LOCATION CHANGE: For one week only, on account of the Grand Poetry Slam, Paris Lit Up's open mic will be taking place out in the open, not at Culture Rapide, but under the arches of the Belvédère de Belleville, just above Parc de Belleville. The event will be the same as usual, with sign up from 8pm, and poems starting at 9pm. Feel free to bring your own drinks, and wrap up warm!
Join us at Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire on Thursday for our weekly open mic night. Sign-up starts at 20:00 and performances at 21:00. This week we will have Josh Cake as feature!
🌸 Here is the Writing Workshop schedule for May 🌸 We are offering a whopping 5 workshops this month, starting tomorrow with an exercise session!
*changed to FEEDBACK session!
Join us at Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire on Thursday for our weekly open mic night. Sign-up starts at 20:00 and performances at 21:00. This week we will have Francis (a.k.a F.L.) as feature!
Sometimes clumsy, sometimes deep, still more often late, Francis (a.k.a F.L.) is a French poet writing mainly in 🇫🇷 French and 🇬🇧 English. Since his début on the Culture Rapide stage in February 2023, he has been sharing poems that are classic in form yet delivered in a freer, more natural style. Nature, presence, balance, and clumsiness are his main sources of inspiration. He also tries to sing 🎶 and hosts a rarely-complete podcast 🎙️ on Spotify.
🇫🇷Bio française de notre invité spécial: Parfois maladroit, parfois à l'écriture profonde ; le plus souvent retardataire dans ses projets 😅, F.L. ou Francis est un poète français écrivant principalement dans sa langue natale 🇫🇷 ou en anglais 🇬🇧. Né slameur sur la scène du Culture Rapide en février 2023, il récite des poèmes classiques de sa plume ✍️ dits librement - nature, présence, équilibre, maladresses sont ses thèmes de prédilection. Il tente quelquefois de chanter 🎶 et produit/anime un podcast aux épisodes rarement complets.
@fr_f.l
Join us at Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire on Thursday for our weekly open mic night. Sign-up starts at 20:00 and performances at 21:00. This week we will have Selkee as feature!
Selkee is a poet and songwriter who aims to balance the political and extrapersonal world we inhabit and the intimate and intrapersonal aspects of her own world, along with the realities of people close to her - all with plenty of rage, softness and humor. Originally from the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Selkee is now based in Paris, where she has lived since 2024.
Join us at Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire on Thursday for our weekly open mic night. Sign-up starts at 20:00 and performances at 21:00. This week we will have Mattias Plot as feature!
Mattias Plot is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Paris. He writes about the world around him, from the noise of social media in the modern age to the quiet ambitions of life in the city as an aspiring artist. When he’s not writing, you can find him where Paris moves fastest: the platforms of Gare Saint-Lazare, Gare de l’Est, and Gare de Lyon, turning daily commutes into something worth slowing down for. His debut single, Ecris l’histoire, is out now on Spotify.
@mattiasplot
Join us at Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire on Thursday for our weekly open mic night. Sign-up starts at 20:00 and performances at 21:00. This week we will have Kiran Bhat as feature!
Kiran Bhat is an Indian-American novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and translator who has written the poetry collections Autobiografia, Speaking in Tongues, and the novel We of the Forsaken World.
Thank you for hosting this wonderful conversation @parislitup between myself @psamarasan_writer and @mirakamdar_official navigating what it means to be authors of South Asian origin writing against the grain…
#paris #authors #authorsofig #globalcitizen #findinghome
Join us at Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire on Thursday for our weekly open mic night. Sign-up starts at 20:00 and performances at 21:00. This week we will have DRnB as feature!
David Robert Brimat, aka DRnB, (born December 3rd 1986) is a multilingual teacher and songwriter from New York, USA. His primary languages are English, Spanish, and French, but he has songs in many languages and genres such as RnB, pop, electronic, and rap.
These are DRnB's albums:
Revival of Lost Love (2008)
Mental Metamorphosis (2012)
Insatiable Soul (2018)
The Journal of Joy Incarnate (2021)
untitled 5th album - (2026 - release date TBA)
@drblyricsoflove
PLU Presents two authors of the South Asian diaspora, Kiran Bhat and Preeta Samarasan discussing the challenges that face being a writer in the modern world, moderated by award-winning writer, Mira Kamdar. The talk will be taking place in the cave of Galerie 88 (88 Quai de l’Hotel de ville) at 8pm on Wednesday 8th April. Entry Free.
Kiran Bhat is an Indian-American global nomad, novelist, poet, and translator who has lived all over the world. Already the author of many books, he is currently at work on a novel set in 365 places across our planet. @originalsin_0421
Preeta Samarasan is a Malaysian author writing in English whose first novel, Evening Is the Whole Day, won the Hopwood Novel Award, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. @psamarasan_writer
The moderator Mira Kamdar is the author of the award-winning memoir Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey into her Indian Family’s Past and Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the World’s Largest Democracy. @mirakamdar_official
Join us at Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire on Thursday for our weekly open mic night. Sign-up starts at 20:00 and performances at 21:00. This week we will have Aria as feature!
Aria is a poet born and raised in Paris. She writes about everything that goes on in her life, from queerness to mental illness, along with love in all of its forms. Her debut poetry collection, Every Broken Thing, works as a mirror reflecting her identity: a broken yet whole portrait of a struggling lesbian woman and budding young poet. The book was designed entirely by her - She made the cover drawing herself and hand makes every book in Brussels.
Copies of Aria's collection, Every Broken Thing, will be available to take home for 15 €.
