Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Artist Day Schildkret

October 12, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

Let’s honor loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on possibilities of creative transformation with artist Day Schildkret and Co-founders Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and Naomi Less.

Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. Lab/Shul is honored to co-host this special vigil. Guests include Day Schildkret – a 2019 Lab/Shul Artist-in-Residence, a Reimagine festival collaborator, and author of the new book Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change – with Lab/Shul’s co-founders Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and Naomi Less.

Day, Amichai, and Naomi will share insights on how grief and loss evolve through imagination, artistic practice, and ritual. The Vigil coincides with the harvest holiday of Sukkot and kicks off Reimagine’s October series that explores creative expression through the lens of post-traumatic growth.

 

Day Schildkret

Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as the author, artist and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people to make life more beautiful and meaningful through ritual, nature and art.

With nearly 100K followers on social media and sold-out workshops, installations, trainings, and public speaking events worldwide, BuzzFeed calls Day’s work, “a celebration of nature and life.” Day has worked for close to two decades with thousands of individuals, communities and organizations to help heal the culture through a meaningful and creative response to marking personal and collective change.

Day is the author of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change (Simon Element/Simon & Schuster) which hit Amazon’s #1 book in three categories, as well as, Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual (The Countryman Press/W.W. Norton). He is also the founder and principal instructor of the Morning Altars Practitioner & Teacher Training.

Day has taught workshops and created installations at Google, The 9/11 Memorial Plaza, The Hammerstein Ballroom, The Andy Warhol Foundation, California Academy of Sciences, Esalen, and many others.

His work has been featured on NBC, CBS, Buzzfeed, Vice, Well+Good, My Modern Met and four times in Spirituality & Health Magazine.

More about Day at morningaltars.com and dayschildkret.com and @morningaltars on Instagram / Facebook.

About Reimagine

Reimagine hosts community-driven experiences that bring creativity, connection, and essential conversation to face adversity, loss, and mortality, and channel the hard parts of life into meaningful action and growth. Reimagine envisions a world where we can embrace life fully—from this moment through the end—and collectively contribute to a more just and compassionate society. Reimagine experiences encompass arts + entertainment, healthcare + social services, spirituality + religion, and Innovation + design.

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