Room For Grief
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[PHILADELPHIA, PA]— Room For Grief – Living with Loss in America — An immersive and interactive group art show featuring 100+ artists and performers unified by experiences of bereavement.
In a country built upon death and loss, the space to grieve is alarmingly absent. Our society leaves little physical or existential room for us to experience let alone process loss. This project points directly at this omission by making literal Room For Grief – dedicated, intentional space where these themes are expressed, witnessed and held in community.
Guests are invited to walk through the rooms of a house built by grief, woven together with the art that has helped us survive. Let our robust and diverse group of contributors show you what it is like to live, heal, struggle, cope and offer sanctuary for mourning at a time where the burden of grief in daily life is overwhelming. Join us as we grieve death, identity, health, security, safety, freedom, democracy, the fulfillment of promises that were made to us generationally. Together we hold up the walls to create Room For Grief.
- Room for Grief comes alive with an opening reception on June 4th and is laid to rest at the closing reception on June 28th
- The exhibition will be hosted at the historic Cherry Street Pier along the Delaware River – a beautiful and peaceful place to explore grief and be in community with other grievers, also mere blocks from Old City and the heart of the semisesquicentennial.
- Our lovingly curated events lineup includes a Death Cafe, Beyond Loss Film Series, a performance in The Garden, spoken word and song performances, Grief Survival support, and more!
Call to Action: Join us in the Room for Grief this June. Visit the immersive installation, meet the artists, attend a robust lineup of events curated to support, uplift, and inspire grievers of all types and from all walks of life. Loss touches each one of us at some point in our lives, but we must not grieve alone. In community we can create a room for grief and hold the walls up together. Find more information at roomforgrief.org.
About the Room for Grief Team: Curated by Chelsea Dalsey, with support from C.Sage, Mandy, and Sonja Demonia.
Media Contact:
Chelsea Dalsey
Curator
info@roomforgrief.org
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