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The Journey Is the Thing.
Will you be part of it?
In five months, the journey leads us to Montgomery, Alabama. Help us make sure every person who needs to be in that room can be there.
The Journey Is the Thing Tour — an experience of immersive installations, film, live music. Part family reunion, part block party, part healing experience — coming to Montgomery, Alabama this October.
Fundraising Goal: 35,000
Contributions made payable to Fractured Atlas for the purposes of The Journey is the Thing Tour are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Plant a seed today and join our mission as we continue to create art and curate events that inspire connection, healing and transformation.
The Story
The tour centers The Long Road Home — a documentary about my brother De'Andre, who passed away at the age of 22 after sustaining a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident, and my family's journey through grief, loss, and healing.
I studied theatre through a method passed down from Frank Silvera and Beah Richards, to my teacher Dr. Tommie Tonea Stewart — The Theatre of Being. Kid Admiral was founded from that same transformative concept: using storytelling as a portal that holds a mirror to the times and the truths we're often too afraid to speak aloud.
De'Andre was loved deeply by a community that still carries him — and the question his life left us with has never stopped echoing: what does it mean to live a meaningful life?
Not just to have been present — but to have left something behind that lives on in your absence. A feeling. A question. A reason for the people who loved you to keep going. That question is at the heart of everything Kid Admiral does. This tour is part of how we carry it forward.
"I needed a place to transform what I was carrying with others. That's why I created The Journey Is the Thing Tour."
— Tamara, Founder of Kid Admiral
Where we've been
Since that premiere, The Long Road Home has screened in three major cities. In every room, strangers stayed long after the credits — talking, crying, laughing, finding themselves in a story that they thought wasn't theirs only to realize it was.
Monroeville, AL | Los Angeles, CA | San Diego, CA ↳ Montgomery, AL
What we're building
Come for the film, the live music and connect over crowd participation and have a shared experience. Stay for the dancing.
The tour features HOMECOMING — an immersive installation and gathering exploring love, connection, grief, joy, ancestral memory, and release. The film is central to this transformative experience. Although the experience carries gravity, it also makes room for levity. Joy and grief live together here.
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What People Are Saying
“Every detail was thoughtfully executed.”
— Sol Ramos
— Jessica Kelley
“After watching the film, I now realized, my dad didn’t just belong to me, but he belonged to a larger community who were driving alongside me - then suddenly, I realized, I wasn’t alone.”
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Journey is the Thing Tour is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) charity. Contributions made payable to Fractured Atlas for the purposes of The Journey is the Thing Tour are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. If you receive a reward in exchange for your donation, the fair market value of that reward will reduce the tax-deductible portion of your donation. The value of the reward you receive will be included in your donation receipt.
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https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/the-journey-is-the-thing-tour
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Yes, Fractured Atlas can accept check donations for the purposes of our fiscally sponsored projects. All checks must be made payable to Fractured Atlas in order for the donation to be considered tax-deductible.
Please mail your check to Kid Admiral so we can report it and mail it to Fractured Atlas. Inquire: Kidadmiralproductions@gmail.com
Please do not mail the check directly to Fractured Atlas, as they will not be able to process it without Kid Admiral’s Team first reporting it.
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Yes. All donors receive a tax receipt for contributions to Fractured Atlas fiscally sponsored projects, with one exception: donors giving through a donor-advised fund receive their receipt when they initially contribute to the fund.
Credit card donations: You'll receive an email receipt immediately after your contribution.Other donation methods (check, ACH/wire, stock, or property): Contact the project administrator
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Fractured Atlas and fiscally sponsored projects cannot refund donations. As a general principle, donations are presumed by law to be irrevocable gifts unless otherwise specified in a grant agreement or other contract. This is an important legal concept that, among other things, permits gifts to be tax-deductible.
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