a ritual space to remember, repair, and rebirth

The Altar of Kinship is a ritual forged from my own reflection on death as a friend and catalyst for life. It combines music, movement and symbolic storytelling.

 

The experience begins Thursday evening with a gently facilitated movement workshop, followed by a Sunday late afternoon ritual, and a Monday art making experience. Come to one, come to all. Like double-Dutch, jump in when you are called.

 

The immensity of loss can be daunting, and I found throughout my life that there weren’t enough spaces to simple feel what I was feeling let alone enter into a ritual space to create something from the experience. I believe that this has been an aspect of my performance work as the Angelbird. Through the process of training to become a Death Midwife, and within that community, I saw how what I was already doing could be in service to helping people and communities process our experience of death.

 

Permission to come as you are. And may this be a place to shift the experience of loss from isolated mourning to collective healing, and towards remembering the joyousness of being alive. 

 

Where: The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica

 

Thursday, March 27: Workshop 7:30-9pm

Sunday, March 30: Ritual 3:30-5pm

Monday, March 31: Arts Integration 3:30-5pm

 

Suggested donation: 

$25 / per event

$40/ for two

$65 / for all three

 

Venmo or PayPal @Elizabethyochim to reserve your participation.

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Email ey@elizabethyochim.com for more information.