Are you a person whose work it is to re-member?

Are you working on a family or community history project and running into silences everywhere you turn?

Pop-up workshops will introduce you to the tools and practices of memory work for digging into a past that has gone underground.

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Next Pop-up:

Descendance:
Qing Ming on the Autumn Equinox

承续：秋分清明

September 19, 8-10 PM EST/
September 20, 8-10 AM HKT

Join Q.M. Zhang for this annual gathering in celebration of the Qing Ming Festival (清明節). Traditionally a spring ritual for visiting and sweeping the graves of our ancestors, Qing Ming can happen anytime and anywhere we gather to create our own rituals and practices as descendants, memory workers, and next gen writers and artists.

This year, we will gather to do Qing Ming on the Autumn Equinox, a time when Northern and Southern hemispheres share equal amounts of light and darkness. We’ll go to the imagined grave sites of our ancestors—human and non-human, known and unknown—and listen for the voices and silences we find there. We’ll experiment with tools and forms of memory work for writing into past legacies and future histories we carry in our bodies as descendants. We’ll practice descendance as a relationship with our ancestors that flows in multiple directions at once, asking not only what have we inherited, but what must we reclaim and what will we pass on.

Registration opens September 1!

Previous Pop-Ups:

The Persistent Hum of the Past:
Qing Ming on the Summer Solstice