Humanities Washington: Measuring Mourning: A Ritual for Loss (VIRTUAL)

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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This participatory presentation explores a recently-resurfaced Ashkenazi women’s tradition of feldmestn—the practice of measuring ancestors’burial places with candlewick, later burnt for the living and the dead.  

How can this two-century-old Eastern European Jewish tradition help us grapple with contemporary catastrophes, as well as old displacements, genocides, and assimilation? When we do not know where our people are buried, what do we measure? Brown will share some of her own art practice.

Click zoom link to join us at 6 PM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81717629737

Maia Brown (she/her) is a visual artist, Yiddish musician, writer, translator, and educator. Brown has a background in oral history and fine art, including a Watson Fellowship to study storytelling and advocacy in South Africa and the North of Ireland. A candidate for a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College, she is a dedicated student and teacher of her own tradition as well as the many ways people have reached out to each other across communities.

Brown lives in Seattle.


Event Type(s): Presentation (public)
Age Group(s): Adults
Presenter: Maia Brown
Alicia O'Dell
(509) 663-1117

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