YG2D presents: Fire Grief - Community Open Mic + Benefit
In the wake of the devastating LA fires, we welcome you to an open mic event for grieving place, people, security, and history. Come share stories, grieve losses, and embrace community connection. In the midst of so much devastation, we want to dedicate this upcoming grief & gratitude open mic to those affected by the fires in Southern California, both as a benefit for folks who have lost their homes, schools, workplaces, community gathering places and as a place to grieve in community.
Proceeds from this event will go directly towards supporting Altadena community members rebuild their lives. Tickets are available on a sliding scale, with higher amounts helping to directly support those affected by the LA fires.
Hosted by Caitlin Jemma
Featured Musician: Mimi Gilbert
at Rita House
5971 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Doors at 7:30 pm.
Show at 8pm.
All performances end at 10:00pm.
Seating is first come, first served.
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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.
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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/
Rita House is a community workspace that brings together like-minded innovators + creators of all generations.
https://www.ritahouse.com/
Location
Rita House, 90036
