{"id":33107,"date":"2025-09-29T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/?p=33107"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:43:42","slug":"naomi-bragin-has-received-two-city-of-seattle-awards-for-grief-rituals-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2025\/09\/29\/naomi-bragin-has-received-two-city-of-seattle-awards-for-grief-rituals-project","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Bragin has received two regional artist awards for Grief Rituals project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Naomi Bragin<\/a> has received two regional artist awards for Grief Rituals, a new project which will bring a series of arts practice workshops and community ceremonies to the Chinatown International District in 2026. Grief Rituals addresses the theme of migration through collective experiences of grieving and healing. The project has won support from King County’s 4Culture and City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture special initiative We Still Dream a Future<\/em>. Grief Rituals grows out of Naomi\u2019s work since 2018 as founding artistic director of Little Brown Language, a trans-disciplinary performance collaborative of leading local artists and organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milvia Pacheco<\/a>, executive director of Movimiento AfroLatino Seattle, will work with Naomi as co-artistic director of the project. Community collaborators include Derek Dizon<\/a>, steward of A Resting Place grief and loss cultural resource center, and Nia-Amina Minor<\/a>, co-founder of Black Collectivity. Serving as project research assistant is Mariyah Hicks, a second-year student in Media & Communications at IAS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To launch the project, Little Brown Language will host a pop-up station for visitors to share their migration stories in a welcoming environment that offers social connection and conversation. Their stories will inform the artists\u2019 creation of a dance-activation, offered to the community as a free public event next spring. The artists will ask participants to write open-ended reflections on paper provided, which they can choose to share anonymously, addressing their lived experience or the experience of a family member:<\/p>\n\n\n\n