MOURNING SCHOOL PRESENTS

6:30 – 8:30 pm: Mourning School and TENT warmly invite you to Could I wear your loss on my sleeve?, an exercise in shared mourning through collective embroidering. This workshop and gathering departs from the tradition of memorial handkerchiefs, a gift offered to convey your condolences for the loss of a loved one, intended to be carried inside a pocket as a way to keep the memory of this loved one close. Participants are invited to join us in an exercise in collective embroidery, as a way to think through and feel practices of remembrance and the (in)visibility of loss. The handkerchief we make together will be too heavy to be carried alone, too large to be hidden in a pocket, a hankie that holds the uncomfortable, absurd, beautiful, and nonsensical, as a gesture of collective, queer mourning. More info