Bedspreads, shower curtains and chair covers draped over a dome structure housed 14 students Tuesday evening for Open Mic Night in Nelson Hall cafeteria.

One light illuminated the cozy atmosphere within the tent-like structure and students sitting cross-legged, stretched out on a ring of pillows. The dome will be standing until the end of spring quarter.

Jewlia Eisenberg, artist-in-residence with DU’s Center for Judaic Studies (CJS), designed the Bowls Project, which was inspired by Babylonian Incantation Bowls and will host a series of events and salons during Eisenberg’s time at DU.

The Bowls Project is a performance installation.

It is part of a yearlong project exploring the oral traditions of Jewish culture through studying music, poetry, and theater.

The dome, open to everyone, accommodated Amnesty International’s “What is Justice?” open mic night as a “protected space” for poetry and prose, said Rabah Kamal, Amnesty International (AI) co-president.

Freshman James Powel read parts of his poem, “Barren Lands,” which was well received by the small audience.

Next, Michael Neal, a doctoral candidate and AI member, told a story about a local monument to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Participants engaged in constructing new or alternative uses for words and created a poem.

Karen Bensen, a member of Partners in Learning, initiated an activity where each student was assigned one letter in a word and told to use it to create a new descriptive word. “Peace” became perseverance, egalitarian, amend, comfort and emancipation.

The dome also offers students the ability to leave recorded secrets in the dome.

The idea involves putting stereos in the pillows so people can listen to the secrets, an idea inspired from the secret writings on the incantation bowls.

According to Bensen, the dome invites students to stop by and explore the interior.

To schedule an event in the dome, Tolman is the person to contact.