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In the Shadow of Tragedy: Artistic Responses to a Traumatic Year will be presented via Zoom and on Facebook LIVE on Thursday, May 27th at 7 pm as the final event of Elm Shakespeare Company s free, online series, Building a Brave New Theater: Holding Space and Giving Voice. Join theatre-makers Rebecca S manga Frank, Dawn Stern, and Gracy Brown to share and discuss three new works. All works presented this evening were created in response to the multiple national tragedies of the past year, including the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the many lives lost to Covid-19, the closure of theatres, the newly energized fight for equity, and the adjustments made to survive a pandemic. ....
This week, the United States recorded its 500,000th death from COVID-19. It’s a staggering number, one many of us have struggled to wrap our heads around. For thoughts on how to process the milestone we turned to rabbis across the country for their wisdom, both on how we should mourn those lost to the pandemic and on how we should move forward. Image by Anya Ulinich They wrote about the value of turning to community, the importance of ritual in guiding us along the path of grief ahead and the coexistence of extraordinary miracles and extraordinary loss and more. ....