SPOKE & BIRD OPEN MIC RETURNS TO THE STAGE ONCE AGAIN! Come join us for an epic open mic and two incredible feature acts, ARUNDITHA and ZEHA.
Doors open at 730PM, show starts at 8PM. 9 open mic spots up for grabs! Email us at spokeandbird@gmail.com for a spot!
OPEN MIC-ERS DO NOT NEED TO BUY TICKETS TO JOIN THE SHOW!
ABOUT OUR FEATURES:
ArunDitha (b. Deborah Arunditha Emmanuel, 19.09.88) is a techno-shamanic poet-songstress who puts maca in her morning cacao. She has performed her poetry at local events including TEDx Singapore and The Performance Theatre, as well as at festivals worldwide, winning slams in New Zealand, Germany and Australia. She was a resident writer/artist at both Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and The Marpha Foundation Nepal. Her musical co-creations have been commissioned by the Singapore Writers Festival and the Barcelona International Poetry Festival. She currently makes music with Mantravine and Kiat, and co-organises Openings, a post-disciplinary para-academic forum. In recent years, ArunDitha’s practice has been most influenced by shamanic research, political and feminist discourse, and the light of living awareness.
Zeha (b. 2000) is a multi-disciplinary artist. They are interested in dissecting memories to reimagine the past and the humans of the now. They enjoy how malleable language is and loves to construct and deconstruct mainly the malay and english language to conjure microscopic imageries and paint soundscapes. Their performances centre around the relationships between family, queerness, ethnicity, familiarity and reconcilation. They have been a part of Pooja Nansi’s 2020 Biennale commision activation, ‘Coping Mechanism’ and has also read at the 2022 Singapore Writers’ Festival’s closing event, ‘…Only to Arrive at the Same Place Together’.
VENUE: Crane (Arab Street)
ADDRESS: 148 Arab Street Singapore, 199831
EVENT WEBSITE: Eventbrite (for tickets)
DATE AND TIME
15 Jun 2023, 7.30pm-10:30pm, $11.57