.***Open Secret, just this Wednesday, will be @ Melocoton!!!*** 10 rue Descartes, 5è Paris…Your own personal experimental open mic…Not far from the usual spot, also in the Latin Quarter. Normal all-night sign-up starting at 8, & the show at 9. Same métro locale, Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). Special guest poet/actor Zoé Besmond de Senneville, accompanied on the keyboard by Ed Bell, from the group Blue Wit… The theme, which her body-grounded poetry inspired, is “The body remembers.”
Zoé is a French actress and poet born and raised in Paris. She has studied acting from Paris to the USA and made her film debut with Marina de Van and Denis Lavant in the adaptation of Thumb O’Neil for Arte. Having recently acted in Srinath Samarasinghe’s On The Skin(Sur La Peau), in 2016 and 2017 she has been onstage with the Makizart/La Poursuite in Molière’s The Miser, and with the collective Les Jenous in The Miracle of the Deglingue. Zoé has been creating poetry since 2015 and performs here and there with visual artists such as Zoé Stark and 3615. http://zoebesmonddesenneville.tumblr.com/… http://xyzoeoh.tumblr.com/
Kristina Vaughan is a Parisian songwriter. She learnt classical piano in French conservatoires, honed the craft of singing and songwriting with coach Jessica Saraf (Sanseverino, Calogero) and started giving concerts in 2013, first as a soloist, then in duo and trio setups. Her music is a blend of Anglo-Saxon and European sounds, as she draws inspiration both from her Czech and Italian origins and from important figures of English songwriting (Sinead O’Connor, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morissette, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice…). In impressionistic tunes reminiscent of broken cliffs, running water and angry skies, the pianist-singer spins yarns about love, hope and engagement with the world, accompanied by cellist-backup singer Marie Potosniak and, successively, drummer Guillaume Valette, beatboxer Skysoul, and drummer Raphaël Meyrier.
Raluca Petrescu was born in 1990 in Iași, Romania. She integrated the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2012, and finished a MA in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne, working on Shakespeare, Fernando Pessoa, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. She writes in and translates to and from romanian, french and english. She published poems in The Bastille and the Belleville Park Pages, and literary criticism Rimbaud vivant.
Filippa is a 24-year-old native Swede who currently resides in Montmartre. She spent recent years in London earning a degree in English Lit and Creative Writing. Her poems have featured in magazines as well as an anthology, and she is the winner of a South-East London poetry prize.
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