A Mic Of One’s Own
Friday 12 June 2026
7–9 pm
7–9 pm
A new edition of A Mic of One’s Own, a series of collaborations between Kunstinstituut Melly and The Writer’s Guide (to the Galaxy)!
Politics and poetics of anti-colonial resistance
Inspired by the exhibition Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme in Melly, we’re going to place the focus on the theme of “Resistance”. For this exhibition Abbas and Abou-Rahme created multimedia installations that engage the politics and poetics of anti-colonial resistance while tracing struggles against dispossession and oppression in Palestine. Their practice combines moving image, sound, and text to explore how histories of resistance are carried across time.
Performers: we’re looking for you!
We invite writers of poetry, spoken word, short stories, essays, songs, journals or whatever your preferred genre is, to perform a piece within the theme of ‘Resistance”. This can be a political piece, but also a more personal one (the personal is political anyway). Because we have limited space, we ask you to apply first. You can do so by filling in this application form by May 29th.
Do you simply want to come and listen? Get your free ticket here.
Date: Friday June 12th 2026
Time: 19:00 (doors: 18:30)
Location: Kunstinstituut Melly, Witte de Withstraat 50 Rotterdam
Entrance: free