GIRLFLY

SUMMER ART & ACTIVISM PROGRAM

GIRLFLY 2025 Applications are Now Open!

“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 2025 Summer Arts & Activism Project will bring 20 young women/GNC youth from San Francisco for four weeks to:

Make site specific & off the ground dances with professional choreographers
Earn $550
Create and perform your own original dances
Uplift community voices who have manifested or are working to manifest real ownership on the city’s streets.
Create a visual arts project led Adrian Arias
Connect with young women/GNC youth across neighborhoods, schools, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity

The 19th-annual GIRLFLY poses the question, “Who owns the corner?” We will uplift community voices who have manifested or are working to manifest real ownership on the city’s streets. We’ ll look at models by The Women’s Building in the Mission, the APICC/KULARTS Performing Arts Space that’s South of Market, and 111 Taylor Street in the Tenderloin, as well as Space 124. Students will explore the theme through apparatus-based dance, site specific performance, and activist afternoons led by visual artist Adrian Arias.

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Who is it for?

Young women and GNC youth ages 14-21 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.