ORGANIZING OUR GRIEF: A Collaboration in Response to the Overdose Crisis circulates strategies, reflections, and organizing principles that emerged from WISH YOU WERE HERE, WISH HERE WAS BETTER (WYWH, WHWB), a mobile public event series that made space for people impacted by the ongoing overdose crisis, and its cascading systemic issues of precarity, houselessness, and criminalization. Organized by the Blackwood in October 2022, WYWH, WHWB provided opportunities to mourn, while imagining and working toward a more just future.

As another chapter in the Blackwood’s Working with Concepts series, this publication seeks to promote knowledge-sharing in the arts sector. Readers who are interested in working with the themes or communities engaged in WYWH, WHWB will find some starting points to guide their thinking in doing so: ORGANIZING OUR GRIEF shares tools, strategies, and considerations that informed and emerged from the project.

ORGANIZING OUR GRIEF launched April 19–20, 2023 during Here, Better, Now as a print publication, and as a free PDF download on this page.

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