2024 - 2025 FACTORY student led: Mike Check
Mike Check is a series of open-mic gatherings that invites participants to take over the stage during DAI confluences for some good ol’ fashioned comic relief (or, obviously, anxiety relief and over-sharing). Each iteration will have a different focus where participants can share their preferred form of content–spoken word, singing, poem reading, letter sharing, comedy skit, powerpoint presentations, etc…–on stage.
MAY 24, 2025
02: ON ROUTINES
Led by Ayse Idil Idil & Despina Sanida Crezia
When: 21:15 - 22:30
Location: Broedershoek ~ dining room
When something unexpected happens, it can be a refreshing surprise. Like meeting a new friend, or hearing a good song on the radio you didn't know. With some other things (like pooping), when the routine is disturbed (or when it happens unexpectedly) it might not be so welcome.
This second Mike Check evening is dedicated to the ways we create rituals and routines to feel safe or to belong,
and how constantly try to break them in search for the new,
it’s dedicated to repetition and cycles and patterns,
to shitting,
and eating,
and life.
JANUARY 9, 2025
01: ON LOVE
Led by Ayse Idil Idil, Henriks Eliass Zegners, Javier Rodriguez PerezCuriel
When: 20:30 - 22:30
Location: Exhibition Space
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Have you ever fallen in love with a pickle? Have you ever seen two rats fighting at the metro station on your way to work early in the morning, while completely heartbroken and nonfunctional? Have you ever been broken up with over an SMS? Have you ever been disgusted with your mother, while, I don’t know, they play with their hair and then realized you are the exact same way?
You are cordially invited to hop on stage and share your valuable thoughts and feelings on how to flirt, how to handle new crushes, polyamorous dilemmas, heartbreak, and making kin beyond bloodline. Share your past work on now-dusty-and-long-forgotten relationships, read out love letters you wrote or found, act out childish fights you got into with a friend, a partner, a family member, talk about how good the warmth of your dog’s poop feels in your hand after picking it up during the winter.
Let’s creep each other out.
Make it funny make it depressing show your heart break my heart
Because everybody hertz
Sometimes
Each act can be a maximum of 15 minutes. Sign-up is first come first serve, and we will go through the list until our 2 hours together run out. Everyone is welcome to enjoy the acts as audience.
The Anarchist Bar to be facilitated by Sara Alberani, Davide La Montagna and Keith Bonnici. The Anarchist Bar raises funds for Palestine and Lebanon, all the profits will go to organizers on the ground.