You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose, & Everything Goes - SF

Name: You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose, & Everything Goes - SF
Start: 2026-01-08T19:30:00-08:00
Location: 988 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133

Schedule

Thu, 08 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

988 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133 | San Francisco, CA

You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose, & Everything Goes - A GRIEF & GRATITUDE OPEN MIC!
Hosted by Ned Buskirk
Doors at 7:30pm.
Event from 8:00-10:30pm with one intermission
18+ preferred
TICKETS HERE: https://tinyurl.com/YG2Djan8
Support more with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.
$15 Booster Ticket
$20 Supporter Ticket
$25 Patron Ticket
$50 Champion Ticket
$100 Superstar Ticket
All tickets are still first come, first served.
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 and dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.
Thank you for any additional help you can offer.
And please email [email protected] if you need financial support to be a part of the evening.
***Purchasing tickets to this performance adds you to You're Going to Die's email list. You may opt out at any time.
Doors at 7:30pm.
Event from 8:00-10:30pm with one intermission
We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out), but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase).
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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 what we’ve lost & love, in laughter & in tears… while all the while making room for the joy & gratitude at simply being ALIVE.
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.
www.yg2d.com
https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die
https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie https://www.youtube.com/@YerGoing2Die
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*Joey Coe is the singer and songwriter of the Oakland-based indie-rock band Mount Saint Elias, a project praised by American Songwriter and featured on NPR for its expansive, genre-bending blend of folk storytelling and art-pop experimentation. Born in Kentucky, Coe’s songwriting draws deeply from the folk traditions he grew up with, exploring friendship, love, loss, mental health, and the strange humor of being alive. Much of his work—both solo and with MSE—wrestles with loss, memory, and the questions that linger in the wake of tragedy. His solo performances are intimate and unguarded, highlighting the heavily literate lyricism and raw vocal approach that define his style, landing somewhere between a Bon Iver resonance, a Noah Kahan hook, and a Mark Twain side-eye. - https://www.mountsaintelias.com/