A Thousand Mothers Collecting the Bones Performance Ritual

Through a performance piece featuring theater, poetry, storytelling, and music, Phoenix Song and Monique Miyake share their grief and healing journey after the loss of their seventeen-year-old son to suicide. Experience how they navigated the unimaginable to create this show as an offering of deep love, healing, and a community grief and praise ritual that allows us all to grieve more deeply and come into shared humanity.

This performance is for anyone carrying personal or collective loss. It invites us into a shared space of witnessing, where one story can hold the stories of many. As grief is expressed and honored, it can begin to move—within us and between us—opening the possibility of integration, meaning, and renewal. This inspiring and brave story helps us experience the power of grieving together in community and how it leads to deep healing and transformation for everyone.

May 9: 730pm La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley

$25 in advance, $35 at the door. Sliding scale available.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-thousand-mothers-collecting-the-bones-tickets-1985959844355

A Q&A talkback will follow along with an artist's reception of Monique's original artwork and prints. 10% of sales will be donated to the Trevor Project.

Your collective performance allows us all to be free to ourselves to go deep, open and outstretched to the truth and wholeness of allowing the pain of grief all the way in. I honor the strength in the vulnerability expressed by Monique and Phoenix. I am so honored and grateful for the witness experience and the place it touches in me. --Tree bereaved mother, retired palliative care nurse

Monique is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, ritualist, end-of-life doula, hospice RN, and bereaved mother. She holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, and is a Reiki master and chaplain trained in Clinical Pastoral Education at UCSF. Monique is a certified Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider and HOPE Mentor through the MISS Foundation. https://www.moniquemiyake.com

Phoenix Song is a queer, nonbinary Korean American adoptee performer, writer, teacher, and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay. phoenixsongmusic.com