Open Secret! A Very Open Mic 😉 Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 5è Paris. At 8pm, nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9 le spectacle! Guest performers: gifted writer/musicians Samuél & Aaron Lopez-Barrantes! Theme: Auld Lang Syne…
Bio’s:
Samuél L. Barrantes has lived in Paris, France since 2010. His literary influences include the Coen brothers, JK Rowling, and David Foster-Wallace. His work has appeared in the The International Forum for Logotherapy, SLAM Magazine, Paris Lit Up Magazine and Writer’s Digest. His debut novel, Slim and The Beast (Inkshares, 2015) was also the debut novel for America’s first crowdfunded publishing house. He is currently working on a work of historical fiction set in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Aaron Lopez-Barrantes is a European born singer songwriter who lives and plays full time in New Orleans, Louisiana. His debut record “ALB” was recorded at Fudge Recording Studios in 2013, and his original music has taken him on tour in the US and Europe over last two years.
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.
Anna Polonyi is a Franco-American-Hungarian poet and writer. Her first collection of poems, Wayword, is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press in February 2017. She is the former recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in Germany and the 2015 Sylvia Beach Short Fiction Prize, awarded by Paris Lit Up. She works as a journalist in Paris – most recently for the International New York Times. 
Amruta Prabhu was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and is a Paris-based polyglot and translator by day and poet, writer, photographer and dancer by night. Drawing heavily from both her Indian culture and love for Europe, her inspiration comes from the details of everyday life and her writing aims at undiluted, honest expression. She studied English literature and Professional Translation, and her poems and prose have been published in Paris Lit Up Magazine N. 3 and the online literary and arts journal Canopic Jar. She will be returning permanently to India next week and hopes that her creative streak finds new inspiration there.
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Multilingual poet/performer Philip Meersman (1971) pushes boundaries of poetry in both written and spoken form, drawing on current affairs, socio-political and environmental issues. He is the author of the poetry collection This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry. He is a cofounder of DAstrugis- tenDA, artiestencollectief JA!, and received in 2012 the “D. Buliuk award for outstanding achievements in the field of avant-garde art and the avant-garde in research.” In 2016 he starts a PhD in the Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp: “the oral performance of visual poetry” based upon the work of the Russian Cubo-Futurists and René Magritte. 
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