Through a performance piece featuring theater, poetry, storytelling, and music, we share our healing journey after the loss of our seventeen-year-old son to suicide. While rooted in unimaginable grief, this work is also an offering of deep love, healing, and the transformation that becomes possible when we allow loss to reshape us into more authentic versions of ourselves. 

This performance is for anyone carrying personal or collective loss. It invites us into a shared space of witnessing, where one story can hold the stories of many. As grief is expressed and honored, it can begin to move—within us and between us—opening the possibility of integration, meaning, and even renewal.

“When the heart breaks into a million pieces, the only thing left to do is let the light shine in.”

Phoenix Song, featured in SF Magazine’s Best of the Bay, plays music from around the world on Native flute, buffalo drum, djembe, Arabic tambourine, hand pan, melodica, jaw harp, and vocals that help us move energy through breath and sound.

A Q&A talkback will follow along with an artist’s reception of Monique’s original artwork and prints. 10% of sales will be donated to the Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGTBTQ+ young people.

Reviews:

“What an extraordinary event. No more hiding, no more shame, no more isolation. Your collective performance allows us all to be free to go deep, open and outstretched to the truth and wholeness of allowing the pain of grief all the way in. I honor the strength in the vulnerability expressed by Monique and Phoenix. I am so honored and grateful for the witness experience and the place it touches in me. I feel safer in the world to be me in my own brokenness.” –Tree, bereaved mother, retired palliative care nurse

“I had been processing a lot of mama grief (for my mom, my grief about my kids. etc) when I went to your ritual performance, and it really helped move something for me. Seeing your powerful process and how your surrender to grief has really transformed you in such profound ways was a beautiful reminder to me that opening to grief is really the medicine.” -Anastasia, mother, therapist