GIRLFLY

SUMMER ART & ACTIVISM PROGRAM

GIRLFLY 2024 Applications are Open Now!

 

In 2024, GIRLFLY will return to the Tenderloin and CounterPulse in San Francisco, where we’ll explore the intersections between gender justice and living unhoused. The curriculum will combine aerial dance making via suspended steel beds and performance with an activist curriculum that explores current solutions to housing shortages. For this year’s program we will create aerial dances in a professional studio theater. We will also create a cooperative writing project- a recipe book for housing solutions. No prior arts experience is required.

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“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 $500
  • 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 Open Now!


Applications are completed online, or you can request one in the mail or over email.

Applications are due May 1, 2024.

Fill out the application on line or request one in the mail or over email.

Interviews are rolling, so we encourage you to get your application in soon. Once your complete application is received, we will contact you to set up an in-person interview. We will notify you of your 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 2023: Everyone Carries Part of the Answer

Video by: Rapt Productions

Photos from GIRLFLY 2023 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