A Practicum for Processing
@ Northwestern University Death Studies Research Group
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 9:30am - 5PM
On the morning of April 22, we will take our completed casket and we will carry it twelve miles along the lake, from Evanston to downtown Chicago, in a procession.
Procession has a purpose, although it may not be obvious, explicit, or rational. A funeral procession is a physical transition for the deceased, moving them from the world of the living to the world of the dead. But a funeral procession also acts upon its participants. It brings together those who are grieving and moves them through that grief. A procession doesn’t take grief away, but grants time, space, and community support to process that grief.
Our casket will be empty; we welcome anyone who is grieving. Both individual grief and societal grief, physical or psychic death, from the death of a loved one, to war, gun violence, or the climate crisis, to personal trauma—come process with us.
Learn more here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/596260450057
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