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Makis Moulos

I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona, Spain. I aim to combine poetry with art and art with prohibited needs. I organize performative poetry events since 2018, having contributed to Barcelona's and Athen's poetry scene for many years, and lately I´m focusing on experimental poetry with mindfulness sounds, and new sides of feelings via the intimate tunnels of myself.

I have experimented with global cultural acceptance of art, and I am now dreaming of a stable roller-coaster of emotions, hoping to give me a meaning of life. I have published 4 poetry anthologies, and I have performed in various poetry events and festivals around Europe.

makis_p_a@hotmail.com

About me

I am a trilingual writer, poet, and spoken word artist, based in Barcelona, Spain. I write and perform in Spanish, English and Greek. I have published 5 poetry anthologies and texts of mine have been included in book collaborations in Spain, Greece, Germany, and the US. My poetry explores themes such as sexuality, stigma, and mental health awareness.

I am the organizer and founder of Poetry Slam in English in Barcelona, Poetry Slam Gr in Athens, and Duende Sessions Festival in Barcelona. I am also a founder member and ex secretary of the World Poetry Slam Organization, and I was the Artist Manager of WPSC 2022 in Brussels. I co-organized the European Poetry Slam Championship in 2021 and coordinated the World Poetry Slam Championship 2022 in Brussels.

In 2019 I launched the band "True Love W8s", performing my poems live with violin, guitar, piano, and sound effects, adding cover songs with various female vocals in my performances.

I am a film editor and video producer and in 2020 I directed and edited the spoken word movie "Duende Sessions festival - The Movie". I am also the founder of the project "Lick my Poetry" in Greece, in which a group of poets are performing every year in Pride Athens and other festivals, poems about gender equality and identity, and we have published the book "Lick my poetry", an anthology of poems about identity, a collaboration with 8 poets from Greece.

In 2023 I co-directed with Amalia Christakopoulou my first long length film “Birthday”, an experimental documentary about mental health based on three poems of the Greek Poetry Slam Champion 2022 Manolis Nanouris, and the poet´s experience on hospitalization in a mental health clinic. The film was officially selected and was screened at the “International Experimental Film Festival” in Athens, Greece, in October 2023.

Various video poems of mine have been officially selected in video poetry festivals around the world.

My education background is in Finance, and I am currently working as a VAT accountant in an international company in Barcelona, Spain, for the last 15 years.