COVID-19 YAHRZEIT with Site: Yizkor

Participatory performance and writing workshop to reflect and commemorate the last year of COVID-19 and all that has changed, led by Maya Ciarrocchi with music by Andrew Conklin.

Friday, March 12 | 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Who honors the spaces left by the dead? How and why do people and cultures disappear?

These questions animate Site: Yizkor, an in-process interdisciplinary project created collaboratively by Maya Ciarrocchi and composer Andrew Conklin. Site: Yizkor explores the physical and emotional manifestation of loss through text, drawing, video, and music. Its source material includes architectural renderings of demolished buildings, memory maps of vanished places, field recordings of folk music, and prose remembrances obtained from historical Yizkor books and from project participants.

To commemorate the anniversary of the 14Y closing its doors, Join LABA artist Maya Ciarrocchi for a participatory performance where we will read selections from Yizkor books and writing generated during previous workshops accompanied by live video and music. Following the reading, attendees will be invited to create their own Yizkor pages as a way to mourn lost people and places and the transformative last year.