Message Mori
This event is in collaboration with T.A.P.E Los Angeles and you can register on their website.
Worried about losing precious text messages or voicemail from your loved ones? Concerned about privacy, digital security, and surveillance? Or maybe you’ve already lost things to the digital ether?
Join T.A.P.E. Los Angeles and Postal Service for the Dead for a workshop discussing grief and death, where we will save digital files by building a system of backups and alternatives to get your precious text messages and voicemail into your personal archive. 📲💌 Combating digital alienation and building autonomy for us all!
Taught by archivists Sydney Kysar & Isabella León-Chambers, the workshop will cover the following skills and tools:
- Discuss death and grief through the digital ephemera created by loved ones
- Identify ideal hardware and storage devices for preservation
- Identify the most common digital preservation risks
The Workshop’s hands-on portion will be a step-by-step walkthrough of how to download data off of your phone (primarily for iPhone).
- Introduction to command line tools
- Script to download text messages as dynamic html
- How to download and convert voice messages & voicemails
- Convert 🍎 proprietary files to open source or non-proprietary files
Please bring your computer, your iphone, and, if possible, a harddrive/flashdrive/solid state drive.
Garden Club Pop Up
Tend to your grief through art & writing while helping care for a beautiful community garden – event in collaboration with Heal Together.
End of Year Reflect & Connect Workshop
Reflect on the year you’re leaving, imagine the one you’re moving in to, and connect with those who are no longer living through collaging, letter writing, and zine making.
Pre-Father’s Day Grief Release
This workshop is designed to help make grief around Father’s Day a little bit easier. Join Postal Service for the Dead and Good Grief Doula for gently-guided, lighthearted grief practices for navigating the holiday.
An Ode to Departed Matriarchs
Join Postal Service for the Dead and pinaypages on May 9 in celebrating Mother’s Day through a lens of Philippine diasporic arts and culture at Lineage Performing Arts Center. We invite you to an evening of storytelling, altar making, and creating Mother’s Day Cards to send to your departed matriarchs or motherly figures - all art making materials and postage will be provided.
Panel Discussion: Pet Grief and Death Care
Join us for a panel discussion on grieving pets and options for pet death care. Janelle, Founder of PSD, will facilitate a conversation with two panelists with expertise in pet death care. Participants will have the opportunity to ask panelists questions and will leave with tips on how to navigate the loss of a furry (or scaly) friend.
Can’t join us on this date? No worries! We will be recording the conversation to be used as a future resource.
Panel Discussion: PSD for your Community
Join us for a panel discussion on how you can bring Postal Service for the Dead (PSD) to your community, friends, or family! Janelle, Founder of PSD, will facilitate a conversation with three panelists who have hosted their own workshops, events, and popups in their communities that included letter writing prompts, art making, and the opportunity for participants to send a letter to PSD.
Can’t join us on this date? No worries! We will be recording the conversation to be used as a future resource.
Grief in Public Day
Join our project, Postal Service for the Dead, in celebrating Grief in Public Day at Antigua Coffee Roasters where we will creatively and collectively express our grief by creating collaged cards. We welcome you to create unique cards to send letters to anyone in your life who has died – all art making materials and postage will be provided.
Sleepy Sunday: Nostalgic Drawing & Poetry
Join Sleepy Sue for a free online event where facilitator Janelle Ketcher will lead the group in letting nostalgia inspire and guide our creativity. All ages, creative comfort levels, and abilities are welcome for this hour long workshop. Through a guided drawing activity and a poetry prompt we will collectively take a moment to slow down, tap into our senses, celebrate our imagination, and create. The goal is not to make “good” art but rather play and express. Please come prepared with one photograph, printed or digital, that you feel personally connected with.