Darkness & Revelation an intimate exploration in Untangling Grief, with Nicole Skibola and Colleen Doyle

The dark passageways of human experience–loss, disappointment, grief–are facets of life that many of us avoid. Yet as the natural world so gracefully reminds us, as we descend into winter these shadows of all existence are inescapable. Join artists Nicole Skibola and Colleen Doyle as together we bravely grapple with matters of death, decay, and the pain of loss with curiosity and admiration. This intimate event will engage participants to generate new language and classifications to better understand grief and to imagine new expressions to interface with and repurpose personal loss. The evening will begin with a short reading from Nicole’s illustrated memoir on her own experience with loss as a young woman with a devastating cancer diagnosis, and then transition into a facilitated design session in pursuit of the question: how might we design new tools, services, and rituals to support grief?

Participants are asked to bring an open heart and an object that symbolizes a source of loss.

Date: Wednesday, Dec 2nd
Time: 7:00-9:30 p.m
Participant limit: Twelve
Cost: $35

(Illustration above by Nicole Skibola)