It's Complicated...this Gift of Life at Vox Populi Gallery

Can a play about organ donation and grief be funny? Yes! Follow one woman’s moving story about how her husband's tragic death led to making new meaning in witnessing and being witnessed. A short and powerful interactive, darkly comedic and multi-disciplinary theatre performance about organ donation, mental illness, grief and hope. How can we look at the “sacred transaction” of one person donating their organs, their life, and another person receiving them in order to keep their life going?

This is an invitation: to witness others in their grief, despair, and joy, without trying to fix or change them, as if to say, “I see you, we are connected.” And to be witnessed, saying: “Here I am, just like I am, broken AND magnificent—all at the same time.”
We are planting the seeds, not for an endgame--for an evolving connection of hope.

Content partners are The Threshold Collective, providing support in aging, death and dying issues, medical system navigation, and  celebrations of life. Also the grief professional and death midwife, Naila Francis of Salt Trails Grief Cooperative and This Hallowed Wilderness. Naila will lead a talkback 9/18 after the performance.