Gathering Grief

Bringing Grief out of the Shadows

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We seek to bring grief out of the shadows. Let’s welcome grief into public spaces where awkwardness, shame, and cultural expectations won’t prevent us from speaking of our loved ones and sharing or exploring our current and past experiences of grief. Let’s discover together if the Swedish proverb might be true:

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”

Upcoming Events

Art and Grief - Speaking Beyond Words - October 5th 2024

Artist David Robinson will speak to the collaborative conception, evolution and creation of Limina, a bronze and steel monument that stands in the St. John’s Shaughnessy Garden of Remembrance.
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What can we do?

As a society, we can create openness about the impact of grief

what it might feel like, and that everyone is different based on you and the closeness or importance of the person who died or what was lost, if there was trauma associated with your relationship with the person who died, that not being ok is normal, that “being strong” doesn’t make the grief go away, shorten its impact or decrease the amount of time you will feel upside down
Limina scultpure
We respectfully acknowledge that we live, play, and work on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueum, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people and we honour the ancestry, heritage and gifts of all Indigenous Peoples and give thanks to them.
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