Eudlo event to acknowledge loss and mourning

A songwriter and a cellist will weave moving tributes and stories honouring people who have passed.

An intimate evening of music and archival art in Eudlo aims to honour losses that have not been able to be publicly acknowledged because of lockdowns, restrictions, mandates and border closures.

A songwriter and a cellist will weave moving tributes and stories honouring people who have passed, according to Producer Mira Chorik. The event will take place at Eudlo Hall on Saturday 5th November.

“The artists wonder out loud what it is to remember well, and to honour the gifts we carry from those who are no longer present,” said Mira.

“Emerging from the shadows of a global pandemic too, many have been denied access to important rituals of death because they have not been able to travel to attend funerals or sit at the bedside of dying loved ones. 

“The pandemic has limited avenues of collective mourning and changed the way we say goodbye. Somewhere in the Light aims to hold space for losses that have not been able to be publicly acknowledged because of lockdowns, restrictions, mandates and border closures.”

Audience members will be invited into a space of rest, silence and contemplation. There will be light refreshments after the event and a gentle invitation to share remembrances in a participatory artwork.

“From previous events, the most common audience feedback is how connected to others it makes them feel and how unusual this space is … that it can be hard to talk about loss without feeling like a burden and that opportunities to listen deeply are rare. People express gratitude for a gentle space of sadness held without solutions being presented: just silent archival art, real stories and songs that came from loss.”

Join songwriter, Mira Chorik and cellist, Louise King in an evening of reflection on loss and remembrance as a life-affirming and strengthening practice.

Somewhere in the Light will be held at Eudlo Hall, Rosebed St, Eudlo on November 5 from 7pm-9pm. It contains themes of loss, death and dying. 

If you have a personal story of unacknowledged loss through pandemic times, you are warmly invited to share it here www.form.jotform.com/221217297087863

Bookings can be made at www.events.humanitix.com/somewhere-in-the-light