Destination: Ink - The Open Open Mic

02/10/2023

This Halloween, it's time to get SPUKI 🧟

We're keeping things local here: so dress up like a (supernatural) baddie of the Southeast Asian persuasion, and bring us your best True Singapore Ghost Stories. Tell us about what you saw at that Pasir Ris chalet, or who joined you on that 2AM cab ride home, or what happened to your uncle during the seventh month 🫣

Best costume and ghost story stand to win prizes 🍚🩸🌑 🕸️📿🪞🧧 Bonus points for Mr. Midnight references!

Our usual programming of alllll the genres will continue, but we want to hear all your SPUKI tales too 🕯🌙🧛🏽🧞🔮🧹🖤 Scared to go alone? Grab a friend and sign up for our slots https://ticketer.sg/Event/EventDetail/ec2hHB39/Spuki

16/08/2023

Join our HOUSE OF MIRRORS, where we'll reflect as we enter the third quarter of the year. Can you look inward? Are you overwhelmed by all the distortions? Does the person in the mirror look alright to you?

Whether you're ready for these questions or not, come down and hang with us. Maybe everyone else's answers and art will help you make sense of the year thus far! Maybe not. Mirror mirror, on the wall, who's the clearest of them all?

Snag your open mic slot now and let loose your introspections and reflections! All mediums, genres and artists are welcome.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3-rr3FNrgXtreRspwQgVusnH72oXUpCs6LhZUFph5iAUGqA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Grab your tickets at the door or online: https://ticketer.sg/Event/EventDetail/ec1vV726/House-of-Mirror

10/05/2023

d**k returns to the stage with ila ila and laetitia!

Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore. Her work has been shortlisted for the 2022 Oxford Poetry Prize, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Nina Riggs Poetry Award, and published in New Singapore Poetries, amongst others. She edits for Gaudy Boy and Sine Theta Magazine. Find her at laetitia-k.com

ila ila's research centres on peripheral narratives surrounding identity, space and histories, particularly looking at kinships with land and water bodies. ⁣She does art sometimes.

open mic slots available here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3-rr3FNrgXtreRspwQgVusnH72oXUpCs6LhZUFph5iAUGqA/viewform

28/04/2023

the stakes for being an artist have never been higher. the people need art! apathy and passivity are at an all-time high! it's MAY-KE OR BREAK: it's up to you to save the day with your art. whether it's a dance to inspire dreaming, a story to bring us back to each other, or a song to rouse the fallen, come show us what you've got. you have the key to saving us all: be silly, be vulnerable, be loud!

sign up for open mic slots @ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3-rr3FNrgXtreRspwQgVusnH72oXUpCs6LhZUFph5iAUGqA/viewform

21/03/2023

this march, we have Kansh, Cara Ow, and Stephanie Dogfoot repping d**k on the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay stage! what are they doing exactly with grapes 🍇 and a cicak 🦎? you’ll have to drop by to find out 🤪

Stephanie Dogfoot is a spoken word poet and multi-disciplinary performer. She is the author of the poetry collection Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press 2019) and a co-editor of EXHALE: An Anthology of Q***r Singapore Voices (Math Paper Press 2021). She is also the founder of a monthly poetry open mic called Spoke & Bird. She can be found on instagram and twitter at .

Kansh - a shape-shifter; alchemizing. They are a multi-disciplinary artist whose goal is to be a renaissance man, but a non-binary and Southeast Asian equivalent of that. Creating is their form of catharsis, expression and also as a process of decolonising. Their works are their own cosmic daydream through experimenting with different forms.

Cara is a Gemini Sun, Moon and Scorpio Rising. They are a lesser trilingual who mainly writes in English, currently interested in ideas of miscommunication and connection. Some of Cara’s works can be found in BooksActually’s My Lot is A Sky, Eggbox Publishing’s Undertone and Underline and Exactly Foundation’s Entau Tak Tahu, among others. Most recently, reclamation, their poem published in The Tiger Moth Review, was awarded Second Place in the 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry.

14/03/2023

corporate greed destroying our future? cultural norms erasing your heritage? patriarchy policing your lives? there is so much to get fired up about: join d**k as we take over Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay! combining words and music in a kaleidoscope, our d**k faves straddle the uncertain and bother the unknown.

this event is not an open mic. ADMISSION IS FREE

04/09/2022

lately it seems EVERYTHING is a crime. letting loose! having fun! being q***r (ok maybe not anymore)! when everything is policed and nothing is allowed, come to d**k. we always have space for what the rest of might not.

ask for open mic slots and get your tickets at the door. we’re on the 2nd floor of blu jaz!

31/08/2022

we’re trying out something new so you can better

every month we have a FANTASTIC slate of open micers (and recently, features) that we know you want to see more of! so we compiled their works - check out our incredible artists here 👇🏽

https://linktr.ee/d**kcollective

pssst - our next d**k will be 8 SEPT 🗓 save the date!!

06/08/2022

POETRY IS NOT DEAD

maybe you missed word forward last thursday, but there’s d**k this thursday, and s&b the next, and outspoken the next 👀 there’s poetry every thursday: come live life & art with us!

d**k isn’t just poetry of course: we welcome all mediums & genres. bring your music, your improv, your dance, your powerpoint presentations, your comedy sketches- we want it all! our roots are in poetry (we used to be called destination INK for a reason) but now we want to see ✨ the magic of all mediums ✨

let us know below: what do u wanna see next at d**k?

01/08/2022

nature IS healing! d**k is now back from the void, and hopefully you are too. show us what you’ve been up to and where the void has taken you: a hidden universe? fighting off zombie astronauts? chilling with the aliens? terraforming a new planet for our species’ survival?

d**k made it out the other side of the void a little different: this time round we’ll be featuring 5 performers. ask for open mic slots at the door on the day itself.

all artists & mediums welcome 🪅

15/12/2020

https://open.spotify.com/track/2F9iNXkGGF8KE4tzkYSJi8?si=N9PxeyGBSoqX_1nx26_M5g

Our d**ker just released a single on Spotify. Go share the love and have a listen :) 💙💙

Anirudh Singh Chohan · Song · 2020