kuypers hosted		 01/19/10
12/22/09
12/01/09 12/08/09 12/15/09
11/10/09 11/17/09 11/24/09
the 10/20/09 feature
 Crazy		 10/27/09 11/03/09
09/22/09 09/29/09 10/06/09
the 04lj14/09 feature
the 2009 Poetry Game Show		 08/18/09 09/01/09
02/24/09 03/10/09 04/14/09
09/09/08 before the Feature the 09/09/08 feature
Seeing a Psychiatrist		 12/16/08
02/26/08
with the Poetry Wheel		 07/08/08 08/26/08
with the Poetry Wheel (Mach 2)
06/19/07 07/10/07 the 07/17/07 feature
 Living in a Big World
(unrecorded)
01/30/07		 03/13/07 05/29/07
11/22/05 12/13/05 the 11/21/06 feature
Singular
08/09/05 the 09/20/05 feature
 SIN (Scars Internet News)		 11/15/05
04/26/05 05/03/05 the 06/07/05 feature
{Stripped}
03/15/05 03/22/05 03/29/05
02/08/05 the 02/15/05 feature
How Do I Get There? 		03/01/05
the 10/05/04 feature
 Questions in a World
Without Answers		 10/19/04 11/09/04
09/07/04 09/21/04 09/28/04
06/22/04 with the Feature
A Night of Firsts		 08/03/04 08/10/04
4/27/04 the 02/03/04 feature
Dreams		 05/18/04
1/20/04 4/06/04 4/13/04
12/02/03 the 12/09/03 feature
 Side A/Side B		 1/12/04
10/28/03 11/04/03 11/18/03
the 6/17/03 feature
 Changing Gears		 9/23/03 the 10/21/03 feature
 the Other Side

    There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live performances are included in Live at the Café includes not only recordings from 2003, 2004 and 2005, but it also contains recordings of two performance art shows — A Night of Firsts from 06/22/04, and Stripped from 06/07/05. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Coffee Chicago, Molly Malone’s, and even recordings from the Chicago Poetry Fest on both years, 2004 and 2005! You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, including iTunes.

  
Live at the Café - 3 disc set



 
Dobro Veče - 3 disc set

    There is also a (more recent) 4 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 4 CD set of live performances are included in Dobro Veče (“Good Evening” in Serbian) includes not only recordings from 2006, 2007 and 2008, but it also contains past Poetry Wheels, and recordings of performance art shows like Twitter Inside at Regina’s Place in Logan Square 5/21/10. Bonus tracks include live recordings from at the Chicago State University Power Networking for Success show, as well as Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus). You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, like iTunes.


    There is also a 4 CD set of the final performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 4 CD set of live performances are included in “hmmm” includes not only recordings from 2010 and 2011, but it also contains recordings of different performance art shows, including her final show ever performed at the Café on 27/271/11, titled “hmmm”. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Cafe Ballou, Cafe Mestizo, Beach Poets, and more... You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, including amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.

  
“hmmm” - 4 disc set live at the Café



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