Queercircle

GRIEF AND LOSS
Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant)

As well as celebrating pride and joy, QUEERCIRCLE’s programmes acknowledge feelings of grief and loss, both as individuals and as community. Our communities have often been at the forefront of bringing creativity to cultural grieving and memorialisation. We bring awareness of particular LGBTQ+ histories of loss, such as those many of us carry from the AIDS health crisis.

There are many reasons to grieve, often involving layers that may include challenging family dynamics and estrangement, relationship endings, chronic health issues, social marginalisation, undigested pandemic experiences, war, violence, environmental crisis - as well as the death of chosen family or friends.

A number of groups and creative practitioners currently meet at Queercircle holding space for people to sit with their grief, rather than push it away:
PROGRAMMES
- White Kite Collective
  
  'The intensity of emotion and deep collective focus was like nothing I've ever experienced' The White Kite Collective are a grassroot group of cultural workers united in support of the...
- London Queer Death Cafe
  
  'I got a space for the first time to speak about my grief, I feel able to express myself in ways I didn't think possible.' London Queer Death Cafe...
- Grief Tending
  
  ‘The opportunity to give dedicated space to my own, and others’ grief - so helpful - so important, thank you’ ‘Grief tending was a profound experience for me. The...
- Creative Legacy
  
  ‘I felt privileged to be part of this ground breaking project. It was well facilitated by Kit and their co-facilitators. The unique opportunity to look at your life in terms...
RESOURCES