Open Mic Night featuring Josh Ari Selvey and Jaime Johnsen

Come join us for a night of spoken word poetry! Poets of all level welcome to take the mic after our featured artist, which rotates each month. Come one come all! $3 cover. Open Mic Night is the 4th Friday of every month from 7-9 pm. September's featured performers are Josh Ari Selvey and Jaime Johnsen. Josh Ari Selvey, otherwise known as "Ari De Leo", is a performing artist from Harrisburg, PA. He has been working on recording projects with different musical collaborators from the Harrisburg and Philadelphia areas in the genres of hip-hop and soul music. He is forming an artistic concept called #SoulSpeak which is an attribute to his "poetic lyric" writing style that will “speak to your soul”. Currently he is performing at different venues as a solo act as well as an addition to the groove band known as “A Hard Rayne” from Miami, FL. Jaime Johnsen, also known as "Mystique" is a poet based in Harrisburg, PA. Her passions include poetry to politics with intrests of everything in between. She has studied her bachelors of science in psychology at the Univeristy of Penn State Harrisburg, with the goal to complete a Master's degree. She has been involved in the local artist scene over the last 4 years and has read/performed her spoken word for the last 3 years at various venues in the area. Published for the first time in the spring of 2013, her poem "Excuse Me" appears in a volume of contemporary poetry entitled, 'In My Lifetime'. She is continuously writing and has the intention to publish her own collection of work in the near future.