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If I Give You My Sorrows - Music for a dance performance by Flyaway Productions

by Carla Kihlstedt, Kalyn Harewood, Pamela Z

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Skewed 04:56
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Where Betty Can Go Find Betty 07:59
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3.
Secrets 05:27
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Closure (My name is Lisa Strawn.) 07:41
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Prayer 05:24
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Childhood Bed 05:40
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Birthing Bed 06:30
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Dear Prison Bed, 04:15
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Kalyn Harewood – voice, guitar, percussion/metal bed frame, synth programming, spoken voice (excerpted from an interview with Tomiekia Johnson) music by Kalyn Harewood. recorded and mixed by Kalyn Harewood.
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Salve 05:44
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100% of the proceeds from the sale of this album go directly to Empowerment Avenue - an organization that works to normalize the inclusion of incarcerated writers and artists in mainstream venues by bridging the gap between them and harnessing this creative proximity as a path to de-carceration and public safety. Please find out more about them at: empowermentave.org

This music was created for the performance of the same name by Flyaway Productions as an extension of The Decarceration Trilogy, which exposed the devastating effects of prison in the U.S. Kreiter's new project continues Flyaway’s artist-as-activist work of prison systems change.

“If I Give You My Sorrows starts with a bed as a metaphor for what women experience in private,” said Flyaway's artistic director and choreographer, Jo Kreiter. “In this historic moment repressing women’s choice and women’s bodies at the national level, we want to reframe women’s beds as a place where our complexity and depth live – where our bodies rest, transform, grieve and repair. In what ways can a bed be an antidote? What secrets do we leave in our beds? What wounds do we bury there? How do our beds hold what is messy, tragic, grueling?”

With commissioned music by longtime Flyaway collaborators Carla Kihlstedt and Pamela Z, and new composer Kalyn Harewood, the stories of three activists are told through their own recorded voices and the performances of Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Razelle Swimmer, Natalya Shoaf and Megan Lowe.

The three activists are Betty McKay, Lisa Strawn and Tomiekia Johnson. McKay is a formerly incarcerated woman and organizer for Essie Justice Group. Strawn is a formerly incarcerated activist who spent 25 years as a transgender woman living in men's prisons. While in prison, she wrote over 60 stories for publication and organized political action groups. Finally, Johnson works as a writer from her cell at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.

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released October 6, 2023

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