Discover Spoken Word: Open Mic Lab

Next date: Tuesday, 30 June 2026 | 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

A boy wearing a cap with blue and red lights on him, speaks into a microphone.

This exciting workshop is all about finding your voice, getting creative, and expressing the different sides of who you are.

Led by Sheena Chundee, a choreographer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist with an international career, this session blends voice, music, and movement in a way that feels fresh, expressive, and totally your own.

Inspired by her current work Fractured Echoes, which explores identity and the pressure of navigating different versions of ourselves in today's digital world, you'll create your own spoken word piece based on the idea of "fracturing" who you are with friends, online, at school, and everything in between.

Through music, interactive prompts, and creative challenges, you'll play with rhythm, flow, tone, silence, repetition, and vocal sounds beyond words, no experience needed. It's a relaxed, supportive space where you can experiment, take risks, and have fun, finishing with an optional open-mic style sharing. Plus, with permission, some of your recorded sound bites could even become part of Fractured Echoes, giving you the chance to be part of a real live performance piece.

Suitable for ages 10-13

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By purchasing a ticket you (Parent or Legal Guardian) agree to the following Terms and Conditions:

Enrolment in Kingston Arts for Kids events (Program) is only secure when registration has been completed, online payment is made, and a receipt is issued to the email provided.
Kingston Arts is not responsible for the participant's safe travel to and from the Program.
Kingston Arts reserves the right to cancel or change the Program and/or Program Activities at any time.
Program leaders are not medically trained and are not permitted to administer medication.
Kingston Arts will obtain medical advice/treatment and ambulance/hospital services as it deems necessary. The participant's parent or guardian is responsible for all costs associated with any medical advice/treatment and/or ambulance/hospital services obtained in such circumstances.
Participants must comply with all directions and requirements of the Program leaders, and any participant who does not comply may be prohibited from continuing to participate, in which case a parent or guardian must collect the participant promptly as instructed.
As part of the Program, images of participants and activities will be taken as a record. Some of these images may be used in future promotional material. If you do not wish to be photographed and/or filmed, please advise the organiser at the start of the event being held.
Kingston Arts is not responsible for loss of or damage to personal belongings.