{"id":34462,"date":"2026-09-30T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/?p=34462"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:12:16","slug":"taking-it-to-the-streets-grief-migration-and-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2026\/09\/30\/taking-it-to-the-streets-grief-migration-and-celebration","title":{"rendered":"Taking it to the streets: grief, migration and celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Naomi Macalalad Bragin is out to challenge expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her classes at the University of Washington Bothell \u2014 which span dance, cultural politics, collective healing and performance \u2014 students don\u2019t simply receive an intellectual knowledge transfer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They learn, said Bragin, associate professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/\">School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/a>, to practice presence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow often,\u201d she asked, \u201cdo we teach students in classes how to notice the world around them, how to be empathetic, how to listen to each other and be present with each other in the classroom?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a deep artistic inquiry called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/30\/a-collective-mourning-and-celebration-of-cultural-loss-and-rebirth\">Grief Rituals<\/a>,\u201d Bragin trains that lens on a universal but misunderstood human experience: grief. Specifically, the grief associated with migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot many classes or professors or teachers are willing to talk about grief,\u201d said Media &amp; Communication Studies major Mariyah Hicks who took Bragin\u2019s Street and Club Dance Workshop class last spring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor Professor B to bring it to school and open it up to students \u2014 it\u2019s really cool to open that door for us.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6abdd1fc027d1&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6abdd1fc027d1\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" 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as a collective experience. Sometimes, things get messy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s mucus, there are tears, there are fluids,\u201d said Bragin. \u201cIt\u2019s not supposed to be clean and contained.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She and \u201cGrief Rituals\u201d co-artistic director Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra focus on migration as a deep form of cultural loss, memory and collective healing. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2025\/09\/29\/naomi-bragin-has-received-two-city-of-seattle-awards-for-grief-rituals-project\">grant-supported workshops and ceremonies<\/a> around Seattle, they\u2019ve witnessed \u2014 and experienced for themselves \u2014 the power of community ritual to unearth buried grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this idea that time is going to help us move through feelings,\u201d said Salvatierra, \u201cbut that\u2019s not right. This space has provided a process for me to attend to different unprocessed griefs and to connect with ancestral love.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hicks, who serves as the project&#8217;s research assistant, reports a drastic change in the way she looks at grief: \u201cBy turning it into art, we\u2019re moving away from the stigma of mourning as crying and depressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProfessor B has allowed me to see it differently, that it could be woven with joy and laughter.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>By turning it into art, we\u2019re moving away from the stigma of mourning as crying and depressed. <\/p><cite>Mariyah Hicks, junior, Media &amp; Communication Studies<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6abdd1fc061e5&quot;}\" 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Rituals\u201d project culminates on Saturday, Oct. 3, with a five-hour dance and storytelling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naomibragin.com\/grief-rituals-partners\">performance procession<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning at A Resting Place in Seattle\u2019s Chinatown International District, Bragin and four other performers will dance, sing and pray their way to the waterfront, accompanied by a spiritual guide and a support team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>The procession, flanked by five larger-than-life painted canvases, will be hard to miss as it moves down Jackson and King streets. Each canvas, painted by Salvatierra, features a performer\u2019s full-body silhouette against backgrounds of golds, blues and purples. The outsized forms contain symbols and swirls that evoke the non-linear nature of grief and healing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As with any migration journey, the \u201cGrief Rituals\u201d procession will make stopovers, including the top-floor ARTS at King Street Station Gallery. There, the dancers will have space to explore some of their own ancestral migration stories, which encompass the Philippines, the Caribbean, South America and the African American diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the street, said Bragin, performers will repeat certain songs, dances and prayers. She has penned \u201cThe Mourning Song,\u201d a call and response set to an old spiritual, to engage audience members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe important thing about a ritual,\u201d said Bragin,\u201d is that it can repeat over time. 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