GIRLFLY

SUMMER ART & ACTIVISM PROGRAM


GIRLFLY 2024
Applications are Now Closed, and performances went wonderfully. Stay Tuned for GIRLFLY 2025!

“GIRLFLY has taught me to show anger, messiness, and sadness through dance. And that it doesn’t always have to be happy.”

GIRLFLY 2023 - Photo by Brechin Flournoy

“GIRLFLY gives me hope that our young generation has the compassion to learn about the world’s hardships.”


WHAT IS GIRLFLY?

The 2024 Summer Arts & Activism Project will bring 20 young women/GNC youth from San Francisco for four weeks to:

  • Make dances in the air in a professional theater setting
  • Earn $550
  • Create and perform your own original dances
  • Learn about housing solutions and obstacles in SF
  • Create a writing project led poet Kim Shuck
  • Connect with young women/GNC youth across neighborhoods, schools, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity

Who is it for?

Young women and GNC youth ages 14-19 who are strongly interested in performing, making positive change in the world and can commit to attending the entire 4 weeks of the program. African American, Arab, Latinx, Native, Asian and Pacific Islander, low-income and QBIPOC identified girls/GNC youth are strongly encouraged to apply. The primary requirement is that you like to dance, and be creative.

What’s the schedule?

The program is 4 weeks long and meets as follows:

  • Starts July 1, 2024 (no class on July 4th Holiday)
  • Ends July 25, 2022
  • Runs Monday to Thursday 10:00AM-3:00PM
  • Plus Two Mandatory Performances on Thursday, July 24 at 7PM and Friday, July 25 at 7pm

Where is it?

CounterPulse
80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA 94102

What’s the application process?

Applications for GIRLFLY 2024 are now closed. Stay tuned for GIRLFLY 2025 applications!

Applications were due May 15, 2024.

Application we filled out online or requested by mail or over email, an applicants were notified by of their status by June 1, 2024.

QUESTIONS?

Contact Flyaway Productions at 415.672.4111 or jo@flyawayproductions.com

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Funded by the Children and Youth Fund.


Witness the culmination of dance making and activism by some amazing San Francisco teens.

 

GIRLFLY 2024: A Bed, Affection, and 30 Languages

Video by: Rapt Productions

Photos from GIRLFLY 2024 by: Brooke Anderson

GIRLFLY 2023: Everyone Carries Part of the Answer

Video by: Rapt Productions

Photos from GIRLFLY 2024 by: Brechin Flournoy

 

GIRLFLY 2022: What Is Normal, Anyway

Video by: Rapt Productions

Photos from GIRLFLY 2022 by: Lydia Daniller

GIRLFLY 2021: Finding A Heart Beat at the Center of the Earth

Video by: Rapt Productions

Photos from GIRLFLY 2021 by: Vitali Kononov

GIRLFLY 2020: PIVOT: from punishment to empathy

Video by: Rapt Productions

With the following self portraits, we choose to disrupt the school to prison pipeline and define ourselves on our own terms.

Photos from GIRLFLY 2020 by: Vitali Kononov

GIRLFLY 2019: A Closer View

Video by: Rapt Productions

Photos from GIRLFLY 2019 by: Vitali Kononov

GIRLFLY 2018: Acting UP

Video by: Lala Openi

Photos from GIRLFLY 2018 by: Brechin Flournoy

GIRLFLY 2017: In the Gardens

Video by: Rapt Productions

Photos from GIRLFLY 2017 by: Brechin Flournoy