Open Secret! An multi-art open mic every Wednesday @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 75005 Paris. 8pm ~ all-night sign-up starts, show at 9. Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).
Our theme this Wednesday, provided by special guest poet/actor Damian Corcoran, is “Mates & Mating!” 😉 Damian Corcoran has been writing poems since his early teens but only recently thought that anyone else might like to hear them. His early works make him cringe, yet there is something compulsive about writing and performing. He has worked in theatre in England and France for many years and has recently started stand up comedy and improvised or scripted poetry performances, in galleries and bars in and around Paris.
Richard Earls writes and performs poetry and songs on subjects as diverse as love, war, family, death and desperation on the dance floor.A musician and songwriter for four decades, he wrote his first anti-war poems five years ago after an encounter with an ex-GI begging on Market Street in San Francisco. This unforgettable experience opened the flood-gates and he is now a regular on the folk and spoken word circuit in the UK at venues such as Songs from Below at the Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden; Hush Hush, in Brighton; The Big Untidy at the Rising Sun Arts Centre,
Gowri K is a Tamil American poet, performing artist, teaching artist, and lawyer whose family immigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, the environment, the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused in the U.S., and justice and accountability in Sri Lanka. Her publication credits include two peer-reviewed scientific journa articles and poetry appearing in Drunk In A Midnight Choir, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bourgeon, Lantern Review, and Washington City Paper. She was a member of DC’s 2010 Southern Fried Slam team and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage (in 2013 and 2010), Capital Fringe Festival, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company events co-sponsored by the Poets and Writers Readings/Workshops programs. At the 2014 Atlas Intersections Festival,she produced and performed in “Yasmeen,” an original work co-written and co-produced by Huda Asfour, a Palestinian composer and musician.
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