Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil with Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we've lost. This gathering features artist and writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of the new memoir The Flower Bearers in which she inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships -- a friendship with her late friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, and her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie -- with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love. The program also features a Sonic Spa Experience led by flutist and Reimagine collaborator Jane Rigler. Death doula, artist, and yoga instructor Ezekiel Goodwin will build an altar and lead the honor ceremony in which we name our grief and mourn losses.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and many others. Her debut novel, Promise, was a Kirkus Reviews and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year.
https://www.rachelelizagriffiths.com/
Jane Rigler is a musician and facilitator who explores experimental performance practice, creative compositional notation procedures, and multisensorial listening methods. She received her flute performance foundation at Northwestern University and developed her work in experimental music at UCSD. Her compositions, which explore movement, languages, and ancestral songs are performed world-wide at conventions, concert halls and festivals. As a certified Deep Listening® facilitator (by the Center for Deep Listening at RPI, Troy, NY), she offers inclusive listening experiences throughout the world and her compositions are influenced by these multi-sensorial practices. While an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado (UCCS) 2010-2024, she taught flute, composition, listening practices, computer music, sound art, and improvisation. Currently, she is collaborating with neuroscientists and therapists to develop restorative and nervous system regulation techniques in all her work with sound, composing, coaching, and facilitation practices.
Ezekiel Goodwin is a death doula, artist, and accessible yoga instructor whose work centers on care, creativity, and connection during life's most challenging moments. He supports individuals and communities in navigating grief, loss, and transition through creative expression, ritual, and embodied practice. Ezekiel specializes in co-creating meaningful visual components for ceremony, including altars, collaborative memorial art, and legacy pieces that reflect the family's story. Grounded in accessibility and client advocacy, his interdisciplinary approach weaves art-making, movement, storytelling, and spiritual reflection. Ezekiel creates spaces where complex emotions are welcomed, honoring diverse backgrounds, identities, and ways of grieving, while making room for remembrance, tenderness, and joy.
About Reimagine
Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and – at our own pace – actively channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
