Poetry by Amanda Nagai

Music by Chelsea Coleman & Adrienne Shamszad

Doors at 7:30 PM - Show at 8 PM

Last year, longtime YG2D friend and community member, Amanda Nagai, lost the person she was dating to a shocking death by suicide.

She began to write poetry as a healing and sense-making process in the months after Peter’s death, and has shared several of them at You’re Going to Die events. Last Fall, she and You’re Going to Die’s Creative Director, Chelsea Coleman, hosted an intimate performance weaving her words and Chelsea’s original songs. The audience members were deeply touched, moved, and changed by the offering.

Amanda and Chelsea have decided to offer these vulnerable poems and songs for a public audience. This performance presents an intense and transformative arc of healing, and we’ve invited musical guest, Adrienne Shamszad, to close out the night with her musical spell-casting in a way that helps us integrate and ground ourselves at the close of the show.

In Amanda’s words: “This is the story of my journey since that moment. It is a story of distress, thought spirals, rawness, surrender, clarity, confusion, beauty, sweetness, love, and more pain and confusion. But ultimately, it is a story of the messy, sacred road of processing loss — and the deep commitment to life that I have found in my intimate examination of death.”

As always, we don’t want money to be a hindrance to anyone who needs to be here. Please reach out to us as connect@yg2d.com for financial accommodation.

Ashkenaz is wheelchair accessible. If you have any accessibility questions or requests, please call 510-525-5099 or email (ashkenaz@ashkenaz.com) at least 72 hours prior to the performance so that we have time to accommodate your request

Covid policy - Masks are encouraged but not required. We ask that you stay home if you are feeling sick or have recently been exposed to covid. Please reach out for a refund or a credit toward a future show ticket: connect@yg2d.com.

Tickets:

$15.00 - $20.00