You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... [San Francisco]

1 Loraine Ct.,San Francisco CA 94118

14 April, 2022

Description

You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose, and Everything Goes... is a LIVE IN-PERSON creatively conscious mortality open mic event. OUR FIRST LIVE IN-PERSON EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO IN TWO YEARS!!! You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose, and Everything Goes... @ The San Francisco Columbarium!!!!! Support MORE with ticket tiers. YOU CHOOSE THE AMOUNT. The tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality. YG2D offers free creatively conscious mortality podcast, monthly sell-out live open mics, concerts, & workshops facilitating creatively conscious mortality space for community, a hospice program sending musicians to patients' bedsides, connecting & enlivening prison programming for community [inside & out], cancer patient workshops & bedside visits for healing through creative writing, & scholarships/dedicated space for our BIPOC community, reparation-funded by non-Black/non-Indigenous contributions. Thank you for any additional help you can offer. Please contact [email protected] if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open mic event, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying, to embrace our losses & mortality, to grieve, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. Hosted by Ned Buskirk w/music from Chelsea Coleman Doors at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. All performances end at 10pm. Seating is first come, first served. Sign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly, so if you want to perform, you’d better get there early… If you’re going to perform, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. Poetry, prose, music, dancing, comedy, drama, happy, sad, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. You don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. Please don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. IMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. You're Going to Die. No. Really. You are.