You're Going To Die presents a songwriter showcase and fundraiser for Songs for Life, a non-profit program that brings live music to hospice and end-of-life communities.
Songs for Life connects professional musicians with hospice patients, offerin the healing power of music to patients and their communities as they approach the threshold of death. Musicians visit ongoingly, getting to know the patient, deeply connecting to their stories, and playing the songs that they love. In addition to offering music and companionship, musicians often write original songs, instrumental or with lyrics, inspired by and in honor of the life of the patient. By attending this benefit event, you'll be supporting Songs for Life in sharing the gift of music with hospice patients and their families.
This showcase will feature performances by talented songwriters including:
Caitlin Jemma
Conner Cherland
David Redd
Jeremy Ferrara
Jonie
KATZROAR
Old Jitters
Wade Ryff
Hannah Rooth
Phia Moore
Details:
Saturday May 3rd 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.
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 and dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.
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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/
