Death Medicine: An Open Mic Community Exploration of Death & Grief

A monthly open mic event with a theme of death and grief is happening in both Sonoma and Marin counties of California. Occurring in San Rafael and Sebastopol, these events have been beautifully received.

Bring your songs, poetry, stories, dance or any other expression your heart feels called to offer around the topics of death and grief.

The event will be an open mic format where people can sing, dance, recite poetry, or speak extemporaneously about their experiences of death and grief and be witnessed and heard by a radically present and loving audience in a well-held container.

There are no rules other than a share cannot last longer than five minutes. You need not perform to attend. The witnessing is at least as important as the sharing.

We imagine it as a community grief ritual. Sometimes a couple hours of cathartic release and tender listening and holding can do more to heal than years on a therapist’s couch.