2024 - 2025 Factory ~ Student Led: Mike Check 01: On Love

2024 - 2025 Factory ~ Mike Check 01: OnLove

JANUARY 9, 2025

Led by Ayse Idil Idil, Henriks Eliass Zegners, Javier Rodriguez PerezCuriel

When: 20:30 - 22:30 

Location: Exhibition Space

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.
 
01: ON LOVE 

Check one check one a b c s t ş 

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.

 

This student initiative is facilitated by DAI by making it part of the syllabus 2024-2025 and by providing space and time for gathering. It is embedded in the curriculum component WEAVER and participation is credited with ECTS.