A Mic Of One’s Own

Name: A Mic Of One’s Own
Start: 2026-09-18T07:41+00:00
End: 2026-09-18T21:00+02:00
Location: Kunstinstituut Melly

Friday 18 September from 19 to 21 hours

Event

An open mic at Kunstinstituut Melly for writers and performers centred on the theme of ‘Drawing’. Share poetry, spoken word, stories or other work and be inspired by Draw Withdraw Redraw.

A Mic of One's Own

A new edition of A Mic of One’s Own, the ongoing collaboration between Kunstinstituut Melly and The Writer’s Guide (to the Galaxy). This edition draws inspiration from ‘Draw Withdraw Redraw’, a group exhibition at Melly exploring an expanded understanding of drawing.

Drawing

Drawing can be a way to begin, recognise, create movement, improvise, resist, pause, reorient, reinvent, or simply start over. Rather than a finished act, the exhibition approaches drawing as an ongoing, in-between process.

Open call

Melly invites writers of poetry, spoken word, short stories, essays, songs, journals, or any other genre to create and perform a piece with ‘Drawing’ as its central theme. Take it as literally or metaphorically as you like: draw connections, cross some lines, erase them, redraw them, or wander off the already drawn paths entirely. Be creative, experiment, and see where the theme takes you. Performers will be selected through an open call.