Grief Rituals:
reflections on migration
and mourning
Grief Rituals is a dance and storytelling performance procession
that moves through the city.
Read about the project here-> + here->
See LIVE MAP highlights of the Oct 3 community procession here-->
Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit. — Eric Gamalinda
Interactive Map
Click lower-right corner of the map to expand.
Click purple circles on the map to access
information about each location.
Procession Itinerary
Saturday October 3, 2026
*all times approximate and subject to change
11:30 AM / Ancestor Meditation + Mourning Song // A Resting Place, 670 South King Street, Chinatown-International District
12:00-12:15 PM / Departing A Resting Place + Encuentro with Seattle Fandango Project // Hing Hay Park, 423 Maynard Ave South
12:45-1:00 PM / Arriving King Street Station Plaza + Tarima Migration Dance + Mourning Meditation // 303 South Jackson Street
1:45-2:00 PM / Arriving ARTS at King Street Station Gallery + GRIEF RITUALS // 303 S Jackson Street, Top Floor
3:30-3:45 PM / Departing ARTS at King Street Station Gallery
4:00 PM / Arriving Migration Stage + Groove Migration + Hail Mary Chant // 199 Alaskan Way
4:30 PM / Communal Reflection Prayer + Decomposition Ritual // Habitat Beach // 199 Alaskan Way
9:00 PM to midnight / Grief Rituals After Party with DJ Joey Webb, hosted by Velocity Dance Center, 12th Avenue Arts
Migration Story Voice Message Archive
Imagine the places where you have migrated in your lifetime. What are those place names for you? Can you think of one place that was particularly difficult for you to leave? How has leaving that place shaped who you are in this moment?
Grief Rituals is
Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra (b. 1972 San Augustin del Sur, Caracas, Venezuela)
Akoiya's Silhouette
2026, Acrylic, paper and fabric collage on canvas
85x60 inches
artistic direction | Little Brown Language
collaborating ancestors | Phoebe Dizon, Veronica Laureta,
Susana Remerata Blackwell, Baby Christine
collaborating spaces | A Resting Place, Hing Hay Park,
ARTS AT King Street Station, Migration Stage, Habitat Beach
co-directors | Naomi Macalalad Bragin and Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra
dancers | Akoiya Harris, marco farroni, Nia Amina Minor,
Milvia Pacheco, Naomi Bragin
spiritual attendant | Farrah Rivera
grief guides | Mariyah Hicks, Sophia Olvera,
Caleb Tecleab, Grace Fagbenro, Ira Wade Harris,
Queeness Francis-Alagoa, Victoria Muni
oli chant | Kau'i
costume design | Janelle Abbott/JRAT Zero Waste
sound composition | Ben Hunter, Fox Whitney, Naomi Bragin
poetry | Jasminé Smith
set design | Brandon Woodward
tech directors | Alex Harding, Fox Whitney
project consultant | Ellen Sebastian Chang
research assistant | Mariyah Hicks
executive assistant | LaCara Reddick
photography | Michelle Smith-Lewis
videography | Luke Wigren
food coordinator | Kelly Sommerfeld
community partners | A Resting Place, Seattle Fandango Project, Movimiento AfroLatino Seattle, Velocity Dance Center
special thanks | Angela Angel, Aviona Rodriguez Brown,
David Blanco, Derek Dizon, Friends of the Waterfront,
Iris Viveros, Kuya Roger Rigor
Funded by Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture,
Simpson Center for the Humanities and the
School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at
University of Washington Bothell