YOU’RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: MOURNING OUR FATHERS - A YG2D Open Mic Event

Name: YOU’RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: MOURNING OUR FATHERS - A YG2D Open Mic Event
Start: 2024-06-20T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Ashkenaz 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA

Schedule

Thu Jun 20 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Ashkenaz 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA | Berkeley, CA

YOU’RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: MOURNING OUR FATHERS - A YG2D Open Mic Event Featuring Kisura Nyoto
Mourning our Fathers is an open mic event, the communal offering to come together and make space for the fathers & paternal figures we have lost. In a world that would rather sweep sadness, anger, confusion, & grief under the rug, we will make space for it together. The event will feature music from Kisura Nyoto throughout the night.
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/
Kisura Nyoto is a singer/songwriter with Soul, Pop, Folk, Jazz, Rock and R&B influences. She has a special love of Radiohead, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Fiona Apple, and Fleet Foxes. Though she's been singing all of her life, Kisura Nyoto was the co-lead singer of the San Francisco soul band, Midtown Social, who released a full-length album called Fantastic Colors in February 2020. Currently, Kisura Nyoto is working on her first solo project M U S E U M | Life.
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