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is a 501(c)3 nonprofit bringing diverse communities into the conversation of grief, loss, & our shared mortality, inspiring a more connected & meaningful experience of being alive, w/a weekly podcast, open mics, concerts, workshops, & prison, hospice, & cancer patient programs.

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You're Going to Die: Poetry Prose & Everything Goes - San Francisco

  • The Lost Church San Francisco 988 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, CA, 94133 (map)

You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... @ The Lost Church - San Francisco!!!

TICKETS HERE: http://tinyurl.com/YG2DMarch142024
FB EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1379798692900242/

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
With music from Scott Ferrter*
at
The Lost Church - San Francisco
988 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, CA 94133-2310
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.

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)

Ages 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).

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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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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.

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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*This month's You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose, & Everything Goes features music from Scott Ferreter...

The solo music of Scott Ferreter comes through with a strong sense of time & place, though the exact time & precise place don’t exist. California certainly comes through strong, having grown up & spent his life in Northern California, but so does Ireland & the American South. His particular commitment to vulnerability & desire to peel back the layers of truth in his songwriting suggest some tethers to the folk resurgence of the 60’s or the emo wave of the early 2000’s, but his rhythms show much more loyalty to MoTown & R&B, and always seems to be striving toward something ancient.

Grief, liberation, ancestry, & selfhood are themes that his songs are constantly returning to. It is equally likely that he will cry or tell a dad joke on stage, but his commitment to presence & honesty run through both equally.

Beyond his own songs, he is one half of the touring/recording duo The Feelings Parade, works as a producer/engineer, and plays bass and electric guitar with MaMuse and Cassandra Lewis.