The Soup We Find Ourselves In!

 

We live in a time of apocalypse, with intersecting global ecological and climate crises, social injustice, and collapsing economic and governance systems. Our mammalian threat responses are on high-alert: individualism, social media, and neoliberal economic models have pitted us against each other, separating us from ourselves, each other and the planet. We lack the relational skills ( + and nervous system regulation strategies) to know how to be together during a time when we need each other the most. In response to this context, we must build a place to practice the dance of precarity, mystery and chaos and together imagine the world to come (in Hebrew- Olam Haba).

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Our Response--

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Grief Circus:

Practicing the Lost Arts of the Wyld Unknown

 

 

 

Grief Circus is a research institute, education and advocacy center, and living laboratory dedicated to developing and sharing the technologies of play, artistry and reunion – for people, planet, and spirit. We are a collective of activists, artists and trickster mischief-makers reviving the lost arts: ritual technologies of playful multispecies relationality.

 

We teach, perform, and curate social technologies of togetherness that help us relate well to difference, and overturn the destructive, extractive human-centric hierarchies that are destroying the planet and all its people, human and more-than human.

 

Grief Circus designs resilient futures through purposeful play, mundane pleasure and daring creative expression. We are invested in developing a cultural body equipped for agility and awe in the face of collapse and uncertain futures.

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You might think of us as a living archive of mutual care and remembering in the library of the world to come. 

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Grief Circus aims to present interdisciplinary programming in curation and collaboration with underserved voices, artists, teachers + thought leaders who are helping to shape the world to come through the avenues of collective liberation, neuroscientific + animistic exploration. We are orienting around  distributed roles and resource sharing in community and creating the conditions to explore the dissolution of the rugged individual in real time.