of us for us

… You are invited to witness this action as a Requiem - an act of remembrance. In recent years, Korea has had to contend with unforgettable loss resulting in trauma for youth, parents, family, friends and colleagues. How to mourn … How to mark a loss … Often trauma is best tempered with silence. We invite you to join us in one minute of silence before we begin …

Gathering: Percussion & single file street

procession

Song: “Ah”: sung at stops along the way

Call: Arrival at Lobby - entrance & begin with brief

statement / minute of silence / opening song into

Wind action

First Fall - falling & rising X3 with gong / silence

Song: “Ah”

Burial

Lantern/ Euna & Jinha

Song #2 “What comes out of my eyes besides my loving tears?“

Kim Euna: There’s a gravel pavement I’m driving on it Do Not Enter. I pass the sign, swerving A deceased poet As soon as

I meet her I know I’m in a foreign country

Song #2 “What comes out of my eyes besides my

loving tears?“.

There’s a slippery freeway I’m driving on it Dead

End. I see the sign but speed away A deceased

poet As soon as I see her I know I’m inside the

poet.

Song #2 What comes out of my eyes besides my loving tears?

Third Fall - Tears/rising & falling

Lee Jin-ha: That feeling of my soul getting yanked I wonder where my soul hides when I'm sick My heart feels as if it's getting beat up Is it because the restless ocean is clumping up? My heart beats regardless of the pain It beats spewing out red thread like a red spider A sink full of red thread gets submerged in water My heart beats like a girl marathon runner who only had ramen to eat

I wonder whether the souls of all the people on earth are connected as one

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Wing Dance with Full Drum with Song“Mommy,

I with my eyes still opened/ Who did I come to

meet here

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Props list:

1. Drum & stand 2. Gong with stick 3. Colored Fabric. 4. Lanterns & flashlights (4) 5. Horns (2) 6. Little drum with stick

Outdoor: October14 @ 5:30 & 7:30 pm. Of Us For Us

An action dedicated to the presence of those whose tears of love wash the way for those who fell helpless. We need determination so the good survive wherever they travel especially in our memories. The ones with the brightest hearts will not succumb to agony ... to act is the process of cultivating while negotiating unbearable complexities with dignity, respect and risk.

“There is something helpless in being a witness”

- Ceila’s Song by Lee Maracle