You're Going to Die: Mourning Our Mothers

Name: You're Going to Die: Mourning Our Mothers
Start: 2024-05-16T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Ashkenaz

Schedule

Thu May 16 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Ashkenaz | Berkeley, CA

Doors at 7:30PM
Show at 8:00PM
You’re Going to Die Presents: Mourning Our Mothers
Mourning our mothers is an open mic event, the communal offering to come together and make space for the mothers & maternal figures we have lost. We will make words, songs, and shared presence our bridge between loss and remembrance. Whether you thought about her/them today or five years ago, join us in storytelling, song and poetry to invoke her/their presence and revel in the power of shared grief and community. In a world that would rather sweep sadness, anger, confusion, & grief under the rug, we will make space for it together.
Amanda Spiller will read poems from her book Laying Roots and perform songs from her debut EP, including her indie grief banger Haze, where violin and cello ground her ethereal vocals into a griefscape that finally puts words to what you might be feeling.
Sign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly, so if you want to perform, 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 stand up & get on stage with you and offer you a hug if you want one.
Poetry, prose, music, dancing, comedy, drama, happy, sad, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. There will be an acoustic guitar made available at the show.
You don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers, and your listening draws forth the depth of what can be shared.
We ask that you don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage.
We invite you to share your stories and your heart with a community that is committed to holding both the reverence and irreverence that emerges when we contend with our own mortality, and with the losses that have shaped us. You’re invited to eulogize, cry, laugh, wail, remember, listen, sing - anything you want to offer.
You're Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
Sliding Scale $15-$100 No one turned away for lack of funds (applies to advanced sales too)! Email [email protected] if you’d like a ticket reserved for you at a lower or $0 price. We got you.
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You're Going to Die [YG2D] is a 501(c)3 nonprofit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality, with a free creatively conscious mortality podcast, monthly sell-out live open mics, concerts, & workshops facilitating creatively conscious mortality space for community, a free online grief space offered every week, an elderhood program intergrating senior citizen wisdom into our general communal experience, a hospice program sending musicians to patients' bedsides, prison programming faciliating a suicide prevention group and hosting creatively connecting open mic space and workshops with community in San Quentin & working with community impacted by the prison system [inside & out], and cancer patient workshops & bedside visits for healing through creative writing. - https://www.yg2d.com/
Amanda Spiller is an artist and adventurer from New Hampshire who made two pivotal decisions at age 25: she laid roots in the Bay Area and learned guitar. Now, she never knows if she’s writing a poem or a song. Amanda makes grief feel beautiful by holding space for pain and joy simultaneously. Her words meet you in your moments of struggle and remind you that only in darkness can you see your own light.
**Ashkenaz is committed to making our events accessible to everyone including those with disabilities. We have an ADA-compliant ramp to the left of the main door.

Upon arrival, anyone needing access to the ADA-compliant ramp completes their purchase prior to entering the building. Ashkenaz personnel will then assist with finding an appropriate space.
In order to best accommodate any specific accessibility needs, we request that you call (510-525-5099) or email ([email protected]) us at least 72 hours prior to the performance with your request**