Join hosts Chrissie Hodges and Duke Al-Durham and participants from around the world sharing their lived experience stories of mental health creatively through storytelling, poetry, spoken word, rap, song, instrument, art, and and more!

This open mic is NOT open to the public online, it is for paying attendees only. This way the audience are people invested in hearing your stories and your expressions of creativity around your experience. This is a safe space! It will not be recorded, and it will not be used for marketing purposes moving forward. Presentations may be done on camera, or anonymously.

If you would like to participate in the open mic, please purchase your ticket and sign up by clicking here to register your submission!

This event will span many timezones. The exact time of the event will be announced once all participants have registered so we can coordinate the timezones for all countries participating. The event will be somewhere between 2pm EST – 5pm EST. The event will broadcast over Streamyard and you will receive the link to join and watch a few days before the event is broadcast.

ALL PROCEEDS go toward the collaboration between OCD Gamechangers and Poet Treehouse in hosting international events in 2025 in Dublin, Ireland and Cardiff, Wales. Every dollar in ticket purchases will help to host these events and sponsor individuals to attend as well.

If you would like to donate or sponsor an event or the open mic as well, please email ocd.chrissie@gmail.com or donate at www.ocdgamechangers.com

You will receive an email before the open mic with the link to join and instructions. 

Thank you for your support – your purchase is making a difference in people’s lives!