You're Going to Die Presents: Mourning Our Mothers @ Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center - Berkeley!!!
TICKETS HERE: https://www.handstamp.com/e/youre-going-to-die-id3tdryp
THE EVENT: https://www.ashkenaz.com/full-calendar#/events/103163
You're Going to Die Presents: 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.
Hosted by Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
Featuring Amanda Spiller*
at Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA, 94702
Doors at 7:30pm.
Show at 8pm.
All performances end at 10:30pm.
Seating is first come, first served.
And 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. Thank you for any additional help you can offer.
And please email connect@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening.
**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 (ashkenaz@ashkenaz.com) us at least 72 hours prior to the performance with your request**
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COVID TESTING recommended,
VACCINES/BOOSTERS requested,
MASKS encouraged,
& STAY HOME if you have ANY sickness symptoms whatsoever!
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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.
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*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. 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.