Upcoming Events
Please note we have two types of events: PSD Official and Community Events. PSD Official events are hosted by the organization of Postal Service for the Dead and are facilitated by trained staff or volunteers. Community Events are hosted by supporters of PSD who have committed to our community agreements and are marked as COMMUNITY EVENT below.
La Historia Historical Society Museum Pop-up
Description: Join us for a day of remembrance, as we honor those we have lost through letter writing and altar assembling. Join Postal Service for the Dead and La Historia. You are invited to:
Write a personal letter to someone in life who has died
Decorate a photo frame and add a picture of your loved one
Place your letter and frame on a shared memorial altar or mail out your letter
Where: La Historia, 3240 Tyler Ave, El Monte, CA 91731
When: Saturday, November 1st from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Register: No registration required - just stop on by!
Cost: Free
Who: All ages
Materials: All materials will be provided.
Dia de Muertos en el jardín
Description: After the fires and amidst the horrific actions of ICE, we invite all to celebrate together, in memory of the deceased and in honor of our community. Join us for free food, traditional dance performance by La Frida Lokah, community altar building, sugar skulls, and letter writing to deceased relations in your life.
Where: Eagle Rockdale Community Garden, 1003 Rockdale Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90041
When: Sunday, November 2nd from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Register: No registration required - just stop on by! If you’d like, you can RSVP directly with the Community Garden here.
Cost: Free
Who: All ages
Materials: All materials will be provided.
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COMMUNITY EVENT: Letters at Lone Fir
The following is a community event hosted by a supporter of PSD who have committed to our community agreements.
Letters at Lone Fir – hosted by Ashley Coleman of The Found Path
October 26, 2025 - 12:15pm-1:15pm
After the Talk Death Cemetery Scavenger Hunt
649 SE 26th Ave, Portland, OR
Cost: Free
An afternoon of writing to our departed loved ones, a chance to say what is on your mind and your heart. Letters will be sent to Postal Service for the Dead. Ashley will provide guidance, prompts and supplies, including postage stamps.
Questions? Email The.Found.Path@gmail.com
Weaving Memories: Community Altar, Archiving, and Arts Workshop
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Join us for Tejiendo Recuerdos/Weaving Memories at @lapubliclibrary to honor loved ones at our beautiful community altar!
🗓️: Thurs. Oct. 23, 2025
⏰ 4:30 - 7 PM
📍2820 W 6th St. (Felipe De Neve Library)
Enjoy an afternoon full of art, community, and memory:
🪡 Embroidery workshop
🎨 Paint your own alebrije with guest artist Ana Reyes.
🌽 Share memories with Biblioteca de Maíz (@guelaguetza_oro)
🖼️Bring your family photos to be scanned + printed with LAPL’s Mobile Memory Lab
💌 Write a letter/postcard to your deceased loved one with @postalserviceforthedead
📸 Take a family portrait with Zuly García Díaz (@zulydelarose)
🍛 Savor delicious Guatemalan food by Chef Maricela Renoj (Maya Vision).
✨ Experience a traditional Mayan dance by Casa de la Cultura Maya (@casadelaculturamaya)
🎶 Enjoy music from the Maqueos Music Academy (@maqueosmusicoficial)
“Tejiendo Recuerdos/Weaving Memories” will be the first official public program of MARKINGS/HUELLAS, a Mellon-funded oral history archive and public art initiative centering the voices of Indigenous immigrant families and communities of the Westlake/Pico-Union (W/PU) neighborhood of Los Angeles. This initiative is a collaboration between Maqueos Music Academy, Casa de la Cultura Maya, Maya Vision, Organizacion Regional de Oaxaca (ORO), and Mundo Maya Foundation, UCLA cityLAB (@citylabucla), and Heart of LA.
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¡Reserva la fecha!
Acompáñanos en “Tejiendo Recuerdos / Weaving Memories” en la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles — Felipe De Neve, el jueves 23 de octubre, 4:30 - 7 PM para honrar a nuestros seres queridos en nuestro hermoso altar comunitario.
Disfruta una tarde llena de arte, comunidad y memoria:
🎨 Pinta tu propio alebrije con la artista invitada Ana Reyes.
🪡 Participa en un taller de bordado
🌽 Comparte recuerdos con Biblioteca de Maíz (@guelaguetza_oro).
🖼️ Trae tus fotos familiares para escanearlas + imprimir con Mobile Memory Lab (LAPL)
💌 Escribe una carta o postal para tus seres queridos fallecidos con@postalserviceforthedead.
📸 Tómate un retrato familiar con Zuly García Díaz (@zulydelarose).
🍛 Prueba deliciosa comida guatemalteca preparada por la Chef Maricela Renoj (Maya Vision).
✨ Disfruta una danza tradicional maya presentada por Casa de la Cultura Maya (@casadelaculturamaya).
🎶 Escucha la música de la Academia de Música Maqueos (@maqueosmusicoficial).
“Tejiendo Recuerdos / Weaving Memories” será el primer programa público oficial de MARKINGS / HUELLAS, un archivo de historia oral y una iniciativa de arte público financiada por la Mellon Foundation, que centra las voces de familias y comunidades indígenas inmigrantes del vecindario Westlake/Pico-Union (W/PU) de Los Ángeles.
Esta iniciativa es una colaboración entre la Academia de Música Maqueos, Casa de la Cultura Maya, Maya Vision, Organización Regional de Oaxaca (ORO), Mundo Maya Foundation, UCLA cityLAB, y Heart of LA.
Archives Bazaar Pop-up
Join Postal Service for the Dead at the 20th Annual Archives Bazaar at Cal State University Los Angeles. Come created collaged cards, write letters to dead relations in your life, and learn more about our archiving practices.
The Archives Bazaar is an annual event, free and open to the public, which gives anyone with an interest in the region a one-stop opportunity to interact with dozens of archives, from large institutions to private collectors. No registration necessary.
The Archives Bazaar runs from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm and our pop-up will be from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
Click here to learn more about the Archives Bazaar.
Janelle Ketcher and Melinda Ramos of Postal Service for the Dead facilitating a letter writing workshop at Grief-tastic Book Fair in 2024
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.