Creative Mourning (Sponsorship)

"Creative Mourning" is a six-month, in-person peer support series designed for people of color in Los Angeles. Facilitated in partnership with PAUSE and the Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW), these peer-led gatherings offer a creative space to explore the topics grief, memory, and transformation through art ~ outside of institutional and therapeutic frameworks.

Each monthly session invites participants to explore grief through a different artistic modality - painting, collage, music, poetry, and more - guided by guest creatives and grounded by the presence of experienced grief-holders from our communities, including a POC mental health practitioner and a death doula. Together, we’ll make, move, and reflect in community - holding space for grief to surface creatively, and supporting one another through presence, ritual, and art.

Whether you're grieving a person, a place, a version of yourself, or a collective loss, this circle welcomes you. Participants will also receive a curated grief resource booklet and be part of a creative pilot exploring how access to art can expand the ways we understand, express, and relate to grief.

THE IMPACT OF YOUR SUPPORT

Investing in healing: Your funds directly support a dedicated, intimate space for grieving folks from Communities of Color to heal, care for themselves, and provide community care to others.

Investing in artists: Your funds directly support the POC artists, women/nonbinary artists, LGBTQ* artists, and women/POC/queer-led artist collectives s that will step in to provide programming with PAUSE and FCCW for these events.

Backing innovation: Your funds directly support the creative arts and our innovative, groundbreaking approach to fostering communtiy, supporting leaders, and building bridges for new ways of tending to our grief.

How we’ll uplift YOU: Supporting sponsors receive recognition across digital and virtual promotional / program materails, seats in PAUSE’s private trainings, and more.

Learn more here.