Alicia Morán Guijarro

I am Alicia Morán (31), poet, actress and cultural manager, I also lead creative writing and vocational introspection workshops. I'm from Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain,  but I've been living in Berlin for the last seven years, where I started a passion-project that taught me about the power of poetry to create community. This project is called Pasajero del Muro and its aim is to organise careful poetry open-mic  for the Spanish-speaking community living in Berlin and for all those who are close to the Spanish language. It also has an important philosophy: |you don't have to proclaim yourself a poet to participate. We all write, even if it's the shopping list or our dreams. We all have something to say, and coming to an open-mic to share in your mother tongue helps you to channel the strong emotions you experience in "exile"|. At each open-mic, themes are proposed so that the participants can write through what the word evokes in them. It is very interesting to see the different interpretations of the same concept. I also give creative writing workshops with this project and for the last two years I have been organising nomadic writing workshops in the summer (in winter it's impossible in Berlin hehe), where we walk around Berlin and turn the city into verses. 

Now my goal is to expand this further: poetry as a weapon of community.