Catch the Mic: Paris to L.A.

7 SEPTEMBER 2024 — saturday

Beyond Baroque presents "Catch the Mic: Paris to LA," a collaboration between the City of Paris and City of Los Angeles where eight L.A. poets selected as Paris Olympiad Poets will travel to Paris to perform in the finale of the Poetic Games of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad, and twenty-eight L.A. poets will perform at "Catch the Mic: Paris to L.A," featuring readings from Ashley August, Michelle Bitting, bridgette bianca, Mimi Tempestt, Cynthia Alessandra Briano, event host Shonda Buchanan, Mona Jean, Gabriela Garcia Medina, Katie Gomez, Mason Granger, Sonia Guiñansaca, Matthew Cuban Hernandez, Sean Hill, Aryeh-Or S Katz, Gina Loring, Monique Mitchell, hamsa fae, Nikki Ochoa, Monica Palacios, Christian Perfas, Karyn Peyton, Rhys Langston Podell, Linda Ravenswood, Angelina Sáenz, event producer jimmy vega, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Pam Ward, and Yazmin Monet Watkins, Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library, 630 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, free, 2:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/catch-the-mic-paris-to-la-tickets-994089346997?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)