Flyaway Productions

Thank you for your support of Flyaway Productions! Get Your Tickets to IF I GIVE YOU MY SORROWS at YBCA Forum, San Francisco January 31- February 2 at 8PM Friday/Saturday at 8PM | Sunday at 2PM Get Tickets to "If I Give You My Sorrows" Flyaway is thrilled to be Presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as we remount IF I GIVE YOU MY SORROWS (2023) AND share space and intention with Empowerment Avenue as they remount THE ONLY DOOR I CAN OPEN. YBCA presents a multimedia exhibition and aerial dance performance that together explore the experience of incarcerated women, and reveal truths about the realities they face while in prison. Both the exhibition and dance performance share the same inspiration: a poem by co-curator Tomiekia Johnson, in which she describes her bed as ‘the only door I can open,’ while she reflects on her experience of being incarcerated. The exhibition will be on view February 1 through June 22, and the dance piece will be performed daily January 31, February 1, and February 2 (after which, video documentation will be screened for the remainder of the exhibition).  - Featured Activists: Betty McKay, Lisa Strawn, and Tomiekia Johnson - Dancers: Marystarr Hope, Megan Lowe, Jhia Jackson, Sonsheree Giles, natalia shoaf and Quinn Dior - Composers: Pamela Z, Carla Kihlstedt, and Kayla Harwood - Designers: Jamielynn Duggan (costume), Sean Riley (set), and Mathew Antake (lighting)  - Artistic Director: Jo Kreiter Get Tickets to "If I Give You My Sorrows" (Systems impacted folks can get free tickets by using the code: COMMUNITY) The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison through Art An immersive multimedia exhibition co-curated from within prison by Tomiekia Johnson and Chantell-Jeannette Black, in collaboration with Empowerment Avenue. For the exhibition, Johnson and Black asked eight currently and formerly incarcerated artists to create an artwork that reflects on their relationship to their bed. Within the prison system, a person’s bed is one of the only spaces where they can be alone: for some, the bed is a place of safety and privacy, for others it is a space of isolation and angst.  The exhibition will feature an array of artworks in diverse media—including murals, paintings, and audio narratives—as well as an immersive installation, which mirrors a prison cell at Central California Women's Facility at Chowchilla (where the curators reside).  YBCA is also part of the Museums for All program, offering free Museum admission to anyone with a Medi-Cal or EBT card. Listen to Making Contact as they speak about Flyaway, Empowerment Avenue, and women who‘ve lived or are living through incarceration. Listen to "Making Contact" Flyaway Thanks YOU! Deep Thanks to all of our end of year supporters who donated to help us make 2025 a strong year for art and justice. We appreciate you from the bottom of our hearts and the tops of the city’s roofs!!! Donate Share Tweet Forward Photo Credits: 1) “If I Give You My Sorrows” poster features dancer Megan Lowe, photo by Brooke Anderson - 2023; 2) “The Only Door I Can Open” poster features Anna Ruiz, “Institution #2,” 2023. “The Only Door I Can Open” logo designed by Paul T. Plale; 3) Brooke Anderson of natalya shoaf and Megan Lowe in "If I Give You My Sorrows" - 2023; 4) Austin Forbord of Mary Ann Brooks in "The Ballad of Polly Ann" - 2009 Copyright © 2016 Flyaway Productions, All rights reserved. For more information please visit: flyawayproductions.com