15 Jan 2025

Flyaway Productions


Thank you for your support of Flyaway Productions!
It started with a
Letter to a Prison Bed
by Tomiekia Johnson
Dear 2UP: why you gotta do me like that? You provide no privacy, I can’t even put up a sheet or curtain to block me from groggy inmates and staff stalking by. The way you position me is like when busy minded people walk by department store displays on the street. Except this is internment, the oldest American experience. The blind assassins are loud clumsy ignorant addicts and classless. Their jokes aren’t even funny. The light above my head gives me headaches. It’s brighter than the sun, perfect for the tweekers. Fractions of my skull adjust to the chaos. This is war—a combat zone. You used to provide me with more refuge, a small sense of security because prisons aint never safe. It gives an illusion of safety. But you are a lesser of evils, so I do appreciate that. You’re a trench, I a soldier. You provide loose cover. You’re lumpy, gray, flat, ugly but still here for me. You allow a spiritual beam to shine from heaven to my heart. I love that most about you. Get ready though because I am about to leave you forever. 

Sincerely,
Tomiekia

Which grew into IF I GIVE YOU MY SORROWS—a dance performance inspired by the image of a bed as a symbol of women’s private pain and an art exhibition by Empowerment Avenue, THE ONLY DOOR I CAN OPEN.

Now, both of these powerful shows are being remounted at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

The art exhibit will be on view from February 1 through June 22, and the dance performance will be shown live on January 31, February 1, and February 2.

Don't Miss
IF I GIVE YOU MY SORROWS

January 31- February 2 at 8PM
Friday/Saturday at 8PM | Sunday at 2PM
Get Tickets to "If I Give You My Sorrows"

(Systems impacted folks can get free tickets by using the code: COMMUNITY)

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Photo Credits: 2) Brooke Anderson of Jhia Jackson, MaryStarr Hope, SonsherĂ©e Giles, and natalya shoaf in "If I Give You My Sorrows" - 2023
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