If I Give You My Sorrows
| Ticket Information Performance + Exhibition: $40 Performance + Exhibition + Donation: $56 Senior, Student, Military Discount: $30 Ticket prices include all fees. Ticket plus donation includes $16 that will go directly to nonprofits supporting currently and formerly incarcerated artists. Run Time: 1 Hour General Admission |
YBCA is thrilled to present If I Give You My Sorrows: Women Exposing Prison through Dance, an elegant and imaginative apparatus-based dance performance that explores truths about women and incarceration. Dancers float, fly, and spin on two suspended beds engineered to hold the isolation and dreaming that women in prison live through.
Along with these performances, YBCA is excited to present The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison through Art, an immersive multimedia exhibition curated from within 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.’ In addition to Johnson, the performance also features the voices of Betty McKay and Lisa Strawn, both formerly incarcerated women.
Join us to experience these profoundly moving pieces, and step inside the artists’ unique perspectives on women in prison, privacy, and creative expression.
Along with these performances, YBCA is excited to present The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison through Art, an immersive multimedia exhibition curated from within 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.’ In addition to Johnson, the performance also features the voices of Betty McKay and Lisa Strawn, both formerly incarcerated women.
Join us to experience these profoundly moving pieces, and step inside the artists’ unique perspectives on women in prison, privacy, and creative expression.
About Yerba Buena Center for the Arts:
Opened to the public in 1993, YBCA was founded as the cultural anchor of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. Our work spans the realms of contemporary art, performance, film, civic engagement, and public life. Centering artists as essential to social and cultural movement, YBCA is reimagining the role an arts institution can play in the community it serves.
For more information, visit ybca.org
